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The situation is more accurately described as more people exiting certain blue states – for example New York and California – and heading to other states in general, may they be red or blue.

In the last couple of years, large U.S. states where a majority of voters support Democrats – so-called blue states – have been losing population, while some large red states, where there is majority support for Republicans, have gained residents.

An analysis of Census Bureau data shows that there are in fact some big movements of people from states currently defined as blue to those currently defined as red.

However, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, the situation is more accurately described as more people exiting certain blue states – for example New York and California – and heading to other states in general, may they be red or blue.

In 2005 and 2022 alike, those moving from blue states have been almost equally splitting up between blue and red states.

Only their total number has been increasing, from 3.7 million or 2.4 percent of blue states’ population to 4.6 million or 2.7 percent of population in the given years, boosting migration to both red and other blue states.

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At the same time, migration from red states has not changed as much – increasing only from 3.3 million in 2005 to 3.6 million in 2022. As in blue states, the split of destinations has stayed almost exactly constant over the years, with red staters choosing other red states 61-62 percent of the time and blue states only 38-39 percent of times.

This means that compared with the mid-2000s, blue states now transfer more than 500,000 more residents towards red states annually (and about as many within blue states). Inflows from red states to blue states have only increased by a little more than 100,000 per year in this time frame.

So while it might be true that a high cost of living and a (perceived) low quality of life is driving people away from certain blue states, this is not driving them towards red states more than in the past, relatively speaking.

Migration from abroad is also boosting U.S. populations.

In 2022, around 1 million more people immigrated into the United States than left the country. International migrants had traditionally chosen larger cities in both red and blue states, but this type of migration has diversified over the past decades.

While this leaves both states like Texas and New York with fewer (official) international arrivals, it has had a more detrimental effect in blue states that already suffer from domestic out-migration.

For the sake of this analysis, states are assigned the designation blue or red based on their vote in the last three presidential elections. For comparability, the definition of red states and blue states was not changed for 2005. Colorado, Virginia and Nevada – where domestic immigration has boomed recently – would technically be defined as red states, not blue, in 2005. However, patterns of migrations for these states are consistent between 2005 and 2022 instead of changing upon their reorientation, also supporting the hypothesis that U.S. migration flows are relatively constant and dependent on factors like location and proximity rather than politics.

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BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Democrats Want To Kill Trump

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Flights to the African nation can commence within 12 weeks, the Home Office has said.

The British Parliament passed the Safety of Rwanda Bill on Monday, allowing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to deport thousands of asylum seekers to the East African nation. The legislation, which faced strong opposition in the House of Lords and Commons over human rights concerns, will now become law, the UK government has confirmed.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Home Office said the parliamentary approval marked a “major step forward” for Britain’s efforts to “stop the boats and tackle illegal migration.”

“The Bill’s passing means the government can enter the final phase of operational planning to get flights off the ground to Rwanda, pioneering a new response to the global challenge of illegal migration,” it said.

Britain reached a five-year agreement with Rwanda in April 2022 for illegal immigrants to be sent to the landlocked nation. However, no flights have happened since the first one was canceled in June of the same year following intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The scheme has also been declared unlawful by the UK’s highest court, which has deemed Rwanda unsafe for deportees.

Late last year, Sunak’s government introduced the Safety of Rwanda Bill to promote the country as a safe haven for refugees and to block further court challenges to the plan. Conservative MPs had called for it to be amended to override laws that challenge the swift removal of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel. However, the UN and the British Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights declared the draft law illegal, claiming it would cause irreparable harm to the UK’s reputation. The House of Lords has previously supported a motion urging parliament not to ratify it.

Read more ‘A violation of human rights’: Will the UK government get away with deporting asylum seekers to Africa?

In response to the approval on Tuesday, the Home Office said the “landmark” legislation makes it “unambiguously clear that UK Parliament is sovereign and the validity of any Act of Parliament is unaffected by international law.” It also means that Rwanda will now be considered a “safe country for the purposes of relocating people, including in UK courts and tribunals,” it added.

According to the statement, “robust operational plans” have been put in place to deliver the first flight to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks, followed by multiple flights.

The Home Office reportedly has a reduced list of 350 migrants who are believed to pose the least risk of submitting successful legal challenges against their deportation.

Lawyers cited by The Guardian said they would file legal challenges on behalf of individual asylum seekers on a case-by-case basis, possibly removing them from a flight list.

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BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Democrats Want To Kill Trump

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The human offense against the robotic takeover begins.

A viral video on X shows a person going full ‘Donkey Kong’ on an autonomous Waymo vehicle in the crime-ridden downtown area of San Francisco over the weekend. This plays into a much larger trend of people lashing out against self-driving cars. 

Local media outlet KRON4 said the fully autonomous Jaguar I-Pace was near Market and Dolores streets when a person jumped on the hood and started “stomping the front windshield in an attempt to break it open.” 

This isn’t the first time driverless vehicles have been targeted. A video from earlier this year shows a crowd in Chinatown torching a Waymo Jaguar on Jackson Street, between Stockton and Grant. 

A video late last year shows another robotaxi being attacked by a person with a hammer. 

Last summer, we pointed out that members of Safe Street Rebels, a group that says these cars are “polluting, dangerous & murderous,” were coning driverless cars across the city.

We have cited some X users who believe “The AI crusades have begun.” 

 Why would people rise up against machines? As Goldman explained a little over a year ago, “AI Will Lead To 300 Million Layoffs In The US And Europe.“

Champagne socialist lectures Americans on why Orange Man bad.

