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Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 1d

NYT critic @jasonzinoman.bsky.social on the contradictions of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: “It’s hard to see [Dave] Chappelle signing a contract to perform at a university only if he agreed to state his pronouns at the start of the set.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/a...

Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Justin Fenton @justinfenton.bsky.social · 11d

Just this morning in Baltimore County:
55 yr old man accused of fatally shooting his wife, 56, in Monkton www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
89 yr old man kills his 87 yr old wife & then himself in Timonium www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
A “suspicious death” of woman found in home in Sparks area

Man charged with murder in Monkton woman’s death

Anthony Lechner, 55, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 56-year-old Kimberly Lechner, Baltimore County Police said.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase

The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky

www.thehandbasket.co

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Greg Morton @invisibae.bsky.social · 14d

New w/ @elliew0lfe.bsky.social: : The Trump administration will begin to charge $100k each for visas that UMD and Hopkins use to hire researchers, scientists and professors.

Among the affected? A Ukrainian researcher who may be forced to go home.

“I am terrified"

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Ukrainian researcher’s future in doubt as Trump’s H-1B visa costs hit Hopkins, UMD

Looking at Donald Trump’s new changes to H-1B visas, which now include a hefty $100,000 fee. Will Maryland colleges start hiring less foreign born faculty because of it?

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 23d

Worth remembering that a prominent Fox host encouraged the government to murder homeless people last week and is still employed.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 29d

The top Democratic leaders of the Maryland General Assembly – House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson – were both targeted by bomb threats at their homes today.

www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Top Maryland General Assembly leaders targeted by bomb threats

The presiding officers of Maryland’s General Assembly were targeted by bomb threats on Thursday, amid rising concern about political violence in the nation.

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Cody Boteler @codyboteler.bsky.social · Jul 15

I think we got lucky with this storm tonight, all things considered.

shout out Alex Mann and Aline Behar Kado on the story and updates and of course to @jphotoj.bsky.social for the great image.

Some flooding in Baltimore as storms roll through Maryland

The Baltimore region was under a flash flood warning Monday evening, and saw some limited inundations.

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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · Jul 11

This woman asked Tiktok which city would be better for postgrad: Baltimore or Raleigh?

Baltimore is winning (I think), with 429 comments and counting.
www.tiktok.com/@khadija.has...

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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · Jun 30

BREAKING: The Baltimore Sheriff's Office is probing a courthouse corrections dept. employee for allegedly inviting ICE agents in for a meeting, which led to someone being detained. Investigation is looking at potential crimes including misuse of state data. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...

Baltimore sheriff probes courthouse employee for allegedly inviting ICE to detain someone

ICE agents detained a man at the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse last week, sparking an investigation of a corrections department employee.

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · Jun 30

Today’s Maryland traffic nightmare? A giant wind turbine blade

The truck struck the guardrail, causing the blade to slip from the truck, cross the median and go into the eastbound lanes.

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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · Jun 25

EXCLUSIVE: The University of Baltimore turned 100 years old this year. It is also facing a structural deficit, 50% less enrollment in 10 years, and is cutting positions.

“Our ability to generate revenue is under duress," the CFO told me. Read:

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/un...

After a century, the University of Baltimore is struggling

Over the last 10 years, the University of Baltimore’s enrollment has dropped, its faculty has halved, leaving its deficit swollen amid state cuts.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.blacksky.app · Jun 25

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

Kudos to the @thebaltimorebanner.com for a balanced take here.

Combating antisemitism is important, but you don't get there by stripping context out of history. Israel-Palestine is not a singular narrative, and the state shouldn't push that line.

Social studies curriculum update reflects concerns about antisemitism

Maryland's rewrite was criticized at points for some of the initial changes and for leaving social studies teachers out of the process.

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🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hampden is Appalachian Baltimore anyway it might as well get Pittsburgh infra

🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · Jun 20

stick with me here... Hampden Incline

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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hey, I don't know you but I'm sending good thoughts your way. Please text or call 988. Your life does matter. You're talking about people with a kind of empathy that you yourself deserve.

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Tramon @tramonlucas.bsky.social · Jun 20

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum celebrated #Juneteenth, #BlackMusicMonth & their 20th Anniversary during their “Day of Jubilee” Block Party.

We talked with leaders, visitors & artists about the importance of Juneteenth and how they celebrate their Black Pride.

For @thebaltimorebanner.com

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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · Jun 11

The scene at today’s ICE out of Baltimore protest near CASA’s headquarters

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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · Jun 11

Chants of “SHAME” as a CASA organizer describes ICE abductions that have taken place in Baltimore recently. Protesters will be marching to local businesses where immigrants have been taken.

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at the advocacy group Free Press, said it’s “one of the most explicit visual examples I’ve ever seen in my career of retaliation by the government directly against journalists for them doing their job protected by the First Amendment.”

Journalists come under fire covering L.A. protests

Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement in Los Angeles. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism.

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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · Jun 10

If you haven’t fallen down a rabbit hole of deep plane facelift result videos on TikTok you don’t deserve internet

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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · Jun 9

Some background on the conditions in ICE’s holding area in Baltimore: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

No beds, lack of food and medicine: The struggles inside Baltimore’s ICE holding room

Immigrants and their attorneys claim there are no beds, little food and medicine at Baltimore’s ICE holding room.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · Jun 9

Killing the man doesn’t kill the story. Dom Phillips was murdered reporting How To Save the Amazon. Join Alessandra Sampaio, Dom’s wife; journalist @andrew.intercept.com.br and me Monday for its U.S. launch

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Herman Wong @hermanywong.bsky.social · Jun 5

Jobless claims are rising in Maryland at a rate greater than other parts of the country.

Here's what it's been like for one former federal contractor searching for work in a flooded market.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

A former federal contractor from Maryland searches for work in a flooded market: ‘It’s scary’

Many former federal workers find themselves thrust into a job market suddenly inundated with experienced candidates even as employment opportunities are in free fall under federal spending cuts, parti...

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