Taxes fund our community's essential services and programs.
Voting allows you to voice which services and programs are essential to the community you want to live in!
Tax day and election day are great days in a democracy!
"The right size for RIPTA is the size where a bus comes when you need it, and promptly delivers you to the place you need to go." Thank you for this, @dariaphoebe.com!
In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has:
-Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies
-Cracked down on predatory landlords
-Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program
-Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets
This is what leadership looks like.
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
Active transportation is the past and the future👇👇
Interested in learning about your family history? We're aware of Canada's recent change in law regarding citizenship by descent. Our State Archives team may be able to help. Consider attending their limited Saturday program: Heritage Hour.
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photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
truth in providence
Girl Scouts extend cookie season to hit sales goal
Cookie-buying season typically wraps up at the end of March, but after this year's snowfall, Girl Scout troops are being allowed to extend their season with the hopes of selling more boxes: www.wpri.com/news/local-news/west-bay...
Be sure to follow us on Instagram so you can help us determine the best mustache among the portraits in the Rhode Island State House! It's March Mustache Madness! #MarchMadness
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We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family:
Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider?
And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!?
So we got to work …
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Rhode Islanders, watch out for this scam! My parents and I received this via text message. #RhodeIsland #scam Don’t scan the QR code!
NEW 🚐 More on-demand public transit! Our Flex On Demand #microtransit service is expanding to Coventry, Newport, West Warwick, and Westerly. Ready to ride? Use offer code "FLEXMORE" to get your first round-trip ride free. Learn more at RIPTA.com/FlexOnDemand. #RhodeIsland
This captures two of my big beefs with AI:
(1) Writing is thinking. If you use AI to write, you are foreclosing your own thinking.
(2) Sucking at something is the first step to getting better at something. The practice is the work. AI will only help you suck in a different and more depressing way.
They always have trillions of dollars for illegal wars in the Mideast, but SCOFF in your face and clutch their pearls when you ask for universal healthcare. You are all being played.
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
The Washington Post - Opinion Little to gain by raising taxes on the rich New research shows the current top federal income tax rate is close to revenue-maximizing.
Truly hilarious headline from the Bezos-owned Washington Post yesterday.
Never, ever let the guys who control half the wealth in America and just got billions of dollars in tax breaks tell you we shouldn't tax the rich.
A succinct and powerful encapsulation of why libraries are our greatest public asset, from a monthly newsletter: "One of the small but wonderful things about the EG Free Library is that everyone is welcome here....You don't need to buy anything, accomplish anything, or explain anything. 1/2
Today, Equifax extracts over $800 million worth of contracts from the federal government and state governments each year. Much of that total is for access to its Workforce Solutions product, the Work Number, which provides data on workers’ income and employment. The Work Number’s basic business model is to purchase exclusive rights to worker data from employers and payroll providers (often without a worker’s knowledge) and then sell that data to banks, creditors, and governments for a profit.
America has a taste for means-testing safety net policies, and not investing in state capacity to manage the resulting complexity. We focus a lot on how this makes life harder for clients, but it also creates the conditions where private actors who offer to solve this problem can extract rents.
$1.5T for the military budget
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$470M to send National Guard into cities
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$100M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
Demand for emergency food assistance reached historic highs in 2025, and with federal cuts ahead, the need will only grow.
As we plan for unprecedented hunger and uncertainty, @govdanmckee.bsky.social's commitment to the Food Bank and our member agencies is critical and deeply appreciated.
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
Good crowd for a suburban area on one day notice. And so many honks! Hardly anyone yelling negative stuff or giving us the finger
Read this poem today & wanted to share.
My rage comes from my love of community - whether we’ve met or not. My heart aches for Minnesota but also reminds us all we need to do here to protect each other and fight back with all we’ve got.
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
In case you have never seen this.
