Thank you for this, from the daughter of a devoted public servant who spent his entire career in service investigating Hatch Act violations, & later as an administrative law judge deciding cases of coal mine safety violations. He was called out of retirement at age 80 to help with a backlog of cases

Class of 2026: Make yourself useful. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Mountain Maryland. Happy spring.

“Even if you don’t like fishing and you don’t go canoeing or kayaking, you don’t know how to crew, and you don’t go sailing, you should be able to just get to the water. You should be able to feel the wind on your face and experience Baltimore, the Chesapeake city.”

Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s questioning of Kash Patel was an exposé of the unstable FBI director in real time: “You are a disgrace, Mr. Director.” It evoked this scene at a Senate hearing 72 years ago this spring. danrodricks.substack.com/p/june-9-195... @vanhollen.senate.gov

Once upon a time, we just dismissed them as crackpots. Don't you miss those times? open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Protect the wild trout of the North Branch Potomac River in Maryland - Please Consider Signing the Petition! c.org/fGTFbRYw6v via @Change @TroutUnlimited @SierraClub @UofMaryland @FrostburgState @PotomacRiver @americanrivers @Wish4FishTV @OrvisFlyFishing @OrvisPodcast @TimesCumberland

Weekend chef: South Shore Bar pizza @southshore.news wp.me/paODiq-5Rg

The X Factor in the midterms: Democrats and Independents, a look at the numbers open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

The Washington National Opera quits the Trumpified Kennedy Center and lands in Baltimore with "West Side Story." Good for us. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

Every day a new outrage, whether it’s about guns, climate change or vaccines to protect us from viruses. The extent to which the Trump regime seeks to overturn laws and rules intended to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is astounding. danrodricks.substack.com/p/just-what-...

How nice: Roberts court says we no longer need the Voting Rights Act — in the former Confederate states or elsewhere. danrodricks.substack.com/p/supreme-co...

Today is National Honesty Day . . . Honest. 30 April: National Honesty DayHonesty Day is observed annually on April 30th in the United States to encourage truthfulness and integrity in politics, relationships, and business.Created by author M. Hirsh Goldberg in 1990, it falls on the last day of…

In case you need this: 46 seconds from the River Zen

Is MAGA finally waking up to his greatest con? open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

A sycamore tree inspires in the midst of the ongoing tragedy danrodricks.substack.com/p/april-phot...

Bartender: Make mine a Jack Smith, straight-up and dry. danrodricks.substack.com/p/without-fe... @bmorebarfly.bsky.social

How lucky we are to have this survivor still breathing life into the neighborhood. danrodricks.com/2026/04/23/b...

UM Law School stops short of dismissing Swalwell from Board of Visitors, puts him on leave. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/excl...

Catholics who say Leo should refrain from making comments about Trump’s war-making are displaying the same ignorance of papal duty that their cult leader does. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Convert these asphalt deserts to parkland with trees

Judge: “I think it’s kind of hard to even pass the laugh test, that the transformation of a logistics warehouse into a detention center would be eligible for [environmental] exclusions.” danrodricks.substack.com/p/federal-ju... @weissmann.substack.com @normeisen.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social

There aren't enough tributes to those who served in the Civil War to save the country, so it would be a fine thing to keep this one, in a Baltimore County church, from falling away. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

As if war wasn't a matter of morality . . . open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Monologues and memories in my hometown @southshore.news

Trump continues assault on EPA's efforts to help poor and minority in communities facing pollution problems open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Girls Ice Hockey: Tryouts for tournament teams April 11-12 #hockey #Maryland @usahockey.bsky.social

Yes, you can go home again open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

When Trump finally speaks of children and the future, it's only to defend his war on Iran. danrodricks.substack.com/p/a-first-fo...

Up to 80% of immigrants arrested under Trump had no criminal record open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Trump is the worst jobs president in American history. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

On this very subject: danrodricks.substack.com/p/palm-sunda...

No Kings, Baltimore County

No Kings Day #Baltimore York Road

Herb Alpert, who turns 91 on March 31, performing in the Lyric Opera House, Baltimore, last night: "Nice to play in a building that's older than me." baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

How Republicans fashioned a special-interest law for Southern catfish farmers that stunts competition from the Chesapeake Bay baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

Orioles opening day introductions will soon include David Rubenstein's podiatrist.

TSA workers have been going a month with no paycheck and they’re pissed that ICE agents are getting paid to chill and play airport cop. “TSA officers are sickened that we have unqualified DHS employees walking the airports, with pay, while we all suffer doing our qualified work unpaid.”

You're going to want to try this recipe at home danrodricks.com/2026/03/25/d...

The Sick-Of-Trump vote: Florida Democrats Win Special Election in Mar-a-Lago’s District www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

The Manchild in The Pentagon open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

The Ghoul in the White House speaks: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

The adventurous musician and 'spirtual explorer' who came back from the dead: Ian Hesford baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

Citizen Action: No Kings Day, March 28, along York Road, Baltimore and Towson; food donations sought I received this notice about an upcoming No Kings Day event on the north side of Baltimore. Passing it along: On March 28, 12 noon to 1:30 pm, Marylanders will join together for York Road Free…

A Golden Anniversary: When Baltimore embraced Crack The Sky like no other city It happened on March 18, 1976. Here's the story, first published in my Baltimore Sun column: The origin story of Crack The Sky, the progressive rock band that became a sensation and legend in Baltimore, if nowhere else,…

Monday's high winds took down a mighty sycamore, and the mighty sycamore mortally wounded a tall pine. Then a crew of Spanish-speaking workers showed up, and wow! danrodricks.substack.com/p/a-tree-fal...

The children's bodies lay at the end of a line that runs from the day in May 2018 when Trump gave the finger to President Obama and our allies and tore up the 159-page Iran nuclear deal. danrodricks.substack.com/p/diminished...

The hunt for a wooden Louisville Slugger

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As the Trump regime tries to whitewash the nation's dark history, others continue to acknowledge it and spread a message of healing. danrodricks.substack.com/p/a-memorial...