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• FLORIDA LGBTQ GROUP CANCELS PRI PARA THANKS TO ANTI-DRAG BILLFLORIDA’S DRAG BAN HASN’T BEEN SIGNED TO LAW YET, BUT ’S ALREADY HAVG THE TEND EFFECT.GIORGIO VIERA/AFP/GETTY IMAGPEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL SEPTEMBER 2021.FLORIDA’S DRAG BAN HAS NOT YET BEEN SIGNED TO LAW, AND YET IS ALREADY STOPPG PRI CELEBRATNS THE STATE.THE MEASURE PASSED THE STATE HOE OF REPRENTATIV WEDNDAY BY A VOTE OF 82–32 AND IS NOW HEAD TO THE SK OF GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS. IF HE SIGNS TO LAW, THE MEASURE WOULD PROHIB ERNMENT ENTI AND EMPLOYE OM ISSUG PERMS TO ANIZATNS THAT MAY HOLD “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANC” THE PRENCE OF MORS. IT WOULD ALSO BAN BS OM ALLOWG MORS TO ATTEND SUCH PERFORMANC.THE PRI ALLIANCE OF THE TREASURE COAST, WHICH VERS SEVERAL UNTI SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA, ANNOUNCED SOME DRAMATIC CHANG LATE WEDNDAY TO S PRI CELEBRATNS LIGHT OF THE LEGISLATN.“AS ALL OF YOU KNOW, THE POLIL CLIMATE THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY HAS ALL VERY NCERNED FOR OUR MUNY. AFTER MULTIPLE MEETGS WH CY OFFICIALS, IS WH A HEAVY HEART THAT PRI ALLIANCE OF THE TREASURE COAST HAS TO ANNOUNCE THAT THIS WEEKEND’S PRIFT WILL NOW BE A 21 AND OLR EVENT,” THE GROUP SAID ON FACEBOOK.“WE ALSO REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL HAVE TO NCEL OUR PLANS TO BRG BACK OUR BELOVED PARA.”“THIS IS THE LAW WORKG AS TEND: FORCG QUEER PEOPLE BACK TO THE CLOSET,” TWEETED NEW YORK TIM LUMNIST LYDIA POLGREEN.FLORIDA IS THE LATT STATE TO ADVANCE A (VAGUELY WORD, EXTREME) MEASURE ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMANC, WHICH HAVE BEE A PARTICULAR TARGET FOR THE RIGHT WG RECENT YEARS. IT IS LIKELY TO BEE THE SEND STATE TO PASS A LAW, AFTER TENNSEE MARCH. THE TENNSEE LAW WAS BLOCKED BY A JUDGE BEFORE ULD GO TO EFFECT ON THE GROUNDS THAT WAS OVERLY BROAD AND VLATED EE SPEECH RIGHTS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE (REPUBLIN) PARTY’S OVERMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 20, 2023/3:32 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYCOP CY PROTTER WAS SHOT 57 TIM; HAD NO GUNPOWR RIDUE ON HANDSTHE POLICE NARRATIVE ON THE MURR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST KNOWN AS “TORTUGUA” IS QUICKLY FALLG APART.ANDREW LICHTENSTE/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGA VIGIL BY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS A PRERVED FORT ATLANTA THAT IS SCHLED TO BE VELOPED AS A POLICE TRAG CENTERTHE POLICE DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE BEEN PROVOKED WHEN THEY SHOT AND KILLED MANUEL ESTEBAN PAEZ TERAN.AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT THE EVINCE NTU TO DITE. IN JANUARY, THE 26-YEAR-OLD FORT FENR KNOWN AS “TORTUGUA” WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY POLICE AS THEY WERE PROTTG THE NSTCTN OF A $90 LN POLICE TRAG FACILY ATLANTA, GEIA.NEW TOPSY RULTS OM DEKALB COUNTY REVEAL THAT TERAN HAD NO GUNPOWR RIDUE ON THEIR HANDS, NTRARY TO POLICE REPORTS THAT SAID TERAN HAD SHOT FIRST AT A STATE TROOPER, PROVOKG OFFICERS TO RPOND WH GUNFIRE.EVEN MORE APPALLG, TERAN SUFFERED AT LEAST 57 GUNSHOT WOUNDS, OM HEAD TO TOE. OFFICERS SHOT AT LEAST 57 BULLETS TO A PERSON WHO WAS PROTTG THE NSTCTN OF A ARIZED POLICE FACILY AND FENDG A FORT. FIFTY-SEVEN. IF THERE WAS A POT TO BE MA ABOUT OUR OVERFLATED POLICE BUDGETS, THE POLICE MA THEMSELV.TERAN’S FAY REPORTEDLY NDUCTED AN PENNT TOPSY THAT FOUND TERAN’S HANDS WERE RAISED DURG THE SHOOTG; THE DEKALB COUNTY TOPSY ULD NOT FELY E TO A NCLN ON THAT FACT.CONVENIENTLY, THERE IS NO BODY MERA FOOTAGE OF THE EVENT, ACRDG TO THE GEIA BURE OF INVTIGATN.THE REVELATNS FOLLOW AN ONGOG DISPLAY OF PROOF FOR WHY RINTS MIGHT BE SKEPTIL OF GIVG THE POLICE MORE AND MORE MONEY. IN MARCH, AT LEAST 35 PEOPLE WERE DISCRIMATELY TAED AT A MIC FTIVAL ANIZED BY COP CY PROTTERS. TWENTY-THREE WERE CHARGED WH DOMTIC TERRORISM.THOSE ARRTED WERE ACCED OF PARTICIPATG VANDALISM AND ARSON AT A NSTCTN SE OVER A E AWAY OM WHERE THE MIC FTIVAL WAS HELD. THERE WAS NO SUBSTANTIAL PROOF THAT ANY WERE VOLVED ILLEGAL ACTIVY; SOME PEOPLE WERE OUTRIGHT NIED BOND ON THE GROUNDS OF “EVINCE” LIKE WEARG BLACK OR HAVG MUD ON THEIR SHO (THEY WERE ALL A FORT, WHERE HAD JT RAED).WHILE THE POLICE NTUE TO PROVE WHY THEY WARRANT MORE SCTY AND LS LEEWAY, THEIR BEHAVR HAS YET TO CHANGE; IS UNCLEAR HOW MUCH MORE DAMAGE THEY WILL NEED TO E TO SPIRE ENOUGH CHANGE TO STOP THEM OM G SUCH DAMAGE AT ALL.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE ATLANTA POLICE SHOOTG IS A WARNG SIGN FOR THE SAFETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTSMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 20, 2023/3:03 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTAXPAYERS ARE SUBSIDIZG FOX’S ELECTN LI AND VLENT RADILIZATNFOX IS GETTG A BIG TAX BREAK ON S SETTLEMENT WH DOMN. MEANWHILE, NTU RADILIZG S VIEWERS, LIKE THE PERSON CHARGED WH SHOOTG RALPH YARL.SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGIT TURNS OUT THAT EVERY PERSON WHO PAYS TAX IS ALSO PAYG FOR FOX TO FURTHER RADILIZE THEIR NEIGHBORS.ON TUDAY, DOMN VOTG SYSTEMS CID TO SETTLE WH FOX AND S BLE WORKS AFTER A MONTHS-LONG BATTLE A FAMATN LAWSU ALLEGG THAT FOX HAD KNOWGLY SPREAD LI ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTN. AND NOW, THE LEVER HAS REVEALED THAT FOX WILL GET TO OBTA A TAX BREAK AS LARGE AS $213 LN OFF THE $787.5 LN OW DOMN.“THANKS TO AN ARNE LE THE TAX , FOX N DUCT THAT SETTLEMENT PAYMENT OM S E TAX,” THE LEVER REPORTS, “BEE FERAL LAW ALLOWS TAXPAYERS TO WRE OFF MANY LEGAL STS, PROVIDG THAT THEY ARE ‘ORDARY AND NECSARY’ BS EXPENS.”THE REVELATN IS SHOCKG AT S FACE: WH A SETTLEMENT, FOX HAD WEASELED OUT OF A POTENTIALLY EPER QUIRY TO THE LI UNRGIRDG S OPERATN. AND NOW THE AMERIN TAXPAYER, WHETHER THEY WATCH FOX OR NOT, GETS TO HELP THE CROOKED PANY WA THROUGH THE STS OF S OWN ACTNS.THE REVELATN IS ALL THE MORE SHOCKG GIVEN REPORTG OM THE KANSAS CY STAR ON THE ROLE FOX PLAYED THE RADILIZATN OF THE SHOOTER OF RALPH YARL, A BLACK 16-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO WENT TO THE WRONG HOME KANSAS CY, MISSOURI, TO PICK UP HIS SIBLGS.ANDREW D. LTER, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WH SHOOTG YARL LAST WEEK, WAS APPARENTLY IMMERSED A “24-HOUR NEWS CYCLE OF FEAR AND PARANOIA,” ACRDG TO LTER’S GRANDSON. “HE’S BEE STNCHLY RIGHT-WG, FURTHER DOWN THE RIGHT-WG RABB HOLE AS FAR AS DOG THE ELECTN-NYG NSPIRACY STUFF AND COVID NSPIRACI, AND DISRMATN, FULLY BUYG TO THE FOX NEWS, OAN KD OF LE,” HIS GRANDSON, KLT LUDWIG, TOLD THE STAR. “I FEEL LIKE ’S REALLY FURTHER RADILIZED HIM A LOT OF WAYS.”AND HOW HAS FOX VERED THIS SHOOTG? MEDIA MATTERS REPORTS THAT BETWEEN THE DAY OF YARL’S SHOOTG AND TUDAY FOX HAD SPENT A WHOPPG 13 MUT VERG THE VLENT CINT. THE ONLY PRIME-TIME VERAGE, MEDIA MATTERS NOT, ME WHILE TUCKER CARLSON DOWNPLAYED THE SHOOTG AND ED TO SOMEHOW ATTACK THE BIN ADMISTRATN. THE FIGUR ARE PECIALLY RICH GIVEN FOX IS OSTENSIBLY SO “TOUGH ON CRIME”—BUT APPARENTLY NOT FOR THE VIC ACTS HELPED CE THE FIRST PLACE.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKDEMOCRATS MT BOYTT FOX NEWS. RIGHT NOW. MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 20, 2023/2:32 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYREPUBLINS REALLY WANT TO AVOID TALKG ABOUT ABORTNTOP MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY, CLUDG THE 2024 ONT-NNER, ARE SEEMGLY REVERSG URSE ON ABORTN.STT OLSON/GETTY IMAGREPUBLINS SEEM TO BE GETTG EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT ON ABORTN, AND YET SUDNLY NONE OF THE PARTY’S TOP MEMBERS WANT TO TALK ABOUT .IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS ALONE, A TEXAS JUDGE LED THAT MIFEPRISTONE, ONE OF THE MEDITNS ED TO DUCE AN ABORTN, HAD BEEN IMPROPERLY APPROVED BY THE FDA AND SHOULD BE PULLED OM THE MARKET. A CHAOTIC BATTLE OVER ACCS TO THE DG IS NOW PLAYG OUT THE URTS. MEANWHILE, UNR VER OF NIGHT, FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SIGNED A LAW BANNG ABORTN AFTER SIX WEEKS—BEFORE MOST PEOPLE KNOW THEY ARE PREGNANT.DONALD TMP, THE ONT-NNER FOR THE GOP 2024 PRINTIAL NOMATN AND THE MAN PRIMARILY RPONSIBLE FOR ROE V. WA BEG OVERTURNED, HAS NOT MENTED PUBLICLY ON ANY OF .“PRINT DONALD J. TMP BELIEV THAT THE SUPREME COURT, LED BY THE THREE JTIC WHICH HE SUPPORTED, GOT RIGHT WHEN THEY LED THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT SHOULD BE CID AT THE STATE LEVEL,” A TMP MPAIGN SPOKMAN SAID A STATEMENT TO THE WASHGTON POST.TMP HAS REPEATEDLY TOUTED HIMSELF AS “THE MOST PRO-LIFE PRINT” EVER, AND YET NOW HE’S EVADG THE ISSUE. HIS MPAIGN REFED TO ANSWER QUTNS ABOUT WHAT POLICI HE WOULD SUPPORT IF REELECTED. OTHER TOP REPUBLINS HAVE SIARLY CHANGED THEIR TUNE WHEN TO ABORTN.IN JANUARY, THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN URGED THE PARTY TO “GO ON OFFENSE” AGAST ABORTN RIGHTS AND PASS NEW RTRICTNS, CLUDG SIX-WEEK BANS. BUT NOW, RNC CHAIRWOMAN RONNA MCDANIEL HAS BEGUN TELLG NDIDAT TO BACK A 15-WEEK BAN STEAD. ACRDG TO THE POST, SHE DON’T BELIEVE THE SIX-WEEK BANS ARE POPULAR OR HELPFUL TO THE GOP (SHE’S RIGHT). AND EVEN 15-WEEK BANS ARE TRICKY: LAST YEAR, WHEN SENATOR LDSEY GRAHAM TRODUCED A FERAL 15-WEEK ABORTN BAN JT BEFORE THE MIDTERMS, MANY OF HIS LLEAGU SLAMMED THE MOVE. THE BILL NEVER MA TO THE SENATE FLOOR.AFTER THE IAL MIFEPRISTONE LG, ONLY A HANDFUL OF REPUBLINS REACTED, MOST OF WHOM GAVE MEALY-MOUTHED ANSWERS THAT SOUGHT TO FLECT ATTENTN ONTO OTHER ISSU. PRINTIAL HOPEFUL NIKKI HALEY HAS GENERALLY ADOPTED A WAFFLY STANCE SIGNED NOT TO ALIENATE ANYONE. SHE MATAS SHE IS “PRO-LIFE” BUT DON’T “JUDGE ANYONE WHO IS PRO-CHOICE.” ANOTHER NDIDATE, TIM STT, STGGLED TO FORM A HERENT SENTENCE ABOUT ABORTN RIGHTS LAST WEEK BUT ULTIMATELY SAID HE SUPPORTS A FERAL BAN ON ABORTN AFTER 20 WEEKS AND WOULD NSIR A BAN AT 15 WEEKS.SIMPLY PUT, ABORTN WS ELECTNS. EVERY TIME AN ABORTN-RELATED ISSUE HAS BEEN ON THE BALLOT, THE PEOPLE VOTE FAVOR OF PROTECTG REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, NOT TAKG THEM AWAY. REPUBLINS MT KNOW THIS, BUT THEY DON’T WANT TO ALIENATE THE ONE-THIRD OF AMERINS WHO STILL OPPOSE ABORTN RIGHTS. SO RATHER THAN ADDRS THE ISSUE, THEY’RE BURYG THEIR HEADS THE SAND.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTIM STT’S DISASTRO ANSWER TO A SIMPLE ABORTN QUTN MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/9:58 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA REPUBLINS PASS BILL ALLOWG TRANS KIDS TO BE REMOVED FROM THEIR FAITHIS IS JT THE LATT ANTI-TRANS BILL PASSED THE STATE, BUT ’S AMONG THE MOST DANGERO.ALLISON DINNER/AFP/GETTY IMAGFLORIDA’S HOE OF REPRENTATIV PASSED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD LET THE STATE TAKE TRANSGENR MORS AWAY OM THEIR FAI IF THEY ARE RECEIVG GENR-AFFIRMG RE.THE MEASURE PASSED BY A VOTE OF 82–31. A PREV VERSN OF THE BILL PASSED THE SENATE EARLIER THIS MONTH BY A VOTE OF 27–12, AND THE AMEND VERSN NOW GO BACK TO THE OTHER CHAMBER FOR A FAL VOTE. GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS HAS PREVLY EXPRSED SUPPORT FOR THE BILL AND WILL LIKELY SIGN TO LAW IF PASS.IF BE LAW, THE BILL WILL ALLOW THE STATE TO TAKE CTODY OF A CHILD IF THEY HAVE BEEN “SUBJECTED TO OR [ARE] THREATENED WH BEG SUBJECTED TO” GENR-AFFIRMG RE, WHICH CLUS PUBERTY BLOCKERS AND HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY. FLORIDA URTS ULD MODIFY CTODY AGREEMENTS OM A DIFFERENT STATE IF THE MOR IS LIKELY TO RECEIVE GENR-AFFIRMG RE THAT SEND STATE. THE TEXT REFERS TO GENR-AFFIRMG RE AS “SEX-REASSIGNMENT PRCRIPTNS OR PROCR” AND QUALIFI THIS RE AS A FORM OF “PHYSIL HARM.”MEDIL FACILI WOULD HAVE TO GIVE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH A SIGNED ATTTATN THAT THEY NEHER PROVI GENR-AFFIRMG RE TO PATIENTS NOR REFER PEOPLE TO PROVIRS THAT DO. THEIR MEDIL LICENSE RENEWAL IS NTGENT UPON SENDG THIS ATTTATN. MEDIID FUNDS ULD NOT BE ED TO PAY FOR GENR-AFFIRMG RE, EVEN THOUGH THE MAJORY OF PEOPLE DO NOT E MEDIID TO PAY FOR SUCH TREATMENTS.MORS WHO HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TRANSNG WILL BE ALLOWED TO NTUE TO DO SO, BUT THEY ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO RECEIVE RE VIA TELEHEALTH, CLUDG FOR PRCRIPTNS. THEIR DOCTORS HAVE TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE “RISKS” OF GENR-AFFIRMG RE, AND PATIENTS WILL HAVE TO SIGN AN RMED NSENT FORM, WHICH THE ACLU HAS POTED OUT OFTEN NTAS MISRMATN. DOCTORS WHO VLATE ANY OF THE NEW L ULD BE CHARGED WH A FELONY.“WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKG TO KEEP FLORIDIANS HEALTHY, SAFE, AND PROSPERO. WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TO PASS AMBIGUO BILLS AND TAKE AWAY A CHILD’S ABILY TO BE HEALTHY AND SAFE,” SAID DEMOCRAT RA HARRIS DURG THE BATE.“FLORIDA RANKS FORTIETH HEALTH RE FOR CHILDREN. YOU WANT TO PROTECT CHILDREN? … AND YET HERE WE ARE, TAKG AWAY HEALTH RE OM CHILDREN.”REPUBLINS ACROSS THE UNTRY HAVE TRODUCED BILLS TARGETG GENR-AFFIRMG RE, SISTG THAT BY DOG SO, THEY ARE PROTECTG CHILDREN. INSTEAD, LAWMAKERS ARE CRIMALIZG LGBTQ PEOPLE OF ALL AG AND PUTTG THEM AT RISK OF REAL HARM.AND FLORIDA SEEMS TO BE LEADG THE CHARGE. REPUBLINS HAVE TRODUCED BILL AFTER BILL TARGETG LGBTQ PEOPLE AND OPENLY ADMTED THEIR GOAL IS TO ERASE THE MUNY OM EXISTENCE. A LTLE MORE THAN AN HOUR EARLIER, THE HOE PASSED A BILL BANNG DRAG PERFORMANC, WHICH HEADS TO DESANTIS’S SK.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKINSI THE RIGHT’S ANTI-TRANS DOG AND PONY SHOW MOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/9:37 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYHOE GOP’S DEBT CEILG “PLAN” CALLS FOR MEDIID AND SNAP WORK REQUIREMENTS THE REPUBLIN PROPOSAL WOULD FAIL AT ADDRSG THE BT BUT WOULD SUCCEED MAKG PEOPLE’S LIV WORSE MORE WAYS THAN ONE.KENT NISHIMURA/LOS ANGEL TIM/GETTY IMAGREPUBLINS HAVE TRODUCED A BT CEILG PLAN THAT REALLY JT CREAS SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND FANCIAL STS.ON WEDNDAY, HOE SPEAKER KEV MCCARTHY REVEALED A GOP BT CEILG BILL THAT WOULD STATE WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDIID AND FOOD STAMPS, RCE FUNDG FOR THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, REPEAL GREEN ENERGY PROGRAMS, AND BLOCK PRINT BIN’S STUNT LOAN FIVENS PLAN.  THE BILL IS NOT EVEN GUARANTEED TO PASS THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED HOE AND HAS LTLE CHANCE OF PASSG THE SENATE. BUT MCCARTHY’S BILL IS LS ABOUT GETTG SOMETHG DONE THAN TRYG TO PEL DEMOCRATS TO JO REPUBLINS’ PH TO CUT SPENDG ON SERVIC SENTIAL TO HUNDREDS OF LNS OF PEOPLE THIS UNTRY.ON MEDIID, REPUBLINS WANT RECIPIENTS TO FULFILL CERTA E AND WORK THRHOLDS. IF THEY DON’T, STAT ULD KICK THEM OFF THEIR HEALTH SURANCE PLANS. A CONGRSNAL BUDGET OFFICE REPORT TIMATED THAT MEDIID WORK REQUIREMENTS WOULD E TWO LN PEOPLE TO LOSE HEALTH VERAGE.REPUBLINS ALSO WANT WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, OR SNAP. ADULTS WHOUT CHILDREN MT FULFILL WORK REQUIREMENTS UP TO THE AGE OF 56, OVERTURNG CURRENT LAW THAT HAS THE THRHOLD AT AGE 49. NOT ONLY ARE SUCH CUTS PUNIVE NATURE, BUT THEY EFFECTIVELY LEAVE PEOPLE MORE VULNERABLE TO PRERY. THE LS WE SUPPORT PEOPLE PREEMPTIVELY, THE HIGHER THE STS WILL BE IF THEY FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS. ON THE PROPOSED IRS CUTS, THE ONLY THG NSERVATIV WOULD BE “SAVG” IS BLOATED TAX EVARS. A CBO ANALYSIS FOUND THAT THE IRS PROGRAM WOULD FACT RCE THE FIC BY $120 BILLN OVER THE NEXT (AS , THE REPUBLIN PROPOSAL WOULD ADD TO THE FIC).THE PROPOSAL ALSO LLS TO REPEAL NUMERO GREEN-RELATED PROVISNS OF THE INFLATN RCTN ACT, LIKE TAX CREDS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICL. AND AS WE HAVE SEEN, THE MORE SLOWLY WE TRANSN OM FOSSIL FUELS TO A GREENER ENOMY, THE MORE CLIMATE DISASTER WE WILL FACE AND, NSEQUENTLY, THE MORE ASTRONOMIL THE HUMAN AND FANCIAL ST WILL BE. THE NSERVATIVE SISTENCE ON APPEASG THE FOSSIL FUEL DTRY AND OBSTCTG CLIMATE-IENDLY SOLUTNS IS NOT ONLY EPLY CROOKED BUT FISLLY IRRPONSIBLE.SUCH A DYNAMIC IS JT AS PRSG WHEN NSIRG THAT THE BILL BLOCKS BIN’S PLAN TO RELIEVE 43 LN PEOPLE OM CRIPPLG STUNT BT. THE ARE LNS OF WORKG PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYG THEIR BT TO BLOOM AND LIVE MORE WHOLE AND PRODUCTIVE LIV BUT ARE HRED BY THE BURN OF SUCH SOULLS BT. IN THE SHORT TERM, REPUBLINS MAY AME THEIR IAS AS ST-SAVG, BUT REALY, SUCH MEASUR WILL CREASE MEDIUM- AND LONG-TERM STS ON SOCIETY.ALL THIS TO SAY, THE GOP PROPOSAL IS UNSER ON A FEW UNTS. FOR ONE, IS SELF-EVINTLY NOT NCERNED WH G TO UN; THE PRIMARY NSERVATIVE GOAL IS TO EGG BIN AND DEMOCRATS ON TO SUPPORT CUTS, LT THE ERNMENT FLT. BUT MOREOVER, THE BILL IS NOT ABOUT “SAVG” AT ALL; ENURAG MONEY TO BE STOLEN OM THE ERNMENT BY TAX-EVADG EL WHO FLOUT THE IRS, PROMOT FISL IRRPONSIBILY BY WAY OF ENURAGG WASTEFUL AND TOXIC FOSSIL FUEL RELIANCE, AND FURTHER WEL FUTURE SOCIAL AND ENOMIC STS BY WAYS OF LEAVG—AND PRSG—A BOOT ON LNS OF PEOPLE. SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKWE CAN HAVE IT ALL: SHORTER COMMUT, LS TRAFFIC. WHY AREN’T WE DOG IT?MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/7:18 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA PASS ANTI-DRAG BAN SO EXTREME IT COULD BAN ALL PRI PARASTHE BILL IS SO VAGUELY WORD THAT PRI ANIZERS ARE ALREADY WORRIED ABOUT CELEBRATNS THIS YEAR.SEAN DRAK/GETTY IMAGCELEBRATED DRAG PERSONALY AND PALACE AMBASSADOR TIFFANY FANTASIA -HOSTS THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MIAMI BEACH PRI PARA, WEARG A CTOM DRS THAT CLAR “DRAG IS NOT A CRIME,” ON APRIL 16.FLORIDA PASSED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT ULD STOP ALL PRI PARAS AND FTIVALS THE STATE.THE MEASURE PASSED THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV BY A VOTE OF 82–32 AND IS NOW HEAD TO THE SK OF GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHO IS EXPECTED TO SIGN TO LAW. THE BILL PASSED THE SENATE LAST WEEK BY A VOTE OF 28–12.IF BE LAW, THE MEASURE WOULD PROHIB ERNMENT ENTI AND EMPLOYE OM ISSUG PERMS TO ANIZATNS THAT MAY HOLD “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANC” THE PRENCE OF MORS. ANYONE THAT DO N BE CHARGED WH A MISMEANOR.THE MEASURE WOULD ALSO BAN BS OM ALLOWG MORS TO ATTEND AN “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANCE,” WHICH IS FED AS A SHOW PERFORMED ONT OF A LIVE DIENCE THAT “PICTS OR SIMULAT NUDY, SEXUAL NDUCT, SEXUAL EXCEMENT, OR SPECIFIC SEXUAL ACTIVI … LEWD NDUCT, OR THE LEWD EXPOSURE OF PROSTHETIC OR IMATN GENALS OR BREASTS.” ANY BS THAT BREAKS THIS LAW WILL FACE A FE OF UP TO $10,000 AND ULD LOSE S LICENSE.“THIS BILL IS A BLATANT ATTACK ON EE EXPRSN, PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND CHOICE,” SAID DEMOCRATIC REPRENTATIVE LAVON BRACY DAVIS. “WHAT ARE YOU AAID OF? WHAT IS ABOUT DRAG QUEENS THAT TERRIFY YOU? PRAY TELL, WHY ARE WE CENSORG ARTISTIC EXPRSN?”“I KNOW THIS CHAMBER HAS SHOWN QUE THE NCERN FOR IMPERSONATN. WELL RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IMPERSONATG MOCRACY.”DEMOCRAT FENTRICE DRISKELL POTED OUT THAT FLORIDA ALREADY HAS LAWS PLACE TO PROTECT CHILDREN OM BEG EXPOSED TO OBSCENE NTENT, THE MA ARGUMENT OM THE BILL’S BACKERS. “EVEN THOUGH THE PLA TEXT OF THE BILL MAY NOT SAY ‘DRAG’ ... THERE’S A GREATER NTEXT HAPPENG HERE, AND WE ALL KNOW ,” SHE SAID.HER LLEAGUE DARYL CAMPBELL WARNED THAT REPUBLINS MAY CURRENTLY BE TARGETG THE LGBTQ MUNY. BUT “FOR THOSE WATCHG, THEY WILL E AFTER YOU WHEN ’S THEIR TERT.”IF DESANTIS SIGNS THE BILL TO LAW, WILL GO TO EFFECT IMMEDIATELY, A LTLE MORE THAN A MONTH BEFORE PRI MONTH BEGS JUNE. FTIVALS SUCH AS ST. PETE PRI ST. PETERSBURG, THE STATE’S LARGT PRI CELEBRATN, ULD LOSE THEIR PERMS.THE MEASURE IS SO VAGUELY WORD THAT PRI ANIZERS THE STATE HAVE ALREADY EXPRSED NCERN. “WE DO BELIEVE THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE LAST PRI AS YOU KNOW ,” PATRICK GEVAS, ONE OF THE ANIZERS OF MIAMI BEACH PRI, TOLD NBC 6.CRICS HAVE SLAMMED THE BILL AS BEG OVERLY BROAD, WHICH ULD HAVE UNTEND NSEQUENC. REPUBLINS BACKG HAVE ADMTED THAT THE MEASURE WOULD PREVENT PERFORMANC OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW AND THE MIL HAIR.BUT THE MEASURE WILL ALSO HAVE AN TEND NSEQUENCE: “ERASG” LGBTQ PEOPLE OM EXISTENCE. FLORIDA REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE RANDY FE SAID LAST WEEK THAT IF PASSG THE BILL “MEANS ERASG A MUNY BEE YOU HAVE TO TARGET CHILDREN, THEN, DAMN RIGHT, WE OUGHT TO DO !”THE ACLU SLAMMED THE BILL WHEN FIRST PASSED THE SENATE AS “AN EXTREME ERNMENTAL OVERREACH OF POWER.” “THIS IS NOT MOCRACY. THIS IS NOT EEDOM,” THE GROUP SAID A STATEMENT.FLORIDA IS THE LATT STATE TO ADVANCE A (VAGUELY WORD, EXTREME) MEASURE ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMANC, WHICH HAVE BEE A PARTICULAR TARGET FOR THE RIGHT WG RECENT YEARS. IN MARCH, TENNSEE BEME THE FIRST STATE TO PASS A LAW BANNG DRAG PERFORMANC, BUT THE MEASURE WAS BLOCKED BY A JUDGE BEFORE ULD GO TO EFFECT ON THE GROUNDS THAT WAS OVERLY BROAD AND VLATED EE SPEECH RIGHTS.DESANTIS HAS ALSO SET HIS SIGHTS ON DRAG PERFORMANC, REVOKG THE LIQUOR LICENS FOR MULTIPLE BS THAT HAVE HOSTED DRAG SHOWS—EVEN THOUGH UNRVER AGENTS SENT TO ONE SHOW “DID NOT WNS ANY LEWD ACTS.”SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKREPUBLINS LOSE ANOTHER ANTI-TRANS SMEAR CAMPAIGNMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/6:38 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTHE LATT WRKLE REPUBLINS’ QUT TO BAN THE ABORTN PILLA NEW LAWSU AGAST THE FDA SEEKS TO PRERVE ACCS TO THE PILL, REGARDLS OF WHAT THE LOWER URTS HAVE SAID.PROBAL RASHID/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGTHE MAKER OF THE GENERIC VERSN OF THE ABORTN PILL MIFEPRISTONE SUED THE FOOD AND DG ADMISTRATN ON WEDNDAY AN EFFORT TO KEEP THE DG ACCSIBLE NATNWI.A PLITED LEGAL BATTLE OVER MIFEPRISTONE IS PLAYG OUT THE U.S. JUDICIAL SYSTEM. A TEXAS FERAL JUDGE LED TWO WEEKS AGO THAT THE DG, ONE OF THE MEDITNS ED TO DUCE AN ABORTN, HAD BEEN IMPROPERLY APPROVED BY THE FDA AND SHOULD BE YANKED OM THE U.S. MARKET. THE DEPARTMENT OF JTICE APPEALED THE CISN, FIRST TO THE FIFTH CIRCU COURT, WHICH ONLY PARTIALLY STAYED THE LG. THE JTICE DEPARTMENT THEN APPEALED THE SE TO THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH ISSUED A TEMPORARY ADMISTRATIVE STAY.THE FIFTH CIRCU’S LG, IF UPHELD, WILL JUDICIALLY NULLIFY THE ABBREVIATED NEW DG APPLITN, OR ANDA, FOR THE PILLS MA BY GENBPRO, WHICH THE FDA APPROVED 2019. GENBPRO SAYS S PILLS ARE ED ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THE 500,000 MEDITN ABORTNS THAT HAPPEN THE UNED STAT EACH YEAR.GENBPRO SUED THE FDA FOR DITG URT FILGS THAT IF THE SUPREME COURT DO NOT TERVENE, THEN THE AGENCY WILL ABI BY THE LOWER LGS AND PULL GENBPRO’S DG OM THE MARKET. THE PANY ARGUED THAT DOG SO WOULD VLATE LAWS ABOUT THE PROCS FOR WHDRAWG A DG’S APPROVAL.“IN ADDN TO THE SEVERE HARM TO GENBPRO’S MERCIAL VIABILY OM SPENSN OF S ANDA, TASTROPHIC HARM ALSO RULTS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, CLUDG DOCTORS AND PATIENTS, WHO HAVE VELOPED EXTENSIVE RELIANCE TERTS THE APPROVAL AND AVAILABILY OF GENBPRO’S MIFEPRISTONE,” THE PANY SAID THE LAWSU.GENBPRO ALSO SAID THAT HAS REPEATEDLY ASKED THE FDA FOR ASSURANC THAT S APPROVAL STAT WILL BE PROTECTED, BUT THE FDA HAS NOT RPOND. “BEE OF THE FDA CISN AND THE ENFORCEMENT THREAT AND UNCERTATY HAS CREATED, GENBPRO IS SUFFERG IRREPARABLE FANCIAL AND REPUTATNAL HARM, SEVERELY THREATENG S RE BS MOL AND MERCIAL VIABILY,” GENBPRO SAID.THE GENBPRO LAWSU IS AN ATTEMPT TO KEEP MIFEPRISTONE AVAILABLE, REGARDLS OF WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT CIS TO STAY OR UPHOLD THE LOWER URT LGS. THE NATN’S HIGH URT IS EXPECTED TO ISSUE A CISN WEDNDAY.MEDITN ABORTNS MAKE UP MORE THAN HALF OF ALL ABORTNS PERFORMED THE UNED STAT. THE DGS N BE ORRED ONLE AND LIVERED VIA MAIL, MAKG THEM A KEY ROURCE FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE STAT THAT HAVE CRACKED DOWN ON ABORTN ACCS SCE ROE V. WA WAS OVERTURNED LAST SUMMER.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKCONSERVATIV ARE TURNG TO A 150-YEAR-OLD OBSCENY LAW TO OUTLAW ABORTNMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/6:32 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYELISE STEFANIK LIK TO TALK ABOUT CRIME UNTIL IT HAPPENS HER OWN DISTRICTA 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED AFTER HER IEND TURNED TO THE WRONG DRIVEWAY. THAT WAS REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK’S DISTRICT.ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGON SATURDAY NIGHT, A GROUP OF IENDS HAD DRIVEN UP THE WRONG DRIVEWAY AS THEY WERE SEARCHG FOR ANOTHER IEND’S HOE. AND AS THEY TURNED THEIR VEHICL AROUND, THE OWNER OF THE HOME SHOT AT THEM.THE 65-YEAR-OLD HOMEOWNER, KEV MONAHAN, FIRED TWO SHOTS AND KILLED 20-YEAR-OLD KAYL GILLIS, THORI SAID—FOR THE SIMPLE OFFENSE OF BEG THE PASSENGER SEAT OF A VEHICLE THAT PULLED TO A WRONG DRIVEWAY BEFORE PROMPTLY TURNG AROUND. THE VLENT SHOOTG OCCURRED UPSTATE NEW YORK, THE DISTRICT REPRENTED BY REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK.ON TUDAY, STEFANIK TWEETED A NOT-APP-STYLE STATEMENT THAT HER “HEART BREAKS FOR THE TRAGEDY OF THE LOSS OF KAYL GILLIS’ YOUNG LIFE” AND THAT SHE FULLY SUPPORTS EFFORTS “TO ENSURE JTICE IS SERVED.” BUT WH THE HOUR, STEFANIK WENT BACK TO HER REGULARLY SCHLED PROGRAMMG OF WHIPPG UP OUTRAGE ABOUT CRIME NEW YORK CY.STEFANIK HAS SPENT MUCH OF HER REER FEARMONGERG ABOUT CRIME, ALL THE MORE SO AMID THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S DICTMENT OF TWICE-IMPEACHED FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP. SHE, ALONG WH OTHER REPUBLINS, HAS ATTEMPTED TO DISCRED MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALV BRAGG BY TRYG TO AME NEW YORK CY AS A BASTN OF CRIME.STEFANIK, NOT EVEN A MEMBER OF THE HOE JUDICIARY COMMTEE, WAS VED TO JO A HEARG MONDAY THAT FALSELY AMED NEW YORK AS AWASH CRIME. THE NEW YORK CY CRIME NARRATIVE IS A POPULAR ONE, BUT AS WNS THE HEARG POTED OUT, NEW YORK CY IS SAFER THAN MANY OF THE PLAC HOE REPUBLINS LEADG THE SMEAR MPAIGN E OM.THE MPAIGN HAS BEEN ALL THE MORE VACUO GIVEN THAT REPUBLINS HAVE PUT FORTH NO ACTUAL SOLUTNS TO CRIME THAT MAY BE TAKG PLACE, OTHER THAN BUILDG MORE JAILS AND THROWG MORE PEOPLE THEM. SELDOM HAVE THEY GENUELY PURSUED A BROAR POLICY VISN THEY PRETEND TO RE ABOUT, WHETHER BE IMPROVG PEOPLE’S MENTAL HEALTH OR BATG SOCIAL ALIENATN. MEANWHILE, STEFANIK AND OTHER REPUBLINS HAVE BLOCKED ANY ATTEMPT TO PREVENT SHOOTGS LIKE THE ONE HER DISTRICT OR KANSAS CY, MISSOURI, WHERE 16-YEAR-OLD RALPH YARL WAS SHOT AFTER ACCINTALLY RGG THE WRONG DOORBELL. AFTER THE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTG LAST MONTH, STEFANIK LLED THE MOVE FOR GUN NTROL “OVERLY POLIL.” NEVER MD THAT MORE THAN 160 MASS SHOOTGS HAVE TAKEN PLACE JT THIS YEAR AMERI.REPUBLINS HAVE MA EASIER, AGA AND AGA, TO ACCS GUNS A UNTRY RAVAGED BY MASS SHOOTGS. THEY HAVE FOMENTED SOCIAL DISTST, A SOCIETY WHERE HATE AND DIVISIVENS HAVE BEE AS AMERIN AS APPLE PIE.AND STEFANIK’S WEAK-HEARTED CHINERY, SHE EMBODI PRECISELY HOW HOLLOW ALL IS. INSTEAD OF NONTG WHY OUR SOCIETY HAS PRODUCED SUCH ANGER AND WHY THAT ANGER IS ALLOWED TO SO EASILY ACCS WEAPONS OF KILLG, STEFANIK AND REPUBLINS ARE STEAD FLAMG THAT ANGER AND MAKG SURE IS AS ARMED AS POSSIBLE.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKI CARRY A FIREARM EVERY DAY. Y, THE SEND AMENDMENT IS KILLG USMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/5:08 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA EXPANDS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL
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FLORIDA LGBTQ GROUP CANCELS PRI PARA THANKS TO ANTI-DRAG BILLFLORIDA’S DRAG BAN HASN’T BEEN SIGNED TO LAW YET, BUT ’S ALREADY HAVG THE TEND EFFECT.GIORGIO VIERA/AFP/GETTY IMAGPEOPLE PARTICIPATE THE PRI PARA DURG THE MIAMI BEACH PRI FTIVAL SEPTEMBER 2021.FLORIDA’S DRAG BAN HAS NOT YET BEEN SIGNED TO LAW, AND YET IS ALREADY STOPPG PRI CELEBRATNS THE STATE.THE MEASURE PASSED THE STATE HOE OF REPRENTATIV WEDNDAY BY A VOTE OF 82–32 AND IS NOW HEAD TO THE SK OF GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS. IF HE SIGNS TO LAW, THE MEASURE WOULD PROHIB ERNMENT ENTI AND EMPLOYE OM ISSUG PERMS TO ANIZATNS THAT MAY HOLD “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANC” THE PRENCE OF MORS. IT WOULD ALSO BAN BS OM ALLOWG MORS TO ATTEND SUCH PERFORMANC.THE PRI ALLIANCE OF THE TREASURE COAST, WHICH VERS SEVERAL UNTI SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA, ANNOUNCED SOME DRAMATIC CHANG LATE WEDNDAY TO S PRI CELEBRATNS LIGHT OF THE LEGISLATN.“AS ALL OF YOU KNOW, THE POLIL CLIMATE THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY HAS ALL VERY NCERNED FOR OUR MUNY. AFTER MULTIPLE MEETGS WH CY OFFICIALS, IS WH A HEAVY HEART THAT PRI ALLIANCE OF THE TREASURE COAST HAS TO ANNOUNCE THAT THIS WEEKEND’S PRIFT WILL NOW BE A 21 AND OLR EVENT,” THE GROUP SAID ON FACEBOOK.“WE ALSO REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL HAVE TO NCEL OUR PLANS TO BRG BACK OUR BELOVED PARA.”“THIS IS THE LAW WORKG AS TEND: FORCG QUEER PEOPLE BACK TO THE CLOSET,” TWEETED NEW YORK TIM LUMNIST LYDIA POLGREEN.FLORIDA IS THE LATT STATE TO ADVANCE A (VAGUELY WORD, EXTREME) MEASURE ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMANC, WHICH HAVE BEE A PARTICULAR TARGET FOR THE RIGHT WG RECENT YEARS. IT IS LIKELY TO BEE THE SEND STATE TO PASS A LAW, AFTER TENNSEE MARCH. THE TENNSEE LAW WAS BLOCKED BY A JUDGE BEFORE ULD GO TO EFFECT ON THE GROUNDS THAT WAS OVERLY BROAD AND VLATED EE SPEECH RIGHTS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE (REPUBLIN) PARTY’S OVERMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 20, 2023/3:32 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYCOP CY PROTTER WAS SHOT 57 TIM; HAD NO GUNPOWR RIDUE ON HANDSTHE POLICE NARRATIVE ON THE MURR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST KNOWN AS “TORTUGUA” IS QUICKLY FALLG APART.ANDREW LICHTENSTE/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGA VIGIL BY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS A PRERVED FORT ATLANTA THAT IS SCHLED TO BE VELOPED AS A POLICE TRAG CENTERTHE POLICE DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE BEEN PROVOKED WHEN THEY SHOT AND KILLED MANUEL ESTEBAN PAEZ TERAN.AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT THE EVINCE NTU TO DITE. IN JANUARY, THE 26-YEAR-OLD FORT FENR KNOWN AS “TORTUGUA” WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY POLICE AS THEY WERE PROTTG THE NSTCTN OF A $90 LN POLICE TRAG FACILY ATLANTA, GEIA.NEW TOPSY RULTS OM DEKALB COUNTY REVEAL THAT TERAN HAD NO GUNPOWR RIDUE ON THEIR HANDS, NTRARY TO POLICE REPORTS THAT SAID TERAN HAD SHOT FIRST AT A STATE TROOPER, PROVOKG OFFICERS TO RPOND WH GUNFIRE.EVEN MORE APPALLG, TERAN SUFFERED AT LEAST 57 GUNSHOT WOUNDS, OM HEAD TO TOE. OFFICERS SHOT AT LEAST 57 BULLETS TO A PERSON WHO WAS PROTTG THE NSTCTN OF A ARIZED POLICE FACILY AND FENDG A FORT. FIFTY-SEVEN. IF THERE WAS A POT TO BE MA ABOUT OUR OVERFLATED POLICE BUDGETS, THE POLICE MA THEMSELV.TERAN’S FAY REPORTEDLY NDUCTED AN PENNT TOPSY THAT FOUND TERAN’S HANDS WERE RAISED DURG THE SHOOTG; THE DEKALB COUNTY TOPSY ULD NOT FELY E TO A NCLN ON THAT FACT.CONVENIENTLY, THERE IS NO BODY MERA FOOTAGE OF THE EVENT, ACRDG TO THE GEIA BURE OF INVTIGATN.THE REVELATNS FOLLOW AN ONGOG DISPLAY OF PROOF FOR WHY RINTS MIGHT BE SKEPTIL OF GIVG THE POLICE MORE AND MORE MONEY. IN MARCH, AT LEAST 35 PEOPLE WERE DISCRIMATELY TAED AT A MIC FTIVAL ANIZED BY COP CY PROTTERS. TWENTY-THREE WERE CHARGED WH DOMTIC TERRORISM.THOSE ARRTED WERE ACCED OF PARTICIPATG VANDALISM AND ARSON AT A NSTCTN SE OVER A E AWAY OM WHERE THE MIC FTIVAL WAS HELD. THERE WAS NO SUBSTANTIAL PROOF THAT ANY WERE VOLVED ILLEGAL ACTIVY; SOME PEOPLE WERE OUTRIGHT NIED BOND ON THE GROUNDS OF “EVINCE” LIKE WEARG BLACK OR HAVG MUD ON THEIR SHO (THEY WERE ALL A FORT, WHERE HAD JT RAED).WHILE THE POLICE NTUE TO PROVE WHY THEY WARRANT MORE SCTY AND LS LEEWAY, THEIR BEHAVR HAS YET TO CHANGE; IS UNCLEAR HOW MUCH MORE DAMAGE THEY WILL NEED TO E TO SPIRE ENOUGH CHANGE TO STOP THEM OM G SUCH DAMAGE AT ALL.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE ATLANTA POLICE SHOOTG IS A WARNG SIGN FOR THE SAFETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTSMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 20, 2023/3:03 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTAXPAYERS ARE SUBSIDIZG FOX’S ELECTN LI AND VLENT RADILIZATNFOX IS GETTG A BIG TAX BREAK ON S SETTLEMENT WH DOMN. MEANWHILE, NTU RADILIZG S VIEWERS, LIKE THE PERSON CHARGED WH SHOOTG RALPH YARL.SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGIT TURNS OUT THAT EVERY PERSON WHO PAYS TAX IS ALSO PAYG FOR FOX TO FURTHER RADILIZE THEIR NEIGHBORS.ON TUDAY, DOMN VOTG SYSTEMS CID TO SETTLE WH FOX AND S BLE WORKS AFTER A MONTHS-LONG BATTLE A FAMATN LAWSU ALLEGG THAT FOX HAD KNOWGLY SPREAD LI ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTN. AND NOW, THE LEVER HAS REVEALED THAT FOX WILL GET TO OBTA A TAX BREAK AS LARGE AS $213 LN OFF THE $787.5 LN OW DOMN.“THANKS TO AN ARNE LE THE TAX , FOX N DUCT THAT SETTLEMENT PAYMENT OM S E TAX,” THE LEVER REPORTS, “BEE FERAL LAW ALLOWS TAXPAYERS TO WRE OFF MANY LEGAL STS, PROVIDG THAT THEY ARE ‘ORDARY AND NECSARY’ BS EXPENS.”THE REVELATN IS SHOCKG AT S FACE: WH A SETTLEMENT, FOX HAD WEASELED OUT OF A POTENTIALLY EPER QUIRY TO THE LI UNRGIRDG S OPERATN. AND NOW THE AMERIN TAXPAYER, WHETHER THEY WATCH FOX OR NOT, GETS TO HELP THE CROOKED PANY WA THROUGH THE STS OF S OWN ACTNS.THE REVELATN IS ALL THE MORE SHOCKG GIVEN REPORTG OM THE KANSAS CY STAR ON THE ROLE FOX PLAYED THE RADILIZATN OF THE SHOOTER OF RALPH YARL, A BLACK 16-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO WENT TO THE WRONG HOME KANSAS CY, MISSOURI, TO PICK UP HIS SIBLGS.ANDREW D. LTER, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WH SHOOTG YARL LAST WEEK, WAS APPARENTLY IMMERSED A “24-HOUR NEWS CYCLE OF FEAR AND PARANOIA,” ACRDG TO LTER’S GRANDSON. “HE’S BEE STNCHLY RIGHT-WG, FURTHER DOWN THE RIGHT-WG RABB HOLE AS FAR AS DOG THE ELECTN-NYG NSPIRACY STUFF AND COVID NSPIRACI, AND DISRMATN, FULLY BUYG TO THE FOX NEWS, OAN KD OF LE,” HIS GRANDSON, KLT LUDWIG, TOLD THE STAR. “I FEEL LIKE ’S REALLY FURTHER RADILIZED HIM A LOT OF WAYS.”AND HOW HAS FOX VERED THIS SHOOTG? MEDIA MATTERS REPORTS THAT BETWEEN THE DAY OF YARL’S SHOOTG AND TUDAY FOX HAD SPENT A WHOPPG 13 MUT VERG THE VLENT CINT. THE ONLY PRIME-TIME VERAGE, MEDIA MATTERS NOT, ME WHILE TUCKER CARLSON DOWNPLAYED THE SHOOTG AND ED TO SOMEHOW ATTACK THE BIN ADMISTRATN. THE FIGUR ARE PECIALLY RICH GIVEN FOX IS OSTENSIBLY SO “TOUGH ON CRIME”—BUT APPARENTLY NOT FOR THE VIC ACTS HELPED CE THE FIRST PLACE.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKDEMOCRATS MT BOYTT FOX NEWS. RIGHT NOW. MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 20, 2023/2:32 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYREPUBLINS REALLY WANT TO AVOID TALKG ABOUT ABORTNTOP MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY, CLUDG THE 2024 ONT-NNER, ARE SEEMGLY REVERSG URSE ON ABORTN.STT OLSON/GETTY IMAGREPUBLINS SEEM TO BE GETTG EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT ON ABORTN, AND YET SUDNLY NONE OF THE PARTY’S TOP MEMBERS WANT TO TALK ABOUT .IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS ALONE, A TEXAS JUDGE LED THAT MIFEPRISTONE, ONE OF THE MEDITNS ED TO DUCE AN ABORTN, HAD BEEN IMPROPERLY APPROVED BY THE FDA AND SHOULD BE PULLED OM THE MARKET. A CHAOTIC BATTLE OVER ACCS TO THE DG IS NOW PLAYG OUT THE URTS. MEANWHILE, UNR VER OF NIGHT, FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SIGNED A LAW BANNG ABORTN AFTER SIX WEEKS—BEFORE MOST PEOPLE KNOW THEY ARE PREGNANT.DONALD TMP, THE ONT-NNER FOR THE GOP 2024 PRINTIAL NOMATN AND THE MAN PRIMARILY RPONSIBLE FOR ROE V. WA BEG OVERTURNED, HAS NOT MENTED PUBLICLY ON ANY OF .“PRINT DONALD J. TMP BELIEV THAT THE SUPREME COURT, LED BY THE THREE JTIC WHICH HE SUPPORTED, GOT RIGHT WHEN THEY LED THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT SHOULD BE CID AT THE STATE LEVEL,” A TMP MPAIGN SPOKMAN SAID A STATEMENT TO THE WASHGTON POST.TMP HAS REPEATEDLY TOUTED HIMSELF AS “THE MOST PRO-LIFE PRINT” EVER, AND YET NOW HE’S EVADG THE ISSUE. HIS MPAIGN REFED TO ANSWER QUTNS ABOUT WHAT POLICI HE WOULD SUPPORT IF REELECTED. OTHER TOP REPUBLINS HAVE SIARLY CHANGED THEIR TUNE WHEN TO ABORTN.IN JANUARY, THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN URGED THE PARTY TO “GO ON OFFENSE” AGAST ABORTN RIGHTS AND PASS NEW RTRICTNS, CLUDG SIX-WEEK BANS. BUT NOW, RNC CHAIRWOMAN RONNA MCDANIEL HAS BEGUN TELLG NDIDAT TO BACK A 15-WEEK BAN STEAD. ACRDG TO THE POST, SHE DON’T BELIEVE THE SIX-WEEK BANS ARE POPULAR OR HELPFUL TO THE GOP (SHE’S RIGHT). AND EVEN 15-WEEK BANS ARE TRICKY: LAST YEAR, WHEN SENATOR LDSEY GRAHAM TRODUCED A FERAL 15-WEEK ABORTN BAN JT BEFORE THE MIDTERMS, MANY OF HIS LLEAGU SLAMMED THE MOVE. THE BILL NEVER MA TO THE SENATE FLOOR.AFTER THE IAL MIFEPRISTONE LG, ONLY A HANDFUL OF REPUBLINS REACTED, MOST OF WHOM GAVE MEALY-MOUTHED ANSWERS THAT SOUGHT TO FLECT ATTENTN ONTO OTHER ISSU. PRINTIAL HOPEFUL NIKKI HALEY HAS GENERALLY ADOPTED A WAFFLY STANCE SIGNED NOT TO ALIENATE ANYONE. SHE MATAS SHE IS “PRO-LIFE” BUT DON’T “JUDGE ANYONE WHO IS PRO-CHOICE.” ANOTHER NDIDATE, TIM STT, STGGLED TO FORM A HERENT SENTENCE ABOUT ABORTN RIGHTS LAST WEEK BUT ULTIMATELY SAID HE SUPPORTS A FERAL BAN ON ABORTN AFTER 20 WEEKS AND WOULD NSIR A BAN AT 15 WEEKS.SIMPLY PUT, ABORTN WS ELECTNS. EVERY TIME AN ABORTN-RELATED ISSUE HAS BEEN ON THE BALLOT, THE PEOPLE VOTE FAVOR OF PROTECTG REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, NOT TAKG THEM AWAY. REPUBLINS MT KNOW THIS, BUT THEY DON’T WANT TO ALIENATE THE ONE-THIRD OF AMERINS WHO STILL OPPOSE ABORTN RIGHTS. SO RATHER THAN ADDRS THE ISSUE, THEY’RE BURYG THEIR HEADS THE SAND.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTIM STT’S DISASTRO ANSWER TO A SIMPLE ABORTN QUTN MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/9:58 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA REPUBLINS PASS BILL ALLOWG TRANS KIDS TO BE REMOVED FROM THEIR FAITHIS IS JT THE LATT ANTI-TRANS BILL PASSED THE STATE, BUT ’S AMONG THE MOST DANGERO.ALLISON DINNER/AFP/GETTY IMAGFLORIDA’S HOE OF REPRENTATIV PASSED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT WOULD LET THE STATE TAKE TRANSGENR MORS AWAY OM THEIR FAI IF THEY ARE RECEIVG GENR-AFFIRMG RE.THE MEASURE PASSED BY A VOTE OF 82–31. A PREV VERSN OF THE BILL PASSED THE SENATE EARLIER THIS MONTH BY A VOTE OF 27–12, AND THE AMEND VERSN NOW GO BACK TO THE OTHER CHAMBER FOR A FAL VOTE. GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS HAS PREVLY EXPRSED SUPPORT FOR THE BILL AND WILL LIKELY SIGN TO LAW IF PASS.IF BE LAW, THE BILL WILL ALLOW THE STATE TO TAKE CTODY OF A CHILD IF THEY HAVE BEEN “SUBJECTED TO OR [ARE] THREATENED WH BEG SUBJECTED TO” GENR-AFFIRMG RE, WHICH CLUS PUBERTY BLOCKERS AND HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY. FLORIDA URTS ULD MODIFY CTODY AGREEMENTS OM A DIFFERENT STATE IF THE MOR IS LIKELY TO RECEIVE GENR-AFFIRMG RE THAT SEND STATE. THE TEXT REFERS TO GENR-AFFIRMG RE AS “SEX-REASSIGNMENT PRCRIPTNS OR PROCR” AND QUALIFI THIS RE AS A FORM OF “PHYSIL HARM.”MEDIL FACILI WOULD HAVE TO GIVE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH A SIGNED ATTTATN THAT THEY NEHER PROVI GENR-AFFIRMG RE TO PATIENTS NOR REFER PEOPLE TO PROVIRS THAT DO. THEIR MEDIL LICENSE RENEWAL IS NTGENT UPON SENDG THIS ATTTATN. MEDIID FUNDS ULD NOT BE ED TO PAY FOR GENR-AFFIRMG RE, EVEN THOUGH THE MAJORY OF PEOPLE DO NOT E MEDIID TO PAY FOR SUCH TREATMENTS.MORS WHO HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TRANSNG WILL BE ALLOWED TO NTUE TO DO SO, BUT THEY ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO RECEIVE RE VIA TELEHEALTH, CLUDG FOR PRCRIPTNS. THEIR DOCTORS HAVE TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE “RISKS” OF GENR-AFFIRMG RE, AND PATIENTS WILL HAVE TO SIGN AN RMED NSENT FORM, WHICH THE ACLU HAS POTED OUT OFTEN NTAS MISRMATN. DOCTORS WHO VLATE ANY OF THE NEW L ULD BE CHARGED WH A FELONY.“WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKG TO KEEP FLORIDIANS HEALTHY, SAFE, AND PROSPERO. WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TO PASS AMBIGUO BILLS AND TAKE AWAY A CHILD’S ABILY TO BE HEALTHY AND SAFE,” SAID DEMOCRAT RA HARRIS DURG THE BATE.“FLORIDA RANKS FORTIETH HEALTH RE FOR CHILDREN. YOU WANT TO PROTECT CHILDREN? … AND YET HERE WE ARE, TAKG AWAY HEALTH RE OM CHILDREN.”REPUBLINS ACROSS THE UNTRY HAVE TRODUCED BILLS TARGETG GENR-AFFIRMG RE, SISTG THAT BY DOG SO, THEY ARE PROTECTG CHILDREN. INSTEAD, LAWMAKERS ARE CRIMALIZG LGBTQ PEOPLE OF ALL AG AND PUTTG THEM AT RISK OF REAL HARM.AND FLORIDA SEEMS TO BE LEADG THE CHARGE. REPUBLINS HAVE TRODUCED BILL AFTER BILL TARGETG LGBTQ PEOPLE AND OPENLY ADMTED THEIR GOAL IS TO ERASE THE MUNY OM EXISTENCE. A LTLE MORE THAN AN HOUR EARLIER, THE HOE PASSED A BILL BANNG DRAG PERFORMANC, WHICH HEADS TO DESANTIS’S SK.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKINSI THE RIGHT’S ANTI-TRANS DOG AND PONY SHOW MOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/9:37 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYHOE GOP’S DEBT CEILG “PLAN” CALLS FOR MEDIID AND SNAP WORK REQUIREMENTS THE REPUBLIN PROPOSAL WOULD FAIL AT ADDRSG THE BT BUT WOULD SUCCEED MAKG PEOPLE’S LIV WORSE MORE WAYS THAN ONE.KENT NISHIMURA/LOS ANGEL TIM/GETTY IMAGREPUBLINS HAVE TRODUCED A BT CEILG PLAN THAT REALLY JT CREAS SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND FANCIAL STS.ON WEDNDAY, HOE SPEAKER KEV MCCARTHY REVEALED A GOP BT CEILG BILL THAT WOULD STATE WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDIID AND FOOD STAMPS, RCE FUNDG FOR THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, REPEAL GREEN ENERGY PROGRAMS, AND BLOCK PRINT BIN’S STUNT LOAN FIVENS PLAN.  