Believing that America can or must be good does not require one to believe that America is or was good or that Americans are more important than anyone else in the world. I don't know who it serves to insist otherwise.

“Don’t tread on me,” except when it’s about giving benefits to low income people living in food deserts surrounded by ultra-processed food options, with limited public transportation options and ever-increasing inflation. Then they want you to tread all over and shame them for eating a doughnut.

No big deal, just me casually running into my favorite and Baltimore’s best first grade teacher, MRS. NONA PORTER! I look terrible and she hasn’t aged a day.

Today is the first day of the rest of your… 2025.

The worst thing about this form of censorship and public erasure is that it exposes institutional priorities that are wholly anathema to their stated missions and ethics. This would have been an amazing exhibition, and this is a pathetic concession to tyranny. hyperallergic.com/992061/show-...

Jury duty movie: Avatar 2, which took me about 15 minutes to figure out because the screen wasn’t on (but the sound was) for the first 10 minutes.

Jasmine Vaughn-Hall *did* mention Neopol (✅), but *didn’t* mention Sal & Sons (also ✅ because that place is a local treasure with some of the best, most affordable seafood in Baltimore and it must remain a unpublicized not-so-secret spot) www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/thin...

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I really just cannot brag enough about how good this new @indivisible.org resource on next week's congressional recess is. If you're looking for practical ideas about what you can actually do in this moment, check it out: indivisi.org/muskorus

hey by the way a fake right wing consumer group named "Consumer's Research" is pushing the Supreme Court to kill an $8 billion program that brings affordable broadband to schools and poor people

It's really dystopian to see how digitizing everything, which was supposed to keep records safe, is instead being used to quickly purge information. We should have known I guess, but cripes.

Larry is a “fully immersed” Ravens fan, especially when Derrick Henry’s on the field.

I went to school with Luigi’s sisters and if you had told me that little dude would become 2024’s anti capitalist vigilante of the year, I would have… okay honestly, I don’t know where I was going because what the fuck

Seeing the Best (and Worst) of Baltimore list brought back to life by the Baltimore Beat is one of the best things to happen in 2024 😭

Hyperlocal analogy: Elon Musk : Twitter as Desmond Stinnie : Baltimore City Voters.

Too many people are excited about Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk's rumored consideration of ending Daylight Saving Time because they have lived their whole lives not knowing whether "sad, short days" or "long, sunny, happy days" is Daylight Saving Time. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Archives have power because of the information they contain. Maintaining trust in that information is paramount. www2.archivists.org/news/2024/ar...

Baltimore tried to "borrow" The Philadelphia Portal, but we accidentally turned it on and livestreamed the whole thing, so we just ditched The Portal and took the cones. SUCK IT, PHILLY* *I'm just playing, I love Philly

This is going to be great, don't miss it! ✊

Oh hey! I wrote a thing

On this Black Friday, let’s think about domestic economics! Rachel Slade’s book, “Making It in America,” follows a small business based in Maine called American Roots. Pro-union, pro-fair wages, pro-immigrant, pro-domestic manufacturing AND domestic supply chain. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/o...

Bluesky is the new Twitter. Twitter is the new Facebook. Facebook is the new MySpace. MySpace is a litmus test for millennials and Gen X to gauge whether the youth will understand your references to Little Scotty Mouthbreather.

I hear of someone supporting the impending tariff plans, and I simply start shouting, "THE 👏🏾 HAWLEY-SMOOT 👏🏾 TARIFF 👏🏾 ACT 👏🏾 Which. Anyone? Raised or lowered? RAISED tariffs. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? IT DID NOT WORK, AND THE UNITED STATES SANK DEEPER INTO THE GREAT DEPRESSION."

Libraries are literally one of the most wonderfully, equitably, inherently intellectually socialist public services that one could possibly imagine and I'm honestly amazed that those on the Far Right have, to this point, focused mainly on banning books and not tried to fully ban public libraries.