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Christmas movie about a guy who accidentally chugs Santa’s bone juice while on vacation in Italy and everyone’s mad at him but he develops the power to know what gifts everybody wants.
And then at the end it turns out Santa’s bone juice was in a different cup and he had the magic in him all along
And then at the end it turns out Santa’s bone juice was in a different cup and he had the magic in him all along
The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Christmas movie about a guy who accidentally chugs Santa’s bone juice while on vacation in Italy and everyone’s mad at him but he develops the power to know what gifts everybody wants.
And then at the end it turns out Santa’s bone juice was in a different cup and he had the magic in him all along
And then at the end it turns out Santa’s bone juice was in a different cup and he had the magic in him all along
In the last month in Baltimore alone, a cop is indicted for a political blackmail scheme, a cop is indicted for trying to murder someone with a police car, and the *commander* of a district is under criminal investigation. Beating a dead horse, but what more needs to happen to stop funding them?
Update: The commander of the Eastern District is among the officers suspended amid a criminal investigation in San Francisco www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In the last month in Baltimore alone, a cop is indicted for a political blackmail scheme, a cop is indicted for trying to murder someone with a police car, and the *commander* of a district is under criminal investigation. Beating a dead horse, but what more needs to happen to stop funding them?
Very happy to have a local newspaper doing great journalism for the city. When I ran a housing program I was shocked by how many checks I mailed out to New York (not to either company mentioned here). Crossing my fingers the city and state can mitigate this fallout
The housing hustle igniting a foreclosure crisis in Baltimore
The housing hustle igniting a foreclosure crisis in Baltimore
The foreclosures could send neighborhoods spiraling and make Baltimore America’s next great housing crisis.
buff.ly
October 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Very happy to have a local newspaper doing great journalism for the city. When I ran a housing program I was shocked by how many checks I mailed out to New York (not to either company mentioned here). Crossing my fingers the city and state can mitigate this fallout
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This is so silly
August 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is so silly
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New poll: The vast majority of NYC Dem primary voters agree with Mamdani’s Israel positions, even arresting Bibi.
57% say they’d be less likely to support incumbent Dems who don’t endorse Mamdani. That includes Schumer and Jeffries right now. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...
57% say they’d be less likely to support incumbent Dems who don’t endorse Mamdani. That includes Schumer and Jeffries right now. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...
Poll: New York Dems side with Mamdani on Israel, Netanyahu
New York City’s Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly believe that Israel is “committing genocide” in Gaza.
www.semafor.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New poll: The vast majority of NYC Dem primary voters agree with Mamdani’s Israel positions, even arresting Bibi.
57% say they’d be less likely to support incumbent Dems who don’t endorse Mamdani. That includes Schumer and Jeffries right now. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...
57% say they’d be less likely to support incumbent Dems who don’t endorse Mamdani. That includes Schumer and Jeffries right now. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...
They just showed Alcatraz in the hallway before the match and he was putting on sunscreen. Obviously athletes must wear sunscreen but I truly never thought about it, and it's created so many questions. Do they reapply? Do they also use coppertone sport? I need to know
July 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
They just showed Alcatraz in the hallway before the match and he was putting on sunscreen. Obviously athletes must wear sunscreen but I truly never thought about it, and it's created so many questions. Do they reapply? Do they also use coppertone sport? I need to know
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Your periodic reminder that Baltimore is the city Austin and Portland pretend to be.
July 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Your periodic reminder that Baltimore is the city Austin and Portland pretend to be.
On the bus downtown and the bus lane is just filled with cars and all the buses are delayed. Obviously no traffic enforcement in sight, even during peak hours. People complain the buses don't work, drive their cars, then block the bus with their cars. Should've just risked biking in the storm!
July 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
On the bus downtown and the bus lane is just filled with cars and all the buses are delayed. Obviously no traffic enforcement in sight, even during peak hours. People complain the buses don't work, drive their cars, then block the bus with their cars. Should've just risked biking in the storm!
