Hooper House in Baltimore

The Hooper House is an 1886 mansion in Baltimore. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. After a fire in 2022, it has now been revived.

A new life as a place for community at the Old Goucher mansion known as Hooper House https://t.co/8AKa7YMq78
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) September 7, 2024

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I remember Polock Johnny’s

I was surprised to find a restaurant chain called Polock Johnny’s when I moved to Baltimore in 1976. There are a few left. Sausage is the featured item.

Here are three Polock Johnny’s items that I got in the 1970s or 1980s.

A small lunchbox, cup and plastic drink bottle

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Paste Magazine ranks Tim Burton films

I haven’t see all of them but my favorites are Ed Wood and Frankenweenie

More morbid gags please! We've slotted in the surprisingly solid Beetlejuice Beetlejuice into our ranking of Tim Burton's 20 features: https://t.co/D1kNWqten6
— Paste Movies (@PasteMovies) September 4, 2024

An old bath house in Baltimore

I pass by the old Walter’s Bath No. 2 on Washington Blvd. almost every day. I think it is apartments now. In the 1990s it was used for neighborhood planning and meeting. Washington Village-Pigtown got funds from the Empowerment Zone program led by Vice President Al Gore, I, among many people, worked on the application for the Empowerment Zone funds and participated in many meetings in the old bath house.

Here’s a picture I took today (9/6/24)

The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

More tweets on the bad election coverage in the New York Times

Yep. There’s an almost irresistible tendency when doing descriptive writing to try to make sense of things we see and hear, even if they don’t make sense. Because if you write something that doesn’t make sense, the reader may blame the you, the writer. The trick is to write…
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) September 5, 2024

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if the New York Times wrote a headline that read: “JD Vance Lies About Kamala Harris.”
I keep dreaming. Instead we get a watered-down home-page headline about “inaccurate claims” and an opaque, judgment-free main headline on the story itself. pic.twitter.com/JSIyJwLyje
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) September 2, 2024

From @Sulliview, who is so on target here about NYT.

An ugly case of 'false balance' in the New York Times https://t.co/Ive5vdQMhS
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) September 1, 2024

It's worth noting that in its write-up of this event, NYT didn't even mention this unhinged, false rant. https://t.co/hXeHrafZSG
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 2, 2024

Almost every day there is a headline that gives agency and the "upper hand" to Trump & enablers, and subtly or openly creates doubts about Democrats' competency. Also repeatedly casts Dems in defensive role- **as though Trump was still president.** https://t.co/1pLPLI03Fk
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) September 1, 2024

Trump policies increased COVID deaths

The U.S. death rate from COVID far exceeded that of peer nations. That was not due to excessive lockdowns or masking. It was due to incompetence in the White House. Time for a great remembering. From the recent archives:https://t.co/TAhOcvOIBN
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) August 26, 2024

I’m getting a lot of angry MAGA people shouting that “the mass graves are not Trump’s fault!”

YES. THEY ARE. The coronavirus is not Trump’s fault. But our government’s HORRENDOUS response to it is 1000% Trump’s fault.

Let’s run through what is INDISPUTABLY Trump’s fault:
— Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack (@AmoneyResists) April 10, 2020

Holy shit. "The excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters." https://t.co/gyOhbrZXrC
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) August 2, 2023

Trump’s COVID incompetence in his own words. #WereNotGoingBack pic.twitter.com/yOM2i8jmKs
— Chris Hahn (@ChristopherHahn) September 4, 2024

Trump is not pro-labor

He has stiffed employees for decades

Fox guest: Kamala Harris has gotten the endorsement of every major union across the country for the simple fact that she stands with labor. Trump broke his promises to workers and tried to pack the labor board with anti-labor activists pic.twitter.com/TL1Ubdsi5q
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 3, 2024

Trump isn’t pro-worker
He has a long history of not paying people

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his billshttps://t.co/Me8QZJfadW
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 3, 2024

https://t.co/vsaoPtedOP
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 3, 2024

Trump Got Rich by Screwing Over Workers—Of Course He’s Doing It Again as President

Mac Sabbath, a McDonald’s-inspired Black Sabbath tribute band

Mac Sabbath is trending, so here's another kick-ass video of music's premiere McDonald's-themed Black Sabbath tribute band. pic.twitter.com/ASdIbNeXEU
— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) September 2, 2024

Trump made a ridiculous claim on schools and transgender people

One quick question for Trump. Who pays for the surgery? The biggest way to debunk this absolute nonsense is a health insurance company would get involved with a surgery and the parents would 100% know about it. We get bills every time we go to the doctor. https://t.co/XiXAtEIXqh
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) September 2, 2024

The New York Times and Washington Post on rich donors to presidential campaigns

In presidential politics, campaigns are powered by billionaires. Here’s a look at the most influential donors to Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s campaigns. https://t.co/IHcUdxveFy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 1, 2024

How out of control is campaign spending in the U.S.?

As of August 20th, the top 50 political donors have already given $1.5 billion to federal candidates.

The top 4 individual donors gave $385.3 million. That's $1.14 for every man, woman, and child in America. It's obscene.
— Senator Chris Larson (@SenChrisLarson) August 28, 2024

1. The biggest donor of the 2024 presidential campaign, by far, is Timothy Mellon, the reclusive billion and heir to the Mellon banking fortune.

Who is he and what has motivated him to spend more than $100 million already this campaign cycle?

Follow along for details.

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— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 3, 2024

Meet the megadonors pumping millions into the 2024 election https://t.co/sbZE0LlvLh
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 3, 2024

Mind-blowing that the Democratic Party is massively outspending the Republican Party in swing states!

The Democrats have become the party of the rich and entitled (just look at their donor list) and the Republicans have become the party of the people.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2024

Musk is wrong. The article notes that “megadonors skew Republican”.

150 billionaire families have spent $1.4B on the 2024 election so far.

On average, each family has doled out $9.2M in political contributions — just 0.06% of their total wealth.

The equivalent donation for a typical household would be ~$120.

We must overturn Citizens United.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) October 9, 2024