Update to Trump Administration Appeals Census Case to SCOTUS. The Trump administration’s blatant sabotage of the 2020 Census to create a deliberate undercount and to manipulate the data to give white rural areas an advantage over heavily populated diverse urban areas, i.e., a partisan division between Red America vs. Blue America to give the minority … Read more
Last week, a three-judge panel in Federal District Court in Manhattan rejected President Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that will be used next year to reallocate seats in the House of Representatives, ruling that it was so obviously illegal that a lawsuit challenging the order need not go to a trial. Federal Court … Read more
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” – Ecclesiastes 3:1 The season for protests is over. The season for get out the vote (GOTV) is now. Early voting starts in mid-September in several states. Donald Trump is running Richard Nixon’s and George Wallace’s racist 1968 “law … Read more
More than 500 corporations are suspending advertising on Facebook because of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s reluctant and minimalist response to calls to end hate speech and misinformation on Facebook. Here’s an excerpt from Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers’ boycott of Facebook will end ‘soon enough’about the Stop Hate for Profit campaign in The Guardian. Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed the threat … Read more
Three and a half months of sheltering in place — with the novel Coronavirus just one chance encounter away — have given us time to perfect our strategies for survival during the current government-created public health crisis and to make plans for a safe, more equitable, more enlightened future. COVID19 turned the spotlight on the glaring … Read more