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The LAUSD Continues To Support Florida’s March Towards Fascism
As DeSantis continues trampling over the First Amendment, the LAUSD has yet to revoke its $6 million contract to bring these policies to L.A.
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Under a law proposed last week and working its way through the Florida legislature, I would have to register this blog and pay a registration fee to the state’s ethics commission or the Florida Office of Legislative Services. If enacted, SB 1316 would require anyone writing about DeSantis or other government officials in the state to “submit monthly reports about their work”. They must provide information about “how much payment they received for their articles, rounded to the nearest $10, and the name of the ‘individual or entity’ who paid them.”
Additionally, last week, DeSantis signed a bill punishing Disney for daring to take a stand against his “Don’t Say Gay” law. He then promptly appointed to the board overseeing Disney infrastructure a pastor who thinks that LGBTQ+ people must be “constrained” so they will no longer be allowed to “flourish.” The pastor also preached that tap water is turning people gay. In making his appointments to this board, the Governor openly expressed a desire for them to pressure Disney to produce “entertainment that all families can appreciate.”
Earlier this year, Brian Covey was fired from his job as a substitute teacher for daring to post a video showing empty bookshelves in a school library in Duval County, Florida. DeSantis called the posting “dishonest” because not all books had been removed from…
