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Cindy Strait

@cstrait.bsky.social
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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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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 8h
theguardian.com
Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds
Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 9h
Truth.
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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 8h
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Task force finds 35% of Cornell women report assault as DA reopens frat rape probe
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 4h
I can’t wait for this day.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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The Florida Trib @thefloridatrib.bsky.social · 9h
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is plowing ahead with officially designating a leading Muslim civil rights nonprofit and more than 100 other groups as “domestic terrorist organizations,” in a move critics say is unprecedented and unconstitutional. floridatrib.org/2026/09/29/d...
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DeSantis exercises ‘unprecedented’ power to label groups ‘domestic terrorists’
Gov. DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to advance the terrorist designations Tuesday, approving the proposal in just over 30 seconds and with no discussion.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 6h
Seriously #SickOfIt 😡
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h
Watch this, but then read the next post
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 5h
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Cindy Strait @cstrait.bsky.social · 9h
Hope Florida led disabled people to dead ends as state misused $10M www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/09/29/h...
orlandosentinel.com
Hope Florida led disabled people to dead ends as state misused $10M
Hope Florida says it empowers disabled people by linking them with essential resources. But people in the disability community believe politics have been prioritized over their critical needs.
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Cindy Strait @cstrait.bsky.social · 9h
This site is messed up today.
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Cindy Strait @cstrait.bsky.social · 9h
So much for his gotcha moment.
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Cindy Strait @cstrait.bsky.social · 9h
They thought they'd given their boss a gotcha moment, instead their boss got the gotcha moment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h
A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Cindy Strait @cstrait.bsky.social · 13h
I guess Roger isn't familiar with the Streisand effect. Please proceed, sir.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 15h
#Florida CFO Blaise "The Blatherer" Ingoglia is spending millions in taxpayer $$$ on ads to promote himself. An appointee of Gov. Ron DeSastrous now running for election, he's ordered up a barrage of pre-election PSAs. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/blaise-ing... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
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Blaise Ingoglia is spending millions in taxpayer money on advertising as he runs for election
Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, an interim appointee of Ron DeSantis who is now running for election to a full term, has ordered up a barrage of pre-election “public service announcements.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h
Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.
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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 14h
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men." ~ Plato
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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 19h
A mural in Seattle. #AbolishICE
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How it started/how it’s going
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@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in UtahBREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
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86 47 86 scotus6 @mikedunmire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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ANTIFA BEVERLY @stewardship.bsky.social · 18h
Explain to me how the Pentagon managed to leak 3 million military personnel information? These breaches are intentional!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amid outcry, NY prosecutors have reopened the criminal investigation into the 7 Cornell gang rapists, a case that was covered up 2 years ago. These assholes would’ve been punished if they had written “free Palestine” instead of “free p*ssy.” Cornell leadership should be investigated too.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 16h
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h
“These cases are always treated in isolation by the media, a shocking incident, like a murder, borne of specific motivations. But they’re not like murders at all and they shouldn’t be seen as individual crimes — they’re symptomatic of a sickness in society that afflicts all countries everywhere.”
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The Man Problem
The Cornell Rape Case is a feature not a bug
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Cindy Strait @cstrait.bsky.social · 16h
'We had been conned': Heartland voters are having a change of heart www.alternet.org/farmers-are-... they weren't conned. He was always a known liar. He was always immoral. He was always untrustworthy. He was always corrupt. He didn't exactly hide his unethical and illegal characteristics.
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'We had been conned': Heartland voters are having a change of heart
After generations of loyalty, lifelong agricultural producers open up about a deep sense of betrayal over shifting political values.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 17h
theguardian.com
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh they are scurrying to scrub everything
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2026
FYI.
NWS Weather Prediction Center & • 4h
A MODERATE risk is in effect in our Day 3
Excessive Rainfall Outlook. More details: wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/excessive_...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2026
A major escalation around the Philippines: China has rehearsed boarding, intercepting and forcibly towing vessels around Scarborough Shoal, while deploying its WZ-7 high-altitude surveillance drone there for the first time.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hurricane Polo is making landfall in an area that averages 5" rain per year. Even the mountains inland average under 15" per year.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm no upstate county DA, but when a woman says, repeatedly, that she doesn't remember parts of a sexual experience, that sure as fuck seems like "mental incapacitation." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
The district attorney explained why he reopened the Cornell investigation. Read the document: (Gift Article)
The district attorney for Tompkins County in New York said he is reopening an investigation into a report of a sexual assault at Cornell University.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why did #Florida AG James "Oopsie!" Uthmeier call for a teacher to be fired for bullying over her labeling a boy a misogynist? Because of a complaint from the boy's grandfather, who's an appointee of Gov. Ron DeSastrous. (Now who's the bully, Oopsie?) www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
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DeSantis appointee’s family complained about a teacher. Uthmeier called for her firing
The unusual intervention raises questions about how a classroom dispute reached the state’s top legal authority.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh, #Florida! The American Airlines passenger who removed her pants mid-flight and pleasured herself (and thus was met at the gate by the cops) says she doesn't remember anything because she drank too much -- and so far faces no charges. www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/fl...
thesmokinggun.com
Female Flyer Probed For Mile-High Rub
SEPTEMBER 28--A Maryland bartender who allegedly took off her pants and began masturbating on an American Airlines flight en route to Miami told police that she had consumed several drinks before boa
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Watchdog group Democracy Forward files federal civil lawsuit against Defense Dept seeking records about Jennifer Hegseth's use of DOD staff, attendance at agency meetings, appearance on official calendars
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Multiple counties and cities in #Florida, facing a deluge of angry voters, have imposed a 1-year moratorium on data centers -- and that ain't no Chinese psy-op, pal.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We've all heard how corrupt Ken Paxton is. But he is also incredibly stupid if he thinks this "well, he served 60 whole days" excuse for releasing Adam Hoffman, who sexually abused a boy over a three-year period starting when he was 8.
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