DeSantis Signs Bill Restricting Social Media Access for Minors in Florida

On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law. This bill prohibits children under the age of 14 from accessing social media platforms within the state. The recently signed bill also requires those aged 14 or 15 to obtain parental consent before joining any social media platform. HB3, the bill in question, instructs … Read more

DeSantis signs social media ban for minors

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida will have one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges — under a bill signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday. The bill will ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for 15- and … Read more

Battle lines are drawn in SJC clerk race

State Sen. Lydia Edwards is backing Allison Cartwright for clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, announcing her support in a social media post that appeared to take a shot at her former colleague on the Boston City Council, Erin Murphy. Edwards made it clear in two separate posts on X this month that she prefers … Read more

Don’t just limit Haitian refugees to Martha’s Vineyard, Gov. DeSantis

Please, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, don’t let Martha’s Vineyard have all the fun with illegal aliens. You must remember, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has more than 300 communities. And at least 20 or 30 of them are as deeply in need of a good, hard celebration of diversity as Martha’s Vineyard no doubt is. Governor, … Read more

Ron DeSantis Is Still Holding Out Hope Trump Will Go to Prison and He’ll Step In to Become the Next President, Claims GOP Operative

One of the major criticisms of Ron DeSantis’s campaign for the GOP nomination was that he went far too easy on his biggest competition, a.k.a. Donald Trump. Yet since dropping out of the race, the Florida governor has fully trashed the ex-president, saying Trump accomplished virtually nothing of note while in office and preemptively rejecting … Read more

Ron DeSantis’s Surgeon General Tells Parents It’s Okay to Send Their Unvaccinated Kids to School Amid Measles Outbreak

In 2021, Ron DeSantis appointed Joseph Ladapo the surgeon general of Florida, after Ladapo’s op-eds questioning mask-wearing, COVID-19 vaccines, and other public health measures caught the governor’s eye. In the ensuing years, Ladapo has recommended children should not receive the COVID vaccine, has “weaponize[d] bad science to spread anti-vaccine disinformation as official policy,” and has personally … Read more

Sen. Michael Bennet, Rep. Ken Buck want to regulate AI in Congress

As artificial intelligence starts to reshape society in ways predictable and not, some of Colorado’s highest-profile federal lawmakers are trying to establish guardrails without shutting down the technology altogether. U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Windsor Republican, is cosponsoring legislation with California Democrat Ted Lieu to create a national commission focused on regulating the technology and … Read more

Nikki Haley’s ‘sticky’ problem: Will big donors stay?

The Wall Street donor class used to rule elections; today not so much, though the fat-cat money men (and women) will have an outsized role in just how long Nikki Haley stays in her race against GOP front-runner Donald Trump. In Haley’s somewhat strange quest for the GOP nomination, she needs big money more than … Read more

Florida Politicos Are Worried a Bitter Ron DeSantis Is Coming Home in Revenge-Mode: Report

Ron DeSantis’s decision earlier this month to drop out of the Republican presidential primary spared Americans from the possibility of having to endure his petty authoritarianism for four (or more) years.* But there‘s one group of people who aren’t so lucky, and those are the people of Florida, who have to live with him as … Read more