Today Speaker Sexton had a mother arrested in the gallery while holding a sign opposing more guns in schools.

Each day he grows more drunk with power, and is enabled by an extremist supermajority complicit in his authoritarianism.

We are witnessing the death of our democracy.

WATCH: Sen. Ossoff on Donald Trump killing bipartisan border security bill

BREAKING: Israel has conducted strikes on a site in Iran - ABC

Where did South Florida homebuyers go? Sales fall by double digits in March miamiherald.com/news/business/…

It's been a little while since I shared these charts, but the North Atlantic sea surface temperature has been breaking record highs for 411 consecutive days now. It's presently 0.22°C above the previous record (2023), and the 1991-2020 mean feels like a long-gone climate era now.

NASHVILLE: “A Nashville teacher threatened to pull a gun on another teacher and preschool students on Thursday, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department…”
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Before court broke for the day, Blanche asked that prosecutors disclose their first three witnesses in advance.

Steinglass refused, saying Trump has been tweeting about witnesses. 'We're not telling him who the witnesses are.'

Merchan: 'I can't fault them for that.'

As Trump looks on in the courtroom, his lawyer is reading tweets from a prospective juror in which she called him “a racist, sexist narcissist” and “anathema to everything” she had been taught by her faith and that, among other things, he has no sense of right and wrong.

As expected, Susan Necheles raises this potential juror's 'vitriolic' social media posts in order to try to strike her for-cause.

She called Trump a “sexist, racist narcissist.”

Another post: “I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized.”

FART: stand back and stand by.

Are you man enough to join Team FART?

Bryan Griffin Ron DeSantis Scientologists excited for the opportunity to counsel Florida’s youth…

Satanic Temple 'looks forward to participating' if Florida school chaplain bill passes tallahassee.com/story/news/pol…

🚨The DeSantis administration is paying lawyers to sue the federal government to make it easier to kick kids off healthcare. 22,000 children have already lost KidCare.

Instead of protecting them, Republicans are going after Florida’s sickest kids.
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Trump and right-wing media are targeting normal average people doing their jury service the same way they targeted normal average people serving as poll workers.

'The Floor Action Response Team, shorthanded as “FART,” aims to guard against an unannounced request to pass resolutions that would limit the group's leverage.'
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Rep. Jake LaTurner (R) is 36 and serving his second term in a safe red district. He's decided to leave the House.

Another young Republican calling it quits.

BREAKING NEWS: The election fraud conspiracy theorists finally found real election fraud...and it was one of them. MAGA freedom caucus leader and Turning Point USA exec Austin Smith surrenders to the fraud allegations against him and quits his race for the legislature. Austin was…

If you're in Orlando and your child lost Medicaid Coverage, I need you STAT!