Tweets on why Russia’s convoy is stalled

Cheap tires and bad maintenance. Great thread right below this:

This is a thread that will explain the implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices based on this photo of a Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile system's right rear pair of tires below & the operational implications during the Ukrainian mud season.🧵

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— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) March 2, 2022

Reason for the stagnation of Russia's military fleet has been found. Their vehicles used poor quality Chinese Huanghai YS20 tires, which are imitations of the American Michelin military tires. Those 🇨🇳 tires can't drive in the mud. 🇨🇳 knockoffs contributed to "anti-war" effort. pic.twitter.com/ruYbudDRzq
— Northrop Gundam 💙🇺🇦💛 (@GundamNorthrop) March 3, 2022

How cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia's 'stalled' 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine https://t.co/VoRAqQFjfZ via @TheWeek

They are a bad Chinese copy of the excellent Michelin.
— Cindy fowler (@Cinnataz17) March 3, 2022

Good commentary on China Inc, and the awful rot of their model. Those tires ain't Michelin or Goodyearhttps://t.co/ijQHjjhQNX
— Macro Twain (@macrotwain) March 3, 2022

R.E.M.’s New Adventures in HiFi (1996) was reissued in 2021.

An excellent album.

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R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Mike Mills on 25 Years of New Adventures in Hi-Fi https://t.co/608SMsnMYW via @consequence
— R.E.M. HQ (@remhq) November 13, 2021

Michael Stipe opens up about why New Adventures in Hi-Fi is his favorite R.E.M. record and more: https://t.co/8ZkjEIsSgw @remhq pic.twitter.com/j7wENDf0sy
— Consequence (@consequence) November 14, 2021

Instagram post on the creation of the park area around Independence Hall

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My uncle’s last drive

Old folks hate to give up driving. My uncle had a caretaker living with him. She didn’t speak much English. Her description of the last time he drove was “Two cars. One tree. No good.” Fortunately, nobody was hurt.

The public doesn’t support terrible Republican book banning/teaching policies

Striking new poll numbers:

* 76% support teaching history that causes discomfort

* 66% say schools teach the right amount or too little about Black history

* 58% say racism is still a serious problem

Don't run from these arguments, Democrats. Win them:https://t.co/3GWK06hKmF
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 23, 2022

Three numbers from this poll:

87% of US adults say books should never be banned from schools for containing discussions of race

68% say teaching the history of race makes students understand what others went through

35% say they've heard a lot about critical race theory https://t.co/gdQOKlP3y8
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) February 23, 2022

In Dallas News/UT-Tyler poll, 65% in TX (!) say they have little/no confidence in elected officials to decide which books should be allowed in school libraries. Similar to VA/TX/ntl polls showing most oppose state limits on teaching race in classroom https://t.co/cOC4RpcHwy
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 23, 2022

NEW POLL: 71% of likely voters – including 66% of Independents and 64% of Republicans – believe that local school boards should not have the authority to ban books from school curriculums.

Read the analysis from @LeahGreenb of @IndivisibleTeam.https://t.co/1VlNlpv69T
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) February 18, 2022

New @CBSNews poll finds GOP efforts to ban books are toxic.

"Large majorities — more than eight in 10 — don't think books should be banned from schools for discussing race and criticizing U.S. history."https://t.co/Fb3FkV7zFQ pic.twitter.com/THhpCZdBKu
— James Singer (@Jemsinger) February 23, 2022

As you may know, efforts to ban certain books in schools and libraries are spreading in the United States. Do you think these efforts are more about the content of the books or more about politics?

Content of books 15%
Politics 79%

(Quinnipiac U. Poll, 2/10-14/22)
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) February 17, 2022

Upcoming Supreme Court cases

In case you've lost track of the Scotus culture war cases, a partial list…

This term:
– abortion
– guns
– climate change
– religious-school tuition
– remain-in-Mexico
– praying football coach (prob this term)

Next term:
– affirmative action
– gay-wedding objections
— Greg Stohr (@GregStohr) February 22, 2022

The US Supreme Court’s 2022 docket is set to be historic. #BULawProf @ProfLMcClain, @JPYgold, Jacobs, and @nhuberfeld1 break down the four major case areas SCOTUS is expected to rule on, and their potential implications. https://t.co/Mlcz8kvTpR
— Boston University School of Law (@BU_Law) February 21, 2022

There are no good reasons for the Court to take this case. The Supreme Court is on the ballot for Democrats in November; pulling out a stronger majority in the Senate is critical to civil rights in multiple fronts. https://t.co/PhmgmgCKFN
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) February 22, 2022

The Supreme Court’s decision to hear a redistricting case from Alabama next term puts the #VotingRightsAct — and redistricting protections for communities of color — at risk for a wholesale rollback. https://t.co/fcxruCAWhx
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) February 17, 2022

“The Supreme Court should absolutely side with the majority of Americans and reject this dangerous agenda,” Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, says as the Supreme Court takes on its biggest guns case in more than a decade. https://t.co/FYXVf5UWHM
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 9, 2021

Pedestrian deaths are up

Pedestrian Deaths Spike in U.S. as Reckless Driving Surges

Why did pedestrian deaths suddenly turn upward in 2009? https://t.co/sFIHLgwElq pic.twitter.com/eUjRzfK9HU
— Kevin Drum (@kdrum) February 21, 2022

Red states have more Covid deaths

This is because they are less vaccinated.

“As the chart makes clear, the toll has been worse in counties where Trump won by a landslide. This is an example of how the country’s political polarization has warped people’s thinking, even when their personal safety is at stake. It is a tragedy — and a preventable one, too.” pic.twitter.com/kZzxlHrcK2
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) February 18, 2022

Not only were Trump counties less likely to get vaccinated, new research shows that they were more likely to seek out hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. https://t.co/W9xu30fKzL
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 18, 2022

In the last year, many red counties elected to serve as a control group for vaccine effectiveness.

The data is very much in, and the conclusion couldn’t be more obvious: the shots saved a lot of lives. It’s a cultural tragedy. https://t.co/1KeZNRMMHB
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) February 18, 2022

An outsize number of Covid-related deaths are occurring in the U.S. among people who are unvaccinated or unboosted, writes @DLeonhardt. Research shows more Republicans than Democrats or independents have needlessly died of Covid in recent weeks. https://t.co/ocY2yWQ6kH
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 18, 2022

Hitchcock on working with Dali

Salvador Dali worked on the dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 film Spellbound.

Alfred Hitchcock Recalls Working with Salvador Dali on Spellbound https://t.co/HWLTw2Gye4 via @openculture pic.twitter.com/CR6POLY8bh
— Dr. Ronald Strand (@drronstrand) February 18, 2022

Bad news: Michigan GOP attorney general candidates want to overturn a birth control decision

This is terrible.

About 90% of Americans support birth control. All three GOP men running for Michigan attorney general in 2022 want a landmark decision on contraception overturned.

If you think Republicans are going to stop at Roe v. Wade, think again. https://t.co/C1BaxSmiRy
— Susan J. Demas 🏔 (@sjdemas) February 20, 2022

All 3 Republicans running for Michigan Attorney General just stated that they oppose the ruling in Griswold v Connecticut which outlawed prosecuting married couples for using contraception.

You read that right.

Terrifying.
— Dana Nessel (@dananessel) February 19, 2022