DeSantis and Florida
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Earlier this month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis scored yet another major political victory when The College Board backed off of including components like Critical Race Theory and queer theory in their AP African American Studies curriculum.
But in the days since, The College Board has been dealing with hardcore blowback from hardcore woke Leftists who are too busy screeching about Ron DeSantis waging a war on black people and black history to bother themselves with the actual facts of DeSantis’ beef. And for now, it seems that The College Board has opted to try to get back into the Woke Mob’s good graces by reversing course again.
National Review’s Stanley Kurtz, who has closely followed this story, has more:
But in the days since, The College Board has been dealing with hardcore blowback from hardcore woke Leftists who are too busy screeching about Ron DeSantis waging a war on black people and black history to bother themselves with the actual facts of DeSantis’ beef. And for now, it seems that The College Board has opted to try to get back into the Woke Mob’s good graces by reversing course again.
National Review’s Stanley Kurtz, who has closely followed this story, has more:
87% of Books Removed From Florida Schools Were Pornographic, Violent, Inappropriate, Data Shows
An overwhelming majority of books removed from Florida schools since the beginning of the academic year in September 2022 were pornographic, violent, or inappropriate for students’ grade levels, according to school district data submitted to the state’s Department of Education.
Twenty-three out of 56 school districts reported that they had removed a total of 175 books, while 33 districts (59%) said that they had not removed any books this academic year, according to data reviewed by The Daily Signal.
The data reveals that 164 of the 175 removed books were taken out of school media centers, rather than classrooms, and 153 of the books that were removed (87%) were taken out because the district discovered that the book was “pornographic, violent or inappropriate for the grade level for some other reason.”
BOOM. Florida has done it again! And it escalated. Florida Surgeon General Ladapo sent a letter to the CDC and FDA demanding they admit that the vaccines are causing unacceptably-high levels of injury:
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Haha, he put “safe and effective” in quotation marks and called that a “claim.”
You’re not going to believe your eyes, but on Wednesday, after sending the letter to the federal agencies, Florida’s Health Department also released a “Health Alert on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Safety,” which was sent to all Florida healthcare providers. The alert included this chart showing the massive spike in VAERS reports since the mRNA EUA jabs’ rollout:
The Health Alert also cited three recent studies (plus the CDC’s anemic stroke advisory) about the risks posed by the mRNA vaccines. Check out how many types of injury were included:
Here’s the list of everything the Health Alert warned about: cardiac arrests and other events; coagulation disorders (clotting), acute cardiac injuries, Bell’s palsy, encephalitis (!), thromboembolic and thrombocytopenic events, increased risk of coronary disease, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and finally, strokes in 65+ (the only age group they studied).
The Health Department also cited an alarming rate of incidence of injuries: 1 in 550.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere in Florida, on Valentine’s Day Collier County’s courageous county commissioners voted to cancel a $1.2 million dollar CDC grant related to the covid jabs, and return the $167,000 already received under the grant.
Jamie Ulmer, president and CEO of the HealthCare Network, which administered the grant, spoke in support of keeping the CDC money, which was intended to be used for “vaccine education” of migrant laborers. But as opponents pointed out, the so-called “educational materials” failed to educate people about any risks or side-effects of the vaccines.
At all.
The Naples Daily News said Mr. Ulmer “acknowledged that as the pandemic has changed, the educational material needs to be updated.” Oh.
In other words, the CDC’s outdated “education materials” were indistinguishable from pharma marketing materials. In fact, it’s worse than that. Pharma is required by law to state their drugs’ side effects in their drug ads. But now they’ve found a way to get around that requirement: by having official U.S. government agencies do the marketing for them. It’s so simple!
Collier’s commissioners saw right through the scheme, and appear to consider the CDC’s taxpayer-funded vaccine “educational materials” are really just dressed-up pharmaceutical “false advertising.”
Among other health freedom advocates, Karen Kingston led the effort to convince the board to return the money. She described the commission meeting where the unanimous 5-0 vote occurred in her entertaining and informative Substack: https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/collier-county-commissioners-unanimously
Great work! As far as I know, this is another first.
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Garcia nearly got a bad case of apoplexy when he heard that DeSantis would visit and speak to the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police — the very same group that endorsed Vallas for mayor. Garcia called on Vallas to “publicly reject” DeSantis’ visit and said DeSantis presented a “danger” to Illinois.
Like I said — a superhero with “superpowers.”
Then our formerly fat but still robust Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) went a step further. He “called on “every candidate hoping to hold public office in the land of Lincoln” to denounce DeSantis’s speech.
Why someone from Mattoon or Peoria should denounce a visit by DeSantis to the Chicago suburbs is a little fuzzy, J.B.
As for Vallas, whose only crime appears to be that the police like him, issued a statement repudiating DeSantis as a “right-wing extremist” for not embracing the LGBTQ community.
But Lightfoot, who is trailing both Garcia and Vallas, sat down for an interview and topped them all.
NBC News:
Is Awake Illinois a neo-Nazi group, and Vallas attended anyway? Not hardly.
Chicago Reader:
In case you missed it, in a city run by the teachers’ unions, being in favor of school choice is a heresy punishable by being burned at the stake — or something close.
Like I said — a superhero with “superpowers.”
Then our formerly fat but still robust Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) went a step further. He “called on “every candidate hoping to hold public office in the land of Lincoln” to denounce DeSantis’s speech.
Why someone from Mattoon or Peoria should denounce a visit by DeSantis to the Chicago suburbs is a little fuzzy, J.B.
As for Vallas, whose only crime appears to be that the police like him, issued a statement repudiating DeSantis as a “right-wing extremist” for not embracing the LGBTQ community.
But Lightfoot, who is trailing both Garcia and Vallas, sat down for an interview and topped them all.
NBC News:
Is Awake Illinois a neo-Nazi group, and Vallas attended anyway? Not hardly.
Chicago Reader:
In case you missed it, in a city run by the teachers’ unions, being in favor of school choice is a heresy punishable by being burned at the stake — or something close.
If you read the article, they admit that Covey’s video was a misrepresentation. Yet, the Post, just a few words later, immediately repeats the falsehood that teachers are being forced to remove and cover books.
No, they aren’t. Rather, they are being forced to remove books with graphic sexual content such as “Gender Queer,” which contains illustrated scenes of gay sex. Ask yourself, why are these press outlets so obsessed with ensuring kids are exposed to sexual content in schools? I don’t have an answer to that, and I suspect the reasons vary, but it’s certainly a really weird and gross dynamic.
The reality is that there is no prohibition on what anyone would consider normal, acceptable reading material for children. The curation of books to exclude explicit and sexual content is not new and has long been part of school libraries. Any teachers or administrators that are rushing to clean out a library or cover up whole bookshelves are doing so simply as a political stunt.
Of course, advocacy groups are treating Covey as a victim, arguing his First Amendment rights were violated.
You do not have a First Amendment right to take video at work in order to mislead and lie about your employer (in this case, partially being the State of Florida). Social media policies for employment have long existed and have long been held up as legal by the courts. Covey wanted his moment in the spotlight, and he got it. All it cost him was his job, and deservedly so. If he wants to be an activist, maybe Al Sharpton’s outfit, which is currently wasting time in Florida, is hiring.
No, they aren’t. Rather, they are being forced to remove books with graphic sexual content such as “Gender Queer,” which contains illustrated scenes of gay sex. Ask yourself, why are these press outlets so obsessed with ensuring kids are exposed to sexual content in schools? I don’t have an answer to that, and I suspect the reasons vary, but it’s certainly a really weird and gross dynamic.
The reality is that there is no prohibition on what anyone would consider normal, acceptable reading material for children. The curation of books to exclude explicit and sexual content is not new and has long been part of school libraries. Any teachers or administrators that are rushing to clean out a library or cover up whole bookshelves are doing so simply as a political stunt.
Of course, advocacy groups are treating Covey as a victim, arguing his First Amendment rights were violated.
You do not have a First Amendment right to take video at work in order to mislead and lie about your employer (in this case, partially being the State of Florida). Social media policies for employment have long existed and have long been held up as legal by the courts. Covey wanted his moment in the spotlight, and he got it. All it cost him was his job, and deservedly so. If he wants to be an activist, maybe Al Sharpton’s outfit, which is currently wasting time in Florida, is hiring.
