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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) defended Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Alabama) blockade of hundreds of military promotions in protest to a Defense Department policy on abortion. Tuberville has been holding up the standard military confirmation process since May. The senator is opposing a policy that allows service members to request leave for “non-covered reproductive health services,” which include abortions and in-vitro fertilization. Though some hard-right GOP members have voiced support for Tuberville, many centrist Republicans have pleaded for him to stand down. Major branches of the U.S. mil...
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Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to offer another attack on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). Trump posted an old photo allegedly depicting DeSantis partying with 20-year-old students. He captioned the post, “That’s not Ron, is it? He would never do such a thing!” The women in the picture appear to be smiling with the now-governor while drinking from a brown glass. Trump later reposted another account of the picture, this time from a user named Dong-Chan Lee. “Ron DeSantis was having a “drink” party with his students when he was a high school teacher. Having drinks with underage...
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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Tallahassee, Florida, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roe V. Wade. Her pointed speech was given a stones-throw away from presumptive 2024 Republican Presidential candidate, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. In the speech, Harris chided Republican efforts to restrict access to abortions, saying their laws were “designed by extremists.” “And can we truly be free if so-called leaders claim to be ‘on the vanguard of freedom’ while they dare to restrict the rights of the American people and attack the very foundations of freedom,” Harris said. Ha...
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Florida Gov. Ron Desantis (R) has raised over $111 million for his reëlection campaign for governor so far this year. The record-breaking sum of cash is considered to be more than enough to win his bid for the governor’s seat in the Sunshine State. With the money raised, a key question is: will DeSantis use his fundraising abilities to run for the presidency? With a sum that could reach over $200 million by election day, DeSantis will have about half left over in seed money for practically any ambition. It is possible for DeSantis to use the funds to jumpstart a bid for the presidency. Though,...
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The Special Olympics decided to do away with their vaccine mandate on Friday for the upcoming games in Orlando a day after Florida’s threat of a $27.5 million fine for violating a state law that bans any business from requiring proof of vaccination. They released a statement saying that their decision to lift the requirement was “based upon the Florida Department of Health’s interpretation of Florida law,” adding that “delegates who were registered for the Games but were unable to participate due to the prior vaccine requirement, now have the option to attend.” “We don’t want to fight. We want...
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After failing to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for how Florida would use federal funding for its schools, Florida will forgo $2.3 billion in COVID-19 relief money. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration said it missed the deadline to submit its plan to the Department of Education (DOE) intentionally since it doesn’t need any additional funds. DOE sent a message notifying Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran that his department had missed the deadline to submit a plan for American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief fund. “The Departmen...
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Efforts to search for survivors continued around the site of the Miami condo building collapse on Tuesday, the sixth day since the tragic incident. Miami Condo Building Collapse Death TollThe death toll has risen to 11, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced Tuesday. “We were able to recover four additional bodies in the rubble as well as additional human remains,” the mayor said in the Sunday press briefing. DNA samples from the families of missing people are being gathered to identify human remains that were found at the site. As of now, 156 people are still missing. Cranes have bee...
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) signed a bill Monday that gives the state government the ability to punish social media companies – such as Facebook and Twitter – when they ban political candidates. The bill is a response from the Republican side after Facebook and Twitter banned former President Donald Trump in January after the Capitol Insurrection. DeSantis announced the law as an effort to fight against “Silicon Valley elites,” which he claimed were trying to suppress conservative political voices. “What we’ve been seeing across the U.S. is an effort to silence, intimidate and wipe out disse...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said in a statement Friday that he would order all of his state’s flags to be lowered to half-staff in honor of radio host Rush Limbaugh, who died Wednesday of late stage lung cancer. “I know they’re still figuring out arrangements. But what we do when there’s things of this magnitude, once the date of internment for Rush is announced, we’re going to be lowering the flags to half-staff,” said DeSantis near Limbaugh’s home in Palm Beach. “But [DeSantis] had no words for Congressman John Lewis,” said Florida Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried (D), the state’s hig...
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) went maskless on Sunday while watching the Super Bowl LV in Tampa. A photo of the maskless governor at the Raymond James Stadium has since surfaced on the web. He did not appear to be practicing social distancing in the photo, despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urging people to watch the game at home with family members only just days before the event. The CDC also advised those who chose to attend the game anyway to “stomp, clap or bring hand-held noisemakers” in lieu of cheering or chanting. On Monday, Tampa’s mayor voiced her frustrati...
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