brandon soderberg
@bsoderberg.bsky.social
I live in Baltimore and I report on cops, guns, and drugs / Cowriter, "I Got a Monster" / Soderberg v. Carrion / bsoderberg.com
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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...
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I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
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I don’t know if I’m ever going to get over Trump saying “big play coming up” on 2nd and 7.
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I don’t know if I’m ever going to get over Trump saying “big play coming up” on 2nd and 7.
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Checking out that new Springsteen biopic
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Checking out that new Springsteen biopic
Very excited this will be available for people to see in January. 25-minute video essay/mini-doc on director Nobuhiko Obayashi written/narrated by Max, edited and produced by me
Incredibly proud of @bsoderberg.bsky.social and I’s work on this short documentary about Nobuhiko Obayashi’s incredibly interesting life and career.
Pre-orders open in December and it’ll be out January 20th.
Pre-orders open in December and it’ll be out January 20th.
I can finally talk about this: “A MOVIE: Obayashi’s Cinematic Life” will be a special feature on Cult Epics’ upcoming 4K blu-ray of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time!
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very excited this will be available for people to see in January. 25-minute video essay/mini-doc on director Nobuhiko Obayashi written/narrated by Max, edited and produced by me
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Open enrollment seems to be going well
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Open enrollment seems to be going well
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When country singer Luke Bell was found dead in 2022, his story became tabloid fodder. But Bell's complex life couldn't be distilled into a headline: He wrote beautiful country songs informed by the American west, while struggling with deep mental illness.
Country Music Casualty: The Tortured Life and Untimely Death of Luke Bell
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November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
When country singer Luke Bell was found dead in 2022, his story became tabloid fodder. But Bell's complex life couldn't be distilled into a headline: He wrote beautiful country songs informed by the American west, while struggling with deep mental illness.
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METRO (Carter, 1997)
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
METRO (Carter, 1997)
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I'd known about Norman Morrison and his sacrifice for years. Finally got a chance to write this short piece about his act of protest 60 years ago today against the Vietnam War, which echoes in the US-backed genocide in Gaza and wars and conflicts everywhere. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...
Norman Morrison’s Self-Immolation Protesting the Vietnam War Shocked America’s Conscience
On Nov. 2, 1965, the Baltimore Quaker and father of three doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire at The Pentagon, below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
www.baltimoremagazine.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I'd known about Norman Morrison and his sacrifice for years. Finally got a chance to write this short piece about his act of protest 60 years ago today against the Vietnam War, which echoes in the US-backed genocide in Gaza and wars and conflicts everywhere. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...
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Peter Watkins has died, one of the greatest and least known and most uncompromising filmmakers, a life well lived fighting power. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
www.bfi.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Peter Watkins has died, one of the greatest and least known and most uncompromising filmmakers, a life well lived fighting power. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
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I just found the video where I mildly stalked and eventually met Robert Loggia in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston in 2004
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I just found the video where I mildly stalked and eventually met Robert Loggia in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston in 2004
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This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
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It’s terrible, but punishment by association is a relatively common practice in US law enforcement theintercept.com/2019/04/25/b...
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It’s terrible, but punishment by association is a relatively common practice in US law enforcement theintercept.com/2019/04/25/b...
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This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.
The US government is packed from top to bottom with racist violent settlers since they first washed ashore.
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.
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Shut down Crown graffiti wrecking my tender ass on a random Wednesday
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Shut down Crown graffiti wrecking my tender ass on a random Wednesday
it is very important that the Inner Harbor completely sucks ass. Not entirely sure why that is but that is basically policy for decades now; it is an area that exists to appease development grifters and harass Black youth; absolutely pathetic shit all around
I don't get a Philly cheesesteak tourist trap at the Inner Harbor. It's Baltimore. Set up a Chap's Pit Beef joint. Or Jake's Grill, Andy Nelson's, or Blacksauce Kitchen.
Geno’s Steaks, famous Philly cheesesteak joint, coming to Baltimore in 2026
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
it is very important that the Inner Harbor completely sucks ass. Not entirely sure why that is but that is basically policy for decades now; it is an area that exists to appease development grifters and harass Black youth; absolutely pathetic shit all around
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Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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Lab Monkeys Escape Overturned Truck Near Heidelberg, Mississippi
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck around mile marker 117 on Interstate 59, north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi, marshalling a response from numerous law…
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
buff.ly/16gTRJa
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin
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October 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
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Happy Birthday to Joe Spinell, the absolute king of the ‘spaced-out and thinking about murder’ face
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Happy Birthday to Joe Spinell, the absolute king of the ‘spaced-out and thinking about murder’ face
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The 3 guys most obsessed with The View are the President, Jim Breuer and Sully Erna from Godsmack
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The 3 guys most obsessed with The View are the President, Jim Breuer and Sully Erna from Godsmack