Saif R
@saifratul.bsky.social
Democratic campaigner turned public servant. Passionate about politics, the outdoors, and new adventures. Opinions are my own.
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While demand for housing in Maryland skyrocketed, four acres of state-owned property in Capitol Heights have sat as a parking lot. Not anymore.
We’re transforming it into:
✅ 300+ new homes (the majority being affordable)
✅ 10k sq ft of retail (groceries, cafes, community space)
We’re transforming it into:
✅ 300+ new homes (the majority being affordable)
✅ 10k sq ft of retail (groceries, cafes, community space)
January 7, 2026 at 2:16 AM
While demand for housing in Maryland skyrocketed, four acres of state-owned property in Capitol Heights have sat as a parking lot. Not anymore.
We’re transforming it into:
✅ 300+ new homes (the majority being affordable)
✅ 10k sq ft of retail (groceries, cafes, community space)
We’re transforming it into:
✅ 300+ new homes (the majority being affordable)
✅ 10k sq ft of retail (groceries, cafes, community space)
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We’re pleased to welcome Katie Thomson to her new role as Secretary for the Maryland Department of Transportation.
Katie’s a world-class public servant who has managed some of the most complex transportation systems in the country.
Katie’s a world-class public servant who has managed some of the most complex transportation systems in the country.
Moore taps former USDOT official as new transportation secretary
Gov. Wes Moore has found a new driver for the Maryland Department of Transportation, tapping Kathryn “Katie” Thomson, another former federal official, for state-level leadership. Most recently, Thomso...
www.thebanner.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We’re pleased to welcome Katie Thomson to her new role as Secretary for the Maryland Department of Transportation.
Katie’s a world-class public servant who has managed some of the most complex transportation systems in the country.
Katie’s a world-class public servant who has managed some of the most complex transportation systems in the country.
Reading is a bit different these days: more agency reports and studies. But still try to make some time each day with a book (and a few are audiobooks 👀).
December 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Reading is a bit different these days: more agency reports and studies. But still try to make some time each day with a book (and a few are audiobooks 👀).
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I am declaring Christmas Eve as a State holiday to show our gratitude to Maryland’s dedicated public servants.
May all Marylanders across the state cherish meaningful holiday time with their friends, family, and loved ones.
May all Marylanders across the state cherish meaningful holiday time with their friends, family, and loved ones.
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I am declaring Christmas Eve as a State holiday to show our gratitude to Maryland’s dedicated public servants.
May all Marylanders across the state cherish meaningful holiday time with their friends, family, and loved ones.
May all Marylanders across the state cherish meaningful holiday time with their friends, family, and loved ones.
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Important note!
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Important note!
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🏗️ Hercules Custom Iron is growing in the Frederick area!
This new facility helps expand their current operations while also introducing a full service metal fabrication facility, a machine shop, and a power coating line.
Here in Maryland, we mean business.
This new facility helps expand their current operations while also introducing a full service metal fabrication facility, a machine shop, and a power coating line.
Here in Maryland, we mean business.
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🏗️ Hercules Custom Iron is growing in the Frederick area!
This new facility helps expand their current operations while also introducing a full service metal fabrication facility, a machine shop, and a power coating line.
Here in Maryland, we mean business.
This new facility helps expand their current operations while also introducing a full service metal fabrication facility, a machine shop, and a power coating line.
Here in Maryland, we mean business.
Trump, RFK Jr., and the Republicans are making Americans unhealthy and unsafe.
Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.
Hundreds are quarantined in South Carolina as measles spreads in 2 US outbreaks
Measles outbreaks in South Carolina and on the Arizona-Utah border are growing. In South Carolina, more than 250 people, including students from nine area elementary, middle and high schools are in quarantine.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Trump, RFK Jr., and the Republicans are making Americans unhealthy and unsafe.
The Hidden Victims of America’s Wildfires
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 10/28/2025 · 30m
podcasts.apple.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Serious journalism by @politico.com here.
There’s something rotten in the GOP culture, and it is pervasive. I can’t even say that I’m shocked.
I hope that the HR, the higher-ed communities, and voters are taking notice, cause these behaviors are beyond dangerous.
There’s something rotten in the GOP culture, and it is pervasive. I can’t even say that I’m shocked.
I hope that the HR, the higher-ed communities, and voters are taking notice, cause these behaviors are beyond dangerous.
