Update on Wisconsin gerrymandering

Democrats lost a Wisconsin Supreme Court race in 2019 by fewer than 6,000 votes. Now the court has essentially ratified a GOP gerrymander by a 4–3 vote.

That 2019 loss is going to cost Democrats multiple seats in the House of Representatives. https://t.co/xIVF6241f0
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) November 30, 2021

BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules it will NOT consider partisan balance in drawing new lines for the Legislature, Congress and will make the "minimum changes necessary" to the current map.
— JR Ross (@jrrosswrites) November 30, 2021

Wisconsin's 2019 Supreme Court race, held far (far) from the national spotlight in the spring of 2019 and which the GOP-aligned candidate carried by 5921 votes (out of 1.2 million) will loom very large when it comes to deciding national power thru this coming decade.
— Taniel (@Taniel) November 30, 2021

Republicans lie about voter fraud

.@AP journalists spent months reviewing every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Trump. They found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.https://t.co/rX63SeJlYu
— Julie Pace (@JuliePace) December 14, 2021

Analysis: The Trump team and Fox News alleged dead voters. Most cases were either debunked or actually involved Republicans. https://t.co/FL7mGBptGp
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 25, 2021

Republicans last year cited this case of a mail ballot cast in the name of a dead woman as concrete evidence of voter fraud.

It joins a list of other fraud cases that turn out to be perpetrated by R voters or those simply confused about voting laws. https://t.co/1G5Vqu8C15
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) October 23, 2021

Republican official in Ohio faces charge for voting twice in November election. https://t.co/9RZz8wQvgw
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 22, 2021

Finally, the evidence of “massive vote fraud” surfaces. A PA man sentenced for casting a ballot in the name of his deceased mother.
For Trump!https://t.co/Vic4vvxf62
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) June 2, 2021

Remember when Ken Paxton offered a million dollar reward for proof of voter fraud and came away with … this? https://t.co/1T7Yxsx3NX
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 31, 2021

16 alleged cases of voter fraud out of 160 million votes in 2020: let's pass 389 new voter suppression laws

5 dead, 140 injured & 450 charged in worst attack on American democracy since War of 1812: who needs Jan 6 commission?
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 28, 2021

Never forget that the only major case of absentee ballot fraud in recent elections was committed by Republicans in North Carolina
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 28, 2020

Three Republican residents of The Villages arrested for casting multiple 2020 votes https://t.co/TYauY4fJqG
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2021

American Songwriter on causes of death in country songs

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“You Never Even Called Me by My Name” written by Steve Goodman and John Prine does a great job of skewering country music cliches.

The issue isn’t wage inflation. It’s CEO salaries and corporate profits

"In the past two quarters, U.S. corporations outside of the finance industry posted their fattest margins since 1950…" https://t.co/EuvAHCeai2
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) November 30, 2021

Fattest profits since 1950 debunk wage-inflation story of CEOs: https://t.co/GHFOMwcEaz
— Nancy Cook (@nancook) November 30, 2021

Esquire’s list of 100 best baseball books

There are more good books written about baseball than any other American team sport. Here are our 100 indispensable picks that no baseball fan should be without. https://t.co/9Mt8S2vmqC via @alexbelth
— Esquire (@esquire) November 30, 2021

I’ve read some of these. I am especially fond of Jimmy Breslin’s Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game“? about the terrible 1962 Mets. I saw them win one of the 40 games they won that year.

Baltimore City’s designated landmark list

the list from the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation

Click to access Baltimore%20City%20Landmarks%20publication.pdf

Election subversion

Trump allies work to place supporters in key election posts across the country, spurring fears about future vote challenges https://t.co/5F0y6AZfpU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 29, 2021

Have to agree that the focus on the Electoral Count Act seems to have come at the expense of other subversion risks.
The most serious subversion threats start much earlier in the process, with certification standing out as the key nexus pointhttps://t.co/zUmEFyaUTf
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) October 13, 2021

This is far and away the biggest threat to the U.S. right now. https://t.co/f71tk16d1y
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 21, 2021

“Election subversion” — or efforts underway to contest legitimate elections — “is part of a sinister state-by-state effort by Trumpists to grab power by any means necessary,” @JohnAvlon says in today’s #RealityCheck. https://t.co/g3hLi0JVQt pic.twitter.com/ru4TT8PJ02
— New Day (@NewDay) June 29, 2021

NEW POD: @staceyabrams tells me that she hopes the For the People Act is amended to include provisions that protect against election subversion.

Full pod: https://t.co/XKW3J0awzC https://t.co/2w4JKyoiaJ
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 3, 2021

The pieces are falling into place for Trump and the GOP to potentially do in 2024 what they failed to do in 2020: overturn a free and fair election https://t.co/WhRRcr3ykb
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) November 29, 2021

Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run elections in the state after President Joe Biden narrowly won last year's presidential race. https://t.co/M7uF39CF36
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) November 30, 2021

Gerrymandering in Florida

These are the proposed congressional plans from the state House, which differ from the state Senate's. We've been down this road before during the litigation, where the two chambers could not agree on a remedial congressional plan so the court adopted one
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) November 29, 2021

New: FL House Republicans release drafts that are significantly more aggressive than the FL Senate GOP's drafts. This version below could convert the delegation from 16R-11D to as lopsided as 19R-9D. https://t.co/q4QRGvuDQ0
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 29, 2021

The proposed map is “just a crazy gerrymander,” said Matt Isbell, an elections expert who runs the MCIMaps website, adding it seemed custom-designed for state Rep. Anthony Sabatini, a Republican running for Congress. “It’s like the Sabatini dream plan.”https://t.co/0ARwVuwtHe
— Mark Skoneki (@markskon) November 29, 2021

Covers: Prisoner of Love

Here’s another song covered by James Brown. The original version of “Prisoner of Love” was recorded in 1931. Brown’s version was released in 1963.

Covers: Bewildered

I am not a big fan of ballads but I love James Brown’s version of “Bewildered” from 1959. The original version was by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra from 1938. I also know the cover by Amos Milburn from 1948.