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cstrait.bsky.social
Married. Love animals and the beach. Patriotic Democrat who, at the moment, is ashamed of my country and my state of Florida. Struggling to balance staying informed while maintaining my sanity. Stay tuned. 🚫 DMs
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I’m going to mamma jamma fork into my eye

Surreal day in Oklahoma City. Mere months after AG Gentner Drummond won big at SCOTUS—persuading the justices to vacate Richard Glossip’s conviction due to the lies of the state’s star witness—the AG now seeks a 3rd murder trial (despite having no new evidence). w/ @jordansmith.bsky.social

BREAKING: We're suing Jefferson County, Illinois for putting up a nearly seven-foot-tall monument of the 10 Commandments on the county's courthouse lawn.

The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ contains an ugly favor for Florida’s sugar industry floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/05/t...

Hope Florida Foundation to amend tax return to show golf tourney made more money www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/09/h...

PHILLY: Man posing as an ICE agent robs car repair business, ties up and manhandles a woman from the Dominican Republic — “He kept saying he is immigration officer.” It was only a matter of time before these masked vigilantes breed impersonators. www.fox29.com/video/1501153

I was not aware this set of primary sources....

I left the SBC almost 20 years ago and I couldn’t be prouder to have nothing to do with them… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

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Can anyone explain why they put Lucky's photo in the opening credits even though he was only back for a temporary stay, but they have yet to put up one of LuLu/Alexa Havins? Did they just bring LuLu back for the short term too?

It's not the first time. It ahppened during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis too and that reporter lost her eye and suffered brain damage. I wonder if she's still alive.

Funny. I pitched The Guardian this very subject in 2019…along with other news sites. I was rejected and one of them said they wouldn’t publish it because they were the media.

As this passage from a letter from several Dem lawmakers makes clear, ICE’s refusal appears to violate explicit federal law:

Terry Moran told the truth.

Queer icon Harvey Fierstein wins lifetime Tony award. So of course CBS didn't air his speech. You had to use their streaming service to watch it...I'm sure there is no ulterior motive there.

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen turns 100 in #Florida. www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

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If you live in NYC, particularly Brooklyn in/near Flatbush, please spread the word about Xavier Williams, a sixteen year old with autism who has been missing since Wednesday.

The LAPD whenever they think no one can see

I keep trying to attach a photo of signs but it won't let me because I haven't done 'alt text' but the problem lies in that it won't let me do that either.

If only there were signs...

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A military Blackhawk helicopter is unloading dozens of boxes of allegedly weapons and ammunition in Los Angeles

So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?

Also hearing that members of Congress are being denied access to detention facility in LA

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

Why does the BBC seem to be the only outlet posting about this? American outlets currently seem to be ignoring it. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

This is a pretext for suspending habeas corpus, which this Congress will bend over to let him do even if he doesn't try do it it unilaterally first. Very dark days ahead for the republic.

DEVELOPING: No warning. No reason. NYPD officers rushed into the crowd and tackled a protester this weekend. His body was limp. He couldn’t move. He said, “I can’t feel my legs.” He might never walk again. For showing up. This is brutality. This is America.

When?

#Florida county lets developer build road through land that was supposed to be for preservation. www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...

the funniest thing about the “ice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise

New — Dispatch to me from a protester outside of NYC immigration court tonight:

ICE isn’t rounding up migrants at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ meatpacking plants. They're provoking riots in Los Angeles. I wonder, is this provocation laying the groundwork for a pretext to declare martial law? And then I remember all those many tanks shipped to DC, the home of so many protests.

Goldman: Both of the issues Marjorie Taylor Greene raised—were widely publicized and thoroughly debated in committee and on the House floor. If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.

They are trying to force Harvard to admit more conservative students. Pardon me, but that sounds an awful lot like DEI, only DEI for stupid people.

People in ICE detention are being denied health care and adequate nutrition, often given spoiled food or nothing at all. Our government’s cruelty to immigrants is a moral failing — not a policy solution.

Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1

Hell of a photo

If you live near Fox Hills Mall and don’t want to run into ICE, don’t go there today!

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

Posting...for reasons.