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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As of 5:00pm, there have been 22,337 votes in Providence. This is 2k more votes than the 2022 primary and around 2018’s turnout. With many folks getting out of work, there are still many expected votes to be cast by 8:00 pm. This kind of turnout is a great sign for Morales #Providence #RI #election

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Worth noting that Providence had 3 candidates for Mayor in 2022, where Smiley got the plurality of votes around 42%. The other two combined candidates got ~58%. With only one challenger to Smiley, we very well could see the first time in PVD’s history that a sitting mayor loses their seat.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In 2022, 20,673 people voted for mayor in PVD. I think we could hit 25k if this trend continues. There are 88,894 registered voters and any increase over the 21k voters by 8pm would be a very promising sign for David Morales. Right now as of 1pm PVD has 17k votes in. #providence #DavidMorales

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised since 2009. If the original minimum wage from the 1960’s were in place today our federal minimum wage would be ~$25, which is $10 greater than Massachusetts’ minimum wage

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our taxpayer dollars are being used to kidnap children and murder legal observers. ICE refused CPR being performed when the legal observer was shot while simply trying to leave. ICE is an existential threat to our communities and the largest terrorist organization in the US.

kare11.com

ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis; Walz puts National Guard on standby

The shooting happened after the Department of Homeland Security sent more than 2,000 ICE agents to the Twin Cities in the "largest DHS operation ever."

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The US continues to be an architect for genocidal policies and policing. From Jim Crow, to Trail of Tears, kidnapping immigrants, Palestine, and deliberately withholding life saving care for our Transgender neighbors. Extreme wealth inequality is the only real threat to our lives, not our neighbors.

lemkininstitute.com

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.Genocide scholars are sounding the alarm over what they describe as escalating attacks targeti...

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It’s outrageous how routine violent takeovers of foreign countries happen for corporate profit. The US destroys societies and replaces them with chaos for the sake of enriching a couple thousand people. Billions suffer for the gains of so few individuals. Imperial violence is terrorism.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It’s revealing that NYT and WaPo deliberately withheld information from the public about this illegal invasion that killed ~100 civilians in Venezuela. Oil companies knew before politicians. Fascism is the merger of corporate and state power. We prioritize oil over our shared humanity.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

2/3 of Americans live paycheck to paycheck: We have a billionaire pedophile protecting administration kidnapping our neighbors, enabling genocide, bombing civilians and illegally capturing elected leaders to control oil, a resource we know is actively destroying our present and future.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The Gateway Link is a free public transit service connecting Fall River, Taunton and Brockton. The express service is as fast as driving and provides direct connections to the MBTA Red Line. The Gateway Link is the key to exploring the SouthCoast youtu.be/x0cBSUDqGcg?...

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The Gateway Link Bus Service

YouTube video by SRPEDD

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Our Somali neighbors are integral members of the community. The US propped up dictator Siad Barre and our government has killed many Somali civilians into the 21st century which has prolonged suffering: Your immigrant neighbor is not the reason that we are struggling: jacobin.com/2022/11/soma...

jacobin.com

The US Helped Destroy Modern Somalia

Since the 1990s, no government has been able to control the whole of Somalia’s territory. Lurid news reports about piracy and terrorism obscure the fact that big powers like the US have repeatedly int...

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

“The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority saw 90,000 fewer riders on its fixed-route service in October.” This is what happens when our state gov’t refuses to properly fund public transit. This is a violent policy decision that leads to isolation, unemployment, & food insecurity for our neighbors.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The decision of Trump pardoning Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández, who is a convicted drug trafficker, while illegally striking innocent Venezuelan fishermen is as violent as it is revealing. There is solidarity between ruling elites, while civilians suffer to benefit big oil and empire.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

For my Rhode Island and Mass neighbors, there are listening sessions for expanding passenger rail in RI: www.dot.ri.gov/about/who/of...

