Dunking on racist doctor & celebrating Baltimore Twitter has been fun, but it’s done for a reason. A dude stabbed his wife, blamed it on someone asking for change, & we got months worth of op-eds about stopping the “scourge” of panhandling/squeegee workers.

https://twitter.com/rahulastrohl/status/1305677397950431232

Then when the truth came out, the mayor said he preyed on “legitimate fears.”

A lady pulled her gun on squeegee workers on MLK and that story just went away as details got fuzzier and it appeared that she was the aggressor.

I have some new followers since last weekend and I want to highlight the greatest barrier—in my experience—to real lasting change in Baltimore City: the Board of Estimates. Andre Davis sits on the board, as does soon-to-resign public works director Rudy Chow.

https://twitter.com/bmoregabe/status/1210270417966911489

(Before I continue, I need to highlight that I’d know none of this without working w @BmoreHousingRT @unitedworkers and the exhaustive research of @cmatthewhill of the @PublJusticeCntr)

The spy plane is just part of the big fucking lie that Baltimore doesn’t have the resources to solve its own problems. We came up with a transit solution. @GovLarryHogan canceled it. We passed #FightFor15. @MayorPugh50 vetoed it. We had a $22M surplus from transfer and recordation fees in FY18. Board of Estimates voted to give it to @BaltimorePolice for OT. We have a $32M surplus this year. @CouncilPresBMS and @mayorbcyoung are at an impasse because they’re running against each other.