The Rolling Stones just released a cover of “Drift Away” on the 40th-anniversary edition of Tattoo You. The 1973 version by Dobie Gray is the best known cover and was a big hit in 1973.
Great tweet on copy editing
When you’ve fired all the copy editors. pic.twitter.com/RqJVcHRdi6
— Rob Tannenbaum (@tannenbaumr) October 27, 2021
This is great! https://t.co/zfcZVeMiGK
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) November 6, 2021
Maryland is a southern state
A recent poll of Maryland residents showed that the majority think this is a northern state. Obviously, they have never lived in the north. I grew up in New York and suburban Philadelphia. One thing that disqualifies Maryland from being a northern state is there terrible handling of snow. They close schools on many days I know I would have gone to school in New York. Pathetic.
I also think there are a lot more people here with ancestors from the south than from the north. When I interviewed people in the 1970s when I worked for the government, I think I spoke to about 10 times as many people born south of Baltimore than born north of here.
Maryland is a Southern state. Look at the terrible way people handle snow here. In the real north where I grew up, we went to school on many days that schools would have been closed here.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 27, 2021
Another reason Maryland is a southern state is that we had Confederate monuments which were recently removed. You didn’t see them up north (except in places like the Gettsyburg battlefield).
Tonight, the Talbot County Council voted 3-2 to remove the “Talbot Boys” statue, the last known Confederate Monument on public property in the state of Maryland. https://t.co/b4wD4Ihry8
— Baltimore magazine (@Baltimoremag) September 14, 2021
65% in new Goucher poll see Maryland as a Northern vs Southern state.
— Jayne Miller (@jemillerwbal) October 26, 2021
This does not obscure the state's clear Southern leanings in its history…from enslavement to people still erecting prominent Confederate monuments into the 1940's
I grew up in NY and PA and live in Baltimore. MD is a southern state.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 30, 2021
1) MD had Confederate monuments until recently.
2) They don’t know how to handle snow down here.
Biden is appointing a lot of judges
Schumer’s office sends me these numbers, which align with my own reporting on judicial confirmations under Biden.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 1, 2021
Bottom line is that Biden is crushing it on judges, filling vacancies much faster than any of his recent predecessors. pic.twitter.com/UnaB2p2Lxd
As Democrats haggle over Build Back Better, the Senate is churning out Biden-picked federal judges.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 27, 2021
The Schumer-led Senate has confirmed six this week alone, bringing Biden's total to 25 judges.
For now, Biden is outpacing Trump, who had inked a total of 8 judges at this stage.
Schumer has done everything you could ask for, not only in terms of recommending professionally diverse judges for vacancies in New York, but in prioritizing Biden's picks on the Senate floor to ensure they get confirmed quickly. Bravo @SenSchumerhttps://t.co/xevq4DxvVR
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) October 27, 2021
President Biden is outpacing every other president since Richard Nixon in confirming circuit court judges, who have the last word in most federal cases.https://t.co/TgTKuVcFXA
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 23, 2021
New —> Joe Biden is quietly making history on the courts
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 19, 2021
Senate just confirmed his fifth circuit judge with a public defender background, matching Obama’s number over 8 years. Part of a White House push to rewrite the playbook for who gets to be a judge.https://t.co/T7F4NmgYUs
NEW: Biden has two more opportunities to fill seats on the Second Circuit, opening the door for him to bolster the liberal wing of a court already tipping toward a Democratic-appointed majority. https://t.co/ys1kFtad0J
— Madison Alder (@madialder) October 7, 2021
Court expansion is not just about revenge, it's about REFORM. The federal system desperately needs more judges. The Senate needs to confirm judges Biden has nominated AND expand the courts to add more.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 1, 2021
It's what McConnell would do.
My latest in @thenation https://t.co/hTvBVAfEeL
New this am: Biden has nominated 10 more to the federal bench, bringing total nominations to 53.
