Matt Gaetz, reportedly investigated for a sexual relationship with a minor, implodes on Tucker Carlson

View in browser   March 31, 2021 If you live in the state of New York, congratulations! You can now smoke weed in public, provided your locality doesn't ban it. You can also possess up to 3 ounces of bud for recreation purposes—in other words, a lot of weed. On an unrelated note, I have been unable to look away from the trial of Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. The trial, which is livestreamed, has featured extensive testimony from witnesses at the scene where Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. The trial is expected to last several weeks, and we'll keep you posted with the major highlights at MotherJones.com. —Abigail Weinberg Advertisement   Matt Gaetz, Reportedly Investigated for a Sexual Relationship With a Minor, Implodes on Tucker Carlson The Fox News host called it "one of the weirdest interviews" he's ever conducted. BY INAE OH   Why a protest leader in Myanmar is reluctantly giving up nonviolence and preparing for combat BY DAVID CORN The best way to protect abortion rights right now is to end a racist, classist federal budget amendment BY BECCA ANDREWS "VC lives matter": Silicon Valley investors want to oust San Francisco's reformist DA BY SAMANTHA MICHAELS AND LIL KALISH In Brazil, we thought we had been through the worst. Somehow the worst is yet to come. BY ISABELA DIAS Advertisement   Hope and Fear: Inside the Race Between Vaccines and Variants The dangerous new COVID phase, explained. MOLLY SCHWARTZ   Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. Donate SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR ONCE A Growing Website Visualizes and Archives Every Music Genre in the World (or Tries To) As my colleague Maddie Oatman wrote in her interview with the musician Jake Blount back in December, “genres” are neatly parceled networks of marketability, a bit of code to construct artistic expression as a workable commodity. The banjo player and fiddler feels "compelled," he says, to unpack "boundaries between genres that were created specifically to divide music by who was playing it and who was listening­—because that's where genre comes from." He wants instead to “highlight the interconnectedness of very different traditions" of Gullah music, blues, jazz, bluegrass, and spirituals. His interview has stayed with me. It jumped to mind as I scrolled and stumbled through Every Noise at Once, a living archive of all genres in the world. The website maps "an algorithmically generated…scatter-plot of the musical genre space based on data tracked and analyzed for 5,304 genre-shaped distinctions…as of 2021-03-30…Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like. Be calmly aware that this may periodically expand, contract, or combust." Scroll through. After, take a deep dive into the multiplying meanings of “genre” in Ross Simonini’s excellent new Q&A with the pianist Vijay Iyer in the Believer. —Daniel King Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by forwarding it to a friend or sharing it on Facebook and Twitter. Donate Subscribe This message was sent to franchmaverickk.secretwords123@blogger.com. To change the messages you receive from us, you can edit your email preferences or unsubscribe from all mailings. For advertising opportunities see our online media kit. Were you forwarded this email? Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today. www.MotherJones.com PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755