Christian Roselund

Rhode Island friends: RIPTA’s section of @govdanmckee.bsky.social’s FY2027 budget will be up for a hearing tomorrow at 4:30 pm (State House Room 35)

While Gov. McKee’s budget allocation of $13.8m prevents cuts from happening this year, it’s not enough to reverse the devastating cuts from last fall.

Citizens in a Democracy Must Be Allowed to Criticize Israel If you cannot say what is true about Israel’s horrific actions in the world, you do not live in a democracy, writes fascism expert Jason Stanley.

+100%

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This. Exactly.

2- and 3-wheeled vehicles have delivered more emissions reductions than #EVs, globally.

And you get fewer children & youth killed by cars. And better cities. Win-win-win.
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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

In case you were wondering how things are going at our ever-expanding network of domestic US concentration camps: guards are betting on which inmate will next attempt suicide.

#abolishICE

apnews.com/article/suic...

Thank you Congressman for holding the line and for your amendment. ICE must be defunded and abolished.

Thank you for holding the line senator. But ICE can't be reformed. It has to be defunded and abolished.

A future of unregulated #AI is a future of constant, weaponized deepfakes.

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

This is also why movies like No Other Land and the Voice of Hind Rajab are important. Because they humanize the victims of Israel's ethnic cleansing and show that there are human beings behind the numbers. /2/end

This is key to the gaslighting that #Israel has engaged in for the past few years. Israeli victims are always named, as each Israeli life is assigned uncountable value. But Palestinians? You can kill tens of thousands of children and no one will know their names. Lebanese will be treaded the same./1

If Susan Collins had ever seen a friend die in combat in front of her, maybe she wouldn't be so quick to vote to send more Americans to die.

“.. A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records.”

@postandcourier.bsky.social
www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Page One in Miami:

@miamiherald.com

USUALLY presidents getting blame or taking credit for gas prices (or local crime rates, or etc etc) is dumb, because it’s a commodity whose price is set on a global market, USUALLY for reasons having little to do with the White House’s occupant. But this is 100% directly Trump’s fault.

We should be clear that this failure has been going on for years under McKee and that McKee only got rid of Alviti as one of several desperate election year ploys.

We need an actual leader as governor. McKee ain’t it. /2

Worst roads, high costs: Why RIDOT struggles with paving despite $1 billion transportation budget The condition of Rhode Island’s state roads is so bad it was — literally — off the chart in a recent study.

Part of former Director Alviti’s mismanagement of RIDOT was his focus on expanding highways instead of maintaining the arterial roads they control. And we see the results: #RhodeIsland has the worst roads in the nation.

@govdanmckee.bsky.social enabled this failure. /1

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Geneva Convention 1977 Protocols:
“It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as... drinking #water installations & supplies and irrigation works... for any other motive.”
www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/b...

This is exactly why @govdanmckee.bsky.social’s plans to gut our #renewableenergy programs will not deliver the affordability that he and his compromised administration figures (Kearns, George) claim.

There is no common ground with these people. Those who are not jailed for actual crimes must be out-organized, politically defeated and marginalized, and shamed back into silence like they were back when we were a civilized society.

And that's the best possible outcome. /2/end

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

The #MAGA- #Fascist take on bombing children:

“It’s hypocritical to say that these attacks harmed women and children when those women and children, the young girls that you reference, would be … live a life in a barbaric, unequal society behind a burqa..." /1

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We have ignored and funded Israeli war crimes for years. And now we are committing our own.

This sickens me. Every Republican in the Senate, and @fetterman.senate.gov, are responsible for enabling this.

Joel Gates of @climateactionri.org: “this is exactly where the federal government wants us: more dependent on dirty imported energy. And some in this administration are falling for it.” /19

Jamie Rhodes of @theclf.bsky.social notes that #energyefficiency is required to be cost-effective and provide net benefits under least-cost procurement statute. And notes that the point of the RES is to deploy renewables and to get us off the roller coaster of high gas prices. /21

@timmonsroberts.bsky.social, professor at Brown, now explaining that the reason we have the #ActOnClimate is that we were behind other states. And that the #climatecrisis is a real, existential threat. /20

Another Brown student whose family lost their home in Missouri due to a tornado notes that the accelerating #climatecrisis is making more and more homes unaffordable. “The cheapest adaptation is mitigation.” /19

Hearing from Brown students now, pointing out that the prices that people pay for electricity. “We need to be focused on affordability, not just in the short run, but in the long run,” Brown student Sam Dunn. Argues that the federal environment means that #RhodeIsland should recommit to its goals.18

Jeff Migneault, president of @climateactionri.org: “Oscar Wilde once said that a cynic knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing. Even applying that to the governor’s budget is too generous.” Nktes that you have to invest to get savings. /17

This is the admin of @govdanmckee.bsky.social. Like in the Trump Admin., environmental agencies are weaponized to anti-environmental ends.

Emily Koo of @acadiacenter.bsky.social noting that #energyefficiency is already required to be cost-effective. And that gutting the RES will cause us to absolutely miss our #ActOnClimate targets. /16

Diane Hill from @climateactionri.org speaking now, references @whitehouse.senate.gov’s video “The Grid and The Scam,” which explains that #wind & #solar drive down power costs for all sources on wholesale power markets, as a zero marginal cost resource. /15