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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

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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.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Florida’s high court censors fairness, diversity

Words matter for what they represent.

Tribune News Service

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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.

WEKU

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.

Orlando Sentinel

Ron DeSantis' Misguided War on Woke

Plus: a lightning-round look at Super Bowl myths

Reason

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.”

Reason

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.

Los Angeles Times

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

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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

Miami Herald

‘Invasion of privacy’: Some Florida athletes leery of being made to reveal menstrual cycles

MIAMI — In the athletic trainer’s office at Miami Senior High are green Gatorade jugs, water bottles, anatomical posters, two massage tables — and years of private medical records of male and female high school athletes, stacked on a rack, stored in dusty, dog-eared cardboard crates labeled “bankers box.”

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Salon

Behold, the new Republican culture war

Republicans' only agenda is to make sure the rich get richer — and to distract us with manufactured moral outrage

The Independent UK

Koch network to support another Republican, not Donald Trump, in 2024 presidential primary

The right-leaning billionaire’s political network largely stayed out of presidential races in 2016 and 2020

The Guardian - US

Schools and universities are ground zero for America’s culture war

It’s easy to get people riled up and panicked about kids, about a changing culture and about lost innocence. That’s exactly what the right is doing

Tribune News Service

Forget Trump, Democrats are preparing ways to beat a DeSantis campaign

WASHINGTON — Democrats are unfazed, even giddy about a possible 2024 rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But the prospect of facing upstart Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is prompting whispers of angst within Democratic circles.

The Independent UK

DeSantis files complaint against Orlando Philharmonic for hosting ‘sexually explicit’ drag event

The Republican governor announced last month that the department was investigating the event

The Independent UK

Connecticut teacher to open the state’s first LGBTQ-centered school late 2023

PROUD Academy — Proudly Respecting Our Unique Differences —, will open in September

Daily Mirror

Florida could force high school athletes to disclose their menstrual history

The Florida High School Athletics Association (FHSAA) will decide whether the controversial changes will come into effect, although critics suggest that transgender people are targeted

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