Digging deep for some kind of equanimity on this beautiful Friday. Dog photos welcome.

Join us as we remember the life and work of Patricia Raub, who passed away on October 29. Friends, family and others who knew her will come together at an event at Wanskuck Library on Nov. 20 to share memories of Patricia. More on this page: clpvd.org/event/a-nigh...

Talk about leaving an outsized void in the fabric of the city. Patricia will be sorely missed. www.olsonparent.com/obituary/Pat...

Dr. King on good neighborness:

Everyone should be so lucky as to have someone in their life who, when you put a precious but fragile idea in front of them, receives it with care and enthusiasm and also makes it better and more possible. This is who I want to be when I grow up.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Pertinent to a class discussion this morning, I looked up Jamie Dimon’s net worth. $2.9 billion. Compensation last year of $39 million.

The New York Times piece questioning whether feminism ruined the workplace has pushed me over the edge. A world in which this is considered useful public discourse is not one I wish to live in.

Hello, media savvy friends! Could you point me toward any guidance on submitting an op-ed to the Projo?

Rhode Islanders, check out our summary of Small Business Rising’s webinar on fighting back against illegal pricing.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

After a bulldozer of a week all of today’s meetings are virtual and so I am wearing sweatpants and not moving from the couch.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Saturday's event at the Mill at Lafayette in North Kingstown is postponed. We hope to reschedule soon!

I thought I could not dislike this company more, but it turns out that it is possible. Cutting 8.5% of their corporate workforce because of AI efficiencies, as the holidays approach, while the country roils and their playboy oligarch founder is one of the richest people in the world.

Wall Street is not the economy.

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include: -Amazon -Apple -Coinbase -Lockheed Martin -Google -Meta -Microsoft -Palantir -Tobacco companies -The Adelson family Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

I always appreciate @butterflyefeckt.bsky.social's posts. He raises incredibly valuable questions and isn't afraid to provoke our easily accepted assumptions. There are two points I would add to this post, though.

Hey, RI nonprofits: GoFundMe has apparently created fundraising pages for nonprofits who didn't ask for them.

Trump's ballroom donors include: -Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case -Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE -Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity Pay-to-play.

Yesterday, after the rain.

Four. Stars.

This is going to be fun!

Pope Leo condemns "usurious financial systems that can bring entire peoples to their knees." A spot-on description of modern capitalism, if I've ever heard one. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Robin Wall Kimmerer saying it exactly right: "We often lay the blame for the outcomes of cutthroat capitalism on the “System.” There’s merit in that, given the complex layered interactions, but no excuse. Let’s remember that the “System” is led by individuals, by a relatively small number of people

My to do list for the weekend.

I’ve spent the last two days with an amazing group of people convened by @thebtscenter.bsky.social. Stay strong, my friends. There is a world of beautiful spirits out there pulling for love.

Such a good reminder to myself, potentially the *most* annoying of all the people.

People who don't want to take part in the annoying parts of being in community suffer under the delusion that They are the only not annoying person on earth. It is thus an imposition that they, the least annoying person on earth, should have to deal with being annoyed

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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

I love this! It makes me think of you, @sueanderbois.bsky.social.

Perhaps you want to listen to @joshdaly.bsky.social and me talk about @investri.bsky.social?

Investing in our communities demands this simple ideological baseline: our lives are inherently worthy and holy, just as the lives of the natural world around us are worthy and holy.

Representing @localreturn.bsky.social @investri.bsky.social and @commoncauseri.bsky.social today.

Oh, they are so broken.

Nauseating. Can't look away. We must end this.

This is sickening.

It's not too late: Pick up a copy of The Connected Community by Cormac Russell and John McKnight today, and join us virtually on October 21 for a discussion of the book's ideas. localreturn.org/events/?even...

If “kill people and break things” is your driving motivation, please go into therapy, not the military. And if your boss says your job description is “to kill people and break things,” please have a long, honest conversation with yourself.

Rhode Islanders! Please spread the word to your favorite local businesses about this important briefing on October 28 from @ilsr.bsky.social on how to fight back against illegal pricing deals. Register at: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We've spent the last two days with Jumpstart organizers from across the country, learning how to better support aspiring neighborhood-based, community-minded real estate developers. Coming home inspired and ready to do more!

“What I worked very hard on was not running, but on standing, on making your life choices, and then standing with and for them.” Read Bruce's new TIME cover story now: time.com/7319963/bruc...

Just look at these two pups.

We write in today’s @bostonglobe.com about the economic development strategies that would help people and places to flourish in Rhode Island. Sneak peek: it’s not $100 million for a company whose CEO makes $16.8 million a year.

Commentary by @joshdaly.bsky.social and @jdinri.bsky.social, co-founders of Local Return and RI Community Investment Cooperative -- R.I. needs a resilient economy that offers business owners a chance to thrive www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/m...

More than ever, I'm inspired by people like Kate, who just keep doing everything they can.

Sometimes it actually is my circus and/or my monkeys.