https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1103298711382380545.html

Bomp, bomp, bomp. Another one bites the dust.

https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-election-wisconsin-swing-voters-4fba07f1-8455-48d2-8a4f-d457d9bcf524.html

N = 12. (That’s a tiny sample, methinks.)

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/434333-gop-moves-to-rein-in-presidents-emergency-powers

Now that they’ve let Trump slide through, they’re going to block the next President, who might very well be a Democrat (if liberal voters can get their act together and not vote Stein or Johnson or Nader again — or Sanders, if he decides to run 3rd-party after losing the primary).

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/15/beto-orourke-backlash-women-1223073

(Via @NickKristof retweeting @Amy_Siskind)

«Since announcing her 2020 run, Elizabeth Warren has dispensed three major policy proposals, held 30 campaign events and visited nearly a dozen states.

Since announcing his 2020 run, Beto O’Rourke has made one visit to Iowa, where he vaguely outlined his positions, including from atop a cafe counter.

Guess who’s getting the star treatment.

….

“A woman could never say ‘I was born to do this.’ But you know what? I think that some women were, and it pains me that a woman couldn’t get away with saying that,” Sefl said.

….

Even so, some Democratic operatives said, women are not only treated differently by the media as a whole, they face an inherent, entrenched sexism from voters. [Why else would Joe Biden be #2 in polls behind Sanders? — John L.]»

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1107318718399434752.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html

Turns out we were never really recycling, just dumping in China. (E-waste, too, I believe.)

Out of sight, out of mind.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/one-year-in-facebooks-big-algorithm-change-has-spurred-an-angry-fox-news-dominated-and-very-engaged-news-feed/