Summary

Following Trump’s re-election, Democratic leaders in blue states are preparing to resist his second-term agenda, focusing on issues like abortion access, immigration, civil rights, and climate action.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a special session to “Trump-proof” the state, while Illinois and Colorado governors launched a coalition to defend state institutions against authoritarianism.

State attorneys general are readying legal challenges, citing a conservative judiciary and a more prepared Trump team.

Democrats also aim to lead grassroots resistance, with activists urging bold state-level protections amid fears of federal overreach.

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    4 months ago

    Is this performative or an actual strategy?

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      Maybe they’ll sing Imagine.

      Edit: Actually since it’s resistance they’ll sing like Tubthumping or something “i get knocked down, but i get up again”

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        4 months ago

        In other words, theatrics with no substance.

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          Yes. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, it will be theatrics in one direction and substance in the other.

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        The gay bashing Russian asset who will shortly have top secret access to all of our intelligence services? Nah…

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          I wasn’t serious. Switching parties after being elected is one of the more heinous breaches of trust.

          That and being named Joe Manchin.

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    Don’t forget to invest on disaster protection as Trump will just let blue states die.

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    Bless their hearts.

    But it’s time for the serious people to get involved.

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    Oh you sweet summer children. Bless your hearts.

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    4 months ago

    Don’t stop a damn thing, put a billboard up for every victim.

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    Empty words from scum Newsom, the tormentor of the homeless and needy.

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        California is one state where criminalization efforts have taken root. Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would set aside $750 million from the state budget to help local governments conduct encampment sweeps, even though studies have found this practice to be harmful to homeless people’s health.

        Criminalizing Homelessness: How New Laws Punish Poverty Instead of Solving It

        Criminalization of homelessness is happening across the nation

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        My life is on a trajectory to homelessness with disability and a system that refuses to help me. This is me, in the future, being traumatized, abused, and dying in a gutter somewhere while being criminalized because a political refugee from the other side of the world had to have a driver’s license but had the cognitive capacity of a third grader. I was just commuting to work on a bicycle, a racer, upper middle class guy, working in a chain of high end bike shops. I’m you on an extremely unlucky day. You’re only one bad day away from this exact same issue.

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          I hate to bring it to this… but.

          Did you vote for kamala?