Harvey Ward
@hlward.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, Mayor of Gainesville, Gator. Standing guard, keeping the flame, keeping the faith.
Most local media has made no effort to localize the shutdown story. It’s been covered as yet another distant DC thing, when in fact it hurts people in every community.
This is why folks treat elections the way they do - no one is showing people how it directly affects them.
This is why folks treat elections the way they do - no one is showing people how it directly affects them.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Most local media has made no effort to localize the shutdown story. It’s been covered as yet another distant DC thing, when in fact it hurts people in every community.
This is why folks treat elections the way they do - no one is showing people how it directly affects them.
This is why folks treat elections the way they do - no one is showing people how it directly affects them.
The president is spending the weekend golfing at his private estate (on your dime) while his lawyers (also on your dime) sue states to keep them from distributing your tax money so your neighbors can buy food.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and Happy Sunday!
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and Happy Sunday!
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The president is spending the weekend golfing at his private estate (on your dime) while his lawyers (also on your dime) sue states to keep them from distributing your tax money so your neighbors can buy food.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and Happy Sunday!
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and Happy Sunday!
If you find yourself angry that the new mayor of a city you don’t live in wants free bus rides for everybody in his city but you don’t care that the president CAN release money for people having a hard time to buy groceries, but WON’T… this might be a good time to quietly reconsider your positions.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If you find yourself angry that the new mayor of a city you don’t live in wants free bus rides for everybody in his city but you don’t care that the president CAN release money for people having a hard time to buy groceries, but WON’T… this might be a good time to quietly reconsider your positions.
This is an appeal to vote, hard and without fail, for candidates who have demonstrated that helping our neighbors be fed, housed and medically cared for is something they will use your tax dollars to do.
Elected officials at every level are showing you who they are right now.
Don’t forget it.
Elected officials at every level are showing you who they are right now.
Don’t forget it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is an appeal to vote, hard and without fail, for candidates who have demonstrated that helping our neighbors be fed, housed and medically cared for is something they will use your tax dollars to do.
Elected officials at every level are showing you who they are right now.
Don’t forget it.
Elected officials at every level are showing you who they are right now.
Don’t forget it.
Seriously, though, where are the “Republicans in Disarray” headlines?
November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Seriously, though, where are the “Republicans in Disarray” headlines?
The Democratic Tent is BIG. There’s room for all sorts of voters, and all sorts of elected officials, as long as they’re committed to a better deal for EVERYONE who chooses to call this nation home.
Also in this Big Tent you will find ten Democratic women governors, BTW.
Also in this Big Tent you will find ten Democratic women governors, BTW.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The Democratic Tent is BIG. There’s room for all sorts of voters, and all sorts of elected officials, as long as they’re committed to a better deal for EVERYONE who chooses to call this nation home.
Also in this Big Tent you will find ten Democratic women governors, BTW.
Also in this Big Tent you will find ten Democratic women governors, BTW.
Gainesville Voters: Polls are open 7-7 today - make your voice heard!
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Gainesville Voters: Polls are open 7-7 today - make your voice heard!
The inability of congressional leadership to effectively lead has created a real food crisis in every community in the nation.
If you are in my community please consider donating to Bread of the Mighty (now,) and if not, please donate (money) to A food bank.
breadofthemighty.org/donate
If you are in my community please consider donating to Bread of the Mighty (now,) and if not, please donate (money) to A food bank.
breadofthemighty.org/donate
November 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The inability of congressional leadership to effectively lead has created a real food crisis in every community in the nation.
If you are in my community please consider donating to Bread of the Mighty (now,) and if not, please donate (money) to A food bank.
breadofthemighty.org/donate
If you are in my community please consider donating to Bread of the Mighty (now,) and if not, please donate (money) to A food bank.
breadofthemighty.org/donate
If you or someone you care about are one of the 42 million Americans who buy groceries with SNAP benefits, you should know that on the night before those benefits ended, your president held a lavish, expensive private party at his estate in Palm Beach.
That is how much he cares about you.
That is how much he cares about you.
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
If you or someone you care about are one of the 42 million Americans who buy groceries with SNAP benefits, you should know that on the night before those benefits ended, your president held a lavish, expensive private party at his estate in Palm Beach.
That is how much he cares about you.
That is how much he cares about you.
I hear Speaker Johnson refuses to bring the House back in session because he believes he will lose his speakership to a handful of Rs siding with the Ds.
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I hear Speaker Johnson refuses to bring the House back in session because he believes he will lose his speakership to a handful of Rs siding with the Ds.
I’ve been tracking the same seven items at the same grocery store since the week this president was inaugurated. As of today that basket of groceries is 9.5% more expensive than it was on January 22.
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I’ve been tracking the same seven items at the same grocery store since the week this president was inaugurated. As of today that basket of groceries is 9.5% more expensive than it was on January 22.
