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Commentary: Black History Month is a century-old relic — one we still desperately need

During the first term of Barack Obama’s presidency, my then 8-year-old daughter asked a simple question. “Why do Black people have a special month?”

Los Angeles Times

A US state shelved my book – yet all I was doing was trying to help people live their lives

Taking the Trans Teen Survival Guide off school shelves is part of the historic erasure of books about identity, says author and artist Fox Fisher

The Guardian - UK

Scott Maxwell: DeSantis’ drag-show obsession targets Orlando Philharmonic

Gov. Ron DeSantis took his culture warring to new extremes last week, trying to yank a nonprofit theater’s liquor license because it allowed another company to rent out its theater for a drag show.

Orlando Sentinel

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In tweaking Florida’s secretive migrant flights program, lawmakers ask little, reveal less

MIAMI — Florida lawmakers gave preliminary approval to a measure that would not only expand Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ability to relocate migrants anywhere in the country but would allow his administration to hand out millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies to carry out the secretive program without disclosing…

Miami Herald

Gov. Greg Abbott tells state agencies to stop considering diversity in hiring

In a memo written Monday and obtained by The Texas Tribune, Abbott’s chief of staff Gardner Pate told agency leaders that using diversity, equity and inclusion policies in hiring violates federal and state employment laws, and hiring cannot be based on factors “other than merit.”

The Texas Tribune

Trump shares old photo of DeSantis appearing to party with teen girls when he was teacher

Things are getting ugly fast between Don and Ron.

Tribune News Service

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Little-noticed US funding for China tech sector now draws scrutiny

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1st Florida voter fraud case goes to trial in Tampa, ends with split verdict

TAMPA, Fla. — The trial of the first of about 20 people to be arrested in Florida on charges that they committed voter fraud by casting a ballot in the 2020 presidential election ended with a split verdict in a Tampa courtroom Tuesday night.

Tribune News Service

North Carolina Senate approves 'Parents’ Bill of Rights' along party lines, with GOP supermajority

RALEIGH, N.C. — Using their new supermajority in the state Senate for the first time Tuesday, North Carolina Republicans pushed along party lines to restrict what schools teach and how they can treat LGBTQ students.

Tribune News Service

Florida Gov. DeSantis floats legislation that would make it easier to sue news outlets

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised the possibility Tuesday of passing legislation that could lower the bar for prominent people to successfully sue news outlets for defamation.

Tribune News Service

Disney faces losing control of its kingdom with Florida bill

Disney’s government in Florida has been the envy of any private business, with its unprecedented powers in deciding what to build and how to build it at Walt Disney World

The Independent UK

DeSantis set to take revenge on Disney

The bill would allow DeSantis to choose the people in charge after Disney balked at the state's "Don't say gay" law

Salon

Florida is now a laboratory for fascism

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

Salon

Editorial: No permit to carry a gun makes no sense

Freedom from fear should be every person’s birthright, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said. But that is not to be in Ron DeSantis’ Florida.

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Editorial: Florida’s high court censors fairness, diversity

Words matter for what they represent.

WEKU

A new bill in Florida would give the governor control of Disney's governing district

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would take control over the board of a special governing district Walt Disney World operates in Florida under a bill introduced Monday.

Orlando Sentinel

Disney’s taxing district in Florida to get new name, DeSantis appointees under bill

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District would be renamed and its board members chosen by the governor under a bill filed for the special session that began Monday.

Reason

Ron DeSantis' Misguided War on Woke

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Florida's War on Drag Targets Theater's Liquor License

Apparently, parents’ rights don’t extend to letting their kids listen to naughty Christmas lyrics.

Reason

Ron DeSantis Wants $12 Million To Transport Migrants 'From Any Point' in the U.S.

The Florida governor wants to fund more migrant stunts, despite claiming that his budget will “keep more money in the pockets of Floridians.”

Los Angeles Times

Inside the small liberal arts college that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to take over

SARASOTA, Fla. — The campus was on edge, with more than a dozen police and a bomb-sniffing dog on patrol and rumors spreading that far-right militias were on their way.

The Independent UK

Florida to begin session on Disney district, migrant flights

Florida lawmakers are meeting to complete a state takeover of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district and expand a migrant relocation program

The Guardian - US

What is behind Ron DeSantis’s Stop-Woke Act?

The strategy behind this Republican battle is to fight off the federal state until they have re-established federal power themselves

Salon

Sorry, DeSantis, CRT can't be replaced

The AP changed its course after Florida's GOP governor complained it lacked balance. But what is the opposing view?

Salon

GOP mocked "Ozone Man": But he was right

There's amazing good news about the ozone layer — and a crucial object lesson for addressing the climate crisis

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