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UNauthorized fan-fictional Baltimore newspaper loosely based on Laura Lippman's novels. A fictitious history of the Beacon-Light and it’s predecessor newspapers can be found at drive.google.com/file/d/1JSsufmWcsf…

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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
EDITORIAL: Congress holds the authority to levy taxes and tariffs,,declare war,and regulate foreign influence through the Emoluments Clause. Trump has started a war, levied tariffs, and enriched himself with foreign gifts and favors with the acquiescence of Republicans like Congressman Andy Harris.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Baltimorte's Kinetic Sculpture race is a unique event. www.google.com/search?sca_e...
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
OPINION: our self administered lobotomy continues. wapo.st/3P3DSY2
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Trump ousts National Science Board members
Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
OPINION: Senator Cornyn earns #STE overlay after flipping on filivbuster position to please Trump. He somehow claims it wasn't a change of positiuon. share.google/aimode/2y1j7...
Senator John Cornyn
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OPINION: This NYT article on Chief Justice Roberts and his embrace of the shadow docket has earned him this #STE portrait overlay. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works. youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD…
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29K likes, 2.2K comments. "Could This Actually End Citizens United?"
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
OPINION: Pete #Hegseth shows reveals rediculous display of cluelessness as he quotes "Pulp Fiction" as if it's scripture. Our service members deserve better leadership. This link from military.com www.military.com/feature/2026...
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Pete Hegseth Pentagon Prayer in Viral Video Mirrors ‘Pulp Fiction’
A viral video shows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivering a Pentagon prayer that echoes a well-known 'Pulp Fiction' speech, raising questions and online debate.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
OPINION: This overlay could be applied to the portrait every #Republican #GOP member of the #Senate and #House at this point.
Spinless enabler
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
OPINION: Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and his “seditious” colleagues should release a video, reminding service members that they did not swear an oath to preserve protect and defend the interest (including crypto interest) of Donald J Trump, his family and friends, or his son-in-law. #MarkKelly
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Protest songs against #Trump administration's actions seem to he gaining popularity The creator of this one placed it in the public domain to avoid being added to the "nice little database.: #ICE #ICElies #Minneapolos #AlexPretti archive.org/details/ice-...
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ICE Lied About It : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a protest song in response to  (1) the lawlessness of ICE and CBP  in Minneapolis and elsewhere and(2) the Trump administration's immediate response...
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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
EDITORIAL: According to MN police chief, multiple #ICE officers with guns drawn demanded identity papers from an off duty and minority officer. #DHS should provide a photo lineup of ICE officers in MN so she can ID the culprits and #Noem take appropriate action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRUR...
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Minnesota law enforcement addresses concerns with interactions between federal agents, officers
YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
EDITORIAL: We support ICE protestors. We also support unmasked law enforcement offices.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Immigration and customs enforcement is a legitimate government function. Silence critics is not. #ICE
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
OPINION: Did Anne Arundel County police’s correction of ICE’s narrative in Glen Burnie, shooting influence DHS decision to exclude Minnesota police from Renee Good investigation? foxbaltimore.com/news/local/p...
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Police issue clarification related to December ICE shooting in Glen Burnie
Anne Arundel County Police issued a clarification related to the shooting involving ICE agents in Glen Burnie in December.Contrary to what officials previously
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
OPINION: The message of the #GOP #VAcuts
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
OPINION: The message of the #GOP #VAcuts
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
OPINION: 76 Trump Bone(spurs) and the Big Parade When Trump‘s father paid a doctor to write a bogus bone spurs diagnosis so that his son could avoid the draft, some less “fortunate son” got drafted in his stead. Trump wanting a military parade is an obscenity.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
OPINION: Is declaring serial emergencies a way to lay the groundwork for cancelling elections? (Gift article) wapo.st/3Ti5kzK
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For Trump, seizing emergency powers has become central to governing
President Donald Trump has declared emergencies in various areas. He says strong action is needed; critics say the emergencies don’t exist.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Opinion \ Trump and #GOP to #veterans: Thank you for your service now please die. #VA #VAcuts (gift article) wapo.st/4jkm3wQ
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At Veterans Affairs, plan for sweeping cuts tanks morale
The government’s second-largest agency, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is slated to lose 83,000 employees under Trump administration cutbacks.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
OPINION: Trump and #Noem apparently believe the Teleman is inclined to forgive and forget. #Delusions. (Gift article) wapo.st/4juOAAg
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Veterans recoil at Trump plan to end Afghans’ deportation protection
The Trump administration claims conditions in Afghanistan have markedly improved under Taliban rule. Those who fought in the war say that’s ‘laughable.’
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
OPINION \ what is the use of having laws if the President arbitrarily refuses to enforcement then? (Gift article) wapo.st/4kq5BfG
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Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like
Critics say the administration is breaking the law and sidestepping the rulemaking process that presidents of both parties have long followed.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
OPINION | This is a self administered governmental lobotomy (gift article) wapo.st/43fc1aw
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Trump’s actions are pushing thousands of experts to flee government
The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
OPINION | Firing intelligence analysists with 30 years of expertise because their analysis doesn't reinforce Trump's delusions is nothing short of a gift to our enemies. #Gabbard #DNI #NIC (gift article) wapo.st/4kjboU8
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Gabbard fires leaders of intelligence group that wrote Venezuela assessment
The director of national intelligence fired top officials weeks after their group wrote an assessment contradicting President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang membe...
