@Jason_Garcia Jason Garcia
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Social category influence finance #5323 countries 2.4% travel destinations 2.4% stocks 1.6% mls 0.8% cryptocurrencies 0.8% us election 0.8%
Social topic influence ron desantis 20%, money #2606, palm beach #6, request 4%, agencies 3.2%, department of 3.2%, company 2.4%, donald trump #517, donald j #8, state of 2.4%
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"Slide Insurance has very quickly become a major campaign contributor to Florida politicians"
X Link 2023-06-27T11:56Z 21.2K followers, 68.4K engagements
"Seeking Rents' most-read story of [----] revealed that homebuilding giant Lennar Corp. was quietly lobbying Florida lawmakers to pass a bill that would have let the company lock homebuyers into never-ending fees. The rest of the top [--] to follow"
X Link 2026-01-01T17:53Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Theres something of a pitched battle playing out in Palm Beach County right now over Project Tango a massive data center that if approved could cover nearly [--] million square feet and include close to a dozen server buildings. 🧵"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:54Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Ron DeSantis out here helping the owners of a Major League Baseball team try to land hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money for a new stadium by leveraging his own constituents against each other:"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:19Z 21.2K followers, 17.1K engagements
"The Florida Senate is about to strike the provision discussed in the below thread which would make it easier for the sugar industry to sue critics for defamation from its version of the so-called "Farm Bill" (SB 290). But the provision is still in the House bill tho (HB 433) I wrote a story last week about a bill that would empower Big Sugar to sue its critics by expanding Florida's "food libel" law. I wanted to learn more about the origins of the 20-year-old law. So I pulled records from the state archives. It turned up some wild stuff. 🧵. I wrote a story last week about a bill that would"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:36Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Senate version of this bill just passed its first committee: 7-3 through the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sig Sauer's $390000+ in pre-session campaign contributions are paying off. Sig Sauer also gave $25000 to Rep. Jennifer Canady (R-Lakeland) a future speaker of the state House. That means the gunmaker which is lobbying lawmakers for protection from lawsuits over ghost-firing guns has given at least $390K to Florida politicians over the past month. https://t.co/1mZFBiOwAD Sig Sauer also gave $25000 to Rep. Jennifer Canady (R-Lakeland) a future speaker of the state House. That means the"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:05Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Worth noting: The budget request for this particular earmark which seeks $5.5 million in taxpayer money total was filed yesterday so basically a few hours before the Senate released its budget. https://www.flsenate.gov/PublishedContent/Session/FiscalYear/FY2026-27/LocalFundingInitiativeRequests/FY2026-27_S3790.pdf https://www.flsenate.gov/PublishedContent/Session/FiscalYear/FY2026-27/LocalFundingInitiativeRequests/FY2026-27_S3790.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:57Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Lets start with the House budget. Just a few pages in partway through the Department of Education section of the spending plan theres a $725000 line item for whats described in the document only as History of Communism Curriculum""
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 19.2K engagements
"The company is affiliated with Mike Huckabee the former Arkansas governor and current U.S. Ambassador to Israel who pocketed more than $60000 in fees from eSpired in [----] disclosure records show"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 16.3K engagements
"And this too looks like a placeholder for a bigger number. The budget request is for $5.5 million in taxpayer money double the amount in the Senate spending plan right now"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The Florida Senate wants to spend at least $2.75 million putting Donald Trump's name all over the Palm Beach County International Airport. I dunno maybe the billionaire could pay for that instead of taxpayers"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:57Z 21.3K followers, 47.5K engagements
"Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature just revealed their proposed budgets for the next fiscal year and there are already some ugly earmarks slipped inside. Here are three involving Mike Huckabee Donald Trump and Newsmax. 🧵"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 125.5K engagements
"Seeking Rents first reported back in January that this earmark was in the works. Note that the request is for $1.45 million in total which means that the $725000 of taxpayer money set aside right now may just be a placeholder for a bigger number"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 12.4K engagements
"The budget request records show this money would be spent plastering Trumps name all over the facility and on related marketing materials. That would include erecting signs around the terminal airfield and surrounding roadways developing a new logo and redesigning merch"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"And it comes from Newsmax the right-wing cable news network that grew in popularity by promoting false election-fraud allegations after the [----] presidential election (and then ended up paying more than $100 million to settle defamation claims)"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This money budget request records show would be paid to a company called eSpired that peddles a line of propaganda-like educational books for children"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 18.3K engagements
"Those donations included $10000 to House Speaker Danny Perez (R-Miami); $5000 to Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka (R-Fort Myers) who chairs the House committee in charge of the PreK-12 education budget; and $5000 to Rep. Mike Redondo (R-Miami) the sponsor of the budget request"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Then theres section [---] of a budget-related bill proposed by the House that would forbid state agencies from contracting with any vendor that does business with a fact-checking organization or a media-monitoring firm that rates news outlets based on their accuracy and ethics"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/buried-in-the-budget-mike-huckabee https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/buried-in-the-budget-mike-huckabee"
X Link 2026-02-16T18:02Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This line item is linked to a pair of bills (Senate Bill [---] and House Bill 919) moving quickly though the Legislature this session that would change the name of Palm Beach International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport""
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Switching over to the Senate budget tucked in the middle of a long list of local government infrastructure projects is a $2.75 million for Palm Beach County Airport renaming""
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Now it's going to be the President Donald J. Trump International Airport" according to an amendment to SB [---] filed ahead of hearing tomorrow in the Senate Rules Committee"
X Link 2026-02-16T22:21Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This earmark made its way into the House budget after a related company Learn Our History LLC which was co-founded by Huckabee and is directly connected to eSpired made at least $50000 in campaign contributions to key lawmakers just before this years session began"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Republican leaders in the state House had this same language slipped in last years budget-implementing bill at the last minute of the [----] session"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:41Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Donald Trump's company has apparently filed to trademark President Donald J. Trump International Airport just as Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature is about to pass a bill renaming Palm Beach International Airport after him. Donald Trump's private company just filed new trademarks for: [--]. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT [--]. DONALD J. TRUMP INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT [--]. DJT The filings were made on February 13th & 14th to reserve the names for airport-related services. Full story: 👇 https://t.co/s97BIlxfhz Donald Trump's private company just filed new trademarks for: 1."
X Link 2026-02-16T22:36Z 21.3K followers, 248.4K engagements
"Florida law gives the governor emergency powers to secure temporary housing for hurricane victims. .which he's now using to disappear immigrants in a swamp"
X Link 2025-06-24T18:30Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Throwback to the time when Ron DeSantis had the chance to use his emergency powers to stop Florida from handing $500 million in tax refunds to the biggest corporations in the world. He did not. In January [----] Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in Florida because of immigration giving himself extra legal powers. [---] years later DeSantis is using that state of emergency which he extended 15 times to seize land for an immigrant prison in the Everglades. https://t.co/F8tc3blJTX In January [----] Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in Florida because of immigration giving himself"
X Link 2025-06-25T12:57Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"At least two of those lawsuits argued that the governor and some of his senior-most employees of violating the the Little Hatch Act"
X Link 2025-06-27T11:45Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"DeSantis responded by declaring himself above the law. Attorneys for the administration argued that the Little Hatch Act doesn't apply to the governor or top political appointees and that they were free to use their offices to interfere in elections if they wanted to"
X Link 2025-06-27T11:45Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Like I said this is an obvious bill to sign. And yet Ron DeSantis hasnt done so yet. Theres even a chance he may veto it"
X Link 2025-06-27T11:45Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements
"One warning sign: The sole vote against House Bill [----] was cast by state Rep. Mike Caruso. Caruso is a Republican from Delray Beach who is trying to get Ron DeSantis to appoint him as the next Clerk of Court in Palm Beach County"
X Link 2025-06-27T11:45Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"How to get $100 million for a toll road in your backyard when you are the speaker of the Florida House but the governor hates your guts and has line-item veto power: Force the governor to eat if he wants money for his prized "Moving Florida Forward" road-building program"
X Link 2025-06-30T21:39Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Also: Ron DeSantis did not veto $5 million for a pedestrian bridge connecting the Miami Freedom Park development the site of Inter Miami's soon-to-built soccer stadium to a mass transit center. The project was a priority of the House and Speaker Danny Perez (R-Miami)"
X Link 2025-06-30T21:50Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In other news: DeSantis pocketed a $100000 donation a few months back from a company run by Jos Mas who is one of the owners of Inter Miami and Miami Freedom Park"
X Link 2025-06-30T21:54Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Sure they're going to lock human beings in cages under a tent in the middle of a south Florida swamp in August. But at least we can trust that they'll operate with transparency and respect for due process. Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz. https://t.co/FPTYNgsAmp Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz. https://t.co/FPTYNgsAmp"
X Link 2025-07-01T14:09Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Treating the opening of an immigrant detention camp in the middle of the Everglades as if it were a red carpet movie premiere in Hollywood Big group of Trump allies here: https://t.co/3AXXu0kRkj Big group of Trump allies here: https://t.co/3AXXu0kRkj"
X Link 2025-07-01T14:18Z 20K followers, 213.9K engagements
"Ron DeSantis just vetoed a bill that would have significantly strengthened Florida's anti-corruption laws. And he did it on a day when he knew the media's attention would be focused on the opening of his immigrant prison camp in the Everglades. Theres a bill thats been sitting on Ron DeSantis desk for more than a week now that would strengthen Floridas anti-corruption laws. Its a good-government reform bill that would normally be an obvious one to sign. Except this bill was spurred by DeSantis behavior. 🧵. Theres a bill thats been sitting on Ron DeSantis desk for more than a week now that"
X Link 2025-07-01T20:14Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Florida Legislature passed a bill to stop the governor from using his office to interfere in elections and prevent his aides from squeezing lobbyists for campaign contributions. It was a bipartisan bill that passed on 97-1 and 37-0 votes. And Ron DeSantis vetoed it"
X Link 2025-07-01T20:19Z 20K followers, 84K engagements
"Flashback to when Ron DeSantis signed a bill that increased taxes on Floridians by $1+ billion a year & spent all the new money on business tax breaks but waited until nearly midnight on a day he also signed a headline-grabbing bill protecting people who drive into protestors. Ron DeSantis just vetoed a bill that would have significantly strengthened Florida's anti-corruption laws. And he did it on a day when he knew the media's attention would be focused on the opening of his immigrant prison camp in the Everglades. Ron DeSantis just vetoed a bill that would have significantly strengthened"
X Link 2025-07-01T20:32Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The guy who has pushed lawmakers to pass intentionally unconstitutional bills in order to tee up court challenges and overturn old rulings says he vetoed an anti-corruption bill because he worries part of it might not pass muster with his (hand-picked) Supreme Court"
X Link 2025-07-01T21:19Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"As an example see Ron DeSantis' efforts to get a bill through Tallahassee that was specifically written to conflict with NYT v. Sullivan the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that protects journalists covering public officials: https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/ron-desantis-wants-people-to-stop https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/ron-desantis-wants-people-to-stop"
