Ron DeSantis suffered a humiliating defeat in his effort to win the GOP presidential nomination. But he's still governor of Florida and has the power to do a lot of damage in the state.
While Republicans like to talk a lot about devolving power to localities, DeSantis has a record of using state government to bully Florida municipalities. His latest move limits local governments' abilities to protect citizens.
Florida is seeing two more recent instances of state government under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis limiting the powers of local government with newly signed bills that deal with worker safety and police oversight.
A bill signed Thursday bans local governments from requiring heat and water breaks for outdoor workers. And a bill DeSantis signed Friday strips local citizen police oversight boards from investigating officers.
Some Republicans feel nostalgic about slavery. Now workers in Florida no longer have protections from local governments when it comes to working during hot weather. And with climate change, Florida ain't getting any colder.
And if any of those workers protest their working conditions, any police misconduct involved in repressing those protests will no longer be disciplined by local civilian police review boards.
Florida, one of the hottest states in the country, local governments will be banned from requiring heat and water breaks for outdoor workers.
It was a direct response to Miami-Dade County's effort to require shade and water for construction, farm and other outdoor workers.
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Democratic state Sen. Victor Torres called the new law an attack on workers.
Heaven forbid that DeSantis and his Florida GOP would let workers get enough water and shade!
Civilian police boards have been reduced by DeSantis to little more than talking shops.
Separately, DeSantis signed a bill Friday that would ban local policy advisory commissions from initiating disciplinary actions against officers, instead limiting the citizens boards to making recommendations on policy. DeSantis was surrounded by law enforcement officers and in front of cheering supporters as he signed the bill to ban citizens oversight boards from investigating complaints about police officers.
And the bill effectively puts the wolf in charge of the chicken coop.
The law also requires the oversight boards to be appointed by and under the direction of sheriffs and police chiefs. At least one member of oversight boards must be a retired law enforcement officer.
DeSantis is turning Florida into an anti-worker police state.
Of course Ron would not have such influence without huge Republican majorities in the gerrymandered Florida legislature.
Reducing those legislative majorities is a first step to re-democratization in the state. Look up who represents you in the legislature. If DeSantis Republicans represent your districts, contact the county or state Democratic Party to see what you can do to defeat the DeSantis lackeys.
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If the reproductive freedom amendment passes this year, that may bode well for a future anti-gerrymandering amendment in the future.
Florida is not as solidly Republican as some people think. Trump won the state in 2020 by just 3.36% of the vote. Michigan went from a Republican trifecta to a Democratic trifecta in less than 10 years; with some effort and unity, Florida can do the same.
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A low-speed train on Enith. Enith has a pretty extensive train network, both above and below ground. Granted, the above ground trains tend to be partially submerged anyways.
There are also high-speed trains used in specific situations on Enith, but they’re more often than not limited to a handful of jobs and functions, such as emergency medical and fire management services.
Sadly a human person would only barely fit in one of these. Both species of Corldaxians from Enith are. Short. The tallest one is like five foot which does not translate well to humans having comfortable beds.
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p sure that is the same anon as before n theyr just pissy bout some character they submitted not being deemed plural lmaoo
-🌀sys (blurry)
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as much as we ripped off thier url ;
we are not is-this-plural, not everything is plural and not every rating will be
i do also think that anon was just pissy abt a rating but 😔 sighs what can ya do
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Shitpost 4 life
Real thing I'm feeling
No eyes can see it
Part dream part memory
Got to make myself believe
But can I keep it all together
Waiting for the real thing?
Can I keep it all together
Waiting for the real
The real thing
Real thing I'm feeling
No eyes can see it
Part dream part memory
Got to make myself believe
Can I keep it all together
Waiting for the real thing?
Can I keep it all together
Waiting for the real
The real thing @bigbonzo
The Real Thing by Turnstile, Mall Grab
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So i love Holly/The Halo sosososososo much and people should listen to the Super Suits podcast
Also dont THINK I didnt clock what Harper was humming start of ep3
I’m not quite happy with these designs and its probably not logical but i think it would be conceptually funny if The Halo disguised herself by a way too bright light around her face because she is such a star in my eyes lol!
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