Disco-loving, fascism fighting scribe, game show champ, yenta, wife, twin mama, hot sauce collector, Bloody Mary maven, word nerd, & says @NYPost, savvy gadfly.
May 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
THIS is DeSantis Florida Blueprint & it's bleak:
26th in violent crimes (11.5% of all mass shootings in the US)
27th in childcare costs
32nd in infant mortality
34th in % of families in poverty
39th in median family income
48th for teacher pay (was 47th when DeSantis took office)
Florida now has a whopping 5,294 posted teacher vacancies — more than triple the number the state had 5 years ago, according to Florida Education Association.
1st for the country's WORST learning rate
41st in access to healthcare
Highest homeowners insurance, three times the
May 22, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
As Tim Scott bloviates about how America isn't a racist country I am reminded of Jewish people who believed the Nuremburg racial laws and the rising tide of anti-Semitism did not apply to them. They were not Ostjuden, whom they perceived as uneducated and superstitious. 1/8
German Jews were cultured. They were patriotic. Many could trace their roots in Germany back for generations. One officer who served in the Waffen-SS was the descendant of Jews who had fled the Inquisition and settled in Germany four centuries earlier. 2/8
Jan 3, 2023 • 33 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: Governor White Power's inauguration speech was demented. Here are some of the most egregious lies with necessary edits:
Freedom lives here, in our great Sunshine State of Florida!
[Edit: only if you agree with my authoritarianism]
Over the past few years, as so many states in our country ground their citizens down, we in Florida lifted our people up.
[Edit: as long as you were white, heterosexual, Christian and MAGA Republican]
Oct 21, 2022 • 54 tweets • 10 min read
Actually the @MiamiHerald endorsement of @CharlieCrist is SO important for everyone to read, I am tweeting it in its entirety as a thread here.
"Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Florida is a place of meanness. It’s a place where dissent is muzzled, where personal rights triumph over the
greater good, where winning is more important than unity — especially if that victory moves him closer to a White House run. That’s not the Florida we had four years ago. And it’s not a Florida that voters should tolerate for the next four years. There’s a far better choice
Oct 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Sanibel/Pine Island source: It's really bad down there.
The missing person count is up to around 4000 but there's roadblocks to accurately reconciling that number. There's a significant number suicides from the storm. Folks didn't evacuate, got flooded out, knew they were about
to drown but chose to end their life instead. They wanted someone on the phone with them in their final moments. A staff of 16 clerical workers took about 5300 calls and only missed about 50 or so. DeSantis is trying to block media from covering his disaster. #RemoveRon
Jun 20, 2022 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Snippets from long @NewYorker article about the GOP flavor of the month. “Ron is the most selfish person I have ever interacted with. He has always loved embarrassing and humiliating people. I’m speaking for others—he was the biggest dick we knew."--a college 'pal' of DeSantis.
“To me, Ron DeSantis is a fairly run-of-the-mill politician who will do anything to get elected,” he said. “The problem is what the Party has become. It’s a race to the bottom.”--@GOP Stuart Stevens
Jun 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ex Alachua County School Superintendent @DrCarleeSimon, the victim of DeSantis's petty vindictiveness, fired after trying to protect students from a deadly pandemic, has created Families Deserve Inclusive Schools (FDIS) "in response to Governor DeSantis’ unprecedented attacks
on our public schools." FDIS was formed to "protect students, teachers and families from the Governor’s destructive education policies, ensuring that teachers and students feel safe in classrooms regardless of background and identity. “After two decades of budget restraints
"Ron DeSantis is far more dangerous than Donald Trump because he's more savvy, he's more coy & he doesn't have the pitfalls that Trump does. DeSantis will announce he's running for president on this notion of the 'free state of Florida.' Florida is not free if your kids can't be
exposed to the full curriculum that would make them smarter or better educated students; Florida's not free if you can't get a test or treatment for Covid; Florida's not free if you don't have access to the ballot box; Florida's not free if you're a voter who, thru your
Dec 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
@GovRonDeSantis Florida ranks 3rd in the country in human trafficking cases reported & second for labor trafficking cases reported, according to National Human Trafficking Hotline.
Florida’s health system is among the worst in the nation: spending only $19 a person on public health, or 51% of
@GovRonDeSantis the national average, and has more children without a “medical home” than any other state.
Florida ranks dead last in the nation for long-term care services and supports.
