Julie Hauserman
@jhauserman.bsky.social
Writer lady. Fan of #Florida. Reporter for decades. Opinions mine. Check out my book, Drawn to the Deep, biography of a man who swam inside the planet - NatGeo underwater cave explorer Wes Skiles
Excellent #journalism by @tampabaytimes.bsky.social. Reporters spent yrs nailing down data to show the state bows to polluters at every turn, leaving our public waters worse every year. project.tampabay.com/investigatio...
Wasting Away: Florida lets big companies pollute with impunity. Waterways suffer | TampaBay.com
For decades, Florida has failed to cut contamination — at the benefit of businesses that cause it.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Excellent #journalism by @tampabaytimes.bsky.social. Reporters spent yrs nailing down data to show the state bows to polluters at every turn, leaving our public waters worse every year. project.tampabay.com/investigatio...
Wow 👀 this investigation by ace #journalist @jasongarcia.bsky.social on how #Florida Gov. used taxpayer $$ to pay donors and his own campaign people on brazenly political campaign. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/hidden-con...
Hidden consultants and hurried payments: Records reveal details of DeSantis' campaign against abortion and marijuana amendments
Ron DeSantis employed campaign strategists as subcontractors, bent procurement rules, and took millions from reserves, in a taxpayer-fund ad campaign against two citizen-led ballot measures last year.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Wow 👀 this investigation by ace #journalist @jasongarcia.bsky.social on how #Florida Gov. used taxpayer $$ to pay donors and his own campaign people on brazenly political campaign. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/hidden-con...
On reckless furloughing nuke workers, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers. R-Ala is correct: “These are not employees that you want to go home.“They’re managing and handling a very important strategic asset for us. They need to be at work and being paid.” www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/20/g...
Nuclear security agency begins furloughing workers as part of shutdown, energy secretary says
Up to 1,400 workers could be furloughed as a result of the shutdown.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
On reckless furloughing nuke workers, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers. R-Ala is correct: “These are not employees that you want to go home.“They’re managing and handling a very important strategic asset for us. They need to be at work and being paid.” www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/20/g...
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Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.
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@jkbjournalist.bsky.social is a great and courageous #Florida #journalist who broke the Epstein sex trafficking story yrs ago in the @miamiherald.com and has kept on it. She reports with Claire Healey on new documents showing more cozy ties between Epstein and men in power.
SCOOP: (gift) One of the top prosecutors who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal had dinners, meetings with the convicted sex offender after the prosecutor left DOJ. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2007 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social is a great and courageous #Florida #journalist who broke the Epstein sex trafficking story yrs ago in the @miamiherald.com and has kept on it. She reports with Claire Healey on new documents showing more cozy ties between Epstein and men in power.
#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous employed campaign strategists as state subcontractors, bent procurement rules & took millions from reserves, in a taxpayer-fund ad campaign against two citizen-led ballot measures last year. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/hidden-con... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
Hidden consultants and hurried payments: Records reveal details of DeSantis' campaign against abortion and marijuana amendments
Ron DeSantis employed campaign strategists as subcontractors, bent procurement rules, and took millions from reserves, in a taxpayer-fund ad campaign against two citizen-led ballot measures last year.
jasongarcia.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Earthjustice is fighting for our environment in court and they need our help
September 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Earthjustice is fighting for our environment in court and they need our help
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#Florida rejects St. Johns County’s 2050 Comprehensive Plan as too restrictive, another victim of evil pro-development SB 180 tying the hands of local govts www.staugustine.com/story/news/l... h/t @floridatrend.bsky.social
Florida rejects St. Johns County’s 2050 Comprehensive Plan as too restrictive
“SB 180 has already undermined our efforts to reduce clear-cutting in planned developments, and now our entire Comprehensive Plan is on the chopping block."
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October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
#Florida rejects St. Johns County’s 2050 Comprehensive Plan as too restrictive, another victim of evil pro-development SB 180 tying the hands of local govts www.staugustine.com/story/news/l... h/t @floridatrend.bsky.social
Um....#Florida Gov's wife has never heard of Bad Bunny?? www.miaminewtimes.com/music/florid...
Florida's First Lady Claims She Has No Clue Who Bad Bunny Is
The reggaeton artist is among the most-streamed in the world.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Um....#Florida Gov's wife has never heard of Bad Bunny?? www.miaminewtimes.com/music/florid...
