Our taxpayer dollars are being used to kidnap children and murder legal observers. ICE refused CPR being performed when the legal observer was shot while simply trying to leave. ICE is an existential threat to our communities and the largest terrorist organization in the US.

The US continues to be an architect for genocidal policies and policing. From Jim Crow, to Trail of Tears, kidnapping immigrants, Palestine, and deliberately withholding life saving care for our Transgender neighbors. Extreme wealth inequality is the only real threat to our lives, not our neighbors.

It’s outrageous how routine violent takeovers of foreign countries happen for corporate profit. The US destroys societies and replaces them with chaos for the sake of enriching a couple thousand people. Billions suffer for the gains of so few individuals. Imperial violence is terrorism.

It’s revealing that NYT and WaPo deliberately withheld information from the public about this illegal invasion that killed ~100 civilians in Venezuela. Oil companies knew before politicians. Fascism is the merger of corporate and state power. We prioritize oil over our shared humanity.

2/3 of Americans live paycheck to paycheck: We have a billionaire pedophile protecting administration kidnapping our neighbors, enabling genocide, bombing civilians and illegally capturing elected leaders to control oil, a resource we know is actively destroying our present and future.

The Gateway Link is a free public transit service connecting Fall River, Taunton and Brockton. The express service is as fast as driving and provides direct connections to the MBTA Red Line. The Gateway Link is the key to exploring the SouthCoast youtu.be/x0cBSUDqGcg?...

Our Somali neighbors are integral members of the community. The US propped up dictator Siad Barre and our government has killed many Somali civilians into the 21st century which has prolonged suffering: Your immigrant neighbor is not the reason that we are struggling: jacobin.com/2022/11/soma...

“The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority saw 90,000 fewer riders on its fixed-route service in October.” This is what happens when our state gov’t refuses to properly fund public transit. This is a violent policy decision that leads to isolation, unemployment, & food insecurity for our neighbors.

The decision of Trump pardoning Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández, who is a convicted drug trafficker, while illegally striking innocent Venezuelan fishermen is as violent as it is revealing. There is solidarity between ruling elites, while civilians suffer to benefit big oil and empire.

For my Rhode Island and Mass neighbors, there are listening sessions for expanding passenger rail in RI: www.dot.ri.gov/about/who/of...

“WHERE IS MY BUS? @govdanmckee.bsky.social underfunded RIPTA. Nearly 70% of routes are now running at reduced frequency or hours of service. These are the largest cuts in RIPTA’s history, and they hurt working people.” “I walk home for an hr. b/c of bus cuts!!” 🚨‼️🚌

Really grateful to be part of a wonderful research team on amplifying the leadership & research of youth. We often conceal deny & seldom discuss the vital contributions of youth leadership within our communities. How can we as adults center the work of youth & be collaborators in community change?

In this article I write about how state violence targets children in Palestine and within the United States. These are interconnected issues that highlight how children are systematically harmed by our government, whether through violent action or violent policies.

It’s haunting to see people have more empathy and reverence for a man that didn’t even believe in empathy, than Palestinian civilians being massacred in the cruelest ways imaginable while waiting for food and water —

The #Trump administration (which has 2% of all billionaires in the US) is weaponizing the military against our most impoverished neighbors. We are subsidizing the billionaire class while we are paying taxes to deploy the military against our unhoused community members. No healthcare, only warfare.

#RIPTA is a very efficient public transit agency that serves our communities well. Governor Dan McKee is trying to gut RIPTA that will adversely impact our neighbors. I have my full thoughts below

An important perspective that is missing from the illegal firings of federal employees is that we already had less federal employees pre-DOGE than we had in the 1990s (despite the population growing by over 80 million in the last 3 decades. We already have 1/2 million less employees in 2024 than ‘94

Our government is disappearing BIPOC youth and people speaking out against genocide. This is state sponsored violence, where we are paying to cause direct harm to our neighbors. This is post 9/11 Islamophobic terror targeting innocent people and inflicting trauma, pain, and fear. Sickening…

Some more photos form the first day of #mbta South Coast Rail

Inaugural ride from New Bedford on the #mbta South Coast Rail! First time in 65+ years this region has had passenger rail. This is critical to not only connect our region to Boston, but to connect our neighbors in the South Coast: New Bedford-Taunton in 20 min, New Bedford to Bridgewater in 40 min.

Since I started working in #PublicTransit planning, all of my most important data tools to communicate complex ideas with the public have been removed by this gov’t. Tools like STEAP were free and accessible where a simple drawing on a map could publish you a report — here are examples of its use:

Schumer and Jeffries have abdicated responsibility for this moment (and many others). They are acting like Trump’s mandate is Reagan’s 2nd term. Less than 50% of the popular vote and one of the most narrow controls of both chambers in U.S.

Detaining and trying to deport a permanent resident speaking up against our schools’ complicity in genocide is bleak, violent and tyrannical. Tinker v. Des Moines plainly stated that we do not shed our rights at the schoolhouse gate. Both parties are enabling these student disappearances. Depraved.

