Baltimore, justice, dogs, and tennis. Former journalist, @city_paper @baltimoremag @rollingstone @ew, now in nonprofit communications. #BlackLivesMatter he/him
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Baltimore's drop in homicides - 23% since last year and a staggering 40% from two years ago - should be a national story. Mayor Scott's Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which prioritizes resources to those most at risk and community engagement, should be studied and replicated.
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Baltimore City's Western District, once the city's most violent, where @MayorBMScott piloted his Gun Violence Reduction Strategy, has not had a single homicide this year.
Baltimore's drop in homicides - 23% since last year and a staggering 40% from two years ago - should be a national story. Mayor Scott's Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which prioritizes resources to those most at risk and community engagement, should be studied and replicated.
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For those interested, some background on GVRS: nlc.org/resource/reimagining…
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omg, I would literally pay money ($8?) if someone subtitled that whole scene as a recap of this meeting...
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Is this planned yet? Time to fill the streets in every city demanding that Trump step down or be ousted. The hour is getting late. nitter.app/shaunking/status/89757…
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"Study after study shows how the media’s overemphasis on crime makes people feel less safe than they really are and negatively shapes public policy around the criminal-legal system. And study after study shows that it’s racist and inhumane." @baltimoresun niemanlab.org/2020/12/defund…
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October 12 is now officially "Indigenous Peoples Day" in Baltimore City. Thank you Baltimore City Council and Indigenous Strong MD, who have been advocating for this change since 2016. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
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I can’t see this gif without hearing this music and the thinking about the single best tweet of all time:
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The most disturbing part about this REALLY disturbing story is when the monster explains how Trump gives hope to other monsters: “A lot of people who disagreed with someone like Trump … might vote for them anyway just because the establishment doesn’t like them.” nitter.app/shaunking/status/10023…
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Dr. Andrea Natalie (@andreanatalemd) of @tcainstitute at @StDavidsHC in Austin, TX is a liar and a racist made up a story about “BLM” attacking his daughter when in fact his daughter and her boyfriend attacked kids who cleaning windows at an intersection. @Freeyourmindkid @deray
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Don't you think the 7th District should be led by someone who, you know, lives there?
"Klacik does not live in the 7th District, but she has pledged to move there if elected."
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At the "witch trials" referenced in the title, innocent people were accused of ridiculous crimes and tortured as a result. That is... not what happened to JK Rowling. To suggest that her situation is analogous to that in any way tells me all I need to know. No thanks.
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No joke: @FOXBaltimore literally showed footage of the 2105 Baltimore Uprising and claimed it showed people jumping on police cars in Fells Point last night.
ENOUGH! Time to reach out to advertisers who support this absurd, patently racist company and #boycottsinclair
The lies and awful journalistic practices are almost too absurd to believe. In the "news" story about crowds they say there were "young people jumping on police cars" at 2am and show video *from the 2015 Baltimore Uprising*, saying "that's the video here":
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Literally anything good that happened in MD during Larry Hogan's time as governor - education funding (Kirwan), protecting reproductive rights, paid sick leave - happened over his strenuous objections. He is a total failure.
Spoiler alert! Democrats in Maryland voted to override Larry Hogan's veto of paid sick leave in 2018. When you're sick and need to stay home from work, thank a Democrat! Now you don't have to choose between your physical and financial health!
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Tell me you’re at a Baltimore gas station without telling me you’re at a Baltimore gas station.
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Cc @Starbucks 👇🏼
L.A. Fitness fires 3 workers after black men get kicked out of N.J. gym nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018…
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Is that Megan Rapinoe in the background?? This might be the most badass US Olympic photo of all time…
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The *only* person who died during the Uprising of 2015 was Freddie Gray, and he was killed by police.
It was not remotely "the worst violence in Baltimore... in 47 years," but our racist gov propagates that racist narrative to sell more prosecution, policing, and incarceration.
Seven years ago, Maryland faced a difficult chapter in our history when the worst violence in Baltimore broke out in 47 years. I will always be grateful for the courageous response of law enforcement, first responders, national guardsmen, and the people of Baltimore.
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I’m generally with you on team Hillary but this scorched earth approach on Sanders over the past week is a decidedly bad look.
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2020 COVID deaths in Baltimore: 626
2020 homicides in Baltimore: 332
Alec MacGillis has been using his massive platform to downplay COVID-19 all year. And he’s terrible at predictions.
