Brad Rosenheim<p>For those of you out there who have gotten so dejected with <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/RedState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedState</span></a> politics ruining the U.S.A. that you wanted to kick us out, here is your joyful reminder that there are good people doing the work. Today I went and took pictures after a peaceful protest that saw 3 blocks of Central Avenue in St. Petersburg centered on a pride rainbow painted intersection chalked with more rainbows and retribution for DeSantis and Trump than one could count.</p><p>On Friday, on my way home from work, the Florida Department of Transportation was surrounded by cops as they painted over an artistic, apolitical mural at an intersection adjacent to our campus. I rolled down the window, gave a thumbs down, and booed. The police wished me a nice weekend. Later, two reverends were arrested for kneeling and praying on a Black Lives Matter mural across town that the governor had ordered painted over. I posted on Next Door. My suspicions that most are not ready to rise up to this moment were corroborated by the myriad responses cheering on a rogue government preventing speech in small communities.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FloridaFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FloridaFascism</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantis</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StreetArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetArt</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/RadicalGraffiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalGraffiti</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a></p>