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) September 30, 2021
Of those 53, a WH official says:
– 72% are women
– 28% are African-American
– 21% are Hispanic
– 23% are AAPIhttps://t.co/nYy4tBq3hs
President Biden nominates 10 more to the federal bench, with a continued focus on diversity https://t.co/lhmY4CaZst
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 30, 2021
President Biden has acted on @SenSchumer's recommendation and nominated Dale Ho, the top voting rights lawyer at @ACLU who argued against Trump's politicization of the census, to be a federal judge in NY. This is one of Biden's finest choices for the benchpic.twitter.com/IvKM5y16lo
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 30, 2021
The U.S. Senate confirms Florence Pan as the first Asian American woman to serve as a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/1FbeQr2EXK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 24, 2021
.@POTUS has now added more federal judges to the bench than any new President in 50 years. https://t.co/2qahOwDUMr
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) September 21, 2021
Today’s Senate confirmation of Judge Veronica Rossman makes her the first-ever former public defender to serve on the Tenth Circuit—and flips the federal appeals court to a majority of Democratic appointees. https://t.co/jWO3Mrs2E9 pic.twitter.com/srzvIVagPA
— Balls & Strikes (@ballsstrikes) September 20, 2021
The US is way behind on family leave
Really bad it got cut
Every country in the world that offers ZERO weeks of paid family leave:
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 27, 2021
1. Marshall Islands
2. Federated States of Micronesia
3. Nauru
4. Palau
5. Papua New Guinea
6. Suriname
7. Tonga
8. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA https://t.co/v6YNa8yDFC
The U.S. is one of six nations in the world without any form of national paid leave. The Democrats are proposing four weeks, but even that is low. Of the 185 countries that offer paid leave for new mothers, only one, Eswatini, offers fewer than four weeks.https://t.co/6gJOQRHJgH pic.twitter.com/tXUBgmdo2O
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 26, 2021
Here’s how we fair, currently with paid paternity leave. If four-weeks paid was included in this package (big if) we’d still lag almost all the rest of the world. pic.twitter.com/2BcNAW2L6y
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 26, 2021
Here’s how many weeks of paid leave a new mother receives in countries around the world:
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) October 25, 2021
Russia: 166 weeks
Canada: 76 weeks
Iran: 26 weeks
China: 16 weeks
Iraq: 14 weeks
Mexico: 12 weeks
North Korea: 11 weeks
America: 0 weeks
Great tweet by Aaron Neville
I believe I wore it better @BobMehr @SenatorSinema https://t.co/5afXX88BZL
— Aaron Neville (@aaronneville) October 27, 2021
Wisconsin Republicans won’t accept the facts
For people in the cult, this won't matter. https://t.co/AeAVmMIUXv
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 8, 2021
A highly anticipated nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin did not identify any widespread fraud in the battleground state, which a key Republican legislative leader said shows that the state's elections are “safe and secure.”https://t.co/roM5BpIAHP
— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) October 22, 2021
.@SpeakerVos reacts to nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau report out today that found voting machines are accurate, there was no widespread fraud, but not all election laws were followed:
— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) October 22, 2021
“This audit proves why further investigation is necessary."
Impartial audit? Wisconsin Republicans select both a Trump appointee and a former Trump White House lawyer to assess legitimacy of 2020 election. https://t.co/WCVsJsCiAM
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 15, 2021
A former judge leading the GOP election review in Wisconsin sent subpoenas to officials in at least three cities demanding 'all documents' related to the 2020 vote. via @eliseviebeck and @AmyEGardner https://t.co/ehEUyZdyeS
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 1, 2021
Wisconsin: where taxpayers have to fund efforts to weaken their faith in democracy https://t.co/lVtE0EiUio
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) August 30, 2021
Remember Reince? He's back! And in MAGA form! https://t.co/QV6tFtz4H5
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) August 24, 2021
"No matter what the ridiculous audit process of the 2020 vote in Arizona produces … the next front in the effort to claim that the presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump is already forming in Wisconsin," writes @ChrisCillizza | Analysis https://t.co/cHMKoNI6JC
— CNN (@CNN) August 16, 2021
The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired by Republicans to review 2020 election results went to Mike Lindell’s conspiracy-fest in South Dakota – https://t.co/HYcJkAntHj
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) August 13, 2021
A Wisconsin lawmaker has taken the unprecedented step of demanding clerks in two counties turn over all ballots and voting equipment used in the 2020 presidential election for what the Republican is calling a “cyber-forensic” review of the results. https://t.co/cgeTBCTM9i
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) August 9, 2021
The Trump cult wants election subversion
“some top Democrats are expressing public concern, worried that moves by Republican state officials — like making election overseers more beholden to political leaders — could set back their party for a generation.” https://t.co/3LTGWsYBGA
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 16, 2021
A little scoop with @daithaigilbert:
— Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) October 27, 2021
At this weekend's QAnon conference, a Nevada secretary of state candidate announced he & three Trump-endorsed candidates have formed a coalition to "control the election system."
Mike Lindell is involved.https://t.co/Yp71NBFdMf
The GOP and its acolytes are engaged in a two-prong, systematic effort to takeover election administration:
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) October 27, 2021
1. Intimidate non-partisan election officials into resigning;
2. Get MAGA “Big Lie” candidates to replace them.
This is a huge authoritarian threat to US democracy.