X Link 2025-07-01T21:24Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In its rush to open an immigrant detention camp in the middle of the Florida Everglades the DeSantis administration used its emergency powers to suspend laws around minimum qualifications for law enforcement officers truck driver safety and permitting for portable toilets"
X Link 2025-07-10T13:08Z 20.7K followers, 51.6K engagements
"Starbucks to open locations in each of the Walt Disney Co.'s six U.S. theme parks: http://t.co/PLc9XMNR http://thesent.nl/JlgFE2 http://thesent.nl/JlgFE2"
X Link 2012-04-23T14:40Z 21K followers, [--] engagements
"Earlier this year as Florida lawmakers weighed a "Right to Repair" law to help people fix broken smartphones an array of amorphous groups lobbied against it in public. But records show someone else was trying to kill the bill in private: Apple Inc. (link in next post)"
X Link 2025-07-17T21:01Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Ron DeSantis also approved a $2 million gift for the horseracing industry in this year's budget. He cut nearly $600 million in spending including money for housing river restoration & public broadcasting. But he didn't touch the subsidy for owners of thoroughbred racehorses. Appears Ron DeSantis' support for a key piece of legislation this year solidified with a billionaire-funded trip to the Kentucky Derby not listed on his daily schedule & a few hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions. The Florida Blueprint https://t.co/XrvGt2gLTv https://t.co/9XqrbJecr6 Appears Ron DeSantis'"
X Link 2025-07-21T16:08Z 20.8K followers, 11.8K engagements
"Veto pen must have run out of ink when he got to this line:"
X Link 2025-07-21T16:12Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"James Uthmeier Fla.'s appointed attorney general is spending taxpayer money on $875/hr lawyers (+ expenses) in a case where the judge found him in contempt of court. He's using the same firm the DeSantis administration hired to defend its Everglades immigration detention camp"
X Link 2025-07-21T19:46Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Uthmeier just made an initial $65000 payment to the firm (Boies Schiller Flexner). The DeSantis administration meanwhile recently approved an initial $50000 deal with the firm to defend "Alligator Alcatraz" in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups"
X Link 2025-07-21T19:50Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"DeSantis' Division of Emergency Management just tripled its deal with Boies Schiller to defend Alligator Alcatraz from $50000 to $150000. The DeSantis administration hasn't yet released any actual purchasing documents for this agreement so we don't know the hourly rates yet"
X Link 2025-07-22T21:24Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Ron DeSantis and his aides are so proud of the work they're doing at the cages-in-tents immigrant detention camp they built the middle of the Florida Everglades that they're hiding more than $250 million worth of vendor contracts connected to it"
X Link 2025-07-25T13:47Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Specifically Guthrie said the purchasing records his agency originally posted included the rates that Florida is paying certain Alligator Alcatraz vendors. Guthrie said that was proprietary because other vendors might be able to exploit that info in future procurement bids"
X Link 2025-07-25T15:18Z 20.9K followers, 12.5K engagements
"Real-estate developers in Orlando have filed a lawsuit to eliminate protections for rural lands around the city. The developers are citing a new hurricane-recovery law Ron DeSantis just signed (Senate Bill 180) that included a sweeping rollback of local land-development rules"
X Link 2025-08-04T12:17Z 20.9K followers, 37.2K engagements
"SB [---] was a 48-page bill dealing with all aspects of hurricane response and recovery. The provision developers are now exploiting shows up on page [--]. Read broadly it arguably erases all new land-use protections that cities and counties have adopted in the last year"
X Link 2025-08-04T12:27Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Records a brief podcast about this last week. Senate Bill [---] is blowing up into a major issue across Florida right now. https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/ron-desantis-and-florida-lawmakers https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/ron-desantis-and-florida-lawmakers"
X Link 2025-08-04T12:29Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"What a convenient gap "The roughly [---] pages of emails and drafts obtained first exclusively by POLITICO provided further detail on that settlement but they dont address the larger question of how the $10 million was steered to killing the marijuana initiative.""
