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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

How very ironic that GOP Governors aren’t standing up for states’ rights here. I guess that only matters if you’re denying women or transgender people access to medical care. democraticgovernors.org/updates/stat...

jun 9, 2025, 2:55 am • 3,801 1,151

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DevilDoll @devilldoll.bsky.social

thats it thats all you got!? wow way to stand up for the people who hired you

jun 9, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
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grammapeggy.bsky.social @grammapeggy.bsky.social

Thank you

jun 9, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
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san3clemente.bsky.social @san3clemente.bsky.social

Yeah, where are those Ruby Ridge fetishists?

jun 9, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alt Musician @altmusician.altgov.info

They're not going to say anything and stand up to him

jun 9, 2025, 3:49 am • 3 0 • view
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Humanity For All @humanity-for-all.bsky.social

💥 💥

jun 9, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Beverly Mann @beverlymann19.bsky.social

Off-topic, but private prisons are a longtime obsession of mine. Already was when it became known that Rubio owes his entire career to the owner of the second-largest company. And before HRC was shamed by @sanders.senate.gov in '16 to return her donations after refusing. truthout.org/articles/pri...

jun 9, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social

Oralè Resisters Come out L A demand it! Free SEIU President David Huerta ! Rally Grand Park LA 11am today! #SEIU #ILWU #Teamsters #Unions #50501SoCal #USDemocracy

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okgrown.bsky.social @okgrown.bsky.social

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Euclid LoGiudice @euclido.bsky.social

So happy to see my governor's name on this list! Thank you for standing for Democracy Governor Josh Green!

jun 9, 2025, 4:45 am • 0 0 • view
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lighthouses7.bsky.social @lighthouses7.bsky.social

unlike Governor James Rhodes

jun 9, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
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Kate @katknit.bsky.social

I was talking about this earlier today. Where are states rights now. The GOP has no truth. They are a sham organization. They let their leader use the US citizen's tax money and his representation of the US to enrich trump and his family. He has embezzled the US economy and our government.

jun 9, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view
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cooper67.bsky.social @cooper67.bsky.social

NO Joyce they are in on the authoritarian coup

jun 9, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Margaret @margfive.bsky.social

This x 10000000

jun 9, 2025, 3:01 am • 3 1 • view
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Sequoyah. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻🔱 @sequoyah1.bsky.social

Don't mess with California. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🗽🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻

jun 9, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Beachbard @beachbard.bsky.social

"States rights" only applies with a Dem POTUS or Dem-led Congress. "Local control" in GOP-controlled states only applies when it syncs with GOP ideology. "Law and order" only applies to people without enough wealth to bend it.

jun 9, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Wayne Smith 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @wayneesmith.bsky.social

GOP Governors chose what furthers their regressive agenda and disregard what doesn't.

jun 9, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Wayne Smith 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @wayneesmith.bsky.social

^choose

jun 9, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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@von67trumpet @von67trumpet.bsky.social

The Tenth Amendment is very short and to the point. Usually the right wing use it to protest Democratic overreach. In this case, I do not hear any protest, because it is Trump forcing this military response.

jun 9, 2025, 4:19 am • 2 0 • view
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suburbansage.bsky.social @suburbansage.bsky.social

Abbott (TX) in particular is a very disturbed extremist Catholic. He'll never care what happens to a pregnant woman who's miscarrying through no fault of her own.

jun 9, 2025, 4:15 am • 2 0 • view
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tiggr55.bsky.social @tiggr55.bsky.social

You and I know it...

jun 9, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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cdfchrispost.bsky.social @cdfchrispost.bsky.social

If federal police in your local jurisdiction wearing masks and military tactical gear without name tags and badge numbers along with Title 10 soldiers doesn't concern you enough to take action; you're on the wrong side of history, need to study the Constitution, and may be next. This is not a drill.

jun 9, 2025, 2:57 am • 4 1 • view
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I’m Petty So Watch Your Mouth @fighttrump.bsky.social

Anybody heard from Derrick Hunter😒🥱

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FatBaldBoomer @fatbaldboomer.bsky.social

well you better fucking act fast

jun 9, 2025, 3:26 am • 1 0 • view
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Gipper’s Gravespin @gippersgravespin.bsky.social

I don’t see the NRA standing up against a tyrannical government either, what happened to that?

jun 9, 2025, 5:57 am • 1 0 • view
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tree03.bsky.social @tree03.bsky.social

Statements. STATEMENTS? Our Democratic leaders are so weak. Statements don’t do anything when ICE and the police and the military are shooting at peaceful protesters.It’s beyond infuriating. What are they waiting for?

jun 9, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Emily @emzorbit.bsky.social

Just begging the POTUS: Tread on Us!

