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Christopher Ingraham🦗 Profile picture
@_cingraham
Sep 18, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
NEW: The United States is undergoing "substantial autocratization" under Trump. Historic data show that only 1 in 5 democracies that start down this path are able to reverse the damage before succumbing to full-blown autocracy. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
“Everything we see in terms of decline on these [democratic] indicators is exactly the pattern of decline” seen in other autocratizing nations, like Turkey and Hungary, one expert told me. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
“Executive respect for the Constitution is now at the lowest level since 1865,” another one told me. “Corruption in the executive branch is basically the worst since Harding.” washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
This isn't just one guy's opinion. Multiple groups that track the health of democracies -- Freedom House, the V-Dem project, Bright Line Watch -- are showing the exact same thing. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
“If Trump wins this election in November, democracy is gone,” the founder of one of the projects told me. “It’s really time to wake up before it’s too late.” washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Like I said. The people most steeped in this stuff are sending up huge warning flares, and we in the press haven't figured out how to grapple with that, in part because nothing like this has happened in our lifetimes
The story of America, over at least the past 100+ years, has been the expansion of individual and civil liberties. *None of us* has experienced an authoritarian backslide like what's happening now. We think things will work out, because they always have. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
We don't even realize that we're *already* in unprecedented territory. That we're rapidly approaching the point of no return, and may already be past it. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Incidentally, per @BrightLineWatch's 776 experts, one of the democratic principles being weakened most by the Trump administration is protection from government attempts to monitor, attack or punish political opponents.

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Oct 29
This is definitely gonna cause more subscription cancellations lol Image
Absolutely insane "just trust me, bro" stuff happening here Image
"I challenge you to find one instance" how is the average readers supposed to know either way? And why would anyone give the benefit of the doubt when this kind of thing has been documented both internally and externally? Image
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Aug 6
NEW: Giving the keynote address at a GIS conference last month, former high school geography teacher Tim Walz talked about some of his favorite maps minnesotareformer.com/2024/08/06/for…
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Here's a wild anecdote: while teaching high school students about genocide in 1993, Walz had them use GIS data to predict where the next one would occur. They said Rwanda. (the NYT verified this via interviews with some of those students in a 2008 story) Image
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Jun 12
Oh dear: GOP-endorsed MN senate candidate tweeted out a map purporting to show "crime in Minneapolis... Out of control." It was actually a map of drinking fountains in the city.
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He has since updated it to a different unlabeled map but the original is visible in the edit history
He's in the replies calling people "cucks" for mocking him about it. This is the man the Minnesota Republican party has endorsed to represent the state in the U.S. Senate. Image
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Feb 13
The 100 most-performed symphonies at Carnegie Hall since it opened in 1891. It's a decent approximation of what you might call the Western symphonic canon and there's so many fun things to see when you slice the data this way. Image
Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven account for one-third of the 100 works included.

On the other hand, Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky account for 43% of the 8,683 total performances of these works.
You see a big gap around 1850, a visual representation of what Schubert said on his deathbed: "Who can ever do anything, after Beethoven?"

Then an explosion of creativity in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Feb 8
Pretty clear that regardless of what happens in November we are barreling toward a Dianne Feinstein situation, but in the White House. Going forward we ought to seriously consider age limits (not term limits) for federal electeds and judiciary members.
Like what kind of shape do we expect either of these guys' brains to be in four years from now?
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Aug 31, 2023
Infuriating datapoint on why American medical care is so expensive: a single New Mexico oncology practice spends $350,000 a year fighting insurance company coverage denials. propublica.org/article/how-to…
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When we were on the Washington Post's dogshit insurance plan my wife spent *hours* every week fighting denials. Every single time it was due to fuck-ups on the insurance company's part. Absolutely infuriating.
And this was only possible because she worked in Social Security disability for a decade and had specialized knowledge of medical billing codes and the infrastructure around them. How many millions of people just give up every year because they don't have the same privilege?
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