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Florida Shuts Down Alligator Alcatraz After a Year of Lawsuits and Brutality
After using $1 billion to brutalize immigrants, Alligator Alcatraz has been emptied. Its victims still need justice.
10 Years After Pulse, Protecting Queer Spaces Is Critical for Liberation
LGBTQIA+ bars are places to dance and drink, but they are also sites for building our futures.
Florida Creates New Conservative US History Course as Alternative to AP
The course is the latest maneuver in DeSantis’s right-wing attacks on public education.
Miami Police Have Become a Show-Me-Your-Papers Patrol Despite Public Opposition
Police-ICE collaboration agreements are deeply unpopular in Miami. So why aren’t elected Democrats fighting them?
New Florida Redistricting Map Could Deliver 4 New House Seats to GOP in Midterms
Polls show that a majority of Floridians don’t support the redistricting effort led by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Ron DeSantis Sends Gerrymandered Congressional Map to Florida Legislature
The map is predicted to add four more GOP seats, the latest in a wave of partisan redistricting ahead of the midterms.
This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes
Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.”
So-Called “Intellectual Freedom Centers” Spread Right-Wing Ideologies on Campus
The push to reshape education has gained considerable momentum under the second Trump administration.
Florida Sets the Record for Death Penalties This Year
“We're looking at execution roughly every 16 days," said Grace Hanna of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
DeSantis Signals Florida Will Gerrymander Its Maps in the Spring
At the behest of Trump, several GOP-led states have redrawn maps to give the party an advantage in next year's midterms.