Amazing graph from Twitter showing the decline of the Orioles

On 6/8/1986, the Orioles defeated their hated rival Yankees 18-9 in the Bronx. 15 year veteran RF Lee Lacy hit 3 of his 91 career home runs to power Baltimore to their staggering 2,811th team win since starting play in 1954. What followed was a collapse of historic proportions. pic.twitter.com/Zhm53NgrSY
— charm city dweller (@the_megalopolis) March 21, 2022

Supreme Court right-wing hypocrisy on voting rights

The Supreme Court isn’t bothering to hide its designs on our democracy, @paulwaldman1 and @ThePlumLineGS write https://t.co/daANpvzFux
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) March 23, 2022

#ELB: Breaking: Supreme Court, in Bizarre Unsigned Opinion, Strikes Wisconsin Legislative Maps on Voting Rights Grounds, Signalling New Hostility to the Voting Rights Act https://t.co/WYhjjvnZO2
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) March 23, 2022

Needless to say, the Supreme Court's rather selective application of the Purcell principle (no last-minute changes to election rules) in AL vs. WI won't do anything to diminish perceptions it's become a partisan body.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 23, 2022

So much for overturning redistricting plans so close to an election. The full hypocrisy of the conservative majority of the Supreme Court on display. This is a willful exercise of political power by the Court, not judges calling balls and strikes https://t.co/am8mR3bLaI
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) March 23, 2022

Six weeks ago, in early February, SCOTUS stayed a ruling ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional map because it was too close to the election

Now, in late March, it's ordering Wisconsin to redraw its legislative maps https://t.co/pCwGbugAt0
— David Nir (@DavidNir) March 23, 2022

Keep in mind that this doesn't apply to the congressional map the WI Supreme Court adopted (not that that map helps Dems much). https://t.co/zG06wx5yqK
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 23, 2022

This is an absolutely shocking decision. The maps were adopted by a Republican justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This appeal was considered a Hail Mary, and it prevailed. I am stunned by this ruling. https://t.co/i5r4D0eqcj
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 23, 2022

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Wisconsin Republicans' request to throw out governor's state legislative maps drawn to include an extra majority-black district. Justices Kagan & Sotomayor write a dissent. Apparent vote is 7-2, but we cannot be sure as this is on the shadow docket.
— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) March 23, 2022

The connection between unvaccinated people and Russia invasion supporters

Startling data:

26 percent of unvaccinated people in Canada believe Russia invading Ukraine is justified.

2 percent of vaccinated people in Canada believe the same.

More evidence antivaxx communities are evolving into general pro-authoritarian spaces.https://t.co/p3QxkiLjPS pic.twitter.com/83tkkaWWYc
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 20, 2022

58% support confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court justice

Republican senators won’t care. They’re more interested in appealing to their white nationalist base.

From Gallup: 58% of Americans think Ketanji Brown Jackson should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Americans know she's what our highest court needs. #ConfirmJackson pic.twitter.com/CH38h8rt6O
— CAP Action (@CAPAction) March 23, 2022

GALLUP: 58% of Americans say confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

30% say reject her

12% have no opinionhttps://t.co/VBz328krb8
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 23, 2022

A majority of Americans support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson being confirmed to the Supreme Court, with 58% saying the Senate should vote in favor of her historical nomination to the nation's highest court, according to a poll newly released by Gallup https://t.co/WDuvLgokYg
— CNN (@CNN) March 23, 2022

The 56% support for Judge Jackson's confirmation is the highest level of support for any SCOTUS nominee measured by the Fox News Poll since 2005. pic.twitter.com/WtCjd9Nt8T
— Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin) March 28, 2022

Senate Republicans’ ranting, raving, and disrespectful behavior won’t change the facts: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is qualified to serve on the Supreme Court, and the American people overwhelmingly support her nomination. https://t.co/wS6dhazn5O
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) March 28, 2022

Covers: Blue Bayou

“Blue Bayou” was a 1963 hit for Roy Orbison in 1963 and again for Linda Ronstadt in 1977.

The five states with the highest murder rate voted for Trump

So much for Republican crime hysteria about crime in cities.

States with highest murder rates per 100k (in order): Louisiana 15.8, Missouri 11.8, Mississippi 10.6, Arkansas 10.6, South Carolina 10.5, Alabama 9.6, Tennessee 9.6, Illinois 9.1. Data really shatters Republican/Mainstream Media narrative about nature of our crime problem.
— David Rothschild 🇺🇦 (@DavMicRot) March 20, 2022

"The five states with the highest murder rates, all Trump-voting states, had rates at least 240 percent higher than New York’s murder rate."@CapehartJ reports on a fascinating new study with findings Republicans won't talk about. Via @PostOpinions:https://t.co/LWO75lDPfk
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 22, 2022

Murder rates are 40% higher in the 25 states that Trump won than the 25 states that Biden won.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 17, 2022

My brother who lives in Omaha did not want to go to NYC because of "how bad crime has gotten." Instead, he wants to go to Nashville. Umm…. Just shows how the media's focus on large cities can mislead average Americans pic.twitter.com/Dh6dL2FCYj
— Tom Scott (@Tom_Scott_Crim) March 12, 2022

"The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate. But, despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the Democratic bastions." https://t.co/yCxI0H42pg @ThirdWayTweet
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) March 24, 2022

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1511281578248646656?s=20

Dying Crapshooter’s Blues

“Dying Crapshooter’s Blues” is a Blind Willie McTell song. As far as I can tell, the first version is on the 1940 Library of Congress recordings. I am most familiar with the 1949 version on the great Atlanta Twelve String album.

Jean Renoir’s This Land Is Mine is on TCM on 3/22 at 7:30 am

This Land Is Mine (1943), one of Renoir’s American films, is good, not great, but well worth seeing. It’s also on DVD.

Covers: Broke Down Engine

“Broke Down Engine” was first released by Blind Willie McTell in 1931. He re-recorded it in 1949 on the terrific album Atlanta Twelve String. The album has much better sound quality than the old blues records and McTell’s performance is excellent.

Bob Dylan covered it in 1993.

Lyrics for Dylan’s version

Kid Bailey

Very little is known about Delta blues musician Kid Bailey. He only recorded one 78 which was made in 1929. “Rowdy Blues” is a terrific delicate romantic song. Bailey is joined by a second guitarist. I learned about him from Yazoo’s great 1991 compilation Masters of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton.