If I'm reading this correctly, Schumer thinks he's going to score a political win against the GOP by making them vote against an abortion bill? The same one they voted against two months ago?
Wouldn't it be smarter to put up a much narrower bill -- like idk, protecting abortion for ectopic pregnancies, or in first trimester, or whatever -- to really make Republican Senators squirm?
"Republican extremists vote against medical care for life-threatening ectopic pregnancies" is a political message with some teeth. "Republican senators say abortion is bad" is, uh, not.
Like on the evidentiary merits they should be protecting abortion full stop! But Schumer appears to already be conceding he doesn't have the votes for that. If that's the case, be ruthless!
Maybe I'm missing something but it does seem like yet another case where the current generation of Dem leadership is not up to the task of governing in this political moment.
"We will see where every single senator stands" my man they literally just told us where they stand on March 1, what are you even doing? vox.com/2022/2/28/2294…
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Last year I learned that a tiny county in northwest Minnesota is responsible for 40% of the state's drug-free zone possession charges and obtains 61% of convictions under those statutes, despite being home to only 0.5% of the population. I wanted to find out why (1/x)
If you're an 80's kid you may remember drug-free zones. They create enhanced penalties for drug possession in and around schools and parks, in order to protect children from drug dealers. Minnesota's laws remain on the books.
In Minnesota the zone extends 300 feet or one city block, whichever distance is greater, past the property line. People driving past schools and parks with drugs in their cars are technically violating the statute, although it rarely gets charged that way. However: (3/x)
This is definitely gonna cause more subscription cancellations lol
Absolutely insane "just trust me, bro" stuff happening here
"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?
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…
No, seriously
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.