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projomike.bsky.social
@projomike.bsky.social
UConn Journalism professor
Former Providence Journal investigative reporter, Big East scribe & Boston Globe Spotlight Fellow.
Author The Prince of Providence & Unbeaten.
Rhode Island & Connecticut
What party leadership?
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.

A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.

When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
What kind of training do these guys have? They’re literally loose cannons.
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“Able bodied”
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Begging the question - how can senators strike a deal to make the House vote?
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Sports betting has changed since Steve O'Donnell worked undercover infiltrating Mafia bookmaking rings for the RI State Police & I wrote on Pete Rose's ties to a Patriarca family bookie for the @providencejournal.bsky.social. So it was fun to talk betting scandals now & then on @997wpro.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Commanders-in-Cheat Stadium?
Fascist Bowl?
Tariff Park?
DOGE Dome?
Ozempic Arena?

So many possibilities…
Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, ESPN reports.
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Socialism > Anti-socialism
Antifa > Pro Fascist
Progressive > Regressive

Language matters.
Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Trump’s decision to back away from the World Health Organization is unhealthy - literally.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Why next year's flu shot might not be as good as it should be
America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.
www.npr.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Duck duck, gone gone. 🐤
From Nextdoor in Warwick
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Golden Age”
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Obamacare 🩺
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?

Character isn't something you tell people about.

It's something you live.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Will & Graceless
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White Washing continues…
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Friar fans are getting Vaaksinated on opening night. Stefan Vaaks, the 6-7 freshman from Estonia, has 15 points at halftime vs. Holy Cross.
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Ciao konnichiwa!
This looks fabulous.
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is an important & troubling point. We need the press to hold power accountable or the whole country will become one vast news desert where corruption & oligarchs flourish & voters are brainwashed by propaganda.
In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Edited by Bari Weiss?
Network edits, you say?

Lawsuit time.
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I’ll take Lawlessness for $1,000
What an odd set of options offered in the CBS News Poll. DEI but nothing about democracy or rule of law.👀
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
SNAP NAZIS
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
AUTUMN MAN 🍂
Am I taking random Autumn Man selfies around Providence these days?

Yes, I am.
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Reposted
Reporter's query from me:

Please feel free to pass this along.
October 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
KATHLEEN PARKER, 1865:
What John Wilkes Booth got right about his performance last night.
You have to admire consistency. And people who can put things in perspective.

Top: K Parker on WaPo op-ed page, just before 2016 Trump-HRC election.

Bottom: K Parker on WaPo op-ed page, just after the Hegseth-Trump abomination at Quantico.
October 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM