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Civil Rights

Zohran Mamdani Exposes Nullity of Democrats and Republicans

August 23, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

On the bus with Zohran Mamdani. (Facebook)

The reaction by Democrats and Republicans to the Zohran Mamdani phenomenon in New York City has been like an MRI of both our parties’ cancerous hopelessness. Democrats in their wilderness should be championing energetic countercurrents who could slow the slide and focus the party on everyday challenges. But instead of capitalizing on a new voice that champions the disaffected, Democrats are competing with Republicans in a race to the muckiest.

Former Assistant Public Defender Regina Nunnally Leads ‘Know Your Rights’ Workshop for Local Renters on Aug. 26

August 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The no nonsense Regina Nunnally in arguments to a jury during a 2022 trial, when she was an assistant public defender in Flagler County. (© FlaglerLive)

Former Assistant Public Defender Regina Nunnally, an inspirational speaker, author, preacher and lawyer with Community Legal Services, will lead a free “Know Your Rights” workshop for renters on Aug. 26 at Flagler Cares’ Flagler County Village at Palm Coast’s City Marketplace. The workshop will offer essential information for renters on their legal protections and responsibilities.

Judge Rules Illegal a Florida Law Banning Trans Teachers’ Choice of Pronouns

August 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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U.S. District Judge Mark Walker sided with Hillsborough County teacher Katie Wood and a Lee County teacher, identified as Jane Doe, in finding that the state law discriminates in violation of what is known as Section VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That section bars employment discrimination because of a person’s “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” But the outcome of the issue might ultimately hinge on an appeals-court ruling in a Georgia case.

New York Latest State to Offer Free Phone Calls from Prison

August 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

It can get expensive. The phones above are part of a video-phone bank at the county jail that does not charge for use. (© FlaglerLive)

New York will offer free phone calls to people incarcerated in its state prisons starting Aug. 1, becoming the sixth state to do so. The change is projected to save roughly 30,000 families across the state an estimated $13.3 million per year in phone call fees, according to Worth Rises, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry. New York joins California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Minnesota in offering free phone calls in state prisons.

‘Yes, We Signed the Damn Thing Because We Really Had To,’ Orlando Mayor Says of Forced Transports for ICE

August 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings signed an updated agreement with U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) on Friday, although he later said he did so under “protest and extreme duress.” It came days after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier threatened the mayor and all six county commissioners that their failure to do so would result in their removal from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Everglades Concentration Camp Boosts Depravity for DeSantis & Co.

July 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

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Do you think concentration camps are cool? Does your heart fill with mean-spirited joy at the thought of human beings stuffed into tents and FEMA trailers parked on a disused airstrip in the heart of the Everglades in the middle of a Florida summer? Do you get off on the idea of alligators and snakes killing people and admire bully capitalism hawking camo beverage coolers, stickers, and T-shirts with grinning reptiles proclaiming, “Nowhere to Run; Nowhere to Hide”?

America(n) Unbecoming

July 18, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 19 Comments

The Freedom Tower in Manhattan, seen through a window of the Great Hall on Ellis Island. (© Pierre Tristam)

If the president can threaten citizenship revocation even for U.S.-born citizens, as he did this week, and just for holding opinions he doesn’t like, the rest of us certainly aren’t safe. For migrants, every night–every day–is Kristallnacht as ICE carries out its pogroms. A majority of Americans are either applauding or indifferent, while protesters are branded enemies and invaders to be crushed by militarized goonery. This is not the America any of us have known, or should tolerate.

New Schools Commissioner Threatens Superintendents About Violating ‘Parental Rights’

July 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas (Photo via DOE)

Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas delivered his first speech to the State Board of Education Wednesday, quoting the Book of Psalms, promising to work closely with Florida’s top law enforcement officer to ensure students aren’t being “indoctrinated,” and threatening superintendents about violating parental rights.

Florida Supreme Court Sends Everglades Prison Case to Lower Court

July 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The Florida Supreme Court on Monday sent to a lower court a case filed by Democratic state lawmakers after they were denied entry to a controversial immigrant-detention center in the Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

After He’s Declared in Contempt, Uthmeier Takes Immigration Defiance to Supreme Court

June 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Attorney General James Uthmeier announces the Office of Parental Rights in Jacksonville on April 29, 2025. (Screenshot via Attorney General’s X livestream)

After an appeals court rejected his arguments, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and at least temporarily allow enforcement of a new law targeting undocumented immigrants who enter the state. If the Supreme Court grants Uthmeier’s request, the state could enforce the law while what could be a lengthy court battle plays out.

Four ‘No Kings’ Protests of Trump’s Authoritarian Swerve Draw Upward of 1,000 in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach

June 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 97 Comments

Today's anti-Trump demonstration on State Road 100, one of four in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, drew upwards of 500 people who stretched over 1,000 feet along the highway, in places several rows deep. (© FlaglerLive)

Demonstrators by the hundreds in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach this morning peacefully but loudly, festively and–for Flagler County–massively transformed major intersections, a bridge overpass and a 1,000-ft. stretch of State Road 100 in Palm Coast into the largest anti-Trump protests to date. The size of the protests surprised even organizers and frequent participants, two of whom, after attending every protest this year on State Road 100, said today’s was more than double any previous one. 

Reported Abortions in Florida Down 46% from 2024

June 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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A reported 17,377 abortions had been performed in Florida this year as of June 2, a 45.8 percent decrease from a comparable period in 2024, according to state data.

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Florida’s Attempt to Override Halt to Law Targeting Migrants

June 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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A federal appeals court Friday kept on hold a new Florida law targeting undocumented immigrants who enter the state, rejecting arguments by Attorney General James Uthmeier that enforcement should at least temporarily be allowed.

Democracy’s Sunset: There’s a 70% Chance the Constitution Will Be Suspended Before 2028

May 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

The mob's message. (Tyler Merbler)

The democratic moment is over. There’s a 70 percent chance that the Constitution will be suspended before the legal end of the current administration. The chance of a suspension grows to 110 percent in case of an actual emergency, like a 9/11-style attack. But a majority of Americans aren’t interested in democracy anymore. They want their strongman. Nothing else explains the country’s surrender to the degradation of the country’s institutions since Jan. 20.

Why the Far Right Fabricated the Myth of a Migrant ‘Invasion’

May 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Looking for a myth. (US Customs and Border Enforcement)

The current administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years. By 2022, invasion rhetoric, which had previously been relegated to white nationalist circles, had become such a staple of Republican campaign ads that most of the public agreed an invasion of the U.S. via the southern border was underway.

How Trans People Affirmed Their Gender in Medieval Europe

May 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Lady and the Unicorn. (Unknown/Musée de Cluny, Paris via Didier Descouens/Wikimedia Commons)

Restrictions on medical care for transgender youth assume that without the ability to medically transition, trans people will vanish. History, however, shows that withholding health care does not make transgender people go away. Scholarship of medieval literature and historical records reveals how transgender people transitioned even without a robust medical system – instead, they changed their clothes, name and social position.

Randy Fine’s Bill Banning Pride Flags at Public Buildings Fails, as Does Preferred-Pronoun Ban

May 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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LGBTQ advocates are celebrating several bills — including one that could have banned Pride flags flown at government buildings — stalling out this Session. Some of the dead bills including HB 75/SB 100 that would have banned government buildings, schools and universities, from flying flags that represented a “political viewpoint.” The proposal was sponsored by outgoing state Sen. Randy Fine before he left for Washington, D.C.

A Gutted Education Department Is Rolling Back Civil Rights and Targeting Transgender Students

May 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Disallowed in schools. (© FlaglerLive)

The Education Department is being radically reshaped away from education, fairness and equity toward a more prosecutorial arm of the federal government as it negates civil rights investigations and ramps up investigations targeting transgender students and schools that apply more event-handed treatment of students and athletes. Civil rights offices are closed. Workers are fired. Investigating discrimination in schools is practically “impossible.”

How Probation Fuels Mass Incarceration

May 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local facilities. Another 3.7 million remain under what scholars call “correctional control” through probation or parole supervision. That means one out of every 60 Americans is entangled in the system — one of the highest rates globally. Yet despite its vast reach, the criminal justice system often fails at its most basic goal: preventing people from being rearrested, reconvicted or reincarcerated.

Florida Will Use Tax Dollars to Sue Its Own Public Schools on Behalf of Parents

April 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Attorney General James Uthmeier announces the Office of Parental Rights in Jacksonville on April 29, 2025. (Screenshot via Attorney General’s X livestream)

Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office is “putting our money where our mouth is” in announcing a state-funded legal team dedicated to enforcing parents-rights laws. Addressing a crowd of fourth graders at Jacksonville Classical Academy Tuesday, Uthmeier said his office is “making sure that we’re walking the walk and setting examples” in enforcing laws related to gender transition, library materials, school surveys, and other topics that have dominated legislative, judicial, and executive conversations in recent years. 

Florida House Votes to Scrap Work Limits for Older Teens But Ban STI Treatment Without Parental Consent

April 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

High school and college students participating in Planned Parenthood programs testified against a bill in the Senate on March 25, 2025, that would require parental consent to access birth control and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. (Photo by Jackie Llanos/Florida Phoenix)

Although older teens could work unlimited hours, they wouldn’t be able to get treatment for sexually transmitted infections on their own under two bills the Florida House approved Friday. House lawmakers voted on party lines both to require parental consent for health care providers to treat minors with STIs and to let 16- and 17-year-olds work full-time hours during the school year without their parents’ permission.

Florida Bill to Prevent Anonymous Complaints Against Cops Divides Law Enforcement

April 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A bill misfires. (© FlaglerLive)

A bill that would withdraw citizens’ ability to lodge anonymous complaints against law enforcement officers sparked sharp disagreement between department leaders and rank-and-file officers. The bill (HB 317), sponsored by Miami-Dade Republican Tom Fabricio, is supported by groups representing law enforcement officers, such as the Fraternal Order of Police. Two of the most powerful lobbyist organizations in Tallahassee — the Florida Sheriffs Association and the Florida Police Chiefs Association — are firmly opposed.

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell

April 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A still from surveillance Camera footage of Ozturk being handcuffed by six plainclothed officers in Somerville, Mass., on March 25, 2025.

30-year-old Turkish national Rümeysa Öztürk is a former Fulbright scholar in a doctoral program at Tufts University. Here’s how, though charged with no crime, she ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana, part of a sprawling, opaque apparatus designed to deport the maximum number of people with minimum accountability. Her lawyers describe it as the story of a Trump-era rendition, a callback to the post-9/11 practice of grabbing Muslim individuals off the street and taking them to locations known for harsh conditions and shoddy oversight.

In Flagler, Voters Cast Half a Million Ballots in 8 years; 5 Were Non-Citizens. Where’s the ‘Fraud’?

April 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Florida law treats drop-boxes like hazardous materials. (© FlaglerLive)

An executive order requires that all votes be counted by the end of Election Day. It also requires proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. The order relies on a lie: that fraud is corrupting American elections. Let’s not look far and take Flagler County’s recent elections to test the claim.

Judge Orders Return of Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador Prison

April 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Protestors outside the U.S. District Court of Maryland in Greenbelt rally in support of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was deported to El Salvador in an “administrative error,” calling for him to be returned to the U.S. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)

A federal judge in Maryland Friday ordered the Trump administration to return a national from El Salvador by April 7 who was erroneously deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, despite an order blocking such removal. Vice President J.D. Vance wrote on social media, without evidence, that Abrego Garcia was a convicted member of the MS-13 gang and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt this week echoed Vance.

Our Silent Genocide of Transgender People

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

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The United States in general and Florida in particular are enacting laws that literally erase the existence of an entire class of human beings. Trump signed an order declaring that transgender people don’t exist. Florida is about to adopt a law that would let government employees dehumanize their transgender colleagues by refusing to refer to them by their preferred pronouns. It is a new kind of genocide: bloodless, to be sure, but no less obliterating.

In Startling Stand-Your-Ground Ruling, Judge Nichols Dismisses Charges Against Man Accused in Violent Attack at Circle K

March 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Circle K on Palm Harbor Parkway, and the picnic tables where the incident took place. (Google)

In a stand your ground ruling that startled law enforcement and the State Attorney’s Office, Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols on Monday dismisses felony charges against 23-year-old Hunter Detherow, who was facing five to 20 years in prison for a fight at the Palm Harbor Circle K a year ago that left one man with four broken ribs and another with stab wounds, a collapsed lung and a black eye. Detherow, a former Marine, was not injured. The two men were twice his age, though one of them was nearly twice his weight.

State of the Monarch

March 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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If there are any limits to a president’s power, it wasn’t evident from Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. When the Constitution was written, many people – from those who drafted the document to those who read it – believed that endowing the president with such powers was dangerous. The danger is here.

Florida Lawmakers Look to End Ban on Compensating Wrongfully Imprisoned If They Have Prior Felonies

February 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Florida is the only state with a wrongful incarceration compensation program that excludes people with prior felonies, a restriction that makes the vast majority of exonerees in the state ineligible for payments. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 91 people in Florida have been exonerated since 1989. Five of those exonerees have received compensation.

Who Do You Think You Are? Here’s Why You Should See ‘The Niceties’ at CRT

February 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Julia Davidson Truilo as Janine and Phillipa Rose as Zoe in City Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Niceties.” (Mike Kitaif) tristam

“The Niceties,” which opens tonight at City Repertory Theatre, is familiar to our ideologically poisoned times, raising questions about whether there is such a thing as objective truth. It subverts assumptions about American and Black history, generational divides, and power. It will make you angry only if you’re not honest with yourself as it also subverts your own assumptions about who you think you are. 

Don’t Blame Trans People for Your Own Struggles

February 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Today, both in the United States and in many parts of the world, trans and nonbinary people — a tiny, frequently poor, and marginalized percentage of the general population —  are being used as scapegoats, as symbolic threats to the “right” way of being. These constant attacks are aimed at getting struggling people to blame trans folks for their problems. And they’re designed to keep us all politically reactive, overwhelmed, and unfocused on the deep systemic failures of our society, Aaron Scott, Moses Hernandez McGavin argue.

Kendrick Lamar’s Big Super Bowl Moment

February 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Lamar’s Super Bowl appearance marks a political reckoning for the NFL.

As a world-renowned Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning artist, Kendrick Lamar stands in a league of his own. His unflinching critiques of racial injustice, systemic inequality and the exploitation of Black culture have made him a boundary-pushing artist and cultural visionary.

American Trilogy: OJ Simpson, Louis Farrakhan, Donald Trump

January 25, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 22 Comments

On Oct. 3, 1995, after a trial that had lasted as long as a presidential election campaign, a jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Blacks cheered. Whites were horrified and angered that Blacks cheered. Blacks cheered even louder at whites being horrified. All they saw was white derangement syndrome. Sound familiar?

Protesters Disheartened and Disbelieving at an Abortion-Rights Rally in St. Pete: ‘Florida Is Gone’

January 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Bree Wallace with the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund in St. Petersburg, Florida on Jan 22. 2024 (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)

Two months after a proposal to repeal Florida’s six-week abortion law and enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution failed to gather the 60% required for passage, more than 100 people gathered Wednesday on four street corners in downtown St. Petersburg to advocate for the cause. But it was a dispirited and disbelieving protest.

“We Cannot Walk Alone… We Cannot Turn Back”

January 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 58 Comments

Martin Luther King at the March on Washington, 1963. (National Archives)

A brief history of the origins and battles of the Martin Luther King federal holiday, and of the MLK monument at the Washington Mall, with full text and video of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech.”

Christian Pressure Group Pushing Lawmakers to Ban Freedom of Personal Pronouns in Local Governments

January 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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John Labriola, a lobbyist for Christian Family Coalition Florida, told Marion County lawmakers Wednesday that his organization would like to see restrictions in the 2023 education law extended to city and county governments. Labriola said he hopes the issue will be considered during this year’s legislative session, which will start March 4.

Rethinking Who Belongs on Historical Markers

January 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The Clark Mills replica iof the statue of Andrew Jackson in Jacksonville--a city named for the seventh president--has been vandalized from time to time. Jackson was not known for extending human rightgs to non-whites. (© FlaglerLive)

As the United States prepares to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, many states are inventorying, mapping and repairing old historical markers, as well as installing hundreds of new roadside signs, plaques and interpretive panels. In South Carolina, the focus is on sharing lesser-known stories of women, children, Native Americans, enslaved and free Black people and even the Loyalists who sympathized with King George III.

Court Rejects Teen’s Challenge to Florida Law Banning Trans Women Athlete from Teams

December 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump dismissed a Broward County teen’s challenge to the constitutionality of a 2021 Florida law that bars transgender female students from playing on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

Florida Senate President Ben Albritton Wants to Phase Out ‘Dreamers’ Tuition Break

December 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, suggested phasing out a tuition break for undocumented immigrant students. (Colin Hackley/N

Senate President Ben Albritton suggested phasing out a decade-old law that allows some undocumented immigrant students, known as “dreamers,” to receive in-state tuition rates at Florida universities and colleges.

If Republicans Can Take My Rights Away Today, They’ll Take Yours Tomorrow

December 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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Most days in my depraved, transsexual lifestyle start the same: I wake up at 5:15 a.m. to pet my cat, have some coffee, and journal a little before I get out the door. Meanwhile, Republicans are warming up for their bigger goals. If they can wipe away two decades of progress for trans people in a few short months, they’ll have playbook for overturning gay marriage by the end of the year.

