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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 18/09/2026
The Banner is planning ahead — and we want your voice in the room. Tell us how you use local news and what you’d like to see more of. Your feedback will help shape our journalism and reader experience. The survey takes 15–20 minutes and is open through Sept. 25. buff.ly/mABx2iM
The brick exterior of The Baltimore Banner’s office above the words, “Want to help decide the future of The Banner?” and The Banner logo.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In an apparently coordinated effort to show Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is alive and on the mend, a handful of his allies made public statements today saying they have spoken to him on the phone this week and discussed a variety of issues. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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Mitch McConnell’s Colleagues Say He's Alive, Talking On The Phone
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 30/06/2026
Baltimore’s homicide rate hits another historic low
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Baltimore's homicide rate hits another historic low
Homicides were down 23% as of June 20, the most recent data Baltimore Police submitted to the FBI, with violence overall having decreased over the same timeframe.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 28/05/2026
It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work
A page of parodic mail online headlines by Craig Brown from the current issue of Private Eye. Buy Private Eye it’s only £2.99.
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A bumper sticker for the masses
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Cody Boteler @codyboteler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Candidates for Anne Arundel County Executive were receptive to the idea of a tax on secondary luxury homes, sometimes called pieds-à-terre, in the county. And if that sounds familiar, it's b/c Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul have proposed such a tax in New York. Read more @thebaltimorebanner.com:
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Anne Arundel executive candidates considering secondary luxury home tax
Speaking at a forum hosted by the Anne Arundel Affordable Housing Coalition on May 7, Democratic county executive candidates Allison Pickard, James Kitchin and Pete Smith said a supplemental tax on se...
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Just me and my story units, YTD
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 26/01/2026
Is it weird to add music to a simple drone video of Penn Station in the snow? Yes. Is it deeply pleasing to watch? Also yes.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22/01/2026
The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"Karp described himself as a 'card-carrying progressive,' though he expressed views sympathetic to [Trump’s] agenda, and his data analytics company maintains close ties to the country’s immigration authorities and Defense Department." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete
Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp.
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Maya Lora @mayaklora.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
After a contentious renewal process, Baltimore is shutting down its only all-boys charter school. Two small traditional schools were also up for closure, but the board chose to kick the can down the road - to when they'll have a new CEO in charge of recommendations. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
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After years of struggles, Baltimore’s only all-boys public school to close
The Baltimore City school board voted Wednesday to close its only all-boys public school, Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, while putting off decisions on two other proposed school closures.
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Maya Lora @mayaklora.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
For my first story of 2026, I dug into the numbers defining a trend that has exploded in Maryland since the pandemic: homeschooling. There's been a 50% uptick since the 2019-20 school year, holding steady as public school enrollment declines www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
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Homeschooling has exploded in Maryland
A by-the-numbers look at the increase in Maryland homeschooling since COVID-19 that seems here to stay.
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Two prosecutors placed on leave after requesting stiff sentence for man granted clemency after participating in Jan. 6 attack who later turned up armed near Obamas’ house www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
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Prosecutors Who Called Jan. 6 Attackers a ‘Mob of Rioters’ Are Punished
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
October 15, 2025
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The print subscriber base for @motherjones.com is 2.5 times as high. 🙀
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Vulture @vulture.com · 10/10/2025
Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.
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Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money
Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
NYT critic @jasonzinoman.bsky.social on the contradictions of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: “It’s hard to see [Dave] Chappelle signing a contract to perform at a university only if he agreed to state his pronouns at the start of the set.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/a...
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Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival
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Justin Fenton @justinfenton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Just this morning in Baltimore County: 55 yr old man accused of fatally shooting his wife, 56, in Monkton www.thebanner.com/community/cr... 89 yr old man kills his 87 yr old wife & then himself in Timonium www.thebanner.com/community/cr... A “suspicious death” of woman found in home in Sparks area
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Man charged with murder in Monkton woman’s death
Anthony Lechner, 55, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 56-year-old Kimberly Lechner, Baltimore County Police said.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.
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Greg Morton @invisibae.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
New w/ @elliew0lfe.bsky.social: : The Trump administration will begin to charge $100k each for visas that UMD and Hopkins use to hire researchers, scientists and professors. Among the affected? A Ukrainian researcher who may be forced to go home. “I am terrified" www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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Ukrainian researcher’s future in doubt as Trump’s H-1B visa costs hit Hopkins, UMD
Looking at Donald Trump’s new changes to H-1B visas, which now include a hefty $100,000 fee. Will Maryland colleges start hiring less foreign born faculty because of it?
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Worth remembering that a prominent Fox host encouraged the government to murder homeless people last week and is still employed.
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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The top Democratic leaders of the Maryland General Assembly – House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson – were both targeted by bomb threats at their homes today. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Top Maryland General Assembly leaders targeted by bomb threats
The presiding officers of Maryland’s General Assembly were targeted by bomb threats on Thursday, amid rising concern about political violence in the nation.
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Cody Boteler @codyboteler.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I think we got lucky with this storm tonight, all things considered. shout out Alex Mann and Aline Behar Kado on the story and updates and of course to @jphotoj.bsky.social for the great image.
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Some flooding in Baltimore as storms roll through Maryland
The Baltimore region was under a flash flood warning Monday evening, and saw some limited inundations.
