The rent is too damn high. The average Rhode Island household makes $81,370 meaning they maximum the should so spend to not be cost burdened (30% of income) is below $2,034/mo (and thats on their pre-tax income, much lower if we take their taxed income into account).

Walking across the street in Newport with ~pride 🏳️‍🌈

YDRI supports students organizing against attacks from school committees who are demanding their voice is legitimized at the ballot-box. Pres Mary-Murphy Walsh, HS YDRI Chair Henry Siravo write in support of Rep Rep. Leonela "Leo" Felix and Sen Tiara Mack legislation to make this reality

The doctors are IN. 🥼 Thank you to all the doctors who joined us at the State House yesterday in support of the Shield Bill! It passed out of the Senate Committee and is now off to the Senate floor next Thursday to be voted on. 🗳️💪🏼👏🏼

One of the primary functions of police is to violently crush progressive social movements. It's one of the reasons expanding the size and power of police is always authoritarian and is never an answer to inequality. *It is a key part of preserving inequality, in all its forms.*

With all the attention on Columbia students right now, you'd think they were murdering 300+ people and leaving them in a mass grave near a hospital they bombed.

They didn't. But Israel did.

Columbia should divest.

Equity in policy is a way of showing deep care to communities 💕 Proud to stand with the Equity Impacts Coalition as a sponsor of equity impacts legislation ✊🏾EconomicProgressRI RI KIDS COUNT The Womxn Project Women's Fund of Rhode Island

So far this week...

The FTC banned the use of noncompete clauses.

The DOL strengthened overtime rules.

The FCC restored #NetNeutrality .

The DOT expanded protections for airline passengers.

This is what it looks like when the government works on behalf of the people.

At RIPTA board meeting today, they decided not to act on service cuts. We still need to put in the work to fully fund RIPTA to make those service cuts go away forever. They will be revisited in June and by then we need to SaveRIPTA 🚌 with the funding envisioned in H7774.

White coat day in the RI Senate ✨💕 So proud to live and serve in a state with providers protecting reproductive health and gender affirming care. Can’t wait to “Shield” y’all ✊🏾

Today, Senator Tiara Mack and the Equity Impact Campaign held an event at the State House to mark the release of the @EconomicProgressRI equity review of the proposed FY25 state budget.

Watch here: capitoltvri.cablecast.tv/show/9154?site…

transcript searches indicate that Fox News has not mentioned the new Arizona indictments of Giuliani and Mark Meadows a single time yet

“The state police power is broad, but it does not include the power to push the burdens of social problems like poverty on to other communities or the power to satisfy public demand by compromising individual constitutional rights.” - Johnson counsel

GP counsel: these [criminalization] laws are an important tool in helping incentivize people to accept shelter.

Justice Kavanaugh: How does it help if there aren’t enough shelter beds for the number of homeless people in the jurisdiction?

“It seems both cruel and unusual to punish people for acts that constitute basic human needs. Here, we’re talking about sleeping, which is universal, it is a basic human function.” - Justice Ketanji Brown

“The Grants Pass ordinance goes way beyond [issues of public safety]. It says a person who has no other place to sleep cannot take himself and a blanket and sleep someplace without it being a crime.”- Justice Kagan

“Sleeping is a biological necessity, like breathing. Presumably, you wouldn’t think it’s ok to criminalize breathing in public. And for a homeless person who has no place else to go, sleeping in public is kind of like breathing in public” - Justice Kagan

“If a homeless person had $200 to spend [on a ticket from Grants Pass for sleeping outside], don’t you think they would just stay at a hotel?” - Justice Sotomayor

Dropped off a few snacks and stood in solidarity with students from my alma mater Brown University ✊🏾

Students in our state deserve access to the best education and the leaders at the Senate Education Summit are making sure they get it ✨🌊