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

NO MEAN MERCH: The slogan, Baltimore: No Mean City, is taken from my play, "No Mean City: Baltimore 1966." Those words, "no mean city," come from Saint Paul in the Book of Acts, meaning not an insignificant or ordinary city. Priced affordably and available online: youhavenoidea.org/shop

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...

Approaching 91 and still making music baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

"Fifty, 60 years from now we could be fighting the same battles . . ." Race, politics and baseball in 1966 Baltimore danrodricks.substack.com/p/no-mean-ci...

South Shore Bar Pizza's distant cousin in Baltimore

Remember what the Marine General said about Trump open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

Waking to the sound of birdsong, an inspiring moment quickly diminished by news of the world.

County commissioners who give tribal support to Trump's immigrant crackdown: A statement of their values danrodricks.substack.com/p/supporting...

Support the McKeldin library fund, own a piece of Baltimore history The title of our play is taken from the title of a book written by the late Maryland Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin when he was Mayor of Baltimore in the 1960s. The book, published in 1964, celebrated the three famous philanthropists —…

Appreciation: Michael Lang, up from polio with camera and curiosity danrodricks.com/2026/02/20/m...

Very clear: Republicans would like to see true democracy slip away. danrodricks.substack.com/p/the-sicken...

Try my Baltimore Quiz. Some questions are tougher than others. The answer to Number 11 is the only one that every Baltimorean should know. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/the-...

Cloaking and calming the land danrodricks.com/2026/02/17/t...

This would be a good day to write some letters (addresses in this column) open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

Try this at home: One-pot sweet and spicy dish Rigatoni dolci e piccanti share.google/2yqLER2pBoKq...

Some tickets still available for performances March 11 and 12. youhavenoidea.org

" . . . millionaires and billionaires who consider Trump a moron but love that he calls climate change a hoax."

Note to the Spelling Bee master at The New York Times: Try including the word “espantoon” some day. It’s a Baltimore word. You can look it up. @nytimes.com

Nobody asked me, but . . . 14 items plus a rigatoni recipe baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

Do any of these dishonest men in suits have grandchildren? danrodricks.substack.com/p/climate-de...

"I would call him a degenerate racist but for the fact that 'degenerate' suggests a decline from a higher state that Trump never occupied; "

Just as Trump exploited prejudices to create an Obama backlash and win his first presidency, I’m betting that we see another backlash develop this year — in the midterms — against the sick cruelty and racism Trump raised from the sewer. danrodricks.substack.com/p/the-coming...

How to warm up the house: Make minestrone If you want to take the chill off the house on a winter morning like this one -- if you want to take the chill off your body — get up early and make minestrone. Make a big pot so you can share some with a deserving friend, neighbor, relative or…

This happened this morning: The grand, old enduring elm of North Baltimore.

Democrats need to bring back Harkinism danrodricks.substack.com/p/farmers-wh...

It will take years to shake the effects of so many Trump-era lies, coverups and conspiracy theories. danrodricks.substack.com/p/january-ph...

The Lying Faithful danrodricks.substack.com/p/sunday-ess...

Photos: Chesapeake Bay freeze, Eastern Shore workboats on ice My friend Kurt Kolaja, videographer and filmmaker, traveled a bit on Maryland's Eastern Shore on Jan. 30, capturing these scenes from Kent Narrows, Turner's Creek and Chestertown. The last time the Chesapeake saw extensive ice -- so…

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

It snowed. It snained. It froze. We cut. We chopped. We shoveled.

Well, this turned out much better than expected. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

Much of the nation needs a good ICE scraper.

If you never bother, they never hear from you, and Republicans continue to abide the slide to authoritarianism. danrodricks.com/2026/01/26/w...