How a young journalist and future Nobel laureate exposed the corruption of a dictator: Gabriel García Márquez, 1955 A castaway sailor and the shuttering of a great newspaper Rojas Seventy years ago, the military dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia shut down one of the nation’s best…

Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.

BOLDUAN: When I was asking you about Comey, you've twice now brought up the Epstein files and Tom Homan. Why? RASKIN: Because the DOJ is in full coverup mode

A rising star in social media fact-checks Hopkins surgeon, now FDA commish, Marty Makary on claims about Tylenol and autism baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

It's hard to say what the worst part is. But as a reflection of we, the people, the betrayal of oppressed migrants by the U.S. government ranks near the top.

Tylenol-maker Kenvue shares bounce back as Trump claims face pushback | Reuters www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Question for Homan: Did you report the 50 Large as income to the IRS? #borderbribe

WWYD: What Would You Do? So you park your car in the shopping center parking lot, a couple of safe spaces from a carriage corral. You get out. You grab a carriage from the carriage corral. As you do this, you notice a double-roll package of paper towels in the lower tray of one of the other…

If the ICE recruitment push meets its goals, Trump, Noem and Miller will have at their command some 30,000 law enforcement and support personnel in 400 offices across the country. A paramilitary force of loyal "patriots." open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

In the dark: A Trump supporter shares his denials about the push toward authoritarianism from a farm in Pennsylvania open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Baltimore Presbyterians offer reparations for slavery, w/ $$ going to six local Black churches “in recognition of their historic under-funding and exclusion.” tinyurl.com/ycyhksak This is precisely the history that Donald Trump wants to erase, @danrodricks.bsky.social points out.

About that apology.... open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

There is a stunning lack of creativity in TV commercials, a true desert.

Charging people to park at Baltimore Peninsula? Nobody asked me, but charging people to park their cars on a surface lot at Baltimore Peninsula, a new neighborhood still waiting to happen in South Baltimore, is one of the most daft ideas I’ve seen within the city limits. Does Kevin Plank know…

Suing Trump Over More Illegal Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Charlie Kirk said guns mean freedom. What freedom? open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Making the call from center field Sept. 11, 2025: Baltimore Orioles v Pittsburgh Pirates: At Camden Yards on warm and sunny Thursday afternoon, the Orioles scored a go-ahead run shortly after fans had taken their 7th-inning stretch. Dylan Beavers’ clutch single brought Jackson Holliday home from…

Offering a break from the ongoing horrors: Consider something simple and mildly amusing: Fiori di zucchini baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

This fact won’t matter to Trump, but there has been a federal presence (non-military) in Baltimore’s struggle against crime for decades, and more so in recent years. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

The great Christianity fraud: Trump in the White House. There's still time for faith leaders to break from their deeply flawed alliance with him. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.

The strong Biden economy sputters under the weight of Trump’s bad economic policies. wapo.st/41B5Spg

The best three-fish day of fishing ever Fishing Journal Entry: Sept. 1, 2025, Labor Day Sometimes you just want to write things down so you don’t forget them, and that’s the case today: I just need to describe what the day was like and how it ended so that my son and I will have a record should…

We are in a place where the American people cannot believe a single thing the president or his administration says. Not a thing.

Try this at home: Poached Peaches With peaches bountiful in late summer, we tried this recipe for Poached Peaches on Sweet Cream from the 25th anniversary edition of John Shields' popular Chesapeake cookbook. You can find it on page 298. The poaching calls for spiced white wine, with a caution not…

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Roadside assistance for a fellow angler who “ain’t from around here” I had just come from the river when a big man in a big pickup truck pulled suddenly off the main road when he spotted me in the parking lot getting ready to take my waders off. He stopped in a cloud of dust and rolled his window…

ICE nails another dangerous criminal www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... via @nbcnews

To your first Nobody Asked Me about immigrants, I would add that they repair bridges over which we drive. The six men who died when the Key Bridge was hit and collapsed were all immigrants.

The Kennedy family needs to intervene -- directly, at his front door . . . open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Annual Reminder: The official sandwich of Labor Day Pardon me if you've heard this before, but as a champion of a good peppers-and-eggs sandwich I feel a need to keep reminding American workers -- and retired workers -- that it constitutes the official meal of Labor Day. It was so established in…

Do we really need all these massive shopping center parking lots now that retail is in decline and people shop online? A look at "imperviosity" and water pollution. @baltimorebrew.bsky.social www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/08/27/m...

He hasn't committed a mass shooting, but RFK Jr. Is the most dangerous man in America.

Maryland’s new SHA stormwater permit is finally out and it’s disappointing, environmentalists say. tinyurl.com/56xn52yv "Not strong enough to help protect communities and streams from highly polluted roadway runoff and won't do enough to meet our bay goals,” @danrodricks.bsky.social reports.

Why it will get worse, and what we can do about it. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

For the hell of it one day, I did a word search for “Trump” and “the poor,” just to see if that Bible-toting phony ever used that descriptive term in a public remark. You can imagine the result. danrodricks.com/2025/08/22/t...

A National Harm Registry to keep track of Trump trauma.

Opening Sept. 5: In "the feel-good movie of the year," audiences will see Baltimore's lost bridge #TheBaltimorons baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-... @ifcfilms.bsky.social

FOX: Trump described the meeting with Putin as "very warm."

Maryland Dems roll out an excellent idea that should go national danrodricks.substack.com/p/documentin... @mddems.bsky.social

A son’s gratitude I have heard many fine eulogies over the years, struggled to give a few myself. The intention is to render tribute to the deceased and to comfort mourners with memories. At a funeral Mass Saturday morning at St. Leo’s Church in Baltimore's Little Italy, a brother eulogized his…

Trump disparaging Baltimore again -- like listening to a gas-powered leaf blower baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

Dan Can Cook: Swiss chard quiche If you run into a massive pile of Swiss chard — from your garden or from a neighbor’s or, in my case, from my daughter Julia’s — here’s a delicious way to dispose of it: Make a quiche or pie. Wash, break in half and blanch a bunch of chard with the stems; after a…

Fifty-one years ago this month, President Nixon was forced to resign because of the Watergate scandal and the loss of support among members of his own party in Congress. But those Republicans are long long long gone, and with them the GOP’s claim to being the law-and-order party.

Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.

Spreading "seat envy" from Maryland to Maine: Paul Wenger, the man who put powered recliners in movie theaters and sees them as a key part of his industry's post-pandemic comeback. www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/08/10/b...

A wow-inducing theater we didn’t know was there Note to readers: Certain stories require an overtime period or two. My latest for the Baltimore Brew is such a story. I found that Paul Wenger, president of Flagship Premium Cinemas, had a good story to tell — about his career in movie theaters and…

The Nation’s River: Enjoying the Potomac even as Trump's EPA stupidly threatens progress on clean water open.substack.com/pub/danrodri... Photos and Essay

Photo Gallery: Potomac River Vistas Some photographs from a recent summer fishing adventure on the Nation's River, between Seneca Breaks and Riverbend Park -- that is, between Montgomery County on the Maryland side, Fairfax County on the Virginia side. Sunrise just downstream of Pennyfield Lock in…

A ‘large minnow’ that builds and shares a spawning bed It’s always the first example of an oxymoronic phrase — jumbo shrimp. Here’s a new one — large minnow. Yes, there is such a thing. It’s called a fallfish, a silvery species that swims in rivers of the U.S. Northeast and Canada. It’s a chub of…