So say the watchdogs with 1000 Friends of Florida. So hugs and sippy cups for everyone.Īlso, if you’re one of the many citizens who contacted your legislator about that costly toll-road plan, give yourself a hug. But, just like with toddlers, politicians should be praised and encouraged when they clean up their own messes. Sure, it would’ve been better if they’d never greenlit this boondoggle in the first place. The House wisely voted unanimously to mostly undo this expensive exercise in sprawl. Rarely do I write those three words But let’s give praise where it’s due - to lawmakers who did a complete 180 and voted to repeal a plan to spend billions of dollars on unneeded toll roads. That means this school - which claimed that vaccines in one person could impact menstrual cycles in another - is eligible to get public money to educate children in this state. Here’s the slug: That school is a participant in Florida’s school voucher program. That part of the story is maybe worth a shrug. Twitter apparently quickly realized the conspiracy was the school’s and not the reporter’s, telling Florida Politics that it had suspended the journalist’s posting privileges “in error.” (Note that fixing the problem didn’t require a new law.) Speaking of Twitter, a TV reporter in South Florida had his Twitter account temporarily suspended this week after sharing a disturbing story about a private school in Miami discouraging its teachers from getting COVID vaccinations for fear that the teachers’ vaccinated bodies would somehow affect other people’s menstrual cycles. “It makes me uncomfortable that we have to have this conversation.” “This is a bill you would see in countries that we don’t want to talk about …” he said. Petersburg warned his colleagues that their attempts at government-regulated speech were better suited for Cuba. But Republican legislators advanced the bill anyway. The Legislature’s own analysts cited both the First Amendment and the Constitution’s supremacy clause as legal hurdles. Government can’t require a private company to spread filth or falsehoods. This bill threatens to fine companies up to $250,000 a day for shutting off any politician’s account for any reason. But this bill goes right over a constitutional cliff, telling Twitter and Facebook that they have to let politicians to use the companies’ privately funded platforms - even if those politicians are using them to spread lies, share porn or make threats. Many of us want better from social-media companies. And if it becomes law, you’ll end up paying to defend this mess of a law. Mark my words: The Twitter crackdown that legislators approved this week is unconstitutional.
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