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@andr3wsky

Watch them be in my comments admitting to being the exact people I’m talking about

♬ original sound - Andr3w

Today's Quote

(paraphrasing Wm Faulkner)

Don't be afraid to raise your voice in favor of honesty, and truth, and compassion - and against injustice, and lying, and greed.

If people everywhere did this, it would change the world.

A Poem

Elle Cordova

Found poetry

Today's Tik Tok

First, let's be clear on this whole "majority" thing:

• 76 million voters went with Trump
• 73 million voters went with Harris
• 83 million voters stayed home

So no - the majority of America did not vote for Trump.

@jjmcavoy Why are you not concerned? #election2024 #blackwomen #booktok #blackmen #politics #safespaces #kamalaharris #booktokispolitical ♬ original sound - JJ McAvoy

Today's Belle

Blue state resistance builds against Trump

A week after the election, Democratic governors and attorneys general are sharpening plans to become the de facto blue state resistance to a second Trump term.

Why it matters:

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday the creation of the Governors Safeguarding Democracy organization as a leading voice against President-elect Trump's policies — and to provide a playbook for other governors seeking to push back.

Driving the news:

The effort will counter threats on state democratic institutions — including independent judiciary, executive agencies and electoral system — largely through legal action.

"What we are doing is pushing back against increasing threats of autocracy fortifying the institutions of democracy that our country and our states depend upon," Pritzker said.
The rollback of environmental regulations, immigration politics, attacks on reproductive rights and "any threats to our democracy that come from any president or from foreign powers" are foremost in mind, Polis added.

The big picture:

Democratic state officials across the nation are wary of another Trump presidency and pledged to play an adversarial role, just as they did in his first term.

• In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special legislative session for Dec. 2 to "safeguard California values and fundamental rights" before Trump takes office.
• In Washington state, Attorney General Bob Ferguson's team has studied Trump's campaign promises and Project 2025 to prepare lawsuits to block federal actions.
• In Colorado, Polis promised to protect the "Free State of Colorado."
• In Arizona, Attorney General Kris Mayes said she "can't imagine a single Democratic attorney general in this country that won't be involved in fighting unconstitutional behavior."
• In Minnesota, Attorney General Keith Ellison said if Trump "violates the rights of people, we're gonna sue. It's simple as that."

The other side:

The Trump campaign has repeatedly suggested such moves would thwart the will of the American people who support his agenda.

Between the lines:

The organization is modeled on the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, created by Newsom. Both claim to be nonpartisan but are led by Democratic governors.

Pritzker said he has contacted Republican governors about collaborating but declined to name them.

The nonprofit Governors Action Alliance, led by former Newsom adviser Julia Spiegel, is spearheading the effort.

Today's Keith

The reason for all the horseshit cabinet picks may well be a smoke screen to cover attempts to give Trump a shot at being POTUS-For-Life.

Twenty-Second Amendment

Section 1

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Today's Quote

Almost straight outa The Daddy State Awareness Guide.

This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.

With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

Hannah Arendt

14 OCT 1906 - 04 DEC 1975

German historian and philosopher

Today's Jen

Lots to do. Not the least of which is don't get your dobber down.

Call your congress critters. Write to your governor. Pressure works.

Overheard

(paraphrasing James Baldwin)

I'm never in despair for the world.

Enraged, yes - I'm frequently enraged.

But never despairing.

I can't afford despair.

You can't tell your kids

that there's no hope.