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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

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Narco-submarine - Wikipedia

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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.

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

YouTube video by The CrimePiece

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

Well deserved

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 3d

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

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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.

This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 6d

Happy birthday!!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 7d

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

have been thinking of rewatching THE FIRST PURGE in light of the federal paramilitaries trying to instigate violence and provoke a reaction from americans

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 7d

Good point. It's possible that even if they did sort-of understand it came from the bottom up that they're hoping they can compress it small enough to "drown it in a bathtub."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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This Week in Florida @twifl.bsky.social · 7d

videos of people in frog suits and family time.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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