Lawrence Lanahan

Baltimore! Glad Pulses, Batworth Stone, and The Llamas will be in Hampden from 1 to 4 pm on Sunday at Waverly Brewing Co. Come on by!

Expansion of BPD’s license plate reader capability is dangerous – and flying in under the radar | Baltimore Brew Baltimore officials should shoot down the request on today’s Board of Estimates agenda like they shot down another surveillance tool, the spy plane [OP-ED]

A dangerous expansion of @baltimorepolice.bsky.social license plate reader capability is flying in under the radar on today's BOE agenda. tinyurl.com/5n85jh5 As we did with another surveillance tool, the spy plane, Baltimore should shoot it down. [OP-ED]

Time for your midterm!

Glad Pulses plays Waverly Brewing this Sunday! 1 to 4pm, with The Llamas and Batworth Stone. Weather looks real nice, hope to see you there.

Can Anyone Stop Baltimore City’s Most Dangerous Drivers? Crashes have killed nearly 500 people in Baltimore City over the past decade, and safety advocates say leaders have left tools on the table.

Fed up with reckless drivers in Baltimore? Wait till you see, in this investigative piece with excellent data graphics by Adam Marton, how little accountability they face even when they hit someone. My first for @baltimoremagazine.com.
www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...

Have other book authors been getting weird AI outreach? I’ve had made-up Goodreads groups promising “exposure,” “narrative consultants” offering to correct my cluttered storytelling, and this “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” author impostor “reaching outward through the quiet.”

Paddy says he'll chew up my guitar cables if you don't come see Glad Pulses at Wax Atlas at 4pm on Sunday. 5523 Harford Rd, with The Llamas and Gold Action also on the bill. shows.waxatlas.com/event/glad-p...

The first Orioles hit of 2026 belongs to ... Tyler O'Neill.

Baltimore: come up Northeast on Sunday for a 4pm show from Glad Pulses! It's at Wax Atlas, 5523 Harford Rd, $10. We have lots of new tunes, and The Llamas and Gold Action are on the bill. Take a listen: gladpulses.bandcamp.com

This is great. You music-first folks should come check out @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social!

Update: That was a brutal battle at the car wash. Lotta people googling how to get “triple foam” out of your hair.

Look at the line for this car wash. The Banner was completely blind to the inevitable the salt-related car-washing panic they were going to cause. These people will eventually turn on each other. All this ice around? Someone’s gonna get hurt. Incredibly irresponsible reporting from the Banner.

I cannot run at this now, but I wonder if anyone is reporting on the army of excavators, small loaders, and dump trucks in Baltimore right now. I'm sure checks are flying out the door at City Hall, and I wonder about the oversight, given the way folks are seeing this play out in the neighborhoods.

Family outraged after man convicted in I-695 crash that killed 6 cited for driving without license WJZ Investigates has learned Melachi Brown, one of the drivers sentenced for the 2023 Baltimore Beltway work zone crash that killed six construction workers, was pulled over in December for driving wi...

"This is a lot for me." Poor thing.

Keep an eye out this month for my reporting on the lack of accountability for this region's worst drivers.

www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

It will help DPW, first responders, etc., I suppose.

Thanks. They started at 9pm. Still here at 8:30am. They cleared it all from curb to curb, basically making parking spots. Visibility wasn’t a problem here. I wish they’d do by Hamilton Elementary/Middle first. Nowhere to park, so people are creating hazards double-parking on Old Harford at pickup.

I’m just a simple man. Help me understand why Baltimore City had a bobcat outside my window at 1 in the morning scraping and dumping snow, beeping and shaking my house the whole time, when my street was already passable.

And the guy who brought Palin to the campaign is a breathless Never Trumper. We live in a farcical parable.

Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice' In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

(I know why.)

Just saw traffic, including a city bus, squeezing past an older man with a prosthetic leg walking in Harford Road. The library branch and the local businesses managed to shovel. Why not CVS, or 7-11, or Dunkin, or Royal Farms?

Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...

Wait for the kicker. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Protestors turn from Pratt Street and block traffic on Calvert Street.

How Baltimore organizers are preparing to fight back against ICE baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

hi Philip Glass play a basement show instead

Two days ago, the Fourth Amendment. Yesterday, the First. It will be rich if the Second turns out to be their undoing.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

And here the veil is lifted on disregard for the 1st: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Artist ends up in court over sampling.

Whistleblower Aid claim: agency-wide ICE memo authorizes "the chief evil" behind the 4th amendment--"'physical entry of the home' without consent or a proper warrant." Claim says it wasn't sent to all staff, but used to "verbally brief" those doing enforcement. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

One of those mornings when you can run one quick errand and be home by 7:45am and still be able to say, "Damn, Baltimore is a friendly town."