Reading Time: 2 minutes Florida Governor Ron “Dick” DeSantis was a boy once. Folk wisdom says the boy makes the man. Look at the boy, and you can cull the man he will be. Look at the man, you can cull the boy he once was. I don’t necessarily ascribe to such a view, but it can be intriguing […]
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Florida joins Texas, Arizona in weaponizing migrants by sending them to other states
Reading Time: 2 minutes Don’t get too caught up in recent headlines around Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, where two planes of some 50 migrants, many Venezuelan, showed up suddenly on Wednesday. Yes, this caused great confusion and a scrambling of community resources to provide basic necessities and aid to very confused arrivals who spoke little English. But it’s also nothing […]
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Demon-obsessed Democrat Kim Daniels re-elected to Florida House
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Democrat who performs exorcisms and supports Christian nationalist ideas is heading back to the state legislature. Kim Daniels is guaranteed victory in Florida House District 14 after her sole opponent, a write-in candidate, dropped out of the race. All of this is happening two years after Democrats thought they were finally rid of her. […]
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Why letting veterans teach without degrees is a bad idea
Reading Time: 2 minutes As reported in MilitaryTimes on Tuesday, Florida’s Department of Education announced that in an attempt to fill 9,000 teaching vacancies, veterans can now receive a five-year voucher to teach without a degree. This is part of Florida’s statewide expanded career and workforce opportunities for military veterans that is budgeted at $8.6 million. These vouchers would […]
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Florida civics teachers are being indoctrinated with Christian nationalism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Florida wants to indoctrinate public school teachers with Christian nationalism in the hopes that they’ll spread the misinformation to their students in the upcoming school year. That’s the clear takeaway based on how teachers are being trained under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ multi-million-dollar “Civics Literacy Excellence Initiative.” Over the summer, ten voluntary three-day training seminars are […]
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Florida’s 15-week abortion ban violates Jewish religious freedom, says lawsuit
Reading Time: 3 minutes Knowing that conservative judges care less and less about respecting precedent, while repeatedly allowing sincerely held religious beliefs to override common sense, a Jewish group in Florida has filed a lawsuit (you can read it here) challenging the state’s new 15-week abortion ban, set to go into effect on July 1. The law offers no […]
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Preacher Sean Feucht announces a second anti-Disney Florida rally
Reading Time: 3 minutes Although Sean Feucht claims he is dead against children being indoctrinated, he doesn’t seem to have a problem using his daughter to fuel his hatred of LGBTQ+ people. Now he is set to return to “Don’t Say Gay” Florida to target Disney at a “Hold The Line For Our Kids” rally on May 16. In […]
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Florida taxpayers may be left paying for DeSantis’ war on Disney
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2013, Russia introduced a law prohibiting “gay propaganda,” much to the disgust of the civilized world. Then, this year, Florida did much the same with DeSantis signing a “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law last month. This means, according to NPR, that public school teachers in Florida are now banned from holding classroom instruction […]
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GOP pressures corporations to enforce conservative moral values
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Trump era has had a transformative effect on the Republican Party. Pro-business, small-government Republicans are nearly extinct, replaced with culture warriors demanding that corporations fall in line behind the fearful conservative moral agenda that motivates their shrinking voter base. In the 1980s, Reagan Republicans professed to stand for free trade, low taxes, and the […]
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Florida’s election police proposal is another consequence of the “Big Lie”
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the summer of 2021, former President Trump gave a speech at the North Carolina GOP State Conference. He aired his usual routine of grievances about the 2020 Presidential election, pushing baseless claims about election fraud by Democrats. But one line drew especially strong applause from the crowd, opening eyes across the country: “I am […]