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WTFUSA😒 @dudeonthebay wrote: US inflation rate is 3%

Florida inflation rate stands strong at 9%, insurance companies are leaving in droves, delivery trucks refuse to drive to Florida bc of harsh new anti immigration laws. Floriduh voters will blame Biden.

Stop voting for Republicans you fucking morons.

"And they wanted to boost the State Guard to 1,500 members. Instead of being activated only during emergencies within Florida, they could be sent to any state to “protect and defend the people of Florida from threats to public safety.”

“I don’t even think the governor knows what’s going on. I don’t think this is a fly on his radar right now,” Newhouse said, noting that DeSantis himself is a veteran.

”I think he would be appalled that a veteran — a disabled veteran — would be abused by other military members.”

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 9:51 pm Will they get their new uniforms soon?

The only question..
Brown or Black shirts?

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:24 pm Mebbe DeSantis is going to take his private army and invade California!

Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP wrote: Q: "If Jack Smith has evidence of criminality, should Donald Trump be held accountable?"

Ron DeSantis: "This country is going down the road of criminalizing political differences...I hope he doesn't get charged. I don't think it will be good for the country."[/qquote]

Florida Looks to Pave its Roads With Toxic Waste
A new bill signed by DeSantis last month comes after significant financial support from the nation’s biggest phosphate producer for Florida Republicans.

“Can we help our economy and our environment at the same time?” a press release from the Phosphate Innovation Initiative recently asked. “Yes! Florida lawmakers recently proved it by joining noted scientists in supporting [phosphogypsum] reuse, an important step toward creating a more circular and sustainable economy, where byproducts are recycled to create new products.”

Incredibly, the cheery, eco-friendly language of this press release is talking not about a benign industry by-product but a radioactive waste material that’s been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in construction. Now Florida lawmakers want to try out using it to make roads—despite a recent accident that released toxic liquid into waterways.

Florida approves Black history standards decried as ‘step backward’

The Florida State Board of Education approved new rules Wednesday for how Black history will be taught in public schools that critics are decrying as a “step backward.”

The updated standards include noting that enslaved people developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit,” and that in teaching about mob violence against Black residents instructors should also note “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”

“These standards are a disservice to Florida’s students and are a big step backward for a state that has required teaching African American history since 1994,” the Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, said in a statement.

The standards are the latest development in an ongoing debate in Florida over how Black history should be taught in school. Earlier this year, the education board rejected a new Advanced Placement high school course on African American studies, arguing it lacked “educational value.” Under Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s leadership, the state legislature also passed a law that forbids teachers from offering instruction that makes other students “feel guilt” because of actions committed by others in the past.

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 9:02 am The “Muffin Incident” should be an entry in the Fogbow Lexicon and Snarksauras!

Cries of cronyism as DeSantis bids to place rightwing ally at top university
Florida Atlantic’s search for new president halted by state officials after ‘war on woke’ Republican Randy Fine omitted from shortlist

Richard Luscombe in Miami
Fri 21 Jul 2023 11.00 BST

Barely three months have passed since Florida Atlantic University gained national prominence during an unlikely run to the final four of the March Madness men’s college basketball championship.

They were heady times for Florida’s fifth largest public university, a 30,000-student campus in Boca Raton that prides itself on a claim to be the most diverse seat of higher education in the state.

But now dark clouds of extremism are shadowing the university, with its search for a new president halted by state officials alleging “anomalies” with the process. The presumed intention is installing a rightwing lackey of Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis.

Faculty members and others are calling foul over the intervention of the state immediately after FAU’s trustees listed three finalists, none of them Randy Fine, the Republican state congressman behind much of DeSantis’s “slate of hate” legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community and other minorities.

Despite his lack of higher education experience, Fine declared himself “flattered” to be hand-picked by DeSantis to fill the role, and his surprise omission led critics to conclude the suspension of the search was a retaliatory ruse to engineer a do-over in which the self-declared “conservative firebrand” will find himself hired.

“In general, we have a state where cronyism, and pay to play, is strongly at work,” said William Trapani, a professor at FAU’s Dorothy F Schmidt college of arts and letters.

“And knowing as we did that Randy Fine is the governor’s preferred candidate, a lot of us feel that a second round of voting, a second search process, would result in a new selection. The political pressure to pick Randy Fine, at least for a campus visit and potentially the selected candidate, will be so intense that committee members will be forced into acquiescence.”

Precedent for such a move is already set. DeSantis’s “war on woke” has specifically targeted Florida’s higher education system, with the Republican presidential hopeful insisting he needed to tackle a perceived wave of liberal indoctrination seeping into campuses and classrooms.




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... randy-fine