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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 7h

Finally able to play my old records on this rainy evening, thanks to the Warwick Library’s Library of Things!

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Christopher Gavin @chrisgavin.bsky.social · 2d

New: A federal judge in RI blocked HHS & HUD from imposing restrictions targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and transgender people on federal grants aiding youth, the homeless, and survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
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R.I. judge blocks anti-DEI, transgender restrictions on HHS, HUD grants for domestic violence, homeless nonprofits - The Boston Globe

US District Court Judge Melissa R. DuBose granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed in July by a coalition of nonprofit groups from 14 states.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 2d

Rhode Island goat who defied police & delighted public comes to tragic end. #Goatwatch community mourns. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/m...

Sad ending for defiant goat running loose in Rhode Island - The Boston Globe

After nearly a month, the goat who garnered national attention was captured. “The freedom and fame she achieved are of a level about which most goats would never dare dream,” says one #Goatwatch membe...

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

More here:
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Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

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Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter.bsky.social · 3d

One of our reporters had a source back out, worried they might lose their federal funding depending on the coverage. The story was about a rewilding project (the benefits are not controversial!) but it didn't matter. @gracehussain.bsky.social wrote about it here:
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Journalism Has Become More Challenging, for Reporters and Sources

Researchers are more reluctant to give interviews since Trump returned to the White House.

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Alexa Gagosz @alexagagosz.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: ‘It’s extortion’: Brown faculty resist White House bid to reshape higher education

w/ @stephmachado.bsky.social for @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social
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‘It’s extortion’: Brown faculty resist White House bid to reshape higher education - The Boston Globe

If Brown signed the compact, one professor said, “We’d become an instrument of the state.”

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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 3d

Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee says President Trump‘s threats to jail Illinois Governor Pritzker are “un-American and unacceptable,” and says he stands with Pritzker.

RI governor Dan McKee calls President Trump’s threats to jail Illinois governor JB Pritzker “unAmerican and unacceptable,”

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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 4d

At R.I.’s ‘Conjuring’ house, a new fear for the paranormal community: Losing it entirely.
From @chrisgavin.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/m...

At R.I.’s ‘Conjuring’ house, a new fear for the paranormal community: Losing it entirely - The Boston Globe

Andrea Perron, whose family was supposedly haunted there in the 1970s, and Jason Hawes, of SyFy’s “Ghost Hunters,” tried to save the historic property. But the auction was abruptly cancelled, and the ...

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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 4d

A Massachusetts man held by ICE before his wedding is ordered released by a judge, who found he was unlawfully detained www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/m...

Judge orders release of Pittsfield man after judge rules he was unlawfully detained by ICE - The Boston Globe

Carlos De Andrade, a car mechanic, was forced to postpone his wedding after being held by ICE for over a month.

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Alexa Gagosz @alexagagosz.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Ieva Jusionyte, a Brown University professor, said she plans to use the award to fund research for her new book, which will focus on the practice of extraditing organized crime leaders from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the US.

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Harvard mathematician among New Englanders awarded $800,000, no-strings-attached MacArthur ‘genius’ grants - The Boston Globe

Professor Lauren Williams was joined by a cultural anthropologist in Providence and a cartographer and basketmaker from Maine as the New Englanders named to this year's class of MacArthur fellows.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 4d

"Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice told ProPublica: 'I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.'”

by @megomatz.bsky.social / @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 4d

Consumer spending has helped US economic activity remain solid, but there are signs that the job market has softened amid “anemic hiring” by employers even as layoffs remain low, said Susan Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president talks about tariffs, jobs, and why inflation is ‘still elevated’ - The Boston Globe

Without committing to another rate cut, Susan Collins says she expects inflation to moderate once tariffs work their way through the economy.

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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 5d

Including her notes for @whitehouse.senate.gov

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 5d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 5d

Immigration lawyer under federal criminal investigation is temporarily suspended in Rhode Island. Joseph Molina Flynn is accused of professional misconduct in RI, but his law license is active in Mass. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

Immigration lawyer under federal investigation is temporarily suspended in Rhode Island - The Boston Globe

Joseph Molina Flynn accused of misconduct.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 6d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 6d

R.I. House Judiciary chair resigns after scrutiny of past domestic violence incidents, reports @stephmachado.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...

Craven resigns as R.I. House Judiciary chair, after scrutiny of past domestic violence incidents - The Boston Globe

He said he will remain in his House seat representing North Kingstown until the end of his term, and would not seek re-election.

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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 6d

Consultant’s report recommends creating medical school at
@universityofri.bsky.social. “RI is facing an acute shortage of physicians, particularly in primary care, as the state grapples with one of the lowest physician-to-population ratios in New England.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...

Consultants recommend creating a medical school at URI to address primary-care physician shortage - The Boston Globe

“Rhode Island is facing an acute shortage of physicians, particularly in primary care, as the state grapples with one of the lowest physician-to-population ratios in New England,” the Tripp Umbach rep...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 9d

R.I. Attorney General @peterneronha.bsky.social says he won’t run for governor. The Democrat announced he will “step away from politics at the end of my second term next year” rather than joining a primary against Governor Dan McKee and Helena Buonanno Foulkes
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R.I. Attorney General Neronha says he won’t run for governor - The Boston Globe

The Democrat announced he will “step away from politics at the end of my second term next year” rather than joining a primary against Governor McKee and Helena Buonanno Foulkes.

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Alexa Gagosz @alexagagosz.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: The Trump administration asked nine top-tier universities to sign a “compact” pledging to uphold Trump’s political priorities in order to receive priority for federal funding.

How is it different compared to Brown’s agreement with Trump? 👇
@bostonglobe.com
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Brown, MIT, Dartmouth and other elite colleges face fresh demands from Trump administration with new compact - The Boston Globe

“Institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits,” the compact read

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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 10d

Craven drops out of R.I. attorney general race amid scrutiny of domestic violence incidents. The North Kingstown Democrat ended his campaign four days after he announced his candidacy
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Craven drops out of R.I. attorney general race amid scrutiny of domestic violence incidents - The Boston Globe

The North Kingstown Democrat ended his campaign four days after he announced his candidacy.

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