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mikamckinnon.bsky.social
Update:

Crossfile under: Things that make me happy
charlieangus104.bsky.social Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Aug 30
When Canadians found out that Kristi Noem was helping push a copper venture in BC people rose up. The phone lines of the company were jammed. The stock price crashed.
The company lost so much value they had to change their name.
FAFO.
We aren't kidding around.
youtube.com/shorts/82CHJ...
KRISTI NOEM CRUSHED IN CANADA
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
youtube.com
August 31, 2026 at 1:43 AM
mikamckinnon.bsky.social
Meanwhile in Canada:

(Crossfile under: service journalism)
watersheds.ca Watersheds Canada @watersheds.ca · Jun 22
Scroll through to discover different ways to identify a cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, bloom in your community!

Access more resources: watersheds.ca/cyanobacteria

#freshwater #water #lake #river #conservation #algae #cyanobacteria #algalbloom #Canada
June 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
kaymac1953.bsky.social
I'm left wondering why Felon 34/47 and his Department of Injustice didn't crossfile a 'rightful death lawsuit' here since he fully detests minorities and they will stop at nothing?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Louisiana payout cannot erase pain of Ronald Greene death by police – lawyer
Ben Crump says $4.85m police settlement over fatal traffic stop helps to show how ‘truth must always come to light’
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2026 at 12:40 AM
chuckwendig.bsky.social
File under "dudes are not okay." Crossfile under "the economy is not okay."
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Apr 14
More than half of men ages 18-49 (52%) now say they have an active sports betting account with an online sportsbook like DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM.

sri.siena.edu/2026/04/13/m...
More Than a Quarter of Americans, 27% Have An Active Online Sports Betting Account; A Third Have Opened an Account At Least Once – Siena Research Institute
sri.siena.edu
April 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
HB 1232 passed the House last week 121-7 (0 of those 7 from Baltimore City, only 1 from a City-bordering district) while its crossfile, SB 756 from Sen. Cory McCray, passed the Senate last week 45-0, w/ the biggest amendment on it being to make it an emergency bill, meaning it takes immediate effect
March 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
HB 437's crossfile, SB 59 from Sen. Shelly Hettleman, has not passed out of B&T, at least not so far. That said, a 2024 version of this bill was one Stephen Hershey de facto filibuster away from becoming law so it's got a shot, especially after House amendments hopefully cleared up some concerns...
March 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
Actually cutting E&T down to 4 bills from yesterday because I realized I already covered one of the ones I was going to feature when its crossfile was heard last month...
March 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
...Making it less surprising that SB 969 from Sen. Mautz had no co-sponsors* or that its crossfile, HB 1375 from Del. Seth Howard over in Health, only had GOP ones: mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L... mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...
(SB 969) HB 1375 Health Insurance - Lyme Disease and Related Tick-Borne Illnesses - Long-Term Antibiotic Treatment "Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumstances; and prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from placing a quantitative limit on or denying coverage for benefits required under the Act." *Tbf, the Senate also just doesn't encourage co-sponsorship of bills as much as the House does, at least not at the same level Additional comments by DLS from the rest of the F&P Note: "MIA advises that all carriers exclude coverage that is “unproven, experimental, or investigational in nature.” Further, MIA notes that the bill establishes a new mandated benefit for the large group market and the individual grandfathered market only. Under the ACA, each state must pay, for every health plan purchased through its exchange (in Maryland, MHBE), the additional premium associated with any state-mandated benefit beyond EHBs. As such, if the General Assembly were to elect to require the mandate to be covered under individual and small group market ACA plans, the State would be required to defray the cost of the benefit to the extent it applies to individual and small group market ACA plans"
March 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
Make that 1/4 of the "CHERISH Our Communities Act" as SB 780/HB 1287 appear to share that alternate title w/ another bill from Sen. Brooks, SB 781 & its crossfile from @behler-dylan.bsky.social in E&T next Wed.: mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L... mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...
(SB 781) HB 1268 Environmental Permits - Requirements for Burden Analysis, Issuance and Renewal, and Public Participation (Cumulative Harms for Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) "Requiring that an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for certain generating stations located within a certain at-risk area to include with the application a baseline understanding of risk, disparities, and environmental needs (BURDEN) report describing and including information on certain environmental and public health burdens; altering the contents of a certain notice that must be provided on receipt of an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity; etc."
March 4, 2026 at 8:04 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
Finally for E&T yesterday, HB 1113 from @robbynlewis46th.bsky.social & SB 936 from Sen. Chris West* in JPR next Wed. (2025’s HB 206) would, aot, ban people from placing their vehicles in bus stop zones if buses are present: mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L... mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...
HB 1113 (SB 936) Vehicle Laws - Bus Obstruction Monitoring Systems and Bus Stop Zones “Replacing references to a bus lane monitoring system with references to a bus obstruction monitoring system; and prohibiting a person from stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle in a bus stop zone if a transit vehicle is present, subject to certain exceptions.” *Still not sure how she managed to get HIM to co-sponsor the crossfile. Truly a miracle worker…*
February 27, 2026 at 9:48 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
Next, 5 from Finance. I can't say I trust SB 485 from Sen. Mary Beth Carozza or its crossfile from Del. Susan McComas in Health next mo., HB 1451: mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L... mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...
SB 485 (HB 1451) Public Health - Women's Health Care Data - Report "Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a standard system to collect and compile annual data on the costs of prenatal care, birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, abortion services, and menopausal care in the State; establishing limitations on the data and information that may be collected or reported under the Act; and requiring the Department to submit a comprehensive report of the collected data to the General Assembly on or before December 1 of each year."
February 19, 2026 at 9:57 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
Next, yet another bill w/ a crossfile from Del. Jared Solomon, SB 495 from Sen. Shelly Hettleman (HB 1055 goes before GLE next mo.): mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L... mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L.... This bill would require MDH to screen for Gaucher disease in its Newborn Screening Program.
(SB 495) HB 1055 Health - Newborn Screening Program - Gaucher Disease "Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, as part of the newborn screening system, to screen for Gaucher disease."
February 18, 2026 at 7:22 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
On to 5 from Finance, including a wage transparency bill for firefighters, SB 445 ('25's SB 124) from Sen. Ben Kramer, the crossfile of HB 532 from Del. Jared Solomon in GLE tomorrow: mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L... mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L.... '25's HB 205 passed the House fwiw.
SB 445 (HB 532) Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information "Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; authorizing a firefighter or the firefighter's exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance if a county or municipality does not provide the payroll information as required or wages due; etc."
February 18, 2026 at 7:17 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
Alright, on to Education, Energy, & the Environment. Technically SB 50 from Sen. Mary Beth Carozza, the "Fairness in Girls' Sports Act", isn't listed as a crossfile of an earlier bill from Del. Kathy Szeliga but it looks pretty similar. Not even fully featuring it...
February 18, 2026 at 6:53 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
Skipping over Health because the one highlight there had its bill hearing the same day as its crossfile in EEE…
February 18, 2026 at 2:06 AM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
But still including SB 496 from Sen. Stephen Hershey Jr. & HB 813 from @ashantimartinez.bsky.social in Health (How's THAT for a crossfile combo?) ('25's SB 876/HB 1489)...
February 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
That'd be HB 256 from MDOT, the "Vulnerable Road User Protection Act of 2026", which would allow the SHA to place & use speed cameras on segments of highway it identifies as "safety corridors): mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L... (Actually I'm pretty sure this IS the unmarked crossfile to SB 487)
HB 256 (SB 487?) Motor Vehicles – Speed Monitoring Systems – Safety Corridors (Vulnerable Road User Protection Act of 2026) "Authorizing the State Highway Administration to implement a program of safety corridor speed monitoring systems for use in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users; authorizing a local jurisdiction to use speed monitoring systems in safety corridors under certain circumstances; authorizing the Comptroller to distribute revenue from the fines collected under the program to the State Highway Administration and the Transportation Trust Fund; etc."
February 13, 2026 at 9:59 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
Actually make that one JUD highlight since I actually covered HB 389 yesterday alongside its crossfile, SB 296...
February 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
SB 302 from Sen. Mary Beth Carozza is the "Women's Freedom from Coercion Act", banning people from causing, either via force or trickery, people they know or believe are pregnant to ingest "abortion-inducing drugs": mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L.... IOW, an anti-abortion messaging bill*.
SB 302 Criminal Law - Causing Ingestion of an Abortion-Inducing Drug - Prohibition (Women's Freedom From Coercion Act) "Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully causing another to ingest an abortion-inducing drug when the person knows or believes that the other person is pregnant and without consent, through fraud or coercion, or by force or threat of force." *SB 302 was 2025's SB 933 & HB 1186 (From Del. April Miller), neither crossfile got out of their respective committees, I don't expect that to change with SB 302 or any crossfiles that might happen to emerge over the next month.
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
HB 432 from Del. Bernice Mireku-North & SB 463 from Sen. C. Anthony Muse (JPR, tbd) would, like HB 734, which passed the House 104-36, repeal Maryland municipalities' authority to prohibit vagrancy: mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L... mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...
HB 432 (SB 463, *Just dropped so no fiscal/policy note for the Senate crossfile just yet) Municipalities - Vagrancy - Repeal of Authority to Prohibit "Repealing the authority of a municipality to prohibit vagrancy."
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
(Ps I did notice that your bill has a Senate crossfile now and a pretty good sponsor to have in all honesty: Senate Majority Leader/ex-Budget & Taxation Chair Nancy King. I won’t admit to being her biggest fan but she is pretty powerful & influential so that doesn’t hurt at all.
February 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
HB 10/SB 64 passed the House last year 139-0 as HB 74 but didn't advance any further in the Senate. Hopefully that'll change with the addition of a Senate crossfile this year...
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
HB 339 passed the House in 2025 101-39 but like previous iterations of the bill, failed to advance any further. Hopefully for myself & my fellow apartment dwellers, at least from June to Oct., having a Sen. (GOP) crossfile can change things mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...
January 20, 2026 at 3:53 AM
skatingtomato.bsky.social
…With Maryland state law, a very timely bill indeed given how many Virginia plates located in Md. will expire this year & not be eligible for renewal (& not just in my building’s parking lot, either). No fiscal note for either crossfile just yet; as w/ the House floor session volume levels, a WIP…
….So here’s the fiscal note for HB 219, HB 212’s 2025 predecessor, since I don’t expect *that* much to have changed in the bill from last year besides it actually having a Senate crossfile this time Because I forgot the alt text in the last post, HB 212, Vehicle Laws - Out-of-State Vehicles - Improper Registration, “Establishing a certain process for bringing vehicles owned by State residents that are improperly registered in another state into compliance with the Maryland Vehicle Law; providing that if a vehicle's owner fails to properly register the vehicle within 60 days after issuance of a warning, the Administration will begin to assess a civil fine of $7 per day up to 60 days; providing that if the vehicle is not registered within 120 days after the warning, the vehicle may be immobilized by towing and impoundment or by booting.”
January 20, 2026 at 1:43 AM