John Marion
@johnmarion.bsky.social
Husband. Father. Cyclist. Luge aficionado. Election audit proselytizer. Coffee consumer. ED of Common Cause Rhode Island.
Rhode Island: where you know the two people behind you in the airport security line and one of them represents you in Congress
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Rhode Island: where you know the two people behind you in the airport security line and one of them represents you in Congress
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🚨BREAKING: We just filed to intervene in the Trump DOJ’s lawsuit against RI Secretary of State Gregg Amore. The Trump DOJ is seeking access to the sensitive personal information of Rhode Island voters - and we will NOT let that happen.
Support us at www.commoncause.org/rhode-island... ⬅️
Support us at www.commoncause.org/rhode-island... ⬅️
December 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
🚨BREAKING: We just filed to intervene in the Trump DOJ’s lawsuit against RI Secretary of State Gregg Amore. The Trump DOJ is seeking access to the sensitive personal information of Rhode Island voters - and we will NOT let that happen.
Support us at www.commoncause.org/rhode-island... ⬅️
Support us at www.commoncause.org/rhode-island... ⬅️
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BREAKING: We’re representing Common Cause to intervene in the federal government’s attempt to obtain RI voters’ personal info.
This is a matter of protecting our data from potential misuse — like disenfranchising voters or making data more vulnerable to hackers. www.riaclu.org/news/common-...
This is a matter of protecting our data from potential misuse — like disenfranchising voters or making data more vulnerable to hackers. www.riaclu.org/news/common-...
Common Cause, ACLU Take on Trump Administration in Court to Protect Rhode Island Voters’ Data - ACLU of Rhode Island
Common Cause and some individual voters have today intervened in a recently filed lawsuit in order to prevent the U.S. Department of Justice from obtaining sensitive, non-public information contained ...
www.riaclu.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
BREAKING: We’re representing Common Cause to intervene in the federal government’s attempt to obtain RI voters’ personal info.
This is a matter of protecting our data from potential misuse — like disenfranchising voters or making data more vulnerable to hackers. www.riaclu.org/news/common-...
This is a matter of protecting our data from potential misuse — like disenfranchising voters or making data more vulnerable to hackers. www.riaclu.org/news/common-...
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Reapportionment watch: It looks like the Census Bureau's annual population estimates for states (which normally come out in late December) will come out in January instead this time around.
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www.census.gov/programs-sur...
December 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Reapportionment watch: It looks like the Census Bureau's annual population estimates for states (which normally come out in late December) will come out in January instead this time around.
www.census.gov/programs-sur...
www.census.gov/programs-sur...
FYI, luge season has started, and it's an Olympic year! www.youtube.com/live/F1bq52U...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
FYI, luge season has started, and it's an Olympic year! www.youtube.com/live/F1bq52U...
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The League of RI Businesses has an 'unprecedented’ 40 PAC strategy that lets business group skirt campaign finance donation limits. By @nancyklavin.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/25/h...
How to win elections and influence the State House? The League of RI Businesses has a plan. • Rhode Island Current
New conservative-leaning business group, The League of RI Businesses, has opened 40 political action committees to skirt campaign donation limits and funnel large sums of money to its chosen candidate...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The League of RI Businesses has an 'unprecedented’ 40 PAC strategy that lets business group skirt campaign finance donation limits. By @nancyklavin.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/25/h...
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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to discuss how it will handle a North Dakota case and a Mississippi case on whether private individuals and groups — whose lawsuits have been the main way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 — can keep suing.
ICYMI:
ICYMI:
60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to discuss how it will handle a North Dakota case and a Mississippi case on whether private individuals and groups — whose lawsuits have been the main way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 — can keep suing.
ICYMI:
ICYMI:
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Superior Court intern mistakenly targeted by ICE in PVD today, per RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Suttell
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Superior Court intern mistakenly targeted by ICE in PVD today, per RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Suttell
Pawtucket's soccer stadium gets The New York Times treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/r...
Can Soccer Stadiums Revitalize American Cities?
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Pawtucket's soccer stadium gets The New York Times treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/r...
The Rhode Island Board of Elections is using a new results reporting website. Curious what people think of it. results.enr.clarityelections.com/RI/Rhode_Isl...
Election Night Reporting
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November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Rhode Island Board of Elections is using a new results reporting website. Curious what people think of it. results.enr.clarityelections.com/RI/Rhode_Isl...
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RESULT: Maine voters reject Question 1, a ballot measure that would have implemented a barrage of new voting restrictions, especially for mail voting.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
RESULT: Maine voters reject Question 1, a ballot measure that would have implemented a barrage of new voting restrictions, especially for mail voting.
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Rhode Island has not sent a voter list maintenance mailing to all active registered voters in over 15 years. That changes as early as Monday, Nov 3. rhodeislandcurrent.com/briefs/all-r...
