spending pools, that move is gonna force desantis to file paperwork within the next 15 days. that s officially acknowledging his intentions to run for president for the first time. even though he hasn t officially announced yet, he has been acting like a presidential candid for several weeks. yesterday, travel to the early republican primary state of iowa. where he attended a pair of events and met with voters. super pac backing him had to santa s 2024 signs, merchandise available yesterday s event and during a speech, he turned his attention to the election. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024 it s gonna get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing that isn t affected our party in recent years. the time for extra races is over. we gotta demonstrate the courage to lead and the strength to win. if we do that, if we make 2024 election a referendum on joe biden and his failures. if we provide a positive alt
that number has already more than doubled a similar letter bills passed in 2022. as you can see, the number bills introduced this year exceeds the number of bills totally in the past four years. or the four prior years. so far this, year more than 50 anti lgbtq bills have passed nationwide. anti-trans rhetoric and, subsequently, anti-trans legislation have become central to right wing messaging among those passing laws at the state level. advocates for trans rights have been saying for a long time that anti-lgbtq policy, and specifically, this focused, excel or the attack on tribespeople is actual part of a political strategy from the right. and the political right lost same sex marriage as a central rallying point for the socially conservative christian right. they needed something else to chin up support. and, moral panic. and they are admitting it. the new york times spoke to some people involved in the, effort quote, we knew needed to find an issue that the candidates were comforta
ultimately going to hurt alabama in a state that has a lot of military assets, a lot of military personnel, a lot of federal dollars that come in that people are going to remember this if he doesn t go ahead and let this go through. i go back to this white nationalism question. tommy tuberville is not a civil rights lawyer, that is on his background. but, growing up in alabama, being a certain age. what is the likelihood that one doesn t have a relatively good understanding of white nationalism. i m not sure that a grown man should be confusing the two things. he is saying that calling trump supporters and maga people s the that they are being called white nationalism i am not sure that that s, i m not sure that it all. i agree, but remember, heating robin alabama. i m not even sure he lives in alabama right now. he just has an apartment in arbon, where he has his, quote, residents. so i don t know if he has kind of history.
initially submitted in early april, according to florida s department of education, dozens contained, quote, inaccurate material, errors, and other information that was not aligned with florida law. and quote. a lot of the books now proved we re only given the greenlight once publishers made significant revisions, requested by the state. here are some examples. in a section of one textbook that discussed symbols and songs that represent america a whole passage about taking a knee during the national anthem in protest of racism and police brutality was entirely removed in a textbook for middle schoolers, a passages remember that discussed the black lives matter movement, the murder of george floyd, and significant impact on american society. mistakes said that passage contained, quote, unsolicited topics, and quote. i am joined by kelly carter jackson, an associate professor at africana studies at wells college. he s also the author of the book, force and freedom, black abolitionists an
comments in support of white nationalists by issuing a statement to, quote, clarify what the senator actually meant. in a statement to the washington post, tuberville s representatives said, quote, senator tuberville s quote that decided showed he was being skeptical of the notion that there are white nationalists in the military not that he believed that they should be in the military, and quote. okay, that s what s it out. until the next day when tuberville address the issue himself. miami asked whether he should go in the military. instead of saying no, he stood the conversation elsewhere. pay tension to this exchange. sir, if there are folks with white nationalist beliefs, of which there are in this country unfortunately, do you believe they should be serving in the military? we got to define that first. what is a white nationalist? someone who propagates nazism, someone who doesn t believe that black and brown people are equals. you think a white