Dan Rodricks
@danrodricks.bsky.social
Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist, author, playwright, broadcaster, fly angler, crepe cook. Follow me: danrodricks.com
The fascist who made it possible.
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A direct line from Stephen Miller to Portland Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller, the Trump Whisperer, has been allowed to create something Americans despise — a police state.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The fascist who made it possible.
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Reupping from November. Journalists should not believe anything DHS says. presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
DHS's pack of liars | Press Watch
Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says
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January 7, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Reupping from November. Journalists should not believe anything DHS says. presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
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What the fuck
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
What the fuck
Regime change? Oil? Drugs? It's really all about ratings..
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The Acting President
"It ain't no myst'ry ... If it's politics or hist'ry... The thing you gotta know is ... Ev'rything is show biz."
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January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Regime change? Oil? Drugs? It's really all about ratings..
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Saving kids: A good trend hidden in the year-over-year statistics #Baltimore
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A crime statistic worthy of its own headline
The fact that Baltimore’s chronic problem with violent crime is finally being abated by smart law enforcement strategies and social science gets the big year-end headline: Homicides at histor…
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January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Saving kids: A good trend hidden in the year-over-year statistics #Baltimore
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2026: Fifteen suggestions for blunting the depressing effects of the Trump presidency on the nation, on your state and on your soul. danrodricks.substack.com/p/theres-a-l...
There's a lot you could do this year
2026: How to blunt the depressing effects of the Trump presidency on the nation, on your state and on your soul.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:14 AM
2026: Fifteen suggestions for blunting the depressing effects of the Trump presidency on the nation, on your state and on your soul. danrodricks.substack.com/p/theres-a-l...
Thank you -- Baltimore Mayor Scott, BPD and Commish Worley, Roca, SAO and line prosecutors, Safe Streets, DEA, USAO, FBI
January 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Thank you -- Baltimore Mayor Scott, BPD and Commish Worley, Roca, SAO and line prosecutors, Safe Streets, DEA, USAO, FBI
Theater news: Taking a new show on the road
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January 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Theater news: Taking a new show on the road
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Bravo!
Kennedy Center New Year's Eve concerts canceled after addition of Trump's name | Reuters share.google/4g3aOOWMR5r3...
Kennedy Center New Year's Eve concerts canceled after addition of Trump's name | Reuters share.google/4g3aOOWMR5r3...
Kennedy Center New Year's Eve concerts canceled after addition of Trump's name
A veteran jazz ensemble announced on Monday it was canceling its New Year's Eve performances at the Kennedy Center, the latest group to withdraw from the Washington arts institution after it was renam...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Bravo!
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Thrift shopping surge: A sign of economic stress or the recycling ethic?
A short take before wishing you a Happy New Year. . . . A press release from Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake says thrift shopping has surged across the region, with shopper traffic up more than 30% for the year, and…
A short take before wishing you a Happy New Year. . . . A press release from Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake says thrift shopping has surged across the region, with shopper traffic up more than 30% for the year, and…
Thrift shopping surge: A sign of economic stress or the recycling ethic?
A short take before wishing you a Happy New Year. . . . A press release from Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake says thrift shopping has surged across the region, with shopper traffic up more than 30% for the year, and some locations exceeding 40% growth. Goodwill notes increased demand for used goods -- women's apparel, in particular -- among younger and first-time thrift shoppers.
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December 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Thrift shopping surge: A sign of economic stress or the recycling ethic?
A short take before wishing you a Happy New Year. . . . A press release from Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake says thrift shopping has surged across the region, with shopper traffic up more than 30% for the year, and…
A short take before wishing you a Happy New Year. . . . A press release from Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake says thrift shopping has surged across the region, with shopper traffic up more than 30% for the year, and…
Yes, and, of course, Trump and Stephen Miller want to "denaturalize" such good citizens.
One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.
December 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Yes, and, of course, Trump and Stephen Miller want to "denaturalize" such good citizens.
Christmas 1944: The Baltimore Sun's legendary war correspondent Lee McCardell wrote home. Here's the letter:
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From the Archive: A war correspondent’s holiday letter to his children
Lee McCardell was the most famous war correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. The first Sunpapers writer to get into the action after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, he reported on the fighting in…
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December 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Christmas 1944: The Baltimore Sun's legendary war correspondent Lee McCardell wrote home. Here's the letter:
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Three memories of Christmas Eve
One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, while driving along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore, I looked up at the old high-rise public housing projects that were to be torn down a few years later. I had done some reporting on the poverty and crime in those…
One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, while driving along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore, I looked up at the old high-rise public housing projects that were to be torn down a few years later. I had done some reporting on the poverty and crime in those…
Three memories of Christmas Eve
One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, while driving along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore, I looked up at the old high-rise public housing projects that were to be torn down a few years later. I had done some reporting on the poverty and crime in those buildings, and had met a single mother who yearned to get her son to a better neighborhood and school.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Three memories of Christmas Eve
One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, while driving along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore, I looked up at the old high-rise public housing projects that were to be torn down a few years later. I had done some reporting on the poverty and crime in those…
One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, while driving along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore, I looked up at the old high-rise public housing projects that were to be torn down a few years later. I had done some reporting on the poverty and crime in those…
The White House Christmas card that was never mailed: The Kennedy assassination, a mournful December and . . . now Trump . . .
