Today, Senate Majority Leader Frank Ciccone and Sen. @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social helped celebrate @ripta.com's addition of 50 new Model 1 Frontrunner vans to replace aging paratransit vehicles and expand capacity for RIde and Flex On Demand service. Watch here: capitoltvri.cablecast.tv/show/12386

Proud to rep my colleague, Senator Euer @dawneuer.bsky.social in her district during a glorious @citizensbank.bsky.social Pell Bridge Run this morning!

“Even longer than her list of legislative wins is her to-do list.” Great coverage of the Sen 13 race in @rhodeislandcurrent.com, highlighting why @dawneuer.bsky.social is the right choice in this election. rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/08/28/n...

Newport’s Senate District 13 primary pits a progressive incumbent against a progressive challenger • Rhode Island Current

Rhode Island Sen. Dawn Euer faces a challenge from progressive Democrat Angela Lima in the Senate District 13 primary. Both candidates emphasize equity and affordability, but the AFL-CIO-endorsed Lima...

rhodeislandcurrent.com

We want to take a moment to recognize Senator @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social (North Kingstown, East Greenwich, South Kingstown) and Rep Carson (Newport) for their leadership on S-2438A / H-7342A School Waste Recycling and Refuse Disposal. More about this act in comments.

everyone should go canvassing at least once in their life because it will completely transform your ideas about politics. even better to go canvassing a few times in different sorts of areas (urban/suburban/rural)

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have over the years talked to probably literally thousands of voters and woo boy

The General Assembly has approved legislation sponsored by Senator @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social and Representative Lauren H. Carson to strengthen a law that reduces school cafeteria waste in the state’s landfill. Learn more: rilegislature.gov/pressrelease...

With final approval of bills from Sens. @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social and @alanadimario.bsky.social, the General Assembly has put a hold on any proposal for high-heat sewage solids processing at Quonset Business Park while a commission studies the issue. More: www.rilegislature.gov/pressrelease...

I almost never watch basketball, but, damn, I’m glad I caught those last few minutes live! Sports are fun!

On Thursday, Senate President Valarie Lawson and Senators @alanadimario.bsky.social and @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social took part in @rightstartri.bsky.social's 2026 Rhode Island Strolling Thunder & Child Care Awareness Day at the State House.

When we design our world with justice, access, and inclusion at the center, we don't just lift up the few—we lift up everyone.

Grumpy local woman says the right size for the state transit system is bigger, not smaller.

Rhode Island Current@rhodeislandcurrent.com · 5mo ago

COMMENTARY: After last fall’s service cuts to Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority service, the state bus system's diminished size is not big enough for everyday Rhode Islanders. By @dariaphoebe.com

timeline cleanse (sound up)

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 6mo ago

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota: youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU

Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota

YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota

youtu.be

I am sick about the gun violence at Brown and praying for the entire community. Traveling with a Brown student right now and watching the messages being relayed in real time is devastating . Our children and our country deserve so much better.

Zoe Weissman, a sophomore at Brown University, joins us to discuss the shooting on Brown's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. She was in middle school in Parkland, Florida during the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. She is now an advocate for gun control and gun violence prevention.

A country that watches these massacres happen again and again, in every imaginable setting, and doesn't do everything it can to stop another one, has failed. There's no other way to say it.

this is just gutter racism

John Q. Public@publius24.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Despite what the Senate Majority Whip says in this interview, my 340B drug pricing bill did pass the House. It took effect Oct 1 and is already helping our hospitals and health centers! As you can see, it was award-winning legislation!

Ian Donnis@iandonnis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Here’s my full interview with @risenate.bsky.social Whip David Tikoian. Watch here via YouTube or on @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social TV at 7:30 pm Friday or 10:30 am Sunday youtu.be/f-moputg9eY?...

Rest in peace, Alice. You did great work. 🙏❤️🙏

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 10mo ago

Alice Wong, an activist and author who championed the rights of people with disabilities, has died.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 10mo ago

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

We should all be asking ourselves why we can't do this in the United States. 🌞 🌬 🌞 🌬

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Today, the Rhode Island Health Center Association presented its John H. Chafee Healthcare Leadership Award to Sen. @bridgetvalverde.bsky.social and Rep. Jon D. Brien for their successful passage of the Defending Affordable Prescription Drug Costs Act. Learn more: rilegislature.gov/pressrelease...