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Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…

YouTube video by Joshua Ronken Paper Towels

Extremely grateful to @harvilla.bsky.social for filling my morning commute with Great Muppet Caper clips, however, respectfully sir, the best line in the whole movie is when Lew Zealand says, “I got some paper towels!” youtu.be/UEnMljekPS4?...

After nearly a year in, I can say that I thought giving up Amazon would be so much more difficult but it’s been a breeze. My semi-monthly, Monday night, one-hour-before-close-when-it’s-not-crowded Costco runs are a delight.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

a screenshot of the Accessibility settings in bluesky. The options shown are: Alt text: - Require alt text before posting - Display larger alt text badges

today's a great day to make sure "require alt text before posting" is enabled in your settings and to continue to make bluesky more accessible and inclusive bsky.app/settings/acc...

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Baltimore ended the first half of 2022 with 179 homicides, the worst first half of a year on record (since 1970).
Baltimore just ended the first half of 2025 with 68 homicides, which is the fewest on record.
That’s a 62 percent drop from 2022-2025

Good morning, @baltcityschools.bsky.social - This number for the IT support line on your website does not accept phone calls. We need help with virtual classroom login. We were told to contact IT. We can't get help where you tell us to. Please advise.

Summer Saturday afternoon. Typically these fields would be busy.
Now
Empty.
This is in the heart of Baltimore's immigrant community.

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

This is a delightful read, especially for fellow #typography nerds

I’m going on 06/29 and am abuzz

A very young fawn curled up in some grass and milkweed

Cleansing your timeline: here is a photo of a fawn I discovered hiding in my backyard. Baltimore city living.

Elizabeth Dickinson: "Claire McCardell"

Baltimore! Join me in hearing from Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson on her book celebrating Claire McCardell - the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of - at the Pratt on 06/26:

calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/elizab...

One of my favorite things about parenthood is how the household vernacular gets passed down with no context. When dramatically pausing, my children both bellow “WAIT FOR IIIIIT” but have never seen Psych and have no idea they are quoting it.

Re: “The only consistently good rock back for 25 straight years” = See also: Clutch

Overheard: 14 y.o.’s friend chidingly referring to their chronically online mutual friend as a “screenager”.

My fed employee husband enjoys playing Gran Turismo and discovered today that throwing the race by intentionally smashing into the Teslas at full speed is an extremely effective therapeutic measure.

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director on the United States Government funding cuts UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, notes with deep regret the termination of all funding agreements by the United States Government. These 48 grants, totalling approximat...

The United States’ termination of funding agreements with the United Nations Population Fund is deeply alarming and will have severe consequences for #ReproductiveHealth and rights globally.

If anyone driving a certain brand of EV is looking to replace it, may I suggest the Kia Niro? I’m on my second one and it’s a delight.

Hundreds protest Elon Musk, Donald Trump outside of Tesla dealership in Owings Mills Nearly 300 protestors gathered outside the Tesla dealership in Owings Mills on Saturday, waving homemade signs as drivers slowly passed by beeping their horns in a show of support.

Hundreds protest Elon Musk, Donald Trump outside of Tesla dealership in Owings Mills

Societal Costs of a Measles Outbreak Between December 31, 2018 and April 26, 2019, 72 confirmed cases of measles were identified in Clark County. Our objective was to estimate the economic burden of the measles outbreak from a societal p...

Know what’s not cost-effective?

Measles outbreaks

The 2019 Clark County, WA outbreak cost about $3.4M
- $47,479 per case
- $814 per contact

Crucial resources were diverted to measles triage, isolation, contact tracing, and treatment
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

We’ve switched from pointing and laughing to giving them a dramatic, Joaquin-Phoenix-in-Gladiator-style slow, emphatic thumbs down.

M: How was the field trip?
14: Good. They fed us Chick-fil-A, though.
M: Did you like it?
14: It tasted conservative.

“The Trolley Song” from Carousel during my morning commute

I got a free 3 months of Sirius radio w/ my new lease, which I’ve always enjoyed while it lasts and then don’t subscribe. However, the number of times the showtunes station has life preserver buoyed my spirit from despair and spiraling in the last 2 weeks has me seriously considering paying for it.

Two New Studies Provide Broadest Evidence to Date of Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Researchers estimate 22,180 more live births and 478 more infant deaths than expected across 14 states, including Texas, that banned abortion between September 2021 and August 2022.

"These findings suggest that restrictive abortion policies may be reversing decades of progress in reducing infant deaths in the U.S.,” says Alison Gemmill, associate professor in @hopkinspfrh.bsky.social and the infant-death study’s co-lead author.

Transit nightmare: Thousands of Baltimore kids can’t get to school on time Unreliable public transportation turns school choice into a false promise.

Superb, thorough reporting by
@lizbowie.bsky.social and @invisibae.bsky.social
w/ @thebaltimorebanner.com anner.com : www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

Charm City Sings makes room for everyone Charm City Sings is driven by the energy of Heidi Ackerman, and uplifted by all who sing in it.

It's hard for me to describe the magic that is being a member of Charm City Sings without sounding a bit overzealous. Thankfully, this WYPR story nailed it. www.wypr.org/show/on-the-...

what if we kissed under the constant imminent threat of societal collapse