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Something truly awful happened on this app a few days ago, and it’s the reason behind that very serious video I posted.

I've been open about my mother being raped at 13, forced to have a child at 14. How we grew up poor in the Deep South, away from all our family. I had my mom’s and my sister's permission to talk about that experience, growing up with teen parents, how hard life was for both.

In an attempt to discredit me, some of my online stalkers found my older sister's birth certificate and published it online.

One day after my escape from Florida, the oppressive laws passed earlier this year went into effect, and Florida slipped even further into darkness.

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rebekahjones.substack.com/p/florida-enac… From banning Tik Tok (HB 369) to discussions about menstrual cycles (HB 1069), DeSantis’ 2023 agenda severely restricted free speech rights in education.

Schools must now remove any books reported through its book ban policy once they receive a complaint.

Confirmed DeSantis agents using the digital terrorist @MaxNordau account:

Andrew McGimpsey, Kokomo, IN; failed school board candidate
Jeremy Redfern,@HealthyFla spox ->@GovRonDeSantis spox
Bryan Griffin & Christina Pushaw, frmr @GovRonDeSantis spox ->campaign spox

This is HUGE The "Max" disinfo account was repurposed from a Spanish-speaking, sparsely used account in Jan. 2021 to a dedicated harassment, stalking and defamation solely for attacking me - to the tune of more than 250,000 tweets in less than two years.

A thread on how terrifying it is to be a woman in America.

1. It's legal in Mississippi to drug and rape your wife: a person can be convicted of sexual battery of a spouse when they are living together & **only if** he engages in "forcible penetration against the victim's will". Prior to the 1970s, marital rape was legal in every US state. However, there are still states where marital rape and non-marital rape are treated quite differently under the law.

It took six years -- SIX YEARS -- to escape my abusive ex from college. But as of yesterday, all his efforts to force himself into my life are over.

A thread...

Six years ago, a classmate of mine at FSU tracked me down at work and sexually assaulted me in my office. I had a prior relationship with this man, but every time I tried to end it, he followed me, harassed me, abused me. He would feign illness, lie about being hospitalized, and threaten to hurt himself if I left or didn't do what he wanted. I reported him to the police and FSU.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: Wanted felon who conspired to kidnap and traffic families from Texas using taxpayer money.

washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06… ALSO:

State records show the Governor's office started a contract yesterday with the same company used to kidnap and traffic migrants from Texas with end date of 2025: facts.fldfs.com/Search/Contrac…

The Biloxi VA put up a rainbow flag so naturally the entire state is fixin to don the robes and white hoods to attack *checks notes*... disabled veterans. From the VA:

"VA takes care of more than 1 million Veterans who identify as LGBTQ. Gay and bisexual Veterans face increased health risks and unique challenges  in accessing quality health care."

Only two storms on record have ever made significant southward movement in the Gulf of Mexico:

Fern (1971), which skimmed the coastline post-landfall, and;

Hurricane Laurie (1969).

1969 was an El Nino year & forecasters say most similar to conditions to today..

Continued.. Laurie was the only one to move southward in the open Gulf, reaching 26.53* North before turning southward, making landfall at 18.35* North - a total southward distance of about 8 degrees.

I built Florida's official COVID19 dashboard from scratch. Then I built the better one, and the national database for COVID in schools (with help from Google).

To make THIS one happen, I'm gonna need your help:

DeSasterTracker.com

Here's what I need (a thread)... 1. Links/lists to all ongoing lawsuits against the state of Florida under the umbrella of "culture wars."

That includes:
Voting rights
Human/migrant trafficking
Civil rights (e.g. abortion, LGBT)
Retaliation, 1A (e.g. disney, me, @AndrewWarrenFL)
Business suits, etc.

Ask the families of those who died from COVID because he lied about the numbers.
Ask the orphans who lost their parents because he lied about the vaccines.
Ask the innocent people he tortured for fun in Gitmo
Ask the trans kids forced to live in bodies they do not recognize. Ask the parents of trans kids who fear the state will take their children.
Ask the teachers who died when schools reopened and when bullets sprayed the walls, after he cut their pay and demanded they come into work strapped

We have the transcript for the 911 Gespacho call about Groomer DeSantis!

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05/18/23 11:32 ET

Gespacho: Gespacho 911, how can we help your fascism today?

Caller: I need to file a Florida Groomer report

Gespacho: Ok, can you describe the person you're calling about? Caller: Short... he has a very high pitched voice. He's very emotional, arms flailing and such...He wears high heels and a lot of makeup

Gespacho: What a freak..

Caller: yeah.. he's always talking about kids genitals.. he's obsessed with it.. books about it.. pictures.. art...

Just got in a family debate and want your input.

There isn't necessarily a right or wrong answer, but I'm interested in how you vote and what your reasons are.

If you could only house/feed one homeless person(s) from the listed below, which of these would it be and why? I will say I started torn of course but started with a different option than what I ended up with after discussion and debate. I'll wait to chime in on where I ended up and why until the poll is closed

Only groomers, pedophiles, and rapists support banning books that teach young people about their bodies, abuse and consent.

bookriot.com/sex-ed-books-p…

I just saw the video of the pile of bodies from the Texas mall shooting

I am so torn. Angry. Heartbroken.

On one hand, I think people need to SEE what this is doing to us.

But.. there's a dead baby whose brains are on the sidewalk shown in the video.

I won't share it, but if… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… I can't post the link to the video without it automatically playing so I've removed that tweet. Your can easily find it by searching for it on twitter.

The recently-passed Florida death penalty law for rape (ruled unconstitutional by Kennedy vs Louisiana, 2008) included two clauses to specifically protect known Florida GOP pedophiles:

1. Rape must be of a child under age 12 (protects Gaetz and a bunch of others)
2. Rape must be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Why under 12? Well, here's one reason:

Let's temper our "shock" about @FLSurgeonGen &
@HealthyFla AGAINbeing caught falsifying and manipulating its public data for political gain, and look at the history.

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@chrislhayes @ChrisCuomo @katiecouric @AliVelshi @Lawrence @MiamiHerald @CNN @MSNBC @maddow twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Early in the pandemic, the state lied about when we had our first case, when we were aware community spread was already occurring, and when we recorded the first deaths. The state refused to release data about nursing homes until sued.
miamiherald.com/topics/a-numbe…

The Florida Department of Health has repeatedly presented data to the public that has been altered to promote policies not supported by the evidence. The dedicated staff at DOH, like me, and the citizens of Florida have paid the price for these lies.

arstechnica.com/science/2023/0… They lied about the data in May 2020 with the ill-fated reopening of the state:

web.archive.org/web/2022111018…

I went through my son's conversations to see if there was any truth to what was being said, even though there were multiple user names, multiple platforms and someone claiming to be his non-existent brother and none of it added up.

A thread... They arrested the wrong kid. Or the kid they wanted to arrest, but not the one joking about school shootings.

I found when my son shared those memes. It was clear his friends thought the pics of lil darkie, guns and comments about school cops were a joke.

BREAKING: One of Twitter's most active cyber terrorists, a paid operative who attacks critics of DeSantis (including Trump supporters), hid his true identity when he ran for school board in Kokomo, Indiana in 2022, coming in last place among 12 candidates.

We received his…

https://t.co/xQqeT2qdql

https://t.co/Y8tzfNOltK

https://t.co/A2zE1g973m

https://web.archive.org/web/20230408004205/https://twitter.com/AGimpsey/status/1577110727243898882

web.archive.org/web/2023040518…
mrjarvis.substack.com/p/susan-portno…
thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-s…

I'm still waiting for my son's release.

Everything my son has struggled with these last two years came from DeSantis personally targeting my family for blowing up his COVID success story lie.

He was 11 years old when he was held up at gunpoint by police on DeSantis' orders. He personally involved himself in the raid, and i was charged the day after my lawyers went to court to sue the police for it. Two years later, the state agreed to dismiss that case. It was all a lie. Even the former head of the NSA said so.
grantstern.substack.com/p/leaked-docum…

I'm still waiting for my son's release.

Everything my son has struggled with these last two years came from DeSantis personally targeting my family for blowing up his COVID success story lie.

He was 11 years old when he was held up at gunpoint by police on DeSantis' orders. He personally involved himself in the raid, and i was charged the day after my lawyers went to court to sue the police for it. Two years later, the state agreed to dismiss that case. It was all a lie. Even the former head of the NSA said so.
grantstern.substack.com/p/leaked-docum…