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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 19h

The grand jury probe in Tallahassee into the Hope Florida scandal brings the state into uncharted waters. Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is neck deep in the scandal, ought to take a voluntary leave until his name is cleared.

Our editorial (Gift link): www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/09/a...

A grand jury closes in on the Capitol | Editorial

A grand jury probe into the Hope Florida scandal begins next week. Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is neck deep in the scandal, ought to take a voluntary leave until his name is cleared.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda like nonpartisans here in Florida (at least until recently)

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 3d

How do you even run a partisan coroner race? Can't imagine what that looks like

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 15d

Confused as to what a "sexual matador" is. Does this mean he actively eludes sex and eventually kills the mood entirely?

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15d

OMG, where are the content warnings

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 15d

Trump's threats to take away broadcast licenses and jail protesters are threats to the very core of what makes the United States the free nation it is.

Our editorial (gift link): www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/23/t...

Trump’s war on free speech attacks your rights as an American | Editorial

Trump’s threats to take away broadcast licenses and jail protesters are threats to the very core of what makes the United States the free nation it is.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 21d

Kinda weird to post this column to social media, but...

Social media algorithms are siphoning people into radicalization, anorexia, depression and worse, writes columnist Pat Beall. Our government must confront the tech industry robber barons.

Gift link: www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/19/s...

Social media is teaching us to hate ourselves and each other | Pat Beall

Social media algorithms are siphoning people into radicalization, anorexia, depression and worse, writes columnist Pat Beall. Our government must confront the tech industry robber barons.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 22d

Two documentarians who created films on the polio vaccine and vaccine hesitancy write that our obligations to our fellow citizens outweigh the libertarian arguments put forth by anti-vaccine skeptics. Jonas Salk would have agreed.

Gift link: www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/18/w...

What would Jonas Salk say if he could see us now? | Opinion

Two documentarians who created films on the polio vaccine and vaccine hesitancy write that our obligations to our fellow citizens outweigh the libertarian arguments put forth by anti-vaccine skepti…

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 22d

Private businesses dealing with the words of their employees is not what this editorial is about. I posted a gift link. You could read it before you comment.

Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 23d

In vowing retribution and further inflaming political rhetoric, the Trump administration takes all the wrong lessons from Charlie Kirk's death.

Our editorial (gift link): www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/16/f...

Free-speech advocate’s murder is pretext for suppressing free speech | Editorial

In vowing retribution and further inflaming political rhetoric, the Trump administration takes all the wrong lessons from Charlie Kirk’s death.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 24d

Wow, the timing on this editorial. He just did it again, killing three in a military strike on drug traffickers, per a Trump post on Truth Social.

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 24d

The extrajudicial killing of alleged drug traffickers by the U.S. Navy on the orders of President Trump is yet another blow to the rule of law in our country. And there have been many since the 2024 election.

Our editorial (gift link):
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/15/a...

A democracy under siege from within | Editorial

The extrajudicial killing of alleged drug traffickers on the high seas by the U.S. Navy, on the orders of President Trump, is yet another blow to the rule of law.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29d

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29d

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 29d

nobody needs to hear this more than people who aren’t on here but: wait for a suspect and a motive

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 29d

Story's from two days ago. Heckuva freak coincidence

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · 29d

Holy hell, @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.

www.jezebel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Sep 10

As a fellow regular writer of articles, I sorta thought this was every evening on the Internet.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ah, I see it’s an evening of no one reading the article first

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you are in Florida and you do not follow. Jason Garcia's Seeking Rents substack, you absolutely should.

A right-wing news network lobbied Florida lawmakers to defund fact-checkers, records show

Records show lobbyists for Newsmax quietly worked with Republican lawmakers in Florida on an effort to choke off funding for firms that rate news outlets based on accuracy and ethics.

jasongarcia.substack.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Aug 25

Headline on this one's gonna cause some heart attacks but let's just say it's "a modest proposal"
(Side note: I love when we get satirical and/or comical Op-Eds, though I don't often run them because they're usually not too great. I liked this one.)
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/22/s...

Six reasons to show ICE some love | Opinion

Writer Adam Schwartz offers some extremely tongue in cheek reasons to welcome our new far more active state of policing. Just don’t call it a police state.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Aug 22

No band in the history of rock music has evolved as quickly and decisively as The Beatles. The growth between 1964 and 1969 is insane.

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Aug 22

It's like you're not even allowed to open extrajudicial internment camps anymore. What's the world coming to?

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days, says no more new detainees

A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state close out operations at the immigration detention fac...

www.miamiherald.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Aug 15

I've said it before, but one of the great joys of my job is editing @sun-sentinel.com columnist @pbeall.bsky.social. Here's a gift link to her latest, just out online and in print tomorrow:

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/14/i...

It’s almost like Trump wants us to forget he’s linked to a sex trafficker | Pat Beall

From turning our nation’s capital into an occupied territory to threatening to render Rosie O’Donnell stateless, our president has come up with some doozies ever since his administratio…

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Aug 13

Welcoming Putin to our nation should have been a nonstarter. Trying to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia without Ukraine's presence is nonsensical. Demanding Ukraine hand over conquered territory to Russia is insanity.

Our editorial (gift link):
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/12/n...

Nothing about Alaska summit makes sense | Editorial

Welcoming Putin to our nation should have been a nonstarter. Trying to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia without Ukraine’s presence is nonsensical. Demanding Ukraine hand over conquered…

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Aug 11

Also, just looking at the people in the picture, how weird is it that our secretary of defense doesn't think our attorney general should have the right to vote?

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · Aug 11

Federalizing some of the very police officers you sent your followers to assault and batter just a few years ago is some pretty amazing chutzpah.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Aug 11

Trump announces he's taking over the DC police department to rescue the city from "crime, bloodshed, and bedlam."

Violent crime in DC reached a 30 year low in 2024 and is down sharply again this year.

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Dan Sweeney @dansweeney.bsky.social · May 29

This 9-year-old Trump tweet has certainly taken on new meaning. #TACO

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