Datawrapper could help if you have your data in a spreadsheet dataset.

Have your map maker de-emphasize the precinct borders (slimmer, darker not black. Bring closer to the top the major roads -- IHs, USs, SHs should do it.

With maps, your audience is the most interested but least familiar reading them. Simplify, keep roads/features for wayfinding. Rest is intuitive.

As a South Dakotan living in Texas for 45yrs, I cannot wait to move to Minneapolis because of the community we've all seen. I'm more Minnesotan in my soul than either SD or TX.

Smart. Because Leon will power up the rigging machines. Next thing you know Paxton will surpass Fled Cruz as the most despised US senator.

I'll never believe that Beto lost to the sniveling coward.

I hate this state.

Nobody under the age of 50.
Leon can take the younger ones to Mars with him. No women of any age allowed unless they are beyond menopause or have had ALL the plumbing removed and they flat out beg to go. Thiel gets solitary for 99yrs here.

This should give us a decent chance to regain our footing.

The deficit?
WHAT DEFICIT???

So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.

And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.

As usual, the demand is for Democrats to do what they're already doing. Social security and food stamp fraud are vanishingly rare. Minnesota is stepping up enforcement.

None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?

There is nothing Democrats can do or say that will stop Republicans from lying about Democrats and blaming them for everything bad that happens. Republicans do this because it works, and everybody knows this. Why is our media so obsessed with getting Democrats to apologize for everything?

When DHS's official feed rhapsodized about 100 million deportations, that was a message to defenders of immigrants. Ask yourself this: Why haven't officials done more to assure us that there won't be more Renee Good-type killings?

(h/t @jamellebouie.net)

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Terror is essential to Miller's project. It's designed to dissuade us from showing solidarity with the immigrants getting removed. Stand in the way of ethnic cleansing and you risk violence yourself.

(h/t @whstancil.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com)

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The dream of sanitized, popular mass deportations rests on the idea that they can be carried out without mass disruptions. But that is not doable. The Trump-Miller agenda by definition requires prioritizing high removals over all else to achieve ethnic cleansing:

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There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.

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