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A Christmas of national mourning: JFK 1963
Trump, who was 17 when Kennedy was killed, has put his name on the Kennedy Center, a true measure of his depravity.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The White House Christmas card that was never mailed: The Kennedy assassination, a mournful December and . . . now Trump . . .
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"In my three years, 1,344 people went to prison for guns who were repeat violent offenders. In the five years before that, it was 1,100 people. So, we’ve really focused on the guns, the guns, the guns by the repeat violent offenders." @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social
Baltimore could finish 2025 with fewer than 200 homicides, the first time that has happened since 2011. My year-end interview with the city's chief prosecutor, Ivan Bates. @baltimorebrew.bsky.social
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Enough with the beef: My Q&A with State’s Attorney Ivan Bates about everything else | Baltimore Brew
The spat between Baltimore’s top prosecutor and its mayor has hogged the headlines, but I wanted to hear more about the mission they share: increasing safety and honoring justice.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"In my three years, 1,344 people went to prison for guns who were repeat violent offenders. In the five years before that, it was 1,100 people. So, we’ve really focused on the guns, the guns, the guns by the repeat violent offenders." @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social
Baltimore could finish 2025 with fewer than 200 homicides, the first time that has happened since 2011. My year-end interview with the city's chief prosecutor, Ivan Bates. @baltimorebrew.bsky.social
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Enough with the beef: My Q&A with State’s Attorney Ivan Bates about everything else | Baltimore Brew
The spat between Baltimore’s top prosecutor and its mayor has hogged the headlines, but I wanted to hear more about the mission they share: increasing safety and honoring justice.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Baltimore could finish 2025 with fewer than 200 homicides, the first time that has happened since 2011. My year-end interview with the city's chief prosecutor, Ivan Bates. @baltimorebrew.bsky.social
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Photos: Backstage at Pierpoint Restaurant, Baltimore
For 36 years, Nancy Longo has cooked seafood in a cluttered kitchen the size of an elevator. The other night she took the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes to the top floor, and invited me to go along for the ride. See my column about this…
For 36 years, Nancy Longo has cooked seafood in a cluttered kitchen the size of an elevator. The other night she took the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes to the top floor, and invited me to go along for the ride. See my column about this…
Photos: Backstage at Pierpoint Restaurant, Baltimore
For 36 years, Nancy Longo has cooked seafood in a cluttered kitchen the size of an elevator. The other night she took the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes to the top floor, and invited me to go along for the ride. See my column about this experience at Baltimore Fishbowl.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Photos: Backstage at Pierpoint Restaurant, Baltimore
For 36 years, Nancy Longo has cooked seafood in a cluttered kitchen the size of an elevator. The other night she took the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes to the top floor, and invited me to go along for the ride. See my column about this…
For 36 years, Nancy Longo has cooked seafood in a cluttered kitchen the size of an elevator. The other night she took the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes to the top floor, and invited me to go along for the ride. See my column about this…
The Abominable Snowmonster first appeared in the 1964 NBC-TV holiday special, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." He just appeared in front of this historic Baltimore house.
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The Abominable Snowmonster first appeared in the 1964 NBC-TV holiday special, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." He just appeared in front of this historic Baltimore house.
Are you telling me Bob Cratchit couldn't find another bookkeeping job in the entire city of London?
December 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Are you telling me Bob Cratchit couldn't find another bookkeeping job in the entire city of London?
A dig into the increasing scorn for Donald J. Trump
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A dig into the increasing scorn for Donald J. Trump
Reactions to his insulting rhetoric, boorish behavior, corruption and lies are just on the surface
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December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A dig into the increasing scorn for Donald J. Trump
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Gee, that's a shame. 😂
BREAKING: Elise Stefanik DROPS OUT of race for New York Governor and will NOT be seeking reelection in Congress
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Gee, that's a shame. 😂
A.E.N. back on the top shelf for the holidays.
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A.E.N. back on the top shelf for the holidays.
Signed up for 2026 Marketplace coverage after the senate vote yesterday: Looking at a 300% premium increase, plus a higher deductible and out-of-pocket max.
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Gift suggestion: For Orioles fans, political junkies, students of history, people fascinated by Baltimore then and now -- a ticket to my new play, a historic drama on stage in March at the Baltimore Museum of Art theater. For tickets: www.youhavenoidea.org
Baltimore, You Have No Idea
Coming March 2026: a new play by Baltimore columnist Dan Rodricks. “No Mean City: Baltimore 1966” a season of baseball, politics and the fight for civil rights.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Gift suggestion: For Orioles fans, political junkies, students of history, people fascinated by Baltimore then and now -- a ticket to my new play, a historic drama on stage in March at the Baltimore Museum of Art theater. For tickets: www.youhavenoidea.org