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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
John Akomfrah’s “Hour of the Dog” at the BMA explores the way apathy halts progress baltimorebeat.com/john-akomfra...
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John Akomfrah's "Hour of the Dog" at the BMA explores the way apathy halts progress
Most of us have seen countless photographs and documentaries about the Civil Rights Movement. We have heard Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches speculating about what may save the soul of America. We…
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Michael Wriston @michaelwriston.com · 11/11/2025
Baltimore, these contracts are for our area! >Price Modern $14M – office furniture for new ERO hires >Paragon Systems $6M – armed detainee transport >Kinro Mfg $233K – MREs for 6 months of detainees >Techops Specialty Vehicles $800K – Stingray trucks >Valence Vector $4.5M – personal device cracking
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Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 07/11/2025
"That motherfucking car fell on me." "[R]ecent viral video of a Baltimore Police officer attempting to run down a young man with his car in Park Heights." "[T]he practice of Baltimore police officers using their cars as weapons is nothing new." #Maryland #USA #Policing #Weapons
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The practice of Baltimore police officers using their cars as weapons is nothing new
A recent viral video of a Baltimore Police officer attempting to run down a young man with his car in Park Heights drew immediate condemnation from city.
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Keefe commissary prices —the nation’s leading provider of automated commissary management services— surge up to 88%.
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Keefe Commissary Prices Surge Up to 88%. Prison Wages Remain Frozen.
Incarcerated people making 35 cents an hour face challenges budgeting for commissary items when prices increase 88%.
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A much-needed examination of what happened to Dontae Melton when he asked the police for help, from @baynardwoods.bsky.social in @baltimorebeat.bsky.social:
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Dontae Melton’s police custody death ruled a homicide as body camera footage reveals numerous failures in city’s crisis response system
Dontae Melton Jr.’s death in police custody was a homicide, according to Stephanie Moore, spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, who said full details of their report would not be ...
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It’s stunning how badly all the other outlets soft-pedaled the body-cam footage, missing virtually every important detail in their stories about the it. Now that it has been ruled a homicide, I hope other outlets pay better attention. Grateful to be able to cover this for the Beat.
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I would add "I Got a Monster" by @bsoderberg.bsky.social and @baynardwoods.bsky.social as well as Copaganda from @equalityalec.bsky.social
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Sanya Kamidi @skamidi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
New records reveal a 30-minute gap between the time officials claim Dontae Melton Jr. was taken to the hospital and the time he actually arrived at Grace Medical Center. by @baynardwoods.bsky.social baltimorebeat.com/new-medical-...
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New medical records complicate initial account of Dontae Melton’s in-custody death as body-cam footage release is delayed
New records reveal a 30-minute gap between the time officials claim Dontae Melton Jr. was taken to the hospital and the time he actually arrived at Grace Medical Center, roughly a mile from the corner...
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Tremendous reporting, as always, from @baynardwoods.bsky.social in @baltimorebeat.bsky.social
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New medical records complicate initial account of Dontae Melton’s in-custody death as body-cam footage release is delayed
New records reveal a 30-minute gap between the time officials claim Dontae Melton Jr. was taken to the hospital and the time he actually arrived at Grace Medical Center, roughly a mile from the corner...
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Protestors demanding “Let Gaza Live” line both sides of Pratt Street in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 21/07/2025
"'We are heading into the unknown,' one Palestinian doctor warned Monday as officials reported that Israel's near-total blockade starved [to death] at least 19 people in Gaza in one day." "[T]hree babies dying from malnutrition in the past week alone." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
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'New Levels of Desperation' in Gaza as Israeli Blockade Starves 19 People to Death in One Day | Common Dreams
Children are dying of starvation in Gaza while aid is stockpiled nearby. How many more innocent lives must be lost before the world takes action? The human-caused hunger crisis is reaching…
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Mother of Dontae Melton Jr. questions large police response as names of 10 officers involved in his death are released baltimorebeat.com/mother-of-do...
