You really have to get your doctor’s okay before you watch the Baltimore Ravens play American football

Alright Ravens don’t start this season off with some bullshit now.

Good afternoon! I'm glad y'all liked my personal picks. I realized that most of the events I'm looking forward to are from Red Emma's. So in order to make myself look less of a fan lol, I've found events from the other stages that look super cool.

Good afternoon. Next week is the Baltimore Book Festival. For the upcoming @baltimorebeat.bsky.social calendars, I couldn't fit every event in there to keep them varied with activities and whatnot. However! I'll share some events that I will be there for.

The different covers are awesome. It's like collecting variant covers of comic books. You gotta collect 'em all (but share the different covers with your friends/family/community, please. Unless it's crab night),

Issue 67 of Baltimore Beat is live! This time of the year, as summer ends and we can see the busyness of fall heading our way, it’s good to pause and appreciate it. This issue you’ll find four different covers capturing slices of life in Patterson Park.

She said for many of the foster children, they are late bloomers. “I tell my foster youth they are turtles. Y’all are gonna get there. Don’t think that you are losing because you are just now starting.” Read ChrisAnna's story. afrolanews.org Photos By: ChrisAnna Mink Illustration by: Tara James

In Los Angeles, there are about 20,000 youth in the foster care system, most of them Black and Latine. L.A. foster youth often endure trauma --- neglect, abandonment or abuse. More than half have chronic health conditions. A new program offers a way forward. afrolanews.org/2025/08/you-...

This is the announcement post. Let me know what you think, and I hope you consider subscribing. wrightaaronc.substack.com/p/the-start-...

Good morning! It has been a while since I've used this app, and I'm here to let you know that I'm still with the Beat (so if you have an event, you can now submit it to forms.gle/kZnYVgoK9Lzq..., give thanks to @skamidi.bsky.social) I'm also trying something new on Substack.

DRONE FOLLOWS ME FROM MICROSOFT TO MY CAR. After filming the Palestine encampment at Microsoft & interviews w/ No Azure for Apartheid members, I walked 4 blocks back to my car alone. While I was walking back, I caught a drone overhead following me (twice). Watch for yourself... @therealnews.com

Good morning! It has been a while since I've used this app, and I'm here to let you know that I'm still with the Beat (so if you have an event, you can now submit it to forms.gle/kZnYVgoK9Lzq..., give thanks to @skamidi.bsky.social) I'm also trying something new on Substack.

Related reading from @wrightaaronc.bsky.social baltimorebeat.com/bge-and-dpw-...

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

morning mood

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

"Baltimore Braces Itself for a New Kind of Artscape Experience." My latest for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social Enjoyed writing this piece w/ stellar Beat reporters @loganhullinger.bsky.social and @wrightaaronc.bsky.social Edits : @skamidi.bsky.social ✨

Over 20 people have died since severe storms and tornadoes hit Kentucky and Missouri overnight. Meteorologists are beginning to survey the damage.

You are welcome #blacksky

Sinners... What a movie. Ryan Coogler made me believe in the movie theater again.

Sinners opens to $45.6M, marking the biggest debut for an original film since Jordan Peele’s Us ($71M in 2019). Original IP isn’t dead—cinema is not dead. #BoxOffice #SinnersMovie #movies #ryancoogler

Ryan Coogler’s ‘SINNERS’ is the only horror film to get an A CinemaScore in 35 years. #Sinners #RyanCoogler #CinemaScore #HorrorMovies

The Supreme Court ordered the administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly taken to El Salvador and remains in custody there.

mini-scoop: during a recent twitch meeting, ceo dan clancy faced pushback for un-banning adin ross, the controversial streamer who's friends with andrew tate and has platformed multiple nazis. clancy claimed it wasn't about business, which I would find more believable if he wasn't the ceo of twitch

Huh, weird

Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land Hamdan Ballal was released bloodied and bruised from Israeli custody on Tuesday after Israeli officers subjected him to beatings and apparent torture.

Me in the national security team group chat

New issue of @baltimorebeat.bsky.social out tomorrow

UK: Oxford council passes Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions motion - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oxford-city-council-passes-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-motion

Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in DR Congo, with at least 7,000 killed, amid ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels. We map the human toll of the conflict in DR Congo aje.io/xnuy0v

Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for "No Other Land" about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by the Israeli military, witnesses tell NPR.

I wrote about why Jewish activists in Baltimore are demanding the release of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil—and why they say supporting Palestinian rights is not antisemitic. Read here👇

My wife surprised me with a new record for our budding collection

Elon Musk said:

Check out whose article is on the cover of the most recent edition of the Baltimore Beat! (Obviously I'm not talented enough to take such a nice photo; that was all Shae McCoy). ⬇️

New story out! Learn about how Baltimore City officials are - and aren't - tackling some of Baltimoreans toughest utility bills. baltimorebeat.com/bge-and-dpw-...

That is exactly true.

BlerdCon Day 1: complete 🥰

If anyone is going to BlerdCon this weekend, I'm looking for a partner for the Spades tournament. Send your qualifications through dm. Serious inquiry only!

41 people on the made up "DOGE" team: ~36 white people ~2 Latinos ~2 South Asians ~1 Arab? 0 Black people I'm sure this was definitely meritocracy and definitely not overt white supremacy and nazism from a fascist who grew up in apartheid South Africa.

The imperial boomerang. Same as it’s always been. If you haven’t realized by now - our struggles are connected.

Double homicide

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

‘I had to move away from everything that I ever had’: Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind The new season of Working People @therealnews.com has officially launched. Please listen to/share these residents' stories therealnews.com/i-had-to-mov...

If you want to tune in to the first City Council hearing on BGE and their rate plan and recent rate hikes, here's the link. Will update when the YouTube video is up. www.charmtvbaltimore.com/live-stream

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

Breaking: A federal judge sides with Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and has just blocked Trump's anti-trans EO banning care under the age of 19 via a TRO. This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.

Informative, helpful article from the folks at @baltimorebeat.bsky.social about our MD General Assembly session this year.