More on gerrymandering in Ohio

Ohio Supreme Court tosses out the state’s new congressional map, with a blistering opinion condemning state Republicans for favoring their own party despite Constitutional reforms to curb partisan gerrymandering. https://t.co/STXPgwHI39
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 14, 2022

Drawing a "proportional" congressional map in Ohio that would've split 8-7 Trump in '16/'20 would require making some choices that deliberately help Democrats (example below). The more likely outcome: a 9-6 or 10-5 Trump map (the current GOP map is 12-4). pic.twitter.com/ucqCxttrIS
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 14, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court has thrown out the new congressional map that Republicans passed in November. It's the 1st congressional map to be overturned this cycle. https://t.co/QgCIcO80jz pic.twitter.com/gVveTLFNp9
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) January 14, 2022

BREAKING: Redistricting: Ohio Supreme Court strikes down congressional map, forcing another round of drawing https://t.co/DIMipiF9ZK via @DispatchAlerts
— Jessie Balmert (@jbalmert) January 14, 2022

It’s a victory for fairness, not just for Democrats.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 14, 2022

Covers: Subterranean Homesick Blues

“Subterranean Homesick Blues” (1965) is Bob Dylan’s first great electric song. I can;’t imagine why anyone would cover this unique recording and Nilsson’s version is wretched. I’,m posting this now because of the Instragam post showing the cards Dylan held up during the video for the song.

The song has many great lines but my favorite is “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” which inspired the name of the left-wing Weathermen.

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Subterranean Homesick Blues manuscript pages went up for auction at Sothebys this morning. All kinds of extra words & notes.

The high bid was only $400k, below estimate, so it ended without a sale. Images and description here: https://t.co/pOzA9OkxJY pic.twitter.com/mxz0vXetpM
— Dylan.FM (@fmc_dylan) July 21, 2022

Gerrymandering in Ohio

In striking down OH's legislative maps, the court's majority ordered districts to be as proportional to the state's 54%-46% GOP lean as possible. If the same order applied to congressional, might translate into an 8-7 Trump map (far cry from GOP 11-4 map). https://t.co/fb4873FGt1
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 13, 2022

! The Ohio Supreme Court has struck down the GOP gerrymanders, with one GOP justice siding with the court's 3 Dem justices (4-3).

Elections matter: Dems won 3 of 4 justice elections in 2018/2020, including a 2018 sweep, enabling a reversal of the outcome from last decade. https://t.co/bT8s6a4emc
— Taniel (@Taniel) January 12, 2022

Big news for the new *state-legislative* maps in Ohio. https://t.co/ZfBZmZWjGi
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) January 12, 2022

BREAKING: Ohio Supreme Court votes 4-3 to strike down GOP-drawn legislative maps. @jbalmert has the details. https://t.co/OYGgyO0RUU
— Laura Bischoff (@lbischoff) January 12, 2022

Low income workers are hurt the most by the bad Supreme Court decision on mandates

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 https://t.co/GnvXYcdtwA
— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) January 13, 2022

Reusing N95 and KN95 masks

How often can you safely reuse your KN95 or N95 mask? https://t.co/CpglQ1sLoX
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 13, 2022

How reuse your N95 mask from the person that created them https://t.co/e747olIxqH
— Grumpy aka Agent Tired Tortoise⚽️⚽️⚽️ (@GrumpyYetAmusin) January 6, 2022

How to manage the cost of KN/N95 masks? Reuse.

Don’t discard your mask daily

Buy 2-KN95 masks. Keep alternating them for weeks (until they aren’t broken/damaged)

It’s not ideal. But 100-times better than not wearing a good quality mask due to affordability issues
— Faheem Younus, MD (@FaheemYounus) January 8, 2022

Newest mask-related story from me: https://t.co/HYtXVekHz8
— Gabriela Miranda Quiñones (@itsgabbymiranda) January 12, 2022

Ronnie Spector

Ronnie Spector, lead singer of the Ronettes on many fine records in the 1960s died yesterday

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She co-created one of the great seduction songs in pop-music history, a song of magnificent carnality but also one that knows the risks of falling love. From the vaults, for Ronnie: https://t.co/fVKe5ILe1a
— Stephanie Zacharek (@szacharek) January 13, 2022

ronnie spector in new york city’s riverside park, 1973 💔

by kevin dilworth pic.twitter.com/DHgLZn5dYg
— maya cade (@mayascade) January 12, 2022

Beautiful Ronnie Spector story from John Lurie. pic.twitter.com/lYy2u59KkK
— 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆 📼 𝗙𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘆 (@kcfennessy) January 13, 2022

Ronnie Spector, the lead singer of the Ronettes, the 1960s vocal trio that gave a passionate edge to pop’s girl-group sound with hits like “Be My Baby” and “Baby, I Love You,” died on Wednesday. She was 78. https://t.co/7g8ra8nKD5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 13, 2022

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Republican fake Electoral College certificates

They’ll stop at nothing. If the Republicans control Congress in 2024, they probably accept the fakes.

