Sunday, June 18th, 2023.
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Something is wrong over at the @orlandosentinel. The author of this clolumn is neither a Democrat nor a Floridian. And that's just the beginning of it...

Lmao. The "Florida Federation of Teenage Republicans summit" has no teenagers at it.

🔊 LeTs gO bRanDoN!! 😵‍💫🥴🥴

"Fraud" isnt a pastry sauce in Belgium. It's a federal statute. I know deliberately lying to people seems convenient and all, but if you're selling subscriptions or using your company as a political vehicle that shit can come back around.

#ElonIsANihilist
This thread on the fanjuls and sugar farming doesn't even cover a fraction of it, but it's a great primer on how big and prolific of a problem sugar farming in Florida is.

An an abject fool posing as an expert, I endorse this thread.

"2. Experts should never debate abject fools posing as experts—because they haven’t earned experts’ time/attention."

I watched the movie "Stan Lee" on Disney+ last night. I really enjoyed it.

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Jun 18
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People wonder what's wrong with Florida, but the problem is so big you can literally see it from outter space. I'm talking about the sugar farms.

#DemandCleanWaterFL
#Fanjuls ImageImage
2/ The big three sugar interests in the Everglades Agricultural Area are U.S. Sugar, Florida Crystals, and The Sugar Growers Cooperative. This thread will focus on Florida Crystals which is owned by the #Fanjuls, Pepe and Alfie, who are octogenarian refugees from Cuba. Image
3/ The history of the Everglades Agricultural Area is a storied one that dates back a hundred years when the first real land rush south of Lake Okeechobee culminated in ppl being sold swamps as farmland, and the deadliest hurricane in FL history in 1928.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades ImageImage
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Jun 16
1/9 DeSantis line-item veto list.

He vetoed funding for hundreds of things: school programs, clean water projects, land conservation, first-responder requests, clean energy and infrastructure projects...its a lot. Image
2/9

...womens health, hispanic outreach programs, rehab, child care... Image
3/9

...fairgrounds, land acquisition, stormwater and sewer improvements, food assistance... Image
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Jun 16
Friday, June 16th, 2023.
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No more excuses, anyone denying the truth about January 6th is a liar. It was an insurrection against democracy, and a pre-meditated violent attack on the nation's capitol.

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Jun 14
Wednesday, June 14th, 2023.
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A guy who got arrested for driving without a license is spending more time in prison than most of the capitol rioters. Garland/DOJ have been slow-walking these prosecutions on purpose and delivering a bare minimum. There's no legal rationale for it.

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Jun 10
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1/ Phosphate mining in Florida is a huge problem. Radioactive roads, fish kills, toxic mountains, cancer, and sinkholes...think #PineyPoint. There is ONE major company responsible for almost all of it, which is Mosaic, HQ'd in Tampa. ImageImage
2/ Phosphate mining is how chemical fertilizer is mass-produced. It involves strip mining the surface of the land, and creating gigantic toxic waste piles called "gyp stacks".

wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/environment/20…
3/ This time lapse video shows the scale of phosphate mining in Florida's "bone valley" over the last 40 years.
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