https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135034292382314497.html
Ouch. It’s like a Thomas Hardy or Herman Melville novel.
The power of story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/census-citizenship-question-hofeller.html
Wow, fascinating. Really interesting story.
«Mr. Hofeller’s exhaustive analysis of Texas state legislative districts concluded that such maps “would be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites,” and would dilute the political power of the state’s Hispanics.
The reason, he wrote, was that the maps would exclude traditionally Democratic Hispanics and their children from the population count. That would force Democratic districts to expand to meet the Constitution’s one person, one vote requirement. In turn, that would translate into fewer districts in traditionally Democratic areas, and a new opportunity for Republican mapmakers to create even stronger gerrymanders.
The strategy carried a fatal flaw, however: The detailed citizenship data that was needed to draw the maps did not exist.»
https://twitter.com/ManlnTheHoody/status/1132867136320299010?s=17
(DON’T read the thread.)
ɯ ᴉ ʇ ɥ (@ManlnTheHoody) Tweeted:
look i fucking get it. warren has great policy stuff going on and if i was voting on JUST policy shed have my vote right now. and that’s cool and all but booooooooring af so im voting for the person I find the most likeable which right now would have to be warren
If #nottheonion isn’t a thing, it should be.
Actually, never mind. It’s just riverbeds, which are flat and low, but not under 50 ft.
Use the National Map viewer ( https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/advanced-viewer/ ) and add layers “Elevation Contours” (in feet) & “Elevation Tinted Hillshade”.
It’s really kind of amazing how much of the country is under fifty feet off elevation, even far into the interior. Eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, southwestern Illinois, half the old South.
«Flood warnings were issued from eastern Oklahoma into southeastern Kansas, southern Missouri, central Illinois and parts of Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Florida panhandle.»
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1004400861865488384.html
“I know of a woman who comes to pick up her welfare check in a Cadillac.”
«A lot of people would back the change because Obviously Some People Take Advantage. (Positing that someone, somewhere is taking advantage is a great way to get the masses on your side in our politics, sadly.)»
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1131900999621402624.html
Follow-up to my Naomi Wolf post from yesterday.
«The Naomi Wolf story is less a “this could happen to any of us” thing than an “it was inevitable that this would eventually happen to her” thing.»
https://twitter.com/fairvote/status/1132315607305736192?s=17
SUPER interesting to see who gets the votes of eliminated candidates.
(163 votes at this time, so of course it’s Yang and Sanders among the Very Internet.)
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