JenStewart4RI.bsky.social
@jenstewart4ri.bsky.social
State Representative for District 59 - Oak Hill, Woodlawn, Pawtucket, R.I. Teacher and Community Advocate. A Brave Voice for Rhode Island.
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As I begin my 2nd term representing my #Pawtucket neighbors in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, I am grateful for the trust placed in me and mindful that I need to do everything I can to advocate for government which serves all of us, not just rich elites & those who "know a guy."
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There is a citizen effort underway in Missouri to repeal a new congressional map passed mid-decade by GOP lawmakers at the request of Trump.
This redistricting, which targeted a Democratic district, is part of a nationwide push by the GOP to secure more seats ahead of the 2026 midterms.
This redistricting, which targeted a Democratic district, is part of a nationwide push by the GOP to secure more seats ahead of the 2026 midterms.
‘This is not right’: grassroots campaign aims to repeal Missouri Republicans’ gerrymandering
A new congressional map was abruptly passed by Republicans in mid-September – but voters have a chance to rebuke politicians and stop it from going into effect
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
There is a citizen effort underway in Missouri to repeal a new congressional map passed mid-decade by GOP lawmakers at the request of Trump.
This redistricting, which targeted a Democratic district, is part of a nationwide push by the GOP to secure more seats ahead of the 2026 midterms.
This redistricting, which targeted a Democratic district, is part of a nationwide push by the GOP to secure more seats ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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#Law401: Linn Foster Freedman, adjunct professor at RWU Law, explains how AI is changing classroom life—and what parents and educators should be paying attention to right now.
📺 “Keeping Up with AI: Are Student Protections Falling Behind?"
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
📺 “Keeping Up with AI: Are Student Protections Falling Behind?"
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#Law401: Linn Foster Freedman, adjunct professor at RWU Law, explains how AI is changing classroom life—and what parents and educators should be paying attention to right now.
📺 “Keeping Up with AI: Are Student Protections Falling Behind?"
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
📺 “Keeping Up with AI: Are Student Protections Falling Behind?"
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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The House passed a resolution condemning socialism. Okay.
When are they going to pass a resolution condemning fascism?
When are they going to pass a resolution condemning fascism?
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The House passed a resolution condemning socialism. Okay.
When are they going to pass a resolution condemning fascism?
When are they going to pass a resolution condemning fascism?
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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.
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.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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.
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.
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DEM report: R.I. must speed up lowering carbon emissions to meet Act on Climate mandates rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/24/d...
DEM report: R.I. must speed up lowering carbon emissions to meet Act on Climate mandates • Rhode Island Current
Rhode Island will need to speed up its shift away from fossil fuels in order to meet the 2030 decarbonization mandate set by the Act on Climate Law, according to a new report measuring 2023 greenhouse...
rhodeislandcurrent.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
DEM report: R.I. must speed up lowering carbon emissions to meet Act on Climate mandates rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/24/d...
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BREAKING: The indictment of Comey has been DISMISSED because Halligan was unlawfully appointed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#213 in United States v. Comey (E.D. Va., 1:25-cr-00272) – CourtListener.com
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows: (1) The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. (2) All actions flowing fro...
storage.courtlistener.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
BREAKING: The indictment of Comey has been DISMISSED because Halligan was unlawfully appointed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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If Rhode Island continues to decrease its fossil fuel reliance at the same rate as it has over the last five years, it will miss the 2030 target under the Act on Climate law, a new DEM report warns.
rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/24/d...
rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/24/d...
DEM report: R.I. must speed up lowering carbon emissions to meet Act on Climate mandates • Rhode Island Current
Rhode Island will need to speed up its shift away from fossil fuels in order to meet the 2030 decarbonization mandate set by the Act on Climate Law, according to a new report measuring 2023 greenhouse...
rhodeislandcurrent.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If Rhode Island continues to decrease its fossil fuel reliance at the same rate as it has over the last five years, it will miss the 2030 target under the Act on Climate law, a new DEM report warns.
rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/24/d...
rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/24/d...
