2020 Census count shows California losing U.S. House seat while Texas, Florida and Colorado gain @AP
Texas is set to add two U.S. House seats to its delegation after a decade in which the state added more than 4 million new residents.
Colorado, Florida, North Carolina and Oregon will all add one more seat.
Montana will add a second district, 30 years after it lost that second seat in a previous round of apportionment.
Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania continued to bleed seats as residents moved elsewhere.
West Virginia’s population declined by a larger share than any other state over the last decade, shrinking by 3.2 percentage points. The state’s congressional delegation will drop from three seats to two beginning in the next Congress.
And for the first time since it joined the Union, California’s congressional delegation will shrink by one seat.
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I had a splenectomy when I was 18. I had an autoimmune disorder (ITP for short), that caused my platelets to attack each other. My blood stopped clotting. Having my spleen removed was my only option.
(I deleted this thread earlier so I could reword it).
I did some research and found out that there have been no COVID-19 vaccine studies or clinical trials on people who have no spleen or who have functional asplenia (a spleen that doesn’t work well).
From the article:
“In general, people with splenectomy or functional asplenia were EXCLUDED from the COVID-19 vaccine trials.
Therefore, there are UNCERTAINTIES as to whether COVID-19 vaccine is EFFICACIOUS and SAFE in patients with splenectomy or functional asplenia.”
The US Supreme Court will hear a case on concealed handguns #AP
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a major gun rights case over whether ordinary citizens can be legally prohibited from carrying concealed handguns for self-defense outside their homes.
The case, brought by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, challenges a New York law that prohibits citizens from carrying a gun outside their home without a license that the state makes difficult to obtain.
The problem with government service is that being wrong rarely has consequences. Fauci, Robert Redfield and other medical experts didn’t just mis-analzyze AIDS in the 1980s, they did so in stupendous fashion.
Had they been in the private sector, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that their analysis would have been more careful. That is so because you only get so many chances to be incorrect in the real world before you find yourself unemployed.
In the small town of Sturbridge, Mass., a group of 200 left-leaning citizens organized on Facebook to compile a list of businesses to avoid due to insufficient wokeness.
The group even planned to present every local business with a pro-Black Lives Matter statement to sign — or face a local boycott. When a conservative blogger called the group out on this witch hunt, the group’s leader claimed she had deleted the list.
Wide awake Californians view a state that once was beautiful, and now is ugly. They recognize the slide has been years in the making. amgreatness.com/2021/04/21/red…
The first signs of enlightenment came when an intrepid band of dissidents tried yet again to gather enough signatures to force a recall election of Governor Gavin Newsom. With no money, and four failed attempts already on record, nobody expected the fifth effort to succeed.
But a year later, this volunteer army of several thousand Californians gathered nearly 2.2 million signed petitions. In early May, California’s secretary of state will almost certainly announce certification of the signatures.
“Her message was clearly intended to get to the jury—‘If you will acquit or if you find the charge less than murder, we will burn down your buildings. We will burn down your businesses. We will attack you.
We will do what happened to the witness—blood on their door,’” he said during an appearance on Newsmax, referring to how the former home of defense expert Barry Brodd was recently vandalized.