Yesterday.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Just tuned in and the love music is... I Will Survive. 💀

I leave for vacation on Wednesday. I am counting the hours because this was A Monday.

The kid's college applications are in, pretty much. Big feelings y'all, big feelings.

Austerity isn't governance. Stop writing fawning news articles about tough choices and how they're bearing up under the heavy burden of leadership. Budgets are moral documents and shortfalls are the consequences of choices made to shore up a few folks and leave the rest of us out in the cold.

Saturday baking: apple dumplings.

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In 1964, LBJ and Asst Secretary of HEW Phillip Lee used Medicare to enforce the Civil Rights Act and desegregate hospitals. Sixty years later our federal government is going to use Medicare not in the service of equal treatment but as a cudgel to punish children and families.

FYI lights flashing at the intersection of MLK/Howard/Read/Eutaw by state center.

I was not an art history major but she was one of my favorites. 😞 www.usj.edu/news/usj-mou...

Street flooding all over and I've seen a couple dozen students waiting at unsheltered bus stops. Why can't we have more shelters?!?!

Peter has announced the arrival of fall. (The moment I sit down he clambers onto my lap.)

Not auntie but cousin. In my growing up, all the wives and kids and husbands and nieces and nephews were cousin so-and-so. Inlaws of inlaws of my great aunts first husband? Cousin. My grandfather's lifelong friend and his family? Cousin. Like, this is a thing in so many families/communities.

I'd be delighted if some enterprising journalists looked at the size and scope of state health departments. I'd guess that many are smaller than they were two decades ago, even as they are serving more with Medicaid expansion and the absolute abdication of the federal government to protect people.

The husband: I'm sorry you're in that picture. People should stop putting you on blast that way.

Friday: out with the spouse. Saturday: farmers market, Giant. Making slow cooker beef stew and maple flan ahead of family movie night. (And no one move: the teen is voluntarily doing a major room clean. With like trash bags and a vacuum and such.)

In Baltimore City our schools spent millions on a system they know doesn't work well. How do they know? I MPIA'd and shared data from Dorchester County schools showing a wildly high false alarm rate. Can't find money for a librarian or FT arts teachers in every HS but we do have money for AI.

How to tell it is fall weather: Lu will begin squeezing herself into the space between your arm and leg.

If I wanted a great bar in E Baltimore where would I go? Over that way for a thing tonight. I think this is your neighborhood @teddypasketti.bsky.social? Great=Not wildly crowded, decent to good cocktails, not wildly loud, friendly bartenders a plus.

Another excellent one, in addition to Maryland Food Bank is Share Baby, the diaper bank. Many food banks don't stock household items and neither SNAP nor Medicaid cover diapers for littles except in a few states under demo or because of medical necessity.

Current mantra: vacation in two weeks.

Happening today @1pm ET. Join the discussion if you're able! I'll be starting things off with grounding thoughts on Medicaid & structural racism. The conversation to follow will center on strategies community-based orgs can take to keep folks on Medicaid. meetattheintersection.org/a-crucial-mo...

I appreciate this op-ed. However, the legislation coming is warranted. The BCYF has existed since 2016 and there has never been a public evaluation of the fund. There is no public accounting of the total number of young people served year over year, if grantees are serving the same kids or not. /1

Apparently those political enemies are children. The entire Child and Adolescent division at SAMHSA was RIF'd.

This is great! Thank you Councilman Glover. Now we need the rest of them to do this sort of commute, regularly, in all weather, to see what our students endure every day.

Here's that testimony: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Baltimore City Council passed a bill earlier this year to study chronic absenteeism (25-002). I submitted written testimony on a major factor being MTA, known at least since BERC published a large transit study nearly 10 years ago. A decade on, here's how the commute is for my kid. /1

More than half of Baltimore City high school students are chronically absent. go.boarddocs.com/mabe/bcpss/B...

@baltcityschools.bsky.social Can you explain why the Weapons Detection System was removed from the Safety and Wholeness Committee meeting? The agenda does not say amended or updated to indicate the removal.

In the Baltimore Sun today we ask Governor Wes Moore to cancel Avelo Airlines' contract with BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. He can do it today. It doesn't require the assembly. It will help stop ICE & help our patients and neighbors. Please share widely. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/11/w...

Yesterday I was in Philly and got this sign (even though I'm not a constituent, thank you @pasenatorsaval.com and your staff who were delightful) at a community event. Will be pestering my folks in 43A to make similar ones. You should pester your reps to put their name next to their values.

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Hi @bmorecitydot.bsky.social is there a reason you're requiring sign in before users can participate in the survey? And why signing in with Google doesn't work?

@zekecohen.bsky.social Substantial increase over six years of homeless young peolle, even as the total population of city schools has fallen slightly since 2019-2020. Is this part of study on chronic absenteeism? Budget planning for FY27 and beyond? From go.boarddocs.com/mabe/bcpss/B...

Weapons detection system on the Baltimore City School Board Safety and Wholeness Committee agenda for TH. No slide set or memo attached :/

The pistachio tide in Baltimore needs to go. This is horrid.

No air in the building. Splendid. Just what I, a middle aged lady, want.

In other news, I again, still cannot believe we're all just expected to work and parent and whatever while the president sends troops -- literal soldiers with guns and tanks! -- from one state to another to do his bidding.

The idea that public agencies can just efficiency their way to doing more with less is one of most pernicious neoliberal lies ever told.

For my friends in Chicago from @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's People's Project, by @samsax.bsky.social

Learn to say no. I regret that I spent a bunch of my early 30s desperately trying to be an excellent, uncomplaining employee and parent and child and spouse, simultaneously because I was afraid of saying no, of refusing.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

My kid worked on making this happen as a YouthWorks employee this summer! We'll be there.

Does Pritzker not control the state troopers? Because... He should get right the hell on that.

Health policy nerds: The phrase "economic dragooning" is forever etched on our brain from the ACA decision.

It's Kool Nidre and I have had two absolute wild days at work. I'm going to be reflective in the bath, with a double rye. As a public health person who has a trans, disabled kid, I am made entirely of angry bees. Maybe my soul is knocking but it is hard to hear right now over the din.