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Charge Them 'An Arm And A Leg!' Florida Gov. DeSantis Takes Aim At Cannabis Stocks

The situation is looking gloomy for cannabis companies in the Sunshine State. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis thinks medical cannabis businesses should pay a lot more for the chance to legally operate in in Florida.

Benzinga

DeSantis appointees replace elected school board members

Four school board members appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in one of Florida's most Democratic counties have been sworn in

The Independent UK

Joe Rogan tells listeners to ‘vote Republican’

‘I’m hoping that now that this is over, people are going to recognise that some serious errors were made and not repeat those,’ popular podcast host says

The Independent UK

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Back to school means back to fighting far-right attacks on education

These political forces want to make schools teach a whitewashed version of our history and our current reality in the name of “patriotic” education. One of the censors’ most harmful assumptions is that students are too fragile to hear the history our people have lived.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump: DeSantis of "stealing" my style

Trump recently joked that he should sue DeSantis for "copyright infringement," according to Rolling Stone

Salon

Editorial: In Florida, Crist must seize abortion issue for Democrats, without sidestepping past views

For Charlie Crist to have any chance at prying Florida from the iron grip of Ron DeSantis in the November gubernatorial election, he’ll have to hammer on the issue of abortion.

Miami Herald

Editorial: Allowing the extremes to prevail is a formula for disaster in America

The examples abound of America’s lurch toward greater extremism on both the right and left. It’s getting to the point where free speech is being stifled by self-righteous word police on the left and screaming, armed lunatics on the far right. Each side uses the other’s examples as justification for…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Jay Ambrose: Take a good look at Newsom, DeSantis

Pundits like myself sometimes count on wisdom in telling readers who will get elected in a presidential race while forgetting there are 1,001 events that could change everything between now and the time people start voting. Therefore, be skeptical when you’re told the candidates in 2024 will be the GOP’s…

Tribune News Service

Lauren Boebert under fire for claiming student loan forgiveness funds ‘degree in lesbian dance theory’

‘I’m not going to lie, I’m a little pissed that lesbian dance theory wasn’t offered when I went to college,’ one Twitter user mocked the Colorado congresswoman

The Independent UK

The Republican Party is having an identity crisis

WASHINGTON — The GOP is now acting like a party in search of itself with less than three months before U.S. elections that once favored Republicans to retake both chambers of Congress and set them up for 2024.

Tribune News Service

Hernandez-Mats rises from middle school teacher to candidate for lieutenant governor

HIALEAH, Fla. — Standing in front of the crowd in the dimly lit Hialeah Middle Community School library, Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for governor, enthusiastically announced his running mate.

Miami Herald

Who are DeSantis’ new Broward School Board appointments? 4 Republicans, 2 with insider School Board experience

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In remaking the Broward School Board on Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis turned to four Republicans — two of whom have School Board experience and the kind of insider knowledge that could help them effect change in the problem-plagued School District.

Tribune News Service

Charlie Crist explains why he chose Karla Hernandez-Mats as his running mate at South Florida rally

HIALEAH, Fla. — Karla Hernandez-Mats stood beside Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist as his running mate for the first time on Saturday at an event at Hialeah Middle School, the same school where the Miami teachers union president taught special education for 10 years.

Tribune News Service

Crist picks Miami teachers union leader as running mate

Democrat Charlie Crist has tapped Miami-Dade County teachers union president Karla Hernandez-Mats as his running mate as he challenges Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida

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Ron DeSantis ousts four elected school board members over damning report into Parkland massacre

Grand jury probe found that officials displayed ‘deceit, malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty and incompetence’ in their handling of a campus safety program

Salon

8 new crackdowns on academic freedom

The right is pushing an aggressive attack on schools — but teachers and students are pushing back

WEKU

20 were charged for voter fraud in Florida. Advocates say a broken system is to blame

Many of the individuals charged by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' new election crimes unit said they had no idea that with their felony convictions, they were unable to vote when they cast 2020 ballots.

The Independent UK

Donald Trump Jr posts bizarre image of his own father with ‘redacted’ private parts

Former Obama spokesperson mocks post as ‘classic father/son stuff’

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The Independent UK

Former Trump ally Bill Barr says DeSantis would beat ex-president in 2024 presidential primary

Polls show Florida governor competitive against former president

The Independent UK

Sources: Crist picks teachers union leader as running mate

Two people close to his campaign say Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist is expected to announce that he has chosen the Miami-Dade County teachers union president as his running mate

The Independent UK

GOP, Dems seek political boost from student loan debt plan

To Democrats championing the White House’s student loan forgiveness plan, it was the long-awaited delivery of one of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises

The Guardian - US

Florida governor suspends school board quartet over Parkland shooting report

Ron DeSantis acts on recommendation in report from grand jury investigating 2018 shooting in which 17 people were killed

Tribune News Service

DeSantis removes 4 school board members accused of ‘incompetence and neglect’ after Parkland massacre

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a grand jury up on its recommendation Friday afternoon to remove four Broward School Board members after a scathing report that accused them of having “engaged in acts of incompetence and neglect of duty.”

Reason

Florida Lieutenant Governor Calls for Busing Cuban Migrants to Delaware, Then Tries To Walk it Back

Record numbers of Cubans are arriving in the United States as the communist nation struggles economically.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Trump and DeSantis put their thumbs on the scale and emerged as winners in Miami-Dade

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to become an omnipresent force in Florida politics with loyalists at all levels of government who will push his agenda. He’s taken a page out of the playbook of the man whose support thrust him into political stardom four years ago, Donald Trump.

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