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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 22h

This is amazing. Thank you!

Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 1d

I think the main Cranston Library might have one (but best to confirm because I might be misremembering). If not, university libraries must have one, no? Pethaps @quarrygirlri.bsky.social might have a suggestion.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 2d

I love this! It makes me think of you, @sueanderbois.bsky.social.

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2d

I hard co-sign this one.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps you want to listen to @joshdaly.bsky.social and me talk about @investri.bsky.social?

Local Return @localreturn.bsky.social · 2d

Check out 🎧 two of our co-founders on The Bottom Up Revolution podcast 🎙️ by @strongtowns.org on how to build community wealth.

How To Build Community Wealth From the Bottom Up | The Bottom-Up Revolution

Jessica David and Josh Daley are co-founders of Local Return, a nonprofit in Rhode Island dedicated to building community wealth through ownership and investment. They empower residents through educat...

thelittlethings.podbean.com

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 2d

❤️ to you both!

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

Investing in our communities demands this simple ideological baseline: our lives are inherently worthy and holy, just as the lives of the natural world around us are worthy and holy.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 3d

Representing @localreturn.bsky.social @investri.bsky.social and @commoncauseri.bsky.social today.

Jacket lapel featuring two buttons:

“Put your $ where your ⚓️ is”

“I ❤️ democracy”

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, they are so broken.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government

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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 6d

Nauseating. Can't look away. We must end this.

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 6d

This is sickening.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Local Return @localreturn.bsky.social · 6d

It's not too late: Pick up a copy of The Connected Community by Cormac Russell and John McKnight today, and join us virtually on October 21 for a discussion of the book's ideas. localreturn.org/events/?even...

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 8d

If “kill people and break things” is your driving motivation, please go into therapy, not the military.

And if your boss says your job description is “to kill people and break things,” please have a long, honest conversation with yourself.

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Local Return @localreturn.bsky.social · 8d

Rhode Islanders! Please spread the word to your favorite local businesses about this important briefing on October 28 from @ilsr.bsky.social on how to fight back against illegal pricing deals. Register at: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Informational image in dark blue, light blue, and orange provides information on the event, including:
Title: Virtual Briefing for Small Business / How Big Retailers Get Illegal Pricing Deals and How to Fight Back
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 28th, 1 p.m. ET
Expert Speakers: Stacy Mitchell, ILSR; Katherine Van Dyck, KVD Strategies PLLC
Register now: SmallBusinessRising.net

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 12d

This is so great! Did you take/develop this yourself?

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Local Return @localreturn.bsky.social · 12d

We've spent the last two days with Jumpstart organizers from across the country, learning how to better support aspiring neighborhood-based, community-minded real estate developers. Coming home inspired and ready to do more!

A post-it note that reads "Our Why", with a hand drawn pinwheel in motion. Community investment leads to community wealth (and vice versa).

A photo of a slide that has 5 elements of the Jumpstart philosophy.

A long table with four panelists, including our Josh Daly second from right.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 13d

They are *really* good.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 13d

“What I worked very hard on was not running, but on standing, on making your life choices, and then standing with and for them.”

Read Bruce's new TIME cover story now: time.com/7319963/bruc...

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 13d

Did you have a chocolate chip cookie?

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 13d

The library! PPL has a 3D printer, I'm fairly certain, and CLPVD might have one, too.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 13d

Just look at these two pups.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 13d

I may have drooled a tiny bit.

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Local Return @localreturn.bsky.social · 14d

We write in today’s @bostonglobe.com about the economic development strategies that would help people and places to flourish in Rhode Island. Sneak peek: it’s not $100 million for a company whose CEO makes $16.8 million a year.

Our state needs a resilient economy that offers every Rhode Islander a chance to thrive - The Boston Globe

Let Hasbro’s relocation serve as a clarion call to reimagine how Rhode Island approaches economic development, write the co-founders of the Rhode Island Community Investment Cooperative.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 14d

Commentary by @joshdaly.bsky.social and @jdinri.bsky.social, co-founders of Local Return and RI Community Investment Cooperative -- R.I. needs a resilient economy that offers business owners a chance to thrive
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/m...

Our state needs a resilient economy that offers every Rhode Islander a chance to thrive - The Boston Globe

Let Hasbro’s relocation serve as a clarion call to reimagine how Rhode Island approaches economic development, write the co-founders of the Rhode Island Community Investment Cooperative.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 15d

More than ever, I'm inspired by people like Kate, who just keep doing everything they can.

Rhode Island Community Investment Cooperative @investri.bsky.social · 15d

Kate says that this is the moment to band together to build community capital. "Buy local, and invest local!" #whyiinvest

Why I invest: Kate McGovern

YouTube video by Local Return

www.youtube.com

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