Cathy Gellis (@cathygellis.bsky.social)

I'm ok with a modest amount specifically earmarked for customs enforcement. And FEMA. And maybe any other similar traditional non-policing functions that directly benefit the public. But that's it. No more money, and none open-ended to be misapplied to supporting this tyranny. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social

@wdlindsy

One potential answer to the question of what's next. #TaxResistance #SoftSecession #defundFascism

Given what personnel shortages exist in the U.S. healthcare system, maybe CA and NY could offer generous relocation packages and signing bonuses to doctors, nurses, and lab techs who wish to relocate from red states?

#softsecession #DefundFascism #healthcare #medicine #uspol

Fact-based America and the Constitutional Republic are being simultaneously ABANDONED and ATTACKED by the MAGA clique and its facilitators.

The LOGICAL and MORAL response to this is #softsecession. That means “building parallel systems, withholding cooperation, and creating facts on the ground that render federal authority meaningless within their borders” (Chris Armitage).

#NoKings #DefundFascism #RMOL

Blue Bonds: A Fiscal Strategy for Overcoming Trump 2.0

By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective The Trump Administration has plunged the United States into a constitutional crisis. The President’s destructive executive orders and Elon Musk’s…

Money on the Left
Contributor: As the feds abdicate responsibilities, states should band together

No state alone could replicate federal public health, scientific research, weather forecasting and disaster response services. But a collective of states could.

Los Angeles Times

It’s not, writes Substacker Chris Armitage, “the violent rupture of 1861, but something else entirely. Blue states building parallel systems, withholding cooperation, and creating facts on the ground that render federal authority meaningless within their borders.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage/p/cut-the-failed-red-states-loose-why?r=5w913v&utm_medium=ios

#softsecession #DefundFascism

Cut the Failed Red States Loose: Why America Can't Keep Carrying the Dead Weight

Jackson, Mississippi residents spent weeks collecting rainwater in buckets during their third water system collapse since 2021.

The Existentialist Republic

More on #softsecession and economic retribution.

“Blue states could lure away techies, doctors, nurses, and electricians with relocation bonuses. We could institute tax and other incentives to pull new factories and data centers away from red states. We could selectively terminate professional licensing reciprocity. We could ease commerce between friendly states and make it difficult for unfriendly ones.”

#DefundFascism

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/its-time-for-soft-secession/

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

Mother Jones

Reposting every Monday until, for some reason, I can’t.

Not shocked
Not awed.
Not caving.
Not scared.
Not blinking.
Not packing it in.
Not coming to heel.
Not building bridges.
Not extending grace.
Not asking permission.
Not accepting the lies.
Not quitting.
Ever.

#NoKings #DefundFascism

Just a regular Wednesday in Trump’s America. The government telling the world that we are looking to neutralize and liquidate the people who opposed Hitler. Nazism wasn’t/isn’t the problem. The REAL problem is the center-left opponents of Nazism/fascism, who are now the enemies of MAGA. “Domestic terrorists” is what they call these opponents of Nazism. #uspol #democracy #DefundFascism