Taxpayers and charities helped develop the gene therapy Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price of $2M+ per dose, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation. (Published Feb.)

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Kimmel is back, but many Americans won’t be able to watch. Two companies — Nexstar and Sinclair — control hundreds of local TV stations and have business deals pending Donald Trump’s approval. They won’t air Kimmel tonight. I’m pressing for answers on potential corruption.

And a huge thank you to the more than 100 #RhodeIsland residents, incl. @dawneuer.bsky.social, @tanzister.bsky.social and @jenniferboylanri.bsky.social who showed up in #Newport earlier this month to support Revolution Wind. We won't win this fight unless we show up, and you did. Thank you./4/end

Cheering on our home team @rhodeislandfc.bsky.social 🌊⚓️💙💛 ⚽️ with @tanzister.bsky.social

Crisis-level chaos and corruption.

This is going to be devastating to many of the riders of these nearly 80% of routes. All over $5m.

Great to see 100-150 people show up last night in Newport, #RhodeIsland to support the Revolution Wind #offshorewind project that the Trump Regime has illegally ordered to stop work. #Trump is making war on our ability to decarb & contain high power prices & people in our state are mad as Hell. /1

This perfectly describes both the Trump presidency and the Republican Congress. The only true thing he said today.

RI State Rep. @tanzister.bsky.social brought up the imbalance between funding for RIDOT & RIPTA at this afternoon's RIPTA service cuts public hearing in South Kingstown!

thank you @tanzister.bsky.social for your impassioned testimony at today's special RIPTA board meeting 🚌🚏 real leadership for transit riders and Rhode Islanders!

Agreed. An engaging, lively and accurate video ... #CyclingLife #ShareTheJoy

Montreal has been THE North American model of smart, strategic street transformations into people-places. Each year has seen ambitious new moves that build on the years before — incremental, but NOT “slow” because they’ve been making big moves step-by-step. Permanent Ste Catherine is a GREAT move.

#RhodeIsland supports Revolution Wind. Outrageous that Republicans shut down this important project, wasting tax payer money, & jeopardizing our progress towards energy independence #ClimateAction #CleanEnergy #ClimateJobs @climateactionri.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @riaflcio.bsky.social

Here's a cool view you won't often see in NYC on Eastern Parkway, unless it is the one day a year car-free Summer Streets is taking place! Saturday was amazing!

STUDY: “Traffic simulations on large urban networks prove that emission reductions of over 10% can be achieved in the case of a well-chosen speed limit policy.” In other words, smartly lowering speed limits in cities not only saves lives & improves quality of life…it can also reduce emissions.

The design of your city can help make you healthier, study finds. “A new study in Nature found when people moved from less walkable U.S. cities to more walkable ones, they increased their levels of physical activity and saw health benefits.”

Trying to cast a wide net for sourcing on this one, but has anyone in the Boston area found a new apartment since the broker fee change went into effect? I'm curious to see how it's been going for people for a piece in the Globe. Is this you or someone you know? #bostonsky #bospoli #mapoli

The American people deserve to know exactly how much they are spending to have federal agents patrolling DC so that they can decide for themselves whether the benefits outweigh the costs. We're investigating.

Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.

61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened: “IS THIS AMERICA?” youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM

Nicole O'Loughlin: Seven reasons raising bus fares makes no sense "...if a service is being degraded and the cost is raised... more riders are sure to seek other means of transportation, triggering a downward spiral of more service cuts and lower ridership."

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🚭R.I. casino workers have waited years to inhale in a smoke-free workplace. The wait continues🚭. rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/07/14/r... 🚭 We won’t give up until these workers are no longer get exposed to deadly carcinogens. Fewer that 12% of RI’ers smoke, there are simply no excuses. 🚭

keep thinking about two things from a recent panel on anti-fascism: - people united to fight fascists didn’t need a shared definition of fascism first (they needed each other) - not everyone in the group wanted to fight the same way, but they agreed not to denounce one another over those differences

According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020. Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net. War is a racket.

Rhode Island has lost a creative giant and an inspiring, dedicated philanthropist in my friend, Alan Hassenfeld. Thank you for the legacy you’ve left, rest in peace, we will miss you.

Doocy tries to get Trump to react to a John Fetterman quote, but Trump has some trouble understanding it and has Doocy read it again

I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.

Also: Joseph Boakai, the President of Liberia, took coursework at Kansas State University on a USAID fellowship, the agency Trump just demolished.

The Catholic Church is authorizing parishioners to indefinitely skip Mass out of fear of ICE raids😕

Hang out with me for two days drawing colored lines on maps! Our two day intensive course in public transit network design comes to Portland this Oct 30-31, right after the Mpact conference. See here: humantransit.org/2025/07/new-... Please share!

Read this immediately, and share it as much as you can.

One of the two “judges” in his LEOBOR case who gave him his job back— in opposition to the last two Chiefs of the PVD police department — is also a state senator from Cranston, and a current badge holding Major in the Cranston Police Department. PLEASE read the dissent in this case, it’s in the link

A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

TIRED: “learn to code!” WIRED:

Listen, @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social address this flagrant, insulting & incendiary racism. Where is the censure motion? Stop jumping at every smear against Mamdani. Focus on what a U.S. Senator is saying abt a key part of your base. www.al.com/politics/202...

It is obscene to give tax breaks to the top 1% by throwing more than 16 million people off health care, cutting nutrition for hungry kids and making it harder for working class young people to go to college. That is exactly what Trump's budget reconciliation bill does.

Trump is trying everything to control the narrative on the success of his strikes. Let's just say, it's not going so well. open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...

Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.

Everything is a “redistribution of wealth” — the only question is which direction it’s heading in. Stop letting them convince you the only valid direction is from the bottom to the top. They’ve been selling that snake oil for decades.

Of course, this isn't a new "solution." Billionaires figured out long ago that they could avoid having to pay their fair share for essential social services by forcing women to do that work for little or no pay instead. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

This was true DOGE's spending cuts. And it'll be true for the Big Beautiful Bill, too. Both pass the buck to America's women, whose stolen wages line the pockets of billionaires. share.google/MVtwFbG8F8uW...

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

More and more secrecy for them; less and less privacy for us. These two came up in quick succession in my feed.

This is a big deal. The gleeful gutting of the ACA they’ve been seeking for more than 10 years.

How Awful Is the Republican Megabill? Here Are Four of the Worst Parts. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

Thank you @rightstartri.bsky.social, RI Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Speaker Joseph Shekarchi, Senate President Valarie Lawson, @tanzister.bsky.social @pamlauria.bsky.social, Sen. Ryan Pearson, Rep. Kathy Fogarty for your leadership on this!

🚨The North Carolina Legislature voted unanimously (107 to 0) to ban minimum parking requirements in new developments statewide.