Limousine liberal John Legend, who’s pals with Democrat ex-President Barack Obama, claimed former President Donald Trump is a “dyed in the wool” racist in a recent MSNBC interview.

“He’s made it clear throughout his life that he believes black people are inferior. Like he believes that to his core in his bones,” Legend said in an interview on Sunday with former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, offering absolutely no proof to back his claims.

??BREAKING NEWS: John Legend told MSNBC that Donald Trump is a racist at his core.

Legend stated: “He’s made it clear throughout his life that Black people are inferior, he believes that to his core… but also when you hear some of the stray comments he makes.

He clearly… pic.twitter.com/nhtEIEmcNB

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) April 22, 2024

The entertainer, known to have close ties with the Obama administration, went on to falsely claim Trump blocked black people from living in his buildings and that the former president “believes in a genetic hierarchy,” and is “racially determined” — whatever that means.

“He wouldn’t let us live in his buildings back in the day,” Legend said. “But also when you hear some of the stray comments he makes, he clearly believes in a genetic hierarchy of humanity and he’s racially determined. So he is a tried and true, like, dyed-in-the-wool racist, like, in the core of his being, he’s a racist.”

“So I don’t want to hear what he has to say about what he’s done for black people. He’s done very little for us and he is at his core truly, truly a racist and you even hear what he says about immigration and what countries he wants people to come in from — they all are very white.”

“He’s not been an ally,” he continued. “At the same time he’s claiming credit for those small things, he’s also saying if people are stealing something they should get shot in the middle of the store. When we protested the killing of George Floyd, he advocated for the military to shoot us in the streets.”

Legend’s out-of-left-field slander and outright lies against the 45th president reeks of desperation, especially considering the musician and his supermodel wife are known to be devout Democrats — who at one time made an odd comment about having sex at an “Obama thing.”

As for Legend’s allegations, the Justice Dept. sued the Trump organization in 1973, claiming he violated civil rights laws by refusing to rent to black tenants; however, Trump and his father responded with a $100 million countersuit accusing the government of defamation.

While Trump ultimately settled with the DOJ out of court, there was never an admission of guilt and Trump later highlighted in his 1987 book, “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” that he’d ordered his managers to weed out low-income tenants no matter what race, writing, “What we didn’t do was rent to welfare cases, white or black.”

One sad prospect is Democrats may have trotted out Legend to try to counteract Trump’s surging popularity with black voters.

Watch the full John Legend MSNBC interview:

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“More proof of collaboration between Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case,” writes reporter Julie Kelly.

Unredacted documents released by Judge Aileen Cannon in former President Donald Trump’s “classified documents” case reveal the extent of collusion between the Biden administration, the DOJ, and special counsel Jack Smith to “concoct” the case.

The records also appear to confirm, contrary to media reporting, that Trump was telling the truth when he said his team was still negotiating chain of custody with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) when they suddenly lodged a criminal referral in Feb. 2022.

“Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted,” reporter Julie Kelly posted on X Monday.

“On the left: What DOJ/Jack Smith wanted to conceal. On the right: Now we know why. More proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case.”

NEW: Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted.

On the left: What DOJ/Jack Smith wanted to conceal.

On the right: Now we know why. More proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case. pic.twitter.com/YVHVmAfOai

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— Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

The documents without the blackout markings show the convoluted effort by Biden’s DOJ in conjunction with NARA’s National Archivist David Ferriero to halt normal negotiations with Trump’s team and instead launch an unprecedented criminal investigation.

They show that in May 2021, just months after Trump left office, NARA General Counsel Gary Stern admitted to Ferriero that “things were very chaotic, as they always are in the course of a one-term transition” and that the “transfer of the Trump electronic records is still ongoing and won’t be completed for several more months.”

But by June 2021, Ferriero told Trump’s team that he was “out of patience.”

The unredacted records also reveal NARA was working with the Biden DOJ to craft a criminal referral in September 2021, five months before NARA’s “official” referral to the DOJ in February 2022.

That criminal referral was predicated on Ferriero’s assumption that “alleged — and non-existent — ’24 boxes’ of records ‘have been destroyed.’”

“The Biden White House and DOJ were [sic] intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for records mismanagement–it appears the first go-around related to alleged “destruction” of government papers,” Kelly wrote.

Outrageous lies by Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and DOJ/Jack Smith about “independence” from investigations into Trump.

The Biden White House and DOJ wew intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for records mismanagement–it appears the… pic.twitter.com/UhHPtRkVlR

— Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

Kelly also highlighted that the records reveal the DOJ told NARA “how to cover its tracks” in a complex bureaucratic runaround.

Now you know why the insiders like Andrew Weissmann and Barb McQuade are desperate to get rid of Judge Cannon. Without her courage on this matter, incriminating evidence of Biden’s WH and DOJ running the investigative show behind the scenes would be buried maybe forever.

DOJ… pic.twitter.com/3BEFpUC6Ah

— Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024

Meanwhile, recent polling shows most Americans are now wise to the government’s lawfare tactics against Trump, believing the cases against him are “politically motivated witch hunts” to derail his 2024 presidential election run.

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Jones explains why Hitler fetish isn’t the answer to defeating the New World Order.

Alex Jones delivers a powerful, historical deep dive on Hitler, European history, and World War II, and he responds to Hitlerphiles who’ve criticized him across the internet.

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