It's hard because I do want Dems to use procedural gimmicks to block legislation, but also less than one hour after "the longest house speech in history" the bill passed so I don't really get it
JUST IN: Hakeem Jeffries has broken the record for the longest House speech in history.
Inside Hakeem Jeffries' record-breaking decision to filibuster Trump's "big, beautiful bill"
Jeffries warned Mike Johnson ahead of his record-breaking speech that he had changed his mind about only speaking for an hour.
www.axios.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It's hard because I do want Dems to use procedural gimmicks to block legislation, but also less than one hour after "the longest house speech in history" the bill passed so I don't really get it
This should be a national story! This is incredible! Especially as people (including mainstream Dems) are freaking out about Mamdani's efforts to divert resources from police to his Department of Community Safety. Not a 1-1 correlation, but some similar ideas
The previous first half low was 77, in 1977. Even adjusting for the massive population loss since then, this is the lowest murder rate since 1978 when William Donald Schaefer was mayor
July 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This should be a national story! This is incredible! Especially as people (including mainstream Dems) are freaking out about Mamdani's efforts to divert resources from police to his Department of Community Safety. Not a 1-1 correlation, but some similar ideas
Instead of worrying about all the horrible things in the world, here are my top 10 movies of the 21st century (didn't actually submit since I share an NYT account). This list would almost certainly change if I made it 6 months from now or 6 months ago
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Instead of worrying about all the horrible things in the world, here are my top 10 movies of the 21st century (didn't actually submit since I share an NYT account). This list would almost certainly change if I made it 6 months from now or 6 months ago
It honestly boggles the mind how many times we are explicitly shown how much cops just blatantly lie and yet we never hold their profession accountable. The NYT editorial board just ran a hit piece about how we've been too mean to cops!
CONFIRMED
ICE accuses Lander of assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer
ICE accuses Lander of assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer
June 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It honestly boggles the mind how many times we are explicitly shown how much cops just blatantly lie and yet we never hold their profession accountable. The NYT editorial board just ran a hit piece about how we've been too mean to cops!
This story is why it's important to have local journalism! Really well researched and investigated.
A state senator aided a disgraced developer’s ‘affordable’ East Baltimore project
A state senator aided a disgraced developer’s ‘affordable’ project
Sen. Cory McCray’s involvement in Ronald Lipscomb’s proposed apartment building raised alarms, ethical concerns, emails show.
buff.ly
June 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This story is why it's important to have local journalism! Really well researched and investigated.
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nobody in attendance for a tank show in Washington? Is this a military parade or the last 4 months of the Wizards’ season????
THE TANKS! THE TANKS! SHREDDING OUR STREETS! COSTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!! THE TANKS ARE HERE
June 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
nobody in attendance for a tank show in Washington? Is this a military parade or the last 4 months of the Wizards’ season????
It's crazy to me that large swaths of the US would see this video and still truly believe removing parking ruins neighborhood
June 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It's crazy to me that large swaths of the US would see this video and still truly believe removing parking ruins neighborhood
Loved reading this entire thread. My idea would be to ban cars from certain areas (avenue in Hampden, fells, etc.) from Friday at 5pm through Sunday at 10pm. Traveled to Vietnam last year and a bunch of cities did this and it was awesome. Let the people have the streets!
Do you have an off-the-wall idea for how to make Baltimore City and/or the surrounding area better, about any topic, feasibility be damned?
June 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Loved reading this entire thread. My idea would be to ban cars from certain areas (avenue in Hampden, fells, etc.) from Friday at 5pm through Sunday at 10pm. Traveled to Vietnam last year and a bunch of cities did this and it was awesome. Let the people have the streets!
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Here is one I have: there should be a series of weekend shuttles to and from our three large reservoirs from rail stations (Owings Mills subway to Liberty, Lutherville or Timonium light rail to Loch Raven, Hunt Valley light rail to Prettyboy) so residents can reach hiking and recreation points
June 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Here is one I have: there should be a series of weekend shuttles to and from our three large reservoirs from rail stations (Owings Mills subway to Liberty, Lutherville or Timonium light rail to Loch Raven, Hunt Valley light rail to Prettyboy) so residents can reach hiking and recreation points
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Should at minimum be a daily MTA regional bus line from Baltimore to Frederick, Hagerstown, and Cumberland and one from Baltimore to Annapolis, Easton, Cambridge, Salisbury, and Ocean City. MARC expansion would be tough but we could spin up some NJT-style state connector bus routes easily
Someone's gotta figure out a way to run a train from Hagerstown to Baltimore on a daily basis, so I don't have to drive every time I want to go to an Orioles game.
June 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Should at minimum be a daily MTA regional bus line from Baltimore to Frederick, Hagerstown, and Cumberland and one from Baltimore to Annapolis, Easton, Cambridge, Salisbury, and Ocean City. MARC expansion would be tough but we could spin up some NJT-style state connector bus routes easily
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Obviously the funny part is that these are straight-up hallucinated books that do not exist IRL, but here’s what I keep coming back to: if you’re a publisher, and you’re publishing AI-generated junk… why should people read the AI-generated junk you publish instead of generating their own junk?
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Obviously the funny part is that these are straight-up hallucinated books that do not exist IRL, but here’s what I keep coming back to: if you’re a publisher, and you’re publishing AI-generated junk… why should people read the AI-generated junk you publish instead of generating their own junk?
Bike parking at the rotunda has always been lackluster, and now they've cut down this one area to only 3 spots (but really two, my bike didn't fit in the middle). Parking is a nightmare, they should encourage more biking not less! Any way to increase this @bikemore.net
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Bike parking at the rotunda has always been lackluster, and now they've cut down this one area to only 3 spots (but really two, my bike didn't fit in the middle). Parking is a nightmare, they should encourage more biking not less! Any way to increase this @bikemore.net
If you didn't think moore was planning to run for president before...
ICYMI: Maryland @govwesmoore.bsky.social -- the nation's only Black governor -- vetoed a bill that would have set up a commission to study reparations for slavery and state-sanctioned discrimination.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
Gov. Moore vetoes bill creating a state commission to study reparations
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore vetoed a bill requiring a study of reparations for the lingering effects of slavery and state-sanctioned discrimination, pledging he’ll move forward with his own proposals.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If you didn't think moore was planning to run for president before...
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Mayor Scott and YIMBY leaders on the City Council introduced bills today that would roll back Baltimore's restrictions on development density, allow people to build closer to their property lines, and do away with requirements for off-street parking www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/ho...
Baltimore’s top YIMBYs want to erase zoning rules blocking more housing
A package of five bills will attempt to make it easier to build and redevelop Baltimore City properties.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Mayor Scott and YIMBY leaders on the City Council introduced bills today that would roll back Baltimore's restrictions on development density, allow people to build closer to their property lines, and do away with requirements for off-street parking www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/ho...
As society has moved away from "college as a way to better yourself" to "college as the only way to get a job and if you don't do it you're a failure," this was the inevitable outcome. All that matters is a grade and a job, so what's the incentive not to cheat?
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
As society has moved away from "college as a way to better yourself" to "college as the only way to get a job and if you don't do it you're a failure," this was the inevitable outcome. All that matters is a grade and a job, so what's the incentive not to cheat?
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Through April for the year, there have been 39 homicides in Baltimore. This is by far the fewest recorded for that period in the past 55 years, with the previous fewest through April being 49 homicides in 1977. After that, it's 56 in 2010 and 2014
There were 5 homicides in April in Baltimore. This is a new record for fewest homicides in a month in the city's modern history (since 1970). The previous low was 7, which happened in June of 1983, and April of 2014...
May 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Through April for the year, there have been 39 homicides in Baltimore. This is by far the fewest recorded for that period in the past 55 years, with the previous fewest through April being 49 homicides in 1977. After that, it's 56 in 2010 and 2014