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DeSantis Orders Florida Colleges To Shut Down Pro-Palestinian Student Groups That Expressed Support For Hamas
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered the state to crack down on collegiate student groups that showed support for Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood terrorist attacks against Israel two weeks ago.
The governor directed Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, to send notices to the University of Florida and the University of South Florida notifying them that they must deactivate their chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) because they allegedly broke Florida laws about terrorism.
“During a holy Jewish holiday, the recognized terrorist organization, Hamas, launched an unprovoked attack on Israel – among those killed were babies, women, and elderly,” Rodrigues said in a letter to the presidents of Florida’s public universities. “To date, approximately 1,400 Israelis have been killed, including 31 American citizens. Governor DeSantis, our State University System and the Florida College System have condemned these attacks.”
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So much for freedom of speech. I wonder if Ron would do the same for people speaking ill of him? Or speaking ill of Christians? Or Islam? Or Hinduism? He is not an America first presidential candidate. He sucks the dingus of Israel, and the US is only a second thought to him.
So much for freedom of speech. I wonder if Ron would do the same for people speaking ill of him? Or speaking ill of Christians? Or Islam? Or Hinduism? He is not an America first presidential candidate. He sucks the dingus of Israel, and the US is only a second thought to him.
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Everyone has been wondering what happened to Governor DeSantis’ Grand Jury, the one tasked with reviewing the government’s covid response and whether big pharma (or anyone else) defrauded Floridians. The Florida Supreme Court convened the 12-month grand jury about, well, a year ago. The Grand Jury just issued its first report.
As it should have, the Grand Jury has worked in secret, which frankly has frustrated a few people. I’ve seen more than a few blackpilled comments whining that it’s all hopeless; it’s going nowhere; we should’ve heard something by now, and so forth. Well, I am pleased to report that the Grand Jury issued its first interim report yesterday, and you’re going to love it. The report’s conclusion poignantly observed, “It is a sad state of affairs when something as simple as following the science constitutes an act of heresy, but here we are.”
The 30-page (double-spaced) report is required reading for every literate adult who survived the last four years. It’s well-written in plain English and understandable to anyone with a GED equivalent, and even to some people from Portland. The Grand Jury addressed the first two government interventions, lockdowns and mask mandates, and found neither followed the science, despite terrific and ultimately terrible costs. Later reports will cover vaccines.
Corporate media ignored the news, of course, but yesterday the New York Post ran the story headlined, “Federal agencies refuse to cooperate with Florida grand jury investigating COVID-19 vaccines, interim report reveals.” From the report’s description, here’s what they’ve been up to so far:
Strangely, every single federal agency refused to comply with subpoenas and other requests from Florida’s Grand Jury:
Happily, the Grand Jury determined they don’t need the federal agencies. I know just how they feel. There is enough information from other sources, published agency guidance, and Congressional testimony, so that the jurors easily bypassed federal efforts to obstruct them.
This well-written, even-handed, non-controversial report is the first step toward accounting for the chaotic, dictatorial, and ultimately counter-productive pandemic response by federal, state, and local officials. Unfortunately, the people who most need this information will refuse to see. But it is now in the record. Under our form of representative government, the people — not experts, politicians, or unelected bureaucrats — hold ultimate authority. This Grand Jury report constitutes the people’s voice, and the people are not impressed.
It is difficult to calculate the depth of gratitude owed to Governor DeSantis and a large number of courageous Floridians, both in and out of government, who contributed to the preparation and publication of this badly-needed review. We look forward to the Grand Jury’s next report with great interest. Read it and comment!
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University of Florida FIRES all 28 of its DEI employees after DeSantis law bans schools from using state money for diversity, equity and inclusion
- The move, laid bare in a leaked administrative memo, serves as the latest example of the state's mission to eliminate DEI initiatives from public institutions
- University Director of Public Affairs Cynthia Roldan confirmed the cut consisted of 13 full-time positions, as well 15 administrative appointments - 28 in total
- It also marks an end to the school's office devoted to diversity, opened six years ago. The next year, Ron DeSantis became governor, passing several laws since
The University of Florida has eliminated all positions affiliated with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
The move, laid bare in a leaked administrative memo, serves as the latest in the state's mission to nix DEI initiatives from public institutions.
University Director of Public Affairs Cynthia Roldan confirmed the cut consisted of 13 full-time positions, as well 15 administrative appointments - 28 in total.
It also marks an end to the school's office devoted to diversity, opened just six years ago. The next year, Republican Ron DeSantis would become governor, and has since passed a litany of laws to rid schools of lessons and literature surrounding DEI.
The leaked memo cites one such law - a state Board of Governors regulation that prohibits public universities in the state from expending state or federal funds to maintain programs that 'advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion.'
DeSantis: Haitians Who Illegally Arrive In Florida ‘Very Well’ Could Be Sent To Martha’s Vineyard
DeSantis said that it was vital that the state of Florida interdict any vessel carrying illegal aliens before they hit the state’s shores because the state can’t push them back across the border like the state of Texas can since it borders Mexico.
“We do have our transport program also that’s going to be operational,” DeSantis said. “So Haitians land in the Florida Keys, their next stop very well may be Martha’s Vineyard.”
DeSantis said last week amid reports that a large influx of Haitians could illegally enter the state that Florida “has been dedicating significant resources to combat illegal vessels coming to Florida from countries such as Haiti.”
Pressley taking fauxfense over DeSantis' remarks was a little bit like saying the quiet part out loud for her.
I mean how is sending the Haitians who are fleeing their country to a city and state that has boasted of being welcoming and accommodating to illegal immigrants exploitative? Further, wouldn't that by far be the most compassionate thing that could be done?
Or is what Pressley saying here essentially the same thing that was said by residents and local officials the last time around? A refresher:
The Hill ran a story Wednesday misleadingly headlined, “DeSantis says he might send any Haitian immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.” The Hill’s moronic headline was misleading because the Haitians are garden-variety border-jumpers, not immigrants.
Haiti — an island a few hundred miles from Florida’s coast — is up to its sacrificial voodoo chickens in a bloody civil war. Early this week, amidst the chaos, one of Haiti’s worst prisons allowed around 4,000 hardcore offenders to escape, and they were rumored to be sailing to the Sunshine State. In a podcast interview Tuesday, Florida Governor DeSantis told podcast host Dana Loesch that, “We do have our transport program also that’s going to be operational. So, Haitians land in the Florida Keys, their next stop very well may be Martha’s Vineyard.”
Chic sanctuary city Martha’s Vineyard would be a great destination for the border-jump… I mean the restless souls yearning to be free. But, sadly for the Haitians, they are about to discover they escaped one CIA-fueled civil war to land right in another.
DeSantis’s press conference about the interdictions last week was extremely encouraging. DeSantis said that since January, Florida has interdicted six hundred and seventy Haitian border-swamping boats and thirteen thousand illegal aliens. He described a boat Florida stopped packed with 25 military-aged Haitians with drugs, guns, and night vision gear. So they’re not poor.
CLIP: DeSantis’s Polk County press conference on interdictions (5:30).
It’s five minutes worth watching. Interestingly, and great for Florida, DeSantis explained that legally, under maritime law it’s easier to send a boat back where it came from than to have to deal with illegals once they’ve jumped the border and are on U.S. territory. He also announced another surge of national guardsmen and law enforcement to help block the Haitian exodus.
DeSantis also criticized Joe Biden’s fantastic scheme of flying illegals into the U.S. As an example, the Governor mentioned a Haitian that Biden flew to Massachusetts earlier this month, who immediately sexually assaulted a disabled 15-year-old girl.
The whole thing is so insane that it almost seems like the Biden Administration is deliberately creating a problem so that citizens will demand the solution Biden wanted to do in the first place. But what?
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Florida Law Banning Puberty Blockers, Hormone Treatments for Children
The law was aimed at preventing medical facilities from prescribing irreversible “gender-affirming” treatments to young children. Several studies have shown these treatments to be not only ineffective but harmful to minors suffering from gender dysphoria. Nevertheless, the judge struck down the measure.
The judge asserted that “In time, discrimination against transgender individuals will diminish, just as racism and misogyny have diminished.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed the ruling in a statement, referring to European nations that abandoned the “gender-affirming” model after numerous studies highlighted its flaws.
During the trial, Florida’s attorneys reportedly acknowledged that the state is unable to prohibit someone from pursuing a transgender identity, but it can regulate medical care.
In related news, yesterday the humiliated Miami Herald ran a whiny, poor-loser story about another successful DeSantis initiative. Here’s the headline:
The headline was another example of deceptive journalistic tricks. The reason the migrant surge didn’t come was because Florida sprang into action. Behold how the corporate media’s lying reporters tried their hardest to hide the ball of truth:
Haha! In other words, the illegal migrant surge ended right after DeSantis turned on Florida’s anti-migrant forward base of operations. Stupid reporters. They are trying to convince us that success is a sign of failure. It’s like when they used to incessantly argue that we built too many prisons since the crime rate was so low. Duh.
Later in the article, the Herald actually quoted the Governor — and the statistics — proving my point:
And that’s progress. There is a lot of good news buried under bad-news headlines these days. I’ll keep pulling it out for you.
