USA: Seeking Full Equality in Florida

<p>Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to July 2nd, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to... </p> <p><a class="btn btn-md btn-default" href="https://joy.org.au/worldwidewave/2024/07/04/world-wide-wrap-lgbtqia-new ... Show More

<p>In the Gulf States, penalties for queer acts can include imprisonment, deportation, torture and even death. Yet the region is dominated by migrants, including queer migrants, who make a deliberate... </p> <p><a class="btn btn-md btn-default" href="https://joy.org.au/worldwidew ... Show More

<p>Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to June 11th, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to... </p> <p><a class="btn btn-md btn-default" href="https://joy.org.au/worldwidewave/2024/06/12/world-wide-wrap-lgbtqia-ne ... Show More

En Floride, une loi tout juste entrée en vigueur interdit aux instituteurs d’école maternelle et de primaires d’évoquer les questions de genre et d’homosexualité avec leurs élèves… Une loi qui fait débat. Même Disney a pris position (contre). Caroline du Saint de <em>Nova Product ... Show More

Florida is growing... fast. Actually faster than most other states, which is astounding given that it is already the fourth largest state economy in the US. This might sound like great news for Floridians and the USA at large, but is there a hidden cost behind Florida's rapid gro ... Show More

In this episode, Leyla sits down with Florida Representative Anna Eskamani, the first Iranian-American to serve in the Florida Legislature, to discuss her immigrant Iranian parents and how her mother's values continue to lead her as she's making big waves in Florida politics. Ann ... Show More

On the twilight of Pride Month, the New York Times published (and sent out a push notification for) a guest essay titled “How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized and Lost Its Way” by a gay journalist named Andrew Sullivan. If you thought I could resist this A Bit Fruity bait, you ... Show More

THE THESIS: Ron DeSantis understands lawfare. Will the limp GOP ever get that? If they ever grew the guts to undertake it, we would be able to push the leftist portion of The Party back into their spider holes.  THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES:  Isaiah 10:33 See, the Lord, t ... Show More

Campaigning in Georgia, Kamala Harris' most anticipated celebrity supporter will take the stage tonight. Meanwhile, Donald Trump goes somewhere even he admits he's not gone before. Plus, in the fight for Congress, we're getting a clearer picture of where voters stand with the bal ... Show More

It’s not quite red-yarn-on-a-corkboard, but given how often we’ve been thinking about the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) over the years, it may as well be. The group has become a vital component of the conservative legal movement, with pay-to-play access afforded ... Show More

Melissa Alexander came to the Tennessee statehouse to convince members of the Republican party – her party – to adopt gun control measures after a mass shooting at her son's school. A year later, she doesn't feel like she's gotten through to many lawmakers. But there's at least o ... Show More

At least two people were killed and six others were injured in a shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Police said the gunman has been identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, an FSU student who is the son of a Leon County deputy sheriff. Seven years after the Park ... Show More

<p>Joe Sudbay fills in for John again while he is on his cruise. He talks about the major election victories in New Jersey, Virginia, New York, Maine, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, California, Georgia and elsewhere as voters took to the polls for an off-year rejection of Trump Admin ... Show More