Rhode Island has a history of paranormal activity throughout its history. Weekend nights can see crowds of people in Providence and Newport participating in guided ghost tours. Some historical cemeteries are tourist traps and must-visit stops for fans of the spooky. Restaurants are haunted. There are people that have claimed to have seen a ghost […]
Saved by our rhodes US Attorney General Pam Bondi has sent a letter of official chastisement to Governor McKee, saying that Rhode Island’s status as a sanctuary state “ends now.” Although there’s no official legal definition of a “sanctuary state,” and the governor’s office seems confused about whether RI is one or not, it is […]
Funeral for RI environmental bills A variety of local ecological leaders embraced satire this past week by holding a funeral for 19 bills that tried to pass through the RI legislature over the year. All of them were killed on the vine. A faux-minister presided over an empty, environmentally friendly casket, carried up the statehouse […]
We had to have a Caesar Salad for the food issue. You should see what we had to chop out for space. Join us as we slice and dice this delicious mix of healthy greens and rotting tomatoes. Harveywood Culture wars are burning in our national heads (in Boston) and hearts (in LA), which has […]
The United States Air Force announced that the latest addition to their arsenal, the B-614 stealth bomber, nicknamed the “Ninja,” will make its first public appearance in a flyover on Saturday, Jun 14, at the Washington DC military parade that coincides with the birthday of President Donald J. Trump. “The Ninja is the next generation […]
Muckraker A tech billionaire aspires to bring mankind into space, starting his own space travel and electric car company, but has a secret agenda that includes more than a little eugenics. No, we’re not talking about Chainsaw guy, believe it or not, but the highly analogous villain of Moonraker, the 1979 Bond film where Roger […]
Elon Musk has asked us to forward the following email to all Motif readers: Please tell us what you have read in the past week. If you have not read enough of Motif’s content, you will no longer be allowed to read Motif. To quote my boss, “You’re Fired.” We declined to email y’all. We […]
In recent news, the national administration has trimmed and furloughed workers in the FAA and NOAA. Because flight-safety and weather are clearly two concerns we are completely on top of right now. Thus we bring you post-populism, where we encourage the public to self-sabotage and act against their best interests in ways so blatant it […]
From 2016 – 2020 Motif hosted a satire column named “Alternative Facts,” a title we enjoyed because it both lampooned a favorite phrase of that administration and because it paid homage to our own journalistic roots as “Alternative News,” a description that has fallen by the historical wayside. On occasion, we received considerable blowback on […]
If you are a denizen of Providence, it is unlikely that you haven’t heard about the recent uptake in fires afflicting our city. The cause of these fires is unknown, but we have our suspicions it could be related to Judgement Day (we thought we had at least a few more years, but this upcoming […]