One of my pet peeves in politics has been the longstanding tendency of Republican politicians to play into the hands of a clearly hostile media. Just days prior to this writing, Nikki Haley sat down with the TODAY Show and it went about as well as you’d expect. Donald Trump has notoriously and continuously given interviews to reporters like Maggie Haberman and Bob Woodward, knowing full well their goal is to destroy him.
I’m always left asking why? What have these press outlets done to deserve being given the time of day by Republicans? The answer is nothing, and the proper response is to tell them to kick rocks. Stop talking to Chuck Todd and stop appearing on CNN.
Still, Mitchell’s bosses must have got the message because she offered an “apology” for her slanderous commentary.
Alex Christy reports for Newsbusters that host Michelle Miller had an “important footnote” to the story:
Christy adds:
But we’ve been assured that it’s “illegal” to have books in school that even mention black people.
Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state
Summary by WFLA-TVFlorida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.
Bloggers would also be required to register with the state if they write anything about Florida's lieutenant governor, a cabinet officer, or any member of the Florida legislature, per the bill.
S.B. 1316 would mandate that bloggers submit monthly reports about their work if they write about elected officials, including how much payment they received for their articles, rounded to the nearest $10, and the name of the "individual or entity" who paid them.
Writers who do not file their reports on time should be fined $25 a day, the bill suggests. A blogger can be fined a maximum of $2,500, the bill reads.
Brodeur's suggested law does not appear to apply to news organizations but instead would target individual bloggers who write about DeSantis and other officials.
www.businessinsider.com
I'm sure this is to identify ' bloggers ' paid by political entities to do hit piece articles ... but I do not think this will pass a court challenge
A distinction will be made between a journalist working for CNN and a basement dwelling Progressive ....
S.B. 1316 would mandate that bloggers submit monthly reports about their work if they write about elected officials, including how much payment they received for their articles, rounded to the nearest $10, and the name of the "individual or entity" who paid them.
Writers who do not file their reports on time should be fined $25 a day, the bill suggests. A blogger can be fined a maximum of $2,500, the bill reads.
Brodeur's suggested law does not appear to apply to news organizations but instead would target individual bloggers who write about DeSantis and other officials.
A new bill in Florida would require bloggers writing about Ron DeSantis to register with the state or be fined
The bill, S.B. 1316, requires anyone who writes "an article" or "a series of stories" about DeSantis and gets paid for it to register with the state.
I'm sure this is to identify ' bloggers ' paid by political entities to do hit piece articles ... but I do not think this will pass a court challenge
A distinction will be made between a journalist working for CNN and a basement dwelling Progressive ....
A new bill in Florida would require bloggers writing about Ron DeSantis to register with the state or be fined
The bill, S.B. 1316, requires anyone who writes "an article" or "a series of stories" about DeSantis and gets paid for it to register with the state.
Last week, Florida State Senator Jason Brodeur (R) filed a somewhat controversial bill (SB1316), titled “Information Dissemination.” It has two parts, a minor modification on how judicial sales are noticed (snooze!), and then a significant and oddly-unconnected section that would require paid political bloggers to disclose the source and amount of their funding.In its essence, the bill tries to solve the dark-money problem in social media by requiring anyone who gets PAID to write about Florida elected officials to disclose the source and amount of funding. Failing to report would potentially result in a $25 per-day fine, capped at $2,500. In a sense, it would treat paid political bloggers kind of like lobbyists, or maybe it treats payments to bloggers kind of like campaign contributions.
It’s a bold concept, never tried anywhere else that I’m aware of, and it has some anti-DeSantis conservatives pretty overheated:
Loomer is way off base. DeSantis has nothing to do with this. He only SIGNS bills, he doesn’t draft them. He’s never commented on or supported the bill. Loomer is just seeing Hitler everywhere she looks or something.
There are some issues. The bill does NOT regulate content, but the financial disclosure requirement could chill free speech by reducing the ability of funders to speak anonymously. That problem would be offset to some degree because reducing anonymity through transparency enhances other public discourse. So you could argue it either way. Next, the bill’s definitions need some work. The bill needs to better define who is included and who is excluded. And it seems technologically outdated, focusing only on written formats and forgetting all about TikToks and podcasts.
With all these issues, I’m not sure this bill will survive the committee, and certainly not in its current form. It’s a good idea, it invites having an important conversation, it’s not an attack on free speech, but it also probably needs some improvement.
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