Misogyny is at the heart of these attempts to regulate women’s bodies: the right wing is determined to control female sexuality and, at the same time, punish women for it.
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Florida lawmakers passed a bill that says no local government is allowed to protect outdoor workers from worsening heat. No limiting their hours. No requiring access to water. Definitely no shade.
Suppressing human rights and destroying the Constitution haven’t been entirely smooth sailing of late: the Stop-Hurting-White-Folks’-Feelings movement has run into some legal trouble.
The uber-Right keeps wishing chicks would just pipe down and accept their place in the Christian Nationalist order as good mothers, good wives and serving wenches at the masculinist feast.
Florida will continue to spend an ever-increasing amount of taxpayer money on pipes and pumps and seawalls, but considers anything that might deal with the causes of climate change to be “an obsolete program or whatnot.”
Trump’s toadies and bootlickers agree: The Martyr of Mar-a-Lago is the savior of America and his pal Putin is not only a genius, he’s the defender of white Christianity.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters also smells a rat. You have to admit it’s weird how Taylor Swift became instantly famous after only 16 years of chart-topping albums.
Along with a host of other loony issues—and a fear of bears—Florida's Legislature is all-in on trashing the First Amendment this year; apparently too many citizens say too many things that hurt their feelings.
Gender-obsessed Florida House Republicans want insurance companies to pay for debunked psychiatric conversion therapy for trans kids.
Since 2022, most abortions in Florida were currently banned after 15 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest. That's too long a period for Rep. David Borrero.
In Florida, we prefer not to discuss ‘slavery’ unless we are enlightening the ignorant about how it was Not That Bad.
Only in Florida. DeSantis eliminated a Black voting district and then insisted that district amounted to a “racial gerrymander” forbidden by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.
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'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.