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Should I speculate that private schools will still be able to mandate?
Believing Mike Johnson's sincerity in helping the victims requires hope that is beyond reason.
CON ALERT! I hear the President is going to make an emergency declaration regarding the housing crisis. --- Google search: "Does Donald Trump have a reputation for not treating tenants in his multifamily projects well?" --- Then, there's this - themortgagereports.com/118344/curre...
"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.
apnews.com/article/trum... Google search: "How does Putin & those in control in Russia perpetuate business corruption? Is it by obscuring who owns what & how contracts are let & laundering information regarding a business so a few connected people will make lots of money?" Notice any similarities?
Disturbing news.
🚨 Iowa just broke the GOP’s iron grip. Catelin Drey’s stunning win didn’t just flip a Senate seat — it shattered Republicans’ supermajority and sent a warning shot straight through Trump’s agenda. 🌊🔥
You can’t make this up. Trump allegedly has covert operators on the ground in Greenland: www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/e...
I wonder who is coaching him on this standard Russian practice.😇
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A “we were wrong” correction would be nice.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
Another lawsuit Florida taxpayers will be on the hook for.
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) canceled a speech in South Carolina on Thursday after just eight people showed up to an event that was billed to have 100-plus people in attendance, local news site has reported.
I'm not listening to this until I see multiple psych assessment efforts to determine this person's true concept of "appropriate" behavior.
I guess it's easy to fight back in court when you're using someone else's money. If only some smart lawyer could find a way to hold, personally accountable, those whose ideological agenda includes testing constitutional limits in court after court....just because they can.
"The president was never inappropriate with anybody in the times that I was with him," claims perjuring felon who thinks child rape is appropriate.
nypost.com/2025/08/21/b... Just asking: Should the CEO of CVS (at time of the company's alleged "Medicare fraud scheme") move to Florida and run for governor? Isn't that what now Senator Rick Scott did after his company was fined for defrauding Medicare? It worked for him.
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Tryna remember, who was President in 2018?
They (Republicans) are in training. He'll become less and less obvious as they master criminality, brutality and oligarchy skills.
Column: The Free State of #Florida applies an eccentric definition of "free" in schools. Under Gov. Ron DeSastrous, we're saving kids from woke indoctrination through right-wing indoctrination. floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/18/f... via @dkroberts.bsky.social
I wish I could view things as Roberts does .. with humor. Just take the "Victims of Communism Memorial Day" promoted by the Governor as he simultaneously promotes and produces a culture w/in our education system that reminds one of ... Communist China. I just pisses me off. End
"...they can always report professors..." Common in China. Yahoo AI -"..encouraged by government to maintain ideological conformity." -"..reflects broader culture of surveillance and control within educational institutions." -"...part of larger trend of promoting loyalty to the Communist Party. 1.
He also wrote a Senate bill that if brought to floor & passed would have delayed the Federal Electoral College Safe Harbor date by 3 weeks...early August, 2020, 3 mos. before the presidential election. Guess who a 3 week delay in certifying electoral ballots would have benefited?
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2... It's mostly B/S.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1 🗣FL Special State Senate(D15): Sep. 2 ballotpedia.org/Florida_Stat... Attorney/state rep 🌟LaVon Bracy Davis is running to step up to the State Senate She’ll tackle affordability issues, jobs, voting rights, and more for Floridians. lavonbracydavis.com
People who want to protect "The Sanctity of Marriage" are always people who voted for a man who raped his first wife, deserted his family of three young children to run off with one of his mistresses, deserted her and their child for another mistress, and then cheated on her with a porn actress. 🤔
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Poor Ron. All of that high class education. Poor Florida. I'm guessing we are paying the tab for the state's defense.
news.wfsu.org/state-news/2... Good News: FL's Yale educated lawyer Governor DeSantis & his super majority Republican legislature loses in court. Bad News: Florida taxpayers are funding the state's defense of vaguely written & unconstitutional legislation that the Governor signed into law.
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For an interesting but not conclusive AI search: Does Congressman Tim Burchett ride his skateboard around Washington DC? Strange thing to do if so scared of crime.
Slava Ukraini!
