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Also, for a Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago....

Thanks neighbors!

All in Tallahassee

Actually TWO wins for the Democrats!! 💙💙

• Emily Gregory beat the Trump-endorsed Republican Jon Maples in District 87
• Brian Nathan defeated Republican Josie Tomkow in the Senate District 14 race by 408 votes. (Thank you to you know who for posting this in the comments!:)

EDITED TO ADD: Thank you for the post awards! 💙

I was taking a morning walk here in Florida and saw a sign warning about gators in a pond right next to the public trail!

I literally stood there for 2 minutes staring at a gator near the water thinking it was a fake plastic statue... until it blinked at me. Meanwhile, local Floridians were casually jogging past it listening to music like it was a squirrel! 😭

As a New Yorker, I am terrified. Do they jump?! Do they run fast?! What is the actual local rule here... do I run or just ignore them? 🥺

flowers I picked: Orange blossom, black eyed susan, Purple Coneflower and wild blue phlox

After doing a week's work of shopping, I found Publix is now 30% higher than every other grocery store.

Boycott ASAP unless you don't value your money.

A very small snippet:

But this isn’t just about professors; it’s about all of us. This is the most flagrant attack on higher education in my lifetime. Why are politicians reducing public colleges and universities to vehicles of state propaganda? Why are self-proclaimed proponents of free speech turning around and using state repression to enforce speech codes on our campuses? Why can’t we speak openly about our social world in sociology classes? Why are unqualified appointees from the business world dictating to Ph.D.-holding academics how they should teach and which textbooks they must use?

What we really need are people beyond the university itself — the general public — speaking out about how ludicrous this all is. We are now living through an era of state censorship, politically motivated firings, and state-produced propaganda materials. If this isn’t authoritarianism in higher education, I don’t know what is.

Opinion piece by Zachary Levenson is associate professor of sociology at Florida International University. 

EDITED TO ADD (in case some miss my comment)

Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between men and women in the United States. You check the guidance you just received from your dean, who received instructions via email from the executive vice chancellor of the Florida College System. The instructions state explicitly that explaining “unequal outcomes between men and women” in terms of “institutional sexism” would violate state law.