#florida republicans

[brighterdays4212]

Good Morning.. Happy Weekends 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️😚😚👅👅

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[thehalfwaypost]

Florida Republicans are at it again.

[falloutnewvegastransedmygender]

Just, yeah

[cannabisbusinessexecutive]

Meet the ‘conservative pot smokers’ voting to legalize marijuana in Florida

Sam, 43, of Orlando, has voted Republican in every election since 2000 and describes herself as an evangelical Christian. She also smokes pot. The first time Mike Pappas, 37, could legally vote after a marijuana conviction, he voted for Donald Trump. Spencer, 32, of Jacksonville, considers himself “right of center.” He’s smoked weed since he was 17. Now, the drug helps him get up in the morning…

[mysharona1987]

[an-onyx-void]

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[nando161mando]

Florida Republicans Pass Bill Allowing Trans Kids to Be Removed From Their Families

This is just the latest anti-trans bill passed in the state, but it’s among the most dangerous.

[whiterosebrian]

Florida

Yes, I am still working on poetic exercises based on the anthology of Romantic poetry.  I went through a chapter themed on protest and politics—the Romantic movement coincided with Abolitionism and the French Revolution.  Grant you, I’ve already written multiple exercises on sociopolitical themes out of a sense of necessity.  For this exercise, I decided to yet again use internal rhyme across lines, and I thought of structuring lines and stanzas to give the sense of sarcastic quips and satiric punchlines.  Over the course of working on this exercise, I realized how much can be said with only so many words.  The violently sarcastic tone that I aimed for seems to do so much heavy lifting, so I decided against writing more than I have here.

We welcome the absolute rulers of Florida!

We dare not dispute their laws!

Anyone who dissents is a dictator! 

Arrest the Marxists and send them alone to the swamps!

Black voices are fully heard!

Nobody attacks sexual minorities!

Libraries operate freely! 

Those who claim the contrary are giant corporations!

Ignore the Nazis marching with flags!

Nazis exist in Ukraine only!

Tsarist Russia is an ally!

Florida bravely resists cosmopolitan overlords!

White Christian empires bring

About a bright and happy world!

Do you yet understand the intent

Behind the strand of words which I spoke to you now?

[cynicalclassicist]

We have to hope that Florida can soon turn blue again. It can happen!

[angelx1992]

[reasonsforhope]

"Georgia Republicans bundled over a dozen measures that targeted the state’s transgender residents into omnibus packages in a desperate attempt to get them passed. In a stunning defeat for the GOP, every single one of them failed.

Legislators gutted bills that had passed through committee and instead stuffed them full of their anti-LGBTQ+ wishlist items.

Bills that would ban transgender students from playing on teams aligned with their gender identity, ban transgender students from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, opt parents into notification for every book a student checks out of the library, bar sex education before sixth grade, make all sex-ed classes opt-in and expand obscenity laws to make it easier to ban books with LGBTQ+ content all failed.

“MAGA politicians in Georgia tried it all in service to their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda,” said Human Rights Campaign Georgia State Director Bentley Hudgins, “including silencing debate and gutting unrelated, popular bills that had bipartisan support to ram through policies that would have put young LGBTQ+ Georgians in harm’s way. They failed.”

“It’s undeniable that the tides are shifting, both here in Georgia and across the nation,” Georgia Equality executive director Jeff Graham added. “Anti-LGBTQ actors are losing their political power, and more and more Georgians who know and love LGBTQ people are standing up against their baseless fear-mongering.”

In Florida recently, nearly two dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills were defeated in the wake of Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) presidential campaign implosion, dozens of measures in Virginia were tabled [Note: In the US, "tabled" means "shelved" or "taken out of consideration - the opposite of its meaning in the UK and other places], and Ohio’s governor backed off his attempt to restrict gender-affirming care access for transgender adults and minors. 

Meanwhile, in D.C., Democrats successfully excised 50 anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the two budget bills passed and signed by President Joe Biden to fund the federal government.

Even Fox News has been forced to acknowledge transgender issues are among the lowest-priority concerns among voters."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 1, 2024

[tippifunandprose]

every time I read about this Disney vs DeSantis thing and the bit about how the agreement doesn't end “until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England" all I can think about is some bumbling caper where the Florida government repeatedly tries to assassinate the entire royal family just to spite Disney

[jjmcquade-misc]

It's always them.

They spread fake news, but their time is up, the next few years will be painful for these pseudo-journalists of manipulated information.

[mysharona1987]

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

reminder that if you're a Florida voter you've got a responsibility to go out and vote in November because the state constitutional amendments we're voting on are the right to abortion, legalizing marijuana for over 21s, keeping school district elections nonpartisan, free-for-all hunting and fishing, and a few other things.