If Obama, Biden or Clinton EVERRRRRR did this, America would have exploded

I'm again struck by the fact that black families have tried to explain that they have a coming-of-age ritual where they teach their driving-age children tactics for not getting murdered during routine traffic stops, and people in power just largely ignored them

New headshots! Thanks to Rissa Miller Creative!

Just joined Costco after years because I support their whole situation. What are some good plant-based things to look out for?

Just a reminder that I am, besides my Baltimore Banner work as a columnist, a memorist and author! Check me out! bookshop.org/p/books/fami...

So Bowen Yang is just going to act like he and Matt Rogers didn’t completely disrespect Jasmine Crockett and display some serious anti-Blackness. Guess he’s just hoping this all blows over quickly. Welp, I know that I will not support any future projects either of them do unless this is addressed.

So explain how she was a terrorist again?

The director of the Kennedy Center. I can’t imagine why nobody wants to perform there.

Dear dating apps.

Back on Hinge, which is hilarious and sad. They keep showing my 31 year olds. I am 54. I appreciate that they recognize the attractiveness of older women but no. Where are the 50 year olds?

The #RHOP ladies are such mean girls this season, I'm getting high school flashbacks! www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

If it’s so on the up and up, why not cooperate?

Republicans doubling down, threatening to kill more Americans

Walz: "I have a very simple message: We don't need further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you've done enough."

NEW: A triumphant march to the Capitol, featuring some of the most egregious perpetrators of Jan. 6 violence 5 years ago, was the backdrop to a brazen WH-led effort to falsely rewrite the history of the attack. w/ @nicholaswu12 @Hailey_Fuchs www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

New cut!! Starting the year fresh!

Some good advice from @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social:

A year ago my cat, kid and I were checking into a hotel because our hot water heater and furnace were busted suddenly and our chimney wasn’t properly vented, and we were at risk for carbon monoxide. We were gone 15 days. I love hotels. That was not fun.

Another media company caving to incremental authoritarianism. I will never call it by that illegitimate name.

She was actually in the series.

In today's @thebaltimorebanner.com I learn to play spades! Invite me to your cookouts! www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Chill cloudy post holiday day and I’m quilted in with Cmas candy & books from Santa by local authors @bsivad.bsky.social Brett Davis & @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social Leslie Gray Streeter Might stay here all weekend…

People whose choices don’t affect you in any way: - Women wearing bonnets in public - Families wearing matching PJs at the holiday hotel brunch - People buying food you don’t approve of in the grocery line - Black children laughing Mind your own.

“On Tuesday, however, Ms. Loomer said nothing about the newly released materials, which showed, among other things, that federal prosecutors had determined that Mr. Trump had flown on Mr. Epstein’s private plane more times than they originally knew.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Woke mean being cognizant of and awake to danger. That’s what journalism is. If you are anti woke you are fake news. Signed- a 32-year career journalist.

Sounds like a host problem.

If you can’t write you aren’t a writer. If you steal from other writers you are a thief.

The Preacher’s Wife is perfect and I’m so happy to be introducing my kid to it. He was intrigued by the beautiful Whitney and I want him to know who she was.

I used to be ok at guitar but now I suck, so I’ve started taking lessons more than 20 years later with my original teacher. This one sucks but I’m keeping it honest for the sake of progress.

His mama called him the Kennedy Center, I’ma call him the Kennedy Center.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

Delightful! Thank you @sataylormd.bsky.social !!!

I am irritated by how often I see him speak and think “He got a point.” What is going on?

This isn’t governance—it’s cruelty dressed up as Christmas. Mocking immigrants while people lose healthcare, families suffer, and America embarrasses itself globally. Power without empathy is moral bankruptcy, and this administration proudly puts it on display.

Seems bad.

Charlie Kirk: "Why do we let low IQ Black people take our jobs?" David Mamet: "He's like the Jesus Christ of YouTube."

NO.

I am a GenX music writer who watched women geniuses be rescued to a bikini because the patriarchy in the magazine box insisted on it. Maybe this is her choice. But I’m sad.

Almost all of us were from poor people. From disenfranchised people new in a place. Crapping on those who are where you were. You suck.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.

RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

Gross.

There might be less to put in the stockings this year because of the economy. In today's @thebaltimorebanner.com we talk about how to explain to your kids. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

WELKER: You're talking about Trump protecting Arkansas from drugs, yet he pardoned the former president of Honduras who trafficked more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. How does that make us safer? COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances