What Florida's 'Don’t Say Gay' bill actually says

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• FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL LGBTQ SCHOOL MEASURE
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• LGBTQ+ NDIDAT W FLORIDA AFTERMATH OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
• RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANERIC LUTZ
• FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS
• FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL SPE PROTTS
• FLORIDA LAWMAKER BEHD 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL RIGNS AFTER BEG DICTED ON D CHARG
• STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
• RON DESANTIS SIGNALS HE’D BE OPEN TO MAKG FLORIDA AN ANTI-GAY HELLHOLETHE REPUBLIN ERNOR OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT OF WHAT’S BEEN DUBBED THE  “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS.BY BS LEVFEBARY 8, 2022FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS AT THE OPENG OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE AT THE HYATT REGENCY ON FEBARY 26, 2021 ORLANDO, FLORIDA. BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA FUNNY THG ABOUT REPUBLINS IS THAT SPE CLAIMG TO BE THE PARTY OF “PERSONAL EEDOM,” THE LAST YEAR ALONE, THEY HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT AMERINS OM: READG CERTA BOOKS, TEACHG ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, MAKG CISNS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODI, AND, THE SE OF SOME GROUPS, VOTG MOCRATIC ELECTNS. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LOOK AT THIS EVINCE AND NCLU THAT REPUBLINS ARE MASSIVE HYPOCR—AND THEY WOULD BE RIGHT! SO WHILE EPLY PRSG, ’S NO WAY SURPRISG THAT FLORIDA NSERVATIV WANT TO BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS, AND THAT FLORIDA’S ERNOR, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE HIS EYE ON THE WHE HOE 2024, HAS SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE IATIVE.ON MONDAY, RON DESANTIS OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT FOR THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN BILL, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE IMPLEMENTATN OF “PROCR TO RERCE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF PARENTS TO MAKE CISNS REGARDG THE UPBRGG AND NTROL OF THEIR CHILDREN,” BAN TEACHERS OM ENURAGG NVERSATNS ABOUT LGBTQ+ TOPICS THE CLASSROOM THAT ARE “NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE FOR STUNTS,” AND ALLOW PARENTS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTN AGAST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IF THEY THK THEIR “FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT” AS PARENTS HAS BEEN VLATED. ASKED ABOUT THE BILL, DESANTIS SISTED IS “ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE” FOR TEACHERS TO TALK WH STUNTS ABOUT GENR INTY, CLAIMG TO HAVE HEARD EXAMPL OF CHILDREN BEG TOLD, “DON’T WORRY, DON’T PICK YOUR GENR YET,” AND WHERE TEACHERS ARE “HIDG” LSONS OM PARENTS.“SCHOOLS NEED TO BE TEACHG KIDS TO READ, TO WRE,” DESANTIS SAID, PLETELY IGNORG THE EMOTNAL VELOPMENT THAT ALSO OCCURS DURG KIDS’ FORMATIVE YEARS. “THEY NEED TO TEACH THEM SCIENCE, HISTORY. WE NEED MORE CIVICS AND UNRSTANDG OF THE U.S. CONSTUTN, WHAT MAK OUR UNTRY UNIQUE, ALL THOSE BASIC STUFF.… THE LARGER ISSUE WH ALL OF THIS IS PARENTS MT HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE WHEN TO WHAT’S GOG ON THEIR SCHOOLS.” WHILE HE DID NOT OUTRIGHT SAY HE WOULD SIGN THE BILL TO LAW, AS NBC NEWS NOT, “ WAS THE FIRST TIME THE REPUBLIN ERNOR SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURE SCE WAS PROPOSED BY THE STATE’S HOE OF REPRENTATIV LAST MONTH.” WHICH IS CREDIBLY WORRISOME.OPPONENTS OF THE BILL—WHICH CLU THE WHE HOE—HAVE WARNED WOULD BE EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO THE MENTAL HEALTH OF LGBTQ+ TEACHERS AND STUNTS. “MAKE NO MISTAKE—THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED ACTN. ACROSS THE UNTRY, WE’RE SEEG REPUBLIN LEARS TAKE ACTNS TO REGULATE WHAT STUNTS N OR NNOT READ, WHAT THEY N OR NNOT LEARN, AND MOST TROUBLG, WHO THEY N OR NNOT BE,” A SPOKPERSON FOR THE WHE HOE SAID A STATEMENT. “THIS IS POLICS AT S WORSE, CYNILLY G OUR STUNTS AS PAWNS POLIL WARFARE.”SEIZG ON THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS” LE