Slashing the IRS workforce is a handout for the rich: the top 10% of earners account for 64% of unpaid taxes in the US, and the top 1% accounts for a whopping 28%. cc: The Budget Lab

i’m not even being funny

If you’re a dual citizen, Lawful Permanent Resident or visa holder from any of these countries, get back to the U.S. before March 21, or you may not be able to.

Absolutely correct. The Jones Falls valley could be one of the most innovative urban parks in the country, paralleled by transit-served urban neighborhoods on the existing light rail line. Just gotta delete the massive disamenity running through it

Baltimore is ready to be that emblem as we've launched the Bmore FAST initiative (Facilitating Approvals and Streamlining Timelines) which I've been developing at Brandon M. Scott 's direction to make our development processes work better for everyone baltimorecity.gov/bmore-fast

One of Emily’s (my partner) students wrote an ode to Baltimore City buses and it was published in the Sun. It’s awesome and you should read it. baltimoresun.com/2025/03/20/a-b…

He never would have leaked the war plans group chat

Where are the $5.00 beers?

I’m certainly no Hamas fan but I am not down with Mossad teleoperating American immigration authorities to harass random American leftie college students either This shit is crossing the line into actually fashy, which is not a term I throw out lightly

MTA Maryland is assisting Baltimore Fire and Baltimore City OEM with two buses to provide emergency shelter for displaced residents.

Basil🧡 From a Goldman Sachs investor survey I did today. This is 240 respondents, all clients. This IS a pretty good read on where Street is.

from the declaration of independence lol

More evidence for my proposal: we just make the west side of Downtown cyberpunk for a few years

The allocation was part of a floor amendment to the state’s capital budget. Del. Mark Edelson, a Baltimore Democrat, said he and the rest of the Baltimore delegation fought for it because they “believe this project deserves that level of priority.” thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tran…

More than half of the reading people do is on a phone. If you’re a think tank and you’re still making PDFs the primary or even only way you publish the stuff you produce, it’s worth asking yourself if you actually care if people read your work at all.

What Trump specifically said in response to a reporter asking him if he would deport US citizens: “You think they’re a special category of person?”:

NUCLEAR MARYLAND TAKE: In order to reshore these supply chains, we suspend Baltimore County's urban growth boundaries, industrialize along the valleys that carry highways/current railways/former railways. May require (or cause) some amount of Maoism to take Greenspring Valley

Say what you will about the merits, but I can promise you that “Fully Industrialize Greenspring Valley” is a brand new take

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