Thanks Biden.

My educated guess way back was ultimately this leadership and management failure lands on a ~$750M+ total price tag for the public to bear. I'm holding to that. www.wpri.com/traffic/i-19...

Today I found out Governor McKee is replacing me on the Energy Efficiency Council. I have been publicly fighting back against his proposed cuts to clean energy and energy efficiency- which would drive up our energy costs and leave us over-reliant on expensive gas.

Restaurant owner who often writes cranky Providence op-eds wrote one saying World Cup hype has "fallen flat," past tense, which just ran in the Projo. Last I checked, the local World Cup matches aren't till mid-June. Maybe he can share access to his Crystal Ball of Confidence!

I think about this a lot.

We used to be a proper country. (Spotted in EP.)

"...mainly solar, wind and batteries..." www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-su...

File under: data centers the dumb way. www.latitudemedia.com/news/amazon-...

“The revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so.” www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

So the dude that carries his pet duck around had it in a nice raincoat today.

Environmental P.E. checking in here 👀 Who owns and maintains this section of pipe? (Article doesn't say.) Is it Veolia? Is it Narragansett Bay Commission? Neither can claim underfunding for proper maintenance... www.providencejournal.com/story/news/e...

In our defense, the Constitutional Convention exceeded its authorization & ratification violated the Articles. And the Founders absolutely hated RI. Henry Knox compared our regular state of affairs to Shay's Rebellion and Madison told Washington it was better that we hadn't sent delegates to Philly.

It was 1776, RI had been in a state of war with the Crown since 1775 when the GA raised Varnum's Regiment (later the 1st RI Rgt), then sent it out to fight the Siege of Boston with the rest of the Army of Observation, so it's hard to say any retaliation would've been prompted by legislation

Rhode Island needing to be bullied into ratifying the Constitution by New York does somewhat support the "Rogue Island" reputation though

Yeah, it's worth noting the Patriot/Loyalist/Undecided split was something like 1:1:1, so there was a healthy diversity of viewpoint at the founding. A lot of people believed we could be reconciled to the UK. Independence closes that door. At that point, it's all or nothing for both sides.

MA-Plymouth-CT had been waging low-grade warfare against RI since, well, 1636. And not without reason, as we harbored heretics, anti-social weirdos, renegades, pirates, smugglers, and Quakers.

@radiostoryteller.bsky.social @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social the local sports segment this morning was new to me and perfect! I don't need all morning sports, but something deeper than a few seconds of scores was right on.

New village unlocked.

It will be such a breath of fresh air to have Sue in statewide office. Solutions oriented, policy chops, positive, forward looking, and accountable.

💰

The article doesn't mention an important piece of the dollars and cents here: the solar projects fund significant grid upgrades to be allowed to interconnect, to the tune of millions, improving overall system reliability. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/e...

Today a Boston area colleague said she and her husband want to move to Rhode Island because they're doing such a good job showing off the beauty of the state on Real Housewives of RI. cc @phileil.bsky.social cc @rebeccaatwood.bsky.social

"US judge halts Trump admin’s blockade on new wind and solar projects" www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

This is promising stuff. Also: legacy gas industry is skilled at building and maintaining buried pipes, so moving to community geothermal and getting off gas is a good energy transition fit from that perspective. www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...

"We need to say—louder than ever—that this vision of vast, complex, infrastructural and scientific achievements that belong to the public constitute the highest mission of liberal democracy, and that without the freedom it provides, none of it could be possible." www.liberalcurrents.com/to-the-moon/

After the incredible and inspiring success of Artemis II, NASA's funding remains under serious threat. Consider writing your legislators to encourage them to fund NASA using this easy tool. www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...

this is a massive deal.

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

Review of NASA: Good

90 minutes until they're back, if you want to watch #ArtemisII 🧪🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhD...

there really isn't much to the American ideology that refers to itself as "conservatism" beyond rejection of the New Deal reforms of the 1930s and the civil-rights reforms of the 1960s

Three times Las Vegas's electricity. Absolutely wild.

Easy wedge question for 2028 Dem presidential primary: Will you tear down the ballroom, yes or milquetoast obfuscation?

We proud few, we who have our inboxes inundated by 401Gives and then immediately thereafter, (603)Challenge. May all noble causes be found worthy simultaneously.

NH batshittery update (a sitting state rep)

No need to hand it to them. But you *can* smile at it.

Not California dreamin'. Look to Illinois, not California, for a governor getting good things done. pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/09/c...

I have a whole document of these now. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We wondered earlier what shook the house. Wow.

They'll still be using Rhode Island as a unit of measure in the year 2394.

If this holds and the Strait of Hormuz resumes a semblance of normal pre-war traffic, Donald Trump just gave an organization that he designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization about $200 million *per day* in new transit fees that did not exist before he started the war against them.

If you have any information at all on these plans, now is the time to share it. Reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.

An aged and compromised Commander-in-Chief is losing his grip on reality, increasing dangers at home and for our brave troops overseas. Threatening to inflict massive civilian casualties is un-American; the stuff of cruel dictators. Republicans should no longer stand idly by.

I'm bad at math, is 90% a lot?