Prediction: two American cities will lose more residents to homicide than coronavirus this year, and those two cities will be Baltimore and St Louis.
Which will both be good news and terrible news.
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It’s a lovely gesture but hardly “stunning” - there is a long history of Jewish-Muslim solidarity.
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Between insisting on an in-person election despite public health experts’ unanimous opposition and now preventing jurisdictions from closing schools to protect teachers and students, @GovLarryHogan seems *determined* to kill Marylanders. baltimoresun.com/coronavirus…
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Counterpoint: Remember me as a 'corrupt, racist cretin who cancelled the Red Line, Baltimore's best opportunity for transformative change in at least a generation'
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Ageism and entitlement are absolutely real, they’re just not particularly right-wing. They’re universal. This meme reeks of soccer mom liberalism.
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In observance of Festivus and the traditional Airing of Grievances, I present my Top Five Baltimore Villains, in no particular order. Add you own!
1. Larry Hogan
2. Sinclair Broadcasting/Fox45
3. Atlas Restaurant Group
4. Baltimore City FOP
5. Marilyn Mosby #FreeKeithDavis
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The Lady in the Lake story and the Banner/WYPR's youth-carjacking panic piece are two examples of fake news stories that perpetuate false/incomplete narratives about Baltimore. Local media should work to correct/complete those narratives, but too often they take easy way out 1/2
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It takes some next-level racism to boycott a team because they *stopped* using a racial slur as their nickname... (btw, this is a Maryland state Senator 🙄)
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I don't understand the Hebrew, but honestly, what different does it make? Military service is compulsory for Israeli citizens, so presumably all of the hostages were current or former soldiers. It's no secret. Was Israel required to use pictures of her in uniform in posters?
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This is not a serious person.
This is not a serious newspaper.
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This is not the “own” you think it is. @GrimKim is every bit as awesome as she looks.
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It’s even more amazing that his sexual identity seems to be barely mentioned in the press, even right wing press. It’s gone from disqualifying to practically a non-issue overnight...
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Good for @cmcampbell6 and the Sun for publishing this comprehensive piece on @GovLarryHogan's decision to kill the Red Line, which will no doubt go down as one of the most consequential and racist decisions in the history of urban planning. 1/2 baltimoresun.com/politics/bs…
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Attention Baltimore media: This asshole has 1.8 million followers. Daily Mail has 2.1 million daily readership. This is what happens when you uncritically publish police lies without skepticism. This is killing Baltimore.
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Oh man, NRA tears are delicious...
LOL: Thanks to the work of California Asm. @BauerKahan, a former @MomsDemand volunteer and my state rep, Californians who go on the NRA’s website now get this begrudging message about the how the @NRA is prohibited from marketing firearms to children.
We will win! 👏👏👏
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White high school dropouts wealthier than black college graduates. The power of institutional white supremacy.
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We're starting a Baltimore-based news outlet and dropping a million names but zero Black people. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
SCOOP --> Stewart Bainum unveils plans for new ‘Baltimore Banner’ news site — and hires Kimi Yoshino, a top L.A. Times editor, to run it washingtonpost.com/media/202…
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Baltimore cops: Wow, 15 tons of coke? Where are we going to store 10 tons of coke? We have to be very careful with this 5-ton haul of coke...
A news release from Customs and Border Protection in Baltimore lists the final, official weight of last week’s record-breaking cocaine seizure in Philadelphia as 39,525 pounds—nearly 20 tons—value $1.3 billion. @wjz
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Does Sinclair 45 think there should be a police officer for every person walking around Fells Point? 🤔
More importantly, why isn't every public official and advertiser calling out this nonsensical, patently racist campaign to villainize Black people for... walking in public?
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Hey @FOXBaltimore - I double dog dare you to report on this historic achievement...
The first half of 2024 in Baltimore ended with 89 homicides, the second fewest to start a year on record (since 1970). Just two years ago saw the worst first half on record, with 179 killings.
That's a two-year drop of more than 50 percent
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infuriating. Hogan’s racism is deadly.
From @stefmav:
Baltimore City will receive 135 vaccine doses per 10k residents.
Baltimore County will receive 237 vaccine doses per 10k residents.
Kent County will receive 618 vaccine doses per 10k residents.
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Wow. It would be one thing to say “the findings are inaccurate” or “I need to do more to research,” but to acknowledge that the findings are accurate - whole schools with zero basic English and math skills - and say you’re “not concerned” is really something from a publ official.
