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       “Donald Trump and Republicans are cutting healthcare for more than 11 million Americans and slashing food benefits, just to give their billionaire donors massive tax cuts. If this bill becomes law, families across our state will face higher medical bills, thinner grocery budgets, and the very real threat of more rural hospital closures, all while Washington adds trillions to the national debt.

       On a humid Friday afternoon, June 27, 2025, in Tallahassee, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sat behind a polished desk, a row of pens before him, and signed four new bills into law. One carried a weight far beyond ink and paper. Senate Bill 130, titled Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration, was a long-overdue correction to a system that had failed some of Florida’s most invisible citizens: the wrongly imprisoned.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — NABJ President Ken Lemon spoke by phone to Black Press USA, saying, “At this point, there is not a reason to invite President Trump this year.” Last year was a hard-fought presidential campaign year, where “journalists had the opportunity to vet the candidate. I don’t see the need to do that this time around,” emphasized Lemon.

       They’re calling it “Alligator Alcatraz”, an attention seeking name for a migrant detention camp tucked deep in the swamps of Florida Everglades. To some, that may sound like tough-on-immigration posturing. But from where we sit, this is something far more insidious. For Black Americans, this moment is more than alarming. It is too close and too familiar.