They're screaming mad about it, actually. But there's not really anything they can do about it because of sovereign immunity. They literally can't sue the US government about it.

I genuinely enjoy reading your stuff. You're interesting and I hope you can express whatever you want without people hassling you about it.

It helped that her father was commendant at the time.

If that. Depending on the size of the wave they may be a net loser on this map.

Evidently the legislature explicitly saying we're not operating in good faith and we're being racist isn't sufficient. 🤷‍♂️

I beg your pardon, what?

Right. Those boats don't carry remotely enough fuel to get the US. They were going to Trinidad. The whole argument they're making is totally nonsensical, they know it's nonsensical and don't care. Part of authoritarianism is telling lies that everyone knows are lies and making the public eat them.

Yeah, I was going to mention that pay freeze. This is even though they have an automatic CoL escalation by law, but they have passed legislation to refuse it for 15 years now. It's performative nonsense. They make less than cabinet members and federal judges. Their job is at least as important.

British MP didn't have -any- salary until 1911. They ended up with situations where constituents or businesses paid living expenses for the members with the effects you would expect from that. The rise of the Labour party led to an actual salary for exactly the reasons you talk about.

Andy Ogles (TN-5) is my guess.

North Carolina Republicans might get lucky because 3 of the 4 Dem seats are so outlandishly Democratic (closest one was 35 points in 2024) so they didn't even try and knock them out. If they had tried to get those they might have built a Democratic clean sweep. And wouldn't that have been funny?

You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Williamson is just killing her tonight. Alas.

I was just saying that. She's probably going to pick up about 14 more votes than him in Davidson's remaining returns. He's starting to run out of tiny red counties. This thing is looking like a very, very close one. Republicans in Congress must be shitting pink elephants tonight.

I see no votes in from Williamson County in yet. Is that a pretty heavily Democratic county?

And between 2010 and 2020, but you're right that the raw numbers have shot through the roof since the 60s and shown no sign of slowing (laudatory).

They do, but this particular chart is census data. The census bureau does a pretty good job estimating too, which is why Republicans have typically not wanted them to do it quite so thoroughly. I definitely defer to your specific expertise in this though. I do see an uptick between 1980 and 1990

Sure, but the amnesties and DACA did allow a lot of people to fully integrate into the dataset. Lots of undocumented people avoided the census out of fear they would get reported. A significant chunk of undocumented people appearing in the census figures are there because of estimates afterwards.

How much of the recent increase is from amnesties in the Reagan era and things like DACA that let a lot of undocumented people come out into the light, I don't know. Probably some, because undocumented people tend to avoid the census. We should want immigration, though. It's our national superpower.