not surprising @kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social got this endorsement given he stated he would not give up a *single* parking spot for bus and bike lanes in DC. link: www.facebook.com/krmcduffie/p...

Why i have become such a convert on planting more trees in cities: A tree can cool a place the same as 10 room-size air conditioners running 24 hours a day! 🌳🏡🌲 From @jeffspeck.bsky.social’s “Walkable City” book

“More people opine without even reading the work over on Twitter - and that’s a good thing!”

keep in mind the "better transit, not bike lanes" crowd never takes the bus & would flip out if the city proposed a dedicated bus lane on a main street in their area. source: organized for bus lanes on a certain street & having opposed old rich white people lecturing me (brown person) about equity

please don't put it in the newspaper that I got mad on reddit

Do you remember these news items last year? April 2025: Baltimore no longer in the top 25 most dangerous places in the US July 2025: Baltimore is the 4th most dangerous in the US How is this possible? I'm glad you asked. Spoiler: these rankings aren't what they pretend to be. A thread!

I’ve been getting into swiffers today

For Maryland's Jan. 6 defendants, pobody's nerfect! 👉👈

What the actual fuck is the Banner doing here

I do not care. They deserved longer sentences for treason.

So is there a world where we yell at the Banner enough to get them to retract the article, or should I just cancel my subscription now and save myself the trouble?

Shameful stuff from Mattel at Day out with Thomas. AI-generated Thomas out here looking like an Italian brainrot character

perhaps we should embrace the fact that none of us has ever seen anything like this and the range of plausible outcomes is pretty fucking wide

How do upzonings impact housing supply? In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms. www.urban.org/research/pub...

@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social I was talking to a friend who has unreasonable access to AI and he had fun with a crayon I gave him for Reistertown Station. In particular - axe Wabash Ave! It ends at Patterson Ave anyway! Even the AI struggled to take it out.

A couple days ago I had a pair of garden shears fall out of my pocket and into a storm drain. Not willing to take the loss, I bought a fishing magnet to try to get it out, only to realize the grate is itself magnetic, and it wasn’t practical to actually get it through.

I definitely left the windows open too long 🥶

First day back from break, and there’s already a serious arboreal casualty at the local elementary school. I don’t think there’s a harder place to be a street tree.

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

#IdeasAtWork "Safe infrastructure is the key that unlocks growth." New data from NYC, London, Paris, and Berlin proves that when we build for people, ridership follows. Paris hitting 11% mode share isn’t an accident, it’s a design choice. Cc: @urbantruth.bsky.social @jbwicz.bsky.social

A bill that would reduce the number of crimes that automatically result in adult charges for teenagers has made it through the General Assembly and is headed to Gov. Wes Moore’s desk, reports @maddioneill.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

“We’re living in a land of lawlessness,” "Cars sped through the corridor behind the vigil, drowning out speakers, forcing pedestrians to dodge impatient drivers." www.baltimoresun.com/2026/04/03/a...

Rep. Mike Lawler: "I don't support making a whole civilization die, but ... "

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Charter Review Committee receiving this bill

damn @pemalevy.bsky.social

So incoherent. They’re bad cartoon villains but also why won’t they come over HERE?

Apple tree germination!

Baltimore folks: SB554 being heard before the City Delegation on Friday. You can sign up for oral or written testimony via the Delegation website www.baltimorecitydelegation.com by 5pm TH (tomorrow! 3/26!) Please help parents and families preserve local control!

…and it’s already dead.

Banner article on SB554. When I note that the Community Panel is drawn from historically harmed groups, I am not speaking metaphorically. Panel members are drawn from plaintiffs groups in Bradford and Vaughn G over funding and special education, respectively. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

“Stoop”?!?

please

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

wikipedia trading card game 💆‍♂️💆‍♂️ wikigacha.com

Only one item for 1st Reader this week but it's a big one, c/o @zekecohen.bsky.social himself & bound for Land Use & Transportation. It bans private detention centers in Baltimore City:

what is this junk DPW?

The priorities for this storm cleanup don’t seem to align with our modal hierarchy!

Don’t want to hear any more about marylands budget crisis while “$125 million renovation to Rooney family racehorse farm” is still a line item

I'm sorry ... but this not crazy to you????? abc7.com/post/federal...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Yes and also the land uses currently permitted in PC-2 and up allow many things that would be criminally bad land use there. The council should tighten that up, lest the remaining parcels just end up data centers, a quick pay day for whatever bank buys the complex.

Today’s hearing on the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund could lead to much-needed accountability. tinyurl.com/9zvpkpfv Right now, sketchy grantmaking and lack of meaningful outcomes reporting make it hard to say if the funds are going to grassroots groups as intended. [OP-ED]

@zekecohen.bsky.social asks Conway to refrain from negative invocations of "politics" & to "maintain decorum."

what is it about realtors in this city and having terrible opinions