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U. Miami Builds Democracy Center With ‘Aim of Depolarizing Americans Through Civil Discourse’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 20, 2023 7 Comments

Did you know that "civil discourse with people" we think are opposite to us we learn that "we are much closer in views than the cable news shows would have us believe"? Like whoa....

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DeSantis Forms Alliance Of 19 Governors To Combat Biden’s Economy-Crushing ESG Obsession

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 20, 2023 55 Comments

"We as freedom loving states can work together and leverage our state pension funds to force change"...

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Florida Bans Gender Transitioning for Minors

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 19, 2023 59 Comments

"While kids who were already receiving gender-affirming treatment prior to Thursday can continue to do so, they aren’t able to undergo sex reassignment surgeries under the new rule."...

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Gov. Ron DeSantis Outed as Primitive Pudding Eater in Stunning Display of #Journalism

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 18, 2023 52 Comments

"During a private plane trip from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C., in March of 2019, DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert—by eating it with three of his fingers, according to two sources familiar with the incident."...

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Florida “Stop WOKE Act” Remains On Hold As Appeals Court Refuses To Lift Lower Court Injunction

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2023 6 Comments

DeSantis - as predicted - found a method likely more legally effective than addressing who can teach what - defunding departments and programs....

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Hampshire College Makes Special Transfer Offer to Students at Florida College Now Run by Conservatives

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 16, 2023 15 Comments

“This opportunity is in response to the continuing attacks on New College of Florida intended to limit intellectual exploration, turn back progress toward inclusion, and curtail open discussion of race, injustice, and histories of oppression”...

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5,000-Mile Wide Seaweed Bloom, Visible from Space, Heading Toward Florida’s Gulf Coast

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 15, 2023 25 Comments

Meanwhile, Red tide hits Florida’s southwest coast....

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DeSantis: ‘I Don’t Support’ Bill Requiring Compensated Bloggers to Register With the State

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 07, 2023 19 Comments

Why didn't DeSantis come out against the bill right away? The #NeverDeSantis people salivated over his silence....

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Trustees Appointed to Florida’s New College by DeSantis Shutter School’s DEI Office

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 03, 2023 5 Comments

"If DeSantis gets his way—and he likely will—diversity, equity and inclusion efforts will be eliminated from every public college and university in Florida."...

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New College in Florida Elects Conservative as Interim President

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 25, 2023 3 Comments

"Corcoran, a Republican, is a former state House speaker and education commissioner who also served on the state Board of Governors that oversees Florida's university system"...

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Media Pounces After Florida Death Row Inmate Uses Final Words to Blast Ron DeSantis

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 25, 2023 46 Comments

"The guy murdered a police officer and a young mother in cold blood- maybe his lunatic ramblings that 'actually Ron DeSantis is worse than me' shouldn’t lead coverage of his execution."...

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Slam Of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Visit Backfires

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 22, 2023 70 Comments

"How many New Yorkers have moved to Florida? How many Floridians to NYC? How many NYCers lost jobs due to your vax mandate? How many Floridians? Years of school lost NYC v FL? Maybe watch & learn instead of the empty virtue-signaling," observed...

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University of Central Florida Adopts Radical DEI Programming

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 18, 2023 1 Comment

"The ideology that underpins the university’s DEI programming follows the basic mantras of critical race theory"...

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Ron DeSantis Proposes Limits on ESG (Environmental Social Governance)

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 14, 2023 30 Comments

"By applying arbitrary ESG financial metrics that serve no one except the companies that created them, elites are circumventing the ballot box to implement a radical ideological agenda."...

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Florida Poised to Become 26th Constitutional Carry State

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 10, 2023 58 Comments

"The bill (HB 543) would eliminate a concealed-weapons licensing process that includes people undergoing criminal background checks and completing firearms-training courses."...

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DeSantis Fires Back at Trump’s Implication He’s a Groomer: ‘I Spend My Time Delivering Results for the People of Florida’

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 08, 2023 73 Comments

"I don’t spend my time trying to smear other Republicans.”...

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FBI Charges Baltimore Woman, Florida Man in Connection With Plot to Attack Maryland’s Power Grid

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 06, 2023 34 Comments

They planned on "conducting critical infrastructure attacks, including statements about sniper attacks against substations, and how conducting a small number of attacks on electrical substations could cause a 'cascading failure.'"...

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Students and Faculty at U. Florida Already Making Demands of Incoming President Ben Sasse

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 06, 2023 9 Comments

"Maintain pre-existing commitments to inclusivity, equity and diversity"...

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