Florida ranks 45th out of all the states in terms of spending on its kindergarten-through-high school
Nov 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@RonnyJacksonTX The Department of Defense inspector general has issued a scathing review of Rep. Ronny Jackson during his time serving as the top White House physician, concluding that he made "sexual and denigrating" comments about a female subordinate, violated the policy for drinking alcohol
@RonnyJacksonTX while on a presidential trip and took prescription-strength sleeping medication that prompted concerns from his colleagues about his ability to provide proper care. After interviewing 78 witnesses and reviewing a host of White House documents, investigators concluded that Jackson
Nov 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Besides composing over 3,000 songs, @DollyParton's Dollywood Foundation has sent over 100 million books to children worldwide, continuing to send a book a month to over 850,000 kids around the globe; D'wood Foundation also brought jobs and tax revenues to a previously depressed
region. Dolly Parton also has worked to raise money for the American Red Cross and HIV/AIDS-related charities; Dolly is also an environmentalist, working to preserve the bald eagle through the American Eagle Foundation's sanctuary at Dollywood; in 2016
Nov 7, 2021 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
@JudgeJeanine@EricTrump Eric needs to stop putting his fingers into electric sockets and you, "Judge", need to put the boxes of wine away. Biden helped clinch passage of a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, ended the war in Afghanistan, expanded access for veterans to therapy dogs and
@JudgeJeanine@EricTrump service dogs while increasing assistance to Americans returning from Afghanistan, championed the American Rescue Plan; extended a 15% increase to SNAP funding, helping children who qualify for free lunch; restored funding to veterans programs, including programs to assist
Oct 29, 2021 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
This exceptional editorial is a MUST READ for anyone with half a brain in Florida, as well as those with children, parents, grandparents and loved ones in Florida. I'll thread the entire thing here because some people may not be able to read it in its entirety and it must be read
Florida’s summer of suffering was also a summer of silence for Ron DeSantis. The governor had nearly nothing to say about his state’s lengthy run as No. 1 in the nation in COVID cases, No. 1 in hospitalizations and No. 1 in deaths. Instead, the governor held almost daily news
Jul 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
(THREAD) This article is from December. Since then, ex Key West mayor and #DeathSantis commission appointee Craig Cates has lost his wife and his 35-year-old daughter to COVID. All 3 got sick at a super spreader election party he hosted. 1/5 local10.com/news/local/202…
35-year-old Crystal Cates was being cared for at Jackson Memorial in Miami for 8 months. She had a double lung transplant on New Year's Eve. She passed away 2 weeks ago. Says fam friend, "Her father is a #DeathSantis Monroe County Commission appointee & has been silent about 2/5
Jan 20, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
.@benjaminwittes' tiny cannons were bigger than Trump's pitiful 21 gun salute. Meanwhile the (lack of) crowd at Andrews is completely the #TrumpCrimeFamily and assorted griters. Trump looks defeated and I've never seen Melania look so animated. #ByeFelicia#GTFO đź–•đź–•đź–•
THE...SPACE FORCE!
Oct 17, 2020 • 13 tweets • 10 min read
@realDonaldTrump@BreitbartNews Under your Turd Reich racist regime: Black Americans still continue to be concentrated in lower sector jobs, which do not have adequate healthcare or paid sick leave and have disproportionately exposed them to COVID-19. PPP from the Small Business Administration left Black
@realDonaldTrump@BreitbartNews businesses out in the cold. Over 90% of Black-owned small businesses that applied for PPP funding were denied. This has led to over 40% of Black-owned small businesses being shuttered during COVID-19. For many Black people, Trump’s law and order rhetoric and dismissal of the
Jun 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
This whole Matt Gaetz outing of his so-called secret 'son' is so on brand for the repulsive #FloridaMan, trying to convince people that he is not a repugnant racist who took a Holocaust denier as his plus 1 to the #SOTU, and that, look here, I have a brown helper--er, son, see?!
But, since Matty has now thrown his big reveal party for the entire American public, there are a few questions to be answered beyond those involving pool cleaning. That's just none of our biz. What we do want to know is, who is Maisbel Mendez, why did the Gaetz family buy her a
Jun 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
First we muted it. Then we had to teach our kids what "grab her by the pussy" meant. Then we had to explain kids in cages. We explained why the white boys with tiki torches chanted "Jews will not replace us" while the "president" said there were 'very fine people on both sides.'
Then they learned what collusion, witch hunt, obstruction, impeachment & quid pro quo meant. They learned about real& fake news, learned about the murderous dictators that the "president" spoke so highly of & they learned about 'shithole countries.'They learned the word pandemic,
Apr 10, 2020 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
@RepMattGaetz Dec. 31, 2019: China reports the novel coronavirus to the World Health Organization.
Jan. 6: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel notice for Wuhan, China.
Jan. 15: The first U.S. case is confirmed, in a man who traveled from Wuhan.
@RepMattGaetz Jan. 17: The World Health Organization publishes a protocol for manufacturing coronavirus tests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opts to develop its own test instead of using the WHO's.
Jan. 30: The WHO declares global health emergency.
Mar 13, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
@realDonaldTrump January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look
@realDonaldTrump Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a
