Does Brandy always have a wicked long line?? Tried to take my little sister twice and we turned around both times after seeing the line. Having trauma from the rhode lines lol

Senator Jack Reed says that he “opposed Trump’s reckless Iran war from the start,” and wants to hold “President Trump accountable.” These are laudable aims—but they are only partial truths.

In fact, Trump could never have waged his illegal and ill-conceived war on Iran without the money Senator Reed personally delivered. Take the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets forth policies and authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense. Senator Reed wrote significant portions of the bill, which authorized the Trump administration to spend a record-breaking $901 billion on the United States military.

Senator Reed subsequently voted that bill into law, joining about half of the Democratic senators, but not progressive stalwarts like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Chris Murphy, who had the courage and foresight to condemn the grotesque level of spending. Senator Ron Wyden said at the time, ‘I cannot support a bill that increases military spending by tens of billions of dollars and fails to include guardrails against Donald Trump and Hegseth’s authoritarian abuses.’ Worse yet, the 2026 NDAA gave Trump $8 billion more than his administration even requested.

If not for the 2026 NDAA, Trump could never have taken the United States into another unconstitutional forever war that has taken the lives of 18 American soldiers and injured hundreds more, cost roughly $40 billion in direct military spending, and cost consumers more than $75 billion in artificially inflated prices.

Rather than learn from the 2026 NDAA catastrophe, Senator Reed has doubled down on his relationship with the military-industrial complex. Reed again played a central role in drafting the 2027 NDAA, a bill which would give Trump roughly $1.15 trillion (that’s trillion with a “T”). The bill, which represents an annual spending increase of over $200 billion, would more than cover the entire cost of the illegal war with Iran. Think about the message that sends to the rogue Trump administration: wage a disastrous war and emerge with an even larger military slush fund.

What is more, the bill would further entangle our military with Israel’s, committing to bilateral “research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements and an unprecedented integration of the US and Israeli weapons industries.” With cratering public support for weapons transfers to Israel, the NDAA seeks to smuggle the weapons to avoid public scrutiny quietly.

Senator Reed voted favorably on this bill out of committee and is likely to support it on the full Senate floor. In the senator’s own words, this bill “strengthens national defense and enhances oversight and accountability.” Senator Reed’s promise to hold Trump accountable, then, is only true if one sees a blank check and integration of our military with Israel’s as accountability.

Most Rhode Islanders do not.

Most Rhode Islanders want to reinvest our bloated military spending into things that matter to our state, like our crumbling infrastructure and primary healthcare crises. They are tired of the forever wars and want a senator who will instead spend that money fighting for Rhode Island values via programs like universal healthcare, an equal education amendment, and a Green New Deal.

Hi, I’m a bowman in town for the week. I’ve sailed ORC2 and Schooners, am from Annapolis, and have raced the A2B. I will happily go from side to side and enjoy friendly competition with mellow people. Just looking for a good time as I transition back and forth between Annapolis and Providence, and if you want crew I’d be happy to hop aboard.

We usually go for a couple nights every summer and get a room on Thames or the Wharf area for a few reasonable rate. This summer and for fall I’ve looked up rates and there’s nothing less than $600/night - even for a random weeknight in Sept / Oct. What gives? Any events I haven’t heard about?

Hi all, I’m a tourist in Newport for the week and I was in the Gardiner House downstairs bar where a bald (white) man in the lobby repeated screamed the n word hard r on the phone in the lobby. I won’t share more details on the conversation as to avoid identifying personal information. After his racist outburst, he bought another drink and apologized to a black bartender and said “I’m sorry you had to see that”

Is this typical for Newport? Honestly I have never seen anything like this in my life. It was on full display for his entire family and the staff of the hotel and other guests.

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I remember visiting spouting rock at the end of the Cliff Walk. I remember how loud it was. What ever happened to it? It doesn’t seem to be the same as it once was.

Wife and I are headed to Newport for a long weekend and would love to get a morning surf sesh in. Surf report for this weekend looks pretty flat and similar conditions it has been all week. Has anyone been surfing second beach the past few days or is it too flat?

Thanks!

For starters, this is not the first step I intend to take, I'm just looking for a backup plan. Long story short, a business is having their building repainted next to my father in laws house, doesn't live there currently, in nursing home. They are using the driveway and have left paint chips on the property and streets/ sidewalks. FILs neighbors have complained to me about them parking in the driveway, cutting his trees and leaving a mess on his property. Have contacted said business last week, no attempts to contact me back. Any help would be great as FILs neighbors are close friends who have reached out to me for help
Thanks

Hello, I’ll be visiting with my gf soon and we have this tradition of taking pictures at photo booths during our travels. Any chance someone knows of any around Newport? Thank you!

Hey y'all, I usually take a bus from Providence to Newport and go to the beach. I love Easton's but more often than not it has a shit ton of red seaweed. Are there certain weather conditions, times and tides I could look out for so I don't waste my time going and swimming in the red stuff? Thanks!

Hi all! I’d like to get a kitchen knife engraved/etched with my friend’s name for her birthday. I am not finding results when I google, but does anyone know of someone or a business who could do same day engraving on metal?

Also happy to drive a ways to get it done if not in Newport.

Thanks in advance!

Does anybody know what time the lights at the Newport skate park turn off? I went tonight at 10 and the lights were already off.