brandon soderberg
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brandon soderberg
@bsoderberg.bsky.social
· Dec 29
Baltimore's Crime Numbers Game: A Three-Part Series
A three-part series on the past 30-plus years of rising crime and rising police budgets.
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"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...
December 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Celebrate safe, sleep in, and come see us 3-9pm on 1/1/26! 🥳
December 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Celebrate safe, sleep in, and come see us 3-9pm on 1/1/26! 🥳
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Shootings fell dramatically in the United States in 2025 per nearly complete data from the Gun Violence Archive. Shootings were down ~16% in 2025 relative to 2024. December 2025 was the 35th straight month with fewer shooting victims than in the same month the previous year per GVA data.
December 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Shootings fell dramatically in the United States in 2025 per nearly complete data from the Gun Violence Archive. Shootings were down ~16% in 2025 relative to 2024. December 2025 was the 35th straight month with fewer shooting victims than in the same month the previous year per GVA data.
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man people outside of Maryland do not care about or remember Martin O’Malley FYI
December 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
man people outside of Maryland do not care about or remember Martin O’Malley FYI
watched Goodfellas when I was six with my dad and uncle
Name 1 movie from your childhood you were way too young to watch.
December 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
watched Goodfellas when I was six with my dad and uncle
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I had looked for this a couple years ago and didn't find it, but just yesterday I looked and HERE is the music from the National Aquarium's Atlantic Coral reef exhibit, recorded 41 years ago
youtu.be/Vj9PDmF5LJg?...
youtu.be/Vj9PDmF5LJg?...
Newton Wayland - Coral Reef Music from the National Aquarium in Baltimore (1984)[Ambient Synth Tape]
YouTube video by leaf swerver
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December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I had looked for this a couple years ago and didn't find it, but just yesterday I looked and HERE is the music from the National Aquarium's Atlantic Coral reef exhibit, recorded 41 years ago
youtu.be/Vj9PDmF5LJg?...
youtu.be/Vj9PDmF5LJg?...
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The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.
Use of Force By NYPD Officers Surged 20% Last Year
The 11,746 incidents of use of force in 2024 by police officers marked the highest number since detailed record-keeping began in 2016.
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.
Weiss' tenure at CBS is recognizable to anybody who worked in media over the past 20 years. It has all of the markings of a (generally corporate) moron who gets to oversee a newsroom/org and sees news as a delivery system for favors to pals and an expression of their class interests.
Bari Weiss, cont'd: "I held that story because it wasn't ready. The story presented very powerful testimony of abuse in CECOT, but that testimony has already been reported... The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison... we simply need to do more."
December 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Weiss' tenure at CBS is recognizable to anybody who worked in media over the past 20 years. It has all of the markings of a (generally corporate) moron who gets to oversee a newsroom/org and sees news as a delivery system for favors to pals and an expression of their class interests.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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"putting in the time and the work" sounds to me like the sort of thing a young person is expected to do as a consequence for behavior
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"putting in the time and the work" sounds to me like the sort of thing a young person is expected to do as a consequence for behavior
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If you couldn't change ur sex HRT wouldn't work
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If you couldn't change ur sex HRT wouldn't work
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So when is Kevin Plank entering punitive manual labor to pay back everything he’s leeched from Baltimore?
Kevin Plank exiting future development at Baltimore Peninsula
Kevin Plank exiting future development at Baltimore Peninsula
Kevin Plank will no longer develop Baltimore Peninsula, after only about one-tenth of the projected square footage has been built.
buff.ly
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
So when is Kevin Plank entering punitive manual labor to pay back everything he’s leeched from Baltimore?
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angela alsobrooks, grand marshall of the 50th baltimore pride parade
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
angela alsobrooks, grand marshall of the 50th baltimore pride parade
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for starters, relying on the alien and sedition acts as the source for original public meaning runs into the little problem of the alien and sedition acts being so violently unpopular that they helped deliver the presidency to Jefferson and helped inaugurate the terminal decline of the federalists
December 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
for starters, relying on the alien and sedition acts as the source for original public meaning runs into the little problem of the alien and sedition acts being so violently unpopular that they helped deliver the presidency to Jefferson and helped inaugurate the terminal decline of the federalists
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this is just historical and legal fan fiction. made up bullshit designed to vindicate trump's lawlessness
This is a startling read of history & precedent. He has a lot to distinguish. But for him, Supreme Court precedent isn't very relevant when its not tied to originalist reasoning? & the Alien & Sedition Acts are *positive* evidence for how to interpret the 1st Am? Bring back seditious libel, anyone?
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is just historical and legal fan fiction. made up bullshit designed to vindicate trump's lawlessness
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Buried under 12 paragraphs and 4 ads is this: that an investigation into the politicization of data was conducted not by … actually reviewing any data … but just by interviewing senior officials who disliked their chief.
So more politics.
So more politics.
December 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Buried under 12 paragraphs and 4 ads is this: that an investigation into the politicization of data was conducted not by … actually reviewing any data … but just by interviewing senior officials who disliked their chief.
So more politics.
So more politics.
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Over the weekend, our group filled up the fridge multiple times & filled up over $150 worth of propane tanks. Small things in your community have major impacts. Get involved.
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Over the weekend, our group filled up the fridge multiple times & filled up over $150 worth of propane tanks. Small things in your community have major impacts. Get involved.
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Big news everyone, I’m at Kohls
December 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Big news everyone, I’m at Kohls
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why did i pay $800 for this
December 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
why did i pay $800 for this
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looking great, sir
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
looking great, sir
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I think it was a huge mistake to make our society so car-dependent. But man. The Discourse today is a good reminder that when it comes to roadways policy, otherwise progressive anti-car people quickly become some of the most pro-carceral, anti-civil liberties people on the planet.
December 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think it was a huge mistake to make our society so car-dependent. But man. The Discourse today is a good reminder that when it comes to roadways policy, otherwise progressive anti-car people quickly become some of the most pro-carceral, anti-civil liberties people on the planet.
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Screams in marginal costs.
This is such a common, but mistaken, way to think about prison costs. Whenever you see "prison costs $x per person," that's the AVERAGE cost: total spending divided by total prison pop.
But if you release one person, you will NOT save that average cost, at all.
This is such a common, but mistaken, way to think about prison costs. Whenever you see "prison costs $x per person," that's the AVERAGE cost: total spending divided by total prison pop.
But if you release one person, you will NOT save that average cost, at all.
December 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Screams in marginal costs.
This is such a common, but mistaken, way to think about prison costs. Whenever you see "prison costs $x per person," that's the AVERAGE cost: total spending divided by total prison pop.
But if you release one person, you will NOT save that average cost, at all.
This is such a common, but mistaken, way to think about prison costs. Whenever you see "prison costs $x per person," that's the AVERAGE cost: total spending divided by total prison pop.
But if you release one person, you will NOT save that average cost, at all.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.
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OFFICIALLY-LICENSED AI GOOFY: Gawrsh, buddy! It seems like you've got it all figured out! All signs points to you being gang-stalked by enough people to fill a theme park! I guess you're going to have to take matters into your own hands, ah-hyuck!
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
OFFICIALLY-LICENSED AI GOOFY: Gawrsh, buddy! It seems like you've got it all figured out! All signs points to you being gang-stalked by enough people to fill a theme park! I guess you're going to have to take matters into your own hands, ah-hyuck!