brandon soderberg

"Baltimore's Crime Numbers Game," a three-part, two-year, ~14k word look at Baltimore crime data and Baltimore police corruption history from 1990-2024 now has a landing page. Very proud of this project: therealnews.com/baltimores-c...

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

What I wrote about Gavin Newsom a year ago is never more applicable to several Democrats today. I foresaw this coming, and I continue to hold this true.

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

bsky.app/profile/maxg... maniac cop is great and that poster is great. One of the first things we did when we moved in was hang our own maniac cop poster in the living room.

Great crowd (and special guests) for last night’s screening of Maniac Cop at Peabody Heights.

"A TAPE," a short doc from @maxgrobinson.bsky.social and I about the bootleggers and filesharers who helped "House" become a cult hit in the US plays at GlobeDocs this weekend

Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t? Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet. El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.

In 2018, a cannabis activist streamed a private meeting with Harris in Harris' office. The activist was charged with "illegal wiretapping" (reason.com/2019/02/14/m...) because MD is two-party consent. Harris I guess now thinks two-party consent means anybody anywhere recording him needs permission?

Has anyone crunched numbers on partisan differences in transphobia uptake? This whole saga has been an elite agenda-setting initiative, arguably most heavily pushed by major liberal media orgs

I sucked this cowboy off at Wall Drug

TRUMP: Give me the Peter Sutcliffe

Tobacco, sugar (rum), coffee, tea, spices — these were the original drug economy and drove development of the Western Hemisphere. Columbus started a drug commodity boom that lasted for centuries, made Europeans and colonizers unimaginably wealthy, and launched the transatlantic slave trade.

ZOMBIE (Fulci, 1979)

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

The feds aborted a possible deal when the NYPD would not immediately take the shooting victim into custody.

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

BREW EXCLUSIVE: Draft lease confirms MCB Real Estate would get a 95% tax break on its Harborplace project. tinyurl.com/4kt637un The lease – not yet publicly released – would result in a minimum $200 million tax savings for developer P. David Bramble.

“Researchers at Virginia Tech are developing technology they hope could one day save someone, even when no one is there to help. It's a wearable patch designed to detect dangerously high levels of fentanyl in the body and then automatically releases naloxone.”

Why the author's hardboiled horror has afforded him cult status among local literary types and Internet gorehounds alike.

One of the high-points of the last decade for me has been watching the deserved rise of David. Met him at a signing (where he told me he was writing a book). Heard him read at the first Voidcon. Then read his 1st book. I’m a fan. Amazing writer and person. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/arts...

"Sausages"

“This highly successful and notorious talent agent starts his day by waking up at 4 AM...drinking a protein shake, and swallowing a cup of live worms.” Now online: a new installment of Last Week in End Times Cinema, compiled by @hamrahrama.bsky.social  and @tavlin.bsky.social 

whenever Biden got to give Israel more weapons it was like the old man in Texas Chainsaw Massacre drinking blood, he sprung back to life

The GOATED arcade game

For Baltimore magazine, I profiled writer David Simmons, who mixes street fiction with horror (think Richard Price meets Stephen King meets Iceberg Slim). His new short story collection "Fetty On The Switches" released by CLASH in June, is excellent www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/arts...

New York City has recorded the fewest murders through September since before 1960, Baltimore since 1962, Philadelphia and Detroit since 1964, Oakland since 1967, and New Orleans since 1969.

BREAKING: Maryland officials tomorrow will announce a settlement with Curtis Bay Energy to end its medical waste incineration operation in So. Baltimore tinyurl.com/mtxruysc Declaring victory, residents say they had to push MDE to do it, using cellphones and trail cams, to document pollution.

Roughly 25,000 people are unemployed in Baltimore

BREAKING: Baltimore Inspector General asks judge to hold the @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration in civil contempt. tinyurl.com/7xv3aws8 IG says the city did not restore records access by 1 p.m. today in defiance of Judge Pamela White’s earlier order.

Ex-police oversight official says suspended Baltimore Police deputy commissioner Nadeau pressured her to reduce discipline against high-ranking officers in her first weeks on the job. tinyurl.com/yasnzm3t

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

COME TO THIS NEXT MONTH, IT'S FREE

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

This one killed me

I love good data visualizations

Tonight’s the night! THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER premieres @amctv.bsky.social Emmy winner Stephen Root gives Dan Stevens a little lesson about Moby Dick (and the theme of our show). Me, @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social & a gang of brilliant people made this. I love it so much. I hope you will too.

HI,ERIC FELICITATIONS

YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,

honestly the whole graf is great don’t have time to know what I’m talking about bc social media is now

Acid Mothers Temple at Ottobar in 2004

Houthis just filmed a warehouse full of US-made armor they took off Saudi-backed forces after Mocha fell. Shot on an iPhone. Such a damaging image! The coalition’s decade-long war in Yemen is ending in captured American equipment & open humiliation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​