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NEW in @thebaltimorebanner.com: Maryland redistricting = not happening. @brendawintrode.bsky.social & @maddioneill.bsky.social have the receipts. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

We asked all 47 Maryland state senators where they stand on redistricting. You can look up their answers by county. w/ @maddioneill.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdfyx2ty

Maryland is suing the Department of Homeland Security to block a planned ICE detention center in Washington County, saying the federal government failed to do a required environmental impact study and public health concerns. w/ @maddioneill.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

My incredible boyfriend’s incredible new zine is available now at @atomicbooks.bsky.social 🎉

They met. They talked. They didn't change their minds. Here's what we know happened during the redistricting summit between Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Maryland Senate Pres. Bill Ferguson today in Annapolis. By @maddioneill.bsky.social & me www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

NEW with @pwoodreporter.bsky.social & @brendawintrode.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Why didn't Maryland Democrats end local ICE cooperation agreements sooner? They feared retaliation from the Trump administration, including federalization of Maryland's National Guard, @brendawintrode.bsky.social reports: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Sun management has once again disparaged our talented -human- reporters and their work, this time by filling more than half a page in today’s paper with AI slop.

happy birthday gromit 🥹 🎂 🐶

A self-proclaimed outsider, Gov. Wes Moore is grappling with the limits of his power — to force a vote on redistricting, to protect immigrant communities from ICE, to shield Maryland from chaos in Washington. A look from the @thebaltimorebanner.com State House team: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

In his fourth State of the State address, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore spoke like an executive that has taken some lumps and learned some lessons. The speech felt at times like a family meeting, almost confessional. From @thebaltimorebanner.com 's State House team. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Charles Exum was treated like a hero by peers and fellow Feds, not just Bovino, as he shared with this text sent by “guy from Vermont” who called him “a legend among agents”

New story with @justinfenton.bsky.social: He's set to lead the Maryland State Police. But the last time he ran a law enforcement agency, his deputies busted into a small-town mayor's home and killed two dogs in a botched raid, part of a string of similar incidents. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

NEW: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he will sign legislation banning local jails/law enforcement from having cooperation agreements with ICE known as 287(g). Lawmakers could send him a bill as soon as next week, reports @brendawintrode.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

The former second-in-command of the Cumberland Police Department has been indicted on charges that he repeatedly assaulted female coworkers by applying "pain compliance pressure points," the Office of the State Prosecutor announced today. Indictment: osp.maryland.gov/wp-content/u...

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson has bottled up a new map of Congressional districts in committee. But could senators force it out of committee and put it to a vote? @brendawintrode.bsky.social explains how that could happen — if the support exists: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

How a change in Maryland law is making it harder for people who maintain they were wrongfully convicted of crimes to get compensated. (📸: @kaitlinobscura.bsky.social) (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Breaking for @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

NEW: Banning ICE officers from wearing masks would be “difficult and likely unconstitutional,” @oagmaryland.bsky.social told lawmakers in a letter last week, undercutting legislative efforts to constrain immigration enforcement in the state. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

The Minnesota day care fraud guy showed up at a West Baltimore church's Narcotics Anonymous meeting with a selfie stick and got run out, reports @alissazhu.bsky.social "Go to the doctors who started the opioid crisis," a woman told him www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

New story: Maryland lawmakers want to regulate "dynamic pricing" in grocery stores. But what is dynamic pricing and how is it affecting shoppers in Maryland? www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...

Maryland AG pushes for change to system allowing anyone to file for criminal charges

Baltimore officers involved in Dontae Melton’s death won’t be charged, family lawyer says, @maddioneill.bsky.social and @darreonna.bsky.social report. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

BREAKING w/ @darreonna.bsky.social: @oagmaryland.bsky.social will not file charges against the police officers who restrained Dontae Melton Jr. while he had a mental health crisis in June. After an ambulance never arrived, he died. Story: www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

The FBI searching Hannah Natanson’s home for classified documents is an attack on the first amendment meant to chill sources and journalism. Her reporting this year has been outstanding. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

I'm covering the Maryland General Assembly for @thebaltimorebanner.com again this year! Follow along with our team's live updates here: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

WHOA www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child. A 16-year-old citizen DHS calls this "utmost professionalism" w/ @mckenziefunk.com

A typically excellent @joshuabenton.com piece today, on the demise of Pittsburgh’s only daily newspaper. (I also learned that the Toledo Blade had a London bureau til 1983!) Via @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/will...

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

The University of Maryland, College Park spent $600,000 on an investigation that ultimately cleared President Darryll Pines of plagiarism allegations. But despite being vindicated by the findings, Pines and the university refuse to release the report: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Fuck this

A few months ago, ICE agents shot a TikToker. The govt then charged him, alleging he tried to ram agents Well guess what? Body-cam footage -- which the gov't delayed disclosing -- shows that's BS. The agent shot by mistake. And a judge just dismissed charges. www.latimes.com/california/s...

He’s right: “Journalists maybe stopped appreciating how cool their job is. It’s like, wait a minute; you guys are basically detectives if you’re actually reporting shit. Bringing people into the process is like bringing them into a movie.” www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

heritage americans

Belatedly, this line from Weiss' memo is...something Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em

A Maryland law permits anyone to file criminal charges against another with a court commissioner and without consequence if the accusations are false. @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social reports how this law has upended people’s lives. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

I wish Lydia Tár was real so she could appear on one of the new CBS debate shows

Coming soon… キネマ KINEMA A new zine 2026 Illustrations by @camdelrosario.bsky.social

bari weiss at the free press: the sixteenth piece this month on cancel culture is a valuable contribution to the discourse bari weiss at cbs: everyone already knows the administration sends immigrants to a gulag, we can't possibly run with this

I think it’s ok to do multiple stories about the government illegally sending migrants to a foreign torture prison

Literally pretending not to know what a feature story is

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Seeing one of the most important stories of this administration’s violations of human rights downgraded to a trend piece that’s been told already and needs new juice while reviving such ideas as ‘has feminism failed’