Watching Florida's legislature and our testy governor duke it out will be entertaining, and God knows, we’ll need some fun come January.
Florida Phoenix
If you buy the cozy image of Republicans “negotiating” ACA subsidies with Democrats, I have a lovely piece of Florida swamp land to sell you.
The Trump Freedom Tower Biscayne Hotel, Library, and Massage Parlor will draw crowds of pilgrims from all over the world, from Idaho to Oklahoma, to stay in one of its luxurious MAGA suites and worship at his shrine.
When people think you’re weirder than J.D. Vance, you might want to adjust your ambitions and rethink your career path. Never fear: DeSantis has plenty of options.
It becomes clearer by the day that the imposition of white domination, power, and control of the state and the country animates everything DeSantis and Trump are doing.
A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from dumping 600 unaccompanied migrant children in Guatemala. Claims that they were being reunited with parents turned out to be false.
From the White House on down, the country has finally caught up with college football’s 150 years of tribalism: You are Red or Blue, you are one of us or you are the enemy.
DeSantis is at war with rainbow crosswalks claiming they are unsafe. Meanwhile a national study shows street art has contributed to a 50% reduction in crashes involving vehicles and pedestrians.
When Florida kids get to college—those who don't opt for trade schools—they may be a bit shocked when they find out about slavery, that civics was not taught in the Bible and that they are just now finding out about sex.
Whether Trump pardons Maxwell—or not—probably depends on what kind of dirt he thinks she has on him and whether that outweighs dirt she might have on his perceived enemies.
Since the Alligator Alcatraz detention center has been built on an airfield, it seems logical to these people to start using it for deportation flights.
Celebrating the erection of Florida’s own gulag, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” the state Republican Party bosses trilled, “Don’t forget to pick up your swag to support our efforts to undo all of Joe Biden’s failures!”
Florida now has statutes forbidding teaching the truth about slavery and Jim Crow, threatening educators who discuss gender, sexuality, systemic racism, and other disfavored topics.
You begin to wonder if there’s something about Florida that encourages a complete disregard not just of decent behavior but of the rule of law.
DeSantis and his cronies are more than eager to be in on the immigrant cruelty delivery business by creating a detention center in the middle of the Everglades.
In a rare moment of sanity during this year’s legislative session, a bill to lower minimum wage failed. But the governor and Legislature succeeded in casting citizens’ ballot initiatives as ethically and legally dubious.
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