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Mom: Florida Kid’s Life ‘Destroyed’ By Being Outed as Male
Living in Florida is like a death sentence if you're LGBTQ. Families with trans children are packing up their U-Hauls and moving to safer states. TIME Magazine recently did a story on how Florida's restrictive abortion laws made it difficult for a man to get an abortion. (We'd imagine it's more than difficult —it's impossible.)
Yahoo News reports on a mom whose child's life has been ruined by Gov. Ron DeSantis' law preventing biological males from playing on girls' sports teams.
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Governor DeSantis triggered the left again. The story appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, headlined, “Florida arts and culture funding slashed from budget.” Late last week, using his line-item veto power, Governor DeSantis slashed about $32 million in arts and culture grants from Florida’s 2025 budget, and liberal brains popped off in a cascade of explosions that could be easily seen from space.
The Tampa Museum of Art’s executive director, Michael Tomor, expressed bafflement and dismay that the wellspring of taxpayer money was suddenly drying up. “It’s a huge disappointment and a quandary,” he complained. Director Tomor just can’t understand it. “We are all unclear as to why this happened,” he scowled.
Now what are they supposed to do?
The Tampa Bay Times’s reporter was just as confused as Director Tomor. They both assume as a fact — like gravity or virtue signaling — that the government’s job is to scrape together working people’s tax money and then redistribute it to elite, art-collecting institutions whose directors make six-figure salaries.
I’m sure there are even some C&C readers who are thinking right now that the arts are super important, a critical investment in the future, a civilizationally defining necessity that, of course, should be funded by the state.
But according to the Times, Governor DeSantis took a dimmer view, less like a high-minded, politically connected museum director, and more like an overworked bookkeeper running out of adding machine paper. Even though Florida is currently running a surplus, the state’s top executive decided the arts were an inappropriate use of state tax dollars, and snip snip:
DeSantis’s decision mystified the Times. Lost and wandering around somewhere in the early impressionists, the paper couldn’t conceive of any principled objection to funding the arts with tax dollars.
It’s … the arts!
But unsurprisingly, the outraged Times reporter never looked beyond her champagne glass or interviewed anyone who agreed with Governor DeSantis, or could explain his logic. And that is what passes for journalism these days.
It only took me about two minutes of digging. I pulled up the Tampa Museum of Art’s latest Form 990 disclosures on Guidestar, which the Times’ reporter could not find, probably because it involves numbers and not pictures.
According to the museum’s disclosures, in 2022 the Museum received $5.5 million in donations and grants. But, and this is the key issue right here, it lavished over half of that total, about $3 million dollars, on “salaries, compensation, and benefits.” Not art.
$1.2 million of the museum’s 2022 revenues came from “government grants.”
Now, I am quite certain the Tampa Museum of Art is a fine institution, with a lovely art collection, and good luck to it. But I don’t see why taxpaying citizens — outside Tampa! — should be made involuntary patrons for invisible, highly-paid persons who never say ‘thank you’ but only complain when the money spigot turns off.
In other words, being as charitable as I can, government grants for the arts are mostly wealth transfers. Grants forcibly take money from people who could care less about art, but who are keeping the lights on and the toilets flushing, and doles their money out to elite liberals running non-taxed “non-profits.” Artsy liberals who often make artistically tasteless decisions.
There’s nothing wrong with museums. There’s just too much bad art and too many grifters.
One imagines the millions of tax dollars “invested” in trendy liberal fads, like “diversity art.” And don’t even get me started on so-called modern art, like the fifteen-foot square, blank canvas I saw spotlighted in New York’s MOMA one time. It was titled, “Nothingness.” (I thought, “genius!” I clearly invested way too much effort on my 10th-grade final art project, dang it.)
People in the “art industry” often don’t act like they love the arts. They act like everybody else, like art is a career choice, and all too often they act like the job is called ‘government cash grab.’ Incensed Director Tomor, for example, is no volunteer. The Museum’s 2022 Form 990 shows the good director earned a nifty $269,083 that year.
And that was his salary two years ago. I bet it’s more now. I’m sure he’s worth every penny. Part of his job is probably to get hold of the same government grants we’ve been talking about. But Director Tomor should earn his living fair and square, like the rest of us. Not through tax gifts.
Governor DeSantis was right to nip out the art funding. Let people keep their money. If the people want more Nothingness, they can pay for nothing by themselves.
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Monday, PBS —PBS!— ran a story headlined, “Newly released Epstein transcripts: Florida prosecutors knew billionaire raped teen girls years before cutting deal.” It should have said, “Federal prosecutors knew.” But otherwise, it reported the story straight.
