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Michael Wriston
Michael Wriston
@michaelwriston.com
Little old nobody in Baltimore. Public record enthusiast and data journalist at @projectsaltbox.com. Sometimes street portrait photographer. Forever enamored by the liminal, the misunderstood, and the unconventional. Signal: mwriston.410
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The dead corn wind of Cuckold Point.
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Arizona: tune in to KJZZ’s The Show tomorrow during the 9:00 am PT hour. I’ll be discussing GardaWorld’s new construction contract with hosts Lauren Gilger and Mark Brodie.
ICE just signed $7.3 billion in contracts to build detention space on land it owns, after its warehouse plan stalled. A $1.2 billion contract for a California site ICE left in 2014 went to a company tied to a developer facing more than a dozen lawsuits.
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Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump’s ICE crackdown www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Beach House covering Robert Lester Folsom is gonna get you through today.
Such a pleasure to share my street portrait work with @photochronicle.bsky.social!
Baltimore Street Portraits by @michaelwriston.com Michael Wriston’s street portraiture is all about asking strangers to stop, be seen, and briefly belong to each other’s day. #photoessay #photostory #photostories #portraiture #streetphoto photographychronicle.com/baltimore-st...
I have 20 years of experience in military intelligence and this is red flags all the way down.
During GWOT, the military often called these "target teams." DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.
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Thursday, June 11, 2026. Baltimore, Maryland.
HOMAN: You can't give me one example of someone arrested at a school REPORTER: I gave you an example of someone arrested at a school bus stop HOMAN: Is that a school?
An open letter to the board of Directors of the Maryland State Fair, or, THE ONLY SLOP I WANT TO SEE AT THE STATE FAIR IS IN THE PIG PEN.
There's a Reddit thread on the matter, and people are well and truly pissed off. Rightfully so.
The rules for the contest have all kinds of stipulations on paper type, use of Photoshop, categories, etc... but have no rules on the use of AI? That feels incredibly lazy, shortsighted, and ignorant. More, this was a CASH PRIZE. MSF basically snubbed an actual photographer in favor of AI slop.