Julie Hauserman

Hidden consultants and hurried payments: Records reveal details of DeSantis' campaign against abortion and marijuana amendments Ron DeSantis employed campaign strategists as subcontractors, bent procurement rules, and took millions from reserves, in a taxpayer-fund ad campaign against two citizen-led ballot measures last year.

Wow 👀 this investigation by ace #journalist @jasongarcia.bsky.social on how #Florida Gov. used taxpayer $$ to pay donors and his own campaign people on brazenly political campaign. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/hidden-con...

Nuclear security agency begins furloughing workers as part of shutdown, energy secretary says Up to 1,400 workers could be furloughed as a result of the shutdown.

On reckless furloughing nuke workers, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers. R-Ala is correct: “These are not employees that you want to go home.“They’re managing and handling a very important strategic asset for us. They need to be at work and being paid.” www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/20/g...

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.

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@jkbjournalist.bsky.social is a great and courageous #Florida #journalist who broke the Epstein sex trafficking story yrs ago in the @miamiherald.com and has kept on it. She reports with Claire Healey on new documents showing more cozy ties between Epstein and men in power.

#Florida #journalism capital bureau reporter job opening mcclatchy.rec.pro.ukg.net/MCC1008MCLTC...

Earthjustice is fighting for our environment in court and they need our help

#Florida rejects St. Johns County’s 2050 Comprehensive Plan as too restrictive, another victim of evil pro-development SB 180 tying the hands of local govts www.staugustine.com/story/news/l... h/t @floridatrend.bsky.social

Florida's First Lady Claims She Has No Clue Who Bad Bunny Is The reggaeton artist is among the most-streamed in the world.

Um....#Florida Gov's wife has never heard of Bad Bunny?? www.miaminewtimes.com/music/florid...

👀 Quite the story here, especially the background of the developer, a #Florida political donor, from Louisiana who stands to benefit from $80 million-plus of our tax money for 4 acres in Destin.

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From Politico- "The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is recommending gov, and Cabinet approve a request by Roberts Capital Ventures to amend the conservation easement... The firm would pay the state $4 million after the state paid nearly $6 million to preserve the land in 2016."

These mitigation banks work like this: a developer can trash a wetland and then just pay a fee to buy "credits' to supposedly restore a wetland somewhere else. The program is a sh*t show - but this is new territory.

1/5 More hinky things in #Florida state conservation lands program. @bruceritchie.bsky.social reports in @politico.com - proposal before Cabinet would allow a wetlands mitigation bank on private land near St. Johns River where the state has already paid a landowner not to develop.

POLITICO Pro: Florida Cabinet asked to buy Destin waterfront parcel for more than $80M The Department of Environmental Protection is recommending the 3.9-acre purchase after the Legislature promoted the deal in last-minute budget language.

👀$80m of taxpayer $$ for 4 acres? Legislative language slipped in reverts $850m from Florida Wildlife Corridor "and instead placed the Destin purchase as the top priority ahead of corridor projects." @bruceritchie reports in @politico subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

RIP to my “wasband.” He made a difference in this world, just like our daughter is making a difference www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...

BP is back 15 years after Deepwater Horizon disaster with plans to drill even deeper • Florida Phoenix How many chances should you give a bad actor? A screw-up? A company that fouled the ocean and the coast and killed lots of wildlife? I ask this because BP, the British oil giant responsible for the wo...

👀 @craigtimes.bsky.social in #Florida Phoenix on new BP Gulf "Kaskida" rig plan: "Here’s a fun fact about Kaskida: BP found that deposit of oil in 2006 using the same drilling rig that it used for Deepwater Horizon. OK, maybe that fact isn’t so fun after all." floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/28/b...

These birds won’t stop singing, and it’s our fault A sweeping analysis of more than 4 millions recordings has found birds tweet for nearly an extra hour a day in areas disrupted by light pollution.

Hear that? It’s 2 a.m. You’re in bed. The sun hasn’t risen, but the robin has. It is 🎶-ing at an unnatural hour, waking you.

If this has happened to you, you’re not alone. Artificial light is prompting birds to tweet for nearly an extra hour a day on average.
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A health care tax credit that powers Florida’s small businesses is going away Enhanced Obamacare subsidies expire this year, putting health insurance at risk for more than two million Floridians, including many self-employed workers

"In #Florida, a 60-year-old couple earning $82,000 would see their annual premiums rise by almost $20,000. For a family of four making $126,000, premiums would rise by more than $9,000 each year." GOP megabill targets entrepreneurs, small businesses. www.tampabay.com/news/health/...

What could go wrong? It's only our #Florida Drinking. Water. At. Stake.

'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention camp in Florida must temporarily halt construction, judge rules Construction at the controversial facility in the Florida Everglades has been stopped for 14 days over a lawsuit alleging it skirted environmental laws.

BREAKING: A federal judge sided with conservation groups, ordering the state of Florida and the Trump administration to temporarily stop further construction of the mass detention center in the Florida Everglades.

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Pretty sure I saw a “bat” that was actually a drone flying over Tallahassee #Florida during an outdoor music festival Saturday. Did not look like a real bat to me at all & did not fly like one.

Look- another example of the state trampling on community rights. This dynamic is THE story of what’s happening in #Florida as corporations roll over the landscape, aided by their politician lackeys

Florida nuclear plant workers were too afraid to report safety concerns, records show These records cap years of issues surrounding the nuclear operations of the state’s largest utility, Florida Power & Light, most of which have been disclosed in highly technical reports that have esca...

"On-site workers filed far more reports there than at any other of the nation’s 54 nuclear power plants, according to a federal database." jaxtrib.org/2025/07/31/f...

2/3 "Florida nuclear plant workers were too afraid to report safety concerns, records show: The number of anonymous reports of wrongdoing at Florida Power & Light’s St. Lucie Plant skyrocketed in 2024, according to data from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which processes the complaints.

Florida nuclear plant workers were too afraid to report safety concerns, records show These records cap years of issues surrounding the nuclear operations of the state’s largest utility, Florida Power & Light, most of which have been disclosed in highly technical reports that have esca...

1/3 Important #Florida #journalism by Emily Mahoney and Nate Monroe, two excellent reporters. (In the late 1980s, this nuclear plant was part of my environmental reporting beat. Every bit of nuclear waste it has produced is still onsite -- on a populated barrier island!)

These Companies Avoided Clean-Air Rules. It Took a Single Email.

Representatives of 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote a simple email to President Convicted Felon's EPA requesting an exemption from clean-air rules. They all got it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c... via @nytimes.com

A top aide to Ron DeSantis just admitted that the administration is breaking the law by hiding contracts connected to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention facility it built in the middle of the Florida Everglades.

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POLITICO Pro: Florida leased property it bought from Colliers back for one-third of estimated value The lease involves 25,000 acres the state purchased for $122 million in a 2024 deal.

4/4 But, get this – state-certified appraisers concluded the going rate for leasing that land on the open market is $1.1 million per year – 3 times what they are charging Tarpon Blue. Thx @brucebritchie.bsky.social for this #journalism
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