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83-year-old Rep. Frederica Wilson confirms retirement from Congress

Her announcement comes days after she denied Axios' reporting of her plans as a "crazy rumor."

Axios

83-year-old Rep. Frederica Wilson eyes reelection despite Hill absence

The Florida Democrat has missed nearly a month's worth of House votes due to eye surgery.

Axios

As Florida moves to rename an airport after Trump, his family’s trademark play sparks questions about tie-in merch

Trump wants so many public institutions named after him that Congress is now worried it could cause confusion.

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Ron DeSantis enters the chat: governor eyes chance to redraw Florida maps

Redistricting call a stereotypical power-play by Republican governor who has often bent state lawmakers to his will

The Guardian - US

University of Florida student detained by ICE after being arrested during traffic stop

Local and national lawmakers are calling for the 27-year-old student’s release

The Independent UK

The president of Florida's only public historically Black university resigns after donation debacle

The president of Florida’s only public historically Black university has announced he’s resigning

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis faces one setback after another in battle against LGBTQ rights

Multiple federal court decisions have frozen key portions of Ron DeSantis’ campaign against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in recent weeks, complicating the Florida governor’s efforts to present himself as a conservative champion with a track record of winning cultural battles over LGBTQ causes.

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DeSantis bans funding for Florida college diversity programmes

Ron DeSantis, Florida governor and likely US presidential candidate, says programmes impose an ‘ideological agenda’.

Al Jazeera

DeSantis curtails diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Florida state colleges

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that blocks public colleges from using federal or state funding on diversity programs, addressing a concern of conservatives ahead of the Republican governor’s expected presidential candidacy

The Independent UK

Florida lawmakers OK budget, end session quietly and go home

After 60 tumultuous days fighting about abortion, immigration, LGBTQ+ issues, guns and teaching sexuality in schools, Florida lawmakers have unanimously passed a $117 billion state budget

The Independent UK

LGBTQ+ lawmaker to GOP: 'I’m literally trying to exist'

There are more than 200 LGBTQ+ lawmakers across the country, and they're increasingly finding themselves fighting against bills that target their communities

The Independent UK

Florida expands so-called ‘don’t say gay’ ban through 12th grade in public schools

All of Florida’s public school teachers are effectively banned from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, the State Board of Education decided Wednesday.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida rule would expand so-called ‘don’t say gay’ to 12th grade

ORLANDO, Fla. — The DeSantis administration next month could effectively bar all public school teachers from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, a move that would expand Florida’s controversial 2022 law and go even further than the legislation Republican lawmakers are pushing in Tallahassee this spring.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida's AP African American studies ban should raise alarm elsewhere, lawmaker says

Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, says the proposed course "wasn't indoctrination, it wasn't ideology, it was facts." He fears blocking it will harm students in Florida and beyond.

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Florida school board member defends against criticism over welcoming Proud Boys’ support

MIAMI — A new Broward School Board member is being denounced by civil-rights groups, LGBTQ leaders and two of her fellow board members after saying she welcomes support from all kinds of groups, even the far-right Proud Boys.

Benzinga

State Sen. Shevrin Jones Urges Gov. DeSantis To Follow Biden & Pardon Floridians With Simple Marijuana Convictions

Florida State Senator Shevrin Jones wrote to Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday asking him to pardon state-level cannabis possession convictions.

Tribune News Service

Father of Parkland victim shouts objection as Biden ‘celebrates’ new gun law

Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, interrupted President Joe Biden’s speech Monday during a White House event commemorating the new law aimed at reducing gun violence.

Tribune News Service

‘Frustrated, angry and heartbroken’: Shevrin Jones, Charlie Crist, Parkland parents voice rage at Sunrise gun control rally

SUNRISE, Fla. — As Florida State Sen. Shevrin Jones stood onstage in Sunrise, reading aloud the names of 31 victims gunned down May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, he burst into tears. He blamed the influence of gun…

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Could Black voters’ frustration with DeSantis’ politics awaken a ‘sleeping giant?’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Inflamed by what they regard as repeated political assaults by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled state Legislature, African American and Caribbean American Democrats in South Florida are vowing to channel their frustration into action aimed at the November elections.

Tribune News Service

Florida’s congressional map: An about-face in GOP strategy and a setback for Blacks

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — “I can hear the moans.’‘

Al Jazeera

Florida adopts new US election map in likely boost to Republicans

Black legislators protest as state legislature endorses Governor Ron DeSantis’s proposal to change US congressional map.

Miami Herald

Republicans embrace DeSantis’ congressional map as opponents call it illegal, racist

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The first day of the special session on congressional redistricting exposed how raw and divisive the next few months may be in Florida politics as the congressional map drawn by the governor was advanced by two Republican-controlled committees Tuesday, while Democrats and minority voting advocates blasted the…

The Independent UK

Florida Legislature to vote on DeSantis' congressional map

Florida lawmakers will return to the Capitol to begin a special session to approve a new congressional map after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed the previous GOP-backed boundaries that preserved minority districts

Tribune News Service

Democrats condemn DeSantis congressional district map’s reduction in Black representation as ‘racist tactic’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One of Florida’s most prominent Black elected Democrats, state Sen. Shevrin Jones, said Monday that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to cut in half the number of Florida congressional districts with boundaries crafted to maximize the chance of electing Black representatives is a “racist tactic.”

The Independent UK

What is Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill?

Controversial legislation bans ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ issues from classrooms

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