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PoliSci Professor running https://t.co/lKMvJk9JfS Book: How to Raise a Citizen & Why it's Up to You to Do It https://t.co/VS8eYHPyCP CB8💗NYC
Aug 22 25 tweets 6 min read
This is a bit of a long one, so I'm going to do a real context+write up later, but for now here's what some of these things look like.

To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years. "Birthing Person" has been used in 9 official e-newsletters. 8 are Republicans making fun of the term and saying Democrats say that and 1 is from Bernie Sanders when his staff was interviewing a midwife.
Oct 4, 2023 16 tweets 2 min read
A short thread on the legislative effectiveness of the 8 Republicans legislators who ousted Speaker McCarthy:

Andy Biggs of Arizona has been in Congress since 2017. In that time, he has successfully authored and passed 1 law, HR 4983 To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Gilbert, Arizona, as the Staff Sergeant Alexander W. Conrad Veterans Affairs Health Care Clinic.