The bill is paired with SB 1634, also sponsored by Grall, which would enshroud the designation process in secrecy. Both measures would “put a lot of power into a very limited number of politicians’ hands,” said Amy Keith, the Florida Director of Common Cause, with decisions based on language that is “discretionary and can hide the rationale.” Shirin Sinnar, a constitutional law professor at Stanford University Law School, described the legislation as “terrifying,” both a license to “go after political enemies,” and a threat to civil rights advocacy. “Advocacy is still protected speech,” she said.
This bill has been flying under the radar, with not much media reporting on it.
Constitutional experts call it terrifying. What happens here will spread to other states.
We have to turn up the volume. Send an email and tell your fellow Floridians.
action.aclu.org/send-message...
🚨 Florida is fast-tracking a bill that would allow a handful of state officials to label a group a “domestic terrorist organization” without basic due process.
It’s on track to pass next week. Lawmakers need to hear from as many people as possible NOW 👇
The bill is paired with SB 1634, also sponsored by Grall, which would enshroud the designation process in secrecy. Both measures would “put a lot of power into a very limited number of politicians’ hands,” said Amy Keith, the Florida Director of Common Cause, with decisions based on language that is “discretionary and can hide the rationale.” Shirin Sinnar, a constitutional law professor at Stanford University Law School, described the legislation as “terrifying,” both a license to “go after political enemies,” and a threat to civil rights advocacy. “Advocacy is still protected speech,” she said.
This bill has been flying under the radar, with not much media reporting on it.
Constitutional experts call it terrifying. What happens here will spread to other states.
We have to turn up the volume. Send an email and tell your fellow Floridians.
action.aclu.org/send-message...
The filing of HB 945 comes at the same time legislation, SB 1632, “Ideologies Inconsistent with American Principles” and sponsored by Vero Beach Republican Sen. Erin Grall, would allow the head of FDLE to designate groups as “domestic terrorist organizations.” The bill would also mandate the expulsion of students aiding an organization once designated, as well as prohibit any state funding of any kind to support a designated organization or member of a designated organization, including private schools.
Under this bill, students who “promote” a designated terrorist organization would be immediately expelled.
The word “promote” isn’t defined in the bill.
This is a clear attempt to silence student protests under the threat of expulsion.
🚨 Florida is fast-tracking a bill that would allow a handful of state officials to label a group a “domestic terrorist organization” without basic due process.
It’s on track to pass next week. Lawmakers need to hear from as many people as possible NOW 👇
A citizen initiative to fundamentally change Miami government (for example going from 5 to 9 city commission seats) says that it has the signatures to get on the ballot this year
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Sitting here listening to Radio Martí on shortwave radio and the US government is currently running AI-voiced programming to the island telling Cubans they will destroy their families if they try to migrate.
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Exploiting local and state law enforcement to carry out immigration enforcement shifts resources away from community safety and puts us all in danger.
Read our new report in full.
NEW: We released a report examining how the Trump administration is transforming state and local police into a national deportation force by expanding the 287(g) program.
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Over $500 million to build a detention center in the middle of the Everglades in a matter of weeks.
There’s plenty of money and infrastructure to make sure no one goes homeless. There’s just no desire to do it.
ICYMI: DeSantis spent $573 million on immigration. The feds may never pay Florida back
Florida Trib Reporter Kate Payne found court records earlier this month where DOJ attorneys argued that no “final federal funding decision” had been made by FEMA.
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“If there’s one thing the story of PG&E and municipal options like SMUD, LADWP, and NPPD have consistently shown, it’s that public ownership may be the best model of ownership for electricity and other natural monopolies.”
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Three anti-LGBTQ bills cleared their final committees in the House or Senate and are now headed to the floor for a full vote.
📞 Call leadership and tell them to OPPOSE this slate of hate.
Senate President Ben Albritton — (850) 487-5027
House Speaker Daniel Perez — (850) 717-5000
I 4-1 really enjoyed the North London Derby
22.02.2026 18:40 — 👍 61 🔁 11 💬 8 📌 1I’m afraid that per the IOC agreement, Canada must now abolish the metric system 🇺🇸🦅
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US WOMEN WIN OLYMPIC ICE HOCKEY GOLD
BEVEL OLD GLORY
Florida’s trying to pass a state SAVE Act to require a passport or birth certificate to register to vote.
A similar law in Kansas led to 31 THOUSAND citizens blocked from voting.
SB 1334 is in the Transportation, Tourism, & Economic Development Committee this morning. Watch on Florida Channel
Counterpoints: It's not a great question, and you do know the answer.
18.02.2026 13:10 — 👍 751 🔁 90 💬 17 📌 1This was such a fun watch
15.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01000 years of Brandon
12.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
12.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 4970 🔁 892 💬 121 📌 54Collar gap @dieworkwear.bsky.social
12.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
12.02.2026 02:26 — 👍 15836 🔁 7774 💬 520 📌 299Hey remember when WWE crowds just kept chanting CM Punk again constantly during every match whether it was related or not
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Graphic for the Reproductive Freedom Rally at the State Capitol tomorrow, February 12 at 10am.
Join us tomorrow at 10 a.m. on the steps of the Old Capitol for a rally in support of the Reproductive Freedom Act. This landmark legislation will undo all the harmful restrictions on reproductive health in Florida!
11.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
HB 1471 would allow the head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement — chosen by the governor — to designate groups as foreign or domestic “terrorist organizations.”
Companion bills would also make records about those decisions secret under state law.
Unions are very good, and we need many more of them in the South
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A Kansas man wrote an op-ed criticizing local police for cooperating with ICE. Instead of respecting his First Amendment rights, the police used automatic license plate readers to track him in hopes of finding wrongdoing.
We must keep getting this easily-abused surveillance out of our communities.
This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.
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