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soberjon @soberjon.bsky.social

GOP? Sure sounds soft. THEY ARE REPUBLICANS!

jun 9, 2025, 2:59 am • 1 0 • view
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tattattat25.bsky.social @tattattat25.bsky.social

Trump should be in Federal Prison

jun 9, 2025, 2:56 am • 14 2 • view
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1butterfly73.bsky.social @1butterfly73.bsky.social

Yes he should be

jun 9, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Gary Hatch @patrick1775henry.bsky.social

Or worse; it is what our founding fathers would have done to someone who has done the things he has.

jun 9, 2025, 2:32 pm • 3 0 • view
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tattattat25.bsky.social @tattattat25.bsky.social

True!! I’ll take life in federal prison. I would rather have him rot in a little tiny cell for the rest of his life.

jun 9, 2025, 2:46 pm • 3 1 • view
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Gary Hatch @patrick1775henry.bsky.social

Well tbh he may not have many years left which is why I hinted at the “other” option. It would be priceless to see the fear on his face just before..

jun 9, 2025, 2:59 pm • 3 0 • view
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quilterjude.bsky.social @quilterjude.bsky.social

Thank you Joyce! Keep us smart!

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fence756.bsky.social @fence756.bsky.social

Ain’t that the truth.

jun 9, 2025, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
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HDHackman @hdhackman.bsky.social

I know one Republican governor who has quite the lectern to use to voice her support for states' rights.

jun 9, 2025, 3:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Laurie 💙 @leh2323.bsky.social

Republicans show every day that they don't give a damn about their constituents as long as they can hold on to their money and power. A vote for a Republican is a vote for Fascism.

jun 9, 2025, 10:23 am • 4 1 • view
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coldownsouth.bsky.social @coldownsouth.bsky.social

Trump’s America 2025……….

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Harpy @horrifiedharpy.bsky.social

GOP governors support what is happening. The GOP has wanted these cuts forever, including at the state level. Oppression is their goal, at all levels....governors included.

jun 9, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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iampumpkinqueen.bsky.social @iampumpkinqueen.bsky.social

Nope, they are teaming up with their overlords

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MegPuraVida @megpuravida.bsky.social

WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS THAT KNOW MOST THINGS THIA ADMINISTRATION IS DOING IS ILLEGAL??!?? I’m shouting because I can’t take this BS anymore. My Rep Senator is worthless.

jun 9, 2025, 3:12 am • 2 0 • view
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Ari Abramowitz @deepmusic.bsky.social

It’s not “ironic.” It’s exactly how MAGA operates. It has no principles. Anything it claims is purely situational. After that, it’s all about power and only about power.

jun 9, 2025, 3:02 am • 12 1 • view
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Alice Hagemeyer DuBon @alicekhd.bsky.social

Oh yeah, it’s all about states’ rights for the Republicans until it’s guns and slaves.

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Elle Y. @ellementalforce.bsky.social

Hey blue states, you’re next. Purple states get a break for a while.

jun 9, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
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Katy @katyys.bsky.social

It only applies to women with uterus… other than that they don’t give two shits…

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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social

Right !!

jun 9, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
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Enisha Hamidou @strongblackqueen.bsky.social

MAGA only cares about states right when it’s convenient for them. Hypocrites the whole lot of them!