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NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
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HAPPENING NOW: attending the 25th Celebration of Children's Health & Well-Being with @rikidscount.bsky.social ! #RightCareWorks
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
HAPPENING NOW: attending the 25th Celebration of Children's Health & Well-Being with @rikidscount.bsky.social ! #RightCareWorks
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Top leg priorities of @rikidscount.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Top leg priorities of @rikidscount.bsky.social
Thanks @aaronregunberg.bsky.social for posting this from James Carville, advocating for Democrats to run on the most economic populist program since the New Deal.
There is a reason FDR was our most popular president - he fought to make everyday Americans lives better, despite a corrupt SCOTUS.
There is a reason FDR was our most popular president - he fought to make everyday Americans lives better, despite a corrupt SCOTUS.
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thanks @aaronregunberg.bsky.social for posting this from James Carville, advocating for Democrats to run on the most economic populist program since the New Deal.
There is a reason FDR was our most popular president - he fought to make everyday Americans lives better, despite a corrupt SCOTUS.
There is a reason FDR was our most popular president - he fought to make everyday Americans lives better, despite a corrupt SCOTUS.
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Find people.
Start making connections. Get comfortable with closeness. Be familiar. Be shameless. Join groups. Attend events. Write emails. Send messages. Introduce yourself constantly. Ask to be introduced to others. Invite yourself wherever you can. Demand access. Demand a presence. Show up.
Start making connections. Get comfortable with closeness. Be familiar. Be shameless. Join groups. Attend events. Write emails. Send messages. Introduce yourself constantly. Ask to be introduced to others. Invite yourself wherever you can. Demand access. Demand a presence. Show up.
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Find people.
Start making connections. Get comfortable with closeness. Be familiar. Be shameless. Join groups. Attend events. Write emails. Send messages. Introduce yourself constantly. Ask to be introduced to others. Invite yourself wherever you can. Demand access. Demand a presence. Show up.
Start making connections. Get comfortable with closeness. Be familiar. Be shameless. Join groups. Attend events. Write emails. Send messages. Introduce yourself constantly. Ask to be introduced to others. Invite yourself wherever you can. Demand access. Demand a presence. Show up.
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Love this! And no, millionaires didn't move...
Funds generated by Massachusetts' Fair Share Amendment (aka the millionaire’s tax) help regional transit agencies expand service! You love to see it!! 👏🏾🚌
Response from Jim Nee, Administrator & Executive Director of the MetroWest Regional Transit Authority (@mwrta.bsky.social)
Response from Jim Nee, Administrator & Executive Director of the MetroWest Regional Transit Authority (@mwrta.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Love this! And no, millionaires didn't move...
As winter approaches and temperatures drop, Rhode Island residents using the bus may encounter longer wait times as a result of the Rhode Island Public Transport Authority’s service cuts.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Thank you for your reporting @browndailyherald.bsky.social
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Thank you for your reporting @browndailyherald.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
As winter approaches and temperatures drop, Rhode Island residents using the bus may encounter longer wait times as a result of the Rhode Island Public Transport Authority’s service cuts.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Thank you for your reporting @browndailyherald.bsky.social
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Thank you for your reporting @browndailyherald.bsky.social
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One of the reasons I keep telling people that new maps are cooler than old ones is because old maps were made by a very narrow slice of humanity but contemporary maps are made by EVERYONE and they're rad. Here's a quick vid about gender and cartography www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UMSJ3u/
I got a good question from a customer and I tried to answer it. Yeah, most of my customers are men but in the two years I've owned this business it's gotten much closer to gender parity because I cura...
TikTok video by the Map Center
www.tiktok.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One of the reasons I keep telling people that new maps are cooler than old ones is because old maps were made by a very narrow slice of humanity but contemporary maps are made by EVERYONE and they're rad. Here's a quick vid about gender and cartography www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UMSJ3u/
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Thank you Kathy for the love you shared with my grandson this first year. And to all the other young lives you nurtured. And @steveahlquist.bsky.social sending deep sympathy to you and your family. Rest in peace and power Kathy.
Remembering Katherine Bulin Ahlquist and sending love to all her knew her and cared for her, especially her wonderful family. She was an amazing person who never sought the spotlight, but always stood for what was right.
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Thank you Kathy for the love you shared with my grandson this first year. And to all the other young lives you nurtured. And @steveahlquist.bsky.social sending deep sympathy to you and your family. Rest in peace and power Kathy.
Remembering Katherine Bulin Ahlquist and sending love to all her knew her and cared for her, especially her wonderful family. She was an amazing person who never sought the spotlight, but always stood for what was right.
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Remembering Katherine Bulin Ahlquist and sending love to all her knew her and cared for her, especially her wonderful family. She was an amazing person who never sought the spotlight, but always stood for what was right.
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The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
If Iowa can do it, we can do this in Rhode Island too! Also, buses are free in Fall River and New Bedford, right next door to RI!
www.newbedfordguide.com/srta-extends...
How did they do it? Voters chose to raise the tax rates slightly for the richest 1% - #TaxTheRich #FundRIPTA 🚌 🚌
www.newbedfordguide.com/srta-extends...
How did they do it? Voters chose to raise the tax rates slightly for the richest 1% - #TaxTheRich #FundRIPTA 🚌 🚌
Enjoy this gifted link from the NYTimes about Iowa City's free bus program and the benefits of reduced automobile usage.
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If Iowa can do it, we can do this in Rhode Island too! Also, buses are free in Fall River and New Bedford, right next door to RI!
www.newbedfordguide.com/srta-extends...
How did they do it? Voters chose to raise the tax rates slightly for the richest 1% - #TaxTheRich #FundRIPTA 🚌 🚌
www.newbedfordguide.com/srta-extends...
How did they do it? Voters chose to raise the tax rates slightly for the richest 1% - #TaxTheRich #FundRIPTA 🚌 🚌
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Enjoy this gifted link from the NYTimes about Iowa City's free bus program and the benefits of reduced automobile usage.
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Enjoy this gifted link from the NYTimes about Iowa City's free bus program and the benefits of reduced automobile usage.
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Get off our streets, ICE. You are the criminals. And thanks for the great reporting, @wpri12.bsky.social.
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Get off our streets, ICE. You are the criminals. And thanks for the great reporting, @wpri12.bsky.social.
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This is unconscionable.
The timing that this took place while advocates were pushing for remote hearings to prevent this type of situation.
Grateful for the judge’s intervention.
www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
The timing that this took place while advocates were pushing for remote hearings to prevent this type of situation.
Grateful for the judge’s intervention.
www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is unconscionable.
The timing that this took place while advocates were pushing for remote hearings to prevent this type of situation.
Grateful for the judge’s intervention.
www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
The timing that this took place while advocates were pushing for remote hearings to prevent this type of situation.
Grateful for the judge’s intervention.
www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
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Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Back in 1636 Roger Williams founded what is now Rhode Island on the principle that religious beliefs should not be enforced by the government - an idea later adopted by the Framers & written into the First Amendment. This Trump policy blatantly violates that foundational tenent of our democracy. 🇺🇸
I missed this Trump admin memo when it came out, but it’s a doozy: tossing our First Amendment to explicitly permit supervisors to instruct subordinayes to accept Jesus & even what church to attend & how to pray. Latest from @chrisrodda.bsky.social: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Military section chief tells subordinates he’s authorized by Trump to force his Christianity on them
Of all the many heinous, vindictive, and flat out unconstitutional things that this administration has done thus far to transform our once great country into a Christian nationalist oligarchy, it is o...
www.dailykos.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Back in 1636 Roger Williams founded what is now Rhode Island on the principle that religious beliefs should not be enforced by the government - an idea later adopted by the Framers & written into the First Amendment. This Trump policy blatantly violates that foundational tenent of our democracy. 🇺🇸
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I missed this Trump admin memo when it came out, but it’s a doozy: tossing our First Amendment to explicitly permit supervisors to instruct subordinayes to accept Jesus & even what church to attend & how to pray. Latest from @chrisrodda.bsky.social: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Military section chief tells subordinates he’s authorized by Trump to force his Christianity on them
Of all the many heinous, vindictive, and flat out unconstitutional things that this administration has done thus far to transform our once great country into a Christian nationalist oligarchy, it is o...
www.dailykos.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I missed this Trump admin memo when it came out, but it’s a doozy: tossing our First Amendment to explicitly permit supervisors to instruct subordinayes to accept Jesus & even what church to attend & how to pray. Latest from @chrisrodda.bsky.social: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...