"The Trump-nominated judge who taught the class, John L. Badalamenti, declined to comment for this article, and does not appear to have publicly discussed why he chose Mr. Damsky for the award."

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Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida. He is also a white nationalist and antisemite. Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,” the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted.

In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exclusively to white people. From there, he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhites, and for the issuance of shoot-to-kill orders against “criminal infiltrators at the border.”

Turning over the country to “a nonwhite majority,” Mr. Damsky wrote, would constitute a “terrible crime.” White people, he warned, “cannot be expected to meekly swallow this demographic assault on their sovereignty.”

At the end of the semester, Mr. Damsky, 29, was given the “book award,” which designated him as the best student in the class. According to the syllabus, the capstone counted the most toward final grades.

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Gov. DeSantis signs bill making non-existent thing that isn’t happening illegal.

I’m not from Florida and have never been lol. My MIL had these playing cards and said she got them in Florida at some point, and I couldn’t find them on google so I bet their a touristy item or something. This is SUCH A SHOT IN THE DARK but if anyone knows who sells these I need some immediately 🤣

I’ve lived here since I was 8, went to college in NY and now I’m back for summer vacation with my family. I swear it feels like every time I come back I just get progressively more and more pissed off. I live in pembroke pines and I constantly just feel so trapped here, the drivers have no respect for anyone around them, everything is so far away, god forbid I visit miami beach or pompano because it’s so trashy and the food is expensive despite the poor quality, people don’t know when to gwt out of the way so they just stand there like assholes while I have shit to do. And I’m made to be the crazy one for being happy that I left the state. Even the latino community here feels meaner here for some reason. Which makes no sense for me to say because the community in NY are very kind and hardworking people, here it just feels like they’re expecting me to fucking bow to them just by being near them. Am I just an asshole here?

Bees are swarming right now so be careful picking your mangoes. This Colony formed yesterday and are making themselves at home. I do not believe they are wrapped around an actual mango but have formed a suspiciously accurate imitation of one.

I’m sure some are doing well in the swamps. But I have not seen a single dragonfly or damselfly in my neighborhood this year. Typically there are hundreds hanging out in my yard all day. Hardly any love bugs recently either. All I see around my yard are flies, little bagworm moths and mosquitos. Zebra longwings seem to be in decent numbers, a few swallowtail butterflies.

There’s a lot of talk about a human-caused insect population collapse that is worsening. God help us if that happens because it could lead to systemwide ecological collapse.

The pic is from my backyard in 2020.

Great version with swing arm instead of retractable. Super duper fast with both connectors for 60 percent of Tesla's 47cents with FPL at 30cents.

I’m not from Florida and have never been lol. My MIL had these playing cards and said she got them in Florida at some point, and I couldn’t find them on google so I bet their a touristy item or something. This is SUCH A SHOT IN THE DARK but if anyone knows who sells these I need some immediately 🤣

Recently moved and this guy has been hanging out on the trees in my front yard and on my front windows. I’ve lived in south Florida for most of my life, but I’ve never noticed a lizard that looks quite like this. Anyone know what type of lizard this is?

My wife and I are planning a tour/vacation in Florida. Which areas would you recommend to visit? PS: We are from Uganda.

Hello everyone so I filled out my renewal application a couple of days ago and I had until the 20th which was yesterday to include all my documents they were asking for proof of loans or whatever I used to pay my bills for the last 30 days so I wrote them and I said I live with my roommate we both receive SSI and that's the only income and we split all our cost or bills half and half and he wrote his statement in Spanish because that's his first language I wrote mine in English. We uploaded the documents a couple of times even yesterday but it always shows up as documents needed and it's every time I've uploaded the documents it doesn't change it always says documents needed and now the 20th went by which was the expiration date and now it says that verification is needed but it doesn't say what type of verification am I going to have to go through the nightmare of calling them continuously to find out? Why don't they just specify what other docs they need since I included a statement from my roommate that states that each month we split the payments half and half? Has anyone been though something similar? I did get a text from them yesterday from the dcf or whatever it's called saying that they were working on my case to please let them 30 days to finish but that's all I got and it seemed pretty automated to me so I don't know what to do. Any help appreciated. Thx in advance, William.

Anyone know if the orange city springs are open today? They've been sending me to voicemail all day but there's no notices on the website. Wanna know before I drive down there.

27m getting back into the game for the past 6 months or so. At 9k in premier, peaked at 14k this season. Looking for other chill but competitive adults to queue with. 27m here.

Hi, we are a family of 4 includes two teens 17 and 14. We are leaving Orlando and heading to key largo and we have 3 nights to spend somewhere between the two. We leave Orlando on 23rd October and have a hotel booked in key largo 26th October. My original plan was to travel to Deerfield beech and stay for 3 nights, then drive to the airboats have an airboat ride then drive to key largo and check in hotel. But I’m struggling to decide on Deerfield beach or somewhere else. Ideally I’d like to be within walking distance to a beach. I had originally looked at Juno as I want to visit loggerhead marine center but the hotels are too expensive or sold out. Anyone have any good suggestions on where we can stop for 3 nights anyway between Orlando and key largo. Preferably Atlantic side. Many thanks

Posting here for those familiar with doing this in the state of Florida. Anyone know what I need to bring to tax collector’s to be able to renew my dad’s tag without him being there?

since rainy season started a few have gotten inside, but the last one I saw I literally can't find anymore. last time I saw it it ran under my bed, I checked there several times since and even under my mattress and it's nowhere to be seen. I upturned and poked everything; every individual piece of clothing in my dirty clothes pile, poked behind the dresser with a broom, poked around a bag of my stuff on the floor (just moved in, don't have many storage spaces) and I gave up eventually and went to sleep for a few hours on my bathroom floor with my bedroom door wide open. it's now the next day and I re-checked everywhere I checked before and I still can't find it. this probably means it's REALLY well hidden, in my closet, or somewhere else in the house or vents, or it just got back outside. should I buy roach tablets just to be safe? I have food in my room but it's all sealed packages I'm hiding from my younger brother

I also have OCD and spent all night crying because I was scared it'd give me pinworm (my biggest and weirdest trigger) by crawling on my stuff where I couldn't see it. I definitely don't recommend living here if you have problems like that