As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary, Jared W. Perdue, announced earlier this month that bridges in the state will have no choice but to be illuminated in red, white and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

“Thanks to the leadership of @GovRonDeSantis, Florida continues to be the freest state in the nation,” Perdue wrote on X.

Give my regards to the Ministry of Truth.

  • gregorum
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    8710 months ago

    so free, you have no choice but to do what they say

  • @Thrillhouse@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This feels like it’s just a way to get around Pride in June.

    Didn’t read the article before I said this. Why are my shittiest suspicions about Desantis always right.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      4410 months ago

      I do like that the rainbow has been ruined for them despite their holy book talking about how god made it to show Noah and his descendants that he wouldn’t kill them all off like he did everyone who came before them.

      • Kalkaline
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        1910 months ago

        “The human population has become too genetically diverse since the Garden of Eden, I need to fix that” -God

  • don
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    3910 months ago

    Florida

    freest state in the nation

    Florida

    The irony is indescribable

  • @ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2610 months ago

    As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary announced that bridges can only be illuminated in red, white and blue this summer.

    Because nothing says freedom like restricting the colors people can use.

    • @ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      410 months ago

      In many ways, it’s exactly like Pleasantville. The world is changing and the reactionaries don’t like it, so they try to use the force of law to make things back the way they perceived them to be, including by restricting the use of color.

  • @maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    1310 months ago

    As The Washington Post reported:

    The Ringling Causeway Bridge over Sarasota Bay usually lights up in rainbow colors for a week in June, and also marks other causes during the summer, such as orange for National Gun Awareness Month and yellow for Women’s Equality Day.

    So I went WTF is “National Gun Awareness Month”, I mean who actually needs a month long reminder that the US is full of guns? So I went and apparently it’s National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Accurate reporting from the Washington Post, as always.

  • @maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    710 months ago

    I wonder if they could get away with illuminating the whole bridge in red, since the normal street lights are white and the sky is blue. You know, for Labor Day.