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Rhode Island Senate Judiciary is considering S 0359 the RI Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025 today at 2pm. Write to [email protected] to submit written testimony in favor of the bill. Note that your statement will be public record, so consider what personal info you include.

In the same vein: American Pope delivered by Amazon Pope: Two Day Pontiff Delivery.

Headline: New Pope announcement spoiled by premature Amazon Prime order for new papal slippers.

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

Just following Internet law. The man is a legend.

Some future Constitutional amendment possibilities: * All emergency powers granted to the executive branch by Congress must include a time limit for expiration. Any extension of those time limits requires a two-thirds majority of both houses.

“They want us to be frightened of one another, thinking there must be an enemy, but the only enemy now is the grags and those poor fools like your brother... They are the victims of the sneaking bastards in the darkness.” - Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

Wrote to my state senator to vote against Senator Ciccione. Rhode Island needs better.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

What is even the point of allowing something like this?

Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say apnews.com/article/hegs...

Trump minimizing record-breaking CO2 levels is dangerous & counterproductive—but not surprising given his corrupt bargain with big polluters. Ignoring evidence of climate change & decapitating NOAA doesn’t make it go away—it COSTS MORE & makes us LESS SAFE. We will fight this.

Saw something going around that says you can throw a nonsense phrase with "meaning" as a suffix and the AI will generate a plausible sounding definition for that phrase as if it was an actual idiomatic phrase. I tried "elephants only dance twice a day meaning" and got something kind of bizarre back.

The UK Supreme Court ruling is straight up BS. Feel for all the trans folk in the UK right now.

I wrote the president of my alma mater to tell them that this is the kind of message I expect my school to send. In the words of General McAuliffe: "Nuts!"

They're trying to kill Rumeysa Ozturk for writing a fucking op ed

I wrote to the committee and cc'ed my state senator as well. We can't allow this detention center to continue to exist in our state. We shouldn't allow them anywhere. #RhodeSkyland #PVDlocal #RIlocal

@booker.senate.gov is getting it done. The Senate Democrats should be lining up to follow his example.