Chris van Hollen showing the way
I did not know much about Sen. Chris van Hollen till last year. In March 2024, van Hollen along with other senators asked the government to stop sending weapons to Israel. He pointed out that these...
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Governor slaps down Trump's threat to invade another Black-led city
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore came out swinging over the weekend, rejecting a plot by President Donald Trump to deploy federal troops to Baltimore, the largest city in Moore’s home state.Trump has deployed...
View ArticleCould Abortion Remain Available in Free States After a Federal Ban?
I was thinking about Maryland during Prohibition and how this history may be precedent for what would happen were there to be a national abortion ban.Maryland has two official nicknames: The Old Line...
View ArticleHomicides in Baltimore Continue to Decrease, With 200 Murdered in 2024
The convicted shoe salesman-professional criminal during his presidential campaign this year repeatedly argued how crime was out of control, and that this crime was due the influx of undocumented...
View ArticleNonpolitical New Year: BIRLS.ORG, FOIA, and Veterans
Here’s a break from the usual Kos Content, a resource for people who are looking into the past.This is something best explained by the text on the BIRLS website (below). Essentially, you can look to...
View ArticleStumbled On a Song I'd Never Heard Before
Like many of us, I’ve been feeling afraid and discouraged more often than not over the past 3 weeks. As a man turning 70 y.o. in April, I often turn to music from the 60s and early 70s when I need...
View ArticleThey Truly Do Not Give a F*** About You (White) Folks
This will be relatively brief. I wish I knew more about psychology and how it determines our political beliefs, but here it is.An Alternate Interpretation of U.S. HistoryAs has been documented in...
View ArticleNo Kings Protest in Catonsville, MD
There appeared to be some 700-800 people at the protest in Catonsville in Baltimore County, Maryland. We were at the intersection of Route 40 and Rolling Road, a heavily traveled major intersection,...
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Frederick, MD has been saying "No Kings" since 1765
Today in Frederick, MD, Rise Up!, Indivisible, and the local Democratic party’s central committee (of which I’m a member) held our No Kings! Reclaiming The Flag protest in a park downtown. Frederick is...
View ArticleHere's A Great Idea For How We Can Get Senate Dems To Stop With The "Business...
It’s Friday and I’ll keep this short. David Dayen has a great piece out for The American Prospect that highlights that House Democrats stop with the “business as usual” bull shit while my U.S. Senator...
View ArticleRural Maryland Town Votes MAGA to Cut Waste, Finds Out it Was the Waste
NPR, apparently not cowed by yet another attempt of massive government overreach, reports today on the coming downfall of a small Maryland town that was gaga for MAGA.Frank Davis saw a lot of waste...
View ArticleIt's time to FOIA DOGE
Today I received the following email from Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD). I am reproducing it in full.Today I filed a formal demand for access to my personal data obtained by the Department of...
View ArticleThe Bay of Virginia
Today, Earl ¨Buddy¨ Carter, a Republican member of Congress from Georgia, introduced a bill that would enable President Trump to buy Greenland and rename it Red White and Blueland. Now before we...
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Jamie Raskin Needs Two Votes to Start Impeachment Process: GOP Support for...
The other day, Texas Representative Al Green announced that the “movement to impeach the president [Trump] has begun.”YouTube VideoThereafter, Jamie Raskin has chimed in on the subject of impeachment....
View ArticleNYT: Schumer Urges Senate Democrats To Oppose All Of Trump's Nominees
I’ll be coming back very soon to post more diaries but I wanted to highlight this that just came out in The New York Times:We’re holding the floor all night to oppose the nomination of Project 2025...
View ArticleRFK Stadium Vote is Huge Dis to President Musk
In a completely shocking display approaching courage, the U.S. Senate gave unanimous consent to transfer the property surrounding the old Robert F. Kennedy stadium to Washington, D.C. Elon Musk, the...
View ArticleLuigi Mangione is from an ultra-rich ultra right wing family
It’s been reported on the national news that Luigi Mangione is from Baltimore but I have only seen a discussion of Mangione’s roots on our local Baltimore news.The Mangione family is very wealthy, very...
View ArticleFormer MD Gov Larry Hogan's Desperation Starting to Show
The former popular Republican Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, who is attempting to win the Senate seat of retiring Ben Cardin as a “moderate” is apparently getting desperate as his poll numbers...
View ArticleMD Sen: Some Good Trending News
A Washington Post/University of Maryland survey of 1012 likely voters shows that Angela Alsobrooks is leading the race for Maryland’s Senate seat 51%-40%. This is the mirror-reflection of the last...
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