After months of Donald Trump attempting to repaint himself as a moderate on abortion — despite the former president bragging that he killed Roe v. Wade — he has finally bent the knee to anti-abortion leaders. On Friday, Trump declared that he would vote against a ballot measure in Florida …
Read More »Florida Ed. Commissioner Assigns 'Pride and Prejudice' for… American Pride Month
Jane Austen’s celebrated second novel, Pride and Prejudice, is a timeless love story about the perils of judging someone before we really know them. Had Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz Jr. ever read it, he might have taken that lesson to heart and based his monthly reading lists for …
Read More »Florida 12-Year-Old Bruhat Soma Triumphs at 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee
Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, won the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee in a dramatic spell-off — only the second to happen in the competition’s long-running history. According to The New York Times, the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee kicked off on Tuesday with a total of 245 …
Read More »Abortion Bounties, Penalties on Women: Florida Kingmaker's Candidate Questionnaire
The influential Florida Family Policy Council, a fixture in Tallahassee since its founding in 2004, likes to claim credit for such political triumphs as the state law banning gay marriage, defunding Planned Parenthood, and forcing the state board of education to teach students evolution is merely a theory, not a …
Read More »Trump's Classified Docs Trial Date Postponed by Trump-Appointed Judge
Donald Trump‘s trial start date over his mishandling of classified documents has been pushed back thanks to a Florida judge overseeing the case. On Tuesday, District Judge Aileen M. Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial, previously scheduled for May 20, increasing the odds that Trump’s hush money trial in New York …
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