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@SkatingTomato

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Just your friendly neighborhood geek/“propogandist.” Baltimore/Maryland correspondent for @ggwash . He/him. Vocal advocacy classist. Tranist. #ActuallyAutistic

Baltimore, MD
Joined April 2009
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2 months
My first @ggwash post of 2024 is an article about a Maryland legislative trend with the potential to revolutionize the state's housing AND transit: eliminating parking minimums.
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3 years
This is so irresponsible:
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3 years
THE MARYLAND MTA JUST CANCELLED THE BUS CUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@DW_reader And even then, you still have to wait a couple months for the next chief prosecutor if the current one has a grudge against you and your family.
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Happy Hanukkah, that most antifascist of all Jewish holidays. They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat!
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5 years
@jrpsaki @BarackObama @JoeBiden I’m just here to help push this over the ratio
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Happy Larry Hogan unemployment day!
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2 years
WE'RE BRINGING IT BACK, LADS
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@x8is_ @worsematt I find using the backspace button generally helps.
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4 years
@BobbyBigWheel @OsitaNwanevu Oh my God, it’s the Election Twitter equivalent of those fake sports reporter accounts that always pop up at the trade deadlines.
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2 years
Baltimore Twitter, meet Pippin:
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@robert_sobus
Robert Sobus
10 months
FROM THE INBOX: Maryland @GovWesMoore to announce major transit project in Baltimore. The news conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Thursday.
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4 years
Thanks Bernie. But it still should have been you.
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10 months
Related, if you’d like to see a bike lane on Falls Rd. (Including the first part after the City line), like or retweet this tweet. Trying to prove something…
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1 year
Pippin says it’s a beautiful day to go vote for ⁦ @iamwesmoore ⁩, ⁦ @arunamiller ⁩, ⁦ @BrookeELierman ⁩, ⁦ @BrownforMD ⁩, ⁦⁦ @ChrisVanHollen ⁩, ⁦ @AshleyEsposito_ ⁩, ⁦ @SalimahForBmore ⁩, & Questions H & I and AGAINST Question K
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6 months
@NickTagliaferro @merovingians Mentored by the guy who can make a random fundraise at some chain pub in the burbs feel like the March on Washington, no less....
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4 years
WHEEEEEEEE:
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6 months
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Southbound Baltimore Light Rail this crowded this far north (Mt. Washington) and I’ve been to about 20-30 Orioles games at this point.
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3 years
And this is dangerous. It essentially launders a dangerous and hateful conspiracy theory by condoning it:
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Yeah funny how that family likes to bring that decade to everything...
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3 years
This is obtuse:
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@AlbatrossAlex @mistercodester Don’t do Jeff Mangum like that, Cliffy.
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5 months
I love this city
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4 years
I’m never going to get tired of this block. Ever.
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1 year
@NickTagliaferro @Dak0ta175 No specific plans just yet but Maryland answering the call
@GovWesMoore
Governor Wes Moore
1 year
I want to be clear: Abortion remains legal in Maryland as does abortion medication. The right to choose is exactly that — a right. And in our Maryland, we will always defend that right.
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5 years
My God... At the ⁦ @prattlibrary ⁩ grand reopening.
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4 years
Last month, I wrote for @ggwash about a new bill that would expand MARC access to Delaware, Virginia, and within Baltimore City. Last week, Larry Hogan vetoed that bill so I'm writing for @ggwash about that, too:
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3 years
Happy birthday, Baltimore, you weird, beautiful, amazing city, you.
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10 months
It’s real
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3 years
HB 114 IS PASSED BY THE SENATE!!!! THE MARYLAND TRANSIT SAFETY AND INVESTMENT ACT HAS OFFICIALLY CLEARED BOTH CHAMBERS!!!!
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4 years
I LOVE THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY SO MUCH!!!!!!
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3 years
Worst person you know, etc etc
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6 years
Thread. Honestly, if it hasn't already, this series is going to go down as one of the best Big Two series of the decade and arguably the best Wolverine solo series ever (yeah, I said it).
