I’m hardly the first to say this but increasingly astonished by the absurd state of the tax system that taxes income from work much more highly than profits from capital gains.
Trying out the new viale pizza spot in Hampden #baltimore
I often wonder if they could improve by chopping the line in half. Make Convention Center the end of the North Line and make Camden Yards the end of the South Line. A delay on one half could leave the other half unaffected by delays.
📌 They should just pin this tweet. Every tax dollar spent on this failure of a service is a waste. Fix it or pull the plug completely.
MTA Maryland Service Alerts@mtamarylandalerts.bsky.social · 24h agoLight Rail is currently experiencing service delays due to staff availability. A shuttle bus is in place operating between North Avenue and Penn Station. We anticipate delays will continue for the remainder of the day. We... https://mta.maryland.gov/service-alerts/29101
Former Baltimore City Council member William ‘Pete’ Welch Jr. dies at 73 www.thebanner.com/obituaries/w...
Former Baltimore City Council member William ‘Pete’ Welch Jr. dies at 73
Former Baltimore City Council member William A. “Pete” Welch Jr., who represented West Baltimore from 2011 to 2016, has died. He was 73.
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Yes, people famously take professional exams after finishing professional school to just see what happens.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoKatie Zacharia on failing the bar exam: "We just said, 'I'll take the bar and see what happens.' The results are somewhat inconsequential because I knew I wouldn't need the bar in China." (She spent years lying that she's an attorney!)
Baltimore City seems to be heating up again after several years of relative peace.
2 dead, 3 injured in overnight shooting in East Baltimore
The city experienced a handful of shootings and a stabbing that left four people dead and several others injured.
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This Saturday is the Baltimore Running Festival! Plan accordingly and don’t complain! It happens EVERY year!
Minnie Wagner, who lived in this LES tenement in 1911, worked for the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. She was one of the fortunate survivors of the horrific fire there on March 11. daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...
The 1883 236 East Sixth Street
photograph by Carole Teller On January 5, 1882, Joseph Schwarzschild and Ferdinand Sulzberger sold the four "five-story stone front tenement...
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I have lived in Baltimore for 26 years. They have been “redeveloping” State Center almost the entire time I’ve lived here. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 4d agoMaryland unveils preliminary plans for long-delayed State Center redo
Adolfo Bioy Casares’ brilliant La Invención de Morel is one of my favorite novellas, but until now English readers have had to settle for a pretty middling translation. So very excited that we now have a new one from Margaret Jull Costa just published by NYRB. www.nyrb.com/products/mor...
Morel’s Invention
Jorge Luis Borges declared Morel's Invention a masterpiece, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. When a fugitive washes up on a deserted island, he quickly disco...
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beautiful sunset in #Baltimore last night. not the best shot, but I love this view looking down E Lombard at Patterson Park.
“Judas Priest Puscifer Pestifer Wormrat Wormsand” Bands that have appeared on the lineup at Hellfest, an annual heavy-metal-focused music festival in Clisson, France, since 2023. buff.ly/xL89lfA
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Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 5d agoNew: White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia calls herself a lawyer. There’s no evidence she was admitted to practice law in the United States, and legal experts say foreign citizens cannot take the bar in China. My deep dive: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
🎥 I obtained video of Nayeli's ICE arrest inside the Carroll County District courthouse. It took place right before her hearing, where her charges were dropped in her absence. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Ed...
ICE arrest at Carroll County District Court Sept. 29
YouTube video by Madeleine O'Neill
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SpaceX CRS-35 resupply mission to the International Space Station lights up the dawn sky over the Patapsco Valley and Saint Paul Church (lower right) in historic Ellicott City, Maryland. #Ellicottcity #spacex #rocketlaunch #patapsco #maryland
Formula 1 is racing back to Africa after four decades, with a Grand Prix set to take place in Rwanda in the early 2030s. bloom.bg/3TBwBBj 📷: Mark Thompson / Getty Images
CRS-35 launch to the International Space Station this morning, visible from Maryland
Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago?
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d agoIf there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
“Estimated time in traffic: the rest of your life.” Maryland can’t get its act together to run a functional light rail line in Baltimore, but it supports DC-adjacent projects. Wonder why.
MTA Maryland Service Alerts@mtamarylandalerts.bsky.social · last wk.Light Rail is currently experiencing service delays due to staff availability. We anticipate delays will continue for the remainder of the day. We recommend that customers check real-time service updates before they travel and bui... https://mta.maryland.gov/service-alerts/29008
I wanted to take transit tonight but I guess I'm not doing that. This is a completely unacceptable service that is failing riders.
Or think it would be an appropriate punishment for some stuff but across the board no jurisdiction should ever have it just because of all the exonerations.
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · last wk.I know most of BlueSky disagrees, but I think you can support the death penalty for particularly heinous crimes and still oppose turning it into cheap public entertainment.