Wed, 08:08:
Just a few actually good things resulting from yesterday's election:
1) Abortion rights were expanded in seven states. New York, Colorado, Maryland, Arizona, and even Missouri passed measures to add reproductive freedom to their State Constitutions. Montana did the same, although it doesn't technically change the legal status of abortion there—but, learning from the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Constitutional amendment protects from overturning what has thus far upheld a 1999 State Supreme Court precedent. Finally, Nevada did the same, but only as the first in a two-part process and they will have to vote on again in 2026 in order to amend their State Constitution. Side note, New York's amendment is especially expansive: it bans discrimination based on "“sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”
2) Sarah McBride, former Delaware State Senator, won her race for the U.S. House of Representatives, making her the first trans person ever elected to U.S. Congress.
3) Democrat Josh Stein beat Republican lunatic Mark Robinson in the race for Governor of North Carolina.
4) After the victories of Democrats Angela Alsobrooks in Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester in Delaware, the U.S. Senate will have two Black women for the first time ever.
5) The single, solitary silver lining to the overall horrendous result of the Presidential race is that, after the next four years of chaos, inhumanity and hell he is certain to put us through, that motherfucker can never be President again.
