Thursday, May 18th, 2023.
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If the Democratic Party in Florida ever embraces a robust and serious effort to improve the quality of the state's waterways, they will never lose to the GOP again.

The GOP pprimary is going to be a #Thunderdome type of contest over next year.

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"Journalists, activists, opposition figures and others, including at least 50 people close to President López Obrador, were potentially targeted with Pegasus by the Peña Nieto government, according to a 2021 report by The Guardian newspaper."

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Stinks of Roger Stone, big time.

"Moreover, Remauros story is consistent with intel The Daily Beast previously received from Santos-linked sources, who alleged the now-congressman had gotten Tina Forte to run for the House to make money off her donors."

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Trump's supporters in Afghanistan think music turns ppl gay.

Florida's "papers please" immigration law has already resulted in construction/agriculture job walkoffs, a trucker boycott, and a travel warning from LULAC. Now Miami PD is refusing to enforce the new law.

IMPORTANT: culture war crap is always a GOP smoke screen to hide how much tax money they are stealing for themselves and their friends.

Great reporting:
I expect this lawsuit will be settled out of court pretty quickly.

Jim Jordan broke the cardinal rule of the GOP: Never ever tell the truth.

@FlaDems still has not announced an effort to put a medicaid expansion proposal on the ballot in 2024. Why?

This is huge news.

"[UN Report] revealed that Prince orchestrated a covert military operation in Africa, clandestinely supplying Libyan general and warlord Khalifa Haftar with expensive war equipment to support his fight against the government."

DeSantis, Moody, and Patronis are breaking federal law by robbing Floridas pensions.

"Singer also chairs the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank that employs Chris Rufo and Ilya Shapiro, leading propagators of the “critical race theory” panic."
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"Legal Status" as a presidential candidate, or not one... I'm not sure which. Marc Elias says its a good thing, that's enough for me.

Ezra Cohen-Watnick's lawyer is struggling with the concept of 'whistleblowing', apparently unable to decipher the difference between paid liars and actual truth tellers.

Caving to the GOP at this crucial moment will hurt the country now AND later.

Holy shit. 😳

"The project, known as the Lake Nona Town Center, was supposed to involve the relocation of more than 1,000 employees from SoCal, including most of 'Imagineering', which works with Disney’s movie studios to develop theme park attractions.

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Denver Riggleman and Rick Wilson is a scary combo. Tune in.

Disney pulling the plug on their billion-dollar Lake Nona project completely FUCKED East Central Florida's regional development plan. Its hard to overstate it, but this thread dives into it in some detail.

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1/ Disney pulls billion dollar investment from Lake Nona Town Square development in South East Orlando, completely upending East Central Florida's regional development plans.

Stay with me on this one, it covers a lot of ground and is a HUGE deal. ImageImage
2/ Full Article from @nytimes

"The project, known as the Lake Nona Town Center, was supposed to involve the relocation of more than 1,000 employees from Southern California, including most of a department known as 'Imagineering'."

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3/ Lake Nona is a massive planned development area in SE greater Orlando, and Tavistock is one of the lead developers spearheading the rapid growth and investment in the area.

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Today is the last day of 'Mercury Retrograde', which for non-astrologers, its basically like the zodiac sign for anarchy. Lol.

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