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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

7 years

this is the only Twitter notification I've ever been okay with

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emily sullivan

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1 year

on Halloween, someone reported this house in Baltimore to the Health Department for illegally running a restaurant out of a residence 😭

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emily sullivan

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5 years

@RuchoSharma i mean.

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emily sullivan

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4 years

someone did this to the sign that sits above Mayor Young’s campaign HQ

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@RuchoSharma

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@codyboteler @RuchoSharma the photographer suggested i choose a pic where my teeth were showing to look "friendlier", and i said no because (at the time) i was covering the markets and wanted to look "more serious than i really am." a phrase that also perfectly describes... this monkey in a suit

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6 years

Meanwhile, the city of Philadelphia is *still* watching this year’s Super Bowl

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emily sullivan

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3 years

why am I crying in the club rn

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emily sullivan

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1 month

Mayor Scott says that some of the BCFD divers who searched for the remains of those on the FSK Bridge will sit with him in the city box today.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

9 months

baltimore has been marked safe from george santos

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9 months

Rep. George Santos wants to change the terms of his bail to allow him to travel within a 30-mile radius of DC — including for shopping — without having to alert the authorities. Here's what the resulting zone would look like: story via @JayShams

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emily sullivan

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1 year

(i deleted the original tweet to hide a detail!)

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

I recently heard Elijah Cummings speak on the need to prevent childhood trauma. “Children are the living messengers we send to the future we will never see,” he said. “The future we are creating needs to be a brighter one for every child.” A brilliant speaker w/ a big ❤️. RIP.

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emily sullivan

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Mayor Brandon Scott poses with residents before the game. “Thank you for your leadership these last few days,” a man says before heading into the stadium

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

hundreds of high school students are marching down St. Paul, headed to City Hall as part of the Baltimore Climate Strike!

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

Professional news! Today is my last day at WYPR. I’m beyond thrilled to share that I’m joining the @BaltimoreBanner later this spring to continue covering Baltimore City Hall.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

bad pic, but: the moon’s as big and bright as the Domino Sugars sign

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

7 years

little known new jersey trivia: if you die in new jersey, you respawn at the last wawa you made a purchase at

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

Baltimore's spending board voted unanimously to end the surveillance plane, AKA spy plane, contract.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

what does it mean

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

There are SO many statistics/quick facts you can say about Brandon Scott to emphasize how big this moment is, but the one I'm thinking of this morning is that he's a renter. When was a the last time a renter won the mayor's office?

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

tough interview

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

7 years

things nobody told me about NPR: how IMMENSELY difficult going back to your workday post tiny desk is. @chancetherapper

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

1 year

Idk the answer to this one

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

1 year

if you're a Marylander, check out the @BaltimoreBanner 's 2022 voter guide! and do your part to support local news, it's good for democracy :~)

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

just bumped into Healthy Holly and her fruits

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

breaking: Baltimore will issue a face mask order for all residents over the age of 2 whenever they leave the house.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

spotted @ Lake Montebello

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

@NJGov as an NJ expat i desperately crave jose tejas every single day

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

Happy International Cat Day, here’s my favorite house in Baltimore.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

1 year

NEW: Mayor Brandon Scott has asked the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts Board of Directors (BOPA) board to remove Donna Drew Sawyer as Chief Executive Officer.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

When I first moved to Baltimore I had to choose between paying my student loan debts or paying off a car. I chose the former, becoming one of the third of all city households that don’t have access to a car. I mostly got around by bike.

Getting around Baltimore without a car

Tips and tricks for navigating Baltimore streets without an automobile.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

news from Mount Royal Soaps: Baltimore is ditching its old soap supplier and sourcing local!

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

JUST IN: Mayor Brandon Scott has vetoed a controversial security deposit alternative bill

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

1 year

the latest AF1 campaign features a familiar Baltimore face

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

losing my mind over this Canton Neighbors post

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

1 month

Grayson Hundt turns 10 today, and he’s celebrating at Opening Day! His father Michael’s joy for the occasion is palpable. When Grayson was born at just 23 weeks, 1 day gestation, his parents were told he didn’t have long: “But here he is, and here we are!”

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

1 year

someone drove a car into the harbor!

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

views from my new digs, the @BaltimoreBanner office! today’s my first day back on the good ole City Hall beat. What sort of coverage do you want to see from me + the team? Drop me a line at emily.sullivan @thebaltimorebanner .com ✉️

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

A series of cascading errors: 1️⃣ A city payment vendor credits the wrong account with a $1 million payment 2️⃣ The finance dept. tries to transfer it to the right account, but DOUBLES the credit instead 3️⃣ The wrong person gets a $2 mill check and CASHES IT

Baltimore finance department sent $2 million refund to wrong party, Inspector General reports

A series of cascading errors by Baltimore’s finance department and city vendors led the Bureau of Revenue Collections to inadvertently send the wrong company a check for $2 million, nearly $60,000 of...

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

wanna feel old? “Shorty pull your mask up” was 9 years ago

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

this is your friendly reminder than NPR ≠ NPR member stations and that $80k is far more than most NPR member station salaries

Paul Farhi

@farhip

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Thread: @NPR gave its former news director, @MichaelOreskes , a 25 percent raise, including an $80,000 bonus, in the same year it fired him over allegations of sexual harassment, according to an IRS filing by NPR last week: . More…

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

Super jazzed to share that next week, I'll be joining Baltimore's @WYPR as a city hall reporter. I can't begin to describe how excited I am to dive into a great beat in a fascinating city.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

1 year

let’s spend a lightyear together oh I know it’s a distance from here to the stars 🪐❤️

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

Go Poly! John F. Clauser, who graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1960, is one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022

Baltimore Poly grad John Clauser wins Nobel Prize in physics

Clauser, a 1960 Poly grad, would spend time in his father’s lab at Johns Hopkins.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 months

Meet the Ravens fan who went viral for looking like Martin Luther King Jr. "His son was most thrilled about the comparison, having just studied King’s legacy in school" before the holiday. / via @ChrisKorman

Meet the Ravens fan who went viral for looking like Martin Luther King Jr.

Fans on multiple social media platforms noticed and resemblance and Wardell Roberts quickly went viral.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

Baltimore City’s COVID-19 test positivity rate is *29%* higher than the overall Maryland positivity rate.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

6 years

As of 11 p.m. tonight, I’m starting a gig as NPR’s overnight duty reporter. Got any tips on being nocturnal? Send them my way, pls! 🌚

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

The 73rd Baltimore City Council has passed their first bill: a 15% cap on fees charged by third-party delivery apps like UberEats and DoorDash. Mayor Scott has said he'll sign it.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

“This exemplifies Baltimore. People call us quirky and I see that as a compliment... And part of the reason is because we'll take opportunities for making art in unusual places. I think that's really a kind of community social activism.” — Joyce J. Scott

City Art Movement Turns The Utilitarian Salt Box On Its Head

More than 175 Baltimore City salt boxes have been spiffed up by art panels that riff on local histories and personalities.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

After spirited debate along moderate-progressive lines, Odette Ramos's proposal to cut $500,000 from the sheriff's office narrowly passes, with 8 yeses and 7 nos.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

1 year

State’s Attorney Ivan Bates has dropped all charges against Keith Davis, Jr: “Today’s dismissal is about the prosecutorial missteps of my predecessor in her pursuit of a conviction at all costs”

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

A year ago today, a shooter killed five people at the Capital Gazette in the worst attack on U.S. journalists in history. I spoke with the four CG reporters about grief, community, & pressing on. This piece contains only their voices. Please listen.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

it’s not the first time this North Ave billboard has been tagged — this is what it looked like shortly before Young’s campaign moved into the office below (which, fun fact, once housed Larry Hogan’s Baltimore campaign office!)