#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
TARIFFS BACKFIRE: Bloomberg reports Trump’s tariffs are crushing U.S. textile exporters—raising costs, scaring off buyers, and stalling investments. Cocona Labs’ CEO says sales are down and the company may move some of its operations overseas.
Reality: that “extra revenue” is higher costs paid by regular American consumers & businesses, and the “tax relief” is going to the rich not you. JD is pissing 💦 on your head and telling you it’s raining — and @marshablackburn is using this line also as she runs for governor.
Think about this as the coming 2028 election cycle gets closer. This woman is just a step down the qualification ladder from Nikki Haley when she was nominated for UN Ambassadorship. Though Haley had been a governor of a state in the U.S. for years she said she did not know what the U.N. does.
What's up with the Evangelical Christian who says his faith informs everything he does?
Looks like an orange phalli monument.
Excellent information.
Now THERE'S a #Florida headline: "Beauty queen accuses Rep. Cory Mills of threatening to release her nude videos" www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/06/b... via @skylerswisher.bsky.social
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Oh boy.... "One of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ closest lieutenants will be taking over Florida’s tourist marketing arm" That's encouraging, eh? Will she/he have the obligatory "Don't Tread On Me" tag on the front bumper of their car?
Op-ed: Charter schools are part of a coordinated, well-funded campaign to defund and depopulate the #Florida traditional public schools — not to improve them, but to replace them with privately managed institutions operating with public dollars www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e...
Well done!
For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
Freudian slip.
"authoritarian streak" - Does this description really do justice to the current President? When does he exhibit leadership that would not be classified as "authoritarian"? I see him as a "full on" practicing authoritarian by nature. Perhaps there's a bit of coaching from charming friends like Putin.
It's the copper tariff that's interesting. Just Presidential chaos? Or, market manipulation on both the up and down side.
Another consideration - he may just be telling his friend Putin the locations of two of our most powerful deterrents.
Global opinion on Trump is polarized and largely negative. Per Pew's June 2025 survey of 24 nations, a median 34% express confidence in his leadership, with 62% lacking it—lowest in Europe and allies, where he's seen as arrogant and dangerous. Trump would hate if you liked & reposted this 🤣
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodi... Second question: Are there people in the President's Cabinet or cluster of advisors who may have knowledge or experience in how to manipulate &/or take advantage of commodity over or under supplies?
tradingeconomics.com/commodity/co... Is it fair to ask if there were any short sell calls out of the West Wing yesterday .. a bit before "Dr. Copper" was shoved out of a third floor window?
Ghislaine Maxwell has asked through her attorney for immunity regarding her possible testimony to Congress. Her attorney is also talking about clemency for her. Remember, immunity and clemency are two different things. 🧵
www.justice.gov/archive/opa/... Senator Rick Scott's early A.M. e-mail blast headliner: "Sen. Rick Scott on Failed Federal Reserve Chairman: Corruption, Mismanagement, Zero Accountability…It’s Time for Powell to Go." He's been there before -
Who would have guessed the fellow who knee jerked into being the road blocking of I-95 S and I-10 E early in the pandemic could be blindsided by anything? 🤣
Sorry I do not use those. Good luck with your canine "Coco", a very good dog I am sure. Signing off. Good evening.
Livi. No longer with us. She was nearing 11 yrs. Canine lymphoma. She was a good pup.
My favorite creatures. Dogs.
"Pesticides" get several mentions in a section of Project 2025. Calls for lots of re-org w/in EPA & agencies, complains of severe restrictions on pesticide uses due to ESA obligations, and much more.
Truth.
University of Utah engineers develop novel material that efficiently removes ‘forever chemicals’ This metal-organic framework both fluoresces in the presence of certain PFAS chemicals and absorbs these environmental contaminants that are widely used in consumer products.
This "MarketWatch" headline caught my attention last week - "Retail investors are Driving this Market..." My first thought - That is akin to placing me at the controls of a Formula One car.
Everyone knows what the word "credible" means when this deceitful fellow utters it.
www.urban.org/data-tools/h... Why so worried? The attached may provide an answer. What is largest demographic to be affected by the expiration? White people. Per the Pew Research Center, 4/9/24, White voters are "more aligned with the GOP". So yes, "[they] gotta do everything to keep costs low"😇.
