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Ron DeSantis

Ron DeSantis

Governor of Florida

Appears in 4 stories

Born: September 14, 1978 (age 47 years), Jacksonville, FL
Party: Republican Party
Spouse: Casey DeSantis (m. 2009)
Children: Madison DeSantis
Parents: Karen Rogers and Ronald DeSantis

Notable Quotes

"Any school or district that blocks a TPUSA chapter will receive a 'nastygram' from my schools commissioner, who will 'drop the hammer.'"

Opponents argue that decisions to expand lethal options against bears, including HB 87 and the 2025 hunt, are rooted in DeSantis-era politics rather than science-based conservation.([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/03/florida-bear-hunt?utm_source=openai))

“I welcome the lawsuit.”

Stories

State governments partner with Turning Point USA for high school chapters

Rule Changes

Partnered with TPUSA; created Charlie Kirk Prize

Nebraska became the sixth state to announce an official partnership with Turning Point USA to bring the conservative organization's Club America chapters to every public high school. The pattern is now clear: since founder Charlie Kirk's assassination in September 2025, Republican governors have lined up to formalize state support for the organization's high school expansion—with some threatening disciplinary action against schools that resist.

Updated Feb 10

Florida’s black bear hunt returns: science, politics and a once–threatened species

Rule Changes

Signed 2024 bear lethal‑force law; appointed and reappointed pro‑hunt FWC leadership

Florida launched a state-sanctioned black bear hunt on December 6, 2025—the first since 2015—allowing 172 lottery-selected permit holders to kill one bear each across four hunting zones, but only 52 bears were harvested by season's end on December 28, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) data released December 29. The limited take came despite over 163,000 applications, including activist efforts to secure and idle permits, and followed a failed lawsuit by Bear Warriors United, with 75% of 13,000 public comments opposing the hunt.

Updated Feb 5

AI data centers are rebuilding – and stress-testing – the U.S. power grid

Built World

Proposed AI bill of rights to protect communities from data center impacts

Since late 2022, U.S. regulators and utilities have warned that a new class of digital infrastructure—AI-optimized data centers—could reshape national power demand, ending an era of flat electricity consumption and forcing a rapid buildout of generation and transmission. By early 2026, those warnings have crystallized into concrete challenges: PJM Interconnection's December 2025 capacity auction hit the $333.44/MW-day price cap and failed to meet reliability requirements for the first time in its history, with data centers accounting for $6.5 billion—or 40%—of the auction's $16.4 billion in costs. Regional grid operators now project U.S. data center electricity consumption will grow from 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2024 to over 400 TWh by 2030, while the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates data centres globally could more than double their electricity use to approximately 945 TWh in the same timeframe, with AI-optimized servers as the main driver.

Updated Jan 27

Florida and Texas declare CAIR a terror group, setting up a constitutional fight

Rule Changes

Defending executive order labeling CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood terrorist groups

In less than a month, Texas and Florida governors have branded CAIR, the country’s largest Muslim civil rights group, a “foreign terrorist organization” and ordered their states to cut off contracts, jobs, and funds. CAIR calls it a smear campaign; the governors say they’re targeting Hamas-linked extremists.

Updated Dec 11, 2025