Lawrence Lanahan
@llanahan.bsky.social
Host/producer of REARRANGED, an Osiris Media documentary podcast about music arrangers. Author, THE LINES BETWEEN US: TWO FAMILIES AND A QUEST TO CROSS BALTIMORE'S RACIAL DIVIDE. Reporter, radio producer, adjunct, researcher. www.lawrencelanahan.com/music
Baltimore's Starlings release their album with two sets at 1919 (Fells Point) tonight. Great tunes! Glad Pulses opens with a set at 8:30pm. Come on down. thestarlingscharmcity.bandcamp.com/album/in-thi...
in this loving time, by starlings
14 track album
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* this guy spends 11 years in politics and nearly six years in office “This guy isn’t who I thought he was.”
Baltimore music lovers! Starlings have an album release show Saturday night at 1919, and Glad Pulses opens. Sean Lally’s Telecaster slinging is reason enough to come. And Pulses have some brand new songs for you, one of which trashes the 21st century. See you there. www.facebook.com/share/18vcDF...
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all literature is stink lines coming off the alphabet
Does a master’s in Sociology make me a “social scientist”? If so, here’s a controversial truth: if you give people lots of money, they’ll tell you what you want to hear. Bonus: this is one reason journalists don’t pay sources.
@tagerai.bsky.social · 7d agolol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.
Ah well. Too rainy and windy for our gear…no Glad Pulses, but I’ll do a solo acoustic set at 4pm if it’s safe up there.
Lawrence Lanahan@llanahan.bsky.social · last wk.NE Baltimore! You can see Glad Pulses this Saturday, 9/26, at the 40th Annual Lauraville Fair. We play 4-5pm. Free, Harford Rd. @ Argonne Dr. www.facebook.com/events/14768...
NE Baltimore! You can see Glad Pulses this Saturday, 9/26, at the 40th Annual Lauraville Fair. We play 4-5pm. Free, Harford Rd. @ Argonne Dr. www.facebook.com/events/14768...
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Realized today this netting has been on the courthouse for years. I always thought it was for construction, but I don’t think so. Is it just to keep stuff from falling on people?
In the parking garage elevator chatting with another juror. Tall white guy, salt and pepper beard, like me. I notice we’re wearing the exact same thing: short sleeve button-down dark blue shirt, gray khakis. His floor comes, the door opens, and at the exact same time, we both say, “Take it easy.”
As someone who appreciates a well-structured story, you gotta appreciate wrapping up the human race story back at the Tree of Knowledge. Handful of men in quarter-zips gorging themselves on apples: unforgettable image.
Incredibly pathetic decision at @baltimoresun.bsky.social to run this. editorialcartoonists.com/an-open-lett...
An Open Letter to the Publisher and Editors of the Baltimore Sun from the AAEC - AAEC
On September 4, 2026, The Sun published what can only technically be called an “illustration” it intended its readers to accept as an editorial cartoon. Whatever the intent, the only message The Sun ...
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Short thread: Its no accident Baltimore Co URDL passed right after 1968 Fair Housing Act. From outset, its purpose was as an “urban growth boundary” outside Beltway to replace the “protection” racial covenants & County border provided to keep new single family subdivisions & apartments all white. 1/
Has The Onion started running deks with their heds? Extremely low stakes criticism here, but it feels like hearing someone explain their joke. No deks in satire!
The Onion@theonion.com · last mo.Inside Of Light Fixture Everything Moth Dreamed And More https://theonion.com/inside-of-light-fixture-everything-moth-dreamed-and-more/
don't forget that the first film from Sandollar, Dolly's production company (which would soon after launch Buffy the Vampire Slayer), was COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT (1989) — at a time when most Americans were still laughing at AIDS jokes www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAT4...
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) - FULL DOCUMENTARY
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Let's see if the driver gets charged with anything at all. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...
Can Anyone Stop Baltimore City’s Most Dangerous Drivers?
Crashes have killed nearly 500 people in Baltimore City over the past decade, and safety advocates say leaders have left tools on the table.
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Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 2mo agoDriver cut off school bus that crashed into Parkville pharmacy, police say
ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to close relatives who spoke to The Associated Press.
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When I found out my former editor Kelley Benham French was helping w/a story on the most infamous photo from July 4, I knew it would be special. Read this amazing piece on how a photo, taken in a troubling moment, reveals so much about truth and assumption in today’s media. https://loom.ly/-kUCN40
The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.
America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.
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Distracted while reading a passage of Freud: “ah crap, I don’t think I put it on the Google Calendar that I rescheduled that dinner with Mom and Dad”
O’s are winning at floppy hat night but I’m more interested in the common green june beetle that somehow landed on my head in the upper deck.
HED Turkey: Trump Dumps Air Force One Two for Air Force One One DEK With only enough artillery to shoot down one plane, Iran has been had
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 3mo agoJUST POSTED: Security Precaution Led Trump to Use Old Air Force One in Leaving Turkey The Secret Service is said to have asked that the president not use the Qatari-donated jet when he left Ankara. The swap deepens questions about the retrofitting of the new plane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...
