Someone asked if I have been shadowbanned on here, because they haven’t seen my posts for weeks. I am not shadowbanned, I’ve just been quiet on socials and substack. I’ve focusing on teaching and navigating the fallout from my firing from @washingtonpost.com — it’s been psychologically hard.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

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The finished product

wrote about why the kids are into McMansions now untappedjournal.com/stories/why-...

Highly recommend this new @wnyc.org podcast with Yo-Yo Ma and Ana González. link.podtrac.com/v7mx144d

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight. www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

If you don't read past the headline, you would think this is simply more of what we've come to expect from an authoritarian administration. 1/

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

Read this beautiful piece by @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social!

Canvas has been down alllll day. Maybe monopolies ARE bad!

"I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain." –James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son"

“And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America like Diane Keaton and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for a black trans woman like Miss Major.”

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

this and also, given the recent cancellation of On the Record, it's time to ask again how many news outlets in Baltimore are gainfully employing a trans editor? writer? on-air personality? we had one

For a short time, nonprofit news was a way for some newsroom leaders with marginalized identities to establish a lane for themselves and thrive. Now, mainstream folks are jumping off the sinking ship of for profit news and co-opting a culture created by those same marginalized trailblazers

What local businesses should we highlight in the Baltimore Beat gift guide?

6 October is Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday. "Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires."

The reasoning does not "remain unclear." Starbucks' own website says that they are closing stores all over the country as part of a restructuring, and Fox and Sinclair know it. The goal is to misinform viewers so that they blame Baltimore for these closures.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

The discourse on both sides of the Gifted and Talented conversation is annoying. I want to give a little context as someone who works on education stuff “Exceptional Student Education” is the term more commonly used now for students who perform much higher or lower… 1/

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

I feel like this didn't get a lot of attention. Perhaps/hopefully that's because it's now well established that the Met is an unethical organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...

If any adults in Baltimore are looking for a Covid shot without restrictions based on age or underlying conditions, James Pharmacy in Federal Hill is (at least for now) offering them.

But you’re not benefiting, and yet I’m sitting Singing again, sing, sing again

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Lorne Michaels says this is also how people identify the best/their favorite era of Saturday Night Live.

The contraption on the pillar to the left of the Royal Farms entrance booms out a police-helicopter-like message, ostensibly to deter loitering. (This seems to have replaced their previous approach of playing classical music.) Staggeringly dystopian.

Just turned in my first manuscript. I’m about to be a published author. I can’t believe I’m typing those words

The first and only O's game we were able to get to this year, and it was beautiful. 🧡 www.camdenchat.com/baltimore-or...

"The book's exploration of key terms like 'debt,' 'police,' and 'union' offers readers a new framework for understanding the university's transformation into an instrument of capital accumulation..." www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

David Smith, chairman of MD-based Sinclair Broadcasting, now owns the Baltimore Sun, in addition to Fox 45 locally and other local TV news outlets across the country.

Via @roxanegay.bsky.social.

a beautifully illustrated and deeply troubling piece that is well worth your time to read

I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. truthout.org/articles/im-... (I wrote a thing in @truthout.org about what it's like to be a primary care doctor when ICE is attacking my patients. )

The past week has really shown that broadly, the news takes its cues from the right and the Dems take their cues from the news on how to respond to the right and it has absolutely nothing to do with anyone who isn't making say 8-10,000 x the US median income for sharing fucking stupid opinions

take a moment with annie lennox www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Rk...

"Son, I love you no matter what color you dye your hair."

Good old fashioned police work whose central strategy GVRS overwhelmingly arrests people for nonviolent crimes: www.baltimorebrew.com/2024/07/22/t... Good old fashioned police work that has been solving the same number of murders for 20+ years: baltimorebrew.com/2025/06/11/b... come on!!!!!

Baltimore's extraordinary, longstanding grassroots violence interruption organizations have "...probably done some good"? He refuses to think beyond the narrow, regressive, and dangerous approaches of broken institutions that he purports to critique in his work.