Trump allies' fake Electoral College certificates offer fresh insights about the plot to overturn Biden's victory https://t.co/8XvBO9Fk2x
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 13, 2022

Michigan’s Attorney General is investigating state Republicans who signed fake certificates sent to the National Archives that declared Trump the winner in MI – https://t.co/npUjL8Vd0f
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) January 13, 2022

2/ Here's the fake Trump "certificate of ascertainment" from Arizona. (dated Dec 7, even though the EC convened on Dec 14)https://t.co/HIN2jSrLwC pic.twitter.com/E6Q7mFbGAq
— Angry Fleas (@AngryFleas) January 10, 2022

The PA Republicans who signed onto a fake certificate of electors included 2 now running for Gov (Barletta, Gerow) and some of the party's top state and county officials, including the national cmte man, state party vice chair & deputy chairhttps://t.co/jzUuK9OO3c pic.twitter.com/oENCxKsfWa
— Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) January 13, 2022

The Arizona forgers who sent the fake Electoral College certificate posed for a photo, which was published in the newspaper on December 14, 2020, folks. https://t.co/jlOydHoo2O
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) January 12, 2022

Nevada Republican Party chair @McDonaldNV defended the Nevada GOP sending fraudulent elector documents to federal government. There MUST be a criminal investigation into this to see if crimes committed. Today's GOP has chosen Trump over democracy! https://t.co/5OgLaeoipf
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 13, 2022

1/3

Meet the Wisconsin 10 fake Republican electors, who signed & submitted a fake certificate to give Donald Trump the state's electoral votes.

Source ~> https://t.co/4JjK6uwx0Z #Wisconsin #wipolitics #wisdems #wisgop #wiunion #wiright @MaddowBlog pic.twitter.com/kZ6UVWW5vo
— Coffee Bean (@CoffeeBean26) January 12, 2022

'Do you not know how you arrived at a place?': Fake elector struggles to explain role in scheme to submit false election papers https://t.co/FZh49EZ2F1
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 13, 2022

Short(ish) thread on one interesting detail concerning the bizarre falsified elector documents Republicans sent in to the National Archives in various Biden-won states after the 2020 election, falsely asserting that those states had chosen Republican/Trump electors:
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) January 13, 2022

Gonna be a lot of folks who said things on Fox with suddenly limited recollections of the forged electors.

Good thing there are tapes. https://t.co/hq8glxLoCF
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) January 14, 2022

The plan, the plot, was that the phony documents from Trump electors would help VP Pence say on Jan. 6, per the Eastman memo and backed up by Rosen's DOJ, that due to competing slates and claims, there was no clear winner in those states, so he wouldn't count those states' votes.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 14, 2022

If the White House Press Secretary knew about the forged certificates of the fake Trump electors, is it conceivable that Trump didn’t know? Hint: That’s a rhetorical question. https://t.co/i9BvaPulhl
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 14, 2022

“Disturbing to say the least” – Wisconsin State Senator Kathy Bernier reacts to reports that then-President Donald Trump's allies sent fake certificates to the National Archives declaring that Trump won seven states that he actually lost in the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/BeKtMquTfH
— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) January 14, 2022

If people go to jail for fraudulently casting one person's vote, shouldn't they also go to jail for attempting to forge the votes of millions? https://t.co/HnpvL2hukC
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 13, 2022

Makes you wonder how there could 𝙣𝙤𝙩 have been a conspiracy or attempt by Trump or Eastman and others to "corruptly … obstruct[], influence[], or impede[]" the electoral-vote count proceedings within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). https://t.co/gKrrx3L080 https://t.co/MoMj3pBwZl
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 15, 2022

“What we have here is attempted election fraud on a massive scale. Some perspective: If an average voter lied on their registration forms or forged an absentee ballot, they would face criminal charges…But this case is far worse…” https://t.co/Z9YttK7Hsn
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 16, 2022

Republicans don’t want to participate in presidential debates

NEWS: The RNC has told the Commission on Presidential Debates that it's preparing to require presidential candidates to refuse to take part in those debates, potentially leading to a significant change in how debates have been conducted for 35 years https://t.co/v08IlEsG3L
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 13, 2022

Why should they debate when they don't even have a platform? All they have is white nationalism and the big lie. This is terrible and shows that the GOP is not a functioning party.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 13, 2022

Frank Fahrenkopf, chair of the commission, said the CPD plans to continue dealing directly with the candidates, and not the parties. He said the RNC wanted control of things they would not give the party control over. https://t.co/fDSAPqkak9
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 13, 2022

.@FrankLuntz, reacting to the RNC move to begin process of withdrawing from the CPD process: "This is the fairest election process we still have. and it's a role model for other democracies. The world looks at our debates and says this is how it should be done."
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 13, 2022

A different read would be that Trump is running and he won't debate if he's the nominee. https://t.co/3uuXFIoz6Y
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 13, 2022

2/2 "The CPD’s plans for 2024 will be based on fairness, neutrality and a firm commitment to help the American public learn about the candidates and the issues."
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 13, 2022

The media is addicted to Trump

This is the second poll I’ve seen showing the majority doesn’t want Trump to run yet the media keeps giving him lots of coverage. I have never seen coverage of a future presidential election begin this early.

Would you like to see Donald Trump run for president in 2024, or not?

Would like to see 33%
Would not 59%

(Quinnipiac U. Poll, 1/7-10/22)https://t.co/MIyclO649x
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) January 12, 2022

The media could wait until 2023 to start 2024 election coverage. The majority of the public doesn’t want Trump to run. The media is giving Trump excessive coverage.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 13, 2022

Direct the question to the media. They’re the ones giving Trump lots of coverage even though the majority of the public doesn’t want him to run for president again.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 13, 2022

More proof that the media is giving Trump too much coverage https://t.co/9lEtj9WSfw
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 21, 2022

Time for less Trump coverage. The media needs to get over their addiction to Trump. https://t.co/jGJbqahRcq
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 23, 2022

Chris Bell’s “There Was a Light”

“There Was a Light” was written by Chris Bell. Demos were made when he was in Big Star and he recorded it solo after he left. I think that’s actually Alex Chilton on vocals on the demo and Big Star played the song live after Bell left. Bell’s birthday was yesterday. His solo work was released many years after his death on the excellent I Am the Cosmos. Here’s a Wikipedia article on it. I have the Rhino version.