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Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist, author, playwright, broadcaster, fly angler, crepe cook.
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John Wilkes Booth, back on stage, with his 'gift' to America: 'The war will never be over' open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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When you match the hatch but the hatch is too big.

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Hopkins scholar: Purge in research funding stoked by Trump’s ‘fictional, conspiratorial worldview’ I am augmenting today’s Substack commentary with a brief note here on my WordPress blog to alert as many readers as possible to the Republican rationale for the proposed purge of biomedical research…

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Insanity: Cutting $18 billion from NIH over a conspiracy theory open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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And they won again today.

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The right will have you believe that there is unprecedented judicial overreach.

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Just sayin' . . . . That's 8 out of the last 10 . . . . Last-place Orioles squeeze past Mariners 3-2 for 5th straight win apnews.com/article/orio...

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Investors still can’t believe that America has changed so much from the responsible, reliable nation it seemed to be just a few months ago. But they’re headed for a rude awakening.

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KRUGMAN: We Are No Longer a Serious Country open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Out of print: Baltimore crime news of 1940 Here’s another look at what Baltimore newspapers reported to their readers in 1940. From my stash of old papers — The Sun, Evening Sun and News-Post — I find that crime reporting reflects the era: Long before drug addiction became widespread, firearms…

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Amazing. So incompetent. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Six million dead chickens in Arizona, a fear that avian flu could mutate and threaten humans, and RFK Jr cancels a big contract for a vaccine. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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Days you cannot There are days when we are puny. There are days when nature muscles the man or woman out of the picture and pushes us to the high ground, away from the fierce river with its ocean waves and homicidal roar. Heavy rain of one day turns to big water for a week. It floods the rivers…

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Deaths of vultures from avian flu in rural Maryland danrodricks.com/2025/02/14/d...

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Six million dead chickens in Arizona, a fear that avian flu could mutate and threaten humans, and RFK Jr cancels a big contract for a vaccine. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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“You know better” In preparing today’s Substack column on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, I got to thinking about a phrase all of use at one time or another, in one form or another: “You know better. . . . He knows better.  . . . She knows better.  . . . You should know better.” It might be…

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The weird and dangerous obsessions driving the Trump budget cuts open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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Out of print: In 1940, stores had sales, but not on Memorial Day In this third exploration of my stack of 85-year-old Baltimore newspapers, I’m posting just advertisements from editions of The Sun and Evening Sun. It’s Memorial Day, a solemn national holiday that has been commercialized with…

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"They don't know what they're doing. They're just pulling things apart."

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Finally met a member of the Flat Earth Society.

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Strange interlude: What I heard on the ride home I could tell from the way he decorated the inside of his sedan that the Uber driver was a fan of professional basketball. So, as is my habit, I struck up a conversation. I found the driver congenial, talkative and informative. He got me up to date…

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Remember when they tried to repeal the ACA (and Medicaid expansion) in 2017? It failed — famously, with a big thumbs-down from the late Republican Sen. John McCain — and the GOP’s attack on the law actually made it more popular. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Dismantling Education Department www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes

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The vast majority of Medicaid payouts are proper; most of those that aren't resulted from bureaucratic mistakes or omissions open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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In praise of Journalism, the horse and the profession open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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Hurricane season starts June 1 and if you live in a Gulf state, you need to watch this. It’s worse than you might think. The few employees still left at FEMA admit: they are not prepared. Not enough staff. Not enough supplies. Not enough leadership. Plan accordingly.

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Bananas on Fire: Never judge a horse by a wacky name danrodricks.com/2021/05/15/b... Timeless advice to bettors on #Preakness

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A century-old sycamore: Pardon me while I stare There are some old photographs, hanging in libraries and published in books, of giant trees that lived in the East before the pioneers and colonists arrived, before the farmers and lumberjacks, before the railroads and the highways, way back, in the…

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ICYMI: A federal judge found DOJ lawyers "hallucinating" facts to keep refugees out of the country. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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We'll have the National Guard pulling rakes away from mulching migrants, frightening children, surrounding apartment buildings where immigrants are known to live -- the Trump reign of terror. As he said on the way to Jan. 6: "Gonna be wild." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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It’s hard to imagine anyone giving a better answer to the twisted suggestion that concern for the unlawful detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia translates to callous disregard for the late Rachel Morin. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

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From @ericlipton.nytimes.com #MAGA - some interesting reading for you.

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It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

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Trump, January 2018: Why allow immigrants from ‘shithole countries’? apnews.com/article/immi...

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Here's your lead: "Trump has essentially halted refugee admissions for people of color, but dozens of white South Africans, upset that they are no longer the ruling minority, were welcomed with open arms on Monday."

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50 years since Trump first made the front page, not in a good way. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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Happy Day, Mamma Mia!

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Despite Trump’s attempt to whitewash of history, five new sites are added to the Underground Railroad network Despite recent anti-DEI efforts by the Trump administration to downplay the roles of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in American history, five new sites in Maryland have been…

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Rome to American Catholics who voted for Trump: Do better. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

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Elongated inventory #Tesla

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They can't give them away.

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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.

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