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‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Hey, did everyone catch that the governor of Florida (Desantis) and his wife had a charity that took kick backs and was money laundering?

As DeSantis administration officials scrambled last year to craft a Medicaid overbilling settlement that diverted millions to the Hope Florida Foundation, lawyers for healthcare contractor Centene and the Florida Attorney General’s Office tried to distance their clients from the agreement, a trove of newly released records shows.

Over 22 days in September, then-Chief Deputy Attorney General John Guard repeatedly removed references to his office in drafts of the settlement passed among negotiators.

Centene’s lawyers inserted language emphasizing that the company was “directed by the state” to donate $10 million of its $67 million settlement to the foundation. The attorneys insisted that Florida’s Office of Inspector General or attorney general be mentioned in the agreement.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311619075.html

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Yeah, this runs far deeper than local school districts.

Project 2025 says to make "obscenity" illegal, then classify anything they don't like (books about, or public display of, LGBTQism) as obscene. US has been here before, of course, but now 5/9 of the Supreme Court will ignore established law and approve.

They aren't vastly expanding the prison system for immigrants; immigrants get deported.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I agree with you except they are housing immigrants there too. They are bringing back massive slave labor. Right now, it's just the prison population (who are also making quotas) making jeans and stuff. They need people to work the farms now.

They aren’t vastly expanding the prison system for immigrants; immigrants get deported.

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