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…and we know the first reporter chosen for the new press pool

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“The party of business.” 🙄

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Next time someone questions why New Englanders are so salty I’ll have them come out with me to shovel what is essentially 4 inches of melting Italian Ice off a driveway.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I assume it’s a Gannett style mandate that requires every @providencejournal.bsky.social headline to end with a period/colon and “here’s why” or “here’s what we know” but my Lord is it a weird and sloppy presentation for what was the RI newspaper of record.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

So is anyone in the media planning on putting the screws to a Republican member of Congress about the Executive Branch using private citizens to illegally shut down a congressionally mandated organization, or is this a “only Democrats have agency” thing?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

“I am all for building housing,” Polisena added, “but when we say housing, I mean in the sense of single-family homes.” I’m not sure why duplexes and small condo buildings offend the mayor so much.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Small apartment building on a tiny lot in Melbourne, Australia. The Aussies’ land use is the closest comparison to US/Canadian land use in the world. Of course, this is illegal to build in just about every US jurisdiction. The monster SUVs and auto dependency will continue until morale improves!

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Well in honor of not more than 3 Senate republicans not having the intestinal fortitude to vote no on a clearly unqualified Pete Hegseth it’s only apropos to have another bourbon.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Who wants to tell the “Trump’s gonna magically lower inflation” voters what lowering interest rates in a hot economy does?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The last three days have been a dumpster fire of atrociousness, so Stan Getz it is!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Because clearly Articles I and III of the Constitution don’t matter if a Republican president doesn’t want them to.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Recall that this is the leader of the party that purportedly has serious issues with the 1% and 15% of NPR and PBS’ funding that comes from the federal government.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

You can literally hear Chrissy saying this by the pool table in the Bing as you read the post.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

“Congestion pricing in NYC has reduced traffic, with an 8% decrease… NJ commuters expressed dissatisfaction…with some opting for alternative transportation or selling their vehicles.” So it’s working exactly as designed. Gotta love the negative media bias for anything democrats do!

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

You know it’s been a helluva weather week when you go outside with the dog at 9:30 when it’s 30° and think to yourself, “wow, it’s really warm out here.”

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

This is essentially why we’re careening toward authoritarianism. Legacy media sanewashes and the Rogans of the world are silent on anything that doesn’t puff up Trump. This headline should read “Trump threatens allies with military incursions.”

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Remember, we made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm based on the appearance of a conflict of interest, and you bet your bottom dollar that the press and the Republicans will lose their collective minds if there was ever a whiff of a financial conflict with a Democratic president.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Of course! More lanes! A few more lanes will fix it, right? Right? I sincerely hope the next governor will make sure the current Department of Roadbuilding becomes a true Department of Transportation.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone in this picture would be able to walk if the polio vaccine had existed in time for them.

submitted 84 days ago • 367 comments

My uncle contracted polio in the 1955 Woonsocket flood. He never walked afterwards w/o braces. The Salk vaccine, had it been available, would have prevented it. He died of COVID in Dec. 2020. The MRNA vaccines, had they been available, would have prevented it. Is the US going to tolerate this?

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Unfortunately, Fox News is on at the cigar bar where I went to unwind after a long week. It always strikes me how MSNBC has panels of reporters and SMEs in the field. Fox has a disgruntled former WWE performer whose gimmick was the “funkasaurus.”

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Per yesterday’s post. I sincerely hope folks smarter than me and more knowledgeable about the news delivery ecosystem are thinking long and hard about this.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

“A whopping 77 percent of people who primarily get their news from podcasts voted for Trump, while 22 percent voted for Harris, a mirror image of respondents who primarily get their news from newspapers, 77 percent of whom voted for Harris while 21 percent voted for Trump.” Society is so screwed.

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Question based on the last response below. How exactly are the democrats supposed to prevent voters from fever-dreaming Trump actually espousing democratic policy positions and voting for him because of them?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

The good news is that we’ll find out very quickly whether the rule of law matters to the six conservative SCOTUS justices - Mike Lee is essentially saying that the phrase “under the jurisdiction thereof” doesn’t mean what it plainly says and 126 years of supporting judicial precedent doesn’t matter.

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“There’s little sign Rhode Island has made much progress in tackling the housing crisis, at least if you look at costs. The state’s typical single-family home went for $485,000… Nevertheless, there are signs all over the state of backlash against efforts to expand housing supply.”

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This is hugely detrimental to the maintenance of democracy. I’m lucky enough to have grown up just prior to the .com boom that ruined the newspaper industry. Still read the @wsj.com and @bostonglobe.com to this day. Unfortunately, the ProJo and Woonsocket Call are shells of their fmr selves.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

NIMBYs will also inevitably cite the one construction project in town and dismiss it as “luxury housing” that didn’t reduce prices. That’s like saying that bicep curls don’t build muscle because someone who’s never worked out did two sets one day and doesn’t have Hulk Hogan style 24-inch pythons.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

If you asked a bunch in NIMBYs if they were capitalists they’d surely say they are and then immediately argue until they’re blue in the face that the free market doesn’t work with respect to housing supply. The data doesn’t support their position.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

One thing that comes to mind re: the Washington Bridge fiasco from time to time: has state gov’t discussed any non-car transportation options from the East Bay to ease congestion in the long term? Does DOT retain the right to reinstall a train/light rail on the East Bay bike path?

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And we wonder why millennials and Gen Z are nihilistic…

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