Leslie
@staugcycles.bsky.social
Native North Floridian, abortion rights advocate living in the oldest city🚴♀️ 🏊
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After ICE agents shot woman, a neighbor approached and said he was a doctor and wanted to help, witness tells @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social
Instead, ICE agents kept him away from the scene, she says.
Instead, ICE agents kept him away from the scene, she says.
January 8, 2026 at 12:06 AM
After ICE agents shot woman, a neighbor approached and said he was a doctor and wanted to help, witness tells @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social
Instead, ICE agents kept him away from the scene, she says.
Instead, ICE agents kept him away from the scene, she says.
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some photos from portland and 34th today. we'll have a story up on racket soon. they gassed us, they knocked folks to the ground, and i watched agents ram a white pickup into a group of protesters, if you're wondering who was actually doing car violence.
January 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
some photos from portland and 34th today. we'll have a story up on racket soon. they gassed us, they knocked folks to the ground, and i watched agents ram a white pickup into a group of protesters, if you're wondering who was actually doing car violence.
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🚨BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Wednesday that he will call a special session on redistricting in April, adding the Sunshine State to the list of places where Republicans aim to give themselves an electoral advantage in the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Gov. DeSantis: Florida legislature will take up redistricting in April
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:13 PM
🚨BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Wednesday that he will call a special session on redistricting in April, adding the Sunshine State to the list of places where Republicans aim to give themselves an electoral advantage in the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)
January 7, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)
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Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
Sigh. The NPR national news brief at the top of the hour mentioned the shooting and simply cited the DHS statement.
I truly don't think mainstream journalists in the U.S are prepared to cover state violence
January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
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Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse
January 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse
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In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
Trump vetoes Miccosukee flood protection, citing tribe’s opposition to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The Miccosukee Tribe’s lawsuit contesting an immigration detention facility in the Everglades cost them federally funded flood protection, at least if President Donald Trump gets his way.
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
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🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
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NEW from @jasongarcia.bsky.social at Seeking Rents...
The FL GOP is looking to incentivize Florida spouses, parents or siblings to sue anyone, including other family members, who attempts to send a pregnant family member abortion medication through the mail.
The payout is $100K plus legal fees.
The FL GOP is looking to incentivize Florida spouses, parents or siblings to sue anyone, including other family members, who attempts to send a pregnant family member abortion medication through the mail.
The payout is $100K plus legal fees.
Florida may send bounty hunters after women and doctors
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
jasongarcia.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NEW from @jasongarcia.bsky.social at Seeking Rents...
The FL GOP is looking to incentivize Florida spouses, parents or siblings to sue anyone, including other family members, who attempts to send a pregnant family member abortion medication through the mail.
The payout is $100K plus legal fees.
The FL GOP is looking to incentivize Florida spouses, parents or siblings to sue anyone, including other family members, who attempts to send a pregnant family member abortion medication through the mail.
The payout is $100K plus legal fees.
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John Koch, a 76-year-old radio reporter in North Florida, has witnessed every state execution since the serial killer Ted Bundy’s in 1989. This year, the state has had a record number of 19 executions. “It gets hard,” he told us. nyti.ms/4aZ9gzv
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
John Koch, a 76-year-old radio reporter in North Florida, has witnessed every state execution since the serial killer Ted Bundy’s in 1989. This year, the state has had a record number of 19 executions. “It gets hard,” he told us. nyti.ms/4aZ9gzv
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Damning ... If we lived in an age in which politicians were held accountable.
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads
A Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times investigation found the DeSantis’ administration’s use of public money to fund a campaign against marijuana and abortion access was more sprawling than previously kn...
www.miamiherald.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Damning ... If we lived in an age in which politicians were held accountable.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In 2022, DeSantis vetoed the congressional map sent to him by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and reconfigured a district in North Florida to erase Black representation in that area and help elect more Republicans to Congress. floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/03/d...
DeSantis says Florida 'will be forced' to redistrict because of pending U.S. Supreme Court decision • Florida Phoenix
TAMPA — Democrats and voting rights advocates this week voiced vehement opposition to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ call to redistrict Florida’s congressional map in a special session next year, calling it an “i...
floridaphoenix.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In 2022, DeSantis vetoed the congressional map sent to him by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and reconfigured a district in North Florida to erase Black representation in that area and help elect more Republicans to Congress. floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/03/d...
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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70 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
70 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
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“.. The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls ..
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“.. The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls ..
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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“We learned about male and female anatomy, STIs and AIDS, but they didn’t really delve into them... I did not learn about healthy relationships, and I did not learn about contraceptives.”
@nadrakn.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.
@nadrakn.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.
The sex ed you get depends on your ZIP code — and your state’s politics
In some states, students learn about consent and healthy relationships. In others, they get "Baby Olivia" and abstinence-only instruction.
19thnews.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“We learned about male and female anatomy, STIs and AIDS, but they didn’t really delve into them... I did not learn about healthy relationships, and I did not learn about contraceptives.”
@nadrakn.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.
@nadrakn.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.
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The share of American women and girls age 15 to 44 who would like to move permanently to another country if they had the opportunity:
🟣 45 percent of single women
🟣 41 percent of married women
🟣 44 percent of those who do not have children
🟣 40 percent of those who do
🟣 45 percent of single women
🟣 41 percent of married women
🟣 44 percent of those who do not have children
🟣 40 percent of those who do
40% of younger American women want to permanently leave the country
Forty percent of American women and girls age 15 to 45 say they want to permanently move to another country — an opinion shared by just 19 percent of boys and men that age.
19thnews.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The share of American women and girls age 15 to 44 who would like to move permanently to another country if they had the opportunity:
🟣 45 percent of single women
🟣 41 percent of married women
🟣 44 percent of those who do not have children
🟣 40 percent of those who do
🟣 45 percent of single women
🟣 41 percent of married women
🟣 44 percent of those who do not have children
🟣 40 percent of those who do
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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New College of Florida at bottom of the pack in new 26-page DOGE report floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/07/d...
Do state universities use tax dollars efficiently? • Florida Phoenix
The results are in. The task force charged with assessing State University System efficiencies released a 26-page report that found the University of Central Florida, the school with the largest enrol...
floridaphoenix.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New College of Florida at bottom of the pack in new 26-page DOGE report floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/07/d...
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"Wild recalled one committee chairman whose staff said he was regularly confused. She once watched this man “fall flat on his face coming up the marble steps, not because he tripped but because he had a very difficult time getting around.” nymag.com/intelligence...
It’s My Party and I’ll Leave When I Want To
Talking to the gerontocracy.
nymag.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"Wild recalled one committee chairman whose staff said he was regularly confused. She once watched this man “fall flat on his face coming up the marble steps, not because he tripped but because he had a very difficult time getting around.” nymag.com/intelligence...