With fewer than 700 undergraduates, New College of Florida’s student body is small enough that most of it fits on one reply-all email thread. On Jan. 6, the day news broke that Gov. Ron DeSantis had installed a knot of culture-war veterans to the school’s board of trustees, that student-moderated …
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Ron DeSantis has a pretty straightforward theory for why he could do what Ted Cruz (or Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio or Scott Walker or …) couldn’t. When all those once-promising presidential candidates tried to take down Donald Trump in 2016, they were doing so in a crowded field, backstabbing …
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Ron DeSantis is running for president. He hasn’t made an officially announcement — that’s reportedly coming next week —but he made his pitch to donors and supporters on Thursday, claiming on a call that there are only two people who can win the 2024 election: him and President Biden. “You …
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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed several bills into law that will criminalize multiple aspects of being transgender, part of a broader attack aimed at making it at best difficult — and at worst illegal — to be a trans person in Florida. Although inaccurately framed as being …
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If there’s one rule that all Floridians live by, one credo that everyone in the Sunshine State must follow, it is this: Don’t fuck with the Mouse. (Also, something about alligators. But mostly, don’t fuck with the Mouse.) When Gov. Ron DeSantis started his aggressive campaign against the Disney company …
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Ron DeSantis — the Florida governor who is expected to soon announce his intention to take down Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary — still can’t admit that the former president lost the 2020 general election. “You said during an event in Iowa over the weekend that the …
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When he was running for governor of Florida in 2018, Ron DeSantis‘ debate strategy was clear: don’t “piss off” Trump’s base. Video of the now-governor’s debate prep sessions reveals he was struggling to “find a way” to disagree with Trump “in a way that’s not going to piss off all …
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis claims his state is “#1 in educational freedom” but in the past year the state has leveled an intense crackdown on the principles of free speech Republicans claim to venerate. On Wednesday, the Florida legislature passed a series of bills that will defund diversity, equity, and …
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While Donald Trump may be prospective 2024 candidate Ron DeSantis’ greatest political rival, the Florida Governor’s mind is currently consumed by a much wilier foe: Mickey Mouse. DeSantis’ feud with the Walt Disney Company has escalated into a full first amendment lawsuit brought by the company against the governor. The …
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Earlier this week, on the Disney forum DISBoards.com, a user named KYMickey posted a meme of a demonic-looking white man with a passing resemblance to Gov. Ron DeSantis dressed in a Prince Charming costume, in front of Cinderella’s castle. “DeSantis World,” the caption reads, referring to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. …
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