Federal Appeals Court Rejects Restrictions On Florida Gov. DeSantis ‘Stop WOKE Act’ (msn.com) In a rare instance of a federal appeals court in Florida siding against DeSantis, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected restrictions that Republican lawmakers placed on addressing race-related issues in workplace training. The restrictions were part of a controversial 2022 law that DeSantis dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act.” The law also included similar restrictions on classroom instruction. ..................... The appeals court ruled that the restrictions violated First Amendment rights. “This is not the first era in which Americans have held widely divergent views on important areas of morality, ethics, law and public policy,” the 22-page opinion said. “And it is not the first time that these disagreements have seemed so important, and their airing so dangerous, that something had to be done. But now, as before, the First Amendment keeps the government from putting its thumb on the scale.”
Florida settles lawsuit over parental rights law, will clarify vague wording Looks like the state settled and was forced to clarify that this law is essentially toothless and altogether pointless The law does not prohibit classroom references to LGBTQ+ people, families or issues, including in literature, discussions with students and academic work such as student essays. The law requires neutrality and bars classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity of all types, whether heterosexuality, homosexuality or others. It would be impermissible to say one is superior to another. Because it refers to instruction, the law does not apply to library books that are not being used in class lessons. The state made this point in defending against separate lawsuits challenging library book removals. I guess all the "how to be gay or straight" lessons being taught are now canceled though lol
parental rights, parental rights! the courage to be free! Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts
No worries, they can work over 30 hours per week now so they won't have time for all that social media anyway. I can see lots of parents having kids test this just to be able to sue for damages. Either this gets stayed and overturned or I don’t see how any social media companies could keep doing business in Florida? Am I missing something?
Additionally, that same bill is going to require adult Floridians to provide their personally identifiable information (such as a driver's license) if they want to access pornography on the internet in their own homes. So much for our right to privacy.
Insanity. Is this a "social media" site? Just about everything you do online is. I will not be uploading a copy of my ID to access social media, or even porn for that matter. Time to turn on the VPN and browse from Sri Lanka. Welcome to the American taliban indeed...
Trump had his sharpie, Desi has his gang. Poof, presto, climate change is no longer allowed to be considered a factor in any laws. I know a few muni ordinances that this is going to conflict with Florida is about to erase climate change from most of its laws (msn.com) In Florida, the effects of climate change are hard to ignore, no matter your politics. It’s the hottest state — Miami spent a record 46 days above a heat index of 100 degrees last summer — and many homes and businesses are clustered along beachfront areas threatened by rising seas and hurricanes. The Republican-led legislature has responded with more than $640 million for resilience projects to adapt to coastal threats. But the same politicians don’t seem ready to acknowledge the root cause of these problems. A bill awaiting signature from Governor Ron DeSantis, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race in January, would ban offshore wind energy, relax regulations on natural gas pipelines, and delete the majority of mentions of climate change from existing state laws. ......................... The bill, sponsored by state representative Bobby Payne, a Republican from Palatka in north-central Florida, would strike eight references to climate change in current state laws, leaving just seven references untouched, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Some of the bill’s proposed language tweaks are minor, but others repeal whole sections of laws. For example, it would eliminate a “green government grant” program that helps cities and school districts cut their carbon emissions. A 2008 policy stating that Florida is at the front lines of climate change and can reduce those impacts through cutting emissions cuts would be replaced with a new goal: providing “an adequate, reliable, and cost-effective supply of energy for the state in a manner that promotes the health and welfare of the public and economic growth.”
Thankfully Florida is a clear outlier when it comes to the rest of the country. Desantis failed miserably in his presidential bid once people saw what a creepy dweeb he is and GOP “policies” (I use that term loosely because they don’t actually have any) are not popular at all around the rest of the country.
Sometimes I wonder how Florida can be led by such a degenerate.. then some crazy person tries to talk to me in line at the gas station and bam.. the answer presents itself.
https://www.wptv.com/news/state/florida-gov-ron-desantis-signs-law-squashing-squatters-rights go Ron!
