With preparations for the 2030 census already underway, Trump said Thursday he has instructed his administration to start work on a “new” census.
According to a social media post by Trump, that census would exclude millions of people living in the country without legal status — an unprecedented change to how the country has conducted population tallies since the first U.S. census in 1790.
The 14th Amendment requires the “whole number of persons in each state” to be included in a key set of census numbers used to determine how presidents and members of Congress are elected.
When I tell people of an inmate who required a slightly more expensive blanket due to an allergy, and the courts spent more fighting it than just giving every inmate the better blanket; they are outraged.
When I tell people a company spent more fighting adding trans care to their insurance plan than funding it for 100 years; they hem and haw about how expensive our care is and dance around being uncomfortable with our transitions.
I saw numbers calculating a bed in one of the new concentration camps costing as much as a cheap house.
It’s all grift and distractions, and so much of our population eats up the propaganda.