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

6 years

Greg Miller is a photographer, and a dad. A day after the Sandy Hook shooting, he was asked to photograph its aftermath. "There was no picture to be made," he told me. His new series explores the vulnerability of sending a child to school.

Where The Driveway Ends, Photographer Dad Sees Hopes And Fears

Greg Miller's new series captures the vulnerability and peace of children as they quietly wait for their bus.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

six city council members sent this letter to Council President Nick Mosby this morning, asking him to follow the Ethics Board’s order to return the $$ collected by a fund created to benefit him and his wife’s legal battles

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

the rumors are true

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

putting an economics beat reporter AND an internet culture beat reporter on GameStop is the smartest way to cover this saga. reading some "elite" journalist's descriptions of reddit + WSB users' motivations have been painful

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

fun fact: Biden’s new CIA head Avril Haines was the former prez of the Fells Point Business Association & ran Adrian’s Book Café, home to the occasional “erotica night,” in the same neighborhood

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

if you're the person who cashed the $2 million check you got from the city of baltimore please call me. i just wanna talk

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

the amazing BaltSun journalists whose work led to the resignation of a corrupt mayor and who just won a PULITZER (😭) are currently advocating for local ownership of their paper. learn about their fight & how you can support them: #SaveOurSunHon

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

A proposed 35-mile trail network that would stitch together Baltimore City’s major parks and connect more than 75 neighborhoods may see substantial progress under Mayor Scott

Vision Of Citywide Trail Network One Step Closer To Reality

A premier 35-mile trail network that would stitch together Baltimore City’s major parks and connect more than 75 neighborhoods, built on a century-old…

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

well. there is a big ass raccoon perched like a cat on top of my backyard door.

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emily sullivan

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5 months

I’m thankful for people who make Baltimore great - like Mr. Sid! Meet Mr. Sid: City Hall’s 90-year-old greeter is legendary for his kindness

Meet Mr. Sid: City Hall’s 90-year-old greeter is legendary for his kindness

Mr. Sid, as he’s affectionately known throughout the building, has greeted six mayors, more than 35 City Council members, and a steady parade of countless other Baltimoreans in nearly two decades of...

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

6 years

Today is my last day in my current role at NPR. I’m sad to leave my incredible colleagues and the many mentors that have pushed me to be a better journalist in the last year, but I’m even more excited for my shiny new reporting gig at @wamu885 next week. See you on the air! 📻

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

The man sitting next to me at Jack Young’s swearing-in ceremony is a Russian tourist who is in Baltimore for just one day. “Baltimore is a busy city!” he says

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

the mayor was talking to someone *named* Shorty in this clip lol

Baller Alert 🚨

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Baltimore elected a LIT ass mayor. He wants all the smoke. 😂😂😂 #brandonscott Follow @polialertcom for political news and Civics 101

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Oh and because it’s Smalltimore, I immediately bumped into my Uncle Dennis as soon as I got here. He’s looking dapper!

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

This stretch of Charles St. (right in front of WYPR!) will soon read “BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER”

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

9 months

*bruce springsteen voice* well they tore down the ole 83 pepsi sign last night

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A short thing about growing up in the burbs and thinking "This is a city" as I reached the part of I-83 with @I83PepsiSign :

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

great news! WYPR is getting its first ever NPR exchange program. YPR will send one staffer to NPR for 12 weeks and visa versa. as an ex NPR reporter/producer I can’t begin to explain what an amazing opportunity this is for my colleagues.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

@kbnoswag who hurt you KB

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emily sullivan

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2 months

i can't get over WAMU leadership killing DCist without giving writers, sources, or audiences a chance to print out their stories. or preserve them on the wayback machine. it's such a magnificent loss of history.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

cicadas clamoring for their say 🎤

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

8. (big!) Scott will soon implement a 911 diversion pilot program to ensure that emergency services send the most appropriate resources for each call -- so that clinicians, not police officers, respond to mental health crises.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

speaking to WYPR about the possible revitalization of Red Line, Pete Buttigieg says: "it's a good time for people who have maybe been frustrated in the past... to look at future opportunities"

Buttigieg on Red Line: “We're very excited to fund good transit projects”

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg discussed how President Biden’s $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill may lead to major projects for Baltimore and touted a $22 million federal grant...

