California Gov. Gavin Newsom has loudly announced his intention to “Trump proof” the state ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025. Some of the things he wants to do will be extremely unpopular with the state’s residents, and legislators who watched their districts vote for Trump (or saw big leaps in that direction) will be wary of publicly signing on to his radical agenda. He’s in a bit of a conundrum. He’s probably been longing for the unchecked power he had from March 2020 through February 28, 2023, when Californians lived under a State of Emergency for the COVID pandemic.
Enter Avian influenza A (H5N1), commonly known as “Bird Flu.”
Newsom declared a new State of Emergency on Wednesday ostensibly aimed at being “proactive” in dealing with an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cattle herds in the state, even though the outbreak started in August….
