Diane Roberts, formerly BadDebutante on the twixxy thing

What's next for our lame duck governor? • Florida Phoenix Hard times are on the horizon. Unemployment rates are creeping up, especially in the public-service sector, and, like many others, Florida’s current governor will soon be out of a job. He’s got only 1...

Ron DeSantis will soon be unemployed. floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/06/w...

Campaign contributor skips line, gets big payday from Florida governor and Cabinet • Florida Phoenix When you were in elementary school, did you ever have to deal with some rude student who tried skipping to the front of the line? Something like that just happened with Florida’s popular land preserva...

$80 million for four acres in Destin? Yeah. floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/02/c...

Rampant gaslighting about freedom of speech at Florida universities • Florida Phoenix Florida’s institutions of higher education are in trouble. The University of West Florida is being run by Manny Diaz Jr., a former social studies teacher (and ex-Commissioner of Education) but, given ...

We should be allowed to say outrageous things: floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/29/r...

Florida man builds fortress of tires around Marion County property • Florida Phoenix When I was growing up in Pensacola, the local radio station often ran ads for a tire repair business whose slogan was, “Tires ain’t pretty.” I thought of that simple declaration this week when I heard...

and the Stupid Florida hits keep on coming, toxic tire edition: floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/25/f...

From Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls: "But are there not many Fascists in your country?"
"There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes".

News Report 6Feb1939. #censorship
#NaziGermany #USPolitics #fascism #JimmyKimmel #BoycottDisney

National park proposed for Florida springs doesn’t spring from desire to fix problems • Florida Phoenix Florida has three national parks — Everglades, Biscayne, and Dry Tortugas, all in the southern end of the state. Now newbie U.S. Rep. Randy Fine of Brevard County wants to create a fourth one, this ti...

Here's a good rule to live by: if Randy Fine is pushing something, it's 99% guaranteed to be destructive, wrong and stupid. Craig Pittman explains it all to you: floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/18/n...

Miami Herald reporter wins lifetime achievement award for breaking Epstein story What to know about Julie K. Brown’s work and honor.

#Florida reporter @jkbjournalist.bsky.social given lifetime achievement award from investigative reporter organization for breaking the Epstein coverup story. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c... via @miamiherald.com

POLITICO Pro: Local governments plan challenge to regulatory restrictions in new hurricane emergencies law Seventeen local governments have agreed to join a lawsuit filed after the 2024 hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton.

Seventeen local governments have agreed to join a lawsuit to overturn a new pro-developer #Florida law approved by Gov. Ron DeSastrous, who never says no to developers, even when it ties local govts hands. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... via @brucebritchie.bsky.social

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job. By @karenattiah.bsky.social

karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Whatever you say, son.

Parking spots used as colorful protest against Florida crackdown on rainbow crosswalks An Orlando restaurateur on Monday turned over 49 parking spots outside her eatery for artists to color as a protest against a state mandate removing rainbow-colored crosswalks and other art on Florida...

Parking spots used as colorful protest against #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' homophobic crackdown on rainbow crosswalks www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @apnews.com

Charlie Kirk once said prominent Black women didn't have 'brain processing power' to be taken seriously He was talking specifically about Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Here you go, sport: www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

I wish I didn't have to say this. The Washtington Post has been a great paper, one I was proud to write for. But firing Karen Attiah for quoting Charlie Kirk is unconscionable. If you hadn't already canceled your subscription over the non-endorsement, do it now. The WP no longer supports democracy.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

The Washington Post is lost. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

Hundreds of prisoners at #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' Everglades concentration camp have fallen off the grid. One Guatemalan man detained at the tent site was accidentally deported to Guatemala before a scheduled bond hearing
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... via @miamiherald.com

Yep. It's a Golden Age.

College football is violent and ugly. Just like we are. • Florida Phoenix Retailers tell us Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. Please. We barbarians, defenders of the indefensible, rationalizers of blown knees and brain damage, know college football season is...

College Football! It's bad! I love it! floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/15/c...

#Florida is weaponizing Kirk's murder to further clamp down on what teachers say. www.tcpalm.com/story/news/e...

The cowardly Peter Schorsch of Florida Politics suspended a reporter for doing his job. The appalling Fla Rep. Randy Fine (the guy who told Gazans to "starve away") took offense when AG Gancarski asked about guns--a reasonable question post the Kirk shooting. Absurd. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

A beautiful tribute to John Newton, the kind of real Floridian now sorely lacking amongst the state's current crop of politicians. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...

Florida seafood specialty, stone crabs, now show up in Chesapeake because of climate change • Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature don’t think climate change is something we Floridians should be worrying about. But I guess nobody told the stone crabs. Stone crabs — or rather, their tasty claw...

Y'all still deny the climate is changing radically? floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/11/f...

Social media insisting Charlie Kirk was a saint. Well.

The civilized response to hate speech is a better argument. Not a gun. America and its idiotic firearm fetish enables all these political shootings. Kirk was a hateful racist Christian nationalist, but we argue with his ilk, not kill them.

But then, we're no longer a civilized country, are we?

Florida congressman and governor candidate Byron Donalds faces rampant ridicule after Epstein birthday book gaffe After a Congressional committee released Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book” that included a cryptic and lewd homemade card allegedly sent to the notorious

Byron Donalds reveals he's running on about 25 watts: floridatrident.org/florida-cong...

Texas A&M fires instructor involved in viral video on gender teachings A video of a student accusing an instructor of illegally teaching “gender ideology” at Texas A&M has also led to the removal of a dean and department head.

Where Texas goes, Florida soon follows: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

It’s supposed to be, “We the People.” Not, “We the Billionaires.”

We lost John Daniel Campbell Newton yesterday. He was a judge, a lawyer, a lover of dogs and sailboats, as charming as hell and one of the smartest human beings I have ever encountered. I loved hanging out with him and that other brilliant lawyer, Dexter Douglass, esq. The wit flew thick and fast.

The Uncle Tommy who would be Florida governor appears to be, we, ethically dodgy:https://floridatrident.org/byron-donalds-skirts-campaign-finance-laws/