👀 Quite the story here, especially the background of the developer, a #Florida political donor, from Louisiana who stands to benefit from $80 million-plus of our tax money for 4 acres in Destin.
"I watched Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Cabinet ram this through Tuesday morning in just two minutes, without even a pause for public comment."
Column: A Louisiana developer with a checkered past gets to skip the line and go straight to a big payday from the taxpayers, thanks to Gov. Ron DeSastrous & the Cabinet. My latest for @floridaphoenix.com also features a quick shout-out to Kenny Rogers. floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/02/c...
October 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
👀 Quite the story here, especially the background of the developer, a #Florida political donor, from Louisiana who stands to benefit from $80 million-plus of our tax money for 4 acres in Destin.
1/5 More hinky things in #Florida state conservation lands program. @bruceritchie.bsky.social reports in @politico.com - proposal before Cabinet would allow a wetlands mitigation bank on private land near St. Johns River where the state has already paid a landowner not to develop.
September 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
1/5 More hinky things in #Florida state conservation lands program. @bruceritchie.bsky.social reports in @politico.com - proposal before Cabinet would allow a wetlands mitigation bank on private land near St. Johns River where the state has already paid a landowner not to develop.
👀$80m of taxpayer $$ for 4 acres? Legislative language slipped in reverts $850m from Florida Wildlife Corridor "and instead placed the Destin purchase as the top priority ahead of corridor projects." @bruceritchie reports in @politico subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Florida Cabinet asked to buy Destin waterfront parcel for more than $80M
The Department of Environmental Protection is recommending the 3.9-acre purchase after the Legislature promoted the deal in last-minute budget language.
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September 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
👀$80m of taxpayer $$ for 4 acres? Legislative language slipped in reverts $850m from Florida Wildlife Corridor "and instead placed the Destin purchase as the top priority ahead of corridor projects." @bruceritchie reports in @politico subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
RIP to my “wasband.” He made a difference in this world, just like our daughter is making a difference www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...
'I hope people will say I was generous': Tallahassee's John Newton remembered
Newton, a lawyer and administrative law judge, died Sept. 8 after a battle with lung disease. He was 73.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
RIP to my “wasband.” He made a difference in this world, just like our daughter is making a difference www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...
👀 @craigtimes.bsky.social in #Florida Phoenix on new BP Gulf "Kaskida" rig plan: "Here’s a fun fact about Kaskida: BP found that deposit of oil in 2006 using the same drilling rig that it used for Deepwater Horizon. OK, maybe that fact isn’t so fun after all." floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/28/b...
BP is back 15 years after Deepwater Horizon disaster with plans to drill even deeper • Florida Phoenix
How many chances should you give a bad actor? A screw-up? A company that fouled the ocean and the coast and killed lots of wildlife? I ask this because BP, the British oil giant responsible for the wo...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
👀 @craigtimes.bsky.social in #Florida Phoenix on new BP Gulf "Kaskida" rig plan: "Here’s a fun fact about Kaskida: BP found that deposit of oil in 2006 using the same drilling rig that it used for Deepwater Horizon. OK, maybe that fact isn’t so fun after all." floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/28/b...
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Hear that? It’s 2 a.m. You’re in bed. The sun hasn’t risen, but the robin has. It is 🎶-ing at an unnatural hour, waking you.
If this has happened to you, you’re not alone. Artificial light is prompting birds to tweet for nearly an extra hour a day on average.
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If this has happened to you, you’re not alone. Artificial light is prompting birds to tweet for nearly an extra hour a day on average.
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These birds won’t stop singing, and it’s our fault
A sweeping analysis of more than 4 millions recordings has found birds tweet for nearly an extra hour a day in areas disrupted by light pollution.
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August 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hear that? It’s 2 a.m. You’re in bed. The sun hasn’t risen, but the robin has. It is 🎶-ing at an unnatural hour, waking you.
If this has happened to you, you’re not alone. Artificial light is prompting birds to tweet for nearly an extra hour a day on average.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
If this has happened to you, you’re not alone. Artificial light is prompting birds to tweet for nearly an extra hour a day on average.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
"In #Florida, a 60-year-old couple earning $82,000 would see their annual premiums rise by almost $20,000. For a family of four making $126,000, premiums would rise by more than $9,000 each year." GOP megabill targets entrepreneurs, small businesses. www.tampabay.com/news/health/...
