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A sweeping elections proposal from Fort Myers Republican Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka has advanced through its first House Committee in the face of sharp Democratic criticism.
The bill (HB 991) would require verification of U.S. citizenship before voters can cast a regular ballot, mandate statewide rechecks of existing voter rolls and overhaul how Florida audits election results.
The Department of Justice is preventing a federal grant from going to Florida to pay for the Everglades immigration detention center that the state calls “Alligator Alcatraz,” according to Florida’s emergency chief.
The revelations highlighted a deepening contradiction between what state and federal authorities are saying about whether Florida will be reimbursed for its immigration efforts.
Two Democratic U.S. Reps. from Central Florida — Maxwell Frost and Darren Soto — have written a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons regarding speculation they will soon open an ICE detention center in Orlando.
Their message is simple: Don’t do it.
Two Florida voters backed by the National Redistricting Foundation filed a legal challenge with the Florida Supreme Court Thursday against Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to hold a special legislative session in April to address congressional redistricting.
The lawsuit, filed by Elizabeth Pines from Miami-Dade County and Eugene Pettis from Broward County, asks the court to void the governor’s proclamation declaring 2026 an apportionment year and to block Secretary of State Cord Byrd’s directive implementing that proclamation.
Delays have also affected FEMA’s efforts to reduce the impact of future catastrophes. A Grist analysis found that the agency’s net spending on resilience grants declined over the past three quarters, even as climate-driven disasters intensified nationwide. The nonprofit news outlet NOTUS identified a $1.3 billion backlog of such allocations, the primary source of federal funding for states and cities seeking to harden infrastructure. FEMA terminated another climate resilience program last year, though a court has ordered it to reinstate that program.
In Florida, where close to three million residents received SNAP benefits last year, the state will be paying an additional $51 million in fiscal year 2027 to cover administrative costs. If its error rate remains above 10 percent, Florida will have the largest increase in the share of its budget dedicated to SNAP costs of any state, with a spike of 768 percent, according to the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality.
As the public overwhelmingly spoke out against a bill targeting books deemed “harmful to children” in public school libraries, one Democrat allied with Republicans to advance the legislation through its final committee stop.
With a 16-5 vote, the House Education and Employment Committee OK’d HB 1119 sponsored by Rep. Doug Bankson. The bill is now ready for the House floor.
Rep. Kim Daniels, a Jacksonville Democrat who has a history of siding with Republicans on social issues, voted in favor of the bill.
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When ICE activity in a community starts to look like intimidation — questionable stops, aggressive tactics, people terrified to leave their homes — the helplessness is real. Marching, mutual aid, and contacting elected officials still matter. They build solidarity, keep pressure on leaders, and remind targeted neighbors they aren’t alone.
But there’s another approach that matters in moments like this: credible witness video and testimony. If you want a street-level role that’s legal, non-violent, and useful, don’t just shoot video — become a trained witness. More impact. More accountability.
I understand why you are feeling afraid right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations at the hands of local police.
We need to talk about how policing works in this country for Black people, how the story gets written before the body hits the ground.
No fire. No bullets. Just attention, dollars, and clicks. A million tiny refusals that snowball into a boycott big enough to make the machine choke.
When brands become liabilities, the market corrects itself. Trump, Musk, Thiel, Zuck — their empires can be voided like bad transactions.
But it starts with us. With starving the beast.
This is the boycott: a living list of collaborators and profiteers — banks, telecoms, gas stations, grocery chains — every company cashing in on the collapse.