X Link 2025-08-06T18:17Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"From the same Attorney General who was using a Proton email account while he was Ron DeSantis' chief of staff:"
X Link 2025-08-06T18:19Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Link to the Politico story: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/newly-released-hope-florida-records-reignite-intra-gop-political-battle-00495069 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/newly-released-hope-florida-records-reignite-intra-gop-political-battle-00495069"
X Link 2025-08-06T18:20Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The Trump and DeSantis administrations are trying to open up a legal loophole as they keep immigrants locked in cages in the middle of the Florida Everglades. Let's walk through it: 🧵"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:44Z 20.9K followers, 38.5K engagements
"The state is also operating the camp staffing it largely with contractors from companies like Jacksonville-based Critical Response Strategies Canadian private security giant GardaWorld and Miamis CDR Companies"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:44Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"But Florida is doing it on on behalf of the federal government through 287(g) agreements. This is from a brief written by Trump administration attorneys in one of two key federal court cases targeting Alligator Alcatraz"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:44Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The DeSantis administration after all doesnt have the power to detain immigrants on its own. No state does. Florida can only do so under power that has been delegated by the Trump administration"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:44Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In fact a host of Florida state agencies have signed 287(g) agreements with ICE. And most of those agreements explicitly say that immigration enforcement actions will be supervised and directed by ICE. This from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's 287(g) agreement"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:44Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Trump and DeSantis administration are trying to exploit that gap"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:44Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Take the 1st of the [--] key lawsuits challenging the Everglades detention center. That suit claims the Trump and DeSantis administrations violated the National Environmental Policy Act which requires federal agencies to assess the ecological impacts of major projects"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:44Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Thats the loophole they are trying to open. Its a flimsy argument. But Florida and the feds are now trying to retroactively reinforce it"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:44Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Specifically records shows that the Trump and DeSantis administrations last week suddenly rewrote the 287(g) agreement between ICE and Floridas Department of Corrections the agency that operates state prisons"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:46Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The original agreement was signed in August [----]. But it was amended on Wednesday one day before Florida and the feds had to submit the document in court"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:46Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The revamped agreement gives the Department of Corrections the power to detain immigrants in facilities that it does not operate itself"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:46Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"And perhaps most significantly the revised agreement also blurs the lines of authority at Alligator Alcatraz"
X Link 2025-08-10T20:51Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Like every other state agency that has signed a 287(g) agreement the Department of Corrections original agreement with ICE had a section that said explicitly that all immigration enforcement activities under the agreement would be supervised and directed by ICE""
X Link 2025-08-10T20:51Z 20.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Sept. 10: Ron DeSantis' office sets a meeting to discuss a proposed $67 million legal settlement w/a Medicaid contractor. Sept. 12: The administration changes the deal to steer some of the money to DeSantis' Hope Florida.where it then gets turned into cash for campaign ads. NEW: The initial drafts of Florida's Centene Medicaid settlement didn't mention giving $10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation. That changed after a scheduled briefing with the governor's office. w/@aglorios @JustinGarciaFL: https://t.co/b7DfwgVxgQ NEW: The initial drafts of Florida's Centene Medicaid settlement didn't"
X Link 2025-08-12T19:58Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Sept. [--] happens to be very same day that "Secure Florida's Future" (the dark-money group run FL Chamber of Commerce execs that would soon get half the $10 million funneled through Hope Florida) made its first donation to a committee controlled by DeSantis' then-chief of staff"
X Link 2025-08-12T20:09Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The DeSantis administration has locked people in "Alligator Alcatraz" with less evidence of a crime than this. NEW: The initial drafts of Florida's Centene Medicaid settlement didn't mention giving $10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation. That changed after a scheduled briefing with the governor's office. w/@aglorios @JustinGarciaFL: https://t.co/b7DfwgVxgQ NEW: The initial drafts of Florida's Centene Medicaid settlement didn't mention giving $10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation. That changed after a scheduled briefing with the governor's office. w/@aglorios @JustinGarciaFL:"
X Link 2025-08-12T20:13Z 20.9K followers, 28.3K engagements
"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier just announced that the state is joining a whistleblower case against a pair of textbook publishers accused of overcharging school districts. And hey would you look at who else is a plaintiff's lawyer on the case:"
X Link 2025-08-19T15:30Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Reading this court order setting in motion the end of "Alligator Alcatraz" and remembering when the Everglades Trust decided to endorse Ron DeSantis:"
X Link 2025-08-22T02:57Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I dont know the particulars of that particular project the Florida state senator claimed .after filing the bill that records show was written by the companys lobbyists. A small Florida city stopped a corporate giant from building an ethanol plant next to its historic downtown. So the corporation and its lobbyists turned Floridas Republican-controlled Legislature for help. Link in next post. A small Florida city stopped a corporate giant from building an ethanol plant next to its historic downtown. So the corporation and its lobbyists turned Floridas Republican-controlled Legislature for help."