It's a bad sign that elections officials are feeling endangered by threats of violence to the point that some are leaving. Add in that Trumpists are unshackling themselves from any obligation to respect future election outcomes, and it's a combustible mix:https://t.co/cTzSzdw8j8
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 26, 2021
Pretty much every day another story emerges about threats of violence from Trump supporters- @ election officials, school boards, Congress, local govt. GOP (& conserv columnists) determined to ignore, but it's clear Trump has ignited an ongoing threat changing US landscape https://t.co/wgtgbwpd4h
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 26, 2021
In three critical battleground states, Democratic governors have blocked efforts by Republican-controlled legislatures to restrict voting rights and undermine the 2020 election. From The New York Times: https://t.co/Rbik1qFyao
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) October 9, 2021
Washington Monthly's Bill Scher on the precise, stripped-down electoral reform bill that just might get 10 Senate GOP votes and just might save American democracy. https://t.co/2EMs8XhNSt @monthly
— Paul Glastris (@glastris) October 8, 2021
Elections are super-important, particularly right now. But I tried to explain why they can't be the only or dominant factor in our political discourse. https://t.co/aKRixiqtrb
— Perry Bacon Jr. (@perrybaconjr) October 8, 2021
Candy corn tweets
🚨Breaking News 🚨 pic.twitter.com/ZaiPMspOQY
— Torrey Smith (@TorreySmithWR) October 26, 2021
Was candy corn created in Philly? @billy_penn looks at the evidence — or lack thereof — behind the popular claim. https://t.co/KFTqoyvBo4
— WHYY News (@WHYYNews) October 23, 2021
Treator the bear.
— Every* Beanie Baby (@beaniebabybot) October 20, 2021
Birthday: October 19, 2007.
“I’ve got a treat that’s really sweet
Candy corn just can’t be beat
If you’re nice I’m sure to share
‘Cause I’m Treator, the friendly bear !” pic.twitter.com/CSORcMNgnr
Halloween becomes properly scary with introduction of candy corn-stuffed bratwurst https://t.co/IIq2TMlgTV pic.twitter.com/9MDmnx4kxI
— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) October 19, 2021
Candy corn cake >>> regular cake pic.twitter.com/eS1xGWR29N
— Brach's (@BrachsCandy) October 20, 2021
How to eat candy corn: pic.twitter.com/cPrBCoVXHH
— Survival Pending Revolution (@ChannelingLlama) October 19, 2021
Bad headlines and tweets emphasize the small percentage who don’t obey mandates
Mandates are working – that’s what they should say.
This is the fourth paragraph but should be the lead. pic.twitter.com/c1gXWTmLSO
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 11, 2022
The 6th paragraph should be the lead. Mandates work. pic.twitter.com/JQpXN9BvP7
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 6, 2022
Another example of the media emphasizing the wrong thing. This is in the article and should have been the main point:
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 2, 2022
"Roughly 97% of all Army soldiers have gotten at least one shot." https://t.co/Dc78yGtmQ1
The headline should be that nearly 99% complied with the vaccine mandate. Mandates work!
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 5, 2022
The article says they have 125,000 employees. https://t.co/Ko5Seei8hL
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 27, 2021
Imagine our leading news organizations throwing this much attention at a 4% holdout faction on any other issue of consequence. https://t.co/pFjU3Ym6wh
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) October 24, 2021
It's off a base of 63,300 employees! So less than 3% of people quit…IN AN ENTIRE STATE.
— Ben Wakana (@benwakana46) October 20, 2021
The headline "Overwhelming majority of employees comply" was right there! https://t.co/GTglFiC1YG
This is a story about how 98.5% of students in San Diego attended school today. https://t.co/NZYm6rym4d
— Andy Kopp (@andykoppsd) October 19, 2021
Headlines say "500 let go" or "200 terminated" — but these numbers are in huge health care systems — usually less than 1% of health care workers are refusing to get vax'ed. pic.twitter.com/FfeircnJJo
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) October 7, 2021
Time and again, the final number of actual resignations is around 1%. https://t.co/HOqAPvaxX3
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) October 6, 2021
400 Henry Ford Hospital staff members quit over COVID-19 vaccine mandate https://t.co/gpOS5oxnfn
— WXYZ Detroit (@wxyzdetroit) October 6, 2021
This is under 2% of the 76,000 person workforce…https://t.co/7nLxHA8tCT
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) October 4, 2021
Several hundred Virginia health-care workers have been suspended or fired over coronavirus vaccine mandates https://t.co/V0BnvqHYtx
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 3, 2021
North Carolina hospital network fires around 175 staffers for not getting vaccinated. https://t.co/azAHb52UR1
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2021
The NYT does it again: "House Delays Vote on Infrastructure Bill as Democrats Feud." On the homepage they call it a "Big Setback for the Biden Agenda." Really? Really? A day? A couple of days? The media is getting this story 100% wrong. https://t.co/JWAXpmLYXl
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) October 1, 2021
Sad! 