A Florida Man...

[billy.pilgrim]

Looks like we have a domestic terrorist Vanity plate

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/flori ... ntroversy/

"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took to Twitter last week to promote the state’s new license plate design."

"DeSantis meanwhile has claimed on Twitter that the plate is intended to send a clear message to out-of-state cars, “‘Don’t Tread on Me’ or Florida.”'

It would be pretty easy to create a boot sticker that's neo-stomping the snake.

Or DeSantis

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It would be pretty easy to create a boot sticker that's neo-stomping the snake.

Or DeSantis

Florida Has An Outrageous New Law Targeting Teachers. Here's Why I'll Be Breaking It.
"My students aren’t the snowflakes Gov. DeSantis assumes they are... and neither am I."

In a couple of weeks, I’ll walk back into my college classroom and continue my second decade of teaching at one of Florida’s universities. Despite the recently passed HB 7 Amendment (Stop WOKE Act), I won’t be adjusting my syllabi to remove readings or discussions that make students “uncomfortable,” and I won’t pretend that systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and other forms of oppression do not exist. I will not “whitewash” our country’s history or minimize the challenges and oppression that so many still experience, especially those who are women and/or members of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Instead, I will do what I have always done. I will select the creative work of writers who belong to all sorts of communities, and I will require students to read their stories and discuss the work and their themes. Some of those themes are difficult and may make many of us uncomfortable, no matter how we identify or what community we’re in.

But my students aren’t the snowflakes Gov. DeSantis assumes they are... and neither am I. We can take a little discomfort in our efforts to become a more educated ― and empathetic — group of people. The author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns us that, “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make the one story become the only story.” Those of us who are able to come to college do so, in part, I hope, to expand our worldview. And my students come to learn how to tell their own stories, and one of the ways we teach that is to study what others have done....

This is not indoctrination. It’s education.

As long as I’m allowed in a classroom, I’ll do my job.

I wish Gov. DeSantis would do the same.

Beth L. Matterson is a pseudonym for a college instructor and writer in Florida. Matterson writes poetry, memoir and occasionally fiction. She would much prefer hanging out with her dog than writing an essay like this, but she notes, “I lose sleep when I consider an America where so many are silenced, and we become more concerned with one’s comfort than one’s learning.”

Initials B.L.M.

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It would be pretty easy to create a boot sticker that's neo-stomping the snake.

Or DeSantis

Or a 'judge neo-stomping DerSantis' sticker.

Judge blocks Florida 'woke' law pushed by Gov. DeSantis

... Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker said in a 44-page ruling that the “Stop WOKE” act violates the First Amendment and is impermissibly vague. Walker also refused to issue a stay that would keep the law in effect during any appeal by the state.

The law targets what DeSantis has called a “pernicious” ideology exemplified by critical race theory — the idea that racism is systemic in U.S. institutions that serve to perpetuate white dominance in society.

Walker said the law, as applied to diversity, inclusion and bias training in businesses, turns the First Amendment “upside down" because the state is barring speech by prohibiting discussion of certain concepts in training programs.

“If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,” the judge wrote. “But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.”

... The ruling Thursday came in one of three lawsuits challenging the Stop Woke act. It was filed by private entities, Clearwater-based Honeyfund.com and others, claiming their free speech rights are curtailed because the law infringes on company training programs stressing diversity, inclusion, elimination of bias and prevention of workplace harassment. Companies with 15 or more employees could face civil lawsuits over such practices.

That lawsuit says Honeyfund — which provides wedding registries — seeks to protect the rights of private employers to “engage in open and free exchange of information with employees to identify and begin to address discrimination and harm” in their organizations.

“Diversity in the workplace is good for business,” Honeyfund CEO Sara Margulis said on Twitter after the ruling. “Diversity training often addresses concepts like systemic racism, unconscious bias, and privilege. This is why @Honeyfund challenged this illegal restriction on free speech.”

Another lawsuit, which was filed Thursday by college professors and students, claims the law amounts to “racially motivated censorship” that will act to “stifle widespread demands to discuss, study and address systemic inequalities” underscored by the national discussion of race after the killing of George Floyd, who was Black, by Minneapolis police in May 2020.

“In place of free and open academic inquiry and debate, instructors fear discussing topics of oppression, privilege, and race and gender inequalities with which the Legislature disagrees,” the lawsuit says. “As a result, students are either denied access to knowledge altogether or instructors are forced to present incomplete or inaccurate information that is steered toward the Legislature's own views.”

... Like the professors, a group of K-12 teachers and a student claim in a third pending lawsuit that the law violates the Constitution's protections of free expression, academic freedom and access to information in public schools.

“The Stop WOKE Act aims to forward the government’s preferred narrative of history and society and to render illegal speech that challenges that narrative,” the lawsuit says....

Another example of this is DeSantis' effort to punish Walt Disney World for the company's opposition to the Parental Rights in Education law, labeled by critics as the “Don't Say Gay” law because it limits gender orientation instruction in early grades and chills discussion of the issue overall in schools.

The governor pushed the Legislature to end Disney World's special independent district that essentially enabled it to run its own private government. That law doesn't take full effect until June 2023 but has already been challenged in court.

Other lawsuits have challenged DeSantis priorities such as a ban on abortion after 15 weeks, a measure to fine tech companies if they “de-platform” political candidates over their viewpoints, an “anti-riot” law enacting new felonies after Black Lives Matter protests and a law placing new restrictions on elections.

billy.pilgrim's tax dollars at work defending DerSantis defecations on the Constitution.

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Such a diverse group…

Has she tied herself up to anything lately?

This is who they love???

Laura Loomer

I'll be damned, she lost.

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This is who they love???

Laura Loomer

I'll be damned, she lost.

Close enough for her whiny paranoia to be "validated".

Daniel Webster (i) R 43,324 votes 51.0%
Laura Loomer R 37,564 votes 44.2%
Gavriel Soriano R 4,061 votes 4.8%
The heavily contested Dem primary barely drew as many voters as Webster alone did.

I also notice:

Matt Gaetz (i) R 73,015 votes 69.7%
Mark Lombardo R 25,560 votes 24.4%
Greg Merk R 6,123 votes 5.8%
billy.pilgrim's neighbors are assholes.

He'll face the sometimes flaky FL Health Dept whistleblower:

Rebekah Jones D 21,473 votes 62.5%
Peggy Schiller D 12,861 votes 37.5%
Good on her for trying, but the Dems drew less than half the voters that Goofy Gaetz alone did.

https://www.wesh.com/app/results-florid ... s/40932536

Also, Crist with a stomping vs DerSantis. I hope FL Dems are giving themselves the best shot, though it's possible they never had any at all.

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He'll face the sometimes flaky FL Health Dept whistleblower:

Rebekah Jones D 21,473 votes 62.5%

Jeez, with her arrest and track record it's hard to believe she's not a Republican.

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... Matt Gaetz (i) R 73,015 votes 69.7%
Mark Lombardo R 25,560 votes 24.4%
Greg Merk R 6,123 votes 5.8%
billy.pilgrim's neighbors are assholes.

He'll face the sometimes flaky FL Health Dept whistleblower:

Rebekah Jones D 21,473 votes 62.5%
Peggy Schiller D 12,861 votes 37.5% ...

Jeez, with her arrest and track record it's hard to believe she's not a Republican.

It's interesting that the infamous December 7, 2020 raid on her home and seizure of her comms devices have still not led to prosecution. DerSantis being DerSantis.

RepuQs or Dems, there's something about billy.pilgrim's neighbors.
Who did you vote for, billy.pilgrim?

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... Matt Gaetz (i) R 73,015 votes 69.7%
Mark Lombardo R 25,560 votes 24.4%
Greg Merk R 6,123 votes 5.8%
billy.pilgrim's neighbors are assholes.

He'll face the sometimes flaky FL Health Dept whistleblower:

Rebekah Jones D 21,473 votes 62.5%
Peggy Schiller D 12,861 votes 37.5% ...

Jeez, with her arrest and track record it's hard to believe she's not a Republican.

It's interesting that the infamous December 7, 2020 raid on her home and seizure of her comms devices have still not led to prosecution. DerSantis being DerSantis.

RepuQs or Dems, there's something about billy.pilgrim's neighbors.
Who did you vote for, billy.pilgrim?

I sat it out.

As for my neighbors, typical socialists military assholes with their kill other people bumper stickers and t-shirts forever begging for more and more from Uncle Nanny and bragging about their great life choices while the shit on the rest if the country.

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A proud sleaze bag, under credible investigation for minor-diddling, whose every public comment brings ridicule gets almost 70% of the vote. I don't know anything about the other RepuQ candidates, but surely there had to be a better one than Gaetz. Brings up the realistic possibility that he really could get elected from a jail cell.

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A proud sleaze bag, under credible investigation for minor-diddling, whose every public comment brings ridicule gets almost 70% of the vote. I don't know anything about the other RepuQ candidates, but surely there had to be a better one than Gaetz. Brings up the realistic possibility that he really could get elected from a jail cell.

All true, but aren't there at least 50 more who run neck and swollen head with him and don't forget the 70 million who tried to give away the WH to an orange turd who dwarfs gaetz's crimes and slime.

We be fucked as a country. At least the few reasonables in NW Florida can blame the ignorant rednecks and military pukes for making vice and theft of the commons fashionable.

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We be fucked as a country.

A very concise and precise summary of it all.

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... We be fucked as a country. At least the few reasonables in NW Florida can blame the ignorant rednecks and military pukes for making vice and theft of the commons fashionable.

Speaking of vice, theft and being fucked, every state has con artists, but only Florida calls theirs a 'Mother Teresa'.

A Florida woman touted as a 'Mother Teresa' ran a $196 million Ponzi scheme, feds say

Praise the lord.

[billy.pilgrim]

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/ ... 119165001/

DeSantis appointee, like trump he only appoints the best people

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https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/ ... 119165001/

DeSantis appointee, like trump he only appoints the best people

I'll say. "Moore, a Havana resident who earned a bachelor's degree from Florida State University ..."
Ew.

That's DerSantis in drag (nttawwt) with the white top.

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Florida dads shoot each other's daughters in terrifying road rage incident



They look smart.

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They look smart.

They look related.

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They look smart.

They look related.

Florida dads shoot each other's daughters (who are also their own second cousins) in terrifying road rage incident

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They'll both claim they wuz skeered and shot in self defence. Probably will work, at least for the second guy to shoot. Nassau County is bounded to the east with Amelia Island, upscale residential and recreational area. The rest is pretty much the place that creates "Florida Man" stereotypes and makes billy.p's neighbors look like the epitome of sophistication. Amelia Island has the Ritz Carleton and the Concours d'Elegance. The rest of the county has a heavy infestation of rednecks that got kicked out of Georgia.

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They'll both claim they wuz skeered and shot in self defence. Probably will work, at least for the second guy to shoot. Nassau County is bounded to the east with Amelia Island, upscale residential and recreational area. The rest is pretty much the place that creates "Florida Man" stereotypes and makes billy.p's neighbors look like the epitome of sophistication. Amelia Island has the Ritz Carleton and the Concours d'Elegance. The rest of the county has a heavy infestation of rednecks that got kicked out of Georgia.

When rednecks breed:

One killed after teens take turns shooting each other wearing body armor, Florida police say

The parents who gave them access to the gun will probably sue the body armor maker.