Very excited this will be available for people to see in January. 25-minute video essay/mini-doc on director Nobuhiko Obayashi written/narrated by Max, edited and produced by me

Open enrollment seems to be going well

When country singer Luke Bell was found dead in 2022, his story became tabloid fodder. But Bell's complex life couldn't be distilled into a headline: He wrote beautiful country songs informed by the American west, while struggling with deep mental illness.

METRO (Carter, 1997)

I'd known about Norman Morrison and his sacrifice for years. Finally got a chance to write this short piece about his act of protest 60 years ago today against the Vietnam War, which echoes in the US-backed genocide in Gaza and wars and conflicts everywhere. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...

Peter Watkins has died, one of the greatest and least known and most uncompromising filmmakers, a life well lived fighting power. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

I just found the video where I mildly stalked and eventually met Robert Loggia in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston in 2004

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

is this anything? #spooky

It’s terrible, but punishment by association is a relatively common practice in US law enforcement theintercept.com/2019/04/25/b...

This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.

Shut down Crown graffiti wrecking my tender ass on a random Wednesday

it is very important that the Inner Harbor completely sucks ass. Not entirely sure why that is but that is basically policy for decades now; it is an area that exists to appease development grifters and harass Black youth; absolutely pathetic shit all around

Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi. Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C. buff.ly/16gTRJa

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

Happy Birthday to Joe Spinell, the absolute king of the ‘spaced-out and thinking about murder’ face

The 3 guys most obsessed with The View are the President, Jim Breuer and Sully Erna from Godsmack

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

FULL VIDEO: Baltimore County high schoolers were handcuffed after an AI gun-detection system misidentified a bag of chips as a gun. You can see all of the body worn camera footage from the incident here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs6M...

Check out my new op-ed on Trump’s terror attacks.

NEW: I obtained body camera footage from when Baltimore County Police officers responded to a false gun alert triggered by Baltimore County Public Schools’ AI-powered gun-detection system. The "gun" was a bag of Doritos. Here's the image officers were referencing:

#NeverForget #NeverForgive

Even if computers can weigh evidence in an effective way (which they cannot because they don’t have common sense and cannot make credibility evaluations, among other things), jury nullification is a feature, not a bug, of our common law system in my view. Computers can’t do that.

I think we all know the answer to this

By providing a “protective presence” in the West Bank, international activists hope to deter unprecedented settler attacks.

At midnight, masked Israeli settlers woke Baltimore Jewish activist Nikki Morse"Your time is almost up." 2 months later, the Palestinian village was empty. For @wagingnonviolence.org I reported on the systematic ethnic cleaning of the #WestBank: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/inte...

Profiled a local Jewish activist who traveled the West Bank this summer to resist the ethnic cleansing of Palestine wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/inte... #palestine #gaza #israel #peace #baltimore @wagingnonviolence.org @jvp.bsky.social

The way for politics to work for those currently running and striving to not to be a ghoul is fortunately, the normal, simple way to respond: "I don't believe what I said/did then, I was a dumbass" or "I do still believe this, here is why" and then people make a decision about you! It's very easy.

One last thing: the idea that nostalgia is what makes people think fondly of video stores is misplaced. Rarely do people come in for the "video store feel" (which we don't really have anyway). It's usually as a response to a fractured, expensive, and inconsistent digital marketplace.

Setting aside the thorny falsehood of "unprecedented media abundance," working at a video store for the past five years has introduced me to countless new movies, experiences, and people (many I now consider friends). I'll take the communal experience over any digital landscape no matter the scope.

people who use drugs ("habitually" or not) should be able to own a gun and cannabis users ("habitual or not) in particular already do "legally" possess guns and are encouraged to lie by just about everybody throughout the process to obtain a gun.

What up Baltimore, I'm vending pretzels at Ottobar until 4. I have a new cheddar flavor for youuuuu

to this i would add a good amount of self-loathing stemming from a belief that liberal political views are somehow “inauthentic” or an affectation of “elites”

He's so close

I miss McKeldin Fountain, he really loved this kind of weather.

Happy 40th anniversary to Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts. Great party, great FREE legal services, an honor to be part of its history with Soderberg v Carrion. Consider donating mdvla.org/donate/

I am so disappointed by the lack lackluster critical reception to this movie. Yes, I know, it was probably poorly marketed, but it's our job to see past that.

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

I spend ~two hours a day every day talking to people between the ages of 75-95 and they are all, regardless of their overarching politics, atomically angry about what is happening and have very unique and specific thoughts about what they would like to happen to "the bastards in charge" as one said

I just wanted to plug one of the best book deals around. For a mere $7.50, you can get the best collection of Kenneth Fearing's poems around, edited by Robert Polito, who wrote Jim Thompson's biography, so the man knows his noir lit. www.loa.org/books/21...

SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C. Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military. theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

Pistachio Disguisey

Nicky Siano. Giorgio Moroder. Madonna.

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.