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State of Rhode Island: Rhode Island Department of Transportation

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“WHERE IS MY BUS? @govdanmckee.bsky.social underfunded RIPTA. Nearly 70% of routes are now running at reduced frequency or hours of service. These are the largest cuts in RIPTA’s history, and they hurt working people.” “I walk home for an hr. b/c of bus cuts!!” 🚨‼️🚌

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Really grateful to be part of a wonderful research team on amplifying the leadership & research of youth. We often conceal deny & seldom discuss the vital contributions of youth leadership within our communities. How can we as adults center the work of youth & be collaborators in community change?

journals.publishing.umich.edu

“It is Power for Young People”: Enacting Hope by Amplifying Youth Research for School Change

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an epistemology and a growing field in youth leadership, youth organizing, and liberatory education spaces. YPAR’s commitment to justice is supported by a...

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In this article I write about how state violence targets children in Palestine and within the United States. These are interconnected issues that highlight how children are systematically harmed by our government, whether through violent action or violent policies.

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The Unfolding Unchilding

The Greatest Political Violence of Our Lifetime is Targeting Children

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It’s haunting to see people have more empathy and reverence for a man that didn’t even believe in empathy, than Palestinian civilians being massacred in the cruelest ways imaginable while waiting for food and water —

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The #Trump administration (which has 2% of all billionaires in the US) is weaponizing the military against our most impoverished neighbors. We are subsidizing the billionaire class while we are paying taxes to deploy the military against our unhoused community members. No healthcare, only warfare.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

#RIPTA is a very efficient public transit agency that serves our communities well. Governor Dan McKee is trying to gut RIPTA that will adversely impact our neighbors. I have my full thoughts below

Dan’s thoughts on Governor McKee trying to gut RIPTA

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

An important perspective that is missing from the illegal firings of federal employees is that we already had less federal employees pre-DOGE than we had in the 1990s (despite the population growing by over 80 million in the last 3 decades. We already have 1/2 million less employees in 2024 than ‘94

Population data from U.S Census: 2020 = 331,449,281 people, 1990 census = 248,709,873 people

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Our government is disappearing BIPOC youth and people speaking out against genocide. This is state sponsored violence, where we are paying to cause direct harm to our neighbors. This is post 9/11 Islamophobic terror targeting innocent people and inflicting trauma, pain, and fear. Sickening…

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Some more photos form the first day of #mbta South Coast Rail

Massachusetts Governor Healey, and MBTA General Manager Phil Eng holding ceremonial ribbon for South Coast Rail

Governor Maura Healey, MassDOT Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt and other state/local leaders holding ceremonial ribbon for South Coast Rail

Fall River station with Train Engineer hopping on board

Secretary of MassDOT Monica Tibbits-Nutt giving a speech on the South Coast Rail

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Inaugural ride from New Bedford on the #mbta South Coast Rail! First time in 65+ years this region has had passenger rail. This is critical to not only connect our region to Boston, but to connect our neighbors in the South Coast: New Bedford-Taunton in 20 min, New Bedford to Bridgewater in 40 min.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Since I started working in #PublicTransit planning, all of my most important data tools to communicate complex ideas with the public have been removed by this gov’t. Tools like STEAP were free and accessible where a simple drawing on a map could publish you a report — here are examples of its use:

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Schumer and Jeffries have abdicated responsibility for this moment (and many others). They are acting like Trump’s mandate is Reagan’s 2nd term. Less than 50% of the popular vote and one of the most narrow controls of both chambers in U.S.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Detaining and trying to deport a permanent resident speaking up against our schools’ complicity in genocide is bleak, violent and tyrannical. Tinker v. Des Moines plainly stated that we do not shed our rights at the schoolhouse gate. Both parties are enabling these student disappearances. Depraved.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Democratic Party is clearly not interested in meaningful opposition. They are acting like Trump’s win was Reagan’s 2nd Term, Trump didn’t breach 50% of the vote, and this is one of the most narrow house/senate shifts for a presidential election. This is complicity in fascism.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We need a general strike at this point. I know Shawn Fain scheduled in 2028 but that is too far out. We need to meet the gravity and depravity of this moment.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For those that might not know, Providence is the least affordable market in the country. I’m looking for apartments, and found a landlord who uploaded a screen shot of a $15,000 mink coat they were looking to buy mixed in with the listing photos. Can’t make this up.

Mink coat form landlord listing at $15,000

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Section 504 provides life saving and affirming support for the Disability community whether that is free access to public education (FAPE), and housing protections. This predates ADA and IDEA. 25% of the country has a disability. Trump’s admin & sycophants are engaging in eugenics.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

17 states have filed lawsuits to end Section 504, which would lead to students with disabilities no longer being guaranteed public education and afterschool programming. Section 504 allowed me to be in regular integrated classes as someone with ASD. Section 504 was a lifeline in my childhood.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

My issue with DOGE is that those with institutional power act as if gov’t spending on meeting our most basic needs (food, shelter, belonging) is wasteful. Yet there is no institutional challenge to fund ~$1 Trillion to the military, and billions to imprison immigrants. That is truly wasteful—

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is gutting Medicaid (FY23 budget was $880Bn). This is unquestionably a death sentence for our neighbors. Roughly 80 million people have Medicaid or about a 1/4th of the entire US population rely on it as a literal lifeline. This is social murder yet entirely legally permissible.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A government that defunds education domestically and bombs schools abroad is not a free country nor a good government. It’s a deeply unwell society that privileges hate over love, isolation over community, and conquest over compassion.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What’s disappointing and not surprising is how much our federal institutions have capitulated to transphobic, xenophobic, racist and ableist policy adoptions. Our democratic leadership couldn’t even be bothered to enter the department of education being blocked by minimal private security.

thehill.com

Members of Congress denied access to Department of Education

Multiple members of Congress were denied entry to the Department of Education on Friday, according to videos and social media posts from lawmakers. “They are blocking members of Congress fro…

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 05/02/2025

Donald Trump: “As far as Gaza is concerned … we’re going to take over that piece, we’re going to develop it and create thousands of thousands of jobs.” The U.S. President said US will “take over,” “level,” and “own,” Gaza and deploy US troops “if it is necessary.”

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Trump’s “proposal” for Gaza is nothing less than the deliberate ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people from their land. The US continues to aid and support genocide. This is untenable, unconscionable, cruel, violent, and dehumanizing. We devalue our humanity when we deny Palestinians’ humanity.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It’s worth noting that one of the first acts of Nazi Germany was the looting of the institute of Sexology: A library dedicated to promoting equality for the LGBTQIA+ community. Fascism has also historically targeted immigrants, BIPOC, and the Disability communities.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I was supposed to go to a public transit conference next week but it got cancelled by the feds since the theme was environmental justice. It’s quite shameful how quickly our federal institutions are complying with policies we know are wrong and violent—

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In Trump’s first week, he’s done nothing to materially address the “cost of living” (not surprising) and instead has done everything in his power to undermine the humanity of immigrants, the Disability, LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities as well as fanning the flames of our climate crisis—

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The chaos and opening the floodgates of horrible executive orders is the point. To push back and organize to take care of our communities is the response.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Gov McKee's budget defunds RIPTA considerably. If we implement a millionaires tax similar to MA (4%) that would generate ~$220,000,000 annually for transportation and education. RI has more millionaires per capita than Texas. Let's #SaveRIPTA and invest in transportation and education.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trump’s $500Bn investment into AI power plants is taking power from the people. We’re literally using taxpayer dollars to fund private companies consuming power at an unsustainable rate. We can’t feed the poor but we can build power plants for a deeply unregulated industry.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The world’s richest (reichest) man having an office in the White House having direct decision making over his own contracts while owning one of the largest social media platforms to boost neo nazism and the great replacement theory is deeply deeply troubling. This is brazen and violent, & dangerous.

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I can’t help but think of the recent unnatural disasters augmented by climate change and how community organizing has helped uplift so many facing hardship, while the federal government and police are antagonistic. Our gov’t set up detention centers during Katrina that targeted Muslims & Black ppl.-

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The work and stakes remain the same: To collectively build, and organize a more just society. Fascism and oligarchy are not new phenomenon in the U.S., this however, is more overt than anytime in my life. Trump’s cabinet is worth half a Trillion $ and our minimum wage remains at $7.25.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 20/01/2025

As one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist and political prisoner who has been incarcerated for nearly half a century for a crime he maintains he did not commit. truthout.org/articles/bid...

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Dan Brogan @bluecrossbluesky.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

1-in-50 U.S. billionaires are in Trump’s Cabinet.

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