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I’m sick reading the Schools of Hope details. The state of FL is attempting to seize Duval owned public school facilities & let for-profit charter corporations use them for free. DCPS must pay for all school services even though the charter corp. plans full takeovers in 5 years.
I’m sick reading the Schools of Hope details. The state of FL is attempting to seize Duval owned public school facilities & let for-profit charter corporations use them for free. DCPS must pay for all school services even though the charter corp. plans full takeovers in 5 years.
October 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’m sick reading the Schools of Hope details. The state of FL is attempting to seize Duval owned public school facilities & let for-profit charter corporations use them for free. DCPS must pay for all school services even though the charter corp. plans full takeovers in 5 years.
A new Florida state law is allowing out-of-town for-profit charter school corporations to use Duval County public school facilities, free of charge. Mater Academy out of Miami has submitted a proposal to start taking over A, B, C rated public schools. That was never part of the charter school deal.
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A new Florida state law is allowing out-of-town for-profit charter school corporations to use Duval County public school facilities, free of charge. Mater Academy out of Miami has submitted a proposal to start taking over A, B, C rated public schools. That was never part of the charter school deal.
May was actually a good month for Florida’s environment. FL state parks were protected from development, the FL legislature unanimously banned oil drilling in the Apalachicola river basin & Guana was saved. Bipartisan support across the board. Great report by James Call.
'A monumental moment': How grassroots power is reshaping Florida's environmental agenda
Oil drilling? Development at state parks? Sensitive land swaps? All shot down recently. Advocates are pinching themselves: Is this really Florida?
www.tallahassee.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
May was actually a good month for Florida’s environment. FL state parks were protected from development, the FL legislature unanimously banned oil drilling in the Apalachicola river basin & Guana was saved. Bipartisan support across the board. Great report by James Call.
Pres Trump & Mike Johnson want the federal tax code to help defund local public schools by giving tax breaks to wealthy families already enrolled in private school. 70% of FL public vouchers go to existing private school families. They’re stealing from the poor & giving the money to the 1%.
“If it uses taxpayer $$ for private K12 tuition it’s a voucher. Most voucher users were already in private school. For the rest: horrific learning loss.”
My take @npr.org on the new GOP tax bill backed by Betsy DeVos that would force vouchers into all states.
www.npr.org/2025/05/23/n...
My take @npr.org on the new GOP tax bill backed by Betsy DeVos that would force vouchers into all states.
www.npr.org/2025/05/23/n...
9 things to know about the big, private-school voucher plan in Republicans' tax bill
NPR asked researchers, advocates, tax experts, a parent and a public school leader for their thoughts on this first-of-its-kind national voucher plan. Here's what they said.
www.npr.org
May 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Pres Trump & Mike Johnson want the federal tax code to help defund local public schools by giving tax breaks to wealthy families already enrolled in private school. 70% of FL public vouchers go to existing private school families. They’re stealing from the poor & giving the money to the 1%.
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May 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Please show your support for former school board member Elizabeth Andersen for the library board: docs.google.com/forms/d/1QmU...
Community Letter of Support for the Nomination of Elizabeth Andersen to the Jacksonville Public Library Board of Trustees
Recent opposition to Mayor Deegan’s nomination of Elizabeth Andersen to the Jacksonville Public Library Board of Trustees has included deeply personal attacks, false allegations, and politically motiv...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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This was one of the lines where it was obvious JD had pre-written talking points that he had practiced in the mirror before hand. An absolute disgrace to try to turn US foreign policy into one of Trump’s reality TV shows. Never too early to start talking about impeachment. 🇺🇸
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
March 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This was one of the lines where it was obvious JD had pre-written talking points that he had practiced in the mirror before hand. An absolute disgrace to try to turn US foreign policy into one of Trump’s reality TV shows. Never too early to start talking about impeachment. 🇺🇸
Really remarkable stuff. Why would a US ally trust the Republican Party ever again?
To be clear, the Vance/Musk intervention did not change the outcome. Still, the fact that it happened changes German and European politics forever
🇩🇪🇺🇸 “Look at these recent interventions into Germany by Mr. Elon Musk. Interventions from DC are no less dramatic, drastic & brazen than those from Moscow. We are massively under pressure from two sides.” — Friedrich Merz.
February 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Really remarkable stuff. Why would a US ally trust the Republican Party ever again?
Hear Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood team up with Waxahatchee on his new song "The Forks Of Cypress"
Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood Teams Up With Waxahatchee On New Song "The Forks Of Cypress": Listen
Today, a couple of generations of great Alabama-born indie rockers team up on a new song. Right now, the Drive-By Truckers are playing their 2001 classic Southern Rock Opera in full on tour, and co-le...
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February 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A great 3 pack of articles if you want to better understand the German election on Sunday & Elon & Vance’s attempted involvement.
