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floridazed.bsky.social
Recovering journalist, budding senior, tilter at windmills — but not because I think they are worse for birds than the guys spraying your lawn.
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A bunch of guys with really expensive cars block off Interstate 75 and even have a chopper in the air to film there Fast and Furious Fantasy. It was all fun and games until the cops showed up. open.substack.com/pub/bearfiel...

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What will it take for The New York Times to get serious? open.substack.com/pub/bearfiel...

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Can’t you see Samuel L. Jackson in this role? He even has experience playing the type of character Adams has proven himself to be.

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This nonsense about common sense is troubling me. There’s no pride in remaining ignorant of everything you didn’t think of yourself. See how I really feel on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/bearfiel...

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The War on DEI is just another way of saying bring back the Good Ol’ Days when people knew their places. open.substack.com/pub/bearfiel...

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I just got a text message from some Dem fundraising group. “Elon Musk is praying you don’t see this,” it begins. No, Elon is probably praying that I’m stupid enough to send a donation to a party that, near as I can tell, marked Trump’s “shock and awe” by crouching quietly in their home districts.

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Jared’s got condos to build. Time to pack it up, you know?

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This goes out to all those Arab-American voters in Michigan who smugly announced there was NO WAY they could vote for Biden because of his support for Israel. I didn’t like it either, but unlike them, I knew what the alternative would be. Enjoy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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I spent nearly two years as a Waterkeeper in Florida, working to educate the public, advocate for positive action, and participate in litigation when all else failed. I need to reach out to my former associates and see what path they see ahead in light of this: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/c...

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I woke with a start on November 9, 2026, a few hours after Hillary Clinton gave up her quest for the White House. I went to my laptop and poured out the images of the dream that woke me. Given the events of this week, I'm sharing them now for the first time. bearfield.substack.com/p/bad-trump-...

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"Will you defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic?" is ALL Democrats should have been asking Pete Hegseth. They still don’t realize that propriety, integrity, and sobriety only apply to Bill Clinton or John Edwards. But let’s waste the day talking about women in combat.

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Come back, Al. Listening to Kirsten Gillenbrand whine about the disrespect Pete Hegseth displays toward women during today’s confirmation hearing left me missing Al Franken. Seriously. Thanks, Kirsten.

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Watch this space for more news as we work to get up and going in 2025.

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A website, a podcast, and a YouTube channel don’t seem like much compared to the coverage we once received, but we’re going to give it our best shot.

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. . . there’s a real shortage of places to learn about the ways Florida’s health and beauty continue to be replaced by the artificial and the harmful.

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And now that Gannett thinks the best way to support “local journalism” is to subscribe to a “product” that thinks toenail fungus cures and “female rejuvenation” ads belong on its electronic “front page” . . . .

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But we don’t live in Once Upon a Time anymore. To compensate, I’m moving forward with my idea for an environmental/Quality of Life online clearinghouse to help fill the gap that exists.

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And once upon a time, there was no such thing as a Byron Donalds, and Amy Bennett Williams didn’t have to take precious time away from covering Florida’s beauty to follow him around while he toadied for Donald Trump and Alfie Oakes.

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And once upon a time, the sorely missed Eric Staats rode herd on local environmental news. I’m glad I had the good sense to archive the reporting he did for so many years.

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Once upon a time . . . Knight-Ridder published The Miami Herald, and kept a crackerjack reporter in Collier County. The paper even paid me to write a local column for the paper’s Gulfcoast edition. Imagine. An edition for Southwest Florida.

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