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Previously of the South Florida Daily Blog & Stuck on the Palmetto. Politics, cars, craft beer crusader, the outdoors & life. Pro gun sense. Sharer of interesting news. NY Times famous. Most photos shared here are not mine and are properly sourced.
Classic...

1975 Mercury Colony Park Wagon

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December 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Our NRA World: Oklahoma gunslinger shoots himself in the legs while handling a loaded gun at 6 in the morning. It happens.
Man rushed to hospital after accidentally shooting himself in OKC
Authorities say a man was rushed to a hospital after he accidentally shot himself early Wednesday in west Oklahoma City.
www.koco.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J. Trump’s second term has been the attempt of the president and his cronies to dismantle the constitutional system set up by the framers of that document when they established the United States of America."

The latest from HCR...
December 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just a frequent visitor to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The club was also sending spa employees—usually young women—to Epstein’s nearby mansion for massages, manicures and other spa services..."

New reporting from the WSJ..

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Exclusive | The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa
Mar-a-Lago sent an 18-year-old spa worker on a house call to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She complained to her bosses that Epstein pressured her for sex.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"The spending would help President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation agenda dominate media networks and recruitment channels, including through ads targeting people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear..."

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Purest fascism. WaPo got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
wapo.st
December 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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12/31/2025- The Resolution www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...
December 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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End of an era (a brief one). Right-wing activist Chris Rufo leaves New College of Florida.

"Meyer would replace Trustee Christopher Rufo who did not want another term."

floridapolitics.com/archives/771...
Gov. DeSantis appoints Urban Meyer onto New College’s trustees
DeSantis taps a big-time coach with a complicated past to help lead the Sarasota school.
floridapolitics.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
This read has been a long slog, I must say...

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December 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the YEAR!
December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion.”

- Mark Twain
December 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
December 31, 1972: Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player Roberto Clemente, 38, is killed when a plane he chartered and is traveling on to bring relief supplies to earthquake-devastated Nicaragua crashes shortly after takeoff from Puerto Rico.
December 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Good morning and welcome to Wednesday...

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December 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Leave a light on...

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December 31, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The latest Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report prepared by the CDC.
December 31, 2025 at 2:49 AM
December 30, 1955: The Fort Lauderdale Police Department was having problems with some of their officers showing up to testify in court in "beach shorts."

[Fort Lauderdale Daily News]
December 31, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The CDC "quietly updated its guidance in November to encourage adults 65 and older to receive two shots of this season’s vaccine, ideally six months apart to optimize protection."

You can the 2nd as soon as two or three months after the first shot, depending on the vaccine.

wapo.st/4siX5nv 🎁🔗
Opinion | The CDC quietly recommends a second covid booster for vulnerable adults
Careful, evidence-based vaccine guidance now arrives with little fanfare.
wapo.st
December 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
December 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Francis Suarez was first elected mayor of Miami on November 7, 2017. He was later re-elected to a second term on November 2, 2021.

In 2018, his net worth was $400K.

On December 22, days after he left office, he bought a 6700 sq ft house in Miami-Dade Co. for $7.4M.

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story: archive.today/5eHV1
December 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Tuesday that it’s freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years."

I'm confused. I was under the belief that the Trump administration pardoned fraudsters, not punish them.
Trump administration says it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after series of fraud schemes
The Trump administration has announced that it is freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.
apnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Just a month after writing a heartbreaking essay in The New Yorker revealing her terminal cancer diagnosis, Tatiana Schlossberg, one of JFK's grandchildren, passed away this morning at the age of 35.
Tatiana Schlossberg, a grandchild of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died at 35
Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one of three grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died after a battle with leukemia.
apnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...
The Wire: Shit Clay Davis Says | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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State says 52 bears killed in Florida hunt
State says 52 bears killed in Florida hunt, fewer than expected
The hunt was restricted to 172 permit holders, but conservationists sought to drive the “harvest” numbers down.
www.orlandosentinel.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Our NRA World: A 15yo Georgia student is shot in the hand at a middle school when a gun in his jacket discharges in the boys locker room during basketball practice. It happens.
Student shot at Hubert Middle School during basketball practice
One student was accidentally shot in the locker room at Hubert Middle School during 8th grade basketball practice, according to SCCPSS.
www.wtoc.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
NBC News...

"One of Florida’s largest school districts cut ties in 2022 with James Fishback [...] following allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with a student who was a minor at the time..."

He was 27, she was 17. She had to take out an order of protection against him.

Yikes.
Florida school district cut ties with GOP candidate James Fishback in 2022 over sexual misconduct allegations
Fishback has called the allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with a female student who was a minor "completely false."
www.nbcnews.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM