What's happening in DeSantistan 2.0

knew this was going to happen, just like labor shortages. the effect just lags the approval and will not be truly felt until he is nearly gone

“All of the legislation surrounding higher education in Florida is chilling and terrifying,” said Leininger, who is rejoining the biology department at St Mary’s College in Maryland this fall where she had been teaching before moving to central Florida. “Imagine scientists who are studying climate change, imagine an executive branch that denies climate change – they could use these laws to intimidate or dismiss those scientists.”

The new laws have introduced a ban on the funding of diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Florida’s public colleges and universities, withdrawn a right to arbitration formerly guaranteed to faculty members who have been denied tenure or face dismissal, and prohibited the teaching of critical race theory, which contends that inherent racial bias pervades many laws and institutions in western society, among other changes.

In the face of that and other legislation backed by DeSantis and Republican lawmakers that has rolled back the rights of Florida’s LGBTQ+ community, many scholars across the state are taking early retirement, voting with their feet by accepting job offers outside Florida or simply throwing in the towel with a letter of resignation.

 

DeSantis is alleging that Illinois is “letting illegal aliens become police officers.” I haven’t read the law but maybe someone here has?

 

Like his Orange idol, the truth is more or less irrelevant to Meatball Ron.
Illinois bill would allow noncitizens to become police officers

 

Truth is meaningless to a man who advocates the revisionism of history

 

I was highly skeptical of his claim when I saw it. As much as I’ve disagreed with him and seen him as pandering to the base with red meat and more extreme positions, I hadn’t considered him as being in the top tier on the liar scale as far as politicians go.

Now that I think about it, I feel like his administration has generally been disingenuous when it comes to conflating subsets of immigrants/migrants. I bet he has polling and consultants telling him he needs to dominate that lane.

 

His post was outstanding. He is starting to learn that the investment of time in culture wars takes away from addressing real problems that affect everyone. And that those who lead that charge don’t care about anyone but themselves.

 

This is why his immigration laws are illegal. They prohibit people from working who legally allowed to under federal law and who are not illegal. His use of the term “illegal” is pure bigotry since they are not. And he is even doing this as the country faces a worker shortage. The anti-business governor. The politics of hate are storms and immigrants are an easy target.

 

Anyone who has Amazon Prime should watch the 1 hour Twilight Zone episode “He’s Alive.” 60 years ago, Serling and the author nailed this.

 

Great. Now DeSantis is going to eliminate all majors at UF except welding and baking.

 

will he now go after their funding?

 

Yep!! Can’t have opposition in Florida.

 

animal husbandry and meat tasting are likely safe too

 

uf student gubmnt = woke. woke = bad. this is a war...that seems to be the thought process.

 

The Wild Story Behind Florida's New Teaching Standards (msn.com)

According to the three anonymous members, a majority of the group opposed the more controversial sections, including the infamous suggestion that schools teach that enslaved people benefited from slavery by learning new skills.

It wasn’t just the slavery sections that they took issue with over the course of developing the standards. The three members told NBC News that the majority of the working group disagreed with the requirement that schools need to teach about violence perpetuated by African-Americans when discussing horrific acts of violence against Black Americans, including the Tulsa Race Massacre. (Seriously, that’s in the curriculum).
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All of this begs the question if the working group was mostly against these additions, who actually green-lit this mess? According to the interviews with NBC, only two members pushed for the language, William Allen and Frances Presley Rice. (They’re both Black Republicans). Despite the group’s disagreement, the three members said the pair was incredibly persuasive. The standards were later unanimously approved by the Florida Board of Education. The standards were later trumpeted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has dedicated his time in office to dismantling Florida’s education system.

 

GOP strategist who encouraged Ron DeSantis to run calls it quits: 'He's been a very flawed candidate' (msn.com)

The Republican strategist behind a PAC devoted to getting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president has split with the group after shifting his stance on the candidate, according to Rolling Stone.

Ed Rollins, who was the national campaign director for former President Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign, created the "Ready for Ron" political action committee (now known as "Ready to Win") in May 2022 with the express purpose of pushing DeSantis to run for office. But just over a year later as DeSantis lags far behind former President Donald Trump in Republican primary polls, Rollins no longer thinks DeSantis is best suited to defeat the 45th president.

"I don't think it's the campaign's fault at all; it's his. I think he's been a very flawed candidate. I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people. But every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly doesn't understand the game," Rollins told Rolling Stone. "When you get into these culture wars the way that he has, the vast majority of people don't understand what they are.

 

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