A health care tax credit that powers Florida’s small businesses is going away
Enhanced Obamacare subsidies expire this year, putting health insurance at risk for more than two million Floridians, including many self-employed workers
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August 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"In #Florida, a 60-year-old couple earning $82,000 would see their annual premiums rise by almost $20,000. For a family of four making $126,000, premiums would rise by more than $9,000 each year." GOP megabill targets entrepreneurs, small businesses. www.tampabay.com/news/health/...
What could go wrong? It's only our #Florida Drinking. Water. At. Stake.
#Florida DEP has issued draft permits for Mosaic Fertilizer to drill two exploratory wells in Polk County that could be a step toward injecting wastewater underground. www.wusf.org/environment/... via @wusf.org
Draft permits approved for Mosaic exploratory wells
Mosaic, a major player in the state’s phosphate industry, applied in early 2024 for approval to drill exploratory wells at sites in Mulberry and Bartow.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What could go wrong? It's only our #Florida Drinking. Water. At. Stake.
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BREAKING: A federal judge sided with conservation groups, ordering the state of Florida and the Trump administration to temporarily stop further construction of the mass detention center in the Florida Everglades.
'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention camp in Florida must temporarily halt construction, judge rules
Construction at the controversial facility in the Florida Everglades has been stopped for 14 days over a lawsuit alleging it skirted environmental laws.
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August 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge sided with conservation groups, ordering the state of Florida and the Trump administration to temporarily stop further construction of the mass detention center in the Florida Everglades.
Pretty sure I saw a “bat” that was actually a drone flying over Tallahassee #Florida during an outdoor music festival Saturday. Did not look like a real bat to me at all & did not fly like one.
August 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Pretty sure I saw a “bat” that was actually a drone flying over Tallahassee #Florida during an outdoor music festival Saturday. Did not look like a real bat to me at all & did not fly like one.
Look- another example of the state trampling on community rights. This dynamic is THE story of what’s happening in #Florida as corporations roll over the landscape, aided by their politician lackeys
Editorial: #Florida state officials nullified pro-rural, anti-developer Orange County growth plan. Counties must fight the state to preserve what voters want. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/05/e...
Editorial: Florida nullified Orange’s Vision 2050 plan. Counties must fight to keep control.
Last week’s barrage of bullying from the state should only strengthen Orange County’s resolve, but it’s truly disgusting to watch state officials weigh in on the side of big-money development inter…
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August 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Look- another example of the state trampling on community rights. This dynamic is THE story of what’s happening in #Florida as corporations roll over the landscape, aided by their politician lackeys
1/3 Important #Florida #journalism by Emily Mahoney and Nate Monroe, two excellent reporters. (In the late 1980s, this nuclear plant was part of my environmental reporting beat. Every bit of nuclear waste it has produced is still onsite -- on a populated barrier island!)
Florida nuclear plant workers were too afraid to report safety concerns, records show
These records cap years of issues surrounding the nuclear operations of the state’s largest utility, Florida Power & Light, most of which have been disclosed in highly technical reports that have esca...
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August 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
1/3 Important #Florida #journalism by Emily Mahoney and Nate Monroe, two excellent reporters. (In the late 1980s, this nuclear plant was part of my environmental reporting beat. Every bit of nuclear waste it has produced is still onsite -- on a populated barrier island!)
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Representatives of 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote a simple email to President Convicted Felon's EPA requesting an exemption from clean-air rules. They all got it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c... via @nytimes.com
These Companies Avoided Clean-Air Rules. It Took a Single Email.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Representatives of 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote a simple email to President Convicted Felon's EPA requesting an exemption from clean-air rules. They all got it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c... via @nytimes.com
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A top aide to Ron DeSantis just admitted that the administration is breaking the law by hiding contracts connected to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention facility it built in the middle of the Florida Everglades.
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July 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A top aide to Ron DeSantis just admitted that the administration is breaking the law by hiding contracts connected to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention facility it built in the middle of the Florida Everglades.
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1/4 How is this the right way to spend #Florida conservation dollars? @politico.com report: The state bought 25,000 acres in Collier County from Tarpon Blue for $122 million of taxpayer money in 2024. We, the public, now own it.
July 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
1/4 How is this the right way to spend #Florida conservation dollars? @politico.com report: The state bought 25,000 acres in Collier County from Tarpon Blue for $122 million of taxpayer money in 2024. We, the public, now own it.