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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · May 27

Baltimore begins budget hearings this week.

Five years ago, in the wake of George Floyd's murder, dozens of people signed up to testify on the police budget.

The husband and I sat down and wrote this as written testimony. It remains relevant: warskeptic.com/2020/06/05/t...

Take it From the Cops* – War Skeptic

warskeptic.com

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 13h

Some of the folks today are also concerned about their older children and young adults with complex or profound need. Once you age out of child-serving systems (about 21), finding services for adults, including housing, can be wildly challenging and expensive.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I know. It stinks.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 1d

I've learned a lot following your account. Happy to subsidize tickets for you and your partner. Let me know your Cash app/Venmo/whatever here or via DM

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 1d

Hi @bmorecitydot.bsky.social is there a reason you're requiring sign in before users can participate in the survey? And why signing in with Google doesn't work?

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Baltimore.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 2d

It it horrible. I am sure it is aggravating my allergies and the air quality cannot be good.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 2d

Egregious typo aside: this is like 8% of students, city wide. But it isn't because 5% (!!!) of the total count of homeless students are at one school and 10% (!!!) are at just a few schools.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 2d

@zekecohen.bsky.social Substantial increase over six years of homeless young peolle, even as the total population of city schools has fallen slightly since 2019-2020.

Is this part of study on chronic absenteeism? Budget planning for FY27 and beyond?

From go.boarddocs.com/mabe/bcpss/B...

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 2d

Weapons detection system on the Baltimore City School Board Safety and Wholeness Committee agenda for TH. No slide set or memo attached :/

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 2d

The pistachio tide in Baltimore needs to go. This is horrid.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 2d

No air in the building. Splendid. Just what I, a middle aged lady, want.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 3d

In other news, I again, still cannot believe we're all just expected to work and parent and whatever while the president sends troops -- literal soldiers with guns and tanks! -- from one state to another to do his bidding.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 3d

In other news: I am tired.

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 3d

Example: if we spend more on kids mental health and supervision in the post school hours, juvenile justice spending decreases. But it is mostly just read as profligate spending by one agency (bad) and cost savings (good) by another.

No one is interested in thinking beyond one, maybe two, budgets.

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 3d

Even when we find fraud, waste or abuse, those dollars are rarely reinvested to do good. They're yanked back to the general fund as punishment.

If we grow program A and cost savings accrue to program B, program A gets slapped for overspend and eventually costs rise for A and B.

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that public agencies can just efficiency their way to doing more with less is one of most pernicious neoliberal lies ever told.

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 5d

For my friends in Chicago from @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's People's Project, by @samsax.bsky.social

Score for Organizing Your People
Tell everyone you know
To come to what's left
Of the town square:
Privately owned public park
Or target parking lot
Assemble in enough numbers
The asphalt becomes
Your country

Score for Building Your Own Utopia
There is no where
But here

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 5d

Learn to say no. I regret that I spent a bunch of my early 30s desperately trying to be an excellent, uncomplaining employee and parent and child and spouse, simultaneously because I was afraid of saying no, of refusing.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 6d

My kid worked on making this happen as a YouthWorks employee this summer! We'll be there.

Kayleigh Giorgio @kayleighathena.bsky.social · 7d

THIS SATURDAY IN BALTIMORE!!!
The second annual Graphic Novel Festival is happening from 9-5 in Highlandtown at @dreamersbmore.bsky.social!

www.graphicnovelfestival.com

An illustrated flyer for Graphic Novel Festival reads: “Graphic Novel Festival - Save the date! Saturday October 4, 1025 at Dreamers and Make-Believers Bookstore!

An illustrated flyer for Graphic Novel Festival lists the program schedule.
9am: The Kids’ Graphic Novel Game Show
10am: Beginner Pen & Ink (workshop)
11am: Creators of a Graphic Novel (panel)
12pm: Cosplay Runway
1pm: business of a Graphic Novel
2pm: Writing for Artists
3pm: the Graphic Novel Game Show
4pm: The Madness of Junji Ito

An illustrated flyer for Graphic Novel Festival lists the signing schedule.
10am: Jordan Clark, Jonathan Roth
11am: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Jonathan Roth
12pm: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Derek Kirk Jim
1pm: Sam Freeman, Lindoyes
2pm: Barbara Perez Marquez, Hannah Templar
3pm: Sarah Meyer, Trish Forstner
4pm: Sarah Meyer, Trish Forstner

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 6d

Wild work day so I'm just catching up. He needs to ditch the podium and haul himself down there right now.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 6d

Does Pritzker not control the state troopers? Because... He should get right the hell on that.

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Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 7d

I have so many thoughts. Most not for unlocked accounts.

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 7d

Health policy nerds: The phrase "economic dragooning" is forever etched on our brain from the ACA decision.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7d

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

Melissa Schober @melissaschober.bsky.social · 8d

Egregious typo. Yikes.