Mark Fuhrman, the former LA police detective convicted of lying during testimony at OJ Simpson's murder trial, has died.

Trump suggests he was cheated out of winning Maryland in 2024 (He lost the state by 28 points!)

Jeanine Pirro decries "what happened at Chipotles this past weekend"

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

I have seen some nakedly cruel imperialist BS, but I have never seen such a half-assed garbage attempt at justifying a military strike than sharing and then republishing "intelligence reports" about a potential for a fantasy Cuban drone attack on Key god damned West.

Oh well if Amy from Stub’s says it’s worth it

hell yeah rest in piss light/calvert st spur baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/ligh...

"In the two-and-a-half years overdose has been falling, we’ve known that the national average has not been experienced equally. What’s becoming clearer now is that the West is on a different trajectory than the rest of the country."

Plan by @mayorbmscott.bsky.social for her watchdog office would "eviscerate its independence," @isabel_cumming said in a statement today. tinyurl.com/c5w5vnrk The legislation he is proposing “is not accountability, it is control.”

sure but in many places across the country you can just legally walk down the street with an AR-15

The media/LEO focus on bump stocks, 3D-printed, glock switches, whatever new gun thing everybody has decided to panic about is already ill-advised but doing this with muskets is something else. As someone who uh, does nothing but look at lists of guns seized by police, this isn't a serious concern.

compare for a moment if you will the coexistence of this www.gunbroker.com/bryco/search... and this www.uberti-usa.com/black-powder...

in a nation with millions more guns than people and where you can easily get a serviceable 380 or 9 for a hundred bucks reeling at the existence of black powder firearms and their availability to gasp felons is real “what fool hath added water to the sea” shit

Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, and Ringo Lam at the Cannes Festival in 2007

Every drone is an “emergency response” so no drone needs to follow a warrant requirement. thenevadaglobe.com/702times/eye...

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (Peckinpah, 1974)

Council members weigh in on why they're voting no on the IG records access bill. tinyurl.com/ys5f3evv "I am a humongous fan of our Inspector General," @odetteramos said, but "I cannot pass a law that we have not had that deliberative process on."

When people ask "If it was really rape, why didn't they report it to the police?" I reach into my file of stories like this one and I keep throwing them until that person stops. sfist.com/2026/05/11/s...

all time movie right here

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

In other words United States helped Israel violate the sovereignty of Iraq.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Israelis set up a *secret military base* on Iraqi soil prior to the war against Iran, with the collaboration of the United States, and then they fired on Iraqi soldiers who almost discovered it.

Two sportswriters walk into a bar and can’t find the game. With the NBA adding streaming-only options, the games are a little harder to find in bars and restaurants. We tried to find out why. free to read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/726...

great, important movie! go see it

8 years ago today, Trump ripped apart the Iran nuclear deal. Now look where we are.

"Black Reconstruction"

I think it's really cool that the online website started by a Montgomery County hotel billionaire that cynically/strategically dropped Baltimore from its name engages in "outsider" discourse about Baltimore City

This belongs in the bad analysis hall of fame

OBEX limited edition VHS pre-order is live: store.oscilloscope.net/products/obe...

one of the stupidest Rubio things that he has been holding onto for more than a decade is "Marco Rubio, rap fan." www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/o...

I have a new piece up on Slate, on how the "tough on crime" Louisiana GOP is cutting prosecutor jobs and judges in New Orleans, and even eliminating one position solely so the person who won it (an exoneree) can't take his seat. Another case of "tough on crime" really being abt social control.

as Baltimore's mayor again goes on a big deal podcast to talk violence reduction, a reminder that murders are down across the US and GVRS is a mass indictment machine that makes few arrests for violence. That is what the arrest data shows. www.baltimorebrew.com/2024/07/22/t...

A summary of the law of stop-and-frisk in 1967, the year before Terry v. Ohio. Does it look familiar?

Secret Service shot a kid today

Rest in Power Ben Morea 💔

From Jimmy's McDonough's “Gary Stewart: I Am From The Honky-Tonks”: “The two brothers passed the time by swapping stories about women they’d met on the road...All of a sudden Gary rose up from the back seat and drawled, ‘Boys, my wife has got he best pussy out of everybody!'”

hey maybe the Baltimore Banner should have a news guild love that this is what constitutes "saving journalism" in 2026

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

tonite!! @redemmas.org + @vickyacab.bsky.social = an amazing time redemmas.org/events/vicky...

-In a Year With 13 Moons -Heat -Morvern Callar -Bad Lieutenant -Woman Under the Influence -Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia -Lovers On The Bridge -River's Edge -Mean Streets -Out of the Blue

the hot take weirdos have made two very cool things—smoking and shoplifting—very uncool; good job guys

"You can only challenge the racial gerrymander if you preserve the partisan gerrymander that was the reason for the racial gerrymander" is tortured logic befitting Redemption or Jim Crow. The court effectively deemed the VRA and the 15th Amendment unconstitutional while pretending they didn't

It's been a year since the publication of Going Around, the collection of Murray Kempton's journalism I edited for @sevenstories.bsky.social. I took a beat to reflect and riff on columnists, old copies of National Review, Vivian Gornick, the 2003 film Shattered Glass, Orwell + Mamdani, and more

New for @baltimorebrew.bsky.social: A member of Baltimore’s civilian police oversight board is suing over his removal from a committee the decides disciplinary outcomes for police officers, escalating a simmering conflict over independence from City Hall baltimorebrew.com/2026/04/28/v...

this is like a caricature of the small ball, no conviction, triangulating nonsense that many people associate with democrats

"Can I have some [ibogaine], please?" is one of funniest things Trump has ever said

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus