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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 15h

No reporter ever says, “sir, I was dumb at math in school so could you explain to us how something is reduced by 500%?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 1d

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

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Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 14h

"Seton Hill is a virtual glossary of traditional detailing for nineteenth century Baltimore residential structures."
This Saturday! Come learn about pretty buildings (and their human history) with us!

Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 18d

Keep an eye out for these fliers going up around Seton Hill in the near future, and maybe even come join us on the tour! fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#s...

Walking tour flier with a dark red background and photos of Seton Hill in Baltimore, with the text:
Come on a walking tour of your neighborhood!
Victorian-era Seton Hill
On this walking tour through the beautiful old streets of Seton Hill, once known as Baltimore’s French Quarter, we’ll explore the surviving traces and look for the ghosts of the Victorian city. Come step off the beaten path with Full Story Baltimore and hear stories about the neighborhood, including Baltimore’s Black Catholic history, student “pranks and misdemeanors,” the real history of Baltimore’s asylums, and the human history of the USA’s oldest Gothic Revival masterpiece.
Accessibility: We’ll be walking over some uneven grassy terrain and paving stones in addition to city sidewalks, and the tour will cover approx. 1.3 miles. 1.5 hours long.
Saturday, October 11, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
For tickets ($12–$15) and more, go to
https://fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#seton-hill or use this QR code:
[and there's a QR code that links to the same URL]

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awpwriter.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social · 14h

AWP is honored to host the #AWP26 featured event “Poet Community Leaders: A Letras Latinas Reading & Discussion,” featuring Brenda Cárdenas, Karla Cordero, and Raina J. León in conversation with Cloud Delfina Cardona, on Friday, March 6, in Baltimore!

Poet Community Leaders: A Letras Latinas Reading & Discussion

Friday, March 6, 10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. ET

conference.awpwriter.org

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Jordan Hirsch @mrjordanhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

Also notable: the Supreme Court ruled this unconstitutional just a few years later, so Baltimore found other means to impose segregation (restrictive covenants, "slum" clearance, etc.), which were quite effective.

Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 14d

On this day in 1913, the Baltimore City Council passed an ordinance requiring Black and white residents to live on separate blocks. The law was part of the first city-wide effort in the country to create legally segregated neighborhoods.

Sep. 25, 1913 | Baltimore Law Requires Black and White Residents to Live on Separate Blocks

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

calendar.eji.org

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Baltimore Magazine @baltimoremagazine.com · 6d

Mark your calendar for everything from film and music festivals to open studio tours and outdoor operas.

Fall Arts Preview: The 21 Cultural Experiences You Can’t Miss in Baltimore This Season

Mark your calendar for everything from film and music festivals to open studio tours and outdoor operas.

www.baltimoremagazine.com

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Baltimore Magazine @baltimoremagazine.com · 2d

"The biggest thing that Baltimore has given us is the grace and the space to find ourselves," says Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates.

Turnstile Takes Off: How Baltimore Shaped The World’s Biggest Hardcore Band

Turnstile is living out their wildest dreams around the world. But they’ll always be Baltimore kids at heart.

www.baltimoremagazine.com

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Action Committee for Transit @actfortransit.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning to everyone who loves Maryland's most wonderful Beaux-Arts train station.

Looking up at the stained glass skylights at Baltimore Penn Station.

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Justin Fenton @justinfenton.bsky.social · 2d

Both of The Sun’s reporters who covered the governor and General Assembly - and did a good job I might add - have left

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 15h

I bought a cheap used bike in Amsterdam and did this. It was also cheaper than renting a bike for my extended visit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

work trips this week from c’ville to DC to Baltimore to Providence back to DC and then home. the bike is how i am getting from station to hotel to wherever i need to be

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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 1d

Baltimore.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Nashville ruled that the Department of Justice’s criminal case against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a form of punishment against him for legally challenging his abrupt removal to an El Salvador megaprison earlier this year.

Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Punishing Abrego Garcia for Challenging Removal to El Salvador

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

“What we want from the president is very simple—reinstating all the cuts that they’ve made to federal grants to programs that have been working to reduce violence.”

-Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott to @garrisonhayes.bsky.social.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump: "We're gonna have safe cities again. We're gonna be going to Chicago pretty soon because a friend of mine, great guy, head of the Union Pacific, said, 'Sir, you have to save Chicago. It's going bad."

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

Baltimore

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 7d

Greedy data centers won’t bring their own power to the grid, so drive up electricity bills for everyone. Here’s a sample:

Bar chart showing the increase in wholesale energy prices in major American cities between 2020 and 2025.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 7d

Baltimore friends! Tonight! 🥰

Baltimore reading with Mess and Friction tonight. Fadensonnen 3 W 23rd St. 7pm.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9d

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.

Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.

They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 9d

Any doubt the US democracy is now lost? Trump and allies are disappearing people off US streets, indicting political opponents, rolling back civil rights, targeting minority groups, attacking free speech, the media, universities, gerrymandering elections. It’s now about winning our democracy back.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 10d

“[Roberts] said, ‘I will walk into every case with an open mind and engage in judicial humility,’ and he has done the exact opposite for the last 20 years," @doo-dc.bsky.social of @americanprogress.bsky.social told @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social. www.courthousenews.com/the-roberts-...

The Roberts court turns 20

The Supreme Court’s 2025 term could carry major rulings on voting rights, campaign finance, executive power and transgender rights.

www.courthousenews.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9d

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David King @cityplanning.bsky.social · 10d

Even in planning circles I feel like the importance of international migration for city growth is underappreciated. Immigrants account for nearly all of population growth in the biggest cities. The story also notes that the multifamily market will be more affected than sales.

International migration as share of population growth for select US counties.

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Baltimore Magazine @baltimoremagazine.com · 14d

“It’s a Great White and we don’t want to accidentally hook it. We’d never get it on board,” recalls Capt. Mark Sampson, of his run-in with a massive shark off Ocean City in 2020. A YouTube clip of the encounter received some 500,000 views.

Meet Ocean City’s Shark Whisperer

“It’s a Great White and we don’t want to accidentally hook it. We’d never get it on board,” recalls Capt. Mark Sampson, of his run-in with a massive shark off Ocean City in 2020. A YouTube clip of the...

www.baltimoremagazine.com

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 13d

"The court has previously cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of migrants, fire thousands of federal employees, oust transgender members from the military, and remove the heads of independent government agencies."

Supreme Court keeps in place Trump funding freeze that threatens billions of dollars in foreign aid

The Supreme Court on Friday extended an order that allows President Donald Trump's administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid, handing him another victory in a dispute over preside...

www.yahoo.com

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