Some folks in Florida may be hesitant to make the resolutions needed to do better in the new year. Fear not! Here are some gentle—or not—suggestions to help prod them in the right direction.
Florida Phoenix
Florida's Attorney General Ashley Moody asserts that the state has control over school library books. And that teachers and students do not have free speech rights.
Women of childbearing age, young adults, children, African Americans, undocumented immigrants and other marginalized communities have the most to lose if Donald Trump wins a second term.
What’s a poor graduate of Yale and Harvard to do? The serious cash is drying up; the media are dismissing him; the elites are ridiculing him; Nikki Haley (like, a GIRL!) is attacking him.
Republicans are worried they will never again win elections if democratic reforms make voting easier.
According to the Tories, how dare these lefty lunatics trouble the judicious, enlightened, and sober Conservative government with their nonsensical attempts at equity and inclusion?
Trump hates mail-in ballots and the GOP has echoed him, until now. The RNC has changed its tune and is pushing a "bank your vote" early voting mail-in campaign for the 2024 election.
Florida's legislature passed a hurricane relief bill blocks local governments from making wiser land use regulations after the extreme destruction of Hurricane Ian.
Florida's Scott, Trump, Rubio, and DeSantis all claim to love Jesus. Non-wingnut Christians frown on collective punishment, guilt by association, and indiscriminate slaughter of non-combatants, but End Times folks are OK with all of that.
In a tortured shredding of logic, attorneys for Ron DeSantis are trying to defend his gerrymandered destruction of a black majority district by comparing the restoration of it to apartheid.
Ron DeSantis spoke at the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation to clearly delineate how far out of his depth he is on foreign policy issues.
Florida isn't convincing the best and brightest to come teach or study here and too many of the best and brightest already here are getting out.
DeSantis is using the horror of the Israel-Hamas war as a campaign stunt, to protect Florida from non-existence violence and calling himself the “most pro-Israel governor” in the country.
Joseph Ladapo has a distinguished past as part of the quack group "America's Frontline Doctors" with their crazed ideas for combating COVID. As Florida's Surgeon General, he is still against prevention ideas like vaccines and boosters.
In Texas recently, DeSantis was completely serious about calling for more burning more fossil fuels as a way to battle climate change. It’s like saying you’ll fight a flood by pouring more water on it.
DeSantis and his cronies claim they have passed bills that are "pro-educator." Teachers and their unions disagree, characterizing them as direct attacks.