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DeSantis’ new history curriculum teaches slavery benefitted the enslaved (+Esp)
Author and activist Ibram X. Kendi compared the new curriculum to enslavers who "defended slavery by claiming it was a 'positive good' for Black people."
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Rights groups sue over anti-immigrant Florida law ‘designed to inflict cruelty’ (+Esp)
It "is unconstitutional, xenophobic, and will increase the unlawful racial profiling...," said Paul R. Chavez, of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Immigrant Justice Project.
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Florida Democrats hope to win with a “Not on our f…ing watch!” plan (+Esp)
Dems expect to win by putting out clever ads with the word “fucking” on it. But where's the plan for the hard and sweaty work of registering voters, for example.
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Federal judge blocks Florida GOP’s ‘clear and brazen attack’ on voter registration…
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida called the law "Florida's latest assault on the right to vote."
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DeSantis anti-immigrant law sparks mass worker exodus in Florida (+Esp)
"How can one man pass one law and destroy all these businesses in Florida?" asked a lifelong Republican who owns a tomato packing company.
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Florida’s unholy trinity running for president (+Esp)
Suarez, Trump, DeSantis: If any of the three is elected president in 2024, the slippery slope we’re on as a country would only get steeper.
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‘Get down from the car’: unique Miami dialect traced to Cuban influence
‘Borrowed translations’ using English words in Spanish forms make for speech that sounds slightly off to outsiders, study says.
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250,000 Floridians get kicked off Medicaid as DeSantis rakes in big donor cash (+Español)
One of these individuals is a seven-year-old boy in remission from Leukemia who is now unable to access follow-up—and potentially lifesaving—treatments.
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Fear felt in Florida before extreme anti-immigrant measures (+Español)
One of the most anti-immigrant state laws in the United States will go into effect on July 1 in Florida -- promoted and implemented by Gov. DeSantis.
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Sexual abuser & fraudster + the man who bullied Mickey Mouse: Florida’s contribution to the…
Gov. Ron DeSantis calls it the “Free State of Florida.” In speeches leading up to a presidential run, he says that he wants to “make America Florida.”
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