If we don’t get the 2026 elections right, the question of how many terms a president can serve will be moot.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If we don’t get the 2026 elections right, the question of how many terms a president can serve will be moot.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Please keep the people of Jamaica in your heart today.
October 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Please keep the people of Jamaica in your heart today.
There are off-cycle elections in communities across the nation a week from tomorrow (11/4) and they all need your participation. If you can’t vote, you can still help.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
October 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
There are off-cycle elections in communities across the nation a week from tomorrow (11/4) and they all need your participation. If you can’t vote, you can still help.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Get your health advice from your physician, not your president.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Get your health advice from your physician, not your president.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
One defense of party politics, and of not falling in love with out-of-nowhere, splash-making candidates is that years of vetting generally keeps us from getting surprised by nazi tattoos.
October 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
One defense of party politics, and of not falling in love with out-of-nowhere, splash-making candidates is that years of vetting generally keeps us from getting surprised by nazi tattoos.
It’s really hard to know what to say about this.
Just remember it every time you vote for the rest of your life.
Just remember it every time you vote for the rest of your life.
October 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It’s really hard to know what to say about this.
Just remember it every time you vote for the rest of your life.
Just remember it every time you vote for the rest of your life.
As repulsive as it is that US armed forces could be privately funded, it is also performative and silly.
There are about 2.1 million active duty members of US armed forces. Divide $130 million by that number and you get (or rather THEY would get) … sixty-two bucks each.
Smoke and mirrors.
There are about 2.1 million active duty members of US armed forces. Divide $130 million by that number and you get (or rather THEY would get) … sixty-two bucks each.
Smoke and mirrors.
October 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
As repulsive as it is that US armed forces could be privately funded, it is also performative and silly.
There are about 2.1 million active duty members of US armed forces. Divide $130 million by that number and you get (or rather THEY would get) … sixty-two bucks each.
Smoke and mirrors.
There are about 2.1 million active duty members of US armed forces. Divide $130 million by that number and you get (or rather THEY would get) … sixty-two bucks each.
Smoke and mirrors.
Happy FEST, Gainesville!
If you love (or just kinda like, or are curious about) punk rock, downtown is where you want to be through Sunday.
If not, enjoy the rest of our excellent community and the millions of dollars FEST brings us every year.
If you love (or just kinda like, or are curious about) punk rock, downtown is where you want to be through Sunday.
If not, enjoy the rest of our excellent community and the millions of dollars FEST brings us every year.
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Happy FEST, Gainesville!
If you love (or just kinda like, or are curious about) punk rock, downtown is where you want to be through Sunday.
If not, enjoy the rest of our excellent community and the millions of dollars FEST brings us every year.
If you love (or just kinda like, or are curious about) punk rock, downtown is where you want to be through Sunday.
If not, enjoy the rest of our excellent community and the millions of dollars FEST brings us every year.
Reposted by Harvey Ward
Normal people: wow, it really sucks that Trump is destroying the whole East Wing
MAGA: ☝️ well ackschully, in 1948…
Shut the fuck up.
MAGA: ☝️ well ackschully, in 1948…
Shut the fuck up.
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Normal people: wow, it really sucks that Trump is destroying the whole East Wing
MAGA: ☝️ well ackschully, in 1948…
Shut the fuck up.
MAGA: ☝️ well ackschully, in 1948…
Shut the fuck up.
Inevitably, the ballroom thing is going to cost us a minimum of a billion dollars when all is said and done.
Which, on the scale of the $40 Billion Argentinian grift, is a bargain I guess.
Which, on the scale of the $40 Billion Argentinian grift, is a bargain I guess.
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Inevitably, the ballroom thing is going to cost us a minimum of a billion dollars when all is said and done.
Which, on the scale of the $40 Billion Argentinian grift, is a bargain I guess.
Which, on the scale of the $40 Billion Argentinian grift, is a bargain I guess.
Reposted by Harvey Ward
Wow. Tell your farmer friends & family.👇🏽😡
Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”
Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”
Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
Trump says Argentina is 'dying' and 'fighting for its life' | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wow. Tell your farmer friends & family.👇🏽😡
Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”
Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”
Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
I don’t give a damn how much the new Epstein Ballroom costs, when we come out on the other side of this foolishness (and we will, there are no thousand-year reichs) the next president should take a wrecking ball to it on day one.
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I don’t give a damn how much the new Epstein Ballroom costs, when we come out on the other side of this foolishness (and we will, there are no thousand-year reichs) the next president should take a wrecking ball to it on day one.
Reposted by Harvey Ward
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
The “Cease Fire” isn’t a cease fire. People on both sides keep shooting at each other.
When they stop doing that, THEN you have a Cease Fire.
Right now you have propaganda.
When they stop doing that, THEN you have a Cease Fire.
Right now you have propaganda.
October 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The “Cease Fire” isn’t a cease fire. People on both sides keep shooting at each other.
When they stop doing that, THEN you have a Cease Fire.
Right now you have propaganda.
When they stop doing that, THEN you have a Cease Fire.
Right now you have propaganda.