Charging 1st Degree Murder for an Overdose Death Is Indefensible

December 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

A charge of first-degree murder requires premeditation. Florida’s law charging first degree murder for causing a death by overdose does not. It relies on assumptions and entirely negates the user’s responsibility. The law was intended as a deterrent. But in Florida, overdose deaths have increased sixfold in 25 years. The law beings neither deterrence nor justice in a crisis that will not be solved by sending people to prison for life.

Banning Birthright Citizenship Makes Newborns Criminals in Their Crib

December 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A courtroom on Ellis Island where hearings determining the fate of immigrants were held. (© FlaglerLive)

Those who don’t like the idea that birth on American territory automatically grants you the gift of American citizenship have started to parse the words of the 14th Amendment. Conservative attempts to dismantle well over a century of constitutional precedent is dishonest, and untenable.

Florida’s New College Wants to Teach All About ‘Woke’

November 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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New College of Florida will soon start taking a scholarly look back at the stampede of “woke” teachings and social consciousness in higher education and politics that prompted protest marches, boycotts and “canceling” of anyone who defied the liberal line or spoke out against this new political correctness on steroids.

Where Florida Went, The Nation Is About to Follow

November 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

American retro. (© FlaglerLive)

Goodbye to America defining itself as a Beacon of Hope, the Light of Freedom, or any of that other stuff they told you in 3rd grade: the rule of law, checks and balances, free speech, science-based health care, and son on: we saw it all in Florida. It was just prelude.

Behind the Desperate Attempt to Defeat Abortion-Rights Amendment: GOP’s Contempt for Women’s Autonomy

November 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press conference with Florida Physicians Against Amendment 4 in Coral Gables on Oct. 21, 2024. (Screenshot from Florida Channel)

DeSantis knows the majority of Floridians — like the majority of Americans — support a woman’s right to choose whether to have a baby, and he’s so scared Amendment 4 will pass he’s resorting to using every dirty trick in the patriarchal book to stop it. Like Donald Trump, he despises women, for whose right to determine what happens with their own bodies is nothing short of obsessive.

Why Trump Beat Harris By 312 Electoral Votes

November 1, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 118 Comments

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Monday-morning-quarterbacking Democrats’ mistakes is a dead end. It wouldn’t have mattered what Harris did or who the Democrats ran. The result would have been the same. Trump didn’t make this moment. It was made for him, in no small part by liberalism’s abdication. The more liberalism projected self-loathing without a hint of pride in country or redemptive hope for it, the more it ceded the ground to “a bottom-up populist revolt” let by a strongman who reflects their belief: America’s democratic moment is over.

A ‘Firehose’ of Disinformation as Trump and Musk Spread Lies About Voter Fraud in Campaign’s Final Days

October 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

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Fanned by former President Donald Trump and notable allies such as tech tycoon Elon Musk, election disinformation is warping voters’ faith in the integrity of the democratic process, polls show, and setting the stage once again for potential public unrest if the Republican nominee fails to win the presidency. Their lies about noncitizens voting, the vulnerability of mail-in ballots and the security of voting machines are spreading widely over social media.

DeSantis Rails Against Abortion-Rights Amendment on 1st Day of Early Voting

October 21, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday continued his push to get voters to reject Amendment 4 by appearing in Coral Gables alongside anti-abortion doctors, including one of his appointees to the Board of Medicine, to criticize the proposed abortion-access initiative.

The Big Read:
Deconstructing J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Fictions

September 27, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 28 Comments

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When J.D. Vance went from calling Trump “America’s Hitler” and calling himself a Nevertrumper to calling him a man of “extraordinary vision” as he accepted the nomination for  vice-president, the apparent change was mistaken for the apotheosis of an opportunistic pivot and a betrayal of his memoir’s affective nuances. But it was in fact the reflection and perfection of a skill Vance displayed throughout “Hillbilly Elegy,” where he constructed a persona scaled to a chameleon’s tongue. The book is the Rosetta Stone of the Vance we see today.

Low Wage Work Hurts Employees–And Customers

September 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The poor more commonly they referred to themselves as the struggling class: They struggle economically and hold an often unfounded hope that things will get better. But you can’t work your way out of poverty in low-wage jobs. (© FlaglerLive)

A business that’s focused on exploiting employees to make those at the top even richer isn’t just bad for workers, but for customers as well. And anyone who’s worked for one of these low-wage companies can tell you those businesses are hardly unique. If we want a strong economy, we need to do more to make sure all workers can make a decent living and feel safe and respected in their workplace.

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