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Julie
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Floridian, liberal 💙, animal lover…

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Apparently this needs to be said, no porn.
Or DM’s.
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#Florida consumer advocate slams FPL’s "unconscionable" rate hike deal www.tampabay.com/news/busines... via @tamp
Florida consumer advocate slams FPL’s ‘unconscionable’ rate hike deal
The public counsel, who’s appointed by the Florida Legislature, said a proposed settlement would result in unaffordable electric bills.
www.tampabay.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous is again pushing for the state to gain control of red snapper management from the feds to give fishermen a longer season in the Atlantic Ocean. floridapolitics.com/archives/764...
Florida files permit to control red snapper fishing season in the Atlantic, Gov. DeSantis says
'There's a lot of people throughout Northeast Florida that really have been waiting for this for a long time.'
floridapolitics.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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#Florida this week is in line to become the first state to adopt the new Heritage Foundation vision for education to “reclaim” public schools from what the organization calls an “ideological assault” led by liberals. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... via @politico.com
a cartoon of spongebob and patrick standing next to each other with the word florida written on the bottom .
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob and patrick standing next to each other with the word florida written on the bottom .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.

YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I missed this awful detail in the Senate deal: helping politicians who conspired against America as part of Trump's coup hide their phone records.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I salute moderate Democrats who bravely caved to the GOP in the government shutdown fight. When an opposing party is offering a daily cyclone of lies, the best move is to always give them an extra inch, confident they would never dare take a mile.

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
I salute moderate Democrats who bravely caved in government shutdown fight | Opinion
I had just finished wiring money to a Nigerian prince when I heard centrist Democrats in the U.S. Senate caved to the GOP on the government shutdown.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous continues putting political allies into what are supposed to be non-political posts. He just appointed the wife of his former aide who's now education commissioner as a new appeals court judge. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/l...
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.

*If all goes by the regular schedule
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This is nearly at 47k signatures, by the way. Join us.
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader

Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM

(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the Petition
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#Florida woman arrested in multi-city brothel, human trafficking ring cbs12.com/news/local/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Miami-Dade County has 50.1% of its population on SNAP.

FLIP FLORIDA BLUE.
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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We’re not going to “fix the Democrats’ brand” by doing TikToks or launching pods. The brand is a direct reflection of our elected officials. If we want to purge our weak branding, we have to purge the weak Dems. I’m looking forward to a robust primary cycle and new Democrats who know how to fight.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week

Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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BUT WAIT, HERE COME THE SENATE DEMOCRATS TO SAVE THE TURKEY!
Art by Mike Lukovich
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.

This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Can someone please overnight Chuck Schumer a spine???
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Instead of No Kings, I hope the next protest is No Caves that gets 7 million people to surround their offices

Primary every one. No $$$ for them or any committee that funds them. Boo them in airports. Make their existence hell on earth
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM