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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Um Ackshually, the Census is supposed to enumerate all persons living in the US, regardless of citizenship status, and that enumeration is supposed to be directly used by the Federal Government to apportion Congressional seats. So they are already counted, or at least they’re supposed to be.

    The first Trump Administration was in charge of the last census, and tried to get a question added asking directly about citizenship status. It got squashed in the courts, because citizenship status is not supposed to matter, and the only effect that would have is to have non-citizens avoiding the census.

    The whole point of the 3/5 compromise wasthat enslaved humans were considered to be worth 60% of a non-enslaved human for census purposes.




  • Mike’s district is Rockland and Putnam counties, technically “upstate” by my definition (as most of it is north of the Tappan Zee) but still very much influenced by NYC. He managed to hold on to this district by a few percentage points even while it just barely went for Harris in the last Presidential Election.

    He knows he has a problem whatever he does; there aren’t enough MAGAs there to justify going full MAGA yet if he pulls toward the center, he knows there are an army of J6ers and others out there who are armed, know his home address, and know this President has their back. He also knows that every single DNC list to take back the House has this seat near the top of vulnerable seats.

    So it’s good to see at least one Republican talk about LBGTQ+ as if they are people and not monsters. Let’s see if his votes match his talk.