The Democratic Party is clearly not interested in meaningful opposition. They are acting like Trump’s win was Reagan’s 2nd Term, Trump didn’t breach 50% of the vote, and this is one of the most narrow house/senate shifts for a presidential election. This is complicity in fascism.

We need a general strike at this point. I know Shawn Fain scheduled in 2028 but that is too far out. We need to meet the gravity and depravity of this moment.

For those that might not know, Providence is the least affordable market in the country. I’m looking for apartments, and found a landlord who uploaded a screen shot of a $15,000 mink coat they were looking to buy mixed in with the listing photos. Can’t make this up.

Section 504 provides life saving and affirming support for the Disability community whether that is free access to public education (FAPE), and housing protections. This predates ADA and IDEA. 25% of the country has a disability. Trump’s admin & sycophants are engaging in eugenics.

17 states have filed lawsuits to end Section 504, which would lead to students with disabilities no longer being guaranteed public education and afterschool programming. Section 504 allowed me to be in regular integrated classes as someone with ASD. Section 504 was a lifeline in my childhood.

My issue with DOGE is that those with institutional power act as if gov’t spending on meeting our most basic needs (food, shelter, belonging) is wasteful. Yet there is no institutional challenge to fund ~$1 Trillion to the military, and billions to imprison immigrants. That is truly wasteful—

This is gutting Medicaid (FY23 budget was $880Bn). This is unquestionably a death sentence for our neighbors. Roughly 80 million people have Medicaid or about a 1/4th of the entire US population rely on it as a literal lifeline. This is social murder yet entirely legally permissible.

A government that defunds education domestically and bombs schools abroad is not a free country nor a good government. It’s a deeply unwell society that privileges hate over love, isolation over community, and conquest over compassion.

What’s disappointing and not surprising is how much our federal institutions have capitulated to transphobic, xenophobic, racist and ableist policy adoptions. Our democratic leadership couldn’t even be bothered to enter the department of education being blocked by minimal private security.

Donald Trump: “As far as Gaza is concerned … we’re going to take over that piece, we’re going to develop it and create thousands of thousands of jobs.” The U.S. President said US will “take over,” “level,” and “own,” Gaza and deploy US troops “if it is necessary.”

Trump’s “proposal” for Gaza is nothing less than the deliberate ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people from their land. The US continues to aid and support genocide. This is untenable, unconscionable, cruel, violent, and dehumanizing. We devalue our humanity when we deny Palestinians’ humanity.

It’s worth noting that one of the first acts of Nazi Germany was the looting of the institute of Sexology: A library dedicated to promoting equality for the LGBTQIA+ community. Fascism has also historically targeted immigrants, BIPOC, and the Disability communities.

The memo directs people who have questions to contact [email protected].

I was supposed to go to a public transit conference next week but it got cancelled by the feds since the theme was environmental justice. It’s quite shameful how quickly our federal institutions are complying with policies we know are wrong and violent—

In Trump’s first week, he’s done nothing to materially address the “cost of living” (not surprising) and instead has done everything in his power to undermine the humanity of immigrants, the Disability, LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities as well as fanning the flames of our climate crisis—

The chaos and opening the floodgates of horrible executive orders is the point. To push back and organize to take care of our communities is the response.

Gov McKee's budget defunds RIPTA considerably. If we implement a millionaires tax similar to MA (4%) that would generate ~$220,000,000 annually for transportation and education. RI has more millionaires per capita than Texas. Let's #SaveRIPTA and invest in transportation and education.

Trump’s $500Bn investment into AI power plants is taking power from the people. We’re literally using taxpayer dollars to fund private companies consuming power at an unsustainable rate. We can’t feed the poor but we can build power plants for a deeply unregulated industry.

The world’s richest (reichest) man having an office in the White House having direct decision making over his own contracts while owning one of the largest social media platforms to boost neo nazism and the great replacement theory is deeply deeply troubling. This is brazen and violent, & dangerous.

I can’t help but think of the recent unnatural disasters augmented by climate change and how community organizing has helped uplift so many facing hardship, while the federal government and police are antagonistic. Our gov’t set up detention centers during Katrina that targeted Muslims & Black ppl.-

The work and stakes remain the same: To collectively build, and organize a more just society. Fascism and oligarchy are not new phenomenon in the U.S., this however, is more overt than anytime in my life. Trump’s cabinet is worth half a Trillion $ and our minimum wage remains at $7.25.

As one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist and political prisoner who has been incarcerated for nearly half a century for a crime he maintains he did not commit. truthout.org/articles/bid...

1-in-50 U.S. billionaires are in Trump’s Cabinet.

Providence is the only metro >1 million along the Northeast corridor without true rapid transit. Mckee’s decision to divest from public transit will cost us greatly. Investment in public transit improves community health, full time employment, social cohesion, and the environment.

Israel has assassinated 205+ journalists and destroyed every university in Gaza. Being violently removed for asking legitimate questions shows the violent antagonism and disregard for a free press.

Biden’s legacy will be hosting a live-streamed genocide on our dime. This was ideological for him and he was willing to hand us Trump in order to annihilate Palestine:

Congestion Relief Zone tolling has been in effect for a week. Here's what the data says so far ⬇️