THE BILL IS NOT EVEN GUARANTEED TO PASS THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED HOE AND HAS LTLE CHANCE OF PASSG THE SENATE. BUT MCCARTHY’S BILL IS LS ABOUT GETTG SOMETHG DONE THAN TRYG TO PEL DEMOCRATS TO JO REPUBLINS’ PH TO CUT SPENDG ON SERVIC SENTIAL TO HUNDREDS OF LNS OF PEOPLE THIS UNTRY.ON MEDIID, REPUBLINS WANT RECIPIENTS TO FULFILL CERTA E AND WORK THRHOLDS. IF THEY DON’T, STAT ULD KICK THEM OFF THEIR HEALTH SURANCE PLANS. A CONGRSNAL BUDGET OFFICE REPORT TIMATED THAT MEDIID WORK REQUIREMENTS WOULD E TWO LN PEOPLE TO LOSE HEALTH VERAGE.REPUBLINS ALSO WANT WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, OR SNAP. ADULTS WHOUT CHILDREN MT FULFILL WORK REQUIREMENTS UP TO THE AGE OF 56, OVERTURNG CURRENT LAW THAT HAS THE THRHOLD AT AGE 49. NOT ONLY ARE SUCH CUTS PUNIVE NATURE, BUT THEY EFFECTIVELY LEAVE PEOPLE MORE VULNERABLE TO PRERY. THE LS WE SUPPORT PEOPLE PREEMPTIVELY, THE HIGHER THE STS WILL BE IF THEY FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS. ON THE PROPOSED IRS CUTS, THE ONLY THG NSERVATIV WOULD BE “SAVG” IS BLOATED TAX EVARS. A CBO ANALYSIS FOUND THAT THE IRS PROGRAM WOULD FACT RCE THE FIC BY $120 BILLN OVER THE NEXT (AS , THE REPUBLIN PROPOSAL WOULD ADD TO THE FIC).THE PROPOSAL ALSO LLS TO REPEAL NUMERO GREEN-RELATED PROVISNS OF THE INFLATN RCTN ACT, LIKE TAX CREDS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICL. AND AS WE HAVE SEEN, THE MORE SLOWLY WE TRANSN OM FOSSIL FUELS TO A GREENER ENOMY, THE MORE CLIMATE DISASTER WE WILL FACE AND, NSEQUENTLY, THE MORE ASTRONOMIL THE HUMAN AND FANCIAL ST WILL BE. THE NSERVATIVE SISTENCE ON APPEASG THE FOSSIL FUEL DTRY AND OBSTCTG CLIMATE-IENDLY SOLUTNS IS NOT ONLY EPLY CROOKED BUT FISLLY IRRPONSIBLE.SUCH A DYNAMIC IS JT AS PRSG WHEN NSIRG THAT THE BILL BLOCKS BIN’S PLAN TO RELIEVE 43 LN PEOPLE OM CRIPPLG STUNT BT. THE ARE LNS OF WORKG PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYG THEIR BT TO BLOOM AND LIVE MORE WHOLE AND PRODUCTIVE LIV BUT ARE HRED BY THE BURN OF SUCH SOULLS BT. IN THE SHORT TERM, REPUBLINS MAY AME THEIR IAS AS ST-SAVG, BUT REALY, SUCH MEASUR WILL CREASE MEDIUM- AND LONG-TERM STS ON SOCIETY.ALL THIS TO SAY, THE GOP PROPOSAL IS UNSER ON A FEW UNTS. FOR ONE, IS SELF-EVINTLY NOT NCERNED WH G TO UN; THE PRIMARY NSERVATIVE GOAL IS TO EGG BIN AND DEMOCRATS ON TO SUPPORT CUTS, LT THE ERNMENT FLT. BUT MOREOVER, THE BILL IS NOT ABOUT “SAVG” AT ALL; ENURAG MONEY TO BE STOLEN OM THE ERNMENT BY TAX-EVADG EL WHO FLOUT THE IRS, PROMOT FISL IRRPONSIBILY BY WAY OF ENURAGG WASTEFUL AND TOXIC FOSSIL FUEL RELIANCE, AND FURTHER WEL FUTURE SOCIAL AND ENOMIC STS BY WAYS OF LEAVG—AND PRSG—A BOOT ON LNS OF PEOPLE. SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKWE CAN HAVE IT ALL: SHORTER COMMUT, LS TRAFFIC. WHY AREN’T WE DOG IT?MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/7:18 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA PASS ANTI-DRAG BAN SO EXTREME IT COULD BAN ALL PRI PARASTHE BILL IS SO VAGUELY WORD THAT PRI ANIZERS ARE ALREADY WORRIED ABOUT CELEBRATNS THIS YEAR.SEAN DRAK/GETTY IMAGCELEBRATED DRAG PERSONALY AND PALACE AMBASSADOR TIFFANY FANTASIA -HOSTS THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MIAMI BEACH PRI PARA, WEARG A CTOM DRS THAT CLAR “DRAG IS NOT A CRIME,” ON APRIL 16.FLORIDA PASSED A BILL WEDNDAY THAT ULD STOP ALL PRI PARAS AND FTIVALS THE STATE.THE MEASURE PASSED THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV BY A VOTE OF 82–32 AND IS NOW HEAD TO THE SK OF GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHO IS EXPECTED TO SIGN TO LAW. THE BILL PASSED THE SENATE LAST WEEK BY A VOTE OF 28–12.IF BE LAW, THE MEASURE WOULD PROHIB ERNMENT ENTI AND EMPLOYE OM ISSUG PERMS TO ANIZATNS THAT MAY HOLD “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANC” THE PRENCE OF MORS. ANYONE THAT DO N BE CHARGED WH A MISMEANOR.THE MEASURE WOULD ALSO BAN BS OM ALLOWG MORS TO ATTEND AN “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANCE,” WHICH IS FED AS A SHOW PERFORMED ONT OF A LIVE DIENCE THAT “PICTS OR SIMULAT NUDY, SEXUAL NDUCT, SEXUAL EXCEMENT, OR SPECIFIC SEXUAL ACTIVI … LEWD NDUCT, OR THE LEWD EXPOSURE OF PROSTHETIC OR IMATN GENALS OR BREASTS.” ANY BS THAT BREAKS THIS LAW WILL FACE A FE OF UP TO $10,000 AND ULD LOSE S LICENSE.“THIS BILL IS A BLATANT ATTACK ON EE EXPRSN, PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND CHOICE,” SAID DEMOCRATIC REPRENTATIVE LAVON BRACY DAVIS. “WHAT ARE YOU AAID OF? WHAT IS ABOUT DRAG QUEENS THAT TERRIFY YOU? PRAY TELL, WHY ARE WE CENSORG ARTISTIC EXPRSN?”“I KNOW THIS CHAMBER HAS SHOWN QUE THE NCERN FOR IMPERSONATN. WELL RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IMPERSONATG MOCRACY.”DEMOCRAT FENTRICE DRISKELL POTED OUT THAT FLORIDA ALREADY HAS LAWS PLACE TO PROTECT CHILDREN OM BEG EXPOSED TO OBSCENE NTENT, THE MA ARGUMENT OM THE BILL’S BACKERS. “EVEN THOUGH THE PLA TEXT OF THE BILL MAY NOT SAY ‘DRAG’ ... THERE’S A GREATER NTEXT HAPPENG HERE, AND WE ALL KNOW ,” SHE SAID.HER LLEAGUE DARYL CAMPBELL WARNED THAT REPUBLINS MAY CURRENTLY BE TARGETG THE LGBTQ MUNY. BUT “FOR THOSE WATCHG, THEY WILL E AFTER YOU WHEN ’S THEIR TERT.”IF DESANTIS SIGNS THE BILL TO LAW, WILL GO TO EFFECT IMMEDIATELY, A LTLE MORE THAN A MONTH BEFORE PRI MONTH BEGS JUNE. FTIVALS SUCH AS ST. PETE PRI ST. PETERSBURG, THE STATE’S LARGT PRI CELEBRATN, ULD LOSE THEIR PERMS.THE MEASURE IS SO VAGUELY WORD THAT PRI ANIZERS THE STATE HAVE ALREADY EXPRSED NCERN. “WE DO BELIEVE THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE LAST PRI AS YOU KNOW ,” PATRICK GEVAS, ONE OF THE ANIZERS OF MIAMI BEACH PRI, TOLD NBC 6.CRICS HAVE SLAMMED THE BILL AS BEG OVERLY BROAD, WHICH ULD HAVE UNTEND NSEQUENC. REPUBLINS BACKG HAVE ADMTED THAT THE MEASURE WOULD PREVENT PERFORMANC OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW AND THE MIL HAIR.BUT THE MEASURE WILL ALSO HAVE AN TEND NSEQUENCE: “ERASG” LGBTQ PEOPLE OM EXISTENCE. FLORIDA REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE RANDY FE SAID LAST WEEK THAT IF PASSG THE BILL “MEANS ERASG A MUNY BEE YOU HAVE TO TARGET CHILDREN, THEN, DAMN RIGHT, WE OUGHT TO DO !”THE ACLU SLAMMED THE BILL WHEN FIRST PASSED THE SENATE AS “AN EXTREME ERNMENTAL OVERREACH OF POWER.” “THIS IS NOT MOCRACY. THIS IS NOT EEDOM,” THE GROUP SAID A STATEMENT.FLORIDA IS THE LATT STATE TO ADVANCE A (VAGUELY WORD, EXTREME) MEASURE ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMANC, WHICH HAVE BEE A PARTICULAR TARGET FOR THE RIGHT WG RECENT YEARS. IN MARCH, TENNSEE BEME THE FIRST STATE TO PASS A LAW BANNG DRAG PERFORMANC, BUT THE MEASURE WAS BLOCKED BY A JUDGE BEFORE ULD GO TO EFFECT ON THE GROUNDS THAT WAS OVERLY BROAD AND VLATED EE SPEECH RIGHTS.DESANTIS HAS ALSO SET HIS SIGHTS ON DRAG PERFORMANC, REVOKG THE LIQUOR LICENS FOR MULTIPLE BS THAT HAVE HOSTED DRAG SHOWS—EVEN THOUGH UNRVER AGENTS SENT TO ONE SHOW “DID NOT WNS ANY LEWD ACTS.”SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKREPUBLINS LOSE ANOTHER ANTI-TRANS SMEAR CAMPAIGNMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/6:38 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTHE LATT WRKLE REPUBLINS’ QUT TO BAN THE ABORTN PILLA NEW LAWSU AGAST THE FDA SEEKS TO PRERVE ACCS TO THE PILL, REGARDLS OF WHAT THE LOWER URTS HAVE SAID.PROBAL RASHID/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGTHE MAKER OF THE GENERIC VERSN OF THE ABORTN PILL MIFEPRISTONE SUED THE FOOD AND DG ADMISTRATN ON WEDNDAY AN EFFORT TO KEEP THE DG ACCSIBLE NATNWI.A PLITED LEGAL BATTLE OVER MIFEPRISTONE IS PLAYG OUT THE U.S. JUDICIAL SYSTEM. A TEXAS FERAL JUDGE LED TWO WEEKS AGO THAT THE DG, ONE OF THE MEDITNS ED TO DUCE AN ABORTN, HAD BEEN IMPROPERLY APPROVED BY THE FDA AND SHOULD BE YANKED OM THE U.S. MARKET. THE DEPARTMENT OF JTICE APPEALED THE CISN, FIRST TO THE FIFTH CIRCU COURT, WHICH ONLY PARTIALLY STAYED THE LG. THE JTICE DEPARTMENT THEN APPEALED THE SE TO THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH ISSUED A TEMPORARY ADMISTRATIVE STAY.THE FIFTH CIRCU’S LG, IF UPHELD, WILL JUDICIALLY NULLIFY THE ABBREVIATED NEW DG APPLITN, OR ANDA, FOR THE PILLS MA BY GENBPRO, WHICH THE FDA APPROVED 2019. GENBPRO SAYS S PILLS ARE ED ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THE 500,000 MEDITN ABORTNS THAT HAPPEN THE UNED STAT EACH YEAR.GENBPRO SUED THE FDA FOR DITG URT FILGS THAT IF THE SUPREME COURT DO NOT TERVENE, THEN THE AGENCY WILL ABI BY THE LOWER LGS AND PULL GENBPRO’S DG OM THE MARKET. THE PANY ARGUED THAT DOG SO WOULD VLATE LAWS ABOUT THE PROCS FOR WHDRAWG A DG’S APPROVAL.