Florida politicians are waging war on workers. Not even astronauts or baseball players are safe.

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The Florida Legislature’s 2023 session is only two weeks old, but it is already shaping up as a terrible one for workers.

The most obvious examples are Senate Bill 256 and House Bill 1445, a pair of aggressively anti-union bills that Gov. Ron DeSantis is driving through the Legislature as he loads up to run for the Republican nomination for president.

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DeSantis Responds to MAGA DEMANDS to Protect Trump

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‘Heartbeat’ abortion ban approved by first Senate committee

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A bill that would ban abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy cleared the Florida Senate’s Health Policy committee Monday.....MORE

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All the anti-LGBTQ+ laws being proposed in Florida and how we can fight back

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Since 2021, when Florida lawmakers passed a bill targeting trans athletes, later signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republicans in the state have gained more power.

And this year, they’ve unveiled what Equality Florida has dubbed a “slate of hate bills,” driven in no small part by DeSantis’ stated priorities, including the “protection” of children from queerness, as he prepares to (likely) run for president in 2024.

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Bill restricting use of preferred pronouns at school advances

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A bill is advancing that would change the rules around the use of preferred pronouns at Florida’s public schools.

Republican Sen. Clay Yarborough’s bill (SB 1320) would also ban classroom instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity until the ninth grade. It advanced at its first committee stop along party lines in front of the Senate Committee on Pre-K-12.

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DeSantis' culture war isolates Black children in Florida

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I'm Dr. Bob, and I remember the Sixties ... sort of ... sometimes, and I hope you do too. We continue to Celebrate Women on WMNF in March. In hour 2 our Debutante – an early album by a female singer who got started in the Sixties – is Aretha in Person, 1961. Plus, there’s music by Grand Funk Railroad, Peggy Lee, the Platters, Booker T and the MGs in the Lava Lamp Set, and many more. So tune in the WMNF Sixties Show Saturday, Noon - 2 PM, US EDT on Community Radio WMNF Tampa 88.5 FM, streaming worldwide at WMNF.org.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ron DeSantis is wrong about U.S. funding for Ukraine

If Russia occupies Ukraine, NATO allies will be next, the Ukrainian President argued.

Ukraine’s President is responding directly to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ assertion that providing funding to the eastern European nation isn’t in America’s national interest.

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Florida House passes a major expansion of school vouchers

The Republican-controlled House on Friday passed a measure that would make every Florida student eligible for taxpayer-backed school vouchers, as Democrats and other critics slammed the expansion as a “coupon for millionaires.....MORE

Ron DeSantis labeled ‘new Russian hero’ in Super PAC ad

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Gov. Ron DeSantis is getting unwelcome air cover from a new ad in the wake of his controversial position on the Ukraine war.

The Center Street PAC rolled out a spot Friday that paints “American Ron DeSantis” as a “new Russian hero fighting imperialist American aggression in our glorious liberation of Ukraine.”

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State’s largest teachers’ union slams school choice legislation ‘checks to millionaires’

The legislation that could transform education is speeding toward the Governor's desk.

The oncoming reality that all students will be offered school vouchers regardless of income has the state’s largest teacher’s union pushing back, saying universal vouchers will “make a bad situation worse.”

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