October 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Serious journalism by @politico.com here.
There’s something rotten in the GOP culture, and it is pervasive. I can’t even say that I’m shocked.
I hope that the HR, the higher-ed communities, and voters are taking notice, cause these behaviors are beyond dangerous.
There’s something rotten in the GOP culture, and it is pervasive. I can’t even say that I’m shocked.
I hope that the HR, the higher-ed communities, and voters are taking notice, cause these behaviors are beyond dangerous.
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To explain:
At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?”
Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“
At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?”
Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“
Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:
September 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
To explain:
At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?”
Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“
At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?”
Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“
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Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes.
That’s what this is.
That’s what this is.
September 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes.
That’s what this is.
That’s what this is.
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If you ask Ukrainians “after 3.5 years of war, don’t you wish you’d just given in at the start,” you’ll get a hard no.
Americans, of all people, should understand going “give me liberty or give me death” when a foreign dictator tells people to bow down.
Except the US govt now opposes those values.
Americans, of all people, should understand going “give me liberty or give me death” when a foreign dictator tells people to bow down.
Except the US govt now opposes those values.
August 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If you ask Ukrainians “after 3.5 years of war, don’t you wish you’d just given in at the start,” you’ll get a hard no.
Americans, of all people, should understand going “give me liberty or give me death” when a foreign dictator tells people to bow down.
Except the US govt now opposes those values.
Americans, of all people, should understand going “give me liberty or give me death” when a foreign dictator tells people to bow down.
Except the US govt now opposes those values.
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FEMA employees warned Congress that the Trump administration had reversed the progress made in disaster response since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response
After Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed a law to strengthen the nation’s disaster response. FEMA employees say the Trump administration has reversed that progress.
nyti.ms
August 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
FEMA employees warned Congress that the Trump administration had reversed the progress made in disaster response since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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MTA is currently experiencing a cybersecurity incident affecting Mobility scheduling systems.
✅All previously scheduled Mobility trips for this week will be honored.
❌New trip bookings and rebookings are temporarily unavailable. (1/2)
✅All previously scheduled Mobility trips for this week will be honored.
❌New trip bookings and rebookings are temporarily unavailable. (1/2)
August 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
MTA is currently experiencing a cybersecurity incident affecting Mobility scheduling systems.
✅All previously scheduled Mobility trips for this week will be honored.
❌New trip bookings and rebookings are temporarily unavailable. (1/2)
✅All previously scheduled Mobility trips for this week will be honored.
❌New trip bookings and rebookings are temporarily unavailable. (1/2)
For those who are just learning about Chris and his work, he helped free Alan Gross, an American aide worker, who was imprisoned by the Castro regime in Cuba.
Thank you, @vanhollen.senate.gov !
Thank you, @vanhollen.senate.gov !
Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
For those who are just learning about Chris and his work, he helped free Alan Gross, an American aide worker, who was imprisoned by the Castro regime in Cuba.
Thank you, @vanhollen.senate.gov !
Thank you, @vanhollen.senate.gov !
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We are now at the point where the AP can write this as if its a simple background fact and it sparks no outrage: "Trump has made no secret of his plans to use the power of the federal government to target domestic political adversaries."
April 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We are now at the point where the AP can write this as if its a simple background fact and it sparks no outrage: "Trump has made no secret of his plans to use the power of the federal government to target domestic political adversaries."
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People packed the streets across the U.S. on Saturday to protest against President Trump, his administration's cutbacks, financial turmoil and more. nyti.ms/43GRvS7
April 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
People packed the streets across the U.S. on Saturday to protest against President Trump, his administration's cutbacks, financial turmoil and more. nyti.ms/43GRvS7
These are not normal times.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) spoke through the night on the Senate floor, to protest President Trump, Elon Musk and the administration’s policies.
“These are not normal times in our nation,” he said. “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” wapo.st/3E5AiqV
“These are not normal times in our nation,” he said. “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” wapo.st/3E5AiqV
April 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
These are not normal times.
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President Trump ordered a freeze on Tuesday on trillions of dollars in federal money — from anti-poverty programs to foreign aid — in order to purge the government of what he called woke ideology. What happens next?
Listen to "The Daily."
Listen to "The Daily."
Trump Freezes Trillions. Chaos Ensues.
What happened when the president ordered a pause in federal grants and loans — and what may come next.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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