Beware of prophesies, be aware that trends do a lot of things, and holding is only one of them: "If this trend holds, Democratic-run states will likely lose at least a half dozen Congressional seats after the post-2030 Census reapportionment, as well as the federal funds tied to population."I saw someone quote this and went to the article, but maybe this trend won't hold in a variety of ways: more states could be run by Democrats as the tide turns against Trumpism (note that Virginia and New Jersey just elected Democratic governors to replace Republican ones, as Arizona did a few years back); the attack on immigrants could end when Trump does or when the dire consequences become obvious to enough people; maybe the brutalities of Republican-run states will send more people to safer healthier places that protect their rights, including reproductive rights, swelling the populations in blue states.

The US has a negative birth rate as does much of the global north; immigration is how the workforce gets recharged with young hard workers, and immigrants come do the jobs that the US-born population doesn't want, notably in the agriculture/food industries; decimating and terrorizing that population is already having a dire effect on those and other industries, including construction.

There's a wry old joke that war is how Americans learn geography; this uncivil war against good people inside the country may be--and may it be--how people learn that immigrants (and refugees) are a necessity and blessing to this country. Which is why this Wall Street Journal piece is a warning that I hope some captains of industry heed: "America’s Immigration Labor Shock: The Census Bureau says the U.S. is on a path to net negative migration."

That everything the Trump Administration does weakens this country, specific harm by specific harm, should be more widely recognized.

What is lost on Trump supporters is number of undocumented immigrants actually fell by more than a million under Obama. There is no flood of "illegals". It's a Trumpian lie meant to frighten the yokels https://t.co/po3k9U8sVb

Uncivil War is an addictive PvE and PvP CCG inspired by the classic card game War, in which you recruit and upgrade soldiers, and battle against opponents in matches that take just a few minutes to complete.

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