lrozsa
@lrozsa.bsky.social
☀️Covering Florida for the Washington Post
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The airspace around Mar-a-Lago, the president’s estate, is a no-fly zone 24/7, even when Trump isn’t home. This means noise and soot from flights out of Palm Beach International Airport are being diverted to other parts of the neighborhood.
New Mar-a-Lago no-fly zone means endless plane noise for neighbors
Flight rules altered in October by the Secret Service route planes over the Palm Beach homes of millionaires and billionaires, even when President Donald Trump is not there.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The airspace around Mar-a-Lago, the president’s estate, is a no-fly zone 24/7, even when Trump isn’t home. This means noise and soot from flights out of Palm Beach International Airport are being diverted to other parts of the neighborhood.
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Gov. Ron DeSatrous' right-wing makeover of New College of #Florida has been reeeeeeeeeeeeally expensive. The cost to produce a degree at New College is now $494,715 — the highest among public colleges in Florida . wapo.st/49mrPgl via @washingtonpost.com
DeSantis’s makeover of ‘left-wing’ Florida college has been costly
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s makeover of the public honors college has been thorough — and costly, a new report shows.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Gov. Ron DeSatrous' right-wing makeover of New College of #Florida has been reeeeeeeeeeeeally expensive. The cost to produce a degree at New College is now $494,715 — the highest among public colleges in Florida . wapo.st/49mrPgl via @washingtonpost.com
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NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
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An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital
Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.
www.bbc.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.
DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show
Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...
wapo.st
August 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.
NOAA scrambles to fill forecasting jobs as hurricane season looms
May 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
NOAA scrambles to fill forecasting jobs as hurricane season looms
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DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead
The latest in a string of public errors on Musk's DOGE site: claiming credit for canceling agreements completed years earlier
David Fahrenthold Margot Sanger-Katz Jeremy Singer-Vine
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
The latest in a string of public errors on Musk's DOGE site: claiming credit for canceling agreements completed years earlier
David Fahrenthold Margot Sanger-Katz Jeremy Singer-Vine
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead
Elon Musk’s group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead
The latest in a string of public errors on Musk's DOGE site: claiming credit for canceling agreements completed years earlier
David Fahrenthold Margot Sanger-Katz Jeremy Singer-Vine
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
The latest in a string of public errors on Musk's DOGE site: claiming credit for canceling agreements completed years earlier
David Fahrenthold Margot Sanger-Katz Jeremy Singer-Vine
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
“He has been a big beneficiary of national industrial policy, especially Democrat industrial policy, through government funding.”
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Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
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February 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“He has been a big beneficiary of national industrial policy, especially Democrat industrial policy, through government funding.”
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Divers in a sinkhole in #Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including giant armadillos, ancient horses and possibly a new species of tapir www.livescience.com/animals/exti... via @livescience.com
Divers discover 500,000-year-old treasure trove of fossils in Florida sinkhole
Divers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including giant armadillos, ancient horses and possibly a new species of tapir.
www.livescience.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Divers in a sinkhole in #Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including giant armadillos, ancient horses and possibly a new species of tapir www.livescience.com/animals/exti... via @livescience.com
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Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.
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With President Donald Trump’s return to power and the billionaire space entrepreneur Elon Musk patrolling government agencies, the world’s premier space agency has entered a murky realm.
Under Trump, NASA meetings are on hold and missions are up in the air
Executive orders and feared budget cuts put the government space agency on uncertain footing.
wapo.st
February 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
With President Donald Trump’s return to power and the billionaire space entrepreneur Elon Musk patrolling government agencies, the world’s premier space agency has entered a murky realm.
Georgia begins saying its long goodbye to Jimmy Carter, beloved in his home state, especially in the farm town where he was born, and where he died.
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Jimmy Carter’s final trip begins with procession through rural Georgia
The motorcade bearing the former president’s casket passed through his beloved hometown of Plains before arriving in Atlanta.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Georgia begins saying its long goodbye to Jimmy Carter, beloved in his home state, especially in the farm town where he was born, and where he died.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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While the White House attempts to lock in policy priorities with international partners, Mar-a-Lago is becoming a magnet for foreign leaders eager to win Donald Trump’s good graces.
In silence and bluster, a shadow Trump foreign policy haunts Biden’s final acts
While Biden attempts to lock in policy priorities with partners, Mar-a-Lago is becoming a magnet for foreign leaders eager to win Trump’s good graces.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:18 PM
While the White House attempts to lock in policy priorities with international partners, Mar-a-Lago is becoming a magnet for foreign leaders eager to win Donald Trump’s good graces.
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How convenient.
The Texas committee that examines all pregnancy-related deaths in the state will not review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first two years after Texas’s near-total abortion ban took effect, leaving any potential deaths related to abortion bans during those years uninvestigated by the group.
Texas committee won’t examine maternal deaths in first years after abortion ban
The largest state with an abortion ban, Texas can offer broader insight into the impact of abortion laws than any other state in the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:48 AM
How convenient.
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“A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.”
United States v. New York Times Company, 328 F. Supp. 324 (S.D.N.Y. 1971)
United States v. New York Times Company, 328 F. Supp. 324 (S.D.N.Y. 1971)
November 24, 2024 at 4:36 PM
“A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.”
United States v. New York Times Company, 328 F. Supp. 324 (S.D.N.Y. 1971)
United States v. New York Times Company, 328 F. Supp. 324 (S.D.N.Y. 1971)
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Me talking about Bluesky: The "echo chamber" criticism is undergirded by two common internet fallacies, that X reflects genuine mainstream discourse and that social media is only useful when users are confronted at all times with social and political conflict
Normal person: Hey man how's it going
Normal person: Hey man how's it going
November 24, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Me talking about Bluesky: The "echo chamber" criticism is undergirded by two common internet fallacies, that X reflects genuine mainstream discourse and that social media is only useful when users are confronted at all times with social and political conflict
Normal person: Hey man how's it going
Normal person: Hey man how's it going