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Mother of Dontae Melton Jr. questions large police response as names of 10 officers involved in his death are released
Ten police officers were involved in the death of Dontae Melton Jr., the Office of the Attorney General announced on Thursday evening. It was the first time Melton’s identity was confirmed by…
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I wrote more for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social about the in-custody death of Dontae Melton Jr and the officers involved and it’s not just the stenography every other outlet engaged in. This story is far from over. baltimorebeat.com/mother-of-do...
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Mother of Dontae Melton Jr. questions large police response as names of 10 officers involved in his death are released
Ten police officers were involved in the death of Dontae Melton Jr., the Office of the Attorney General announced on Thursday evening. It was the first time Melton’s identity was confirmed by official...
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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I’m incredibly glad that this story is getting more eyes on it. It’s the least of what Eleshiea Goode deserves. It’s unfortunate that an outlet with the resources that @thebaltimorebanner.com has behaves this way baltimorebeat.com/mother-of-do...
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Mother of Dontae Melton Jr., man who died in police custody, says the system failed her son
Dontae Maurice Melton Jr. died in the custody of Baltimore Police officers June 25 after he was restrained on the night of the 24th during a mental health crisis at the intersection of Franklin Street...
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 11/07/2025
The Trump administration is pushing immigrants into a legal black hole created by America’s failed drug war. w/ @baynardwoods.bsky.social
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What the government can do to you without due process
The Trump administration is pushing immigrants into a legal black hole created by America’s failed drug war.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Absolutely dangerous and insane that we're letting this happen. The courts letting Trump do this in L.A. in response to minor unrest -- and where Marines are *still* activated -- has emboldened him to do it everywhere. This is a clear, unambiguous breach of a founding democratic principle.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
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LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike
LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
July 4 1776 - July 3 2026, RIP
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Also, not a day goes by that someone doesn’t lament to me the loss of City Paper, often for the lack of music coverage, so it’s great to see the new Best Beats section, headed up by @terihenderson.bsky.social baltimorebeat.com/best-beats-6...
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Best Beats 6/18/25-7/2/25
shekdash & Tromac NIGGA MODE – REMIXES Some things are just for us. Released just in time for Juneteenth, the “NIGGA MODE – REMIXES” EP is an unapologetic sonic declaration of Black sound. Curated by ...
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I’d suggest the essays in “Between Past and Future,” which include some of her best prose—Benjamin-esque at moments—and are so crucial for all our current crises and pretty easily accessible.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
We've been on the Senate floor for 25 hours fighting this awful bill. Republicans have blocked us at every step — while rewriting the bill behind closed doors to strong-arm their members into cutting health care for 17 million people to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Shameful.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 01/07/2025
"Dontae Maurice Melton Jr. died in the custody of Baltimore Police officers June 25 after he was restrained on the night of the 24th during a mental health crisis." "[H]e asked a police officer for help." #Maryland #USA #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing #Incarceration
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Mother of Dontae Melton Jr., man who died in police custody, says the system failed her son
Dontae Maurice Melton Jr. died in the custody of Baltimore Police officers June 25 after he was restrained on the night of the 24th during a mental health crisis at the intersection of Franklin…
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Absolutely @ezewriter.bsky.social and also @heywritergrace.bsky.social
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
@baltimorebeat.bsky.social has led the way on the coverage of the crisis of police violence and mental health services in our city recently and it’s been a real honor to be a part of it. Here are some of the stories from the past couple weeks.
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
For @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, @baynardwoods.bsky.social reports the identity of the man who died in police custody while experiencing a mental health crisis last week. His mother says he needed help, but didn't get it. baltimorebeat.com/mother-of-do...
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Mother of Dontae Melton Jr., man who died in police custody, says the system failed her son
Dontae Maurice Melton Jr. died in the custody of Baltimore Police officers June 25 after he was restrained on the night of the 24th during a mental health crisis at the intersection of Franklin Street...
