The Atlas Of Redistricting

The Atlas Of Redistricting
By Aaron Bycoffe, Ella Koeze, David Wasserman and Julia Wolfe

There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts look like? We went back to the drawing board and drew a set of alternative congressional maps for the entire country. Each map has a different goal: One is designed to encourage competitive elections, for example, and another to maximize the number of majority-minority districts. See how changes to district boundaries could radically alter the partisan and racial makeup of the U.S. House — without a single voter moving or switching parties.

This atlas allows you to view the nation or individual states under different redistricting scenarios -- from fully Republican gerrymandered to fully Democratic gerrymandered -- and shows what the results would be. It also displays current redistricting and several other methods for redistricting and their results.

My tweets

• Wed, 15:49: RT @paulkrugman: Many tributes today to Ursula Le Guin, and deservedly so. For some reason not seeing many mentions of The Dispossessed, wh…
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• Wed, 19:53: RT @rudepundit: Laser-focused on that Dreamers legislation, I see. https://t.co/5n92PHS2R4
• Wed, 19:56: RT @Dave_von_Ebers: I see a lot of amateur lawyers are out here objecting to the Nassar judge’s harsh comments during sentencing. A Twitter…
• Wed, 21:05: RT @shift_in2_turbo: Don't know where to start? The essential novels of Ursula K Le Guin https://t.co/ay0nmuYtUk
• Wed, 21:10: RT @BettyBowers: Today Trump agreed on video to talk to Mueller under oath. Tomorrow: https://t.co/CFXqCZPPmD
• Wed, 21:16: RT @owillis: They said JFK was a communist stooge. They said the Clintons were serial murderers. They said Obama was Kenyan and a black sup…
• Thu, 02:59: RT @wokeluisa: The only question I have is "Will Mueller charge Trump as an adult?"
• Thu, 03:21: RT @AriBerman: After passing country's worst gerrymandering & voter suppression laws, Republicans destroyed Wisconsin's campaign finance sy…

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Public Fit

So off we go to get some cash for Someone's trip to Asia. To a bank I've had accounts at for quite some number of years. I write a check on a brokerage account, with enough cash in the checking account to cover it. The teller asks what my occupation is. "Nothing" I say. Apparently their software won't let her enter that or "Other."

The manager comes over and asks what I used to work at, "for a federal requirement" and I said "No." They handed back the check and IDs. And we're out the door, off to another bank.

I hand the same check to the teller, who asks if I tried to cash it before. But, she took it anyway. The teller machine wouldn't take my pin number. Don't ask me why. No occupation question.