TROTTED OUT BY DESANTIS AND OTHER REPUBLINS, SOUTH FLORIDA RINT JENNIFER SOLOMAN, WHO HAS LGBTQ+ CHILDREN, MENTED TO NBC NEWS: “PARENTAL RIGHTS? WHOSE PARENTAL RIGHTS? ONLY PARENTAL RIGHTS IF YOU’RE RAISG A CHILD ACRDG TO DESANTIS? DESANTIS TRI TO PAT THIS PICTURE THAT EVERY FAY IS THIS 1950S MOM AND DAD WH TWO KIDS AND A T AND DOG. THAT IS NOT WHAT FLORIDA LOOKS LIKE; THAT IS NOT WHAT THE UNTRY LOOKS LIKE.” WHILE SOLOMAN TOLD NBC THAT SHE IS NOT PERSONALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE BILL ON HER CHILDREN, BEE THEY LIVE A PART OF THE STATE THAT IS “RELATIVELY ACCEPTG OF LGBTQ PEOPLE,” SHE FEARS FOR THOSE LIVG OTHER MUNI. “THERE ULD BE A FAY JT LIKE ME THAT IS GOG TO HAVE TO GO BACK THE CLOSET,” SHE SAID. “THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE TO TELL THEIR CHILD, ‘I’M SORRY, YOU N DRS THE WAY YOU WANT TO AT HOME, BUT YOU HAVE NO PROTECTNS AT SCHOOL, AND SO YOU N’T BE YOUR THENTIC SELF ALL OF THE TIME.’ THAT’S VERY DAMAGG TO A CHILD.”IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE LEV REPORT YOUR BOX DAILY, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.WANT TO HEAR THE 10 SRIT WORDS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?OKAY, THEY ARE: “THE BABYSTER NCELED, BUT STEPHEN MILLER IS WATCHG OUR KIDS.” THE NEXT 10 SRIT? “PETER THIEL TO LEAVE META BOARD TO PURSUE TMP AGENDA.” PER BLOOMBERG:PETER THIEL, THE TECH VTOR AND NSERVATIVE PROVOTR WHO HAS ADVISED MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR NEARLY TWO S AT FACEBOOK PARENT META PLATFORMS INC., WILL STEP DOWN OM THE PANY’S BOARD AFTER META’S ANNUAL SHAREHOLR MEETG MAY. THIEL, 54, WHO BEME A DIRECTOR 2005 AFTER AN EARLY VTMENT FACEBOOK, PLANS TO CREASE HIS POLIL SUPPORT OF FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP’S AGENDA DURG THE 2022 ELECTN AND DON’T WANT HIS POLIL ACTIVI TO BE A DISTRACTN FOR FACEBOOK, ACRDG TO A PERSON CLOSE TO THIEL. THIEL HELPED ELECT TMP PRINT 2016 BY DONATG MONEY AND SPEAKG ON HIS BEHALF AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN. WHEN TMP BEME PRINT, THIEL WORKED ON HIS TRANSN TEAM WHILE NOMATG LLEAGU TO FILL ERNMENT POSNS…. THIEL HAS NTUED TO SUPPORT TMP WHILE MEETG WH MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY AND MEMBERS OF THE FAR-RIGHT RECENT YEARS.MOST POPULARGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMEGHAN MARKLE WILL BE JOG PRCE HARRY GERMANY FOR THE INVICT GAMBY ER VANRHOOFNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYTHIEL APPARENTLY MIXED TWO PASSNS BY ADVISG ZUCKERBERG “ON POLIL ISSU,” WHICH REPORTEDLY CLUD “ENURAGG THE CEO NOT TO FACT-CHECK POLIL ADVERTISEMENTS THE N-UP TO THE 2020 PRINTIAL ELECTN, A MOVE THAT MANY BELIEVE BENEFED TMP,” BLOOMBERG NOTED. WHILE MANY FACEBOOK EMPLOYE WERE EPLY UNHAPPY ABOUT THIEL’S 2016 SUPPORT OF TMP, ZUCKERBERG FEND HIS LONGTIME PAL, SAYG AN TERNAL MSAGE: “WE N’T CREATE A CULTURE THAT SAYS R ABOUT DIVERSY AND THEN EXCLUS ALMOST HALF THE UNTRY BEE THEY BACK A POLIL NDIDATE.“ AND NOW, HERE WE ARE!NOTHG TO SEE HERE, JT THE SUPREME COURT’S ULTRANSERVATIV DOG THEIR PART TO ANNIHILATE VOTG RIGHTSBY 2024, THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY’LL LET VOTE WILL BE HALF A DOZEN WHE GUYS WHO TRAVEL TO MCH MCCONNELL’S OFFICE AND SIGN A NTRACT PLEDGG TO VOTE FOR REPUBLINS. PER NBC NEWS:IN A 5–4 VOTE, THE SUPREME COURT CLEARED THE WAY MONDAY FOR ALABAMA TO E S NEW NGRSNAL DISTRICT MAP EVEN THOUGH A LOWER URT SAID  VLATED THE VOTG RIGHTS ACT BY NYG BLACK VOTERS A NEW DISTRICT. THE URT GRANTED A REQUT OM ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO PUT A HOLD ON THE LOWER URT LG. THE SE—THE FIRST TO REACH THE SUPREME COURT VOLVG THE REDRAWG OF POLIL BOUNDARI WH 2020 CENS RULTS—ULD AFFECT REDISTRICTG  OTHER STAT THAT GAED MORY POPULATNS. THE SUPREME COURT ALSO SAID WOULD HEAR ALABAMA’S CHALLENGE TO THE LOWER URT LG THAT CLARED THE MAPS VOID. THAT APPEAL IS NOT LIKELY TO BE HEARD UNTIL THE URT’S NEW TERM BEGS THE FALL. AS A PRACTIL MATTER, THE URT’S ACTN ALLOWS ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO E THEIR MAP FOR THIS YEAR’S ELECTNS.AS SLATE’S MARK JOSEPH STERN NOT, YOU N TELL THE LG IS REALLY, REALLY BAD BY THE FACT THAT CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS, “AN ARCHECT OF THE JUDICIAL ATTACK ON VOTG RIGHTS,” CHOSE TO DISSENT ALONG WH THE URT’S THREE LIBERALS, WHICH WAS SADLY NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THE FIVE OTHER JTIC OM UPHOLDG ALABAMA’S “EGREG RACIAL GERRYMANR.” AS STERN WR:OVER THE LAST , THE SUPREME COURT HAS BULLDOZED SEVERAL KEY PROVISNS OF THE VRA. BUT UNTIL NOW, HAD NOT YET REPEALED THE LAW’S PROTECTNS AGAST THE DILUTN OF VOT ST BY RACIAL MORI. THIS SHIELD, NTAED SECTN 2 AND CLARIFIED BY 1986’S THORNBURG V. GGL, REQUIR A THREE-JUDGE DISTRICT URT TO TERME WHETHER A REDISTRICTG PLAN RV UP MORY MUNI TO PREVENT THEM OM ELECTG THE NDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE. ALTHOUGH THE GGL TT N BE DIFFICULT TO APPLY, THE RELEVANT FACTORS HERE ARE STRAIGHTFORWARD: DUE TO RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTG THE STATE, BLACK ALABAMIANS NNOT ELECT THEIR PREFERRED REPRENTATIV UNLS THEY NSTUTE A MAJORY OF THEIR DISTRICT. ALABAMA REPUBLINS UNRSTAND THIS FACT, AND IS WHY THEIR NEW NGRSNAL MAP THLSLY DILUT BLACK VOT. THE PLAN PACKS A HUGE NUMBER OF BLACK VOTERS TO A SGLE, SPRAWLG DISTRICT THAT STRETCH OM BIRMGHAM TO MONTGOMERY, CLUDG AS MANY NONWHE RINTS AS POSSIBLE. THE FEW REMAG VOTERS OF LOR ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SIX MAJORY-WHE DISTRICTS, WHERE THEY STAND NO CHANCE OF ELECTG THEIR FAVORED NDIDATE. AS A RULT, WHILE BLACK AMERINS MAKE UP 27% OF THE STATE’S POPULATN, THEY NTROL JT 14% OF S NGRSNAL LEGATN.MOST POPULARGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMEGHAN MARKLE WILL BE JOG PRCE HARRY GERMANY FOR THE INVICT GAMBY ER VANRHOOFNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYIF THAT STRIK YOU AS WILDLY MSED UP AND HUGELY EGREG, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. IN HIS DISSENT, ROBERTS WROTE THAT THE LOWER URT, WHICH LLED BULLSH ON THE NEW MAP, HAD “PROPERLY APPLIED EXISTG LAW AN EXTENSIVE OPN WH NO APPARENT ERRORS FOR OUR RRECTN,” WHILE JTICE ELENA KAGAN HAD THIS TO SAY: “TODAY’S CISN IS ONE MORE A DISNCERTGLY LONG LE OF S WHICH THIS COURT S SHADOW DOCKET TO SIGNAL OR MAKE CHANG THE LAW, WHOUT ANYTHG APPROACHG FULL BRIEFG AND ARGUMENT.… [THIS] DO A DISSERVICE TO THE DISTRICT COURT, WHICH METICULOLY APPLIED THIS COURT’S LONGSTANDG VOTG-RIGHTS PRECENT. AND MOST OF ALL, DO A DISSERVICE TO BLACK ALABAMIANS WHO UNR THAT PRECENT HAVE HAD THEIR ELECTORAL POWER DIMISHED— VLATN OF A LAW THIS COURT ONCE KNEW TO BUTTRS ALL OF AMERIN MOCRACY.”KEV MCCARTHY WOULD RATHER NOT DISCS HIS PARTY’S REBRAND OF JANUARY 6 AS A BETIFUL DAY HISTORY THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED EVERY YEAR WH PARTY HATS AND RG DGSTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!FBI ARRTS TMP SUPPORTER WHO STORMED CAPOL WHILE ON BAIL FOR ATTEMPTED MURR (NBC NEWS)EUROPE RAMPS UP UKRAE DIPLOMACY AMID “EXTREME TENSN” (WASHGTON POST)AS PELOTON FIR OVER 2,800 EMPLOYE, ’S GIVG THEM A EE ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTN ON THE WAY OUT (INSIR)HOW JOE MANCH ED POLICS TO PROTECT HIS FAY AL PANY (POLI)TOP WHE HOE SCIENTIST RIGNS AFTER REVIEW FDS HE MEANED STAFF (WASHGTON POST)GOLDMAN SACHS’S WORK-FROM-OFFICE POLICY IS THE ABERRATN NOW (BLOOMBERG)FEDS ARRT MARRIED UPLE, SEIZE $3.6 BILLN HACKED B FUNDS (WASHGTON POST)FLORIDA HOME TO BE SOLD NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AL (AP)NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT MAFIA ACUNTANTS ARE REALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS (BOG BOG)ZOO HIR MARV GAYE IMPERSONATOR TO GET MONKEYS THE MOOD (UPI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI JERRY FALWELL JR.’S UNLIKELY RISE AND PRECIPO FALL AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY— ERIC ADAMS PULLS CRYPTO-PAYCHECK STUNT HOURS BEFORE B CRASH— DAVE CHAPPELLE AND “THE BLACK ASS LIE” THAT KEEPS US DOWN— TMP’S JANUARY 6 COVER-UP IS UNRAVELG FAST— FLORIDA MAN HAS GROWG GOD COMPLEX— IN 2024, MIKE PENCE IS GEARG UP TO GO ROGUE— NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL TO TMP, IVANKA, AND DON JR.: DON’T F--K WH US— INSI THIS CABLE NEWS GIANT’S STREAMG DREAMS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: IT CAME FROM WASILLA— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.BS LEV
• FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS HAS SIGNED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’

After Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill was passed by the state Senate this week, the legislature’s first openly gay Senator, who had argued agast the bill, said he’s worried about the state’s LGBTQ+ youth. Shevr Jon plead wh his lleagu to vote agast the state legislature’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill, known to s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Like other LGBTQ+ advot, Jon, who is the state Senate’s first openly gay member, argued that the bill, which prohibs classroom stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty that is not “age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate” for children, would likely force LGBTQ+ stunts further to the closet and stigmatize the experienc of people who are not heterosexual or cisgenr.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL LGBTQ SCHOOL MEASURE

The son of a pastor South Florida, the hman state senator prevly served three terms the state Hoe of Reprentativ, but did not publicly e out as gay until 2018, when he was 34. Geia this week troduced s own “Don’t Say Gay” bill, though s fate is far ls certa.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

You see bills like the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill bee there’s jt not enough LGBTQ reprentatn stg at the table. FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY BILL’ HEADS TO DESANTIS’S DESK. DISNEY CEO ADDRESSES SILENCE ON FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL.

The measure, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s opponents, was passed by the state Hoe last month and now heads to Republin Gov. Parents n sue school districts for alleged a tearful addrs to the Senate on Monday, Democrat Shevr Jon, the first openly gay Florida state senator, urged his lleagu to narrow the bill’s language to say stctn should not be “tend to change a stunt’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. ”“I ask that you open up your hearts jt a tad b, ” he said, notg the name-llg and shunng he had faced as a gay man.

But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te. The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.

“The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn. ”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando. He also supported DeSantis’ dranian immigratn notably, Basabe voted for a bill that expand a parental-rights law known as “Don’t say gay, ” which prohibs classroom discsn about sexual orientatn and genr inty.

Blam DemocratsBasabe has downplayed the impacts of the “Don’t say gay” bill.

LGBTQ+ NDIDAT W FLORIDA AFTERMATH OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’

The bill, which some opponents have lled "Don't Say Gay, " was signed by DeSantis on Monday. The "Don't Say Gay" moniker om crics of the measure who blast this ia and sist this policy will hurt LGBTQ children. "Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed to law, " the statement read.

Florida’s legislature ma natnal headl January when state Republins troduced the Parental Rights Edutn bill — known to s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — to rtrict public school teachers’ abily to engage classroom stctn related to sexual orientatn and genr inty. Gentle, an openly gay man who received nearly 56 percent of the vote his primary electn on Tuday, said he fears Florida — and the untry — is progrsg backward by csadg agast thgs like LGBTQ+ affirmative supports at school and transgenr health re. Perez, who if elected would bee the state legislature’s first openly gay parent, said measur like the “Don’t Say Gay” law that claim to protect parental rights do not have her, her wife’s or her children’s bt terts md.

RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANERIC LUTZ

Jam Bh III, the only Hoe Democrat that voted to pass the “Don’t Say Gay” bill Febary. Voters ced discrimatory polici backed by the state’s current elected officials, cludg the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Diaz, a Republin and former state senator who voted to pass the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a July 28 memo told school officials that they are not required to give transgenr stunts accs to facili that match their genr inty or allow transgenr women and girls to pete on female sports teams.

FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS

DeSantis expand his “Don’t Say Gay” law this year, and the Florida Board of Edutn voted Wednday for l that took even further — cludg by barrg teachers om askg stunts their preferred pronouns.

Carlos Smh speaks agast HB 1577, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics, earlier this month Tallahassee, Fla. Opponents — many of whom have taken to llg the measure the "Don't Say Gay" bill — say will make life harr for LGBTQ youth, who already face a higher rate of bullyg and a higher risk of suici than their straight, cisgenr peers.

"As expected, the #DontSayGayBill jt passed the Florida Hoe, but SEVEN Republins crossed party l to vote agast , " Rep. The Florida Senate has passed the "Parental Rights Edutn" bill, known by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, spe stnch cricism om Democratic lawmakers and LGBTQ+ advot.

FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL SPE PROTTS

A 2019 survey om The Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), emed Florida's school climate "not safe" for LGBTQ+ stunts, due part to a lack of accs to LGBTQ+-clive curriculum and supportive school polici. A Florida state reprentative behd the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics, announced his rignatn after he was dicted on wire d, money lnrg and makg false statements charg.

A bill recently troduced Congrs that would rtrict feral fundg om anizatns, lol ernments and schools that clu LGBTQ ntent events, programs, tn and more has been dubbed a feral "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ News' Kiara Alfonse ntributed to this report. The basis for the su was that Disney's directors and officers allegedly vlated their rporate fiduciary duti by opposg Florida HB 1557 – also known as the "don't say gay" HB 1557 was first passed, Disney took no public posn on the bill.

FLORIDA LAWMAKER BEHD 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL RIGNS AFTER BEG DICTED ON D CHARG

As the Florida Senate bated the "don't say gay" bill this week, the discsn took a bizarre turn Tuday ahead of the vote as Florida state Sen. "By the way, gay is not a permanent thg, " she said.

STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS

"Many studi, however, show transgenr dividuals' mental health greatly improv after genr-affirmatn state's "don't say gay" bill passed the Florida legislature Tuday and is now head to Gov.

The “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would require the implementatn of “procr to rerce the fundamental right of parents to make cisns regardg the upbrgg and ntrol of their children, ” ban teachers om enuragg nversatns about LGBTQ+ topics the classroom that are “not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts, ” and allow parents to take legal actn agast school districts if they thk their “fundamental right” as parents has been vlated.

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RON DESANTIS SIGNALS HE’D BE OPEN TO MAKG FLORIDA AN ANTI-GAY HELLHOLETHE REPUBLIN ERNOR OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT OF WHAT’S BEEN DUBBED THE  “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS.BY BS LEVFEBARY 8, 2022FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS AT THE OPENG OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE AT THE HYATT REGENCY ON FEBARY 26, 2021 ORLANDO, FLORIDA. BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA FUNNY THG ABOUT REPUBLINS IS THAT SPE CLAIMG TO BE THE PARTY OF “PERSONAL EEDOM,” THE LAST YEAR ALONE, THEY HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT AMERINS OM: READG CERTA BOOKS, TEACHG ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, MAKG CISNS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODI, AND, THE SE OF SOME GROUPS, VOTG MOCRATIC ELECTNS. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LOOK AT THIS EVINCE AND NCLU THAT REPUBLINS ARE MASSIVE HYPOCR—AND THEY WOULD BE RIGHT! SO WHILE EPLY PRSG, ’S NO WAY SURPRISG THAT FLORIDA NSERVATIV WANT TO BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS, AND THAT FLORIDA’S ERNOR, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE HIS EYE ON THE WHE HOE 2024, HAS SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE IATIVE.ON MONDAY, RON DESANTIS OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT FOR THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN BILL, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE IMPLEMENTATN OF “PROCR TO RERCE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF PARENTS TO MAKE CISNS REGARDG THE UPBRGG AND NTROL OF THEIR CHILDREN,” BAN TEACHERS OM ENURAGG NVERSATNS ABOUT LGBTQ+ TOPICS THE CLASSROOM THAT ARE “NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE FOR STUNTS,” AND ALLOW PARENTS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTN AGAST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IF THEY THK THEIR “FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT” AS PARENTS HAS BEEN VLATED. ASKED ABOUT THE BILL, DESANTIS SISTED IS “ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE” FOR TEACHERS TO TALK WH STUNTS ABOUT GENR INTY, CLAIMG TO HAVE HEARD EXAMPL OF CHILDREN BEG TOLD, “DON’T WORRY, DON’T PICK YOUR GENR YET,” AND WHERE TEACHERS ARE “HIDG” LSONS OM PARENTS.“SCHOOLS NEED TO BE TEACHG KIDS TO READ, TO WRE,” DESANTIS SAID, PLETELY IGNORG THE EMOTNAL VELOPMENT THAT ALSO OCCURS DURG KIDS’ FORMATIVE YEARS. “THEY NEED TO TEACH THEM SCIENCE, HISTORY. WE NEED MORE CIVICS AND UNRSTANDG OF THE U.S. CONSTUTN, WHAT MAK OUR UNTRY UNIQUE, ALL THOSE BASIC STUFF.… THE LARGER ISSUE WH ALL OF THIS IS PARENTS MT HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE WHEN TO WHAT’S GOG ON THEIR SCHOOLS.” WHILE HE DID NOT OUTRIGHT SAY HE WOULD SIGN THE BILL TO LAW, AS NBC NEWS NOT, “ WAS THE FIRST TIME THE REPUBLIN ERNOR SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURE SCE WAS PROPOSED BY THE STATE’S HOE OF REPRENTATIV LAST MONTH.” WHICH IS CREDIBLY WORRISOME.OPPONENTS OF THE BILL—WHICH CLU THE WHE HOE—HAVE WARNED WOULD BE EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO THE MENTAL HEALTH OF LGBTQ+ TEACHERS AND STUNTS. “MAKE NO MISTAKE—THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED ACTN. ACROSS THE UNTRY, WE’RE SEEG REPUBLIN LEARS TAKE ACTNS TO REGULATE WHAT STUNTS N OR NNOT READ, WHAT THEY N OR NNOT LEARN, AND MOST TROUBLG, WHO THEY N OR NNOT BE,” A SPOKPERSON FOR THE WHE HOE SAID A STATEMENT. “THIS IS POLICS AT S WORSE, CYNILLY G OUR STUNTS AS PAWNS POLIL WARFARE.”SEIZG ON THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS” LE TROTTED OUT BY DESANTIS AND OTHER REPUBLINS, SOUTH FLORIDA RINT JENNIFER SOLOMAN, WHO HAS LGBTQ+ CHILDREN, MENTED TO NBC NEWS: “PARENTAL RIGHTS? WHOSE PARENTAL RIGHTS? ONLY PARENTAL RIGHTS IF YOU’RE RAISG A CHILD ACRDG TO DESANTIS? DESANTIS TRI TO PAT THIS PICTURE THAT EVERY FAY IS THIS 1950S MOM AND DAD WH TWO KIDS AND A T AND DOG. THAT IS NOT WHAT FLORIDA LOOKS LIKE; THAT IS NOT WHAT THE UNTRY LOOKS LIKE.” WHILE SOLOMAN TOLD NBC THAT SHE IS NOT PERSONALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE BILL ON HER CHILDREN, BEE THEY LIVE A PART OF THE STATE THAT IS “RELATIVELY ACCEPTG OF LGBTQ PEOPLE,” SHE FEARS FOR THOSE LIVG OTHER MUNI. “THERE ULD BE A FAY JT LIKE ME THAT IS GOG TO HAVE TO GO BACK THE CLOSET,” SHE SAID. “THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE TO TELL THEIR CHILD, ‘I’M SORRY, YOU N DRS THE WAY YOU WANT TO AT HOME, BUT YOU HAVE NO PROTECTNS AT SCHOOL, AND SO YOU N’T BE YOUR THENTIC SELF ALL OF THE TIME.’ THAT’S VERY DAMAGG TO A CHILD.”IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE LEV REPORT YOUR BOX DAILY, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.WANT TO HEAR THE 10 SRIT WORDS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?OKAY, THEY ARE: “THE BABYSTER NCELED, BUT STEPHEN MILLER IS WATCHG OUR KIDS.” THE NEXT 10 SRIT? “PETER THIEL TO LEAVE META BOARD TO PURSUE TMP AGENDA.” PER BLOOMBERG:PETER THIEL, THE TECH VTOR AND NSERVATIVE PROVOTR WHO HAS ADVISED MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR NEARLY TWO S AT FACEBOOK PARENT META PLATFORMS INC., WILL STEP DOWN OM THE PANY’S BOARD AFTER META’S ANNUAL SHAREHOLR MEETG MAY. THIEL, 54, WHO BEME A DIRECTOR 2005 AFTER AN EARLY VTMENT FACEBOOK, PLANS TO CREASE HIS POLIL SUPPORT OF FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP’S AGENDA DURG THE 2022 ELECTN AND DON’T WANT HIS POLIL ACTIVI TO BE A DISTRACTN FOR FACEBOOK, ACRDG TO A PERSON CLOSE TO THIEL. THIEL HELPED ELECT TMP PRINT 2016 BY DONATG MONEY AND SPEAKG ON HIS BEHALF AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN. WHEN TMP BEME PRINT, THIEL WORKED ON HIS TRANSN TEAM WHILE NOMATG LLEAGU TO FILL ERNMENT POSNS…. THIEL HAS NTUED TO SUPPORT TMP WHILE MEETG WH MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY AND MEMBERS OF THE FAR-RIGHT RECENT YEARS.MOST POPULARGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMEGHAN MARKLE WILL BE JOG PRCE HARRY GERMANY FOR THE INVICT GAMBY ER VANRHOOFNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYTHIEL APPARENTLY MIXED TWO PASSNS BY ADVISG ZUCKERBERG “ON POLIL ISSU,” WHICH REPORTEDLY CLUD “ENURAGG THE CEO NOT TO FACT-CHECK POLIL ADVERTISEMENTS THE N-UP TO THE 2020 PRINTIAL ELECTN, A MOVE THAT MANY BELIEVE BENEFED TMP,” BLOOMBERG NOTED. WHILE MANY FACEBOOK EMPLOYE WERE EPLY UNHAPPY ABOUT THIEL’S 2016 SUPPORT OF TMP, ZUCKERBERG FEND HIS LONGTIME PAL, SAYG AN TERNAL MSAGE: “WE N’T CREATE A CULTURE THAT SAYS R ABOUT DIVERSY AND THEN EXCLUS ALMOST HALF THE UNTRY BEE THEY BACK A POLIL NDIDATE.“ AND NOW, HERE WE ARE!NOTHG TO SEE HERE, JT THE SUPREME COURT’S ULTRANSERVATIV DOG THEIR PART TO ANNIHILATE VOTG RIGHTSBY 2024, THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY’LL LET VOTE WILL BE HALF A DOZEN WHE GUYS WHO TRAVEL TO MCH MCCONNELL’S OFFICE AND SIGN A NTRACT PLEDGG TO VOTE FOR REPUBLINS. PER NBC NEWS:IN A 5–4 VOTE, THE SUPREME COURT CLEARED THE WAY MONDAY FOR ALABAMA TO E S NEW NGRSNAL DISTRICT MAP EVEN THOUGH A LOWER URT SAID  VLATED THE VOTG RIGHTS ACT BY NYG BLACK VOTERS A NEW DISTRICT. THE URT GRANTED A REQUT OM ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO PUT A HOLD ON THE LOWER URT LG. THE SE—THE FIRST TO REACH THE SUPREME COURT VOLVG THE REDRAWG OF POLIL BOUNDARI WH 2020 CENS RULTS—ULD AFFECT REDISTRICTG  OTHER STAT THAT GAED MORY POPULATNS. THE SUPREME COURT ALSO SAID WOULD HEAR ALABAMA’S CHALLENGE TO THE LOWER URT LG THAT CLARED THE MAPS VOID. THAT APPEAL IS NOT LIKELY TO BE HEARD UNTIL THE URT’S NEW TERM BEGS THE FALL. AS A PRACTIL MATTER, THE URT’S ACTN ALLOWS ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO E THEIR MAP FOR THIS YEAR’S ELECTNS.AS SLATE’S MARK JOSEPH STERN NOT, YOU N TELL THE LG IS REALLY, REALLY BAD BY THE FACT THAT CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS, “AN ARCHECT OF THE JUDICIAL ATTACK ON VOTG RIGHTS,” CHOSE TO DISSENT ALONG WH THE URT’S THREE LIBERALS, WHICH WAS SADLY NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THE FIVE OTHER JTIC OM UPHOLDG ALABAMA’S “EGREG RACIAL GERRYMANR.” AS STERN WR:OVER THE LAST , THE SUPREME COURT HAS BULLDOZED SEVERAL KEY PROVISNS OF THE VRA. BUT UNTIL NOW, HAD NOT YET REPEALED THE LAW’S PROTECTNS AGAST THE DILUTN OF VOT ST BY RACIAL MORI. THIS SHIELD, NTAED SECTN 2 AND CLARIFIED BY 1986’S THORNBURG V. GGL, REQUIR A THREE-JUDGE DISTRICT URT TO TERME WHETHER A REDISTRICTG PLAN RV UP MORY MUNI TO PREVENT THEM OM ELECTG THE NDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE. ALTHOUGH THE GGL TT N BE DIFFICULT TO APPLY, THE RELEVANT FACTORS HERE ARE STRAIGHTFORWARD: DUE TO RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTG THE STATE, BLACK ALABAMIANS NNOT ELECT THEIR PREFERRED REPRENTATIV UNLS THEY NSTUTE A MAJORY OF THEIR DISTRICT. ALABAMA REPUBLINS UNRSTAND THIS FACT, AND IS WHY THEIR NEW NGRSNAL MAP THLSLY DILUT BLACK VOT. THE PLAN PACKS A HUGE NUMBER OF BLACK VOTERS TO A SGLE, SPRAWLG DISTRICT THAT STRETCH OM BIRMGHAM TO MONTGOMERY, CLUDG AS MANY NONWHE RINTS AS POSSIBLE. THE FEW REMAG VOTERS OF LOR ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SIX MAJORY-WHE DISTRICTS, WHERE THEY STAND NO CHANCE OF ELECTG THEIR FAVORED NDIDATE. AS A RULT, WHILE BLACK AMERINS MAKE UP 27% OF THE STATE’S POPULATN, THEY NTROL JT 14% OF S NGRSNAL LEGATN.MOST POPULARGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMEGHAN MARKLE WILL BE JOG PRCE HARRY GERMANY FOR THE INVICT GAMBY ER VANRHOOFNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYIF THAT STRIK YOU AS WILDLY MSED UP AND HUGELY EGREG, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. IN HIS DISSENT, ROBERTS WROTE THAT THE LOWER URT, WHICH LLED BULLSH ON THE NEW MAP, HAD “PROPERLY APPLIED EXISTG LAW AN EXTENSIVE OPN WH NO APPARENT ERRORS FOR OUR RRECTN,” WHILE JTICE ELENA KAGAN HAD THIS TO SAY: “TODAY’S CISN IS ONE MORE A DISNCERTGLY LONG LE OF S WHICH THIS COURT S SHADOW DOCKET TO SIGNAL OR MAKE CHANG THE LAW, WHOUT ANYTHG APPROACHG FULL BRIEFG AND ARGUMENT.… [THIS] DO A DISSERVICE TO THE DISTRICT COURT, WHICH METICULOLY APPLIED THIS COURT’S LONGSTANDG VOTG-RIGHTS PRECENT. AND MOST OF ALL, DO A DISSERVICE TO BLACK ALABAMIANS WHO UNR THAT PRECENT HAVE HAD THEIR ELECTORAL POWER DIMISHED— VLATN OF A LAW THIS COURT ONCE KNEW TO BUTTRS ALL OF AMERIN MOCRACY.”KEV MCCARTHY WOULD RATHER NOT DISCS HIS PARTY’S REBRAND OF JANUARY 6 AS A BETIFUL DAY HISTORY THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED EVERY YEAR WH PARTY HATS AND RG DGSTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!FBI ARRTS TMP SUPPORTER WHO STORMED CAPOL WHILE ON BAIL FOR ATTEMPTED MURR (NBC NEWS)EUROPE RAMPS UP UKRAE DIPLOMACY AMID “EXTREME TENSN” (WASHGTON POST)AS PELOTON FIR OVER 2,800 EMPLOYE, ’S GIVG THEM A EE ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTN ON THE WAY OUT (INSIR)HOW JOE MANCH ED POLICS TO PROTECT HIS FAY AL PANY (POLI)TOP WHE HOE SCIENTIST RIGNS AFTER REVIEW FDS HE MEANED STAFF (WASHGTON POST)GOLDMAN SACHS’S WORK-FROM-OFFICE POLICY IS THE ABERRATN NOW (BLOOMBERG)FEDS ARRT MARRIED UPLE, SEIZE $3.6 BILLN HACKED B FUNDS (WASHGTON POST)FLORIDA HOME TO BE SOLD NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AL (AP)NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT MAFIA ACUNTANTS ARE REALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS (BOG BOG)ZOO HIR MARV GAYE IMPERSONATOR TO GET MONKEYS THE MOOD (UPI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI JERRY FALWELL JR.’S UNLIKELY RISE AND PRECIPO FALL AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY— ERIC ADAMS PULLS CRYPTO-PAYCHECK STUNT HOURS BEFORE B CRASH— DAVE CHAPPELLE AND “THE BLACK ASS LIE” THAT KEEPS US DOWN— TMP’S JANUARY 6 COVER-UP IS UNRAVELG FAST— FLORIDA MAN HAS GROWG GOD COMPLEX— IN 2024, MIKE PENCE IS GEARG UP TO GO ROGUE— NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL TO TMP, IVANKA, AND DON JR.: DON’T F--K WH US— INSI THIS CABLE NEWS GIANT’S STREAMG DREAMS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: IT CAME FROM WASILLA— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.BS LEV

