I'm old enough to remember when members of Congress wore flag pins instead AR-15 pins on the House floor.
What the actual fuck
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NEW: With vulnerable to having his migrant flight declared unconstitutional, his office is asking FL Legislature to revise the law to allow Florida to transport migrants from anywhere in the U.S., w/
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It’s getting downright Orwellian in Florida.
Big government tells you what books to read.
Big government tells teachers what they can say and can’t say.
Big government punishes companies that dissent from the government line.
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Educators in Florida need to grow a spine.
Florida is looking more and more like 1930s Germany.
Normal people need to step up and take a stand against DeSantis before it's too late.
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In DeSantis' free Florida, all high school student athletes may soon be required to disclose their menstrual history to their schools.
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Not all after school activities, but school sports. It's not all inclusive.... yet.
Wonder when he's going to demand teen boys report how many times they wank off every night? Is DeSantis prepping some sort of sexual religious experiment a la Jim Jones?
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It’s been a hell of a dark week here in Ron DeSantis’ Florida. Don’t believe me? See what he’s done this last week.
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This remains to be seen, but everything points at desantis being much worse.
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Trump is worse than DeSantis. Trump instigated a violent attack on—and attempted to subvert—the peaceful transfer of power. But being better than the coup guy is a pathetically low bar. DeSantis personifies the toxic state of the GOP, and there’s no reason we can’t oppose both.
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Desantis is not doing anything new. In Nazi Germany in 1933, college students of the Nazi regime burned books. See the film.youtube.com/watch?v=apzCrN. When you burn books, then you burn people.
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What's next? Breeding camps for women? Are we really going to Handmaids Tale our children athletes? Do we start eugenics again to breed strong, more athletic children? Why stop there? Let's just restart breeding Nazi kids w/blond hair & blue eyes once more? Fuck you, DeSantis.
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Florida wants to require all female high school athletes to turn over their menstrual data, which can be viewed by administrators. This is downright dystopian.
A final decision to enact this will be made at a FHSAA meeting later this month.
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Open government advocates warn about the hindrance of the public's access to information if Gov. DeSantis is granted executive privilege.
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"Late last year DeSantis began demanding state universities/colleges provide data about what programs they had related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It was almost a threat to these higher education institutions.” -
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" accused DeSantis of using New College of Florida to 'score political points.'"
“He is using fear and intimidation to accomplish his extreme agenda, even sometimes without any new laws being passed,” Smith said.
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Republican politicians are now openly calling for the termination of every public university president in Florida without cause and against the will of the students and faculty.
What happened at yesterday should shock every Floridian. #yourcampusisnext
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That's how it works. The purpose of his bullying *everyone*- even the Special Olympics!- is to show dominance and spread the perception that he will ruin you if you speak out.
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I think the scariest part about DeSantis’ clear authoritarian power grabs is how silent FL democrats not named @AnnaForFlorida have been. How silent presidents of these colleges and universities have been. How silent fellow state attorneys have been. FL has no opposition.
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Republican politicians cry about cancel culture while people like Ron DeSantis are literally cancelling culture—from books, to Disney, to AP history courses.
Check out my convo with : apple.co/3RkmbQH
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“Ron DeSantis' rants against ‘political ideology’ and ‘indoctrination’ are accusations in a mirror,” said former state Rep. , D-Orlando. “He wants total political censorship and control."
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How much more respected is America around the world under Joe Biden?
This much.
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. WHEN are you going to fix your damn app??? In the newspaper facsimile version, clicking on a story only works about half the time. It's not like we're getting the app for free--why should subscribers have to put up with an app that doesn't work??
"One Governor should not have the power to dictate the facts of U.S. history," Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said of GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' move to ban an African American studies AP course.
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“The banning of all books from schools until they can be reviewed by state authorities is as grotesque and un-American an act as can be committed. It’s a desecration of America’s most sacred freedom by DeSantis, a low man who seeks power by bullying.”
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If 'Don't Say Gay' was only about kindergarten thru 3rd grade as they said, why is Ron DeSantis so upset about Black Queer studies for AP high school students?
“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” ―James Baldwin
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I’ve posted last 2 weeks about DeSantis taking joy in watching detainees at GITMO be tortured with methods so heinous, they’ve violated international law, I remembered reading about this when he taught History ( really) in his early 20’s at Darlington—- and see it is WHO he is
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Former Students Reveal Ron DeSantis Was a Problematic High School Teacher - Advocate Channel advocatechannel.com/ron-desantis-w
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No one is surprised DeSantis has been accused of illegally torturing detainees when he was at Gitmo.
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UPDATE: Eight professional development courses related to Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion have now been eliminated from this semester to comply with threats and intimidation from the DeSantis regime.
Academic freedom is quickly vanishing.
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Ron DeSantis accused of illegal acts of torture against Guantanamo detainees when he was a Navy JAG officer
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Patch for planned Apollo 1 mission:
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Remember Apollo 1's Grissom, White, Chaffee, who perished tomorrow 1967:
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Today should have been the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Instead, extremist so-called leaders have taken away a woman’s fundamental freedom to make decisions about her own body.
This afternoon, I’m speaking in Tallahassee, Florida about our fight ahead.
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UCF professors are renaming courses and removing phrases like “human rights”, “social justice”, “equity” and “equal” to avoid being targeted or tracked by the state.
This is happening in 2023 in the United States under the new McCarthyism of Ron DeSantis.
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#AboveTheLAW ???
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis violated US and state constitutions in removing elected state attorney, judge finds.
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Increasingly awkward, hateful hillbilly Ron DeSantis pans social justice to defend his racist ban on African American studies in Florida.
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Ron DeSantis has sent a letter to all Florida Universities asking them for the names of every student who has had “gender assignment surgery”! This is against the law. He is attempting to commit “crimes against certain sectors of humanity”.The entire Country Must TAKE A STAND NOW
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Nothing says freedom like Floriduh
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Why doesn't the lamestream media send their "star" reporters down to Floriduh for these DerSantis press conferences & see if he throws them out like he gets away with tossing out local newscasters? Nation needs to get a shot of this liddle wannabe fascist dictator's intentions.
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Ron DeSantis has emerged as a national figure in part because he uses the power of his office to ban journalists from asking him actual questions.
Instead, he relies on right-wing bloggers, including a Three Percent militia goon who stormed the Capitol. progressreport.substack.com/p/ron-desantis
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Big game tonight for this Cowboy fan
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It’s becoming more like Germany 1939 because of desantis if the country thinks he’s a better alternative to trump they r insane trump is horrible but he’s a cartoon character he’d never win again but desantis could possibly then we’re really screwed Germany 1939
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All credit to @JenCousinsFL for the story. progressreport.substack.com/p/fearing-desa
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