“IN ADDN TO THE SEVERE HARM TO GENBPRO’S MERCIAL VIABILY OM SPENSN OF S ANDA, TASTROPHIC HARM ALSO RULTS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, CLUDG DOCTORS AND PATIENTS, WHO HAVE VELOPED EXTENSIVE RELIANCE TERTS THE APPROVAL AND AVAILABILY OF GENBPRO’S MIFEPRISTONE,” THE PANY SAID THE LAWSU.GENBPRO ALSO SAID THAT HAS REPEATEDLY ASKED THE FDA FOR ASSURANC THAT S APPROVAL STAT WILL BE PROTECTED, BUT THE FDA HAS NOT RPOND. “BEE OF THE FDA CISN AND THE ENFORCEMENT THREAT AND UNCERTATY HAS CREATED, GENBPRO IS SUFFERG IRREPARABLE FANCIAL AND REPUTATNAL HARM, SEVERELY THREATENG S RE BS MOL AND MERCIAL VIABILY,” GENBPRO SAID.THE GENBPRO LAWSU IS AN ATTEMPT TO KEEP MIFEPRISTONE AVAILABLE, REGARDLS OF WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT CIS TO STAY OR UPHOLD THE LOWER URT LGS. THE NATN’S HIGH URT IS EXPECTED TO ISSUE A CISN WEDNDAY.MEDITN ABORTNS MAKE UP MORE THAN HALF OF ALL ABORTNS PERFORMED THE UNED STAT. THE DGS N BE ORRED ONLE AND LIVERED VIA MAIL, MAKG THEM A KEY ROURCE FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE STAT THAT HAVE CRACKED DOWN ON ABORTN ACCS SCE ROE V. WA WAS OVERTURNED LAST SUMMER.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKCONSERVATIV ARE TURNG TO A 150-YEAR-OLD OBSCENY LAW TO OUTLAW ABORTNMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 19, 2023/6:32 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYELISE STEFANIK LIK TO TALK ABOUT CRIME UNTIL IT HAPPENS HER OWN DISTRICTA 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED AFTER HER IEND TURNED TO THE WRONG DRIVEWAY. THAT WAS REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK’S DISTRICT.ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGON SATURDAY NIGHT, A GROUP OF IENDS HAD DRIVEN UP THE WRONG DRIVEWAY AS THEY WERE SEARCHG FOR ANOTHER IEND’S HOE. AND AS THEY TURNED THEIR VEHICL AROUND, THE OWNER OF THE HOME SHOT AT THEM.THE 65-YEAR-OLD HOMEOWNER, KEV MONAHAN, FIRED TWO SHOTS AND KILLED 20-YEAR-OLD KAYL GILLIS, THORI SAID—FOR THE SIMPLE OFFENSE OF BEG THE PASSENGER SEAT OF A VEHICLE THAT PULLED TO A WRONG DRIVEWAY BEFORE PROMPTLY TURNG AROUND. THE VLENT SHOOTG OCCURRED UPSTATE NEW YORK, THE DISTRICT REPRENTED BY REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK.ON TUDAY, STEFANIK TWEETED A NOT-APP-STYLE STATEMENT THAT HER “HEART BREAKS FOR THE TRAGEDY OF THE LOSS OF KAYL GILLIS’ YOUNG LIFE” AND THAT SHE FULLY SUPPORTS EFFORTS “TO ENSURE JTICE IS SERVED.” BUT WH THE HOUR, STEFANIK WENT BACK TO HER REGULARLY SCHLED PROGRAMMG OF WHIPPG UP OUTRAGE ABOUT CRIME NEW YORK CY.STEFANIK HAS SPENT MUCH OF HER REER FEARMONGERG ABOUT CRIME, ALL THE MORE SO AMID THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S DICTMENT OF TWICE-IMPEACHED FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP. SHE, ALONG WH OTHER REPUBLINS, HAS ATTEMPTED TO DISCRED MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALV BRAGG BY TRYG TO AME NEW YORK CY AS A BASTN OF CRIME.STEFANIK, NOT EVEN A MEMBER OF THE HOE JUDICIARY COMMTEE, WAS VED TO JO A HEARG MONDAY THAT FALSELY AMED NEW YORK AS AWASH CRIME. THE NEW YORK CY CRIME NARRATIVE IS A POPULAR ONE, BUT AS WNS THE HEARG POTED OUT, NEW YORK CY IS SAFER THAN MANY OF THE PLAC HOE REPUBLINS LEADG THE SMEAR MPAIGN E OM.THE MPAIGN HAS BEEN ALL THE MORE VACUO GIVEN THAT REPUBLINS HAVE PUT FORTH NO ACTUAL SOLUTNS TO CRIME THAT MAY BE TAKG PLACE, OTHER THAN BUILDG MORE JAILS AND THROWG MORE PEOPLE THEM. SELDOM HAVE THEY GENUELY PURSUED A BROAR POLICY VISN THEY PRETEND TO RE ABOUT, WHETHER BE IMPROVG PEOPLE’S MENTAL HEALTH OR BATG SOCIAL ALIENATN. MEANWHILE, STEFANIK AND OTHER REPUBLINS HAVE BLOCKED ANY ATTEMPT TO PREVENT SHOOTGS LIKE THE ONE HER DISTRICT OR KANSAS CY, MISSOURI, WHERE 16-YEAR-OLD RALPH YARL WAS SHOT AFTER ACCINTALLY RGG THE WRONG DOORBELL. AFTER THE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTG LAST MONTH, STEFANIK LLED THE MOVE FOR GUN NTROL “OVERLY POLIL.” NEVER MD THAT MORE THAN 160 MASS SHOOTGS HAVE TAKEN PLACE JT THIS YEAR AMERI.REPUBLINS HAVE MA EASIER, AGA AND AGA, TO ACCS GUNS A UNTRY RAVAGED BY MASS SHOOTGS. THEY HAVE FOMENTED SOCIAL DISTST, A SOCIETY WHERE HATE AND DIVISIVENS HAVE BEE AS AMERIN AS APPLE PIE.AND STEFANIK’S WEAK-HEARTED CHINERY, SHE EMBODI PRECISELY HOW HOLLOW ALL IS. INSTEAD OF NONTG WHY OUR SOCIETY HAS PRODUCED SUCH ANGER AND WHY THAT ANGER IS ALLOWED TO SO EASILY ACCS WEAPONS OF KILLG, STEFANIK AND REPUBLINS ARE STEAD FLAMG THAT ANGER AND MAKG SURE IS AS ARMED AS POSSIBLE.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKI CARRY A FIREARM EVERY DAY. Y, THE SEND AMENDMENT IS KILLG USMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 19, 2023/5:08 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA EXPANDS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL

Todos os bar e pots gays aqui sse post tão assalados no m Mapa mundi dis viagem. É só dar um zoom na região Floripa que você vai ver as banirhas gays.

LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL

O públi muda nforme a fta, a FOMO é extremamente gay (homens gays), a Sexyback já tem bastante mulher, por exemplo. O públi é bem masculo e gay.

LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN

Lucie southeastern Florida was schled to host a gay pri para anized by the "Pri Alliance of the Treasure Coast, " but there was jt one veat - No kids acrdance wh legislatn ready to be signed to law by Governor Ron DeSantis the cy allowed the pri para to take place but required all atten to be 21 or olr due the sexualized nature of the performanc mon durg such events. Florida’s Board of Edutn voted Wednday to dramatilly expand the state’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” law through high school. ” He’s been a weird legal battle wh Disney World for a year, sce the pany’s then chairman nmned the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

-- Tens of thoands of LGBTQ+ people are flockg to central Florida this weekend to go on theme park ris, mgle wh stumed performers, dance at all-night parti and lounge poolsi at hotels durg Gay Days, a s-long though Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers have champned a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ laws — spurrg the most proment gay rights group the U.