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General Strike US (GSUS) is a decentralized strike network focused on community building and uniting 3.5% of the US population to act! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sign your strike card! >>> generalstrikeus.com/strikecard 🍉 Linktree: linktr.ee/generalstrikeus

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
open.substack.com/pub/thepolit... “Fiscal discipline” is code for protecting the donor class. Fiscal Rules are thus No Taxes on the rich Low Interest Rates for the rich Privatisation Allowing price gouging Permanent Austerity Managed Decline Neoliberals are the whip hand of the slave masters.
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The Great Government Debt Scam
Turning Public Debt into Private 1% Wealth—Understanding how money works today.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 05/11/2025
This shutdown is now the longest in history, thanks to the Trump administration and their allies in Congress. They *could* fund the government and fix the health care crisis - but instead they’re prolonging the suffering of workers, just to break the Affordable Care Act.
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Rural Freedom Network @ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Poster-style image with large bold text reading, “IF YOU’RE UNEMPLOYED IT’S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISN’T ANY WORK.” Beneath, smaller paragraphs explain that unmet needs like housing, education, and public health all require labor; the issue isn’t lack of work but an economy that ties employment to profit rather than social good. The final line reads “Storm is Coming.”
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
A grocery produce section displays colorful baskets of vegetables, including red and yellow bell peppers, lettuce, eggplant, okra, and green beans. In front of the photo, there’s a tweet overlay from user “brendannorth” that reads: “Repeat after me: Food is not a fucking weapon and any regime that weaponizes food is fascist.”
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Who would’ve thought that kneecapping public education institutions/facilities and terrorizing ESL students would have resulted in this….? Oh, right. Anyone with an understanding of cause-and-effect. Education is suffering statewide. Support educators, students, & community initiatives!
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agogaghast.bsky.social @agogaghast.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
🥀Randall Gamboa died after being detained by ICE… He was healthy, video-calling his family daily from detention. Then, communication was abruptly cut. Weeks later, ICE returned him to Costa Rica in a vegetative state. He never recovered. May he rest in power. www.gofundme.com/f/help-randa...
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A Reddit post from the r/ICE_Raids subreddit describes the death of Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican man who died after being detained by ICE. The post outlines how Randall was in daily contact with his family until all communication stopped suddenly in June 2025. His family was denied contact by ICE for six weeks before he was returned to Costa Rica in a vegetative state. He later died. The post ends with a GoFundMe link to help his family investigate the circumstances.Randall Gamboa stands strong and smiling on a mountaintop holding the Costa Rican flag, wearing a gray T-shirt and jeans. The background is foggy and surrounded by greenery. Text below reads: “Randall months before.”

Before/After split image):
Left side: Randall smiles with a woman (presumably his partner), both looking happy and healthy.
Right side: Randall lies in a hospital bed in a frail, emaciated condition, hooked to oxygen with a blank stare.
Caption underneath reads: “Before/After.”
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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The most important thing you’ll read this week
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Not surprising whatsoever. The more I learn about PERA (the NLRA law equivalent for public employees) the more apparent it becomes how this state is an employer haven & how workers have never mattered here…almost as if it’s rooted in brutal traditions… www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
tallahassee.com
Florida ranks last in nation for state worker pay, new report shows
State of Florida employees are the rock-bottom lowest hourly earners in the country, according to the online job site ZipRecruiter.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...
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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike
It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.
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NurseQ AntiFascist: boycott big businesses @nursequixote.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Strike/ slow productivity, stop spending & defund the federal government. I refuse to pay for atrocities.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
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nrredbird.bsky.social @nrredbird.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Repubs are going after voting rights however they can. Why? "As of 2024, the majority-minority states: Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, & New Jersey. These states have a higher percentage of people of color than the U.S. as a whole." Any questions?
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
To start...you may remember I was one of three UF "Americanist" political scientists who risked our jobs for the right to participate in Florida litigation protecting voting rights. We had violent threats to ourselves and our families www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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In ‘chilling’ decision, UF professors have been barred from testifying against Florida
In a decision that could have far-reaching free speech implications for faculty at universities and colleges across Florida, the University of Florida has refused to allow three political science prof...
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 17/10/2025
After skyrocketing following the election and peaking just before the inauguration, GEO's share price has lost nearly all its so-called 'Trump bump' gains. You can check whether your portfolio includes GEO or other prison-related holdings at prisonfreefunds.org.
Chart showing GEO Group stock price for the past 1 year. It peaked in mid-January at just over $35 and has trended downward overall to its current price of $16.89.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Please boycott AMZN, if you aren’t already. The technological infrastructure for the biometric AI-augmented, cloud-supported surveillance state is materializing and of COURSE they have $$$ and development on it. 🚫 No packages. No prime. No prime video. No Whole Foods. No AWS. It has to stop. 🛑
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Until All of Us Are Free @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I called it. The Democrats won't call for the abolition of ICE. They just want respectable looking fascist thugs.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
If GEO Group gets their way, they will have no standard of accountability and be exempt from litigation for various violations. This will, in essence, make torture in prison legal. Keep training, keep stocking, and keep spreading the word that it’s time to STRIKE! 🪧 🗣️ jacobin.com/2025/10/huma...
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ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Is Hoping to Get Blanket Immunity
After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like its...
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🚨 🚨 🚨 Peter Giunta — Chair, New York State Young Republicans; formerly Chief of Staff for a New York Assemblymember  • Bobby Walker — Former Vice Chair, New York State Young Republicans  • Samuel (Sam) Douglass — Vermont State Senator 
Screenshot of a Facebook post by Martin Sostre Solidarity House sharing a post by Rachel Hurley. The post criticizes JD Vance’s response to the Young Republicans Telegram scandal, arguing it wasn’t college “banter” but involved adults in political power. It names Peter Giunta as the ringleader, who joked about Hitler and gas chambers, held multiple leadership positions in NY Republican politics, and was recognized as a rising star in 2019.Continuation of the post describing how these were not young college kids but established political figures. Messages included slurs, references to Hitler, praise of slavery, and threats of violence. Giunta made racist and antisemitic remarks and threatened violence against rivals at conventions.The post discusses how JD Vance deflected criticism by comparing the scandal to texts by Jay Jones, a Democrat, calling the comparison false. It explains how multiple state chapters (NY, KS, AZ, VT) were involved, and Vance’s associates supported the accused. Despite fallout and resignations, