Lawrence Lanahan
@llanahan.bsky.social
REARRANGED, a documentary podcast about music arrangers, out 2/25/25 from Osiris Media. Author, THE LINES BETWEEN US: TWO FAMILIES AND A QUEST TO CROSS BALTIMORE'S RACIAL DIVIDE. Reporter, radio producer, adjunct, researcher. www.lawrencelanahan.com/music
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It took me 10 months to obtain the public records that shed light on this investigation. Allegany County at first tried to redact Ternent's name from the records, but the MPIA Compliance Board sided with me.
Ternent abruptly retired soon after I got the unredacted report.
Ternent abruptly retired soon after I got the unredacted report.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It took me 10 months to obtain the public records that shed light on this investigation. Allegany County at first tried to redact Ternent's name from the records, but the MPIA Compliance Board sided with me.
Ternent abruptly retired soon after I got the unredacted report.
Ternent abruptly retired soon after I got the unredacted report.
Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Did I leave this up? No, I did not, I want a job.
Why is this century making us give ourselves our own headlines?
Why is this century making us give ourselves our own headlines?
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Did I leave this up? No, I did not, I want a job.
Why is this century making us give ourselves our own headlines?
Why is this century making us give ourselves our own headlines?
A career in my beleaguered, collapsing, detested industry will always be worth it for the chance to write sentences like this gem from today’s New York Times. ☄️
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
A career in my beleaguered, collapsing, detested industry will always be worth it for the chance to write sentences like this gem from today’s New York Times. ☄️
They should put Brian Eno’s last name in a crossword puzzle.
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
They should put Brian Eno’s last name in a crossword puzzle.
Looks like I need to get AI to write “The Lines Between Us 2.”
New frontiers in A.I.: "A new service called Objector is offering 'policy-backed objections in minutes' to people who are upset about planning applications near their homes."
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Looks like I need to get AI to write “The Lines Between Us 2.”
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
Not Bandcamp Friday but here's my Dionne Warwick cover.
disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/track/youre-...
disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/track/youre-...
You're Gonna Need Me, by Disappearing Ink
from the album The Charm of Abstraction
disappearingink410.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Not Bandcamp Friday but here's my Dionne Warwick cover.
disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/track/youre-...
disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/track/youre-...
Nobody likes being told what to do. YOU Wang Chung tonight, buddy, you’re not in charge of what everybody’s doing tonight
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nobody likes being told what to do. YOU Wang Chung tonight, buddy, you’re not in charge of what everybody’s doing tonight
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Good morning, journalists
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Good morning, journalists
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Excited to share that @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social is a Best Arts or Journalism Podcast finalist for the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. @osirispod.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excited to share that @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social is a Best Arts or Journalism Podcast finalist for the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. @osirispod.bsky.social
Armed agents demand proof of citizenship, taking pictures to feed into a massive surveillance image database, all while wearing a mask themselves.
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Armed agents demand proof of citizenship, taking pictures to feed into a massive surveillance image database, all while wearing a mask themselves.
Must everything in October be "spooky"?
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Must everything in October be "spooky"?
Props to the detective who put it all together.
Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Props to the detective who put it all together.
I was camping without a signal this weekend, but it sounds like the President posted a weird animated video of himself Dave Matthewsing protesters from a jet but the actual military exploded a 155-mm shell over I-5 sending shrapnel all over the veep’s protective detail?
October 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I was camping without a signal this weekend, but it sounds like the President posted a weird animated video of himself Dave Matthewsing protesters from a jet but the actual military exploded a 155-mm shell over I-5 sending shrapnel all over the veep’s protective detail?
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ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
It's a great day to read Bartolomé de las Casas's "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," or, if you're short on time, listen to this Randy Newman song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdg3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdg3...
The Great Nations Of Europe
YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's a great day to read Bartolomé de las Casas's "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," or, if you're short on time, listen to this Randy Newman song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdg3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdg3...
At a youth soccer tourney today, a guy stalked across the field to tell someone, “Curse at my daughter and I’ll f***ing bury you. Under the ground.” I share not to commiserate over American sports culture but to get kudos for my restraint—for not pointing out that “under the ground” was redundant.
October 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
At a youth soccer tourney today, a guy stalked across the field to tell someone, “Curse at my daughter and I’ll f***ing bury you. Under the ground.” I share not to commiserate over American sports culture but to get kudos for my restraint—for not pointing out that “under the ground” was redundant.
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@gabrielkahane.bsky.social's 'Heirloom' is out now. The album features the concerto for piano and chamber orchestra 'Heirloom' he wrote for his father, conductor/pianist Jeffrey Kahane, who performs it with The Knights. You can get it and hear it at gabrielkahane.lnk.to/heirloom
October 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
@gabrielkahane.bsky.social's 'Heirloom' is out now. The album features the concerto for piano and chamber orchestra 'Heirloom' he wrote for his father, conductor/pianist Jeffrey Kahane, who performs it with The Knights. You can get it and hear it at gabrielkahane.lnk.to/heirloom
This is very good.
Mariam Rezaei
SADTITZZZ (2022)
SADTITZZZ (2022)
SADTITZZZ, by Mariam Rezaei
1 track album
mariamrezaei.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is very good.
Baltimore: I saw a huge meteor while driving up Harford Road last night. I thought it was Starlink or maybe a problem with my brain, but turns out there's a meteor shower. The Draconids last through tonight: watch the north sky.
news.maryland.gov/dnr/2025/10/...
news.maryland.gov/dnr/2025/10/...
Fall Foliage Report for Maryland Oct. 9 – Unpredictable Conditions
news.maryland.gov
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Baltimore: I saw a huge meteor while driving up Harford Road last night. I thought it was Starlink or maybe a problem with my brain, but turns out there's a meteor shower. The Draconids last through tonight: watch the north sky.
news.maryland.gov/dnr/2025/10/...
news.maryland.gov/dnr/2025/10/...
ICE detained a U.S. citizen without arrest, and you’ll never guess his last name. Miranda! If I were editing this script, I’d say that was too “on the nose.”
www.koin.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
ICE detained a U.S. citizen without arrest, and you’ll never guess his last name. Miranda! If I were editing this script, I’d say that was too “on the nose.”
Now with AI, there's a map of a map of a territory. Once AI starts fully eating itself, there won't even be a map.
If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II.
A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.
Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.
A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.
Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Now with AI, there's a map of a map of a territory. Once AI starts fully eating itself, there won't even be a map.
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Local journalists in Gaza remain the world’s only witnesses to the war and its atrocities. They are starved, traumatized, displaced, killed — yet managing to continue reporting from one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
niemanreports.org/gaza-journal...
niemanreports.org/gaza-journal...
Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports
The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.
niemanreports.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Local journalists in Gaza remain the world’s only witnesses to the war and its atrocities. They are starved, traumatized, displaced, killed — yet managing to continue reporting from one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
niemanreports.org/gaza-journal...
niemanreports.org/gaza-journal...