so… do people have archives of census data?

Something occurred to me tonight. A memory. Stories we’ve seen about data being destroyed by the Musk / Trump administration. Evidence of the same.

And that leads me to ask…

…do good archives of census data exist?

I mean really good ones? Complete? Validated, somehow?

You see, last time around they put a lot of work into trying to fuck with census data. Trying to limit who gets counted, trying to change what questions get asked, trying to hide information on LGBT people, stuff like that, all to the point of apportioning more representatives to red states than blue. Disproportionately so, of course.

They didn’t get to do it, not at all like they wanted to.

Do we know if the current census data is… secure?

Because it seems to me that if you wanted to fuck with the balance of power at a fundamental level in this country, going through the census data and making some creative edits might be a good way to do that. Scream fraud, as they do every time they want to break something, then maybe demand some sort of mid-decade “corrective reapportionment” of representatives based on the suddenly all rather different census data you suddenly have.

Not saying they’re doing this, of course. I have no idea. It’s just… a thought.

So.

Does anyone have archives of 2020 census data?

And if so… how complete?

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shit is hitting the fan right now

Okay, so, Vance is out there saying that the courts have no authority over the executive branch’s “legitimate power” – as defined by the executive branch – so we’re ramping up into full-on, overt refusal to comply with court rulings.

It’s a great time – if you’re them – to be moving on this kind of shit, because nobody’s paying attention. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Nobody’s watching and nobody cares about anything but the championship.

So what’s going to need to happen is that rank and file workers and management are going to have to be the ones saying “no, the courts said that’s illegal,” and they’re going to need to be ready to do that first thing Monday morning.

That’s going to get real scary when DOGE and Project 2025 people call the US Marshals in, like they threatened at USAID in order to force employees to give them illegal access to systems.

Would the Marshals do it? Are they ready to act as the local shock troops for an illegal Trump regime? That’s going to be a wildly important question in the next week or so.

States are going to have to be ready to refuse executive orders too. If your state has a law preventing National Guard from other states being deployed to your state without your governor’s permission, that’s a good thing right now. If your state doesn’t have this, it might be a good law to get into place immediately, if you can. (Washington State is in the latter category, and is actively putting said law into place at Governor Ferguson’s insistance, which is good. It means he’s aware.)

I’m not sure how to say “there is no Constitution if they do this,” or how to say “there is no United States if there is no Constitution,” but that’s basically the situation, and maybe that’s how to say it. This dissolves the compact, de facto if not de jure, and I they’re hoping to conquer the several states through emergency decrees, intimidation, and maybe just outright force of arms.

Trump wants to invoke the insurrection act. Trump wants to suspend the Constitution.

This is probably as good a way to do it as any.

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