timeline cleanse (sound up)

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota: youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU

I am sick about the gun violence at Brown and praying for the entire community. Traveling with a Brown student right now and watching the messages being relayed in real time is devastating . Our children and our country deserve so much better.

Zoe Weissman, a sophomore at Brown University, joins us to discuss the shooting on Brown's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. She was in middle school in Parkland, Florida during the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. She is now an advocate for gun control and gun violence prevention.

A country that watches these massacres happen again and again, in every imaginable setting, and doesn't do everything it can to stop another one, has failed. There's no other way to say it.

this is just gutter racism

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Despite what the Senate Majority Whip says in this interview, my 340B drug pricing bill did pass the House. It took effect Oct 1 and is already helping our hospitals and health centers! As you can see, it was award-winning legislation!

Rest in peace, Alice. You did great work. 🙏❤️🙏

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

We should all be asking ourselves why we can't do this in the United States. 🌞 🌬 🌞 🌬

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

Today, the Rhode Island Health Center Association presented its John H. Chafee Healthcare Leadership Award to Sen. @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social and Rep. Jon D. Brien for their successful passage of the Defending Affordable Prescription Drug Costs Act. Learn more: rilegislature.gov/pressrelease...

Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

"In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people." - Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social No one uses current event details and historical facts to indict Trump better Richardson. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Just showed this to my 10-year old and his response was, “So true.” And I guess our parenting has been a huge success!

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

RI AG Neronha targets 6/10 Connector contamination settlement money toward child dental care “This should be the beginning of an acknowledgement by government that we have failed the people of Rhode Island regarding dental and healthcare, and committing ourselves to fix it," said AG Neronha.

Today, the Senate recognized Eliza Reid, a best-selling author and former First Lady of Iceland, and adopted Senate President Valarie Lawson's resolution welcoming her to the State House. Senator @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social introduced the resolution: webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/Bil...

The Senate has approved Sen. @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social's bill to protect a critical discount pharmaceutical program that enables safety-net hospitals, clinics and other health care agencies to provide care to the most vulnerable Rhode Islanders. Learn more: www.rilegislature.gov/pressrelease...

Thousands of transgender troops who have served our nation honorably will soon be purged from the military because of their identity. It is shameful that the Supreme Court’s majority won’t even explain why it greenlit this mass act of unconstitutional discrimination. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Emily Feiner, a retired social worker and mother of two, posed no threat whatsoever. Ms. Feiner politely asked her congressman — Rep. Mike Lawler — what his red line was to finally, vocally oppose the lawless Trump regime. Lawler refused to answer the question. When Ms. Feiner called out for him…

Congrats on doing the right thing for yourselves and the world, Canada!

This is what courage looks like. Kudos to the team at 60 Minutes.

Yes! This former food bank fundraiser concurs!

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

FDA’s director for the center for biological evaluation and research: “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Republicans in the Senate voted tonight while no one is watching to fatten Wall Street profits by jacking up overdraft fees on you. So much for lowering costs.

17 states have Democratic governors and Democratic majorities in their state legislatures. Our lowest-ranked state, Rhode Island, has one of the broadest Democratic majorities in the country yet refuses to join other blue states in passing basic protections and economic security for its citizens.

NEWS: Donald Trump wants to, and is working to, destroy the rule of law. Attn, BigLaw: There will be no law firm business to save if Trump succeeds. Tonight, at Law Dork —>

I continue to speak out against every bill that attempts to remove trans people from public life. And I will continue to do so for as long as I draw breath. I hope one day the government will leave my people alone.

I’m hosting a virtual assembly tonight at 8 p.m. to answer Rhode Islanders’ questions about what’s happening in DC. Join our livestream on YouTube to follow along. www.youtube.com/@SenatorWhit...

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

This. This is what overthrew the elite enslavers in the 1859s and the robber barons in the 1890s. We need these new papers everywhere.

Hard pass on this one, please, @whitehouse.senate.gov

Reed: "You are the ninth nominee for secretary of defense that I have had the honor to consider. I have voted in favor of all your predecessors, including those in the first Trump administration. Unfortunately, you lack the character, composure, & competence to hold the position"

Senate President Ruggerio told @fitzprov.bsky.social he failed to vote for himself in error earlier tonight. He won the presidency back, but has lost the support of a third of the Democratic caucus www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/07/m...