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Stoking the fires of ‘wokeness’

It’s clear that Ron DeSantis thinks it’s legitimate to use government power to muzzle people he disagrees with.

Chicago Sun-Times

Can DeSantis out troll Trump?

Bigotry, book bans, and science hatred don't play as well outside of the MAGA base

Salon

Critics say Florida aims to rewrite history by rejecting African American studies

"One Governor should not have the power to dictate the facts of U.S. history," Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said of GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' move to ban the Advanced Placement course.

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Joe Battenfeld: Donald Trump is the boorish house guest who refuses to leave

They’ve tried humiliating him, disgracing him and financially and ethically ruining him, but Donald Trump is still standing – like the boorish house guest that wouldn’t leave.

Boston Herald

RNC Chair McDaniel fights for reelection in leadership feud

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel is fighting for reelection in a bitter leadership feud that’s testing former President Donald Trump’s grip on his own “Make American Great Again” movement

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis endorses challenger ahead of RNC chair election following midterms disaster

Florida governor is considered one of the frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination next year

The Independent UK

Why 'The 1619 Project' creator is 'proud' to have 'enemies' in Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis

When "The 1619 Project" was released three-and-a-half years ago, the ambitious reexamination of American history sparked difficult conversations about the legacy of slavery in the United States and earned praise for its creator, New York Times Magazine writer Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Los Angeles Times

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Pupils to sue DeSantis over AP class ban

"DeSantis decided to deny the potentially life-changing class and effectively censor the freedom of our education"

Salon

Academic Freedom in Florida

Some cause for concern

Reason

Media falls for Trump v. DeSantis con

Here is the story that the mainstream news media should be telling: The Republican Party doesn't support democracy

Salon

DeSantis setting national curriculum

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and others are treating CRT as if it were a major threat to American life

Salon

Florida students threaten to sue DeSantis over AP African American studies ban

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said he's prepared to take the students' case to the U.S. Supreme Court as outrage grows over ban.

Axios

DeSantis out-polls Trump as ex-president hosts ‘Libs of Tik Tok’ and Babylon Bee dinner

Florida governor remains only potential 2024 contender polling competitively against Trump

The Independent UK

Pritzker: Don’t change high school AP course to appease DeSantis and ‘Florida’s racist and homophobic laws’

In a letter, Pritzker told the nonprofit College Board that Illinois will reject a revised African American Studies course if it doesn’t include “a factual accounting of history, including the role played by black queer Americans.”

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Orlando Sentinel

Crump threatens to sue DeSantis over African American Studies course

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Wednesday he would sue Gov. Ron DeSantis if he doesn’t allow Florida high school students to take a new AP African American Studies course that the governor contends promotes woke ideology and critical race theory.

Reason

Twenty Red States File Badly Flawed Lawsuit Seeking to Terminate Private Sponsorship Program for People Fleeing Socialism and Oppression in Four Latin American Nations

The flaws in the states' position are revealed by their own governors' statements about the evils of socialism and the crisis at the border.

Reason

Florida's Rejection of an AP African American Studies Course Is a Rejection of School Choice

Why is Gov. Ron DeSantis acting just like his opposition by attempting to dictate what students are permitted to learn?

WEKU

High schoolers threaten to sue DeSantis over ban of African American studies course

Attorney Ben Crump announced a potential lawsuit against the Florida governor after the state rejected a new Advanced Placement course, which the College Board now says it will revise.

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Tribune News Service

Citing Parkland case, DeSantis suggests allowing death penalty in Florida without a unanimous jury

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised the idea this week of changing state law to allow juries to impose the death penalty without unanimous agreement, suggesting that perhaps only eight out of 12 jurors need to vote in favor.

Tribune News Service

Suspended Florida prosecutor says DeSantis should reinstate him after judge's decision

TAMPA, Fla. — Days after a federal judge declined to give him his job back, suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren had a message for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who removed him from office last fall:

Daily Mirror

The View descends into chaos as Whoopi Goldberg sends show off-air after heated rant

Producers seemingly crashed The View into an ad break after Whoopi Goldberg launched into a heated 'tired' row about Critical Race Theory

Salon

Florida's newest book ban is very real

In Florida schools, every book is considered too "dangerous" until the censors have combed it over

Ballotpedia

One week until Mississippi’s statewide filing deadline

Welcome to the Wednesday, Jan. 25 Brew.

Tribune News Service

Gene Collier: New Year in America, same as the old year, but with an AR-15 for kids

As for that inappreciable discussion about when in the New Year you should stop saying “Happy New Year,” we might finally have hit on a solution here in the good old USA: When the number of people killed in mass shootings in January flies past 60, yeah, maybe knock it…

Salon

It's time to tear down the gender dam

My child has been safe from attack — so far. Others haven’t been so fortunate

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