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Saturday, July 8, 2023
Florida suffers consequences of DeSantis political games with public health
Alex Wagner shares exclusive NBC News reporting on the resignation of two key Florida state health officials who have yet to be replaced as the state is facing the first instances of native malaria transmission in decades and DeSantis has installed a scientifically dubious state surgeon general in a bid to curry favor with the anti-vaccine radicals he hopes will support him over Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary.
WATCH: Casey DeSantis Doubles Down On Homophobia
Ron and Casey DeSantis keep distancing themselves from any hope at the White House with their extreme right-wing, anti-LGBTQ position.
Activists seek to disqualify Trump from ballot in key states under 14th Amendment
Two civil rights organizations are launching a campaign to pressure state governments to disqualify former President Trump from appearing on ballots in 2024.
The groups say secretaries of state are empowered by the 14th Amendment to bar Trump from running for office because of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
More HERE
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Mojo Monday VI Coning to Ybor
Dearth of mail-in ballot requests raises fears of voter disenfranchisement
New legislation meant all mail-in ballot requests expired on Jan. 1.
Six months since prior vote-by-mail requests expired, just a fraction of voters have renewed their absentee request, arousing fear that millions of Floridians could discover too late that their ballot is not arriving in the mail.
More HERE
CANCELATIONS: Corporate conventions flee Florida thanks to DeSantis
DeSantis’s increasingly extreme hate-filled, anti-DEI, anti-CRT, and “socialist” programs guaranteed that businesses would steer clear of the state. And now conventions are canceling large events.....MORE
Friday, July 7, 2023
Fentanyl Test strips now legal in Florida, experts say they’re not 100% effective
According to the CDC, over 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses and poisonings from 2021 to 2022. And a staggering 67% of those involved synthetic opioids like Fentanyl. One big thing to note, some of these cases were attributed to Fentanyl being mixed in with other drugs, and users said they were unaware they were taking it.....MORE
Ron DeSantis USING ME in new campaign ad!
JENerational Change: Biden Appoints Elliott Abrams, Indiana Jones FLOPS
Hosted by Jen Perelman and Peter Hager
We'll be speaking with Penny Hess & Jesse Nevel of the African People's Socialist Party about Dr. Cornel West, reparations & much more.
Targeted legislation in Florida affecting mental health of transgender community
Conservative women are embracing extremism under the guise of motherhood
Moms for Liberty founders Tiffany Justice, right, and Tina Descovich speak at the Moms for Liberty meeting in Philadelphia, Friday, June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
This past week Americans were introduced to a new extremist group. Unlike so many others that have dominated the news in recent years, it consists predominantly of women.....MORE
Judge backs Florida on school book scrutiny rules
An administrative law judge Thursday rejected a challenge to Florida Department of Education rules that are part of a move to increase scrutiny of books in schools.....MORE
Thursday, July 6, 2023
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Gavin Newson demands federal investigation of Ron DeSantis-ordered migrant flights
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is formally calling on the Department of Justice to investigate migrant flights ordered by Gov. Ron DeSantis.....MORE
Hillsborough Tax Collector warns taxpayers of potential scam
Hillsborough County Tax Collector Nancy Millan is warning the public of a recent tax scam that targets property taxpayers in the county.....MORE
Hurricane season forecast update: Above-average activity expected
One month into the Atlantic hurricane season, researchers at Colorado State University have again amended their seasonal forecast for tropical cyclone activity. They now call for an above-average season.....MORE
HAUNTING: Could his Hillary obsession send him to jail?
Donald Trump’s words have come back to haunt him after CNN unearthed comments he made in 2016 saying Hillary Clinton had ‘no right’ to run for president because she was under federal investigation over her handling of classified information on a private email server.....MORE
Trump, DeSantis will need to sign loyalty pledge to make Florida ballot, state GOP says
Former President Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and their fellow Republican candidates vying for the White House in 2024 will have to pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee in order to get on the primary ballot in the Sunshine State, the state GOP said.....MORE
America’s two-tier labor system is a glaring outlier among wealthy nations
According to new Oxfam research. The U.S. is falling drastically behind similar countries in mandating adequate wages, protections and rights for millions of workers and their families.....MORE
Unofficial record high temperature hits Earth this week — more than once
Earth’s average temperature on Wednesday remained at an unofficial record high set the day before, the latest grim milestone in a week that has seen series of climate-change-driven extremes.....MORE
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