CALIFORNIA’S SOFT SECESSION: “The fantastical push for ‘CalExit’ might be on hold for now, but America’s Left Coast giant is nonetheless beginning to symbolically sever ties with the rest of the United States—a significant provocation that could have wide-reaching consequences down the line. The Sacramento Bee reports that California is banning publicly funded travel to a growing list of red states.”

As Randy Barnett tweets in response, “It’s not unprecedented for Democrats to favor secession when their control of the Union is broken by Electoral College loss to a Republican.” But somehow, I don’t think those red states aren’t losing too much sleep over Sacramento’s symbolic “travel ban” blocking state workers from visiting — on their taxpayers’ dime — Texas, Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee. And as Jazz Shaw notes at Hot Air, it’s fun watching “California’s state government – which viciously opposes President Trump’s travel ban – [expanding] their own travel ban.”