@TomTaylorMade
Tom Taylor
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Saying goodbye to #AllNewWolverine , but not to Laura and Gabby. A thread and a lot of thanks...
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4 years
FOH with this crap.
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3 years
Just yelled out the “O” at Camden Yards during the Star-Spangled Banner for the first time in 19 months and man oh man did it feel good!
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1 year
My first @ggwash article of 2023 focuses on two bills currently making their way through the Baltimore City Council both with the potential to make a significant impact on housing in Baltimore:
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3 years
Maryland has the THIRSTIEST Mayors, you guys...
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2 years
@justin_fenton I’ve sworn for years he just does to avoid having to take any of his campaign signs down
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1 year
Happy Thanksgiving from Train Heaven
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6 months
@merovingians I mean did you see the whole saga with running a candidate last time? They might as well skip anyhow beyond running for NE-02.
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1 year
On a northbound Baltimore Light Rail train, which up until now had ostensibly been headed towards Hunt Valley: “Our last & final stop will be North Avenue, I apologize for the inconvenience, it wasn’t my decision.” #Givethatmanaraise .
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3 months
Well-played, @mtamaryland , well-played. A Christmas miracle indeed!
@mtamaryland
MTA Maryland
3 months
Light Rail service is officially back on track starting Dec 23rd! Shuttle buses between stations will no longer be in service. While we transition to full service, some travel delays may occur. As a thank you to our riders, enjoy FREE Light Rail rides until January 2nd! (1/2)
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4 years
Believe it or not, it's actually *Southern* Maryland that has the nation's worst traffic, according to a 2019 Bloomberg News study. My latest article for @ggwash looks at the effort to advance a light rail line that could help solve that problem:
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4 years
My latest piece for @ggwash is one I've been hoping to write for a while and thanks to some recent developments, I finally get to do it. It's on Baltimore's B&P Tunnel and how replacing it is one of the hidden keys to the future of the Northeast Corridor:
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2 months
It needs to be a priority for the Baltimore City Democratic Party and indeed for the Maryland Democratic Party to stop this ballot initiative (And for that matter Renew Baltimore's as well). Because make no mistake, it's not true Democrats pushing them:
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2 years
My latest piece for @ggwash , admittedly based on the assumption that Maryland isn't going to shed any of its 24 counties anytime soon, is about the bipartisan efforts to return passenger rail to Hagerstown & Western Md. via MARC and an old B&O spur:
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4 years
I'm particularly proud of my latest piece for @ggwash , a look at how @jaredssolomon 's bill to help bring MARC service into Va. was expanded to also include expanding it north from Cecil Co. into Del. & creating a new Penn-Camden connection in Baltimore:
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4 years
This is not even remotely the craziest part of Baltimore Twitter.
@Gibonobo
gibonobo
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Baltimore Twitter is so crazy there are parody accounts of specific councilpeople.
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2 months
“Seven Nation Army” chant on the Light Rail, a fervent debate about Taylor Swift, a guy cracking wise about growing up in “the poorest house in Roland Park” (“We only had a 3-bedroom house”, he quipped), we’ve so got this. Love you, Baltimore.
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3 years
Not giving him the retweet but this is indeed huge.
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4 years
What you have to understand is I'm the one who's really angry at Larry Hogan for making me agree with Jack Young and his spokesman right now:
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3 years
Hey @thebrokenplate , guess what I found yesterday at the corner of Falls & Mattfeldt while I was walking my dog? I came back this morning to snap a pic:
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4 years
Oh great, Sheila's for the spy plane and against the consent decree.
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3 years
I've never been happier to post a @ggwash story than my latest piece, proclaiming the good news for all to hear that the Md. MTA has reversed its decision to cut or reduce dozens of Baltimore-area bus routes. Check out the SECOND best headline this week:
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3 years
I swear to God if Pete kills this godforsaken highway project AND the Maglev, I might just have to take back every bad thing I've ever said about him. And I've said A LOT of bad things about him:
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4 years
I begin my second year of writing for @ggwash with today’s piece on the Union Station Expansion Project and the strange coalition of advocates fighting to reduce the amount of parking in its plans:
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2 years
So Kathy Szeliga is trying to sneak the Don't Say Gay Bill into a Maryland Democrat's bill against discrimination in kindergarten:
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2 years
Proudly presenting my first @ggwash article of 2022, a look at the long and controversial quest to "right-size" one of Baltimore's most infamous stroads, Druid Park Lake Drive. Check it out!:
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4 years
Sheila Dixon's banner really laying on the metaphor kind of thick here:
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4 years
Petition for @ElectRyanDorsey to march past Armstead Jones' house banging a bunch of pots and pans at 3 AM if he keeps delaying posting these results.
