I know we’re all feeling doom and gloom but can we get a thread of some wins/good news from last night?

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    Out of 10 pro abortion state measures 7 passed (one still undecided i think), and only 1 anti abortion measure passed.

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    Massachusetts passed an unprecedented measure allowing ride share drivers to unionize.

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    Nebraska got weed and another state elected the first openly transgender U.S. Representative. Tlaib retained her seat.

    Also, I learned that a grade school classmate won a state rep seat in one of the midwest swing states earlier and that’s good news to me, at least.

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    The west coast stuck to its guns almost completely. Mark Robinson and Kari Lake lost their races incredibly enough.

    Biden got some big stuff done with chips, infrastructure investment, and more. Unless Trump starts tearing down bridges and forcing people to remove heat pumps, some of Biden’s stuff will be very difficult to reverse, physically or politically.

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      Are you kidding? California voted to keep slavery, and against rent control, and against the AIDS organization who was funding the rent control measure.

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      who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.

      Well I now worry for them since the DOJ will now be the arm of Trump to go after “political opponents” who “unfairly persecuted” him. :(

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        Yup. The shit is gonna hit the fan quick. The blue states will hang on for as long as possible, but shit can fly from DC all the way to the west coast.

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          Corporate media will be ever more obsequious to get access. Military presence for “safety” in certain cities labeled “dangerous” which all happen to be progressive. Then the self-censorship starts. Then people stop being able speak freely, let alone thinking a rule of law exists. Then it’s “underground” to have an honest conversation about politics. We’ll be in Putin’s Russia level of legal system and political speech within a few years.

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      We have been down that road before. The state government will simply refuse to implement anything passed by ballot measure that they don’t like.

      I expect the abortion measure to take effect since it deletes out an existing law, but i wouldn’t expect the minimum wage or paid sick leave to be worth the ink it was printed with.

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    Delaware elected Sarah McBride, who is the first open transgender representative in Congress.

    Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, who has been trying to prosecute Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, won reelection.

    Washington Congressman Dan Newhouse, one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump (and one of two in that group who survived the subsequent midterm elections), successfully defended his seat again against a Trump-endorsed opponent. That’s at least one Republican in the House who doesn’t always rubber-stamp the party agenda.

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    Maybe we’ll finally wake up and realize this country was not built on good intentions and is operating as intended.

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      Yep, and the important thing about keeping a Democrat governor is their veto power against one of the worst state congresses ever. I actually haven’t looked into what changed at that level, but I don’t have much hope that the GOP stranglehold was broken.

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    Kentucky amendment 2, which would have redirected public funds to private schools, failed miserably. Of all the red states, Kentucky seems to be somewhat unique in its’ strong resistance to Republican attacks on public education. It is, after all, why we have a Democratic governor. I only hope that continues to hold true.

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        Last Week Forever: “Surprise twist this week: Trump good? Here’s why Trump is God and we should always worship him!”

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    Liz Cheney won’t be secretary of defense and Anthony Blinken will be out of work and ideally sent to Gitmo.