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Rory Neuner
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Work in philanthropy / nonprofit champion. Proud resident of Providence, RI, a Boston commuter, and forever a Michigander.
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After 5.5 years in Rhode Island, I am delighted that I can finally give directions to a place that used to be, like a proper local.
December 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Massachusetts problems.
December 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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kjshepherd.bsky.social
It's your birthday, Duane.
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Happy last day of school before the kids are home for three weeks of winterbreak, to everyone who celebrates.
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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idgordon.bsky.social
Don't miss this lovely @h-lev.bsky.social reflection on what her city and alma mater lost when a shooter opened fire at Brown over the weekend, killing two and injuring nine: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I think back to the vigil I went to on Sunday at a local park, when it seemed like the authorities had the suspect in custody. In that moment, I saw what looked like the very beginnings of a community healing. Hundreds of bundled-up people stood in the park, snow flurries drifting off the trees, listening to speeches, a few singers, or simply hugging or standing quietly. But now the city has retreated back into itself. Downtown looks like an empty movie set. Parking anywhere is a breeze. The governor canceled the annual event that opens to the community the state house and its holiday decorations, and additional police were sent to local schools. Everywhere from the mall to the convention center and even the zoo are adding security. There is virtually no one on the sidewalks in my neighborhood, save for the occasional dog on a bathroom break or a person scurrying from their car into the house. With people unable to gather to process and heal, they’re instead congregating online, watching city officials’ daily press conferences and obsessing in text threads about the crumbs of information the public has about the shooter. Everyone is trying to find meaning when there isn’t any, about why this happened, who is responsible, and what the future holds. “I go into the classroom to teach in the morning and try to reassure my students that they are safe,” texted one friend, a fellow Brown alum living in Providence and a teacher at a local school. “But I don’t fully believe my own words.”
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Mark Kelly how did you get this number. No I don't have five dollars to spare
One battle
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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doktorzoom.bsky.social
Mr. Rogers' famous advice to "Look for the helpers" was meant to help parents comfort kids in a terrifying world. For adults, there's an implied second part: ...And if you can, be one yourself.

This member of the Brown University community is a hero.
Screenshot of Washington Post news update: Andrea Capotosto, a staff member for the School of Public Health, held a large stuffed bear and offered “free mom hugs” outside a dining hall at Brown University on Sunday morning. A steady stream of students took her up on the offer, taking in long, heartfelt hugs the morning after the shooting. Capotosto said she headed to the Sharpe Refectory dining hall after seeing a notice from the school that students could pick up food there Sunday morning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/14/brown-university-shooting-suspect/#link-6LUHWSML2JEMDPCXPJA64V4V4Q Screenshot of Washington Post news update “My mom instincts told me what do,” Capotosto said. She added that she has two kids, an 18-year-old son and a 23-year-old daughter. She said knows that even though students are in college and adults, they are still young. “I just think of my daughter,” she said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/14/brown-university-shooting-suspect/#link-6LUHWSML2JEMDPCXPJA64V4V4Q
December 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Welcome signs of normal this morning in Providence, Rhode Island.
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
“Most of us live off Hope”

Ever true 💔
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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dariaphoebe.com
This is my experience in Providence tonight. I have gotten no official communication; I have gotten updates from friends and via media sources, and #onhere.
dangertam.bsky.social DANGERTAM @dangertam.bsky.social · 15d
What is mind blowing me as a person living in Providence is that I found out about the shooter via word of mouth vs an emergency text alert.
December 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
rneuner.bsky.social
This is horrific.
mattmfm.bsky.social Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 15d
Just an unimaginable scene unfolding in our own backyard at Brown University. Please be safe neighbors.
December 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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I'm late to @johannawinant.bsky.social's wonderful essay. I love her practical, tactile guidance to students: "Point to a detail, one that’s really on the page and small enough to fit under your finger." Then you work out how that detail works with other details. Then you learn to make an argument.
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Victoria Chang
December Night Things return at night. Slowly the grass lifts back up. Even the pine trees breathe out, their blueprints open. At night, everything rebuilds, even violence lifts its roots.
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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My absolutely favorite artwork for today, capturing the holiday more poignantly than any other: Alice Neel, Thanksgiving, 1965
A painting of a kitchen sink, seen from above. A couple of sponges and dishrags are visible, as is a drying rack and a canister of Ajax scrubbing powder. In the center, a holiday turkey has been left in the sink. Its legs are splayed, and its positioning makes it look like it reaches out to us, almost beseechingly, like the image of Adam from Michelangelo's famed Sistine Chapel
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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He is risen
The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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yawumiller.bsky.social
"In 2019, the median Black household earned just 61 cents for every dollar of income the median white household earned (up from 59 cents in 2018), while the median Hispanic household earned 74 cents (unchanged from 2018)."

(68% of students enrolled at RCC are Black vs. 22% at Bunker Hill)
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Hope Street on the East Side of Providence decked out for the holidays! ✨⚓️
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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bostonharbornow.org
Boston Harbor Now has released the Waterfront Visitation and Equity Study, a first-of-its-kind look at who uses Boston’s public waterfront—and who is being left out.

Explore the report + open dataset here: www.bostonharbornow.org/waterfrontda...
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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East Side! The Providence School Board has an opening. Apply here by December 12. www.providenceri.gov/mayor/provid...
Providence School Board Application - City of Providence
School Board Region and Ward Maps FILING DEADLINE: Friday, December 12, 2025 by 4:30PM PLEASE NOTE: All applicants must attend the public forum scheduled to take place on Tuesday, December […]
www.providenceri.gov
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Mary Sheffield will become the first woman elected mayor of Detroit, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4oRiL7z
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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TONY HOAGLAND Reasons to Survive November November like a train wreck— as if a locomotive made of cold had hurtled out of Canada and crashed into a million trees, flaming the leaves, setting the woods on fire. The sky is a thick, cold gauze but there's a soup special at the Waffle House downtown, and the Jack Parsons show is up at the museum, full of luminous red barns. —Or maybe I'Il visit beautiful Donna, the kickboxing queen from Santa Fe, and roll around in her foldout bed. I know there are some people out there who think I am supposed to end up in a room by myself with a gun and a bottle full of hate, a locked door and my slack mouth open like a disconnected phone. But I hate those people back from the core of my donkey soul and the hatred makes me strong and my survival is their failure, and my happiness would kill them so I shove joy like a knife into my own heart over and over and I force myself toward pleasure, and I love this November life where I run like a train deeper and deeper into the land of my enemies.
November 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM