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March 5: The Skipper An Orioles legend gets his call to the Hall of Fame. His protégé, another Orioles legend, has finally returned to Baltimore. Can he recapture Orioles Magic?

It's March 5, 1996, and an Orioles legend joins the baseball immortals in Cooperstown. Meanwhile, his protégé, another Orioles legend, has finally returned to Baltimore. Can he recapture Orioles Magic?
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What’s so sick about this is that they can’t even say what they’re achieving. Are they going to make trans people cis by harassing and criminalizing them in this way? Are we going to be in Pleasantville 50’s imaginary gender utopia overnight? Of course we’re fucking not. It’s just pure persecution

This interview and more, including the latest installment of Sage Your Algorithm highlighting a dynamic YouTube researcher and commenter, as well as staff rec content from @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @npquarterly.bsky.social, @dissentmag.bsky.social, and @defector.com. Happy reading!

Resisting Archival Silences & Dispossession: The South Side Home Movie Project A conversation with Jacqueline Stewart

The newest edition of The Revival Letter visits the South Side Home Movie Project and their efforts to resist archival silences and dispossession.
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The cover of Baltimore Beat. It is designed to look like a zine, with places to fold it and collaged images on it. Yellow text reads “Baltimore Beat” and “The Literary Issue.”

Issue 78 of Baltimore Beat is live! It’s our literary issue! Our zine-inspired cover was designed by nat raum.

The Birdcage: How an MLB owner could earn from Trump's mass deportation plan eyeblack identified an LLC, created by Orioles boss David Rubenstein’s private equity firm that sold a warehouse DHS is converting into a migrant jail.

NEW: Trump's Department of Homeland Security bought an Atlanta-area warehouse it's converting into a migrant jail.

I found the LLC selling the warehouse shares a DC address with The Carlyle Group, the Baltimore Orioles new owner's private equity firm.

All the pieces matter. issa new [eyeblack]:

Capture Hearts, Not Data By Dr. Reagan Nicole Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online dati...

New in today's Revival Letter: It's almost Valentine's Day and we have a dystopian love story about the relationship between dating apps and surveillance tech. Match Group is working with a company that is also quite cozy with DHS. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

Welcome to the Group Chat There's a new member, whether you like it or not!

Holy shit this is the best thing I've read in a month www.actioncookbook.com/welcome-to-t...

Yes we're called Orioles fans

Yes, confirmed. Sam saw it all coming

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Brandi's Dream Brandi Collins-Dexter didn’t take to public speaking naturally. She was an introvert, and early in her career, Brandi used to workshop press quotes and speeches with me. I cherished those moments and…

"Now is the time to go back out into the world and resume rewriting the script."

Our 2025 Parker Award recipient Brandi Collins-Dexter spent her life fighting for media that serves all of us.

@revivallab.bsky.social — her final project — will carry that work forward.

”For decades, media consolidation has been the silent war waged on Black communities. When people try that hard to steal your voice, we all ought to be worried.”

This and so much of Brandi Collins-Dexter's brilliance, lifted up in this essay by @josephtorr.bsky.social for @revivallab.bsky.social

Media, Power, and My Friend Brandi By Joseph Torres The violent attacks the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed on our streets have left me reflecting on the work of my friend, Brandi Collins-Dexter, in an effort to make sen...

Thank you @revivallab.bsky.social (Revival Lab) for the honor in allowing me to write this column about my friend, the late Brandi Collins-Dexter, and the impact she had on me and on the struggle for media justice.

Free Press reflects on the work of Brandi Collins-Dexter.

@revivallab.bsky.social is Brandi's brainchild: A research and storytelling initiative demanding information justice, dignity, and opportunity for all.

@josephtorr.bsky.social writes on her legacy: www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...

Thank you to @freepress.bsky.social and @josephtorr.bsky.social for helping spread the word about The Revival Lab and the work of Brandi Collins-Dexter. We're working to build something she'd be proud of.

A massive, blocks-long march protesting immigration enforcement and broader anti-immigrant policies heads away from its start at the Federal Building in Tucson, Arizona.

"I've got kids, I'm out here for them...The only way we can do this is through this kind of collective action. This is what punk rock trained us for!" -Protester tells Tina-Desiree Berg at the Minneapolis general strike march against ICE

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...

I think the key that unlocks Dan was his desire to share the things he loved with other people. Wouldn’t be the worst way to honor him if we make the effort to do that for the things we love, too. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

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"As the decisions of powerful media and tech owners continue to shape our political and cultural understanding of whose lives are deemed worthy and whose are not, I’m reminded of how Brandi repeatedly discussed how media and online misinformation harm Black people." - @josephtorr.bsky.social

Media, Power, and My Friend Brandi By Joseph Torres The violent attacks the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed on our streets have left me reflecting on the work of my friend, Brandi Collins-Dexter, in an effort to make sen...

The latest edition of The Revival Letter is out! In it, the great @josephtorr.bsky.social shares his thoughts on media, power, and the enduring legacy of his friend Brandi Collins-Dexter www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...

The cover of Baltimore Beat. It depicts two people in Baltimore City who are playing in the snow.

Issue 76 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover was shot by Christian Thomas.

Letter from the editor - Issue 75 We are not living in peaceful times. As we wrapped up this issue, many people took to the streets here in Baltimore and beyond to express grief and outrage over the death of Renee Good. Good, 37, was ...

I wrote a bit in my latest letter from the editor about link between the violence we are seeing from ICE and the continued violence Black people endure from the police. baltimorebeat.com/letter-from-...

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Update: The ACCESS grant request for applications has been extended to January 28.

This comes a week after sources told @filtermag.bsky.social that the initial deadline, which gave little time for organizations to adjust their language to align with new state guidance, was "absurd."

‘Pax Silica’ and Pursuit of Greenland Give Shape to Trump’s Imperial AI Ambitions Trump's efforts to secure critical minerals are part of what experts regard as more nakedly imperialist US foreign and industrial policies.

1/ On the one year anniversary of Trump's inauguration, a new vision for American power is taking shape—one organized in part around AI supremacy and control of critical minerals. My latest on the State Department’s "Pax Silica" initiative, the pursuit of Greenland, and Trump’s imperial ambitions: