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Organizer & writer. Policy at @FLImmigrant. Past work: @seiufl @BernieSanders @USImmHUB. From 🇦🇷. Instagram/Threads/Blsky: @tomaskenn
Jun 5, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Got footage from inside this event. They admit the bill is “100% meant to scare” immigrants and beg the crowd to “urgently” convince “your people” to not leave Florida since folks in the agriculture industry are mad workers are leaving. The hypocrisy is so brazen and disgusting. 👇
May 19, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
The backlash against DeSantis’ new anti-immigrant law in Florida is growing. Latino truckers are refusing to drive into the state and worksites are struggling with labor shortages. The state is being ruined by a racist governor who only cares about his presidential aspirations. ImageImageImageImage Latino truck drivers boycott anti-immigration bill by not driving to Florida
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Apr 14, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
The wife of Randy Fine, same Florida Republican who stated allowing children to attend “Drag Queen Storytime” is child abuse and who is sponsor of a bill that bans drag shows, participated in a burlesque show for a sexually charged fundraiser for children.
nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-po… Randy is also a secret Disney enthusiast who pretends otherwise. I’m not a fan of Disney due to their poor treatment of workers but if you like their cruises, all good, just admit it and don’t make excuses based on some bullshit culture war against “wokeness.”
Mar 27, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
Some really awful bills moving through the Florida Legislature this week including a six week abortion ban (SB300) being heard March 28th at 8:30am in the Fiscal Policy Committee. The expansion of the Don’t Say Gay law that will be heard on the House Floor this week. Call your State House Representative and tell them to vote no on HB1069.
Mar 12, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Some truly awful bills were heard in the Florida Legislature last week. They include HB 1, a handout to millionaires and a $4 billion corporate giveaway of public school money to unaccountable charter schools designed to defund public education in the state. SB 494 would allow landlords to charge perpetual, nonrefundable fees instead of a one time refundable security deposit. It’s obviously meant to squeeze cash out of desperate renters and is being pushed by out of state special interest groups.
Mar 10, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Florida Republicans have filed a barrage of awful bills for the state legislative session that’s hard to believe. I wrote and listed them one by one to illustrate how extreme these proposals truly are. Please share to spread word of what’s happening in Florida. ImageImageImageImage ImageImageImageImage
Mar 9, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
This truck is at Miami city hall calling out corrupt commissioner @JoeCarolloNow for having a chicken protestor illegally arrested (charges were dropped) after he and his wife gave a friend nearly a million of our tax dollars for a few ugly statues of dogs in a no bid boondoggle. Now the cops are giving the truck driver a hard time but they ultimately let him continue.
Mar 8, 2023 37 tweets 6 min read
The barrage of awful bills filed by Florida Republicans for the state legislative session is hard to believe, so I wrote about them, one by one, to illustrate just how extreme these proposals truly are. I'll also put them in a thread below.
latinorebels.com/2023/03/07/flo… HB 1/SB 202:
This proposal is designed to defund Florida public schools and hand over $4 BILLION of our tax dollars to unaccountable private charter schools through a voucher program. At a recent committee hearing, they cut public comment to just one minute to stifle criticism.
Jan 6, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Public records reveal Ron DeSantis’ press team has a list of “journalists” who they refer to as “friendlies.” It includes Brendon Leslie, a hack with a crappy right wing blow who was present during the January 6th riots. Background on Brendon Leslie’s participation in the January 6th riots.
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Sep 22, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Here’s a Miami detective blocking us from a Ron DeSantis publicly funded press event. She says we’re not press despite DeSantis’ own lawyers saying I’m a “journalist” in a motion to dismiss against a federal lawsuit I filed. We wanted to ask DeSantis’ cruel migrant stunt. Here is officer Heredia-Rubio acknowledging that we are never violent and that his orders to block us from these publicly funded press events by DeSantis from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Same agency that has an 89 page dossier tracking my social media activity.
Sep 22, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Was just denied entrance to DeSantis’ press event. Police put their hands on me and forcibly removed me from this publicly funded event despite me not raising my voice and police acknowledging we are not violent. We wanted to ask why DeSantis is using migrants as political props. Footage coming soon.
