Justin A. Williams

I always read @KVanValkenburg's '11 piece on #OpeningDay bc it poetically distills why the @Orioles' home opener sparks nostalgia for the 90s & energy from daily sellout OPACY crowds. Looking forward to falling back in love w a restored Inner Harbor soon baltimoresun.com/bs-mtblog-2011…

@justin_fenton It's state property located on state property, so Double Jeopardy. You're fine.

Womp do not take

@editti22 Don't like umpires/refs thinking fans are there to see them, but the I need a little more energy from the 1B ump on these. Something above officiating a croquet march would've made these clips 10/10 highlights

Manny oh manny

@JoshReynolds24 Also good is that WBC doesn't seem to start the pitch clock immediately after the HR, so it gives time for celebration. In MLB, there's rarely time for a single replay of the homer before the 15-sec clock starts & pitcher needs to be set. So HRs don't feel special

If you don’t think that this is good for baseball, there is something seriously wrong with you… Baseball will be better when the boomer purists are gone. This is good for the game. This is absolutely electric & I love every second

@realsaadasad @MelissaCinOP I think stars aligned here in Bmore w true policy wonks in the Council who had strong relationships w Fire Officers, steadfast Mayoral support in face of "concerns," plus me (a former land use atty) who represented him on our Planning Commission to help navigate staff "concerns"

@MelissaCinOP @PermitCzar Surprised to hear the planning dept feel that way. Not surprised at fire dept. Usually, the fire dept can be convinced with compensating requirements as happened in Austin. But I hope to hear Justin’s response! archpaper.com/2025/04/austin…

Proud to have worked to do precisely that in Baltimore, where we have the type of infill development sites that will benefit from the reform!

@MPullukattu @jongeeting To stabilize the tax base, the City is accommodating this shift with zoning & building code changes. If we don't build smaller, more flexible unit types, those smaller HHs will be forced into larger homes "underutilizing" SF & driving up costs for larger families that remain

@MPullukattu @jongeeting While overall population declined last decade (tho not last yr!), the total number of HHs grew from 242k in'10 to 250k in '20, indicating we need to move our housing stock--historically built for large 19thC families--to align w 21st c mkt of 1 and 2 person HHs

@MattBruenig @BrandonMagner @bears_43 See also, the leading human resources trade group, SHRM, taking the legal position that it does not have expertise in human resources.

@BrandonMagner @bears_43 100%

An update on the ACLU NLRB saga The ACLU Is Attempting to Limit the Speech Rights of All Private Sector Workers (link below)

@lordluigi23 @TheMattWise Heinz is infamously hard to kick in (so was yelling that we should've tried one more run to get 4-5 more yards); but did feel like we've averaged at least one penalized kickoff per game (including one leading to PIT score tonight)

@TheMattWise Hopefully his first year here is his last year here, we need a real kicker or one that can make a damn kic form 50 plus or you know not kick the damn ball out of bounds

So bad.

@SnowintheKnow The 'skyrocket' you may see in escrow is wld actually come from your insurance premium. Bc of 45% tariffs on Canadian lumber & ~25% on gypsum(drywall) the 'Inflation Guard' on your policy likely forced you to buy ~$100k more in coverage just to keep up w replacement costs

@SnowintheKnow The AACo Supervisor of Assessments started in '19 & thus was appointed by Gov Hogan's SDAT director. But even if she were quietly a "Moore Lackey," the state portion of increased taxes on the 20%+ assessment in the hypo above is just $37... x.com/i/status/11363…

We just got our property tax assessment. I call 1000% bull crap on this RIDICULOUS assessment! According to the THUGS in Annapolis, our property has apparently increased in taxable value by 20% over the last few years. My escrow is going to SKYROCKET, and I am not remotely convinced that this assessment was based on a legitimate analysis of market conditions. More like Moore’s lackeys are trying to cover for their complete fiscal INCOMPETENCE and deal with the year over year BILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS the state is facing. I’m gonna do more research on the process, but this is some 🐂! Have any of you gotten your assessments? #maryland

In addition to legal guardrails, continue to think we need transparency of allowing cameras in court. Every City Zoning Board hearing this decade is on youtube, but no one can watch the hearing referenced in this piece that led to woman being held w/o bail on made up charges

@wingoz In addition to caveating that it's merely his "assumption," Domonique has also suffered a season ending acl tear, so would seem to have literal and personal knowledge here

You literally have no idea about this but continue to guess for clicks

50 Cent can produce four hours about another man’s violence toward women while his own history goes unquestioned. That’s not incidental to hip-hop’s reckoning with misogyny. It IS the reckoning. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/ftense/p/t…

@BriannaWu Seen very little talk questioning how he acquired the firearm. Unless he stole it, seems like there could be bipartisan consensus that we should be holding dealer/seller accountable.

We know more about the Afghan national that shot to the United States soldiers in an act of apparent terrorism. Some background you need to know. Because of the reckless way we withdrew from that war, we left over 200,000 Afghans that chose to work with us in the reconstruction at risk of being slaughtered by the Taliban. We did open a path to citizenship for those that worked with us. He applied for asylum and the Trump administration granted it. It does seem like aggressive vetting was done in this case. I’m one of the few Democrats willing to say our party needs to be more aggressive on our immigration policy. But we also cannot be blanket-banning people from this country because of their religion, particularly when they are fleeing a tragedy like the Taliban retaking Afghanistan. We need to know more, but this does just seem like an unavoidable tragedy. This terrorist wished to push us into civil war, and we shouldn’t let him.

@justin_fenton @editti22 Legg Mason hasn't been on the USF&G building since like ~2010.

@editti22 Gotta be pre-2018. Maybe even pre-2016

Coming out of commercial CBS used this view of the Inner Harbor that is pre-development of Harbor Point (and the 414 Light tower) #lazy