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OpenAI Is A Menace And Sam Altman Knows It, Florida AG Declares; “Danger Of Addiction … Suicide, Violence & Related Harms”

1 June 2026 at 19:07
With a blistering lawsuit filed Monday, the state of Florida may succeed where Elon Musk failed in bringing OpenAI and Sam Altman to heel. “Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said this morning after filing an 83-page complaint in the Sunshine State’s […]

José Javier Rodríguez, the Cuban‑American Democrat seeking to rescue the Florida attorney general’s office from Trumpism

27 May 2026 at 09:43

José Javier Rodríguez, the Democratic candidate for Florida attorney general, does not want the page turned on the notorious immigrant detention site Alligator Alcatraz, west of Miami, which has become a symbol of the “cruelty” of the Donald Trump administration. If he wins the November election, the 47-year-old Cuban American says he will investigate how Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration established the facility as a “political theater for consumption in Washington.”

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José Javier Rodríguez, on May 18 2025.

The battle to redraw electoral districts ahead of the midterms: Where changes have been confirmed and where they are awaiting approval

27 May 2026 at 09:27

The redrawing of electoral districts, or gerrymandering, in the United States is reaching unprecedented levels. After the Supreme Court’s late-April ruling changed electoral rules and curtailed minority rights, Republicans have stepped up efforts to dismantle majority-Black districts, especially in the South, though the strategy extends to states beyond that region.

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Redistricting map of Texas congressional districts at the Capitol in Austin, August 20, 2025.

Marvin Dunn, the Miami historian challenging Trump’s presidential library: ‘This is commercial benefit for the family directly’

1 June 2026 at 18:09
Marvin Dunn at his community urban farm in Overtown, Miami, May 27.

Marvin Dunn moves with surprising agility among the beds of lettuce, cabbage, and potatoes on his community farm in Overtown, a historic Black neighborhood in Miami that was fractured by the construction of the interstate highway in the 1960s. The farm, squeezed between I-95 and the high-rises packed into nearby downtown, is a kind of oasis where the 85-year-old historian — one of the most recognized voices on the history of segregation in Florida — hosts talks, distributes banned books, and is now preparing a new legal battle to stop construction of Donald Trump’s presidential library a little over 1,000 meters away.

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View of the Miami Dade College land under consideration for the possible construction of Donald Trump’s presidential library, in Miami, Florida.Crops at Dunn’s Overtown Farm.Marvin Dunn inspects crops at Dunn’s Overtown Farm on May 27.

The Democratic battle over a Florida district reveals the political cost of DeSantis’ new electoral map

21 June 2026 at 04:00

The ripple effect of the Republicans’ political maneuvering to secure a congressional majority has opened a rift within the Democratic Party in Florida. The new electoral map promoted by Governor Ron DeSantis altered the electoral geography so dramatically that it erased District 25, the seat Debbie Wasserman Schultz previously held in Broward, north of Miami, leaving the congresswoman living in another district and her voters dispersed into other, more Republican-leaning districts.

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the Capitol in Washington on January 22.
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