Sep 20, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
We are flying this banner over Orlando today that says DESANTIS IS A HUMAN TRAFFICKER. Shame on him and all those who are complicit in this disgusting political stunt against migrant parents and their children. Image Folks are sending us footage of the DESANTIS IS A HUMAN TRAFFICKER banner being flown over Orlando right now.
Jul 28, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
Starting a thread on the many ways Florida Power & Light has been exposed for corruption. Let’s start with these emails I published showing FPL linked consultants spied on lawmakers and paid a former Rick Scott aide to set up a fake news site to do propaganda on their behalf. One of the worst emails, showing an exchange between this Rick Scott aide detailing their strategy to squeeze money out of different corporate entities like big sugar and for-profit prisons in exchange for attacking their critics and doing positive stories on these corporations.
Jul 28, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Since Ron DeSantis took office, rents across Florida have increased by 40% compared to 25% nationally. Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party of Florida have accepted over $18 million in contributions from the real estate industry in contributions of $5,000 or more. Since January of 2021, as Florida has become the “least affordable place to live in the US,” political giving by those in the real estate industry has skyrocketed along with rent prices, with the total donations since DeSantis' inauguration now averaging over $12,000 a day.
Jul 28, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Here is a mailer trying trick Saratota voters into believing Florida GOP Chair Joe Gruters is a moderate when really he is a hardcore MAGA supporters who sent buses from Florida to the January 6th riots. It gets more shady though. The mailer is paid by Accountability in Government, an entity ran by William S. Jones = Stafford Jones. Stafford Jones is the former Alachua County GOP chair who fronts most of Data Targeting-controlled PCs.
Jul 27, 2022 13 tweets 5 min read
I got new emails from Florida Power & Light linked consultants and Brian Burgess, who worked as Rick Scott’s communications director. They outline a plan to take over media outlets in the state to provide favorable coverage for FPL and big corporations.
tomaskenn.substack.com/p/florida-powe… Below Burgess, who is also publisher of the Capitolist, is asking a Matrix LLC consultant to “swing” him $2.04 million dollars. Matrix LLC was the firm retained by FPL involved in election fraud schemes including the fake candidate scheme in State Senate races.
Jul 26, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Ron DeSantis is again failing to condemn neo-Nazis holding demonstrations in Florida. This time it was at a Turning Point USA event in which DeSantis himself spoke at. The nazis were seen holding DeSantis signs along with swastikas and other hateful messages. Back in February, Nazis staged violent rallies in Orlando. When faced with criticism over his failure to repudiate these hateful incidents, DeSantis’ spokesperson @ChristinaPushaw decided to push conspiracy theories about whether the nazis were secret Democratic operatives.
Jul 22, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
This is a memo written by top Democratic consultant Dan Newman and sent to Florida Power & Light by a GOP consultant. It details a plot to primary @JoseJavierJJR because of his work holding FPL accountable. This is the corrupt consultant class working against the working people. Florida Power & Light would go on to fund a fake candidate with the same last name as @JoseJavierJJR to run against him as an NPA and trick voters. He lost by about 30 votes and a former GOP Senator has been charged in this election fraud scheme.
Apr 18, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING: A report details out of control corporate corruption in Florida. Ron DeSantis and his allies have spent over $5.7 billion in corporate tax giveaways since taking office. That’s over 6 times what has been invested in affordable housing trust funds.occupydemocrats.com/2022/04/18/opi… A secret list of the wealthiest corporations in the state are currently receiving a $624 million tax refund, after already receiving a refund of $543 million in 2020 during the outset of the pandemic.
stopcorporategreedfl.com
Apr 15, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
Ron DeSantis is the candidate of Wall Street and billionaires. In donations from the nation’s wealthiest hedge fund managers and private equity bankers. His top individual donor is Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel LLC. Griffin cut DeSantis a $5 million check in April 2021. DeSantis has secured backing from some of Trump’s top donors, including Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus; WeatherTech founder David MacNeil; and shipping supply magnates Dick and Liz Uihlein.
Feb 6, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
Spoke with @farronbalanced about how documents we obtained show Ron DeSantis is weaponizing the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to surveil and intimidate activists who criticize him. They have a dossier detailing my personal information and people “associated” with me. Attached to the dossier on me is a list of “associates” which is redacted as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement refuses to identify individuals they are surveilling simply for having an association with me.