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I'll be saying it over and over until I die: Cancelling the Red Line was one of the most awful, racist decisions any politician has made in my lifetime.
#CancelHogan
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Serious questions for @ivanjbates: What are you talking about?
Is anyone breaking the law in this picture?
“Holding people accountable” for WHAT?
Why are you buying into the absurd Fox45 narrative that people gathering in public spaces is illegal?
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I'm in... out, that is. #BoycottNFL nitter.app/shaunking/status/90620…
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I don’t even understand the question. Why would I feel bad? If folks are unable to be vaxxed, it helps them. And if they’re eligible and they’ve chosen not to be vaxxed and put others are risk, screw them.
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I know and have worked with a LOT of activists in Baltimore (I'll include a list of some of my favorites at the end), so when I saw this list of of "Activists" in the Sinclair @baltimoresun's "Best of 2024" and didn't recognize a single name, I had to find out who they are. A 🧵
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Why is there a need to "both sides" everything?? I see a bonkers 80-90% shift among GOP and basic stability, with a predictable 20-30% shift for Dems.
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Watching #bodexpress run free among all those horses getting whipped was the most exhilarating thing in horse racing history.
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Overall, the city has had 17 homicides so far this year, about a third as many as on this date in 2022, the year the city began to pilot GVRS.
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Rublev was wearing it in Tiafoe’s last match too… is it so hard for @Nike to have different kits for different players??
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Seriously, there are prominent Republicans heaping praise on Biden more readily than any Dems... nitter.app/NoLieWithBTC/status/14…
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Um, this guy, and pretty all the white terrorists responsible for mass shootings, come from your side of the "political spectrum"...
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If you're going to continue to platform a proven bigot - who has written more that 25% of your op-eds so far - this is 100% meaningless.
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You crushed economic opportunities for thousands of Baltimore City residents when you cancelled the Red Line, gave back $900M in federal funds committed to the project and re-directed $2B in committed state funds to build highways for your white base, you miserable racist fuck.
The window for bipartisanship might be narrowing, but it’s not too late to change course. As we move onto infrastructure, we can’t let it close completely.
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Black people invented the Blues *because* of the US, because of its brutality, its oppression. “We” don’t get to take credit for it. I’ve never heard of a so-called “Blues fan” so clueless about its history.
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With everyone waking up to @BossHogMD's casual corruption and self-interest, it's worth pointing out that City Paper and @kdrabinski were all over this back in 2015 and the Sun's destruction of that outlet has left a giant hole in public accountability.
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100s of interactions - to and from work every day for yrs - and I've only given $ a handful of times (I rarely carry cash). I've NEVER had a negative experience. Please consider that sharing unverified, single-perspective, anecdotal stories put these young people in more danger.
What have your interactions with the #squeegeeworkers been like? I just got off the phone with a woman who broke down in tears describing an incident. She says one pulled a gun on her while she was sitting in traffic Thursday. I have her story on @wbaltv11 this evening.
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And thanks @scanthepolice for doing the initial debunking. Don’t fuck with #BaltimoreTwitter
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Thank you @suchaputz for nailing down this shameless lying racist POS.
Sir, your daughter's name is Veronica, yeah? See I archive police radio in Baltimore. This appears to be audio of your daughter's incident, and either she or you are full of shit.
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You’re a racist and a fool. This is a "Blue Lives Matter" flag. There are no such things as “blue lives.” People can choose whether or not to be cops. People can't choose to stop being Black and disproportionately targeted by police. The “blue lives” movement is inherently racist
We are proud to hang these Thin Blue Line flags in Government House to honor our brave law enforcement officers. A local elected official prohibiting police from displaying a flag given to them by a grateful child is disgraceful.
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I have nothing against any of these people - like I said, I had never heard of any of them until I saw this poll. But shame on Sinclair's "Baltimore" Sun for ignoring the hundreds of activists working tirelessly to improve the lives of Baltimore City residents TODAY.
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Hogan has totally abandoned Baltimore - cutting school funding, killing Red Line, shifting funding to projects around the state (link). This disinformation campaign is very Trump-like and leaves me more motivated than ever to work to elect @BenJealous. citypaper.com/news/features/…
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Here’s Hough proudly posing with his NRA rug on Facebook the morning after the shooting at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year. No offense, sir, but I’ll side with the advocates at @MomsDemand over you on #GunViolence every day and twice on Sunday.
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