This Week in Florida

Week ending December 5 What a bat guano crazy Trustee meeting at a community college can tell us about the state of democracy in the United States is debatable, but not for lack of trying. On Tuesday I attended the Miami-Da...

My take on life in #SouthFlorida this week, exclusive look inside the #TrumpLibrary meeting at #MiamiDadeCollege, #PrayerVigils at #AlligatorAlcatraz go viral, what happened in Miami 50 years ago this week? What did Bear the History Hound dig up this week?

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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Trump with the Saudi Prince and murderer, MBS, looking like a kid on Christmas Morning.

So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.

Thanks for pointing out the posting. I'm just saying, even the job description is misleading if not just plain wrong. Sigh. It'd be more accurate to say its just a detention center in a rural area but they can't have fun with facts so they have to embellish or stew in their ignorance.

"Remote swamp based facility." Fun fact, it's not a swamp. It is remote in the sense that there's not a lot there, but there is in fact at least one Miccosukee backyard bumped up against a fence there, another across the street, a NPS visitor center 10 miles E and 6 miles W of it.

So you opened an investigation into fake news?

PSA: you can look into the history of something and write a book about it but that does not in fact make you a professional historian any more than playing basketball in the park makes you a professional basketball player.

@npr.org

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Odd that the DoJ is opening an investigation into the Epstein files since they said in July that there was no client list and nothing to release.

Early giving for #GiveMiamiDay is started! Very exciting. My emails have already exploded with requests for (more) money!

I totally get it, but golly gee, even my 16 year old kid came up to me today asking for money before 8 AM.

Vigils, Shutdowns, and Crocodiles: Week ending Friday the 14th of November Prayer vigils calling for humane treatment of immigrants popped up in multiple places this week, the shutdown ended so, among other things, the National Park Rangers (many of whom live in the park) go...

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#crocodiles #alligatoralcatraz #prayervigil and more!

Special Coverage of the 15th Weekly Sunday Prayer Vigil at the South Florida Detention Center By Philip Cardella November 14, 2025 Florida US 41 near Mile Marker 48 While preparing this week's post for This Week in Florida's weekly blog two things became apparent: 1) I had forgotten to proc...

My take on Sunday's #prayervigil (the 15th weekly vigil) at #AlligatorAlcatraz www.thisweekinflorida.org/special-cove...

Perhaps he's thinking of his favorite lunchtime wimp to bully, Columbia, as in one of the largest landholders in New York City, Columbia University.

Subtle metaphor for America.

Wait, now they're saying that Kirk was murdered for saying Jesus is king? The shifting sands of the Republican grievance machine is almost as dynamic as the Editorial Board of the New York Times' self promotion of their laughably disconnected ideas.

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

Ah yes, everyone knows the F/A 18 is a happiness delivery system designed to spread love and joy to the world, Mr. Speaker. Good grief.

Good point but there is something to be said for this chimeric and ever mutable concept of "the center." The American definition of the center, if such a thing can be pinned down, is right of center to the rest of the world. TNT's EB is simply self promoting *their* ideas as the correct way to win.

It's pretty amazing how many words can be strung together to say absolutely nothing.

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

The stupid thing about all this ish with Venezuela is Maduro is an evil sob who absolutely is enabling if not flat out partly running the drug trade out of there. That excuses absolutely nothing the US has done over the last few months but it COULD have been done legally and should have been done.

Narco-submarine - Wikipedia

They exist. Dangerous AF. Read about one a month or so ago, not in this article. But, worth noting, you probably need to be high on your own supply to get into one of these things. Generally, they don't completely submerge so much as mostly submerge.

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Have MAGA defend ICE abducting 170 citizens, including 20 kids.

Ask Republicans to defend zip tying children.

YouTube video by The CrimePiece ICE Officer Arrested for DUI w/ Kids in Car. Not Happy About it!

Tricia McLaughlin, DHS lying-ass propagandist, often points to DUI arrests when claiming ICE is reporting "the worst of the worst."

Turns out this drunk worst of the worst works for ICE.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZtV...

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Well deserved

hey this is fun

People don't understand is that there was no such thing as ICE as recently as *checks notes* 2001. It's not some necessary evil that's been around too long to jettison.

Also, Democrats should be on the steps of the US Capitol taking group photos EVERY day the GOP is not in DC.

Violent revolutions almost invariably fail. Why the people at Jacobin refuse to understand that is beyond comprehension. And "oh, it's just talk" is bull shit. People can't point at the Young Republican chat and say, "it's not just talk" and then claim trotting out guillotines "is just talk."