friend, gabe, interviewing a u.s. census worker back in 1960. that employee, you know, lamenting the fact that he no longer got paid for counting horses as part of his census work. whether they were in the house or in the stable. not like the good old days, back in 1910, when we got paid for counting the horses. decades from now, when we are looking back on old news packages about this census, the 2020 census, one of the big takeaways will be about this census, that the trump administration tried to rejigger it. they tried to hotwire it, basically. they tried to turn this year's census into a political weapon by changing it in ways that would undercount latinos and immigrants, which would undermine their voting power. now, that effort by the trump administration was, of course, stopped by the supreme court earlier this year, when the court in part upheld a lower court ruling from the southern district of new york. that ruling had found that the trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the census to change the census, it was against the law. because the decision to add that question was, quote, arbitrary and capricious. basically, the trump administration decided they were