X Link 2025-08-22T21:33Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Ron DeSantis just appointed someone to the school board in Sarasota County one year after voters in Sarasota County threw her off their School Board"
X Link 2025-08-22T21:41Z 20.9K followers, 17K engagements
"Heres Floridas self-proclaimed fiscal pitbull Blaise Ingoglia the former state senator that Ron DeSantis recently appointed as Florida's chief financial officer planning an evening of drinks and cigars with lobbyists from one of Floridas biggest lobbying firms:"
X Link 2025-08-27T20:18Z 21K followers, [----] engagements
"@BanilowMary State agencies aren't contracting with fact-checking organizations. And that's not what this law is trying to prevent. It's meant to stop state agencies from contracting with any business that separately chooses to use these kinds of services"
X Link 2025-08-27T20:26Z 21K followers, [---] engagements
"LAW AND ORDER he screamed as a he nailed up yet another makeshift edict declaring another form of protest illegal without so much as a statutory citation The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban sidewalk chalking https://t.co/aCOiSBkE5p The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban sidewalk chalking https://t.co/aCOiSBkE5p"
X Link 2025-08-30T14:17Z 21.1K followers, 50.7K engagements
"When a regime decides that a symbol of successful protest cannot be allowed to win at any cost. The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them. https://t.co/o1Yxvn2aso The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them. https://t.co/o1Yxvn2aso"
X Link 2025-08-30T15:17Z 21.1K followers, 13.9K engagements
"This was a tiny transaction for a state with a $117 billion budget. The cases of bug spray were bundled together with a few refrigerators surge protectors and extension cords and the entire order totaled less than $2500"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:12Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"But it was a reminder of the intentionally cruel conditions Florida has inflicted on people caged inside Alligator Alcatraz the cartoonishly ghoulish nickname given to the mosquito-infested facility by clout-chasing politicians who traded their humanity for headlines"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:12Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It is also a drop in a much larger flood of public spending on the Everglades detention facility money that may as well have been flushed down a toilet now that a federal judge has ordered the camp closed and state officials have acknowledged it will likely soon be empty"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:12Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Altogether records show that Florida has awarded more than $350 million in contracts and purchase orders connected with the Everglades camp which contractors raced to build in just eight days as the DeSantis and Trump administrations tried to outrun judicial oversight"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:12Z 21.1K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Several of the largest contracts are for staffing one agreement with Jacksonville-based Critical Response Strategies includes positions paying as much as $187 an hour and some of those contractors are already furloughing workers"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:12Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"But the DeSantis administration admitted in court last week that it has already invested $218 million in the facility which was built alongside a remote airstrip called the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport and known as TNT for short"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:12Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The administration also told the court it expects to spend at least $15 million more to take down the facility"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:12Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Thats nearly a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money at least that may as well have been burned to ashes. In fact Ron DeSantis and his enablers would have done ess harm to people to the environment to the rule of law if they had simply set the cash on fire"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:12Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Ron DeSantis says he spent at least $218M building an immigrant detention camp in the Everglades vs. $6M to retrofit an empty prison in North Florida because the Everglades site is next to an adequate runway. The North Florida site is [--] minutes from an adequate runway"
X Link 2025-09-02T14:58Z 21.1K followers, 12.9K engagements
""The Tampa Bay Times identified [--] people with connections to the utility who testified in support of the rate hikes." Great digging by @mahoneysthename as Florida's biggest power company seeks a $10 billion rate increase from Ron DeSantis-appointed regulators. Link below"
