Ethan Gyles
@gyles.bsky.social
PVD, RI, USA.
"My kingdom for a plumbing license."
"My kingdom for a plumbing license."
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
Anti-gay rights judicial appointee avoids normal public swearing in. Wonder why.
Private swearing-in ceremonies are permitted under state law. Critics say the practice still raises transparency concerns. By @krish-eh.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com?p=28317
McCaffrey took his judicial oath behind closed doors. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. • Rhode Island Current
While three of Gov. Dan McKee’s judicial picks were sworn in publicly Monday, former Senate Majority Leader Michael McCaffrey opted to take his oath in a private ceremony within 30 minutes of being co...
rhodeislandcurrent.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Anti-gay rights judicial appointee avoids normal public swearing in. Wonder why.
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New "We Didn't Start the Fire" lyrics just dropped:
The Cabinet this week
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
February 14, 2026 at 2:42 PM
New "We Didn't Start the Fire" lyrics just dropped:
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"It’s as if the governor works for the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis is a hoax."
@ecorinews.bsky.social columnist Frank Carini hammers Gov. McKee for putting Act on Climate Act on chopping block ecori.org/gov-mckee-se...
@ecorinews.bsky.social columnist Frank Carini hammers Gov. McKee for putting Act on Climate Act on chopping block ecori.org/gov-mckee-se...
Gov. McKee Sells Magic Means to Lower Utility Costs - ecoRI News
The governor's shortsighted move of trashing renewable energy programs and shredding climate policy in the name of energy affordability is about one thing: getting reelected.
ecori.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
"It’s as if the governor works for the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis is a hoax."
@ecorinews.bsky.social columnist Frank Carini hammers Gov. McKee for putting Act on Climate Act on chopping block ecori.org/gov-mckee-se...
@ecorinews.bsky.social columnist Frank Carini hammers Gov. McKee for putting Act on Climate Act on chopping block ecori.org/gov-mckee-se...
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"The data from January shows that the nation’s two operating utility-scale offshore wind farms ... performed as well as gas-fired power plants and better than coal-fired facilities, including during last month’s Winter Storm Fern." www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... by @mariagallucci.bsky.social 🔌💡
Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold
America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.
www.canarymedia.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:29 AM
"The data from January shows that the nation’s two operating utility-scale offshore wind farms ... performed as well as gas-fired power plants and better than coal-fired facilities, including during last month’s Winter Storm Fern." www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... by @mariagallucci.bsky.social 🔌💡
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This is a 3,600-word piece airing every bit of dirt Noem's detractors have aired in the last year, presumably to try to get her (and Corey) ousted.
2 words that don't appear anywhere? "Stephen Miller."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2 words that don't appear anywhere? "Stephen Miller."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
www.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:55 AM
This is a 3,600-word piece airing every bit of dirt Noem's detractors have aired in the last year, presumably to try to get her (and Corey) ousted.
2 words that don't appear anywhere? "Stephen Miller."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2 words that don't appear anywhere? "Stephen Miller."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
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BREAKING:
Goldman Sachs's top lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, has just resigned in the wake of the Justice Department's release of emails and other material that revealed her extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
Goldman Sachs's top lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, has just resigned in the wake of the Justice Department's release of emails and other material that revealed her extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
Goldman’s Top Lawyer Departs Amid Revelations About Her Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM
BREAKING:
Goldman Sachs's top lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, has just resigned in the wake of the Justice Department's release of emails and other material that revealed her extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
Goldman Sachs's top lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, has just resigned in the wake of the Justice Department's release of emails and other material that revealed her extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
Unsurprising yet still so incredibly stupid, sad, and deadly. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Unsurprising yet still so incredibly stupid, sad, and deadly. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 AM
This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.
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Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.
February 8, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.
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jfc
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:26 AM
jfc
Breezy Johnson is the best skier name since Peekaboo Street.
February 8, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Breezy Johnson is the best skier name since Peekaboo Street.
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people are so fucking pissed
The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas.
Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points.
Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->
Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points.
Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->
Breaking: Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup
Republicans have yet to flip a single legislative seat since Trump's return
www.the-downballot.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:48 AM
people are so fucking pissed
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Anyway just bookmark this for the next time the Administration tries to shut town another offshore wind farm by saying that they're protecting whales
Friday night news dump: Trump just opened a marine national monument to commercial fishing.
Environmentalists worry that fishing in the area could damage sensitive ecosystems and habitats for endangered whales and other species. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
Environmentalists worry that fishing in the area could damage sensitive ecosystems and habitats for endangered whales and other species. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Anyway just bookmark this for the next time the Administration tries to shut town another offshore wind farm by saying that they're protecting whales
Very generous framing by ProJo. They blatantly cheated the math!
February 6, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Very generous framing by ProJo. They blatantly cheated the math!
My main issue with this is the lighthouse appears to not be an actual R.I. lighthouse.
Start pouring the wine (and the coffee milk). Bravo has announced the “Real Housewives of Rhode Island” will premiere on Thursday, April 2 at 9 p.m.
Mark your calendars: ‘The Real Housewives of Rhode Island’ debuts April 2 - The Boston Globe
The new series follows the women across the state to spots like a gilded mansion in Newport and Block Island.
trib.al
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My main issue with this is the lighthouse appears to not be an actual R.I. lighthouse.
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A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”
Breaking:
The White House press secretary just said she "can't guarantee" that ICE won't be around polling locations in November.
The White House press secretary just said she "can't guarantee" that ICE won't be around polling locations in November.
February 5, 2026 at 9:39 PM
A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”
Ten days post storm my street got plowed so it's no longer one lane.
February 5, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Ten days post storm my street got plowed so it's no longer one lane.
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TARGET 12: Just before Alviti's resignation, over 700 bridges were taken out of RIDOT's quarterly progress report to lawmakers - a change that let RIDOT claim it hit the 90% bridge sufficiency goal set 10 years ago
Goalposts moved in budget docs, too www.wpri.com/target-12/ri...
Goalposts moved in budget docs, too www.wpri.com/target-12/ri...
www.wpri.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
TARGET 12: Just before Alviti's resignation, over 700 bridges were taken out of RIDOT's quarterly progress report to lawmakers - a change that let RIDOT claim it hit the 90% bridge sufficiency goal set 10 years ago
Goalposts moved in budget docs, too www.wpri.com/target-12/ri...
Goalposts moved in budget docs, too www.wpri.com/target-12/ri...
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and they ran a bjorn lomborg oped today we are in hell
I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
and they ran a bjorn lomborg oped today we are in hell
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It's been brutally, unusually cold in Southern #NewEngland over the past few weeks. Which means higher electricity and gas demand, and the power mix reflects that.
So how did #renewableenergy do? /1
#energytransition
So how did #renewableenergy do? /1
#energytransition
February 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
It's been brutally, unusually cold in Southern #NewEngland over the past few weeks. Which means higher electricity and gas demand, and the power mix reflects that.
So how did #renewableenergy do? /1
#energytransition
So how did #renewableenergy do? /1
#energytransition