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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

How thorough was that “review” of the AI slop, anyway? The second sentence of the disclaimer calls Donald Trump the “former President.” The same error is duplicated in the lede. It does not take a journalist to find out who the president is.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We’ve filed two more unfair labor practice cases against @baltimoresun.bsky.social, which has been refusing to bargain with us for over 4 months — instead choosing to threaten our members with new union-busting policies. Baltimore deserves better. We won’t be silenced.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Baltimore Sun owner David Smith’s -separate- company, Sinclair, released new financials this month showing that they’re close to making over $1 million off of their ties to The Sun in just 2025. And yet, The Sun refuses to even negotiate wages with its union employees.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The latest move by @baltimoresun.bsky.social in its crusade to silence its union employees: a directive that bans any desk signage with messaging about collective bargaining, calling them “divisive.” We’ve shown solidarity this way for decades. This is textbook union busting.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#TBT Remember when Sun co-owner Armstrong Williams responded to our concerns with a column about how a “free marketplace of ideas is indispensable?” His and David Smith’s management tried to make us sign a gag rule, then walked away from contract negotiations because we wouldn’t muzzle ourselves.

A column in The Baltimore Sun by the newspaper’s co-owner, conservative commentator Armstrong Williams, responding to the Baltimore Sun Guild’s criticism of his rhetoric toward trans people. It is titled “Censorship atrophies critical thinking.”

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

David Smith’s first order of business after purchasing The Baltimore Sun was to disparage the newspaper’s dedicated staff at an all-hands meeting. Since then, his company has sought to silence any criticism from the union. We get it, David: You can dish it, but you certainly can’t take it.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

We recently invited Baltimore Sun owner/Sinclair chair David Smith to the bargaining table — he suggested that he could get a deal done in “five minutes.” That meeting never came. Instead, his lawyer declared impasse, and told us they’d implement a contract that silences union members.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

We’re still around, and we’re still fighting. We’ve been busy trying to negotiate a deal that defends top-notch journalism, quality jobs and a strong union base at Baltimore’s newspaper of record.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Our union journalists work tirelessly to hold the powerful accountable, and that includes in our own workplace. The Baltimore Sun’s ownership wants us silent. Send a message to David Smith and Armstrong Williams: Charm City won’t stand for millionaire union busters.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

But we’ll end with Mark Twain. His alleged quote: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are mis-informed.” The Center for Mark Twain Studies says this is one of the quotes most commonly misattributed to Twain.

A photo of helicopter seeds with the quote overlaid.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Then there are some questionable quotes from Cicero. Maybe they were lost in translation, or from him speaking from the grave: his birth and death dates are given as 106 BC to 43 AD — meaning he lived nearly 150 years.

A photo of a lighthouse with the quote overlaid. Cicero's lifespan is noted as 106 BC-43 AD

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Neither turn up in an online search of Franklin’s papers at Yale and the National Archives’ collection of founding fathers quotes Likewise, several quotes by fellow founding father James Madison are mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

Two photos of the seaside with the same quote overlaid. One attributes it to James Madison, the other to Thomas Jefferson.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Take these Benjamin Franklin quotes: “It is the responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” And, “The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”

A picture of two landscape photographs with the misattributed quotes overlaid on them

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

When the Baltimore Sun opened its new office last year, ownership saw fit to decorate it with “motivational quotes”. Motivational to someone looking to undermine journalism and our union, that is.

A photo of a Thomas Sowell quote that has no clear source.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The Sun Guild has fought back hard. We: • Launched a public info campaign • Held 4 rallies • Withheld our 137 bylines during election week • Filed 2 unfair labor practice charges • Began bargaining to protect our union and win our first raise in over a decade. (4/5)

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

One year ago today, Baltimore Sun employees learned their paper had been purchased by Sinclair executive chairman David Smith. In just 12 months, Smith has made his agenda clear, with union-busting tactics and a disregard for journalistic integrity. Here's a look back. (1/5)

Inforgraphic: In The Sun's first year of Smith-Williams ownership... 6 months of bargaining for our first new contract since 2011. 19 Guild members resigned, laid off, or fired. 1,647 letters sent supporting the Sun Guild. Stand with the Guild in 2025. Send a letter to David Smith today!

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