Florida
Florida AG Petitions SCOTUS to Uphold Pro-Free Speech Law
The Supreme Court may consider a Florida law banning social media censorship after the state’s attorney general petitioned the high court for a ruling on the law.
Soros-Funded Group Behind DeSantis Suit Over Martha’s Vineyard Flights
A group funded by George Soros with nearly $1.4 million is behind a legal effort to punish Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for shipping migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
NYT Paints DeSantis As Right-Wing Strongman, ‘Crush[ing] Adversaries'
Another day, another Ron DeSantis hit piece in a major newspaper. “Is Ron DeSantis the Future of the Republican Party?” by New York Times reporter Matt Flegenheimer is set to appear in the September 18 Sunday Magazine, posing the question: Will Florida’s governor throw his hat in the ring for president, even if Donald Trump runs as well? After some preamble, Flegenheimer sets…
Why Did Jorge Ramos Not Ask 'Karla Marx' About Perv Teacher Friend?
Univision's Jorge Ramos proves once again that he is only interested in standing "opposite to power" so long as the "power" has an "R" after its name. There's otherwise no need to worry about getting a tough question, as shown in his interview of the Democrat candidate for Florida's lieutenant governorship, Karla Hernández Mats.
Column: Young Florida Socialist Heavily Promoted for Congress
There’s a hot new young socialist Democrat candidate for Congress that the leftist media are heavily promoting, like he’s the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of this cycle. It’s Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old veteran of the gun-grabbing March For Our Lives lobbying group. As one colleague put it to me, “They’re going to put a rocket on this kid’s back.”
NY Times Finds Teacher to Hate DeSantis Law: ‘It Feels Treacherous'
Florida’s Republican governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis remains Public Enemy No. 1 at the New York Times. On Saturday, education reporter Sarah Mervosh wrote an agitated response to the state’s new laws regarding teaching gender-identity and race theory in early grades: “In DeSantis’s Florida, Teachers Navigate Curriculum Restrictions.”
NYT Pits ‘Polarizing...Hard-Right’ DeSantis, Peaceable Centrist Crist
New York Times Miami bureau chief Patricia Mazzei is still resenting the success of “hard-right” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, petulance on display in her coverage of the results of the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Florida, in which former Democratic governor, Rep. Charlie Crist, prevailed over more liberal opponent Nikki Fried. Crist, who was quite the liberal Republican himself…
Snopes Labels Viral DeSantis Book Banning Disinformation 'Satire'
On Sunday, an anonymous Twitter user by the name of “Freesus Patriot™” posted an image on Twitter purporting to show a list of banned books in Florida and the intrepid fact checkers and guardians of misinformation at Snopes labeled it satire.
CNN Hits 'Anti-Intellectual' DeSantis: He 'Wants to Make Us Dumber'
A district court judge temporarily blocked portions of Florida’s Individual Freedom Act—also known as the Stop WOKE Act—related to private businesses on Thursday on the grounds they violated the First Amendment. CNN’s Don Lemon and Bakari Sellers used the ruling and latter’s Thursday show to argue that the education portions of the bill show that Gov. Ron DeSantis is an anti-intellectual who…
Lefties Cry Over FL Abortion Ban On 16-Year-Old
A Florida appeals court ruled June 15 that a 16-year-old female needed to carry her pregnancy to term and could not proceed with an abortion without parental consent. As a result, baby killing enthusiasts baby killing enthusiasts soiled themselves on Twitter.
Velshi Blasts Florida For Not Giving 'Gender-Affirming Care' To Minors
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi was not happy with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest decision to remove the ability to use Medicaid to pay for gender dysphoria treatment. Velshi alleged on his Saturday show that move is on the level of not providing "gender-affirming care" to minors and the “Don’t Say Gay bill.”
The View: Drag Shows Fine for Kids, No One Killed By Them Like Guns
In something of a double-down to a segment from last week, co-host Ana Navarro spent part of Monday’s The View making the totally rational argument (sarcasm) that sexually explicit drag shows weren’t that bad for kids, since they aren't deadly like guns. She also claimed red states were like Cuba and North Korea in that they’re supposedly barring their citizens from leaving their…
CRINGE: Former Telemundo Anchor Thirsts to Be Florida Dem LG Candidate
Former Telemundo anchor María Celeste Arrarás openly lobbied to join Charlie Crist as his running mate in a cringe-inducing interview aired on Telemundo 51 Miami. But the interview fell flat when she infamously said that eating Cuban food embedded the suffering of the Cuban people into her DNA.
Miami School Board Rejects Textbooks About Abortion And 'Pulling Out'
The Miami-Dade County School Board just reversed a previously made decision to approve sex-ed books for students. The vote was 5-to-4 against using the textbooks! Thank goodness.