Floridians are calling on Governor Ron DeSantis to immediately take all the possible steps, along with the local and federal government, to protect farmworkers in Immokalee from the COVID-19 pandemic, starting with the following urgent measures: HERE
Monday, April 6, 2020
Protect farmworkers in Immokalee
Sky U. White for Hillsborough County Commission
HELP HER HERE
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Help YDSA at USF
Housing is a basic human right and it must be upheld by the USF administration and off-campus landlords. HERE
Georgia Beaches Open
As the Pentagon ordered 100,000 body bags to store the corpses of Americans killed by the Coronavirus, GOP Governor Brian Kemp dictated that Georgia beaches must reopen." HERE
Tybee Island mayor Shirley Sessions released a statement after Governor Brian Kemp ordered the state's beaches reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic that has already affected thousands of Georgians.
GO THERE FLORIDA IS CLOSED!
GO THERE FLORIDA IS CLOSED!
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Drunk Pirate, Street Preacher & Cabby in Ybor City
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One of my favorite Star Trek movies
Friday, April 3, 2020
Florida Monsters
Republicans admitted Florida’s unemployment system was “designed to fail” — and then whined about their election chances now that the system was overwhelmed by thousands of suddenly jobless people. HERE
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Stop Florida's Roads To Ruin
Earlier this year, the legislature passed, and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law, a bill to fast-track three major new toll roads that will destroy large swaths Florida’s remaining rural lands, pollute waterways, increase global warming pollution, and threaten endangered wildlife, including the iconic manatee and Florida panther. If completed, 330 miles of new toll roads would be built across south, central and north Florida. Construction of the “Roads to Ruin” will destroy more than 52,800 acres of farmland and wildlife habitat while at the same time promoting sprawling, unsustainable development.
HERE
Coronavirus first started circulating in Miami during the Super Bowl
Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued a statewide lockdown Wednesday after revealing coronavirus first started circulating in Miami during the Super Bowl in early February.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued a statewide lockdown Wednesday after revealing coronavirus first started circulating in Miami during the Super Bowl in early February. HERE
#Dumbsantis
#Dumbsantis
Coronavirus in the Sunshine State: 7,000, with 857 people hospitalized and 85 dead
Republican governors were slower to implement social distancing restrictions to combat the spread of the new coronavirus and these delays are expected to result in “significant” consequences, according to a study by researchers at the University of Washington. HERE
Republican governors were slower to implement social distancing restrictions to combat the spread of the new coronavirus and these delays are expected to result in “significant” consequences, according to a study by researchers at the University of Washington. HERE
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Florida GOP,
Ron DeSantis
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Florida GOP voters want climate action
61 percent of Republican voters in Florida want the country to adopt a “balanced” approach to fighting climate change that considers both environmental and economic impacts,
compared with 29 percent who said climate change is not real HERE
Catering By The Family Is Feeding First Responders
Marco Rubio’s latest attacks on the media are grotesque
He tweeted on Sunday: “Some in our media can’t contain their glee & delight in reporting that the U.S. has more #CoronaVirus cases than #China. Beyond being grotesque,
its bad journalism.”
its bad journalism.”
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What Rubio is saying is horrendously, hideously offensive. It is, to borrow his own word, grotesque. There is no one — no one — who is happy that Trump has bungled the coronavirus response so badly that the United States now has more cases than any other country in the world. Rubio could not offer a single example of “glee & delight,” because there isn’t one. HERE
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Tampa Right Wing Pastor Arrested
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister arrested the pastor after he intentionally and repeatedly violated orders that no gatherings of 10 or more people he held in order to stop of the spread of COVID-19 by holding services
at his megachurch. HERE
at his megachurch. HERE
Monday, March 30, 2020
Florida GOP Busted
Gov. Ron DeSantis denied the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times access to a COVID-19 coronavirus briefing, the Herald's Tallahassee Bureau Chief reported Saturday. “Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to violate the state’s public meeting laws and chose to exclude the from a media briefing at the Capitol,” Mary Ellen Klas reported.
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Local censorship,
Miami Herald.,
Tampa Bay Times
Bernie’s Florida campaign office vandalized
A tweet Saturday from the Florida for Bernie account showed two large swastikas painted in black and the words “voting didn’t stop us last time.” It did not say where in Florida the office is located. HERE
Ybor Paparazzi
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Carlos Hermida,
Chillum - Ybor City,
Ybor Paparazzi
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis risking the lives of millions
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began, DeSantis might as well have stood in the middle of I-95 with a giant welcome sign saying, ‘C’mon in! The water’s fine!’ — all while spring breakers came down in droves, scattering among the sandy Petri dishes up and down his state’s coastline.. HERE
Miami Publix Employee Tests Positive For COVID-19
Publix Supermarket has confirmed one of its workers tested positive for the coronavirus. The employee worked at the store located at 9420 SW 56 Street in Miami. HERE
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Rep. Jeffries rips Florida’s governor
“Governor DeSantis for weeks was in denial. So much so that effectively he kept the beaches open, thousands of young people were partying in close proximity, the very opposite of social distancing, it did great harm and detriment of the people of Florida and throughout the United States because many of these young people, of course, came from all over the country and some cases different parts of the world.” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
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Some of the best cinematography I have ever seen. Roger Deakins is a master!
Great direction by Sam Mendes
Among its accolades, the film received ten nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, including Best Cinematography.
Tampa sets up tent city
City of Tampa is establishing a tent city that will allow up to 100 homeless people to shelter in place. HERE
It cost $120,000 to run a temporary homeless camp for 30 days? At a better price they could keep it permanently.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Rick Scott Goes Full Voldemort On Stimulus Bill
Beat Sen. Bill Nelson in 2018 by 10,033 votes out of 8.19 million votes cast.
What an Opposition Party Is Supposed to Sound Like
Bernie Sanders’s moral outrage and devastating sarcasm struck back against a GOP assault on poor and low-income workers. MORE
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Nice cast, funny at times. Critics trashed this film. only getting 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I liked it.
I liked it.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Sky U. White Needs Your Help
She needs 1,800 signatures in order to get her name the 2020 ballot. Help her HERE
Florida GOP Heartless Rick Scott
As governor, Rick Scott was notoriously callous toward jobless Floridians and made it as difficult as possible to collect the nation’s skimpiest unemployment benefits. He hasn’t changed a bit as U.S. senator, even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that already has triggered record unemployment claims in the state and the nation. HERE
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Nice cast, Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett,
Juliette Lewis, and Tom Sizemore.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Great Si-Fi
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Florida's Half-Billion dollars in Corporate Welfare
As Florida’s economy crashes, DeSantis says he’s going ahead with $543 million in tax refunds for corporations. HERE
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Great SiFi, nice cast.Beautiful cinematography
Filmed in Chicago
Rightwinger James Woods
Twitter has suspended the account of the actor for tweeting a photo and linking it without proof to Andrew Gillum, the former Florida gubernatorial candidate who was involved in a suspected drug incident at a hotel in Miami Beach earlier this month. Woods has ramped up his Republican rhetoric since the election of Donald Trump, with whom Gillum has in the past exchanged insults via Twitter. HERE
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Right Wing,
Right Wing Propaganda
Marco Rubio's urgent pastor briefing
Sen. Marco Rubio participated in an “urgent pastor briefing” last Thursday that was hosted by the Florida Family Policy Council, a religious right organization headed by anti-LGBTQ activist John Stemberger. Rubio, who has long supported Stemberger
and his organization.
and his organization.
When Stemberger asked if there were any plans to provide assistance to churches during this crisis, Rubio stated that he had been tasked with drafting a package that would
do precisely that. HERE
do precisely that. HERE
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John Stemberger,
Marco Rubio,
The Citrus Taliban
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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Underrated Si-Fi. Great job by Jared Leto
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
COVID-19 And The Case For Democratic Socialism
The urgent question for the citizens of the United States as we deal with the COVID-19 crisis is, do we repeat with corporate bailouts that we did in 2008/2009 or move to a Democratic Socialist model? Presently, in Washington and Tallahassee, we're watching a pathetic show being played out by sycophant politicians trying to expand corporate welfare. Both Parties leadership are not providing the economic response needed to get working class Americans through this crisis, with the Republican Party the most irresponsible. In a larger context we're witnessing the failure of American-style corporate laissez faire capitalism in dealing with this pandemic. From an immoral private healthcare system to a neoliberal market system that over the decades has eroded our public institutions and safety-net programs. All of which has led us to this T.V. and tabloid personality President who's nothing more than a spoiled buffoon that was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. In this writer's opinion, to get out of this mess we're currently in, the Government needs to quickly implement the socialistic and people's approach put forth by Senator Bernie Sanders: allow unemployed people to join Medicare, give each unemployed american $2000.00 a month until our economy is stabilized- basically a Democratic Socialist approach to governance.
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