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stevese.bsky.social @stevese.bsky.social

If undocumented immigrants are such a national security threat why doesn’t the administration prosecute their employers? Why does no one ask this question?

jun 9, 2025, 3:08 am • 5 2 • view
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Ed @425talker.bsky.social

I have said for years if people who hire and benefit from illegal workers (yes like #trump ) were sent to prison this whole deal would stop overnight.

jun 9, 2025, 2:36 pm • 2 0 • view
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Carla G @cgirten.bsky.social

Ohio voted resoundingly for legalization of cannabis. The resoundingly voted against the draconian abortion bill. The Ohio legislature has not stopped trying to create work-arounds to deny the people’s will. It is disgusting. The overall corruption of the GOP here is overwhelming.

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badjellystudios.bsky.social @badjellystudios.bsky.social

All you can do is wait for the midterms and take the house and hopefully the senate back,with everything happening at breakneck speed that seems alongway off but it's getting closer every day.

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reiki25.bsky.social @reiki25.bsky.social

Gov. Ferguson signed a bill restricting out of stste military force in Washington — katu.com/news/local/g... All of these Democratic Governors need to do this now!

jun 9, 2025, 4:27 am • 8 5 • view
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The Mystic Wolf @themysticwolf.bsky.social

Is this going to stop anything? No. Governors need to call up THEIR NG units to put this shit down.

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Sherilee ❌ 👑 @sherileevs.bsky.social

@govmlg.bsky.social

jun 9, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 1 • view
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Eryn Wyld @erynwyld.bsky.social

It doesn’t seem very smart.

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coconutlizard.bsky.social @coconutlizard.bsky.social

Cult

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Ty McBrayer @tymcbray.bsky.social

Bingo. I can’t even think that if trump called federal troops into red states those governors would even blink.

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Chateau Minette @chateauminette.com

I think it's time we start planning a General Strike ! (A general strike is a strike action in which everyone in the United States cease all economic activity.) We need to take control !

jun 9, 2025, 12:49 pm • 3 0 • view
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AuntPappy @genevahall.bsky.social

Bingo!

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Ela MyFriend @elamyfriend.bsky.social

The GOP loves to scream “states’ rights!”, until Trump wants to flex. Then suddenly it’s: Send the National Guard, skip the governor, maybe toss in the Marines. And threatening to send the U.S. Marines into American neighborhoods? That’s not public safety, it’s fascism with a flag on it.

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Ela MyFriend @elamyfriend.bsky.social

So which is it, Republicans? States’ rights or Trump’s rights? Stand with the Democrat governors. Stand with democracy. This is not normal. This is not legal. This is not America. #TrumpPowerGrab #StatesRightsMyAss #AuthoritarianAlert #StandWithGovernors #GOPHypocrisy

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social

...or suppression of black voters. or unfettered access to weapons of war. or infusing public schools with religion. or...

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BlueSparkler2 @sparklerblue2.bsky.social

WE THE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING

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A Koffron Hough @akho.bsky.social

The GOP drank the Kool-aid- they’re in,or on the fringes of, an authoritarian cult. Zombies gonna zombie.

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MistyKitty @mistykitty3.bsky.social

Oh, since you asked....

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TeriBridget @teribridget.bsky.social

Yes and we haven’t seen the NRA stand up to a tyrannical government.

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Che @emtpche.bsky.social

I'm shocked to hear this 🙄

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Cachrisca @cachrisca.bsky.social

Only red states have rights

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kootafoot.bsky.social @kootafoot.bsky.social

So if California becomes it's own country being the 4th largest in the world imagine the impact on Trumpmerica! I say... Let's do it. In my opinion, Even talking about it would send great fear into all those states that depend on their handouts from places like California right?

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Chris @redeye1054.bsky.social

Why aren’t they suing the crap out of everyone. And how stupid might as well posted this in recycle center. Geez we’re screwed if they come for citizens in blue states

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Ron Dorland ©️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rondorland.bsky.social

States rights is a running 160 year long con.

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deltascience.bsky.social @deltascience.bsky.social

Tanks in the streets, a first hand example of genocide & starvation, false flag flashpoints. How to eliminate/deport specific demographics in a huge country? Martial law & ensuing fear of being shot protesting is softball. House confinement + gov’t food dependence = controlled house to house raids

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Kara Kelty @karakelty.bsky.social

I remember in the 80's when Sting sang "I hope the Russians love their children too." I thought Republicans loved Democracy but they are cowards.