Florida Circuit Judge Luis Delgado’s release on Monday of about 200 new pages from the Epstein Grand Jury transcript surprised everyone, since the judge had scheduled a hearing for next week on when and how to release them, and the bookies were giving 7-1 betting odds on whether the judge would survive to hold the hearing.
But the bill Governor DeSantis signed in February allowed the release on Monday, or any time thereafter, and the judge apparently, for some reason, decided to go early. Probably good thinking.
Judge Delgado was not amused by what he’d seen. Delgado wrote, “The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people,” meaning everyone except many people who are in a political party that starts with the same letter as Donald. The judge pointedly continued, “The testimony taken by the Grand Jury concerns activity ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape — all of the conduct at issue is sexually deviant, disgusting, and criminal.”
In my view, there’s much too little calling out of disgusting sexual deviance these days. Just saying. But I digress.
In the order, Delago properly called Epstein “the most infamous pedophile in American history.” He wrote, “For almost 20 years, the story of how Jeffrey Epstein victimized some of Palm Beach County’s most vulnerable has been the subject of much anger and has at times diminished the public’s perception of the criminal justice system.” Not to quibble, but it’s diminished our perception of the criminal justice system more often that just “at times.” Other than that, I agree.
The new documents related to Epstein’s wrist-slapping 2008 plea deal. The transcripts from his Grand Jury indictment show that the jury heard testimony from victims that Epstein, who was then in his 40s, had raped teenage girls as young as 14 at his Palm Beach mansion. The teenagers testified that Epstein also paid them to find him more girls.
“The younger, the better,” Epstein told them.
In 2019, the Daily Beast ran a story about the sweet deal Federal prosecutors gave Epstein at the time. Former prosecutor Alexander Acosta approved the pathetic plea deal in 2008 that completely immunized Epstein, in exchange for just a year of house arrest. In 2019, when Acosta was applying to be Secretary of Labor, he was asked whether the Epstein deal would pose a problem for his confirmation. Acosta answered no, because Epstein belonged to intelligence:
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Finally, enjoy some more great news in the conservative counter-revolution. Florida is leading again. Politico ran the story yesterday headlined, “‘Microschools’ could be the next big school choice battle. Florida is on the cutting edge.” The sub-headline explained, “Florida just enacted a little-noticed provision that would make it much easier for these schools — which typically have less than 30 students — to get established.”
A concept developed during the pandemic, which we were calling “pods” or “co-ops,” this homeschooling alternative involves a pack of parents banding together and hiring a full-time teacher to teach a small, multi-age group of kids at places like someone’s house, business, church, or rented movie theater.
Politico called the new Florida law referenced in the article “quiet” because it was just a zoning change. It pre-empts local government zoning regulations, allowing small private schools to use existing spaces at places like movie theaters, homes, and churches without having to get local permits or approvals.
Two years ago, Florida passed laws transferring state public school funds to parents, to use for private school tuition and expenses. The funds can also be used for pods, now widely called “microschools.” Politico reported that participation in these state-funded scholarships boomed to an estimated 217,000 students since Florida opened the new voucher program to all students regardless of income.
In a micro-school scenario, parents hire their pod teachers based on merit, not diversity. Microschool teachers reportedly earn +25% more on average than when they worked at comparable public school positions, with less work, fewer students, better students, no unions, and zero politics.
At least in Florida, public schools are being forced to compete. They may soon have to start hiring better teachers and treating them well.
The Empire has not been idle in the face of this new free-market threat. Local governments across the country have weaponized zoning regulations against homeschoolers to defeat homeschool pods, making it illegal to operate them anywhere. But Florida and Utah have both now deleted that tool, leading the nation in re-establishing the country’s original school format, the one-room schoolhouse.
Florida’s just-passed law would also allow private schools to expand, growing into alternative locations to allow more students, bypassing local regulations.
It would be an understatement to say this one new law could finally trigger the long-awaited revolution in education. Progress, and lots of it.
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Florida City Declares Hurricane Emergency, Bans Gun Sales and Even Displays
If we learned one thing from the COVID pandemic, it's that the government will declare an emergency and immediately begin curtailing rights. Knowing that Hurricane Helene was approaching, the city council of Okeechobee, Florida, declared a local state of emergency and banned gun sales. But that's not all. Also banned was the display of guns or ammunition at any store or shop. Finally, "the intentional possession in a public place of a firearm by any person, except a duly authorized law enforcement official or person in military service" was prohibited.
The Firearms Policy Coalition got in touch with the DeSantis administration, which directed Okeechobee's police chief to rescind the order. Chalk up another win for Ron DeSantis.