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Florida Continues Its Execution Spree Despite Problematic Track Record

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This story is published in partnership with The Florida Trib. In a small, piercingly bright room inside a state prison in northeast Florida, Frank Walls was strapped to a gurney and injected three times: first with a sedative meant to render him unconscious, then a paralytic to prevent any visible movement, and finally potassium acetate […]

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So-Called “Intellectual Freedom Centers” Spread Right-Wing Ideologies on Campus

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The push to reshape education has gained considerable momentum under the second Trump administration.

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Florida’s Governor Is a Veteran. So Are Seven Inmates He’ll Send to the Execution Chamber This Year.

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This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. The caravan of executions started with a US Army veteran in March. It continued in May with a former Army Ranger who served in the Gulf War, then an Air Force veteran […]

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Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them.

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About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in part because executions have been on the decline in the US. But that’s changing. So far this year, 41 people have been executed, up from 25 last year, and six more executions are scheduled.  Early in his second term, […]

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Local Governments Worked Hard to Hedge Against Climate Disaster. Florida Leaders Bigfooted Them.

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Manatee County’s commissioners didn’t expect to be threatened with removal from office for considering two measures meant to enhance disaster resilience in this fast-growing county on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The measures, both amendments to the county’s comprehensive plan, were […]

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Republicans Pushed Hundreds of Bills This Year to Curtail Local Governments

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As Trump wages war on US cities, GOP-led states have swiftly passed an array of laws threatening their autonomy.

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Florida Awarded $608 Million Grant for Migrant Jails Under FEMA Program

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The state will also get $38 million from ICE for equipment and transportation involved in detaining non-citizens.

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DHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like “Alligator Alcatraz”

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Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem mentioned plans to build similar immigration jails in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana.

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Being Trans Behind Bars in Florida Was Already Hard. Under Trump, It’s Worse.

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Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.

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