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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 19h

Perhaps he's thinking of his favorite lunchtime wimp to bully, Columbia, as in one of the largest landholders in New York City, Columbia University.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22h

Subtle metaphor for America.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 22h

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom.

Full Story: wapo.st/42RiU2q

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 19h

Wait, now they're saying that Kirk was murdered for saying Jesus is king? The shifting sands of the Republican grievance machine is almost as dynamic as the Editorial Board of the New York Times' self promotion of their laughably disconnected ideas.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 20h

Ah yes, everyone knows the F/A 18 is a happiness delivery system designed to spread love and joy to the world, Mr. Speaker. Good grief.

This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 20h

Good point but there is something to be said for this chimeric and ever mutable concept of "the center." The American definition of the center, if such a thing can be pinned down, is right of center to the rest of the world. TNT's EB is simply self promoting *their* ideas as the correct way to win.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 20h

It's pretty amazing how many words can be strung together to say absolutely nothing.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 3d

The stupid thing about all this ish with Venezuela is Maduro is an evil sob who absolutely is enabling if not flat out partly running the drug trade out of there. That excuses absolutely nothing the US has done over the last few months but it COULD have been done legally and should have been done.

This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 3d

They exist. Dangerous AF. Read about one a month or so ago, not in this article. But, worth noting, you probably need to be high on your own supply to get into one of these things. Generally, they don't completely submerge so much as mostly submerge.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-s...

Narco-submarine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

Have MAGA defend ICE abducting 170 citizens, including 20 kids.

Ask Republicans to defend zip tying children.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

Tricia McLaughlin, DHS lying-ass propagandist, often points to DUI arrests when claiming ICE is reporting "the worst of the worst."

Turns out this drunk worst of the worst works for ICE.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZtV...

ICE Officer Arrested for DUI w/ Kids in Car. Not Happy About it!

YouTube video by The CrimePiece

www.youtube.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

Well deserved

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 5d

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 5d

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

People don't understand is that there was no such thing as ICE as recently as *checks notes* 2001. It's not some necessary evil that's been around too long to jettison.

Also, Democrats should be on the steps of the US Capitol taking group photos EVERY day the GOP is not in DC.

This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

Violent revolutions almost invariably fail. Why the people at Jacobin refuse to understand that is beyond comprehension. And "oh, it's just talk" is bull shit. People can't point at the Young Republican chat and say, "it's not just talk" and then claim trotting out guillotines "is just talk."

This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

And never mind that the French Revolution is best known for the "Reign of Terror" where innocent civilians were murdered at such a rate that even Jefferson, who had been a Revolutionary Cheerleader in 1789, eventually decided it had gotten way too bloody.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

A pet peeve is the obsession with the FIRST French Revolution (historians agree there were two more for sure and at least three other revolutions). That was the FIRST French Republic. They're in their FIFTH today. And Napoleon was Emperor not five years after the FIRST French Revolution.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

I was in a mild argument recently about the left and violence. The columnist take was essentially as there is massive imbalance in violent rhetoric and action its almost unnecessary to address that there is violent rhetoric and action on the left too.

This is patently false and dangerous.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

Leading the charge on that were Republicans, including one who was trying to extend his term limited term as mayor and potentially give his father, the former mayor, more time to solidify his (the father's) weak campaign to follow his son, who followed him.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

What's very wild is that that is an ongoing battle in the City of Miami, where elections are on odd years and the city council (which is astonishingly small at 5 for a city of half a million) unilaterally voted to move elections from odd to even years, thus extending their terms. It was overturned.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

FWIW this account is run by the Philip Cardella guy that periodically harasses your newsletter with the most noble intentions (and thinks its fantastic), including today's comment about Portland's relative isolation.

This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 5d

The really frustrating thing is that Maduro is evil AF, runs a "competitive autocracy" (the term was coined to describe the Chavez/Maduro regime(s)), and more likely than not absolutely is responsible/encouraging/profiting off of illicit narcotics sales and exports.

There are no good guys here.