Last month, donald trump said that if Ron DeSantis ends up jumping into the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, he’ll “handle” the Florida governor “the way I handle things.” Obviously, this did not mean that he’ll simply run a better campaign and/or hire a therapist to teach him breathing exercises and think calming … Read more
Earlier this month, as part of his dystopian attempt to dictate the topics people can and cannot discuss in the state of Florida, Ron DeSantis‘s administration sent a letter to the College Board rejecting a new AP course on African American studies, claiming the class is “contrary to Florida law” and “significantly lacks educational value.” … Read more
CNN — Former President Donald Trump’s political operation brought in $9.5 million in the roughly six weeks after he announced his latest White House bid, according to a familiar source with the fundraising numbers. The haul is smaller than the nearly $11.8 million raised by Trump entities in the six weeks before the Republican’s November … Read more
Photo: Getty Images Once the NHL let one through the door, it stood to reason that another would follow. After the Flyers’ Ivan Provorov refused to wear their Pride Night jerseys in warmups, and their coach John Tortorella refused to admonish him in any way (nor did the official partner of the NHL in these … Read more
CNN — Former President Donald Trump took aim at Ron DeSantis Saturday, claiming the Florida governor and his team are “trying to rewrite history” regarding their Covid-19 pandemic response, and called the potential presidential run by his GOP rival “very disloyal.” “There are Republican governors that did not close their states,” Trump told reporters while … Read more
Picture this: It’s summer, and Republican presidential hopefuls are gathered on stage for their first 2024 presidential primary debate. Who’s moderating? The most unlikely of duos: CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Newsmax’s Greg Kelly. It’s not an impossible scenario, according to a pair of recent reports about the Republican National Committee’s plans for the 2024 presidential … Read more
Are you a single-celled organism? Do you feel like too much contemporary sports talk is just a bunch of nerds and women screaming about analytics, or that everyone on the TV talks too fast? Do you miss smoking in hospital wards? Then, Jason Whitlock has dug up some stale, low-hanging fruit disguised as sports takes, … Read more
One of Florida governor Ron DeSantis‘s favorite little mottos is “Florida is where woke goes to die.” In fact, a better, more accurate motto would be “Ron DeSantis’s Florida is where free speech goes to die, unless you’ve agreed to the governor’s list of preapproved talking points, like that LGBTQ+ people don’t exist, white people … Read more
Image: Getty Images When the Jaguars take on the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium, it will be Jacksonville’s first time playing in the Divisional Round since 2017 — which is also the last time the Jags made the playoffs. 2017 is coincidentally the same year in which members of the team kneeled … Read more
CNN — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called on state lawmakers to make permanent existing penalties for companies that require all employees to get the Covid-19 vaccination, his latest move to curtail pandemic mitigation efforts. The proposal would extend indefinitely measures DeSantis signed in 2021 that made Florida the first state in the country to … Read more