This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.

Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.

jfc

Breezy Johnson is the best skier name since Peekaboo Street.

people are so fucking pissed

Anyway just bookmark this for the next time the Administration tries to shut town another offshore wind farm by saying that they're protecting whales

Very generous framing by ProJo. They blatantly cheated the math!

My main issue with this is the lighthouse appears to not be an actual R.I. lighthouse.

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

Ten days post storm my street got plowed so it's no longer one lane.

TARGET 12: Just before Alviti's resignation, over 700 bridges were taken out of RIDOT's quarterly progress report to lawmakers - a change that let RIDOT claim it hit the 90% bridge sufficiency goal set 10 years ago Goalposts moved in budget docs, too www.wpri.com/target-12/ri...

and they ran a bjorn lomborg oped today we are in hell

It's been brutally, unusually cold in Southern #NewEngland over the past few weeks. Which means higher electricity and gas demand, and the power mix reflects that. So how did #renewableenergy do? /1 #energytransition

Are these Dems just doing this for love of the game at this point or what?

Narrragansett Bay ice fields

If true, this could explain a lot: Epstein’s mysterious money; the wire transactions to former Soviet states; Trump’s submissiveness around Putin.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

Was watching this with my daughter, and Rhode Islanders will find a very obvious error in the video right away! youtu.be/nLMHomGzHOo?...

Curb is in red. Shoveled a spot for the bins that the garbage truck can reach. Followed city instruction to put them out. But now, either can't be plowed properly curb to curb (day 6) or plows will destroy them?

East Side Providence people: please know and share that the City is enforcing alternate side parking starting at 12:01 am on Monday 2/2 to facilitate trash/recycling pickup. More info here: mailchi.mp/jilldavidson...

ICE in Portland tear-gassed a peaceful march that included children. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

I appreciate @samzurier.bsky.social describing Gov. McKee's budget as "disemboweling" the Act on Climate. I agree. The legislature should not accept that.

Very similar dynamic to now, where people in the Trump Administration keep stating publicly, “I am doing this racist thing racistly because I love racism” and the entire media is like “his motivations, what could they possibly be?!”

Brasa & Chifa knows how to clear sidewalks (and the food's awesome too)

Millions and millions for buildings to WAREHOUSE human beings. This is where our taxes are going? I am furious. Give us the names of every person profiting from this.

"I will never forget this episode, the ugliest moment in the ugliest campaign of my lifetime. They attempted to spark what amounted to a pogrom in a small city, a city run by their own party, in a state run by their own party, and there were no consequences for it whatsoever."

It’s a lonely job to be the person who stands up for history when others are determined to rewrite it. I appreciate Sen Euer and former Sen Goldin, two people who know exactly what went down in order to pass marriage equality and abortion protections in RI, for trying to set the record straight.

Seeing *Hakeem Jeffries* call for removal of Noem *and*Miller is why calling your members of congress works.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Just imagine if this was a Biden or Obama appointee

He had three years of easy snowfall and fumbled it at the moment when it really mattered. My neighbor and I watched dumbfounded yesterday as the trash pickup still happened despite no one being able to get their trash out to the street (keep in mind, they missed my side of the road the week prior).

Mayor Smiley promised us the “best run city in America,” and we are curious when exactly we’ll make progress toward that goal. Here’s what he said when announcing his run for mayor in 2022, from a ProJo article by Amy Russo. ⤵️

This is what riding transit across Rhode Island, especially Providence, looks like right now. Riders have to get on/off the bus on the road.

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

Drag your politicians along to moral clarity and courage.

Breaking Axios: Kristi Noem's language that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" federal agents was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller. That's according to four sources who spoke to Axios. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.

Just unbelievably bad by every measure, roads, sidewalks, crossings, everything. People walking in the middle of the street with plows and cars sliding by because the sidewalks are buried

Hopefully not co-sponsored by Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse.

Providence roads are in rough shape. Big storm, but there was lots of prep time and we're a day out now...

The senator rightly getting what passes for "ratioed" on Bluesky.

Who’s next? One demotion cannot detract from accountability. Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.

You all know I've been saying FOR WEEKS that this needed to happen to strategically focus on what's happening at DHS. They need to USE this to do shadow hearings across the country, to call for the complete dismantling of ICE (yes) but also the apparatus of detention, to get local media coverage.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

It doesn't matter. It's not good enough. It won't change things. It's just cosmetic. It should have happened years ago. It doesn't mean anything. It's too late. It doesn't make up for the fact that... Pissing on glimmers of hopefulness isn't tough-minded. It's just wallowing in a comfort zone.