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This woman asked Tiktok which city would be better for postgrad: Baltimore or Raleigh? Baltimore is winning (I think), with 429 comments and counting. www.tiktok.com/@khadija.has...
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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
BREAKING: The Baltimore Sheriff's Office is probing a courthouse corrections dept. employee for allegedly inviting ICE agents in for a meeting, which led to someone being detained. Investigation is looking at potential crimes including misuse of state data. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
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Baltimore sheriff probes courthouse employee for allegedly inviting ICE to detain someone
ICE agents detained a man at the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse last week, sparking an investigation of a corrections department employee.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 30/06/2025
Today’s Maryland traffic nightmare? A giant wind turbine blade
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Today’s Maryland traffic nightmare? A giant wind turbine blade
The truck struck the guardrail, causing the blade to slip from the truck, cross the median and go into the eastbound lanes.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: The University of Baltimore turned 100 years old this year. It is also facing a structural deficit, 50% less enrollment in 10 years, and is cutting positions. “Our ability to generate revenue is under duress," the CFO told me. Read: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/un...
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After a century, the University of Baltimore is struggling
Over the last 10 years, the University of Baltimore’s enrollment has dropped, its faculty has halved, leaving its deficit swollen amid state cuts.
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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 25/06/2025
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-... Kudos to the @thebaltimorebanner.com for a balanced take here. Combating antisemitism is important, but you don't get there by stripping context out of history. Israel-Palestine is not a singular narrative, and the state shouldn't push that line.
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Social studies curriculum update reflects concerns about antisemitism
Maryland's rewrite was criticized at points for some of the initial changes and for leaving social studies teachers out of the process.
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Tramon @tramonlucas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum celebrated #Juneteenth, #BlackMusicMonth & their 20th Anniversary during their “Day of Jubilee” Block Party. We talked with leaders, visitors & artists about the importance of Juneteenth and how they celebrate their Black Pride. For @thebaltimorebanner.com
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The scene at today’s ICE out of Baltimore protest near CASA’s headquarters
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Chants of “SHAME” as a CASA organizer describes ICE abductions that have taken place in Baltimore recently. Protesters will be marching to local businesses where immigrants have been taken.
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at the advocacy group Free Press, said it’s “one of the most explicit visual examples I’ve ever seen in my career of retaliation by the government directly against journalists for them doing their job protected by the First Amendment.”
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Journalists come under fire covering L.A. protests
Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement in Los Angeles. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism.
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
If you haven’t fallen down a rabbit hole of deep plane facelift result videos on TikTok you don’t deserve internet
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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Some background on the conditions in ICE’s holding area in Baltimore: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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No beds, lack of food and medicine: The struggles inside Baltimore’s ICE holding room
Immigrants and their attorneys claim there are no beds, little food and medicine at Baltimore’s ICE holding room.
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Coach Rusty @coachrusty.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Stop promising me a loneliness epidemic but never shutting the fuck up
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Killing the man doesn’t kill the story. Dom Phillips was murdered reporting How To Save the Amazon. Join Alessandra Sampaio, Dom’s wife; journalist @andrew.intercept.com.br and me Monday for its U.S. launch @opcofamerica.bsky.social @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social @rizzolibooks.bsky.social
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Herman Wong @hermanywong.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Jobless claims are rising in Maryland at a rate greater than other parts of the country. Here's what it's been like for one former federal contractor searching for work in a flooded market. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
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A former federal contractor from Maryland searches for work in a flooded market: ‘It’s scary’
Many former federal workers find themselves thrust into a job market suddenly inundated with experienced candidates even as employment opportunities are in free fall under federal spending cuts, parti...
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
One of the best things I've done as a parent (I think?) is to raise my kids in a neighborhood like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/w...
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I Bought a House. I Got a Neighborhood.
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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
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A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 30/05/2025
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!
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DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Powerful images www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...
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In Emaciated Children, Gaza’s Hunger Is Laid Bare
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 29/05/2025
‘Boots on the Ground’ was already viral. Baltimore’s dance makes it even better.
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'Boots on the Ground' was already viral. Baltimore's dance makes it even better.
As 803Fresh’s “Boots on the Ground” takes off, Baltimore’s TSU Dance Crew is putting their own spin on the viral hit.
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Greg Morton @invisibae.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The losing streak is over, but the Orioles have a long way to go to save their season. Making the postseason would require something no team since integration has ever done. by @danielleallentuck.bsky.social & I www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/oriol...
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History offers hope for the Orioles – and cause for concern
FanGraphs projects that it will take about 85 wins to secure a postseason spot. That would mean the O’s need to win 69 of their remaining 114 games.
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I'm so sad to lose Kimi. She's the real deal and a kind, funny person. She's got big ideas and the heart/ability to pull them off. We have been lucky to have her. The Banner's work continues!
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Tjortenzi @tjortenzi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Tesla is no longer selling the majority of new EVs registered in California. "Tesla registrations dropped 15%, sales of all other EVs increased 35% early this year." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Cody Boteler @codyboteler.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
NEW: At least 19 men have now filed lawsuits that claim they were sexually abused as children while at Calvert Hall, an independent, all-boys Catholic school in Baltimore County. Read more in @thebaltimorebanner.com:
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New court filings reveal total of 19 men allege sexual abuse and cover up at Calvert Hall
The number of men who say they were victims of sexual abuse at Calvert Hall College High School has grown to 19, according to lawsuits filed this week.
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