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Trump official signals potential rollback of changes to census racial categories Trump officials are reviewing changes to racial and ethnic categories that the Biden administration approved for the 2030 census and other federal government forms, a White House agency official says.

My latest @npr.org story: A Trump administration official has signaled a potential rollback of the racial and ethnic categories approved for the #2030Census and other future federal government forms

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Screen grab showing the House Oversight Committee's 20-19 vote for advancing HR 151

NEW: The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee voted 20-19 along party lines to advance a bill calling for excluding people living in the states without U.S. citizenship from #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”

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Kmart. He means Kmart doesn't he.

Final Schedule F regulations to describe civil service protections as ‘unconstitutional overcorrections’ OPM officials told agency HR leaders Tuesday that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to po...

More than 40,000 public comments, 94% of which opposed the change, but they did it anyway...
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Those tunnels are great. Waaaaay better than having to walk on icy sidewalks in the winter to get from building to building!

Agree.
I used to think "how do you count illegals" was the worst question.
And fertility was like "hold my beer."

And there's a great explainer from EPIC (their formal comment) that includes information about why the change is problematic. You can read that here: www.regulations.gov/comment/USCI...

Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, we are issuing public notice of our intent to modify an existing system of records entitled, Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Ap...

DHS posted about the change in the Federal Register. If you missed that one, you're in luck, SSA also posted a call for comments.
You can find the SSA public comment request--and info about how to submit your thoughts--here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Did you know that the Social Security Administration is changing the way it stores and shares data with the Dept. of Homeland Security?
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When the Data Disappears, A Country Is Left in the Dark In the middle of the most chaotic news cycle in years, the most dangerous rollback of all has happened quietly: the systematic disappearance of federal data. Not data “updates,” not bureaucratic house...

This administration is NOT friendly to data

When the Data Disappears, A Country Is Left in the Dark
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?
That's bananas.

But gotta' keep people from noticing the actual bad things that are happening by shifting their attention to panic about kids saying two numbers in a sing-song voice.

I have seen that before with National Survey of Children's Health--posted with no fanfare. But NSCH is a sponsored survey, so HHS is supposed to take the lead on any announcements. Census is "just" the data wrangler.
For CPS that seems... interesting.

Wait... what?
They're just quietly posted but missing replicate weights?

LinkedIn just did that to me earlier this week.
It feels kinda creepy to have a system automatically change your status.

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Democracy's Data (about census, not population dynamics, so may not be the angle you're looking for).

Absolutely accurate.

If they are, I'd love to share with APDU and dataindex networks when it's ready

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Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations

BREAKING NEWS
Bureau of Labor Statistics announced cancellations of several key data releases

🔺 Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS)
🔺 Employment Situation
🔺 Consumer Price Index
... and more

This has knock-on effects for other products, like GDP (produced at BEA)

www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...

Flying blind...

Every member of Congress and frankly every American should denounce what Trump did today in suggesting members of Congress be executed.

It shouldn't even need to be said, but apparently does: it is beyond the pale for anyone to suggest such things, let alone the president of the united states.

Military family perspective here:
Abso-fucking-lutely.

Thank you for asking and for believing them.

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