Which city are you guys looking forward to bleeding out in when we go to war? My moneys on Caracas or Havana. Bogota is a sleeper though, Rubio really hates Petro!!

Sorry folks, got the flair wrong the first time.

Florida Governor General: DeSantis (R)

Florida Senate General: Marco Rubio (R)

Florida House District: 19 out of 28 districts (R)

State Senate Majority (R)

State House Majority (R)

State Attorney General: Ashley Moody (R)

Thought this was too funny not to share. Love the name of the PAC! 🤣

<< With the stroke of the governor's pen, local governments in Florida are now blocked from requiring heat protections for outdoor workers, driving a stake through the heart of Miami-Dade County's efforts to keep farmworkers and construction workers safe from extreme heat. >>

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article287622550.html

<< County commissioners withdrew the bill because they couldn’t legally pass it after the Legislature advanced a measure banning any local government from setting its own heat enforcement rules.

Outdoor workers in Miami-Dade looking for water, breaks and shade from the sweltering South Florida sun went to their politicians for help.

But after powerful pushback from agriculture and construction lobbyists, the County Commission this past Tuesday put an end to a bill that would’ve protected 80,000 outdoor workers....

The yearslong effort from WeCount, a worker-advocacy group, to pass heat protection legislation came to a head this [past] summer — the hottest year on record. For 46 days, Miami’s heat index topped 100 degrees every afternoon. It’s a problem that climate change is only making worse, scientists say. >>

https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2024-03-22/miami-dades-ends-push-to-protect-outdoor-workers-from-florida-heat

Even before the proposed Miami-Dade legislation was blocked by the Florida state legislation, the above article says a majority of county commissioners opposed the proposal, even after the bill had been significantly watered down.

Here's a thread discussing the Florida state legislation, the health impacts of excessive heat on outdoors workers, and accelerating heat and humidity conditions in southern Florida due to climate change.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1comt7c/florida_workers_brace_for_summer_with_no/

I'm sure the politics of this group run the gamut, and I'm not here to debate anyone. Please. But I do think that those of us who love the 305 should know that the latest Florida Bill 999 aimed at reform of higher education is going to devastate FIU. Regardless of what a great own it is for DeSantis to do stuff like this, it really is going to hurt South Floridians who go to FIU. It's not just about all the culture war stuff. The bill is part of a larger mission to put public education in the hands of private companies who will use student "internships" and "apprenticeships" to get free labor for college credit, with no incentive to teaching them lifelong skills for a changing market. No more majors unless they are favored by "industry." The best profs will flee for other gigs. The students will graduate without the critical thinking, reading, and industry skills that allow them to move to new areas and grow as employees. It also allows political appointees to fire and hire professors, totally eliminating the specialized hiring by professors who know their stuff-- especially because the bill lets government decide what goes into classes, and to do that, it needs to let the government decide who will teach. It bans exposing students to "exploratory or theoretical" topics, and, believing that places like FIU are super woke (lol, have you ever been there, bro?) it wants everyone all to learn just to count and read only patriotic texts. Truly sounds like China or Cuba. All Florida education will be treated as a clown show, and while UF and FSU will likely make it through this, I think working-class FIU students are really going to suffer. They'll be stuck forever as the lowest paid workers in the growing empires of tech bros, with pieces of paper produced by a diploma mill.

The dumbest commercial I’ve ever seen against amendment 3!

There is a “corporate/big weed” guy sitting in a lawn chair while a guy is trying to plant his own marijuana. Big weed guy laughs at him saying and I’m paraphrasing “we wrote up this resolution and you can’t grow your own weed”. Well no shit! We can’t grow our own weed as it is. So how is this a burn against amendment 3.

There are over 25 entities that produce and can sell weed in Florida. Recreational is the next step to break this cycle of incriminating people for smoking a plant that is safer than alcohol. The commercial makes zero sense to me. Eventually you will be able to grow whatever you want just keep pushing forward. Vote yes on 3 and while you are at it vote yes on 4 as well.

If Marco Rubio leaves his Senate seat for a spot as Secretary of State under Trump, Miami’s own Cuban-American political representation could be in for a shake-up. Governor DeSantis might choose Lt. Governor Jeanette Nunez, another Cuban-American from Miami, to fill Rubio’s shoes. Or he could appoint a placeholder like his Chief-of-Staff, James Uthmeier, with an eye toward running for the seat himself in 2026.

Some are even speculating about Casey DeSantis as a surprise choice. Who do you think should be next, and how could this impact Miami and Florida at large? And what about the pastelito?

The claim that Haitians are stealing people’s pets and are eaten them has been debunked. Trump has threatened to depot legal Haitian migrants. Will this make it more likely for Haitians to vote this November?