Jamie Bova

@queenpep43.bsky.social reminding us we won the battle but not the war! "Use this moment to organize instead of resting!"

The Newport Hospital Birthing Center is safe - for now. We'll have to keep up the pressure to ensure patients are prioritized long term.

Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

You're a champ!

As the @rihouseofreps.bsky.social Finance Committee prepares to unveil its state budget tonight, the @ri.workingfamilies.org is sponsoring a mobile billboard truck advocating for a tax on the top 1 percent of income earners in Rhode Island.

Preach @emzconk.bsky.social !!

“Incalculable” Damage: How a “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage Across Texas Charles Carrier is accused of orchestrating a yearslong Ponzi scheme, bilking tens of millions of dollars from both wealthy investors and older people with modest incomes. Despite signs of trouble, Ho...

NEW: A “We Buy Ugly Houses” former franchise owner is accused of orchestrating a yearslong Ponzi scheme, bilking tens of millions of dollars from investors.

“It’s incalculable the amount of damage this guy did. He’s ruined some lives,” said one investor.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

YouTube video by Danielle Moodie Y’all We Ain’t Exceptional! #daniellemoodie #democracy #foryou #foryourpage #politics

In a time of anti-intellectualism we mist commit to unlearning the lies of America and dedicate ourselves to the truth! Watch and Subscribe: youtube.com/shorts/lbNcE...

Stop using AI instead of your own freaking brain.

potential message: the GOP just raised taxes by $6 trillion
potential message: the GOP is kidnapping and trafficking people for things they MIGHT say

dem message: the GOP might be insider trading—a thing you associate nancy pelosi with—and we're sending them a nice letter asking them for evidence

Grateful to have @queenpep43.bsky.social as our Ward Councilor

Mass. House passes language barring students from playing on teams of the opposite sex, but requires state analysis - The Boston Globe The Massachusetts House on Wednesday passed language that would ban public schools from allowing students to play on a team of the opposite sex, but only after the state is able to study the policy’s ...

The Massachusetts House has taken a major step towards banning trans athletes in sports.

It would be the first blue state to do so.

The amendment has been inserted into the state budget bill.

This is a five alarm fire for trans people in Massachusetts.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/m...

Great use of cogitate.
And of course, great job informing the community!

The Chair needs to rein in the Committee. The most important responsibility they have is to run a functional meeting...

An evergreen question

Wow, downright irresponsible of the School Committee. I wish I was surprised.

Our SBC regular brings a camp chair and he always seems much more comfortable than everyone else in the audience.

He is absolutely going to attempt to dismantle Democratic state governments.

So grateful for @dawneuer.bsky.social and her intelligence, passion, and fight!

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Newport showing up for our community 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Brenna Trout Frey • 3rd+ Former Attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Mea... 1h • Edited • © + Follow Skadden Resignation Today the executive partner of my former firm sent us all an "update" that attempted to convince some of the best minds in the legal profession that he did us a solid by capitulating to the Trump administration's demands for fealty and protection money. Fellow Skadden attorneys: If you agree with Jeremy London's position that the firm should not engage in "illegal DEI discrimination," should devote prestigious Skadden Fellows to the Trump administration's pet projects, and should help "politically disenfranchised groups who have not historically received legal representation from major national law firms," (taking into account the robust pro bono work that major national law firms already do), then by all means continue working there. But if that email struck you as a craven attempt to sacrifice the rule of law for self-preservation, I hope you do some soul-searching over the weekend and join me in sending a message that this is unacceptable (in whatever way you can). As one of my more eloquent former colleagues put it: "Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't." There is only one acceptable response from attorneys to the Trump administration's demands: The rule of law matters. The rule of law matters. As an attorney, if my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them.

A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms.

“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.

Newport! Let's turn up for our community tomorrow!

As long as it's not the habs

“I’m a student,” she said, according to the eyewitness, a Somerville resident who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

I had missed this detail earlier, but we're at the people won't speak to the media for "fear of retaliation from the government" stage of things.

The richest man in the world is destroying the most popular government program in American history. I continue to believe that DOGE will not survive contact with political and material reality, but in the meantime it would be nice if Dems hung this around the president's neck all day every day

Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.