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Honored to cover last night’s march for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social:
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"No evidence of Abdullah wielding a gun has been provided at this point... Much of police communication is encrypted, allegedly to ensure police safety, but with the convenient side effect of limiting scrutiny and transparency..." This is police reporting like it oughta be.
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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Devin, who literally came to the museum straight from taking photos at the current protests, spoke about how the trauma never really goes away. Even when he thinks it has gone away.
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Bilal Abdullah’s mother tells @baynardwoods.bsky.social that BPD officers injured her shoulder as she tried to get to her son following Tuesday evening’s shooting. @baltimorebeat.bsky.social is the only news outlet in Baltimore with this coverage: baltimorebeat.com/family-mourn...
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Family mourns arabber slain by police as new details emerge
On the evening of the Juneteenth holiday, a crowd gathered near the Upton Metro station off Pennsylvania Avenue, not to celebrate the end of slavery in America but to mourn the shooting of beloved ara...
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Protest tonight at 6, marching from Penn North to Upton.
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
New story about the police shooting of Bilal Abdullah, his family’s response, and new details that refute Commissioner Worley’s claim that the community kept them from rendering aid. baltimorebeat.com/family-mourn...
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Family mourns arabber slain by police as new details emerge
On the evening of the Juneteenth holiday, a crowd gathered near the Upton Metro station off Pennsylvania Avenue, not to celebrate the end of slavery in America but to mourn the shooting of beloved ara...
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Baltimore Police shot and killed a well-known arabber—a Black Baltimore community/ tradition, which is based around raising horses and selling produce from horse-drawn carriages—last night. baltimorebeat.com/well-known-b...
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Well-known Baltimore arabber shot and killed by Baltimore Police officers
Well-known Baltimore arabber Bilal Abdullah was shot by members of the Baltimore Police Department near Penn North around 7:30 yesterday evening and pronounced dead at Shock Trauma at 11:14 p.m.  BPD ...
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#nokings Baltimore at Patterson
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
Here is a list I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Defense of democracy seen as basic to the job.

Symmetrical accounts of asymmetrical realities seen as malpractice.

“Politics as strategic game” frame seen as low quality, downmarket, amateurish— and overmatched.

Bad actors with a history of misinforming the public seen as unsuitable sources and unwelcome guests.

Internalizing of the “liberal bias” critique seen as self-crippling, a historic mistake in need of correction.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Democrats are still supporting ICE, which is now a lawless, violent Gestapo for the Trump regime that is terrorizing innocent communities and assaulting Senator Padilla. Just sit with it for a moment.
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Useful thread.
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“ICE out of LA” Baltimore chants in solidarity with Los Angeles.
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Anti-Ice march is at Charles and Redwood heading to the federal building.
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
ICE pit
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Anti ICE protest turns onto Lombard. Approaching St. Paul
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15/05/2025
"April in Baltimore ended with a historically low number of homicides." "On April 22, the [DOJ] cancelled more than 360 ongoing grants [..] for community violence intervention work [..] including programs credited with [..] Baltimore's dramatic reduction in homicides." #Maryland #USA #Policing
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Trump DOJ eliminates funding from Baltimore violence interruption efforts
April in Baltimore ended with a historically low number of homicides. Five people were murdered that month, the fewest in any recorded month in the city’s history, ending a decade where the city…
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It’s been 2 months since Kilmer Abrego Garcia was illegally sent to CECOT in El Salvador and a month since a federal judge ordered him returned to the US and he is still in El Salvador and the administration is still in violation of the law and the court order. They are counting on us to forget.
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"While States debate terminology - is it or is it not genocide? - Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity."
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End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza: UN experts say States face defining choice
GENEVA – Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an out...
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Baynard Woods @baynardwoods.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Baltimore turning out as more marches arise.
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