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FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS HAS SIGNED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Crics ll the, quote, "Don't Say Gay" bill. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)WANDA SYKES: For you people Florida, we're gog to have a gay HALL, AMY SCHUMER AND WANDA SYKES: Gay, gay, gay, NPR's Greg Allen has ALLEN, BYLINE: Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill today before an dience of stunts and supporters at a charter school near Tampa. (APPLAUSE)ALLEN: DeSantis and other supporters of the new law say the label don't say gay is liberately misleadg.

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THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

Alarmgly rtrictive laws ntue to proliferate across much of the Raedle / GettyThe red-state drive to roll back civil rights is enterg a new phase, perhaps bt symbolized by Florida’s passage this week of the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill censorg how schools discs sexual orientatn. The refal of the Walt Disney Company, one of Florida’s most powerful employers, to publicly cricize Florida’s “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill as moved through the legislature has quickly e to symbolize a retreat om the loud public opposn that many pani exprsed to earlier state iativ rtrictg civil liberti, such as the “bathroom bill” North Carola Republins approved the broad range of socially nservative iativ that Florida’s Republin ernor, Ron DeSantis, and the GOP state legislature have advanced sce 2021, bs has been “silent, silent as fuck, they are so silent, ” says Florida Democratic State Reprentative Anna Eskamani, echog a plat I heard across several stat om Democrats and civil-rights advot this week.

This clus laws limg accs to abortn, rtrictg votg rights, banng transgenr girls om participatg high-school or llege sports, barrg transn medil treatment for transgenr mors, censorg how teachers n talk about current or historil racial and genr equi, removg licensg requirements to publicly rry firearms, creasg penalti for public protters, and immunizg drivers who h and jure Watch what’s happeng red statFlorida alone has passed almost every em on that list, and this week add the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill rtrictg classroom discsn of sexual orientatn. ” Although many big rporatns touted their mment to Black History Month Febary, he not, they “are not willg to put their hand on the sle to stop the removal of Mart Luther Kg and Rosa Parks om our public schools” or to stand up unequivolly for votg rporate rponse was even more muted to the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” legislatn Florida passed Tuday. Disney’s reticence on the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill ntrasted wh s activist role agast other nservative legislatn unr s former chairman and CEO Robert Iger.

”Bin also tweeted stern opposn to Florida’s “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill, and when passed on Tuday, Edutn Secretary Miguel Cardona issued a stronger statement of nmnatn than he’s offered on any of the earlier state-level bills targetg curriculum.