Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 15hHere's the thing: we don't actually get many bad movies out of Hollywood anymore. Most are so focused-grouped that they're just boring and listless. A really bad movie is good for the system if it manages to be interesting. 240
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 16hA clip that will live in infamy so long as the Daily Show and John Oliver are on the air. 110
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 18hEvery time I wake up with a headache I worry if its Covid again... 000
Reposted by Midatlanticacmtalliance.bsky.social @cmtalliance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026bikemorebmore.bsky.social and the Transportation Alliance read Maryland’s capital transportation budget, and Baltimore transit is coming up short. To learn how, read our report at www.MDOTCTP.com.mdotctp.comWhat the draft budget does to Baltimore transit — Bikemore & CMTABikemore and CMTA read MDOT’s draft FY2027-2032 transportation budget against the plan enacted before it: the Red Line goes unbuilt, Baltimore transit repair is cut, and highway widening and Washingto... 022
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 28/09/2026Wow, this is bad @govwesmoore.bsky.social. Even if it's just a draft, proposing to *cut* money not just from the Red Line but from Baltimore transit writ large is not the kind of thing you want to float ahead of an election. This was a literal campaign promisemdotctp.comWhat the draft budget does to Baltimore transit — Bikemore & CMTABikemore and CMTA read MDOT’s draft FY2027-2032 transportation budget against the plan enacted before it: the Red Line goes unbuilt, Baltimore transit repair is cut, and highway widening and Washingto... 030
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 28/09/2026Holy shit. I’m so used to the blandest mayonnaise NFL coverage that it’s a shock to hear commentators that are actually into the game. Maybe we can leave the ESPN guys in Brazil and bring these guys up North 151
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 28/09/2026One of the most prolific filmmakers of the 80s and 90s was obsessed with dolls and tiny creatures. Some of the names you may still recognize: Puppet Master, Dollman, Ghoulies... And the strange thing was, it wasn't fetishistic. The guy just liked dolls... 120
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 28/09/2026Great way to introduce a sport to a major market: a bunch BS penalties in the last couple minutes of a quarter 000
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 27/09/2026The NFL can see the end and know it’s coming. Their whole push for flag football carries more than a whiff of desperation 121
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 27/09/2026This guy sounds like the “but we made a lot of value for our shareholders” meme wrt his thoughts on Spotify and content creation @theverge.comtheverge.comWhy Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defenderCloudflare’s Matthew Prince joins Decoder to explain what Aristotle has to do with internet infrastructure. 000
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 27/09/2026Aw yeah, audible Orioles “O” during the national anthem in Brazil 061
Reposted by MidatlanticaTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026take a moment this weekend to read this distressing portrait of the decadeslong attack on immigrants in a Maryland county, 50 miles from DC especially if you’re in the DMV, to know what’s happening at your doorstep boltsmag.org/frederick-co...boltsmag.org“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - BoltsFrederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo... 413676
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 27/09/2026Fox airs the Donald Trump propaganda ad, then there's a serious delay of game injury on the field. 010
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 27/09/2026My stance is once you turn thirty, knowing anything about pop culture is a bonus, not a requirement. I have not been thirty for many years. There’s a huge number of people who never listen to anything released after they turned twenty. This is normal 030
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 27/09/2026My dog with all her enhanced senses still needs to stand outside for a full minute before she accepts that it’s raining 020
Reposted by Midatlanticaborn2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit. 248107003425
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 27/09/2026Fine My 9 games #My9Gamesmy9games.netMy 9 Games | Shared games picksA shared 9-panel games collage. 000
Reposted by Midatlanticae.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026every time I see someone post about a story and then add the link in a reply I want to brush away a tear and tell them "we don't have to live this way" 31225
Reposted by MidatlanticaJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ask three boring questions: can it be stored, what else is made with it, and are we creating supply? Those punch three big holes in Trump's diesel export ban newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 10422104
Reposted by MidatlanticaTea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Voters: "We want lower prices and the war to end!" GOP: "How about we take away your health coverage instead?" 391426487
