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  1. Hype for the Future 28C: Building an Identity on Travel and Events

    geoTopFlex vs futoTopFlex In the past, novaTopFlex had identified numerous travel and cultural opportunities under the banner "futoTopFlex." In the near future, the novaTop Identity shall research potential opportunities to identify different "catchment area" zones for different major and perhaps even minor events in the community. When referring to "catchment areas" for different types of events, applications utilizing QGIS and/or OpenStreetMap data shall be redesignated geoTop content and […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025

  2. Weird Maps Win Elections – [USA] Gerrymandering Explained [Map Men]
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    youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si=cNufts <-- shared video
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    [an excellent description of gerrymandering of political districts in the USA]
    “Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #MapMen #gischat #politics #USA #political #gerrymandering #elections #districts #packing #cracking #voting #voters #democracy #selfsorting #demographics #minorities #VotingRightsAct #diversity #redistricting #AI #swingvoters #elections #MapMen

  3. Weird Maps Win Elections – [USA] Gerrymandering Explained [Map Men]
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    youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si=cNufts <-- shared video
    --
    [an excellent description of gerrymandering of political districts in the USA]
    “Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #MapMen #gischat #politics #USA #political #gerrymandering #elections #districts #packing #cracking #voting #voters #democracy #selfsorting #demographics #minorities #VotingRightsAct #diversity #redistricting #AI #swingvoters #elections #MapMen

  4. Weird Maps Win Elections – [USA] Gerrymandering Explained [Map Men]
    --
    youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si=cNufts <-- shared video
    --
    [an excellent description of gerrymandering of political districts in the USA]
    “Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #MapMen #gischat #politics #USA #political #gerrymandering #elections #districts #packing #cracking #voting #voters #democracy #selfsorting #demographics #minorities #VotingRightsAct #diversity #redistricting #AI #swingvoters #elections #MapMen

  5. Weird Maps Win Elections – [USA] Gerrymandering Explained [Map Men]
    --
    youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si=cNufts <-- shared video
    --
    [an excellent description of gerrymandering of political districts in the USA]
    “Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #MapMen #gischat #politics #USA #political #gerrymandering #elections #districts #packing #cracking #voting #voters #democracy #selfsorting #demographics #minorities #VotingRightsAct #diversity #redistricting #AI #swingvoters #elections #MapMen

  6. Weird Maps Win Elections – [USA] Gerrymandering Explained [Map Men]
    --
    youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si=cNufts <-- shared video
    --
    [an excellent description of gerrymandering of political districts in the USA]
    “Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?...”

  7. #Republicans in the #Wisconsin Senate voted Thurs to fire the swing state’s top #nonpartisan #elections ofcl, whose allies responded by saying the #lawmakers didn’t have the #power to oust her. ~1 hr after the vote, the elections dir filed a #lawsuit to… hang on to her job.
    
The vote creates a dispute over who is in charge of overseeing elections in a state…expected to play a critical role in next yr’s presidential election & that may have to redraw its #legislative #districts w/in months.

  8. Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

    Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

    The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

    These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
    "have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
    Skocpol did not pull her punches:

    This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

    nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion

  9. 🇺🇸 Schools in Jackson and Hillsdale counties in Michigan were closed today after a ransomware attacks affected critical IT systems of the school district #usa #ransomware #education #cyber #threats #students #databreach #districts #schools #disruption #outage #panne #scholar #networks #services #informatique