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Kids in Florida can’t learn about MLK’s speech at the March on Washington because of these Florida republicans.
The party of “ heritage “ is censoring history
I recently turned down attendance at a major convention in my field because it is in Florida. >

I refuse to travel to Florida as well. Probably the only state ATM that I've just written off. >

Texas as well for me. >

Wish I could, this state is infuriating. I love my city but the rest of the non city areas can go to hell. >

Miamian here, feel the same about Fl. >


The entire state of Florida, home to 22 million people, is currently being run as a giant Fox News campaign ad for the Ron DeSantis 2024 presidential campaign. As a method of crafting responsible public policy, this approach has a number of drawbacks. Yet when you set aside the politically archaic concept of ​“good governing,” it becomes clear that the DeSantis culture war strategy is highly effective air cover for the more substantive Republican project of class war.

Because 'war' is exactly what they see themselves as being a part of right now:
Florida Explains Why It Blocked Black History Class—and It’s a Doozy

The Florida Department of Education says it banned AP African American History because it teaches students about activism, intersectionality and encourages “ending the war on Black trans, queer, gender non-conforming, and intersex people,” according to a document the department sent to The Daily Beast.

 

As [DeSantis] waves his hands and dazzles us with soundbites, he is trying to break the back of the Florida teachers union, which would rank as one of the most profoundly damaging blows to the labor movement in recent years.
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This week, DeSantis announced that he is proposing legislation designed to decimate the power of Florida’s teachers unions.

And instead install people who are giddy at the thought of "disciplining" students into compliance:
Discipline Crackdown Freaks Out Parents in Florida Schools

...Brevard County, Florida, Sheriff Wayne Ivey stood at a podium set in front of the local jail and its barbed-wire fences and suggested that children were not sufficiently terrified of getting in trouble at school.
“They know they’re not going to be given after-school detention, they’re not going to be suspended,” Ivey, whose school-based officers carry long guns, declared. “They’re not going to be expelled or, like in the old days, they’re not gonna have the cheeks of their ass torn off for not doing right in class.” >

Barf this Ivey guy is disgusting. Deliverance and Misery vibes. >

Ron DeFascist is treating the State of Florida like his own kingdom, and the Republican legislature is letting him get away with it. >

This is why I won't take nursing contracts in Florida. DeSantis has fostered a climate that allows for-profit companies to use up and spit out health care workers without consequence >

The dude is giving himself legal power he doesn't hold and is not granted anywhere by the US Constitution. He should just give up the farce and finally declare what he really wants: to suspend the US Constitution in favor of a Christian-Nationalist Theocracy, starting with Florida. >

But then he can’t run to daddy Fed to give him blue state money to prop up costal property in the face of worsening climate change