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2 months
I’m going to miss being able to read stuff like this in the Sun…
@baltimoresun
The Baltimore Sun
2 months
Add affordable, reliable transportation to list of Baltimore necessities | STAFF COMMENTARY
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5 years
Maybe Baltimore City should cancel any upcoming school trips to Carroll County, just to be safe:
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3 years
Never been so happy to have a Facebook event cancelled:
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4 years
Oh my God, they took down the Rough Ride sign AGAIN!!!!
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My God it worked!
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What does Baltimore need to do to jumpstart its transit network for the new federal infrastructure bill? @GW_Partnership and @GBCorg have some ideas and their new campaign to share them is the subject of my latest @ggwash article:
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3 months
No tree damage on the Light Rail???
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May God have mercy on us all...
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4 years
So what happened to the other 398 richest Americans from Baltimore?
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As of today, I’ve officially been a resident of Baltimore City for 5 years. Happy Pride indeed
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@NickTagliaferro Also it's Ryanair, the Spirit Airlines of the British Isles, good luck getting them to listen to you on anything, it's kind of the whole point of the business model...
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2 years
@edsbs Oh he’s gonna die:
@LauraAnnSTL
Laura Burkhardt 🧡
2 years
@jonreyes204 Wait. You were up at 2:45 am watching tennis while your wife was working a 12 hr shift at a hospital during a pandemic? Then you took a picture of her shoveling your driveway from the warmth of your home? Good luck dude. I’ve cut people out of my life for a lot less than this. 😬
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So Thiru's going after A: the people behind Lexington Market's successful revival and R House & B: one of the most powerful unions in the state. Bold strategy, Cotton!
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3 years
HAPPY MELTDOWN MAY, BALTIMORE
@emilyasullivan
emily sullivan
3 years
Council President Nick Mosby calls Mayor Scott's veto of the controversial security deposit alternatives bill "modern-day redlining.... We cannot allow our residents’ broad interests to be overrun by the loudest voices"
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4 years
WBAL TV completely omitting Mary Washington’s kickoff announcement from their 11:00 newscast....is a choice.
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3 years
I am so very, very, very, VERY incredibly proud to have @jillpcarter as my State Senator, always of course, but ESPECIALLY tonight.
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6 months
PEAK MARYLAND
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4 years
It is with great pleasure that I announce my latest @ggwash post, in which certain Maryland politicians react to the departure of Md.'s Secretary of Transportation Pete Rahn. If you can't say anything nice....I probably asked you for a quote on this:
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4 years
This is actually somewhat of a "get."
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5 years
@KFILE With all due respect, just saying that isn’t going to prevent it from happening. And more importantly, it doesn’t actually make you look more self-aware. It’s the Twitter equivalent of “sorry you were offended.”
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2 years
Oh. Oh no.
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4 years
As you may or may not have heard, the Maryland MTA came out with its proposed service changes for this winter and well....they’re pretty bad. As in “cancel or negatively adjust any route you’ve ever used” bad. I explain how for @ggwash :
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(((Alex Holt)))
3 years
And after all that drama yesterday, HB 967 to place speeding cameras on the JFX has passed the Senate 35-11 with not a single minute of debate and nary an amendment!
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(((Alex Holt)))
3 years
@DCDemocrats You’re not going to lose a single Council seat over this, it just alters the odds as to exactly which Democrats get elected. And that’s not part of your mission statement.
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5 years
@aptly_engineerd @IBJIYONGI She makes Elisabeth Hasselbeck look well-adjusted.
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