We are in such a dark place.

“Any woman.”

Went for a walk today in Providence. Took this pic.

Update: the last victim of the Brown shooting was discharged from the hospital today.

Exciting news! 👁️

Maybe it's early enough to get a re-do on 2026. Like someone says "Cut." And we all try again "from the top."

Hours before Maduro’s first court appearance on federal criminal charges, a senior Justice Department official amplified a post speculating that the Venezuelan dictator would try to plead to lesser charges by proffering “evidence” that the 2020 U.S. election was stolen.

Inbox: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board has voted to dissolve the organization following Congress pulling its federal funding

A TikTok ad just reminded me that "Melania" (the documentary) drops later this month. So, that's also happening.

It will never stop being wild to me that Stephen Miller says these things While Jewish. Never.

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states

This is good news. Although I am wincing thinking about the one student still hospitalized 2+ weeks after the attack.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

40% of Americans did not read a book in 2025. The good, the bad, and the deeply concerning new data from a YouGov survey of American reading habits: bookriot.com/american-rea...

Trump's lawsuit serving its intended purpose

2026: Like 2025, But Worse.

once again encouraging you all to support billionaire-free, worker-run, independent newsrooms how and where you are able

My "We are the good guys" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

A thing I heard on the plane earlier: a man with an Australian accent saying "Sprite, with ice."

Some exciting Rhode Island media news: @thepvdeye.bsky.social -- where I serve as a board member and volunteer opinion editor -- is hiring its first full-time reporter. Details below. Feel free to spread the word!

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

JFC.

I am still thinking about the fact that one of CBS Evening News's newly-announced core principles is "We Love America."

All of this is nauseating and profoundly embarrassing. Americans who can watch this without feeling shame and horror are inhabiting an alien moral universe I do not understand.

This is an emergency of the gravest kind. “We can do it again. Nobody can stop us” he said. It is the absolute and solemn duty of Congress to impeach and remove Trump from power immediately.

Wrote this 6 years ago and why is it even more applicable now than then 😐

Big week for Rhode Island icy pond rescues.

In authoritarian regimes, underlings signal loyalty to the ruler by publicly attesting to obviously false claims

At the gym, and half the TVs are on Sunday sports shows promoting gambling and the other half are on the Sunday news shows promoting war.

Scroll, baby, scroll.

OK, here's a 🧵 of DEA corruption and shenanigans. Starting with this paragraph from the New York Times, in 1977: www.nytimes.com/1977/05/22/a...

I'm just now realizing that the Drug Enforcement Administration led the Maduro capture/arrest. And -- hoo boy -- I know that agency well, since I researched it for my book and sued it under #FOIA in 2015. Its history is a total shitshow.

The U.S. is a country in precipitous decline, on multiple fronts.

Every time I see a news article about ChatGPT pushing vulnerable people to harm themselves and others, I want to know how the universities who have eagerly proclaimed their partnerships with this company intend to account for the increasing evidence of the harms of this tech

Babe wake up, new sickos meme just dropped

Of all the competitive authoritarian developments of the past year I think the fall of CBS News is among the most chilling. That this can happen to easily and so quickly freaks me the fuck out.

Providence.

Is ICE going to kidnap Maduro and return him to Venezuela?

this is just insane. I don’t have any other words for it

The House Armed Services Committee also was not briefed, I've confirmed.

POV: you're my friend and I'm giving you feedback on your book proposal.

I really hope PVD/Rhode Island doesn't lose @mapcenter.com.

The Washington Post is fully and truly cooked.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

I’ve been thinking lately about how all children learn how good and wise America’s constitutional structure is: three branches of government, checks and balances, etc. And then in the real world, they just roll over to whatever Trump does. The idea feels almost quaint at this point.

New circle of hell: gambling on war crimes.

Yikes.

This is true. But you might be more inclined to go forward anyway if your policy is lying about everything and/or blaming others; if Congress and the courts have shown themselves to be toothless; and if you can expect to distract folks from the mess by starting a new, bigger, different mess.