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
OPINION | Threats to judges who displease #MAGA folks and the #Trump administration mist be prosecuted and the perpetrators swiftly and publicly punished. Why isn't the the person who paid for the pizza immediately identified DOJ? (gift article) wapo.st/3RUQlLE
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Judges say unsolicited pizza deliveries are meant to intimidate them
Judges in several states say they have faced threats and intimidation tactics associated with pizza deliveries.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
OPINION: @govwesmoore.bsky.social should lead the effort to negotiate a #BlueStateDiscount with nations imposing reciprocal #tarrifs so business headquartered in states Trump won pay more for imports. They might pressure Trump to back down if their blue state competitors can undercut their prices
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/04/2025
Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
OPINION: Anyone who went through basic training should know better than to do this sort of thing. (gift article) His drinking problem might explain this lack of judgement. wapo.st/4jhwdiC
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Hegseth team gets new jolt with more allegations involving Signal app
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared sensitive details about a bombing campaign in Yemen to a group that included his wife and brother, the New York Times reported.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
OPINION: Having #SSA declare living people dead is yet another example of the lack of any #ethics by the #Trump admin (gift article) wapo.st/3RKSQQt
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Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
OPINION: #EU #China #Japan #SouthKorea and other countries hurt by #Trump #tariffs could blow things up by charging lower prices to purchasers in #BlueStates. Some companies might move their corporate headquarters to Maryland. A #BlueStateTarrifDiscount could hurt GOP politically in #RedStates
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OPINION: God help us all if this is the level of competence in our national security leadership. #Waltz #SIGNALgate #VenmoGate
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
OPINION: If this level of #DOD #incompetence wasn't so alarming, his ad hominem attack on the journalist would be funny. If the journalist was such a hack, why did you share top secret war plans with him? #Hegseth
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
EDITORIAL: We think all public meeting with government officials should begin with reciting the Pledge of Allegiance withe special emphasis on the last word. If you don't support liberty and justice for ALL (not just those you agree with) you should shut up and be seen shutting up. #ShouitTheAll
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
SPORTS: In overtime thriller, #Maryland women defeat Alabama 111-108 advancing to #Sweet16 in #MarchMadness tournament. umterps.com/news/2025/3/...
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SWEET 16! Terps Rally Past Alabama In Double OT To Advance, 111-108 - University of Maryland Athletics
COLLEGE PARK, MD – No. 4 seed Maryland women's basketball team advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 after defeating No. 5 seed Alabama, 111-108, in double overtime
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
OPINION: When easily disprovable statements are are REPEATEDLY pushed by a government entity, shouldn't there be some sort of legal consequences? #DOGE #SSA #CookingTheFraudBooks
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
OPINION: America used to represent the ideal of liberty and justice for ALL. Now due process and the rule of law seem subject to the whim of the autocrat at the top. (gift article)
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Autocrats roll back rights and rule of law — and cite Trump’s example
Trump’s statements, policies and actions are providing cover for attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, freedom of expression and the rule of law around the world.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
OPINION: With DOGE workers mucking around in #SocialSecurity Administrations data, we strongly encourage those who are not yet collecting benefits to request a Social Security Statement. More in comments. www.ssa.gov/myaccount/st...
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Get Your Social Security Statement | my Social Security | SSA
Check out what the Social Security Statement should look like based on your age.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
OPINION: What the hell does #DEI have to do with telling tht story of folks buried at Arlington National Cemetery? (gift article) wapo.st/4isEBv8
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Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
OPINION: Selling a private meeting with the President for $5 million is influence peddling. Some politicians have been criminally prosecuted for such "Pay to play" schemes (e.g. Rod Blagojevich). It's #corrupttion plain and simple. #pay2play
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
EDITORIAL: Trump's easily disproven claims about extremely old people collecting SSA benefits reflects total disregard of facts in favor of "good television." www.axios.com/2025/03/05/t...
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Trump repeats debunked claim that 160-year-olds are collecting Social Security
The president claimed in an address to Congress that one beneficiary is 360 years old.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
OPINION: This is insane. First you insist there can be no telework and then you close the office space where the workers are supposed to report. #DOGE #RIF #GSA #TRUMP #PRETZELECONIMICS
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Our veterans risked everything for America—now they come home to be told by those who've given nothing for this country that they’re “not fit.” They're more than fit to serve.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
OPINION: In intense meeting with Ukraine leader Zelensky, Trump and Vance flagrantly represent the interests of Vladimir Putin. Those interests are not the interests of the United States. #disgraceful #juvenile #unprecedented
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
OPIINION: Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who analyze national threats have been purged from the Justice Department and FBI. This is a delf inflicted lobotomy tthat should alarm every American. (gift article) #SMR-lobotomy #Trump wapo.st/3QdVdum
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Justice, FBI ousters remove longtime experts from daily threats meeting
Trump administration shake-ups at the Justice Department and FBI have eroded continuity on national security matters, people familiar with the situation said.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
ENTERTAINMENT: Who can forget the marching lobotomy ward from Super Bowl LV? We were still trying to forget the Black Eyed Peas from ten years earlier.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
OPINION: Dear Beer Drinkers. Please tell Trump/Musk folks that making Canadians pay more for Bud and Miller just makes us have to pay more for Molson and Lebatt. #tariffs #econumbnuts
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
ECONOMY: Canada looks to impose 100% retaliatory #tariffs on #Musk's businesses. #unforseen? www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...
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‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s ‘first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war
Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.
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Baltimore Beacon-Light @baltbeaconlight.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
LAW: Trumps #purge of #FBI officials seems to violate the Civil Service Act. If the agency charged with enforcing the law can unilaterally decide to enforce or ignores a law, are we still a republic? www.google.com/search?q=Wha...
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