TLDR: The delivery of Vance’s speech was boorish & the context was terrible & it may backfire helping to consolidate the centrists. That or Europe is in big trouble.
TLDR: The delivery of Vance’s speech was boorish & the context was terrible & it may backfire helping to consolidate the centrists. That or Europe is in big trouble.
Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...
February 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A great 3 pack of articles if you want to better understand the German election on Sunday & Elon & Vance’s attempted involvement.
TLDR: The delivery of Vance’s speech was boorish & the context was terrible & it may backfire helping to consolidate the centrists. That or Europe is in big trouble.
TLDR: The delivery of Vance’s speech was boorish & the context was terrible & it may backfire helping to consolidate the centrists. That or Europe is in big trouble.
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Dear Florida - the idea of eliminating property taxes in a state with such poorly funded education to begin with and no income tax is absurd & will crush what remains of k12 schooling in FL.
A few thoughts on property taxes - they're easy to hate, but: schoolfinance101.com/2012/08/10/f...
A few thoughts on property taxes - they're easy to hate, but: schoolfinance101.com/2012/08/10/f...
Friday Finance 101: On Parfaits & Property Taxes
Public preference for property taxes stands in perfect inverse relation to the public taste for parfaits. Everybody loves parfaits[i] and everybody hates property taxes.[ii] No, I don’t plan to spe…
schoolfinance101.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Dear Florida - the idea of eliminating property taxes in a state with such poorly funded education to begin with and no income tax is absurd & will crush what remains of k12 schooling in FL.
A few thoughts on property taxes - they're easy to hate, but: schoolfinance101.com/2012/08/10/f...
A few thoughts on property taxes - they're easy to hate, but: schoolfinance101.com/2012/08/10/f...
Oh good grief!
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Oh good grief!
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Has the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) actually saved millions of lives?
We weren't sure, so we spent the last two weekends looking deeply into multiple lines of evidence. The short answer: PEPFAR saved between 7.5 and 30 million lives in the first 15 years of its existence.
We weren't sure, so we spent the last two weekends looking deeply into multiple lines of evidence. The short answer: PEPFAR saved between 7.5 and 30 million lives in the first 15 years of its existence.
PEPFAR Report
The State Department, which administers PEPFAR, says the program has saved 25 million lives. We are an independent team of journalists, academics, and technologists who decided to investigate whether ...
pepfarreport.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Has the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) actually saved millions of lives?
We weren't sure, so we spent the last two weekends looking deeply into multiple lines of evidence. The short answer: PEPFAR saved between 7.5 and 30 million lives in the first 15 years of its existence.
We weren't sure, so we spent the last two weekends looking deeply into multiple lines of evidence. The short answer: PEPFAR saved between 7.5 and 30 million lives in the first 15 years of its existence.
If you’ve been told USAID just wastes money, please read this report on PEPFAR. The George W Bush and bi-partisan policy that has saved millions of lives…
Most of the lives PEPFAR saved, like most HIV patients in Africa, were likely women and children.
The long answer on what exactly we learned and how we learned it can be found here:
pepfarreport.org
The long answer on what exactly we learned and how we learned it can be found here:
pepfarreport.org
PEPFAR Report
The State Department, which administers PEPFAR, says the program has saved 25 million lives. We are an independent team of journalists, academics, and technologists who decided to investigate whether ...
pepfarreport.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you’ve been told USAID just wastes money, please read this report on PEPFAR. The George W Bush and bi-partisan policy that has saved millions of lives…
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Share this with everyone you know who cares about young people and their public schools.
How much funding would public schools in your state lose if Title I programs were cut? Use ELC's new advocacy tool to explore the impact of potential federal revenue losses. edlawcenter.org/research/tru...
February 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Share this with everyone you know who cares about young people and their public schools.
From Panama, Greenland & Gaza to USAID, DoEd & CFPB this has been the weakest & most incompetent & corrupt two weeks of any US president in the history of our country with impeachable offenses happening daily. One part authoritarian takeover, one part Three Stooges episode.
February 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
From Panama, Greenland & Gaza to USAID, DoEd & CFPB this has been the weakest & most incompetent & corrupt two weeks of any US president in the history of our country with impeachable offenses happening daily. One part authoritarian takeover, one part Three Stooges episode.
It all blends together but this has to be one of the bottom 5 worst days of the Trump regime. A North Korea level response to a national tragedy & a pair of unfit nominations in qualifications, judgment & temperament in front of the Senate. Within a week and we’re back to 2020 level buffoonery.
Insanity — Trump signs an order blaming Biden and DEI for flight dangers
January 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It all blends together but this has to be one of the bottom 5 worst days of the Trump regime. A North Korea level response to a national tragedy & a pair of unfit nominations in qualifications, judgment & temperament in front of the Senate. Within a week and we’re back to 2020 level buffoonery.
