L. Patricia Arias
@lparias.bsky.social
Mom to Ellie, in-house lawyer, dog lover, humanist, singer, traveler, TV binger, concerned about the dumbassification of America
May 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
May 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Lawmakers in Rhode Island have the opportunity to pass a ban on assault weapons—a measure that 64% of Rhode Islanders support.
“You have a chance to save lives and prevent unnecessary bloodshed in Rhode Island.” - Greg Lickenbrock, Senior Firearms Analyst for Everytown for Gun Safety.
“You have a chance to save lives and prevent unnecessary bloodshed in Rhode Island.” - Greg Lickenbrock, Senior Firearms Analyst for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Is this the year R.I. passes a ban on assault-style weapons? - The Boston Globe
An evenly divided Senate committee heard hours of testimony on the proposed ban, including debate about whether the bill is constitutional.
www.bostonglobe.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Lawmakers in Rhode Island have the opportunity to pass a ban on assault weapons—a measure that 64% of Rhode Islanders support.
“You have a chance to save lives and prevent unnecessary bloodshed in Rhode Island.” - Greg Lickenbrock, Senior Firearms Analyst for Everytown for Gun Safety.
“You have a chance to save lives and prevent unnecessary bloodshed in Rhode Island.” - Greg Lickenbrock, Senior Firearms Analyst for Everytown for Gun Safety.
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Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people are rotting in storage, after cuts to staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which disrupted distribution, amid rising global hunger levels.
www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...
www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...
Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
www.reuters.com
May 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people are rotting in storage, after cuts to staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which disrupted distribution, amid rising global hunger levels.
www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...
www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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Friends we need to start pushing the DC discourse from
“laws were broken”
to
“Secretary Kennedy broke laws and is endangering people’s lives”
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
“laws were broken”
to
“Secretary Kennedy broke laws and is endangering people’s lives”
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
RFK Jr., DOGE gutted legally required offices. Courts may undo it all.
Federal workers, Democratic lawmakers, state officials and independent legal experts say keeping offices afloat in name only – with minimal or no staff – is an unconstitutional power grab.
www.politico.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Friends we need to start pushing the DC discourse from
“laws were broken”
to
“Secretary Kennedy broke laws and is endangering people’s lives”
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
“laws were broken”
to
“Secretary Kennedy broke laws and is endangering people’s lives”
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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For some at FSU, this was at least the second mass shooting they’ve experienced. We are a nation of survivors of a preventable epidemic. America's gun violence crisis is a policy choice that only benefits the gun industry and the lawmakers who cower to it.
April 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
For some at FSU, this was at least the second mass shooting they’ve experienced. We are a nation of survivors of a preventable epidemic. America's gun violence crisis is a policy choice that only benefits the gun industry and the lawmakers who cower to it.
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Trump says he wants to make America healthy again, but he’s cutting funding for medical research and dismantling programs that would help with gun violence and injury prevention, and global health centers.
April 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trump says he wants to make America healthy again, but he’s cutting funding for medical research and dismantling programs that would help with gun violence and injury prevention, and global health centers.
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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There are 32m small businesses in the USA
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
There are 32m small businesses in the USA
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The Lithuanias paid tribute to our 4 servicemen who died there during a military exercise. Our piece of shit President went to play golf instead of meeting the members as they arrived back into the United States. As a retired military member I am disgusted by this draft dodger.
April 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The Lithuanias paid tribute to our 4 servicemen who died there during a military exercise. Our piece of shit President went to play golf instead of meeting the members as they arrived back into the United States. As a retired military member I am disgusted by this draft dodger.
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#Gaza: we are appalled and saddened by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an airstrike.
His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack.
This is the second killing of an MSF colleague in just two weeks.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-msf-mou...
His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack.
This is the second killing of an MSF colleague in just two weeks.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-msf-mou...
Gaza: MSF mourns the killing of eleventh colleague | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appalled and saddened by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an airstrike on the morning of April 1 in southwest of Deir al Balah...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca
April 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
#Gaza: we are appalled and saddened by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an airstrike.
His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack.
This is the second killing of an MSF colleague in just two weeks.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-msf-mou...
His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack.
This is the second killing of an MSF colleague in just two weeks.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-msf-mou...
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It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza.
No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.
That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.
No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.
That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza.
No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.
That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.
No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.
That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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NEW: You can now send us your tips via SecureDrop, the most secure and anonymous way to share information or files with us electronically. Used properly, it shields your identity even from us.
Here’s how to use it: www.propublica.org/tips
Here’s how to use it: www.propublica.org/tips
How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
www.propublica.org
March 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
NEW: You can now send us your tips via SecureDrop, the most secure and anonymous way to share information or files with us electronically. Used properly, it shields your identity even from us.
Here’s how to use it: www.propublica.org/tips
Here’s how to use it: www.propublica.org/tips
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BOOM! More than 23,000 letters sent demanding Congress call for Hegseth to resign. Help us get to 25,000 by sending yours here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Demand the resignation of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
April 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
BOOM! More than 23,000 letters sent demanding Congress call for Hegseth to resign. Help us get to 25,000 by sending yours here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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“The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.”
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
“The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.”
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Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic thanking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Tuesday night after delivering a speech to Congress. “I won’t forget it,” he added.
Trump Thanks John Roberts on Hot Mic: ‘Won’t Forget It'
Roberts authored the immunity decision that helped Trump avoid Jan. 6-related trials last year.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic thanking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Tuesday night after delivering a speech to Congress. “I won’t forget it,” he added.
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The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming.
Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases.
boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...
Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases.
boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...
“We Need to See the Bigger Picture”: How Cuts to Medicaid Hurt Public Safety - Bolts
When a state made cuts to Medicaid, depriving people of access to health insurance, the crime rate increased: That’s the finding of a new academic study, supported by the National... Read More
boltsmag.org
February 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming.
Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases.
boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...
Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases.
boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...
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I mean think about if you're China right now
Upper-level leadership has been sacked, officer corps has been sacked, probationary personnel sacked, the people who do logistics have been sacked, recession imminent – if you ever wanted a new colony, it's an opportune time
Upper-level leadership has been sacked, officer corps has been sacked, probationary personnel sacked, the people who do logistics have been sacked, recession imminent – if you ever wanted a new colony, it's an opportune time
February 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I mean think about if you're China right now
Upper-level leadership has been sacked, officer corps has been sacked, probationary personnel sacked, the people who do logistics have been sacked, recession imminent – if you ever wanted a new colony, it's an opportune time
Upper-level leadership has been sacked, officer corps has been sacked, probationary personnel sacked, the people who do logistics have been sacked, recession imminent – if you ever wanted a new colony, it's an opportune time
AP cites freedom of speech in suit vs White House and Fox News and News Max agree
February 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
AP cites freedom of speech in suit vs White House and Fox News and News Max agree
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People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
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February 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.