Ron DeSantis

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump should not appear on the state’s 2024 election ballots. The court cited the 14th Amendment, which holds that insurrectionists are disqualified from the presidency. The decision is stayed until Jan. 4, and Trump will likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. It can be easy to forget, but there are currently a handful of Republicans running against Trump for the party’s presidential nomination. Most of their campaigns revolve around the idea that Trump is…

When Kate Cox was forced to flee Texas after state authorities denied her pleas to terminate a potentially deadly pregnancy, it laid bare the true cost of state control over women’s reproductive health. It’s also made plain that Republicans — despite their claims to hold the moral high ground on abortion — cannot defend the policies they champion when they present real-world consequences.  Cox, whose 21-week-old fetus was diagnosed with a deadly genetic condition, had been in and out of emergency rooms as her…

Image: Walt Disney PicturesThe House of Mouse celebrated its centennial in 2023 through monumental film and television releases and Disney Parks experiences, while dealing with real-world repercussions during historic writers and actors’ strikes. And then, of course, there was the whole ongoing skirmish with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Disney100 was one for the books with incredible peaks and challenging valleys for the Walt Disney Company as Bob Iger returned to lead the studio into the waters of 2023. This year, Star…

The Florida Standard has gone belly up. The death of a low-circulation right-wing rag would normally be fairly unremarkable, except that this particular publication is a favorite propaganda outfit of Florida governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis.  According to a report from The Floridian, the Standard, which has for months now operated on extremely friendly, very accessible terms with the DeSantis campaign, has fired all of its staff and will cease operating before the new year. Sources who spoke to The…

Ron DeSantis, who in the Congress voted three times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, is now promising a less costly, “better plan” of his own to “supersede” it while bashing Donald Trump for failing to fulfill his vow to “repeal and replace” the popular health care legislation. He also ducked a question on whether he would sign a federal abortion ban but promised to restrict access in other ways. During a Meet the Press interview on Sunday, the Florida governor claimed that his plan would “lower prices” but…

Disney CEO Bob Iger—who over the summer described the demands of striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA workers as “not realistic,” then pulled back on that harsh statement by pushing to end the strikes quickly (as backed up by Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav)—has addressed some of his company’s most pressing matters as 2024 approaches.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedOne of the things that immediately began to circulate online was Iger’s controversial take on the state of Disney films during today’s…

A meeting where high-level strategists for Florida Governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis were supposed to discuss strategy against his rival Nikki Haley almost descended into a melee, according to a report from NBC News.  Sources who spoke to NBC revealed that the near-brawl, which took place last Tuesday, reflected growing tensions within the board of Desantis’ main PAC, Never Back Down. According to one source who was in the room, Jeff Roe, a consultant for Never Back Down, nearly came to blows with…

When CNN’s Jake Tapper gave Ron DeSantis multiple opportunities to condemn Elon Musk’s antisemitic post on X (formerly Twitter), DeSantis repeatedly ducked the question. “I did not see the comment. I know Elon has had a target on his back ever since he purchased Twitter because he’s taking it in a direction that a lot of people who are used to controlling the narrative don’t like,” DeSantis said. “So I was a big supporter of him purchasing Twitter. I think that they’re obviously still working some stuff out, but I…

The Republican presidential candidates duking it out to be the party’s nominee are also vying for the chance to lead the nation when American boots next set foot on the Moon.Five Republican candidates participated in this week’s presidential debate in Miami. While space is unlikely to be high on a campaign’s list of priorities during a primary, here is what we know so far about the candidates’ space résumés. Why it mattersThe president is in charge of setting national space policy and proposing budgets that fund his or…

As covid vaccines started to roll out in February 2021, misinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding the shot were on the rise—as were the deaths of Republican voters. David Byrne on New Tech and AI | Gizmodo InterviewA new study from Yale University looked at 538,159 people in Ohio and Florida starting on May 1, 2021,and focused on counties that reported lower vaccination rates. In the first year of the pandemic, the number of covid-related deaths was evenly dispersed among both Democrats and Republicans, but that…