Reposted by MidatlanticaSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.apple.newsThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood ReporterThe Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 763613943
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 25/09/2026One big argument that data centers are valuable infrastructure is that in these modern conflicts they're popular targets. Russia and Iran love going after them. 000
Reposted by MidatlanticaDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You're a straight white guy of a certain age who thinks that Breaking Bad, The Wire, Mad Men, and Succession are the best TV shows ever? Damn, wow thats so unexpected. Tell me more. 4495
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 25/09/2026I could dunk on these two, but their "Yellow Card" solution to immigration is pretty close to something I advocate for. I would like to make it stupid easy to cross the border into the country. Basically no one gets turned away, and they get a new type of visa.youtube.comLatino influencers stick by TrumpYouTube video by CNN 200
Reposted by MidatlanticaClaire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance. 19721286
Reposted by MidatlanticaBmoregabe @bmoregabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@alsobrooks.senate.gov why did you not vote? 1121
Reposted by MidatlanticaSailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Russian asset is growing louder with her crowing. Thst means Democrats have a chance to win something 57220
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 24/09/2026There’s going to be a national holiday to honor those who died from Woke 1.0 within my lifetime. The Nate Silvers of the world are never going to let it go 170
Reposted by MidatlanticaMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future. 179126762224
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 24/09/2026Are Beats headphones still a thing? I don't think I've seen a pair in the wild in a decade. 100
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 24/09/2026It may be unpopular to say, but life has shown me there's no cause worthy of the kind of witch-hunt To Catch a Predator engaged in. I'm not surprised at all that two decades later it's being restaged as a literal horror movie with Hansen as the monster. 010
Reposted by MidatlanticaPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The fact that there are all those National Guard in DC with nothing to do and that there’s nobody to order them to escort the press into the WH as the court ordered tells you how far along the Trump v USA coup is. 39329
Reposted by MidatlanticaAndy Kostka @afkostka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Pete Alonso: “I believe in the Baseball Gods, and I honestly believe I’m here for a reason. I was always meant to be a Baltimore Oriole.” 513517
Reposted by MidatlanticaMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra. 9038321087
Reposted by MidatlanticaLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s never just “they lied when confronted,” it’s always “they lied and it’s worse”theguardian.comEight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirmsHung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter 171148381
Reposted by MidatlanticaSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet 17188471740
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 24/09/2026Living Color opening for Psychedelic Furs is an 80s nostalgia trip I can get behind 010
Reposted by MidatlanticaMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 13850712289
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 24/09/2026Gotta love a team that’s been eliminated and isn’t even fielding their starters making that challenge down by 4 in the 7th 150
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 23/09/2026Reminder that the Mangiones are a Maryland conservative political institution. Nino Mangione is currently trying to prevent Lutherville Station from becoming a Transit Oriented Development site.thebanner.comBaltimore County extends data center pause, advances Lutherville Station, renter protectionsThe Baltimore County Council voted on key legislation related to data centers, housing, Lutherville Station, the Office of the Inspector General and trash. 161
Reposted by MidatlanticaElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/09/2026Americans will pay up to 95% of Trump’s chaotic tariffs. Yet Donald Trump still has zero plan to give tariff refunds back to YOU. I'm pressing Trump's top trade official for answers. You deserve to get your money back. 511208462
Reposted by MidatlanticaBen Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not. 161358245
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 23/09/2026Who is this for? Because this aesthetic wore out its welcome in the 90s. I doubt kids will want to see it, and it doesn't seem clever enough to pitch to adults. I'll probably watch it, but the ceiling here is a decent cult film. 000
Reposted by MidatlanticaA Travis-T @tr0rna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is the kind of disastrous shit a functional government would step up and prevent in the past, no matter the party in charge. This is a fucking disaster waiting to happen. 022
Midatlantica @midatlantica.com · 23/09/2026This is the real immediate, and lasting threat from AI tools and yet the AI companies don't mention it at all in their doomerism. 000