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Nov 8 10 tweets 5 min read
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1/ How Trump can still go to jail and not be president: 1) Merchan locks him up, and Hochul does not pardon him. 2) Democrats force a vote in congress to remove Trump's disqualification for office, and then vote against removing it.

#14thAmendment
#LockHimUp Image 2/ In November 2023:

"The court found that, “Petitioners have established that Trump engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021 through incitement, and that the First Amendment does not protect Trump’s speech.”

Link:
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…Image
Oct 15 12 tweets 7 min read
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#HurricaneMilton did plenty of damage on land, but it's underreported how much TOXIC water pollution every hurricane creates in Florida and floods into the ocean. Sewage, toxic waste, farm runoff, yard chemicals...After 25 years of Republican "rule", our lakes, rivers, estuaries, and nearshore waters are in a state of unmitigated toxic death.

#DemandCleanWaterFLImage
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2/ These are 4 threads that cover a lot of it. Great reading for any environmentalist, journalist, candidate or elected official, or just if you like fishing and are wondering wtf is wrong with Florida.

Aug 21 21 tweets 10 min read
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James Okeefe claims to have infiltrated the #DNCConvention wearing a disguise where he secretly filmed attendees, and says he is about to "expose" Democrats using the hash tag #DNCExposed. But who is he?

#ProjectVeritas
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2/ Many people remember him as the Republican operative who "exposed" A.C.O.R.N. about 15 years ago, when he used a hidden camera and heavily edited video to smear a group of community organizers who were helping people register to vote. He was sued for that, and lost. Image
Aug 17 13 tweets 7 min read
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Despite what the press is erroneously saying, Trump was NOT legally eligible to vote in Florida when he cast his ballot the other day, because our state constitution prohibits it. So what happened? Image 2/ Election denier Cord Byrd is Florida's Secretary of State who oversees our elections. He has claimed on Florida's Dept of State website, that because Trump is eligible to vote in NY, that he can vote in Florida. This is false: Image
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Jan 13 15 tweets 6 min read
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1/ James O'Keefe is the creator of #ProjectVeritas, and he has been sued, charged with crimes, and been under a federal investigation for his "journalism". So, right now he's f-ing around with @mcuban
and he's about to find out. Again.

#JimmyQueef
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2/ "James Edward O'Keefe III (born June 28, 1984) is an American political activist who...uses deceptively edited videos and information gathering techniques to attack mainstream media organizations and progressive groups."

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%2…
Dec 22, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
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Florida's waterways are so dead and toxic, you can see it from space. If you've never seen how vast and interconnected florida's waterways are, you can't fathom how massive the problem is. It was not like this 25 years ago.

#DemandCleanWaterFL
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2/ If the midwest is America's bread basket, The Everglades Agricultural Area is it's sugar bowl. Sugar Farming in FL has destroyed hundreds of sq. miles of wetlands and estuaries, and their corruption is only outsized by the amount of subsidies they get.

Dec 10, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
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Oct 6, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read
1/ Short thread. 🧵
@NPR and @FloodlightNews just ran an article on @peterschorschFL for running a multi-million dollar pay-for-play blog that presents itself as a news site. Him and @Fla_Pol have me blocked for posting these screen shots.

#FlaPol

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2/ It's a campaign finance violation to not have a "paid for by" disclaimer on campaign ads. Someone should look into that. "In 2006, the Florida Elections Commission fined him nearly $68,000 for 40 counts of "willfully" violating the election code."

npr.org/2023/10/06/120…
Aug 15, 2023 30 tweets 12 min read
A thread🧵
1/ DeSantis thinks he's running for president, but how many crimes has he either stood next to, or been an active part of? I probably won't be able to list them all, but its a LOT. Image 2/ The migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard and California, likely broke many laws. Fraud, human trafficking, and misuse of COVID funds to name a few. Image
Jul 13, 2023 25 tweets 8 min read
Jul 11, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
🧵1/ This is my rant for the @FlaDems to ignore. The statewide party does not have a platform of concrete things they would legislate if they came into power, and this is a list of things they ALL refuse to campaign on that are important to every Floridian. 2/ End road tolls. Toll roads are a pass the buck scheme to enrich developers and create massive unaccountable slush funds for road building contractors.
Jul 8, 2023 31 tweets 10 min read
🧵1/ Matt Gaetz' mentor, and Joel Greenberg associate Chris Dorworth, formerly of #BallardPartners, is accused of raping(statutory) and sex trafficking a minor in a lawsuit that has now moved to federal court in Orlando.

Reported by @thedailybeast:
Link:
https://t.co/MEYLtTaC4Rthedailybeast.com/gop-lobbyist-c…


2/ “...the (Joel Greenberg) investigation progressed from allegations [of] sexual activity to allegations of obstruction of justice.” However, the DOJ never charged [#Dorworth] with either crime—and he largely avoided the limelight."

thedailybeast.com/gop-lobbyist-c…
Jul 1, 2023 23 tweets 9 min read
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🧵 1/ Are trillions of gallons of toxic/radioactive runoff killing all the whales along the United States East Coast from Mississippi to Maine?

#DemandCleanWaterFL

2/ It's not just humpback whales, but NOAA declared an "Unusual Mortality Event" in 2017, and it is ongoing.

"2016–2023 Humpback Whale Unusual Mortality Event Along the Atlantic Coast"

fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marin…
Jun 26, 2023 21 tweets 9 min read
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Florida is facing a sewage crisis. Population growth, septic tanks, aging sewer lines, using dried sewage for farm "fertilizer", flooding, corruption, lax regulation, and tax abatements for developers have left the state bursting at the seams...with literal shit.

2/ Article from 2020, USA Today.

"During the past decade, deteriorating sewers have released 1.6 billion gallons of wastewater, much of it polluting the state’s estuaries and oceans...More than 370 million gallons of that was completely untreated."

stories.usatodaynetwork.com/sewers/
Jun 18, 2023 30 tweets 16 min read
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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
Jun 18, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Sunday, June 18th, 2023.
News you can use.🧵 Image 2 days ago.
Jun 16, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
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
Jun 16, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Jun 15, 2023 24 tweets 9 min read