espierce
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Balloon-Juice, salt water adjacent, Floridastan resident, reader
We’ll throw in Rick Scott and Ashley Moody at no extra charge!
December 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We’ll throw in Rick Scott and Ashley Moody at no extra charge!
Great news but Moses Johnson may not know anything about it!
GOP Rep. Ryan Mackenzie signs the Democratic discharge petition for a 3-year ACA funding extension.
He's #218.
This now has enough to end-run Republican leadership and get a House vote.
He's #218.
This now has enough to end-run Republican leadership and get a House vote.
December 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Great news but Moses Johnson may not know anything about it!
This is huge news for Florida and if these numbers hold, shows that the state may go blue next November.
CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
December 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is huge news for Florida and if these numbers hold, shows that the state may go blue next November.
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Let’s beat ❌ichigan today.
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Let’s beat ❌ichigan today.
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Who knew?
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Who knew?
And then she starts posting Russian propaganda every single day. What a coincidence.
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Even if not pushing for this debacle, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s inability to hold his caucus is proof positive he is the wrong leader for this time.
The eight Neville Chamberlains betrayed the thousands of government workers who have held out, the SNAP beneficiaries who have faced starvation, and the millions of Democrats who supported this fight. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
Forget ‘moderates.’ There are ‘fighters’ and there are ‘defeatists’
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Even if not pushing for this debacle, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s inability to hold his caucus is proof positive he is the wrong leader for this time.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Whether it’s Letitia James being indicted or George Santos having his sentence commuted both sides have received unfair treatment from Trump
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"
October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
At a state-sponsored cancer forum, Casey DeSantis, the First Lady of Florida, touted ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug commonly used to deworm livestock, and indicated that Florida should explore its potential repurposing for cancer research.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/florida-fi...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/florida-fi...
Florida First Lady Suggests Horse Dewormer as Possible Cancer Treatment
At a Florida cancer event, Casey DeSantis suggested ivermectin — debunked as a COVID cure — despite fatal misuse cases showing the dangers of promoting the “horse dewormer” as medicine.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Now there’s a surprise.
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Now there’s a surprise.
Who knew?
NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 12-15: Immigration
% who say federal agents should | shouldn't be allowed to stop people based solely on factors such as race or ethnicity, language, or field of work
U.S. adult citizens 19% | 66%
Democrats 5% | 92%
Republicans 40% | 37%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
% who say federal agents should | shouldn't be allowed to stop people based solely on factors such as race or ethnicity, language, or field of work
U.S. adult citizens 19% | 66%
Democrats 5% | 92%
Republicans 40% | 37%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Who knew?
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We aren’t one step away from Stephen Miller going in the radio and telling his supporters to kill all the Democrats, but they want you to think that so you’ll be afraid. This is a propaganda exercise to make them seem more powerful than they are and some of you are dangerously susceptible.
If Vance, Miller, and the FOX talking heads got out there and told their viewers to go full Rwanda 1994, they'd do it. They just think they can extort capitulation without going that far - and judging by elite reaction, they're right.
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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If you’re denying it, you’re losing.
September 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
If you’re denying it, you’re losing.
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From “Vote Blue No Matter Who” to “Vote Blue? Fuck You!”: the Hakeem Jeffries Story
September 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
From “Vote Blue No Matter Who” to “Vote Blue? Fuck You!”: the Hakeem Jeffries Story