X Link 2025-09-03T13:19Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@mahoneysthename https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2025/09/03/fpl-florida-power-light-nextera-charity-rate-bill-increase/ https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2025/09/03/fpl-florida-power-light-nextera-charity-rate-bill-increase/"
X Link 2025-09-03T13:20Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Ron DeSantis and Joe Ladapo doing some destination marketing for Florida. Here's a headline they earned today on the CBC in Canada: "Florida is ending vaccine mandates. What do Canadian travellers need to know""
X Link 2025-09-05T12:05Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The state of Florida just updated its list of persistently low-performing schools a key designation that opens to the door for privately managed Schools of Hope charters to move into an area and tap into giant public subsidies. The number of PLPs jumped from [--] to 267"
X Link 2025-09-08T20:51Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The five-fold increase which now has some A- and B-rated public schools labeled "low performing" is the result of changes enacted this year by the Florida Legislature and Ron DeSantis and pushed by lobbyists for Miami billionaire Ken Griffin & New York-based Success Academy"
X Link 2025-09-08T20:51Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"In Florida lower courts are now just ignoring higher court decisions they don't like: "The Florida Supreme Court in [----] upheld Floridas open carry ban but the First District appeals court said the [----] U.S. Supreme Court case takes precedence." https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/09/10/open-carry-ban-florida-court-gun-firearm-permitless/ https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/09/10/open-carry-ban-florida-court-gun-firearm-permitless/"
X Link 2025-09-10T17:19Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"New: A billionaire hedge-fund manager and a New York City charter network lobbied to expand a school-privatization program in Florida according to records obtained by Seeking Rents. 🧵"
X Link 2025-09-12T11:28Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Im glad we were able to work with the Legislature to get that through in this extended session DeSantis said two weeks later when he signed the legislation into law"
X Link 2025-09-12T11:28Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"They got it through at least in part at the behest of Ken Griffin the billionaire investor and Republican megadonor in Miami and Success Academy a polarizing charter school system in New York City"
X Link 2025-09-12T11:28Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Florida taxpayers are starting to pay the bills on the immigrant prison camp the DeSantis administration built in middle of the Everglades. The Governor's Office has approved nearly $30 million in payments to 'Alligator Alcatraz' contractors over the past [--] days:"
X Link 2025-09-18T16:24Z 21.1K followers, 17.6K engagements
"Altogether the DeSantis administration has awarded close to $400 million in contracts connected to the Everglades detention facility"
X Link 2025-09-18T16:26Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A Republican megadonor and homebuilder in southwest Florida (Pat Neal) has joined one of a several lawsuits that have been filed around the state in which developers are trying to use a new hurricane-recovery law (Senate Bill 180) to kill all kinds of local land-development rules"
X Link 2025-09-18T17:14Z 21.1K followers, 24K engagements
"Neal just recently gave another $25000 to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who signed Senate Bill [---] into law and defend the legislation as developers have weaponized it against local rules around everything from wetlands buffers to rural boundaries to impact fees"
X Link 2025-09-18T17:19Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Neal is one of the biggest campaign contributors in Florida politics. Just a sampling from over the years (note that "Empower Parents" and "Florida Freedom Fund" = Ron DeSantis):"
X Link 2025-09-18T17:21Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"SB [---] which supporters claimed was just meant to help communities rebuild after storms includes a provision forbidding virtually every city & county in Florida from doing anything over the next 2+ years that would make things more restrictive or burdensome on developers"
X Link 2025-09-19T13:28Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"The new law even tries to retroactively repeal many land-use and zoning changes that local communities have already made. And it gives developers and landowners legal ammunition to sue cities and counties in order to block any land-use changes they don't like"
X Link 2025-09-19T13:28Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
