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NYT columnist can't hide alarm after going inside Florida GOP rally #Fishback #Flodriduh #Nazi www.rawstory.com/james-fishba...

NYT columnist can't hide alarm...

NYT columnist can't hide alarm after going inside Florida GOP rally

New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg went to a Florida gubernatorial campaign rally expecting fringe politics, but found something far more disturbing: standing-room-only crowds of young men, some still in high school, cheering antisemitic provocations and wearing the caps of a self-described ...

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 13

“Almost all of the people I met at #Fishback events said they learned about him on #Instagram or #TikTok, except for an older woman who attended the Jacksonville rally at the urging of her grandson in Kansas.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...

Opinion | I Went to Florida to...

Opinion | I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.

James Fishback has managed to bring the paranoid, transgressive, meme-drunk spirit of the right-wing internet into the real world.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 13

I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.
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Michelle Goldberg
March 12, 2026

Slight and bespectacled, Fishback has a geeky charisma and the verbal dexterity of a former competitive high school debater. His policies are a mishmash of extreme conservatism and economic progressivism; nationalism tinged with socialism, if you will. He believes that #Florida’s gun laws are too strict, its abortion laws too lax and its public teacher pay too low. He’s called for a 50 percent sin tax on OnlyFans creators and $10,000 grants to high-performing high school graduates to buy homes or start businesses. Though he’s the son of an immigrant — his mother is Colombian — he wants a total #immigration moratorium.

Most of all, #Fishback has made contempt for #Israel and its American lobby a centerpiece of his campaign...

#FarRight #fascist #news #politics #USpol #JamesFishback

Opinion | I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.

James Fishback has managed to bring the paranoid, transgressive, meme-drunk spirit of the right-wing internet into the real world.

The New York Times

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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎Jan 17

#Fishback suggested that all #OnlyFans creators in #Florida should pay 50% to the state on all earnings procured through the platform, saying the purpose of the tax would be to “disincentivize and deter a behavior,” while calling OnlyFans an “online degeneracy platform" www.wfla.com/news/florida...

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Queer Lit Cats Jun 22, 2023

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Actors Are Starting to Ask for On-Set Therapists https://jezebel.com/actors-are-starting-to-ask-for-on-set-therapists-1850565138 #Jezebel #entertainmentculture #dominiquefishback #jennifergarner #melanielynskey #fredhampton #claredanes #shakaking #coolidge #fishback #actors #emma

Actors Are Starting to Ask for On-Set Therapists

In a new Hollywood Reporter roundtable, some of our faves (Jennifer Coolidge) make the case for better mental health care on the job.

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