All registered R.I. voters to receive this notice in the mail as early as Monday • Rhode Island Current
Rhode Island has not sent a voter list maintenance mailing to all active registered voters in over 15 years. That changes as early as Monday, Nov 3, when voters across the state should start receiving...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Rhode Island has not sent a voter list maintenance mailing to all active registered voters in over 15 years. That changes as early as Monday, Nov 3. rhodeislandcurrent.com/briefs/all-r...
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Governor Daniel J. McKee announced his appointment of Rebecca Partington and Ajie Saho to serve on the Judicial Nominating Commission. He also appointed David A. Holley to the JNC from a list of nominees submitted by the Senate Minority Leader.
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Governor Daniel J. McKee announced his appointment of Rebecca Partington and Ajie Saho to serve on the Judicial Nominating Commission. He also appointed David A. Holley to the JNC from a list of nominees submitted by the Senate Minority Leader.
I was today years old when I learned saying, "I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of that information" is called a Glomar response, named for a CIA ship used to recover a lost Soviet submarine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_...
Glomar response - Wikipedia
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October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I was today years old when I learned saying, "I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of that information" is called a Glomar response, named for a CIA ship used to recover a lost Soviet submarine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_...
Things I forgot almost happened in Rhode Island
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Things I forgot almost happened in Rhode Island
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Behind every courtroom decision is a story about how judges get there. Don’t miss #Law401’s new episode, “Picking Judges: Who Really Gets to Sit on the Bench?”
🎧Tune in to learn how you can help make RI's judicial selection process fair and transparent.
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🎧Tune in to learn how you can help make RI's judicial selection process fair and transparent.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
October 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Behind every courtroom decision is a story about how judges get there. Don’t miss #Law401’s new episode, “Picking Judges: Who Really Gets to Sit on the Bench?”
🎧Tune in to learn how you can help make RI's judicial selection process fair and transparent.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
🎧Tune in to learn how you can help make RI's judicial selection process fair and transparent.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Why do people keep subscribing me to their Substacks without my asking them to?
October 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Why do people keep subscribing me to their Substacks without my asking them to?
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We had another wonderful #OutRiding event to honor the memory of Erika Niedowski. Thank you to everyone who joined and also to those who have contributed to her scholarship fund. erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride/
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We had another wonderful #OutRiding event to honor the memory of Erika Niedowski. Thank you to everyone who joined and also to those who have contributed to her scholarship fund. erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride/
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Tomorrow, 9 am. Ride, run, walk. Your distance, your pace. No RSVP, just join us. Blackstone Valley Bike Path off Front St in Lincoln.
After, we'll go to Public House on Front St for coffee.
After, we'll go to Public House on Front St for coffee.
On Saturday, October 11, come out for Erika's Ride at 9:00 am in Lincoln. No RSVP needed, everyone's invited. Cyclists, walkers, runners all welcome.
More info: erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride/
More info: erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride/
October 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Tomorrow, 9 am. Ride, run, walk. Your distance, your pace. No RSVP, just join us. Blackstone Valley Bike Path off Front St in Lincoln.
After, we'll go to Public House on Front St for coffee.
After, we'll go to Public House on Front St for coffee.
I must have missed their call again this year...
NEW: Ieva Jusionyte, a Brown University professor, said she plans to use the award to fund research for her new book, which will focus on the practice of extraditing organized crime leaders from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the US.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/m...
Harvard mathematician among New Englanders awarded $800,000, no-strings-attached MacArthur ‘genius’ grants - The Boston Globe
Professor Lauren Williams was joined by a cultural anthropologist in Providence and a cartographer and basketmaker from Maine as the New Englanders named to this year's class of MacArthur fellows.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I must have missed their call again this year...
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It's a little rainy today but the weather for Saturday looks great! You're invited, join us! erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride
On Saturday, October 11, come out for Erika's Ride at 9:00 am in Lincoln. No RSVP needed, everyone's invited. Cyclists, walkers, runners all welcome.
More info: erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride/
More info: erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride/
October 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It's a little rainy today but the weather for Saturday looks great! You're invited, join us! erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride
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Earlier today, Rep. Cherie Cruz hosted a visit and legislative session for participants and staff of the Garden Time Green Reentry Program, which prepares incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals for the workforce.
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Earlier today, Rep. Cherie Cruz hosted a visit and legislative session for participants and staff of the Garden Time Green Reentry Program, which prepares incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals for the workforce.
@phileil.bsky.social not sure why this makes me think of you
October 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@phileil.bsky.social not sure why this makes me think of you
What I did this morning...
RI Ethics Commission closes lobbyist ‘loophole’ while raising limit on gifts to public officials to $50. @commoncauseri.bsky.social is disappointed in higher gift limit but hails “important step” stemming from controversy over McKee admin contract with ILO Group
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/m...
R.I. Ethics Commission closes lobbyist ‘loophole’ while raising limit on gifts to public officials to $50 - The Boston Globe
Common Cause RI is disappointed with the higher gift limit, but hails “important step” stemming from controversy over McKee administration contract with ILO Group.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
What I did this morning...