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

After fierce campaigning from students, Comcast says it will double the speeds of a vital internet & WiFi package for low-income households. "Baltimore’s children forced a multibillion dollar corporation to respect their right to a public education."

Comcast Doubles Internet Speeds For Discount Program, After Student Activist Outcry

Comcast announced Tuesday that it will double connection speeds for Internet Essentials, a discounted package that has served as a portal to education and…

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

On Sept. 12, 2001, my dad, a podiatrist, went to Ground Zero to provide medical assistance to first responders still at the scene. Most of them had been working straight through the night to dig people out of rubble, or to search for remains, for wallets, for watches.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

two big Baltimore bills that re-examine the legacy of Columbus just passed: one to renaming the Columbus Obelisk in Herring Run Park to the Monument to Victims of Police Violence, the other to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

So much of Baltimore’s violence is connected to poverty and untreated trauma, but no one ever says shooters here are mentally ill. As @eveewing says it’s an “ableist red herring used to conveniently absolve white supremacists while also reinforcing stigma.”

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

6 years

The same neo-Nazi group is linked to robocalls sent out last week that used the death of Mollie Tibbetts to promote white supremacist messages. It's cheap to send these calls — between 1 and 5 cents. @npratc

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

i recently joined Nextdoor, "the free private social network for your neighborhood community." it's been a wild ride.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

just booked a dual Douglas fir and pulled pork sandwich delivery, god i love baltimore

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

why am i crying in the club right now

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

An artist behind the billboard says that its message “is timed with the fifth anniversary of Freddie Gray’s death and the first flight of the N73266 spy plane” — via @notrivia & @baltbeat

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

Sheila Dixon & Mary Miller—who ran against each other in the 2020 Dem mayoral primary—are teaming up to endorse Ivan Bates for SAO. Starting today, this ad will air on local TV. Miller's new PAC funded this ad. She's its sole contributor, has put $250k in it so far

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

I’m watching 90 day fiancé and all of a sudden CATHERINE PUGH’s LAWYER appears to explain a prenup to a 19-year-old who may/may not be marrying a Middle River guy in his late 50s?!?!?!

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

(Pretty much every available surface in Station North/Old Goucher has been tagged like this)

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

I've been waiting for the ice cream truck to leave my street so I can start recording audio for a story tomorrow a.m. for about 15 minutes. And now a SECOND ice cream struck pulled up on my street. I think this is a sign to stop working and get ice cream.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

Streets for people!

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

final final detail: the person did NOT use the free $2 million from Baltimore to pay back the city an outstanding property tax of abt $1,600

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

And beginning Friday, Baltimore City bars and restaurants will no longer be able to seat or serve customers indoors.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

3 years

disappearing into the woods for a few days. see ya later!

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

2 years

new: Mayor Scott will distribute $300,000 in grants to organizations that offer abortion and family planning services

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

5 years

this brilliant, sometimes stinging essay from @TheCut was published almost 4 years ago. i reread it every few months.

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

8 months

me texting sources about this all afternoon

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@emilyasullivan

5 years

i'm subletting my apartment and just accidentally sent this image via facebook messenger to a potential subleaser instead of my partner

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emily sullivan

@emilyasullivan

4 years

When I walked by the Latrobe Homes, an older woman came out of her apartment to ask me how she could find out when the next march was. She said her son was killed by BPD in 2014.

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emily sullivan

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4 years

Franca Muller Paz of the Green Party is raising lots of money and winning endorsements left and right in Baltimore's D12 race. incumbent establishment Dem Robert Stokes calls that "very unusual"

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emily sullivan

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2 years

Comptroller Henry is getting ruthlessly destroyed by children at the Hampdenfest dunk tank

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