""If the board chooses to continue down the path the consequences are inevitable" Kelly wrote He went so far as to threaten state funding for roads parks and economic development projects in Manatee County"
X Link 2025-09-19T13:28Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"That letter it turns out was sent a few weeks after Pat Neal a Manatee County homebuilder and a major donor to Republican politicians in Florida bundled a bunch of checks to DeSantis according to a local blog called the "Sarasota Phoenix." (I'll add link at end of thread)"
X Link 2025-09-19T13:28Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Link to the blog post referenced upthread: https://www.sarasotaphoenix.com/blog/neal-bundles-checks-to-desantis-at-manatee-press-conference https://www.sarasotaphoenix.com/blog/neal-bundles-checks-to-desantis-at-manatee-press-conference"
X Link 2025-09-19T13:34Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"This is even more brazen than I initially realized: The DeSantis administration letter which claims SB [---] could block an impact fee increase was sent Aug. [--]. That was 3 days after Manatee County filed a legal brief arguing SB [---] does NOT block an impact fee increase"
X Link 2025-09-19T14:07Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Timeline: July 18: Neal et al file suit claiming SB [---] forbids impact fee increase Aug. 12: Manatee argues SB [---] does not apply Aug. 15: DeSantis administration sends letter suggesting SB [---] does apply Aug. 20: Neal et al file a new version of their suit citing the letter"
X Link 2025-09-19T14:14Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I don't want to be melodramatic here but this could well be the last stand for home rule in Florida. Land-use is arguably the one major policy area where cities and counties have lots of autonomy and power. If Tallahassee can strip local governments of even that"
X Link 2025-09-19T14:37Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"This is a crazy threat for the DeSantis administration to make. You have a DeSantis appointee and former chief of staff not-even-subtly hinting that the administration will withhold state funding from a county unless that county bows down to developers. "If the board chooses to continue down the path the consequences are inevitable" Kelly wrote He went so far as to threaten state funding for roads parks and economic development projects in Manatee County. https://t.co/jDfTLRSNUI "If the board chooses to continue down the path the consequences are inevitable" Kelly wrote He went so far as to"
X Link 2025-09-19T16:17Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"With billionaire Ken Griffin on hand New York's Success Academy announced it will open its 1st charter school in Miami. Success Academy's CEO praised Ron DeSantis & the Legislature for passing a new subsidizing the expansion a law lobbyists for Success & Griffin helped write"
X Link 2025-09-25T15:06Z 21.1K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @ThemePark Disney Legend Harrison 'Buzz' Price dies at age 89: http://bit.ly/bwWoYY"
X Link 2010-08-16T12:08Z 21K followers, [--] engagements
"After reporting record earnings Disney chief calls for lower corporate tax rate -- but fewer 'loopholes': http://t.co/4bSC4djT http://thesent.nl/RpAXlE http://thesent.nl/RpAXlE"
X Link 2012-08-08T14:12Z 21K followers, [--] engagements
"Disney playing a Phil Collins song from Tarzan on earnings call right now. Most underrated Disney animated movie ever. Yes it is"
X Link 2013-02-05T21:58Z 21K followers, [--] engagements
"Walt Disney Co. profits surge parks post best results since start of economic downturn: http://bit.ly/eGvGzf (Story'll be updated)"
X Link 2011-02-08T21:27Z 20.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Comcast CEO: We think cash flow in the theme parks can increase significantly with investments like Harry Potter [--] hotels and more"
X Link 2014-01-28T14:10Z 21K followers, [--] engagements
"While we're all watching let's pause to appreciate the Buffalo Bills The only team to win four consecutive conference championships"
X Link 2014-02-02T23:58Z 21K followers, [--] engagements
"Just finished the 1st draft of a story that involves Donald Trump MyMagic+ the Princely House of Liechtenstein & the [----] London Olympics"
X Link 2016-03-08T23:09Z 21K followers, [--] engagements
"Harry Potter's impact has been staggering: Islands of Adventure attendance has doubled in [--] years (from 4.627mm in [----] to 9.362mm in 2016)"
X Link 2017-06-01T15:06Z 20.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Even skirted uncomfortably close to a bankruptcy filing during the housing bust/credit crunch. https://x.com/fotodave/status/870368693850714112 https://x.com/fotodave/status/870368693850714112"
X Link 2017-06-01T20:09Z 20.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Investors won't like this: SeaWorld says it is not going to provide any full-year earnings guidance today"
X Link 2018-05-08T13:15Z 20.9K followers, [--] engagements
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