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Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Today's update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (7,062,596) in California.
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Or, even better, California + Hawaii + Nevada in the 9th Circuit, give Arizona to the 10th Circuit, take Wyoming for the new Seattle-based circuit, and get all of Yellowstone National Park at least in one appellate circuit (although still multiple districts, drat!).
Maybe split the 9th Circuit at the same time as abolishing the Federal Circuit to maintain the principle?
Maybe California+Hawaii (San Francisco) vs. all the rest (Seattle)? Or should Arizona and maybe Nevada stick with California?
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So expand SCOTUS to 13 (counting the 11 numbered circuits, the DC Circuit, and the Federal Circuit)... and then abolish the Federal Circuit?
Pelosi being pretty explicit about judicial reform is on the table on Hayes right now, observing the original understanding that the number of Supreme Court justices should track the number or circuits
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Once Barrett is confirmed a MAJORITY of the Supreme Court will be 5 GOP justices confirmed by senates where the GOP majorities were elected with fewer votes than Dems across all 100 seats. 3 of them by a president who lost the popular vote & 2 by one who lost it in his first term
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It's simple: "Allowing more people to live in Bay Area cities is one of the most potent means of reducing climate pollution with local policies." @zack_subin @StreetsblogSF
bit.ly/31xyPmC
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Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (6,368,537) in California.
Sources: politicaldata.com/2020-ballo… for ballots and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o… for population.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It seems increasingly like the choice to keep elementary schools closed in places where the virus is contained and there are school safety measures in place is no longer grounded in science.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Fire Weather Watch has been upgraded to a #redFlagWarning beginning Sunday morning for elevated terrain then including lower valleys of the #bayArea Sunday evening. Winds are expected to be the strongest of the 2020 fire season with critically dry conditions.
#CAwx #CAfire
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
15/ SCOOP: Facebook ran experiments on an algorithm change in Jan 2018 and when it hurt traffic to right-wing opinion sites, they retooled it to shift harm to progressive NEWS sites, @MotherJones among them.
And there's a PowerPoint deck out there: motherjones.com/media/2020/1…
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"High-rise living is much more environmentally friendly than suburban single-family housing — downtown residents use half as much water, require far less heating, and take far fewer car trips than denizens of single-family housing. It produces much less traffic ..."
You’re undoubtedly seeing plenty of campaign-related mail & social media claiming that some councilmembers gave $67 million of taxpayer dollars to developers—and you should know why that’s a lie. Here’s the full scoop: link.medium.com/R0cmOw3BIab. #FactsMatter
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Bleak but possible scenario I hear from ppl:
1/ No stimulus deal by Nov. 3
2/ Biden wins, Trump loses interest in deal w/ Congress. So: No additional stimulus until Jan. 20 at earliest
3/ New wave of cases Nov-Feb causes severe economic damage just as DC is most paralyzed
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Young people, vote!
(Screenshot of data on ballots returned statewide in California from politicaldata.com/2020-ballo… .)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
My latest for @nytopinion: No, not wearing a mask is not "freedom," even by the standard *conservative* definition of the word. This is insane. It is chaos, which is unfreedom. Democrats must say so.
nytimes.com/2020/10/17/opini…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Even if the Constitution "had a singular meaning," @jbouie writes, "you would still have to make a choice about which Constitution to adhere to, either one written to secure the interests of a narrow elite or one written for the sake of us all" nyti.ms/356JLbQ
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump uses federal disaster aid as a cudgel against a state where millions did not vote for him. And millions did.
Breaking: The Trump administration has rejected California’s request for disaster relief funds aimed at cleaning up the damage from six recent fires across the state. latimes.com/california/story…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Hannah Arendt, a German Jew, political theorist and philosopher, was born on this day in 1906.
One of her many legacies: Totalitarianism can flourish where people systematically refuse to engage with reality, and are ready to replace reason with ideology and outright fiction.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A big finding in the study: 9 states are barring at least 10% of their adult Black population from voting in 2020.
They are AL, AZ, FL, IA, KY, MS, NE, SD, and TN.
Tennessee's is the highest: 22%. More than one in 5 Black adult are disenfranchised there.
The Sentencing Project released a new study estimating that 5.2 million people will be barred from voting in the 2020 election due to a felony conviction.
In 2016, that number was over 6 million. Progress, but still a long way to go. sentencingproject.org/wp-con…
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