#florida
next time some MAGAt pipes up that iT's NoT a BaN... BillO says it is
Bill O'Reilly decries removal of two of his books in Florida
Conservative commentator and author Bill O'Reilly is calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to change Florida laws that have led to a surge of book removals and restrictions.
"Things are getting crazy with book banning in #Florida," O'Reilly wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/rick-scott-debbie-mucarsel-powell-florida-senate
Could a #Democrat Beat #RickScott in #Florida’s #US #Senate Race?
Democrats are hoping Debbie Mucarsel-Powell can help them keep control of the Senate in 2024.
BY ABIGAIL TRACY
..."Whereas Scott is one of the wealthiest members of the US Senate, Mucarsel-Powell is an #immigrant who worked at a donut shop for minimum wage as a young teen in America; while Scott arguably made himself the face of the #Republican Party’s effort to gut entitlement programs, Mucarsel-Powell wrote the bill in the US House to expand #Medicare; and as Scott expressed support for federal #abortion restrictions and backed Florida’s six-week ban, Mucarsel-Powell continued to be an outspoken advocate for reproductive rights.
Democrats hope that Mucarsel-Powell is the right messenger for the moment. With the candidate being a Spanish-fluent Latina woman running for US Senate in Florida, Democrats argue that she is uniquely positioned to win back the support of the state’s Hispanic community, which the Democratic Party has bled in recent cycles. “Can Debbie find the money to be competitive, and can she change the numbers among Hispanics? I think the more that she can do [that], the more the money’s going to come,” said Schale, who worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns in Florida. “I definitely think Florida’s trended Republican—I’m not an idiot. But I don’t think it’s gone from a state that Obama won by three or four points, or a state that was basically a dead tie five years ago in the governor’s race, to a 20-point Republican state overnight. It hasn’t happened. And a lot of that top of the ticket has been impacted by the fact that we’re doing terrible with Hispanics here.” ...
Bal Harbour Shops at night
Photo of the Day
from my daily photo blog
#architecture #photography #bw #bwphotography #monochrome #Florida
This is nuts. DeSantis is dangerously deranged
#florida #immigration #guns
https://washingtonpress.com/2023/12/21/dangerous-unit-floridas-state-army-is-practicing-firing-at-migrants/
Hype um Wahre Verbrechen: True Crime trifft True Trauer
Auf der CrimeCon kommen jedes Jahr Tausende zusammen, um ihre Leidenschaft auszuleben. Was passiert, wenn Angehörige der Mordopfer dabei sind?#TrueCrime #Verbrechen #Mord #NewYorkTimes #Orlando #Florida #GNS #ReportageundRecherche #Gesellschaft #Feed
Hype um Wahre Verbrechen: True Crime trifft True Trauer
"This amazing #stone #artifact, found in the 80s in a #tunnel #system in #Ecuador depicts a roughly etched #world-map, and its thought to be at least 10,000 years old. Here you can see the last remnants of the Atlantean continent in the #Atlantic off the #Florida #coast.
#Cayce. He purports that at this time there were two civilizations on #earth: one very primitive, #ancient #Man that we know about, mere hunter gatherers who populated most of the #world; and an isolationist group, the Atlanteans on their #island who were #extremely #advanced.
Atlantis was real, Cayce was correct, and as a continent civilization it existed for over a hundred thousand years, until about 12,000 years ago" #history
#quote from #pa
A #Florida #restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its #labor shortage
Gedenkstätte für LGBTQIA-Club in Florida: Wie man aus Trauer Geld macht
Seit dem Anschlag auf den Club Pulse in Florida kämpfen Angehörige für einen Gedenkort. Ihre Trauer nutzten Unternehmen als Marketing-Hit.#Queer #Florida #Orlando #Homophobie #Club #Anschlag #LGBTQIA-Community #Alltag #Gesellschaft #Schwerpunkt
Gedenkstätte für LGBTQIA-Club in Florida: Wie man aus Trauer Geld macht
Michelle Saltzman, a member of the Republican Party, suggested killing all Palestinians en masse.
In the House of Representatives in the state of #Florida, Representative Angie Nixon stood up for the people of #Gaza:
- 10,000 Palestinians have already died there. How many more need to die to give you enough?
her Republican colleague Michelle #Saltzman shouted:
- All of them!
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #inhumanity
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
Good Morning, Fediverse!
Brief Florida sunrise (time lapse)
They Won’t Fight for Israel
So why should anyone else? Neither #BenShapiro nor #YairNetanyahu, the son of the Prime Minister, have any interest in #defending their fellow #Israelis against #Hamas, #Hezbollah, or any other enemies who might harm them.
The #son of #Israel’s Prime Minister #BenjaminNetanyahu has been blasted for staying in #Miami while #reservists returned home to #fight against Hamas. Yair Netanyahu, 32, has been in #Florida since at least April, after his father told him to stop making inflammatory posts on social media, which saw him sued for defamation multiple times.
Meanwhile an unprecedented 360,000 #reservists have been called up – many of them dropping everything to fly back to Israel, even abandoning #honeymoons. But #Yair has remained in Miami, to the #irritation of some of the #troops. ‘Yair is enjoying his life at #MiamiBeach while I’m on the #front lines,’ one #soldier, a volunteer serving on Israel’s northern front, told The Times.
‘It’s us who are leaving our work, our families, our kids, to protect our families back home and the country, not the people who are responsible for this situation. Our brothers, our fathers, sons, are all going to the front line, but Yair is still not here. It does not help build trust in the leadership of the country.’
Israeli soldiers blast Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair, 32, for ‘abandoning’ them by staying in Miami while 360,000 reservists are called up to fight against Hamas, 24 October 2023
There should not be any discussion of one single #American soldier being sent to the #MiddleEast until every single #Jew #resident in the #USA between the ages of 18 and 40 has been sent there first. There is absolutely no reason to defend a #nation that literally refuses to defend itself.
And the fact that #Netanyahu’s own son is living the #high-life in Miami while his father #screeches about Hamas and Hezbollah should be sufficient cause to ignore all of the non-stop #propaganda. If it’s not their problem, it certainly isn’t ours.
DeSantis's Orwellian "paradise"
Highest drop out rate in Florida college's history fueled by DeSantis: report
FTA (originally from The New Republic): The college's leadership team has been upended: Six members of the board of trustees have been replaced by DeSantis allies, while the college's president was ousted and replaced with the administration’s former education commissioner, Richard Corcoran. The school has also suffered a faculty exodus, the elimination of the college's diversity office, and the firing of its academic librarian.
The Guardian notes the "exodus of staff represents a staggering 40% of the entire faculty who were employed during the spring semester of the 2022-23 academic year."
The Republican/fascist mantra is, "Keep 'em poor, sick, and ignorant, and control the women." DeSantis is scoring big on all parts of the mantra.
