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Disney’s $578 million tax break left untouched in DeSantis feud

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have put a bull’s-eye on special perks that Walt Disney Co. has enjoyed in his state for more than 50 years, but he’s keeping his hands off hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks recently lavished on the entertainment giant.

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Ron DeSantis' Disney stunt backfires

Florida Republicans' rush to dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District might also contravene state law

Salon

Ron DeSantis get any more anti-gay, anti-trans? Oh, yes. He can

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ health department has once again dismissed the best minds in medical science to play Republican Party politics with people’s lives.

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Editorial: Unneeded guidance on transgender issues in Florida

The governor of what he declares “the freest state in these United States” is once again sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong. On Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ health department issued guidance advising against gender identity treatment for children and teenagers outside of counseling. It was another mean-spirited effort to…

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Editorial: Disney ‘punishment’ could blow up in DeSantis’ face

The Facebook post from last Saturday is comedy gold. A man in a DeSantis 2020 hat topped with a mouse-ear headband poses in front of a few cars with their hoods up. The caption: “Patriot Convoy just did a BLOCKADE @ the Entrance of Disney. Car Trouble. No one visiting…

Orlando Sentinel

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‘Democracy in Florida is not functioning.’ Governor’s rigged maps rob Black voters of power

Governor Ron DeSantis’s redistricting gambit means ‘for all intents and purposes, there’s currently … one-man rule’, says one former GOP strategist

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Is Florida’s rapid-fire smackdown of Disney even legal? Experts raise questions

MIAMI — In four days, the proposals went from drafts to law.

Miami Herald

Biden trashes GOP for attacking Disney over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law: ‘Christ, they’re going after Mickey Mouse’

President Joe Biden is giving lots of love to Mickey Mouse while trashing the GOP at the same time.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis’s Disney action marks new culture war phase ahead of 2024 election

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s move against Walt Disney Corp. this week shows he’s willing to take the Republican Party’s culture war to new heights — with a frontal assault on one of his state’s biggest and most iconic employers — as he jockeys for position in a potentially crowded 2024…

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Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill to limit discussion of race

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law new guidelines involving race-based discussions in businesses and school, part his campaign against critical race theory

The Independent UK

Continuing culture war focus, Florida Gov. DeSantis signs law restricting teaching of race-related issues in schools, private-sector employee training

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis imposed restrictions Friday on the way race-related issues are taught in public schools and in private workplaces in Florida. Lessons that might make some people uncomfortable would be banned.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis signs bill eliminating Walt Disney World’s Reedy Creek district; Fitch warns of bond downgrade

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law two bills targeting The Walt Disney Co. on Friday, eliminating the company’s special Reedy Creek district and stripping its exemption from the “Big Tech” social media bill.

Orlando Sentinel

Disney government dissolution bill signed by DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill dissolving Walt Disney World’s private government, after the entertainment giant criticized a measure that critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law

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DeSantis signs bill to dissolve Disney’s governing agreement in wake of ‘Don’t Say Gay’

For decades, Disney has effectively taxed itself to provide services for the company town it created. Florida officials warn that without the special tax district, the burden could fall on taxpayers

Axios

DeSantis signs bill to end Disney's self-governing status

The Florida House of Representatives on Thursday voted to eliminate the special status of Reedy Creek.

The Independent UK

Voting groups sue over Florida congressional map

Voting rights groups have sued Florida over a congressional map drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis and passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature

The Guardian - US

Florida’s examples of banned topics in math books derided as ‘political theater’

Education officials release four examples among the 54 math textbooks they rejected last week because of ‘prohibited topics’

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The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why are Disney and DeSantis feuding in Florida?

The Florida Legislature has passed a bill to dissolve a private government controlled by Disney that provides municipal-like services for its 27,000 acres in the Sunshine State

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Russia to stage sham referendum in south Ukraine, says Zelenskiy

Ukrainian leader tells residents in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia not to give personal information to Russian forces. Plus, 350,000 fewer American kindergarteners vaccinated against common diseases

Salon

"Social emotional learning": The new CRT

Right-wing culture warriors' new obsession: Widespread "life skills" approach is actually sinister "Trojan horse"

The Independent UK

Iowa GOP open to non-Trump prospects as 2024 gets underway

Former President Donald Trump’s persistent flirtation with another White House run is doing little to discourage other potential Republican candidates from stepping up their activity in Iowa, the state that will formally launch the nomination process

The Guardian - US

Disney to lose special tax status for opposing Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill

Governor Ron DeSantis is set to sign bill revoking 1967 law allowing Disney to self-govern a roughly 25,000-acre Orlando area

The Independent UK

Florida Democrats protest Ron DeSantis congressional map that would remove two majority-Black districts

Republicans began to leave the chamber while other Democrats made their to join the protest

Daily Mirror

Disney stripped of huge tax breaks in political row as Brits could face pricier tickets

Disney has been stripped of the huge tax breaks which reportedly saved the company tens of millions of pounds a year, a shift which will possibly lead to higher ticket prices for Brits

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