Truth.
Johnson wants "transparency".😇 Dude served on the "Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission" of the Southern Baptist Convention for around eight years during the timeline of the SBC's sexual abuse scandal. I don't believe a word he says. Ever.
Works every time --- "if it sounds to good to be true" ...
"Respected again".
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"While researching this column, I watched a recent meeting of the St. Johns River Water Management District, where staff members talking about biosolids abbreviated the term as 'BS.' That turns out to be pretty apt."
As I discovered - Tuttle and Brickell. I passed your article as well as attached short history blip to my N.FL. s/m friends. Our attachment to Flagler history (I'm in St Augustine) makes this an interesting circle ...railroad south ...toxic sludge north. www.floridahistorynetwork.com/july-28-1896...
.. "toxic sludge" in Henry Flagler's Florida legacy since I discover also that East Coast Florida Railway does not transport this stuff back up the road that Flagler built. End
Great read. It set me reading further to refresh my memory of S. Florida's/Miami's beginnings. I discover that it's just 4 days until 129th anniversary of the city of Miami's incorporation. Same year the railroad was completed & growth began, 1896. I guess it would be a stretch to include .. 1
www.marketwatch.com/story/jpmorg... Yikes! Kind of like me behind the wheel of a Formula One car.
"Respected again" ... my ass.
Not to mention, AFP News Agency reported - "Japanese leader Ishiba says he needs to examine the details of the deal before commenting." This info from @meidastouch.com 8 hours ago.
religionnews.com/2022/05/23/a... Johnson served on the SBC's "Ethics 😇 and Religious Liberty Commission" from 2004 to 2012. Not suggesting he did anything wrong then, just reminding that he has served in unsavory times before.
religionnews.com/2022/05/23/a... Just to remind those interested, Johnson served on the Southern Baptist Convention's "Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission" for around 8 years (2004 - 2012).
www.ft.com/content/b306... A fair warning. I will add; Put this many smug, smiling, White guys in a room celebrating something with the word "Genius" in its description almost guarantees a future disaster ... that we (taxpayers) will be on the hook for.
The tariffs/trade "deal" ups/downs + a sovereign wealth fund + a strategic Bitcoin & digital currency fund + a "Genius Act" & coming flood of stablecoin issuers pegged to the dollar & w/reserves of treasury bills + a market manipulating POTUS + 1 dude famous for helping break a central bank = ??????
Good point. As in "due partly to"...
Are 50,000 U.S. jobs at risk here?
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Anyone seen any Bible verse quotes or Catholic social teaching references from Rubio lately?
Oh my! Bookmarked or future reference.
In #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' Everglades concentration camp, the lowest paid employees get $38 an hour while the highest-paid employee is the warden, who makes $125 an hour or $260,000 a year before overtime. www.wftv.com/news/local/n... via @wftv.bsky.social
... The transfer of migrants to Martha's Vineyard; The Florida Guard; Hope Florida; the golf courses and lodges in FL State Parks, just to mention some. Now this. End.
Think of all the incompetent brain farts our state executive has been involved in. Initially going overboard in Covid-19 response with the roadblocking of I-95 S.; the veterans to teachers effort; the million dollar cruise ship w/no place to dock; the presidential primary disaster; ... 🧵
So the President is reiterating here that the Brazil tariff is because of the prosecution of Bolsonaro. So, not a national emergency. Has a separate suit been filed or will this evidence be folded into the existing suit?
"divine providence" Let's see, who else frequently referenced "Devine providence" in his writings ("Mein Kampf" in particular) & speeches? The sick reference that this President was chosen, spared or purposed by God is very much the same propaganda theme used on the 1930's-40's people of Germany
The spigot will be controlled by the President, perhaps even w/input from someone in Russia. What, how much and when very likely will become bully leverage for the President to be used for any reason against NATO & the EU. Add strategic delays at critical times & smug smiles in Russia.
I stand by my standard prediction re the current administration. "They are going to F everything up."
Column: Constructed with our tax dollars and with virtually no oversight, Gov. Ron DeSastrous' Everglades concentration camp is a barbaric tent city to warehouse humans, many of them Black and brown. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/12/t... via @stevebousquet.bsky.social