Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a rising star in the Republican Party and former Donald Trump acolyte, announced his campaign for president of the United States on Wednesday during a problem-plagued Twitter Spaces event. Read more»
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In Florida, a drag queen might have a difficult time enjoying a Bud Light, as Ron DeSantis has made it a mission to revoke liquor licenses from establishments that host drag shows where children are allowed. Read more»
Vying for the 2024 Republican nomination, ex-Trump Cabinet official and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced that she will run for president - though she had previously said she wouldn’t challenge Donald Trump, who announced his campaign in November. Read more»
Following the College Board’s decision to buckle under political pressure and strip their Advanced Placement African-American studies course of essential topics - and similar sanitization in its AP American history course - will help usher in a new era of ignorance. Read more»
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Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 election last night, continuing his grift. It was an extremely long speech. In fact, he might still be delivering it. Read more»
Former President Donald Trump, who has refused to accept he was legitimately defeated in 2020, announced Tuesday his intent to try to again snag the nation's highest office in 2024. Read more»
Arizona Gov. Ducey’s policy of shuttling migrants to the nation’s capital - alternatively sold as a way to hit back at President Biden’s alleged failure to secure the border or aid for migrants looking to settle further inland - has come under fire from local immigrant advocacy groups. Read more»
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has opened an investigation into whether southern border state governors - including Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey - misled immigrants as part of what he called a “political stunt” to transport them to Washington. Read more»
Despite some Republican governors using migrant buses to try to embarrass Democrats, transportation for migrants from border areas to places where they can find shelter may be an important part of handling an unprecedented crush of asylum seekers. Read more»
Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis are following a familiar playbook: Put immigration front and center in election season to take advantage of populist backlash - but using migrants as props has taken the issue to another level. Read more»
Since April, thousands of migrants have arrived by bus in New York City and Washington, D.C., sent north by Republican governors in Texas and Arizona - but increasingly, the migrants are hopping off the buses in red states along the route. Read more»
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is demanding private equity firm BlackRock "come clean" about its "leftist politics." Because apparently while Republican money is speech, funds invested with an eye to the long term are an anti-trust violation.
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Donald Trump is upset that Ron DeSantis won’t publicly bow down before him. DeSantis is a presidential hopeful and he’ll run for the office someday. Trump is concerned it’ll be in 2024. Trump hasn’t declared yet but he wants DeSantis to declare he won’t run if Trump does. Read more»
With conflicts over masking, vaccinations and confusing quarantine policies, families already on the brink now find themselves once again yo-yoing between in-person and remote learning while making impossible decisions about whether to risk their children’s health for their education. Read more»
For medically vulnerable children, school-wide masking is essential to allow them to safely return to school, health experts say, yet some states and districts have made masks optional, forcing high-risk students to stay home. Read more»