DeSantis' presidential campaign is going so well. Now laying off another third of his staff. You know beyond the known Nazi they hired and then had to let go for an absurd campaign video. DeSantis lets go of more than a third of campaign staff as reset continues The cuts, which were confirmed by advisers, will amount to a total of 38 jobs shed across an array of departments. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/...of-campaign-staff-as-reset-continues-00108046 DeSantis lays off more staffers as campaign shake-up continues https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/des...-shakeup-continues-sources/story?id=101645710
Look... DeSantis wants to Defund the Police. DeSantis-Appointed Board Wants to Defund Disney’s Police Budget https://www.thedailybeast.com/desantis-appointed-board-wants-to-defund-disneys-police-budget
This is the type of abusive person that an authoritarian hires. Dirty Delete: Christina Pushaw thinks it’s her job to ‘drag’ people online She’s tweeted an astonishing 67,000 times for an average of 80 times a day. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/christina-pushaw-dirty-delete/
Weak, small and reckless: how Ron DeSantis, Republican Napoleon, met his Waterloo ttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/31/ron-desantis-republican-napoleon-donald-trump
Not yet humiliated enough recently, Ron DeSantis begs for more. Ron DeSantis invites Kamala Harris to Florida to 'set the record straight' on new Black history standards Harris said during a trip to Florida this month that state officials wanted to "replace history with lies" by suggesting enslaved people benefited from skills used during forced labor. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...orida-fight-black-history-standards-rcna97445
DeSantis identifies the REAL villains of Jan. 6th: the jurors who indicted Trump. Even though he didn't actually read the indictment, he knows that the swamp people in DC don't have the skills to do the right thing. This is how authoritarians think. DeSantis attacks DC jurors after Trump indictment https://thehill.com/homenews/4132154-desantis-attacks-dc-jurors-trump-indictment/
The People's Republic of Florida bans AP psychology from the curriculum. Statement on AP Psychology and Florida https://newsroom.collegeboard.org/statement-ap-psychology-and-florida We are sad to have learned that today the Florida Department of Education has effectively banned AP Psychology in the state by instructing Florida superintendents that teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law. The state has said districts are free to teach AP Psychology only if it excludes any mention of these essential topics. The AP course asks students to “describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development.” This element of the framework is not new: gender and sexual orientation have been part of AP Psychology since the course launched 30 years ago. As we shared in June, we cannot modify AP Psychology in response to regulations that would censor college-level standards for credit, placement, and career readiness. Our policy remains unchanged. Any course that censors required course content cannot be labeled “AP” or “Advanced Placement,” and the “AP Psychology” designation cannot be utilized on student transcripts. To be clear, any AP Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either Florida law or college requirements. Therefore, we advise Florida districts not to offer AP Psychology until Florida reverses their decision and allows parents and students to choose to take the full course. We have heard from teachers across Florida who are heartbroken that they are being forced to drop AP and instead teach alternatives that have been deemed legal because the courses exclude these topics. The American Psychological Association recently reaffirmed that any course that excludes these topics would violate their guidelines and should not be considered for college credit. The APA has given this direct guidance to organizations that have agreed to this censorship. Similarly, American Council on Education president Ted Mitchell has said: “It strains credulity to believe that our reviewers would certify for college credit a psychology course that didn’t include gender identity.” The state’s ban of this content removes choice from parents and students. Coming just days from the start of school, it derails the college readiness and affordability plans of tens of thousands of Florida students currently registered for AP Psychology, one of the most popular AP classes in the state. AP is recognized by thousands of colleges and universities across the United States for admissions, scholarships consideration, college credit, and advanced standing. More than 28,000 Florida students took AP Psychology in the 2022-23 academic year. The AP Program will do all we can do to support schools in their plans for responding to this late change.