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I wouldn’t advise anyone in Portland to walk your dog near this building.

Two wood storks in flight.

Migrating wood storks over Wakodahatchee #Wetlands in Palm Beach County, #Florida.
Photo'd April 2025.

#BirdOfTheDay #Migration #Birds #Art #Photography #NaturePhotography

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

"Conversion therapy" = torturing kids/adults to make them to try to make them cis-het.

And these anti-LGBTQ lawsuits ALWAYS are by reactionary groups using "mayfly" businesses that incorporate just before the lawsuit, have no actual customers/clients, and disappear as soon as they win the lawsuit.

Rainbow crosswalk removed from Miami Beach amid protests The Florida Department of Transportation ordered cities to remove pavement art in August, saying the decision was about safety and having consistent roadways.

One of the most iconic symbols in Miami Beach is gone after crews with the Florida Department of Transportation removed the rainbow crosswalk from Ocean Drive on Sunday night.

‘Adventurous individuals’ try to set sail on inflatable pool off Hernando County coast A pair of adventure seekers prompted the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office to issue a warning against trying to set sail in an inflatable pool.

Oh, #Florida! After deputies rescue two "adventurous" individuals from the Gulf, department posts a reminder that "inflatable pools belong in the backyard, not open water." www.fox13news.com/news/adventu... via @fox13tampabay.bsky.social

Masked workers did the state’s dirty work in blacking out Miami Beach’s crosswalk | Opinion The rainbow crosswalk designed in Art Deco style that long graced the intersection on Miami Beach at Ocean Drive is now a stretch of ugly black tarmac, courtesy of the state of Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The rainbow crosswalk designed in Art Deco style that long graced the intersection on Miami Beach at Ocean Drive is now a stretch of ugly black tarmac, courtesy of the state of Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

the money can smell weakness

Republicans are telling us we have to wait to even talk about stopping health care premiums from doubling.

But billionaires didn't have to wait for the tax breaks they didn't even need?

Not OK. We need to get to work to save health care for Americans NOW.

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

An FBI raid revealed 57 victims of forced labor living in cramped quarters at a lavish #Florida mansion connected to the leaders of a church, federal officials say.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.com

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Could be. They’ve thoroughly corrupted the judiciary, but the statehouse speaker seems to have it in for the DeSantii. Rooting for injuries!

It would be irresponsible NOT to speculate!

Prosecutors convening grand jury in Hope Florida investigation Witnesses have been issued subpoenas in recent weeks.

Oh please oh please oh please! 🙏
www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

i have no idea how we get *out* of a shutdown, but i do not think that cocooning yourself in AI slop videos and refusing to leave your room is an effective way to win the politics of a shutdown

I said to the dogs, "I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to destroy my pillows."

They yawned and licked their butts.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.

U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.

Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.

This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.

It was always about cruelty.

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Discussing the Consequences of the Republican Shutdown with Bernie. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Good summary of where we are.
youtu.be/0q5XPJyViHE?...

"Trickle down" has always been a giant scam. Enough already.

Pile of white threads on a green wooden table next to a brown leather sofa. A coffee table is in the background. A gray dog’s butt is visible under it.

My neurotic lapdogs have methodically chewed all the tassels off my new throw pillows, and now they’re lounging under the table and looking around like “oh what even IS a throw pillow?” Bastards!

Fascist and other authoritarian regimes rely upon loyalists regardless of their ability to do the job. The result is policies that make no logical sense, except in the context of "is it hurting the people we hate?" or "Does it fit what we insist will happen despite the evidence?"

Florida farmers struggle as legal foreign workers worry about immigration crackdown “I also don’t want to put anyone at risk because there are people being deported even with proper documentation. Every time they come or leave it’s worrisome, and you don’t …

Citrus industry in FL was already in a heap of trouble before swaggering ICE goons made it unsafe for LEGAL immigrants to work here. Get ready to pay 10 bucks for orange juice. (gift link)
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/03/f...

100% true; it IS gross that sleazy oligarchs showered Weiss with cash for her mumbling, pseudointellectual fascism-flavored content creation. But the glory days of CBS News are long behind it, and Weiss isn't going to revive its influence. She's no Cronkite. She's queen of the town dump.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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This is how to do it

[Granny rocking on the front porch voice] Kids, all the old right-wing goats were “heh-indeedying” about sex robots fully a decade before apps were invented.