This is ridiculous.

It’s Equal Pay Day — and for the second year in a row, the gender pay gap is moving in the wrong direction.   In 2026, women are still making just 81 cents on the dollar for the same work. That’s unacceptable.   Same work. Same pay. It really is that simple.

watching bad public art in real time

for all the media this guy does and considering he's the frontrunner it would be nice if a journalist read this back to him and asked "why is this funny to you"

Steve Witkoff is so bad at his job that he doesn't realize that he is not, in fact, a member of the Cabinet and he does not, in fact, report to the president. He's a special envoy and, in a nation that is not a monarchy, he reports to the Secretary of State

Q: In my reporting, I speak to young voters, many of whom voted for Trump for the first time hoping to have no more wars and lower prices. With the war and gas prices going up, what's Trump's message to those voters? LEAVITT: President Trump is doing this for you. He's doing this for young people

Andy McCabe. Jim Comey. Jerome Powell. Now Brennan. How many failed political 1001 cases will be enough to embarrass them?

Breaking WaPo: Trump showed a classified map he retained from his first term in office to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight and retained another record so sensitive that only six high-ranking government officials had access to it, according to a prosecution memo released to Congress.

This is devastating.

It’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Day. The fact that everyone knows about the Titanic and no one knows about the largest industrial disaster of the era says a lot about our priorities and how we view class and labor

For advocates of the legislation to merge CRMC and DEM, the bills kill two birds with one stone. The controversial 10-member CRMC board is nerfed, and the state’s two environmental agencies receive a synergistic boost by joining forces. buff.ly/P96479Q

What is a "consumption corridor?" Minimum consumption standards would ensure individuals living now or in the future would be able to satisfy their needs. It would safeguard access to the necessary quality and quantity of ecological and social resources.

And she will walk away from this — unscathed, lavishly wealthy — and claim it as a success.

In today's Tuesday Newsday enewsletter: Check out veggies at this South PVD library (literally) 🥕; Bill proposes CRMC-DEM merger ↔️; RI conservatives roll back energy efficiency programs ⚡️. buff.ly/bJbQPlS Never miss a story. Subscribe to our free newsletter. buff.ly/1nndvXA

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Of course they did

Are we living through the biggest market manipulation scam ever?

Market manipulation. The timing of Trump threats (usually Friday nights) then backing down (usually early Monday mornings) on war and tariffs tell you all you need to know.

"How did a seemingly innocuous video promoting a store that sells socks embroidered with puffins and lobsters become a far-right meme?" A wild story from @antoniafarzan.bsky.social.

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

Attacking the integrity of elections is now a go-to GOP election tactic. www.huffpost.com/entry/califo...

From @djrothkopf.bsky.social Need to Know. A better summary paragraph doesnt exist

An excellent summation of a terrible, horrible situation.

To understand the FCC approval of Nextsar's merger, "you have to zoom out & get the big picture of what’s going on," writes @sulliview.bsky.social. "Trump is trying to control the media as he marches the US from democracy to something more like autocracy, w/billionaires helping him at every turn."

This guy is a sick puppy.

"We should have empathy for the president." Once again, the cult's cabinet officers insist that we must adjust our norms to make room for the world's most special little boy

"This is about ensuring that our military is mighty and strong" -- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in on Fox News riffing on funding for Trump's war against Iran, because nobody in the Trump administration has actual job duties beyond going on TV and fluffing the leader

Oh, man. RIP Sam Kieth. If there was ever a guy who did it his way…

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Trump’s insane war is starting to contract our entire economy.

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Overnight: The Trump administration is making a renewed push to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, telling a judge they've sorted out logistics to send him to Liberia (and rejected his proposal to go to Costa Rica) assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

Just a US Senator casually using genocidal, Nazi rhetoric against Muslims while the US and Israel bomb Iran and Lebanon on Eid. Is he censured? Nope!

My little free food pantry now empties out 3 times per day. It would probably be 4 times if I were an early riser. It’s gotten worse since mid-winter

I wanna teleport too.

Whether it’s Joe Biden paying eight dollars for a pint of Jeni’s or Donald Trump forcing Americans to pay eight dollars for a gallon of gas, both presidents were involved in some exorbitant prices for goods.

Leading my TGIF column: **How the US once eliminated epidemic hunger **The judicial-legislative complex **Pols hosting Real Housewives of RI viewing party **Remembering Donny Ruggerio **A lot of (hockey) heart www.oceanstatemedia.org/politics/tgi...

Before I got my start in print, I worked part-time for CBS Radio (100.3 Jack FM to be exact) on the street team. The way iconic journalism brands are being destroyed within just a year of this administration is mindboggling.

I don't know, man, it sounds like guns are designed to kill.

Doctors say that most serious childhood diseases are caused by viruses. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they are caused by radiation from 5G cell phone towers. For a busy parent, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A good reminder to support independent media, perhaps specifically @talkingpointsmemo.com during its membership drive. If @davidkurtz.bsky.social hadn’t been putting in the work, this crazy admission of incompetence and contempt might have flown under the radar. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

Everyone who is "disappointed" about Fetterman should be turning a similar eye to Platner.

She has so much goodwill to torch, and she’s hard at work.

Important: Rep Adam Smith, top Democrat on Armed Services committee, says every single Dem should be against appropriating even another dime for Trump's war. "Hell no," Smith tells me. "No Dem should vote for this." On the pod, he lays out his red lines: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

“largest supply disruption in the history of the oil market”

“News” 😐

We’re quickly learning that our checks, balances, and separation of powers were always dependent good faith, and therefore incapable of preventing destruction wrought by the very sort of shameless, arrogant, mad president they were designed to contain.

The Secretary of Defense keeps going out there and saying the United States is waging a Christian holy war and it is somehow not registering as a career- and administration-ending scandal

1. "Two dolls." 2. "Chicken, tortilla, and one other item." 3. "One less trip to Starbucks."

Also a vandal, a shoplifter and arrested for a DUI. Rhode Island! 🤷🏼‍♂️