With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

Solidarity with and support for the people of Minnesota, now and every day ✊🏼

ICYMI: A Virginia court upheld a constitutional amendment that could help counter GOP gerrymanders nationwide. The decision clears the way for Democratic lawmakers to advance their redistricting plan just as the state legislature convenes this week.

Really excited to be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on Friday for this panel. Reproductive rights are human rights, the political landscape is the pits, and it's up to us to build a future that includes reproductive sovereignty for all. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/on-reprodu...

Green for tax equity! With some of the women of the Senate, supporting #taxtherich to raise #revenueforRI in advance of the State of the State tonight.

In Minneapolis

Hi friends! I'm revamping a community organizing course that I haven't taught in a few years - anyone have new organizing resources that they love, print or video or whatever? Share them? Please/thanks? xo

This afternoon I stood in solidarity with thousands of RIers. This year, I am introducing bills to protect due process, ensure accountability and push back on ICE overreach. I’m doing this for our neighbors, our kids, our community, and the future we owe each other.

Oh, Rhode Island❣️Showing up for each other over, and over, and over. We will do this, and protect our neighbors, for as long as it takes.

Packed house for the #SAVERIPTA coalition’s release of their report on the impact of the worst cuts to service in 50+ years!! We’re introducing legislation to ensure this never happens again. Public transit is a public good.

Happy 2026! Healthcare is a human right! Check out the State Based Universal Healthcare Act, that I’m *so thrilled* to be introducing when the legislature kick off later today!

An update on the shootings yesterday. Please continue to get your news from official channels, @brownupolisci.bsky.social @pvdcitycouncil.bsky.social. Love each other hard.

Join use next week to talk about the upcoming legislative session, our new bills, and how you can get involved. We’ll be diving into housing, healthcare, wealth taxes, ICE, and much more!

@smithcollege.bsky.social taught me some of my most important lessons about justice, intellectual inquiry, and dedication to community, broadly defined. Women-focused colleges have been lifechanging and lifegiving for many, myself among them. Worth a read: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/29/m...

Very much looking forward to this panel at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social with such unbelievable colleagues! Catch us on January 16th, talking about reproductive rights and access, and the policymaking landscape of full-spectrum reproductive healthcare: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-reprodu...

ICE trolling our courthouses does literally nothing to make any of us safer. What happened at the Providence Superior Court this week – and what we can do to protect ourselves and our neighbors.

Great to be a part of the national #YesToWind campaign, spearheaded here in Rhody by the fine folks at @climateactionri.org. Clean energy is the *only* answer for our economy, our climate, our very future. (And shoutout to LongLive Beerworks for hosting us all last night!)

People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.

“The Era of the Taylor Swift Tax” is live! RI Senator @meghankallman.bsky.social shares how taxing millionaires on 2nd homes could raise the public funds we need — for housing, schools, and stronger communities — without driving away investors. 🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

One of my favorite conversations lately! Got to join @rwulaw.bsky.social to shine a light on our upside-down tax code: working people shoulder more burden than wealthy ones. We dig into our housing crisis and what’s being done to fix it, and the Taylor Swift Tax: www.podbean.com/media/share/...

I was elected to help make life easier and fairer for regular people. There is *no reason* for us to accept the increasing concentration of wealth at the top while ordinary folks lack affordable housing, health care and food. My op-ed in @globeri.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/m...

SNAP benefits are expiring tomorrow. Information on how to fight, hunger here:

The two people sitting in front of me on the train moved from pleasantries-with-strangers, to brief personal histories, to discovering they have mutual friends, to planning a date in the last 20 minutes. I needed a dose of cute in my life today and the universe delivered❣️

Who has two thumbs and just submitted her book manuscript to the publisher (and only six weeks late)? This girl. Stay tuned at @columbiaup.bsky.social :)

What a treat to talk with the fine folx at @rwulaw.bsky.social this morning! Stay tuned for an upcoming podcast episode on tax equity, housing, and why the Taylor Swift Tax makes sense for working people.

No kings. Now or ever.

Always and forever proud to be a Smithie <3 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/m...

I'm late to the party, but it's Mountain Day! Big love to all my Smith College sibs today <3

Joined @nbcnews.com to talk about my Taylor Swift Tax: millionaire flight is a myth. A fair tax code is an "affront to wealthy people?" Cue the world's smallest violin. Working RIers can't afford a home, and I'll stand on the side of the people til I'm six feet under. www.nbcnews.com/video/rhode-...

Heyyyyo Providence! Join us on October 4th for a great community forum.

This is where I work, where I spend my days with students who are trying to better themselves and the world. And I am so unbelievably sick of this garbage. There is no excuse for living this way. www.wcvb.com/article/umas...

About to join @nbcnews.com to discuss the Taylor Swift Tax, and Rhode Island’s commitment to safe and affordable housing. If you can afford a million-dollar vacation home, you can afford to help Rhode Island keep moving forward. That’s a love story worth telling ;)

Nothing quite like a view of Manhattan from @amtrak.com #PublicTransitIsAPublicGood

This is the kind of day where I finish leftovers, so lunch is one bite of pot pie, five edamame, two crackers with peanut butter, and three baby carrots. In other news, the collective noun for kangaroos is “blatherskite". Follow me for more adulting tips 🙄

Come see us at Rhythm and Roots Festival this weekend! We’re really, really looking forward to it, and we have all kinds of new music to share.

Officially signed into law! What a treat to have my townhomes bill (shoutout to @neighborswelcomeri.bsky.social ) and my land bank bill (shoutout to ReclaimRI) signed into law today. It takes a village, truly. And we won’t stop until every Rhode Islander has a safe and affordable place to call home❣️

PERA determines Providence Police assisted ICE, violating ordinances and policy "...the police department was in violation of both city ordinance and police department policy when they impermissibly assisted ICE agents in conducting civil immigration enforcement operations.”

It’s Over: Butler Hospital caregivers overwhelmingly ratify new four-year contract “We are proud to stand together to have an agreement that allows us to move forward with our shared goal of helping patients and caring for one another,” said Clinical Social Worker Brooke Huminiski.

This town does a really special thing WaterFire Providence. It was a treat to be a torchbearer last night, along with colleagues from state governments around the country. Thanks to the Council of State Governments for your support of good policy, and for giving us an excuse for a magical evening!

Never change, Rhode Island❣️

Looking forward to joining this stellar crew tomorrow night at @risd1877.bsky.social!

I love this, and I hate that we need it: DIY transit infrastructure, demanding that we properly invest in *actual* infrastructure. (if you can’t read the writing on the chair, it says FUND RIPTA). #saveRIPTA

Full house in Pawtucket last night, objecting to massive proposed cuts to @ripta.com. We NEED our bus service, which is the foundation of a healthy community. Thank as well to Walter Melillo, the head of the ATU (bus drivers’ union) for your powerful words.

Pawtucket— it’s tonight! Come on out to the library at 5 PM to voice your opposition to the drastic, crippling cuts that are being proposed to our bus service. See you there! (Providence, you’re up on Monday!)

This is what happens when the legislature declines to fund public transit: RIPTA cuts routes, which means people can’t get to work, which means people can’t pay mortgage or rent. Or buy groceries. As the District 15 Senator, I will fight for full funding for transit Until.This.Is.Fixed.

Love this intrepid crew from @neighborswelcomeri.bsky.social, who are the best kinds of nerds I know: pro-housing, pro-data, and pro-community. I’ve been honored to work with them on legislation the past few years to address the housing crisis.