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Pat West @millicent8.bsky.social

This is progress - leadership from the Dems

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Bird Nerd Loves Falling Leaves 🌈 @vozderaquel.bsky.social

Dunno, I have had idiots on here telling me all day that both parties are the same even given how obviously different we are. I'm guessing it's a huge Republican operation to gaslight people.

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CCinNC🌻📚🏖️🏡 🐕 🌊 @ccc757.bsky.social

Yep, block them. Get them out of the algorithm feed.

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boatsfra.bsky.social @boatsfra.bsky.social

GOP governors? Haha…oh wait…like that cross-eyed wank in Arkansas? She’s too busy buying fucking podiums

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aka Uncle Cracker @unclecracker.bsky.social

Cut to the chase-break this thing up, there isn’t a thing in a Red state I could not live without, especially Florida and Texas

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Only if we let them @pho13enix.bsky.social

And each governor should activate their national guard to protect its citizens against Hitler 2.0 and his masked thugs and sycophants

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hippiechick54.bsky.social @hippiechick54.bsky.social

MAGAts only want State's Rights if the states are doing what they want. When they insisted states should decide abortion access and some states made access easier, they were very upset because that's not what they intended. They wanted states to only limit abortion not enable access.

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canary @lividcanary.bsky.social

They also stand up for states' rights when they support enslaving people.

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Billy Donnelly @themisterdonnelly.bsky.social

It’s only about states’ rights when you want to fly racist-ass flags.

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Heidi 🌻 @4dognight.bsky.social

Or denying education to kids.

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Sam I Am @bf1930.bsky.social

GOP is the party of fear - they use it to control and are therefore controlled by it. It’s all they have. Fear.

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Jack Kuenzie @jkuenzie.bsky.social

Trump in April to NRCC: . “The states are just an agent of the federal government."

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Jack - Grumpy Old Man CR: Warbreaker @jackbwuzhere.bsky.social

Just a side note. The President doesn't need the Governor's permission to do this. The Onus is on the LA Mayor, LA Police Chief, and LA Sheriff to successfully coordinate with a Federal Response they don't want or need. On the ground, it's going to be critical for local organizers to engage 1/

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Jack - Grumpy Old Man CR: Warbreaker @jackbwuzhere.bsky.social

Local, National, and International news organizations to get the narrative and images out that they want people to see. 2/2

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Malleus Aforethought @malaforethought.bsky.social

Bingo

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Moderately Broken Jerk @moderatejerk.bsky.social

Or it only matters if it’s the GOP gov’s state that needs help (looking at you Sarah Huckabee).

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marychristi.bsky.social @marychristi.bsky.social

Every single one needs to get on the air and say something as often as they'll have them. If you're righteously angry , for truths sake, sound like it! Newsom did today. Pritzger and Walz have. Nothing to smile about here.

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Cox @cox207.bsky.social

We've always known they are two-faced hypocrites.

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carolmacpherson.bsky.social @carolmacpherson.bsky.social

I live in a state with a whack job GOP governor: DeSantis. If he ever had to face real people for what he’s done, he would crumble or run away.

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David S. Moore @dsm1132.bsky.social

'States Rights' is chiefly about not teaching the scientific theory of evolution in public schools, not paying taxes to a federal government that might provide benefits to someone you hate, and not allowing any women anywhere to have an abortion for any reason.

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GypsyLee @gypsylee54.bsky.social

True. Please run for Gov in Ala. I would love to see a debate with you and Tubby. We Need you !!!

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Byrd @temporaryme.bsky.social

And gee, those states haven’t even said thank you for all the money they get from CA taxes.

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Stacie @staciegregory.bsky.social

Exactly!! If it was a democrat president trying to federalize abortion again, they would then understand.

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OODad @00dad.bsky.social

“President Trump’s move to deploy California’s National Guard is an alarming abuse of power.”

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OODad @00dad.bsky.social

Exactly

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social

When ICE move to red states and cause violence while rounding up people (including legal citizens), then those governors will start screaming. It hasn't happened to their states -- yet. But it will, they are not safe.

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