MAGA is desperate to believe this is 1980 all over again, but the high level of delusional stupidity is actually a lot closer to 2004. Gulf of America is just freedom fries on steroids.
For our latest cover story, @brockcolyar.bsky.social reported on the young, gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America: nymag.com/intelligence...
January 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
MAGA is desperate to believe this is 1980 all over again, but the high level of delusional stupidity is actually a lot closer to 2004. Gulf of America is just freedom fries on steroids.
Good luck to the naysayers who think they are going to outwork @mayordeegan.bsky.social 🌇 🏃♀️
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Mayor Donna Deegan announces 6 town halls | Jacksonville Today
The mayor plans six town hall meetings to update residents on budget priorities and city projects.
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January 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Good luck to the naysayers who think they are going to outwork @mayordeegan.bsky.social 🌇 🏃♀️
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A fiscal conservative doesn’t pass laws they don’t want to pay for or spends taxpayer money to run political ads for a preferred outcome on constitutional amendments. Everything about the current FLGOP is worst kind of big government. Subsidizing the rich & punishing the poor.
January 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A fiscal conservative doesn’t pass laws they don’t want to pay for or spends taxpayer money to run political ads for a preferred outcome on constitutional amendments. Everything about the current FLGOP is worst kind of big government. Subsidizing the rich & punishing the poor.
Why are Republicans so confident Trump won’t screw it up again? Unqualified cabinet nominees, threatening NATO allies, firing another FBI director, the “External Revenue Service” & an unpopular policy plan in Project 2025. We’re a week away from an obvious lame duck dumpster fire?
January 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Why are Republicans so confident Trump won’t screw it up again? Unqualified cabinet nominees, threatening NATO allies, firing another FBI director, the “External Revenue Service” & an unpopular policy plan in Project 2025. We’re a week away from an obvious lame duck dumpster fire?
What kind of judge would go along this corrupt scheme? 🤔
Happening in North Carolina right now: A Republican who just lost a state supreme court election is using a horseshit legal theory cooked up by Republican activists to ask the Republican majority *on the same court he wants to join* to overturn his loss and make him a justice anyway
Republicans Do Not Think People Are Entitled to Elections Anymore
In North Carolina, Republican state supreme court justices will soon decide whether to overturn an election to seat a Republican who lost it.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
What kind of judge would go along this corrupt scheme? 🤔
The Florida GOP is the party of insurance companies, utilities, & .01% donors. They are corrupt from top to bottom & run culture war campaigns to scare people, & then pass laws written by their corporate donors. God help us if democrats can’t beat the Florida strategy on its way to DC.
I wrote about why Trump is making America Florida. The state is demographically ahead of the US and has morphed into an autocracy - with its widening inequality, restrictions on speech, worsening student scores and public health. @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Trump Is Making America Florida
Long-running trends in the Sunshine State make it a harbinger of what’s to come in US politics. The results aren’t pretty.
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Florida GOP is the party of insurance companies, utilities, & .01% donors. They are corrupt from top to bottom & run culture war campaigns to scare people, & then pass laws written by their corporate donors. God help us if democrats can’t beat the Florida strategy on its way to DC.
Ron was pro-vax until he assumed the coast was clear & it was safe to cynically follow online disinfo, a lot from foreign intel agencies, for political gain. That left FL unprepared for the Delta wave & Ron’s response was bad enough to end his political career. This GJ was a part of his deflection.
Column | No COVID crimes: Another DeSantis gimmick fizzles.
Without splashy criminal charges to throw around, one can feel the grand jury report's authors stretching for something - anything - meaningful to impart over the course of 140-plus pages.
www.jacksonville.com/story/news/c...
Without splashy criminal charges to throw around, one can feel the grand jury report's authors stretching for something - anything - meaningful to impart over the course of 140-plus pages.
www.jacksonville.com/story/news/c...
Another DeSantis gimmick fizzles: grand jury finds no COVID-19 crimes | Opinion
The anticlimactic grand jury report managed to uncannily parrot the DeSantis administration's sometimes tortured views about the pandemic
www.jacksonville.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ron was pro-vax until he assumed the coast was clear & it was safe to cynically follow online disinfo, a lot from foreign intel agencies, for political gain. That left FL unprepared for the Delta wave & Ron’s response was bad enough to end his political career. This GJ was a part of his deflection.
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This is one of the more important columns I've written lately: The California fires are a stark reminder that climate is switching from an economic and tech problem to a destabilizing political challenge. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/california...
California's Fires Show How Climate Will Destabilize Our Politics and Daily Life
Climate has long been a tech and economic problem—it's about to be a political one
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is one of the more important columns I've written lately: The California fires are a stark reminder that climate is switching from an economic and tech problem to a destabilizing political challenge. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/california...