Amanda Milkovits
Journalist in ⚓️ Rhode Island for
@bostonglobe Member of @FiveFreedoms
@IRE_NICAR
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- Reposted by Amanda Milkovits(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
- Love this little Rhode Island promo that Providence's nail cooked up for @globeri.bsky.social, a la Super Bowl ads. www.nail.cc/rhode-island...
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- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsUPDATED with comments from @mattlamountain.bsky.social, @jakebissaillon.bsky.social and @dawneuer.bsky.social -- @risenate.bsky.social confirms former majority leader Michael J. McCaffrey as state judge www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/m...
- Why do they all look the same?
- Reposted by Amanda Milkovits"On Thursday morning, the Post’s website hosted a story about the bloodletting — written by an Associated Press reporter. For this once-great media organization, the retreat from the news couldn’t be signaled any clearer." — Jill Abramson @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/o...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsIn Providence, four boys, ages 11 and 12, are charged with murder after police say they attacked Rony Alonso, 51, last month. He died three days later. Now, there’s one question everyone is asking: How could this have happened? W/ @stephmachado.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/m...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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- Quite a statement from Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux on restricting cooperation with ICE. He calls out DHS leadership & White House for their handling of accusations of excessive force by ICE. He says he wants no part of it. “Law enforcement cannot break the law to enforce the law.”
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsIf you ever want to feel like you live in “the ruins of a once great civilization,” then read a local daily paper from the middle of last century — our predecessors had more and better knowledge of their neighbors, their societies, and their local democracies than we do about our own.
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsRhode Island DOT chief resigns amid Washington Bridge fallout. Governor McKee, who is seeking reelection in 2026, said Alviti will resign effective Feb. 27, and his administration will conduct a nationwide search for a successor. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/m...
- A GofundMe has been set up to help pay the legal expenses of a Rhode Island widower fighting his in-laws' court petition to visit his toddler. Scott Naso believes his in-laws gave meds & gave medical advice that contributed to his wife's death & sickened their baby. gofund.me/40e15597a
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- Records confirm ICE eyeing massive warehouse for regional detention facility in Merrimack, N.H., report @amandagokee.bsky.social & @reporterporter.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/03/m...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsNEW: More than half the members of the Providence City Council are either renters or landlords (and the mayor's a landlord too) Here's how they are thinking about the rent control debate heating up at City Hall www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/m...
- Wait, is that illegal?
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- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsExperts fear that Americans are losing their ability to distinguish between fact and fiction — and that fewer people seem to care about the difference. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/t...
- Gift article -- Chilling story about government intimidation of free speech. US Homeland Security is targeting Americans with secretive legal weapon. wapo.st/4rtfCw8
- N.H. inventor Dean Kamen on leave from the nonprofit he founded, after longstanding ties to Epstein surface. The records include a 2013 email from Kamen thanking Epstein for “hosting an incredible visit to a magical place,” after his visit to Little Saint James. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/02/m...
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- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout - Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsNEW: Juveniles now charged with murder in an attack on a 51-year-old Rony Alonso earlier this month allegedly threw rocks at a vehicle and attempted to assault the driver the day after the attack, police records show. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/30/m...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsICE has weapons of war... www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... ...and surveillance: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t... ... including face recognition app Clearview AI. In 2024, DHS was only using Clearview for child exploitation investigations. Now use includes investigating "attacks on law enforcement."
- Police release video of former NE Patriots fullback shoving elderly man in North Providence gym www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/30/m...
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- First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsDon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsICE’s job is immigration enforcement so why is it using facial recognition to surveil U.S. citizens? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsMINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsA drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsThe number of children in ICE detention on an average day has skyrocketed 6x since Trump took an office. Families complain of poor medical care and worm-infested food. "It’s only a matter of time before we see a child die," one advocate said. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...
- Pawtucket refused to release the police report on the wrongful arrest, saying the record isn't public because there were no charges. The @riaclu.bsky.social says that argument is “outrageous, absurd, and dangerous.”
- Good accountability here by @amandamilkovits.bsky.social -- Pawtucket police went to another city and arrested the wrong man. They won’t say why. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/29/m...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsIt's striking how Central Falls has turned over both the police report and the body camera footage and Pawtucket has (once again) dug in and refused to release the legally-required arrest report, and now somehow developed a novel legal theory that the report isn't subject to disclosure.
- The Pawtucket police went into another city, tackled a man in his home, and seized his dog. Turned out, they had the wrong man. Now, they refuse to talk about what happened & why they violated basic police protocol. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/29/m...
- The Pawtucket police went into another city, tackled a man in his home, and seized his dog. Turned out, they had the wrong man. Now, they refuse to talk about what happened & why they violated basic police protocol. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/29/m...
- Arrest on video, courtesy of Central Falls police, who say they weren’t notified until after the Pawtucket Police grabbed the man.
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- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsFrom loss to legacy: A year after losing loved ones in plane crash, families find purpose in advocacy “A lot of us found each other and have kind of just tried to press on and try to find some good out of this all, however we can." My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/m...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsSomeone should play the video of Fátima Lucas Henrique’s screams as she was kidnapped by federal agents on the way to her early morning nursing shift to Sen Susan Collins wherever she shows her face. This is happening to Mainers on her watch. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsNEW for @bostonglobe.com: An assessment, mandated by a 2025 settlement with Trump, show disparities at Brown University. The survey’s federally mandated questions + requirement that results are shared with the White House raise questions about autonomy. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/m...
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- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsR.I. advocates backing separate bill to make crash data public. The Department of Transportation refuses to release traffic accident data, but the Providence Streets Coalition says 42 other states make such information public. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
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- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsThree people, including two Bryant University students, were killed in a wrong-way crash in Lincoln, R.I. early Sunday morning. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/m...
- Winter storm, moving in fast, already blocking the view of the Providence River.
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsAlex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsOMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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- A "squeaky clean" correctional officer. A mother who dropped her child off at school. A civil engineer. These are some of the Mainers arrested indiscriminately by ICE. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/22/m...
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- This just makes me love Ocean State Job Lot even more … truly has something for everyone. #Sopranos #mobsters www.instagram.com/reel/DT1dcJv...
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- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsHarrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)
- Reposted by Amanda Milkovits‘Beyond chilling,’ a federal judge in RI says threats he received shook his faith in the judicial system. On the #RIReport podcast, Judge Jack McConnell talks about being in the national spotlight, ruling on high-profile legal challenges to Trump admin. actions. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/22/m...
- ICE detains 18-year-old USM student in Westbrook, Maine. "He had a license. He’s enrolled in school here. He was not engaged in any type of criminal behavior. He had a minor accident ... and then was basically kidnapped off the streets.” www.pressherald.com/2026/01/21/i...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsTerrorizing families (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsDHS says they have a “list” of around 1,400 people to round up in what they’re calling “Operation Catch of the Day” — a completely disgusting and inhumane name for their terror campaign in our state.
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsBREAKING: Whistleblower disclosures reveal a formal ICE policy to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door & storm into your home. 1/
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsMinnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
- Spencer Yang, a student who survived the mass shooting at Brown University, says in @bostonglobe.com's remarkable photo essay that he's afraid of just one thing: “Shooting number two. There’s so many going on ... that there is soon to be another one, probably.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/20/m...
- Reposted by Amanda MilkovitsThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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- #Providence protesting ICE and getting support in downtown.
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