Baltimore, these contracts are for our area! >Price Modern $14M – office furniture for new ERO hires >Paragon Systems $6M – armed detainee transport >Kinro Mfg $233K – MREs for 6 months of detainees >Techops Specialty Vehicles $800K – Stingray trucks >Valence Vector $4.5M – personal device cracking

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"That motherfucking car fell on me." "[R]ecent viral video of a Baltimore Police officer attempting to run down a young man with his car in Park Heights." "[T]he practice of Baltimore police officers using their cars as weapons is nothing new." #Maryland #USA #Policing #Weapons

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Keefe commissary prices —the nation’s leading provider of automated commissary management services— surge up to 88%.

A much-needed examination of what happened to Dontae Melton when he asked the police for help, from @baynardwoods.bsky.social in @baltimorebeat.bsky.social:

It’s stunning how badly all the other outlets soft-pedaled the body-cam footage, missing virtually every important detail in their stories about the it. Now that it has been ruled a homicide, I hope other outlets pay better attention. Grateful to be able to cover this for the Beat.

I would add "I Got a Monster" by @bsoderberg.bsky.social and @baynardwoods.bsky.social as well as Copaganda from @equalityalec.bsky.social

New records reveal a 30-minute gap between the time officials claim Dontae Melton Jr. was taken to the hospital and the time he actually arrived at Grace Medical Center. by @baynardwoods.bsky.social baltimorebeat.com/new-medical-...

Tremendous reporting, as always, from @baynardwoods.bsky.social in @baltimorebeat.bsky.social

Protestors demanding “Let Gaza Live” line both sides of Pratt Street in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

"'We are heading into the unknown,' one Palestinian doctor warned Monday as officials reported that Israel's near-total blockade starved [to death] at least 19 people in Gaza in one day." "[T]hree babies dying from malnutrition in the past week alone." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

Mother of Dontae Melton Jr. questions large police response as names of 10 officers involved in his death are released baltimorebeat.com/mother-of-do...

I wrote more for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social about the in-custody death of Dontae Melton Jr and the officers involved and it’s not just the stenography every other outlet engaged in. This story is far from over. baltimorebeat.com/mother-of-do...

I’m incredibly glad that this story is getting more eyes on it. It’s the least of what Eleshiea Goode deserves. It’s unfortunate that an outlet with the resources that @thebaltimorebanner.com has behaves this way baltimorebeat.com/mother-of-do...

The Trump administration is pushing immigrants into a legal black hole created by America’s failed drug war. w/ @baynardwoods.bsky.social

Absolutely dangerous and insane that we're letting this happen. The courts letting Trump do this in L.A. in response to minor unrest -- and where Marines are *still* activated -- has emboldened him to do it everywhere. This is a clear, unambiguous breach of a founding democratic principle.

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

July 4 1776 - July 3 2026, RIP

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Also, not a day goes by that someone doesn’t lament to me the loss of City Paper, often for the lack of music coverage, so it’s great to see the new Best Beats section, headed up by @terihenderson.bsky.social baltimorebeat.com/best-beats-6...

I’d suggest the essays in “Between Past and Future,” which include some of her best prose—Benjamin-esque at moments—and are so crucial for all our current crises and pretty easily accessible.

We've been on the Senate floor for 25 hours fighting this awful bill. Republicans have blocked us at every step — while rewriting the bill behind closed doors to strong-arm their members into cutting health care for 17 million people to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Shameful.

"Dontae Maurice Melton Jr. died in the custody of Baltimore Police officers June 25 after he was restrained on the night of the 24th during a mental health crisis." "[H]e asked a police officer for help." #Maryland #USA #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing #Incarceration

Absolutely @ezewriter.bsky.social and also @heywritergrace.bsky.social

@baltimorebeat.bsky.social has led the way on the coverage of the crisis of police violence and mental health services in our city recently and it’s been a real honor to be a part of it. Here are some of the stories from the past couple weeks.

For @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, @baynardwoods.bsky.social reports the identity of the man who died in police custody while experiencing a mental health crisis last week. His mother says he needed help, but didn't get it. baltimorebeat.com/mother-of-do...

Honored to cover last night’s march for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social:

"No evidence of Abdullah wielding a gun has been provided at this point... Much of police communication is encrypted, allegedly to ensure police safety, but with the convenient side effect of limiting scrutiny and transparency..." This is police reporting like it oughta be.

Devin, who literally came to the museum straight from taking photos at the current protests, spoke about how the trauma never really goes away. Even when he thinks it has gone away.

Bilal Abdullah’s mother tells @baynardwoods.bsky.social that BPD officers injured her shoulder as she tried to get to her son following Tuesday evening’s shooting. @baltimorebeat.bsky.social is the only news outlet in Baltimore with this coverage: baltimorebeat.com/family-mourn...

Protest tonight at 6, marching from Penn North to Upton.

New story about the police shooting of Bilal Abdullah, his family’s response, and new details that refute Commissioner Worley’s claim that the community kept them from rendering aid. baltimorebeat.com/family-mourn...

Baltimore Police shot and killed a well-known arabber—a Black Baltimore community/ tradition, which is based around raising horses and selling produce from horse-drawn carriages—last night. baltimorebeat.com/well-known-b...

#nokings Baltimore at Patterson

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Democrats are still supporting ICE, which is now a lawless, violent Gestapo for the Trump regime that is terrorizing innocent communities and assaulting Senator Padilla. Just sit with it for a moment.

Useful thread.

“ICE out of LA” Baltimore chants in solidarity with Los Angeles.

Anti-Ice march is at Charles and Redwood heading to the federal building.

ICE pit

Anti ICE protest turns onto Lombard. Approaching St. Paul

"April in Baltimore ended with a historically low number of homicides." "On April 22, the [DOJ] cancelled more than 360 ongoing grants [..] for community violence intervention work [..] including programs credited with [..] Baltimore's dramatic reduction in homicides." #Maryland #USA #Policing

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It’s been 2 months since Kilmer Abrego Garcia was illegally sent to CECOT in El Salvador and a month since a federal judge ordered him returned to the US and he is still in El Salvador and the administration is still in violation of the law and the court order. They are counting on us to forget.

"While States debate terminology - is it or is it not genocide? - Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity."

Baltimore turning out as more marches arise.

Lester Spence lecturing on the political lessons of “Dance My Pain Away” www.youtube.com/watch?v=quUS...