Gifted link to my piece in the NY Times about Trump's plausible plan to convert the administrative state into the authoritarian state. 1. More MAGA appointees 2. Gut civil service protections 3. Hire govt lawyers who will enable Trump's authoritarian tendencies www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/o...
We should all be paying careful attention to the former presidentās plans for a second term.
Historic fossil fuel economy, clean energy expansion, urgent flood/drought/heat challenges: CA's Central Valley is on the front lines of climate-driven transformation. Enjoyed talking w Haley Smith for a deep dive in the LAT. www.latimes.com/environment/...
North Carolina GOP also enacted extreme new gerrymanders of the state legislative maps, shown here by 2020 presidential results. Not only do they make Democratic majorities effectively impossible, the GOP will likely keep veto-proof 3/5 majorities in all but the most Dem-favoring election years
BREAKING [thread]: North Carolina Republicans just passed extreme new gerrymanders to make Dem majorities impossible in a big swing state. The congressional map below will elect an 11-3 or 10-4 GOP majority & replace a court-drawn map that went 7D-7R in 2022 www.dailykos.com/stories/2023...
And needless to say -- this is @cbgoodman.bsky.socialwww.cgoodman.com/maps/cbsa/ov...
Or show school districts per capita for a lecture on historical waves in school segregation? @cbgoodman.bsky.socialwww.cgoodman.com/maps/cbsa/sd...
Holy smokes! @cbgoodman.bsky.social out there providing enormous resource for all of us who want to show landscape of US local govts in teaching or public talks. So many thanks, Chris. Will use & credit you, always. (And let's get Census to cut you a check!) cc: polisky pasky policysky
Just mentioned this to my kid and she got excited bc it turns out she wrote an assignment about your paper in social studies last week. She knew your name!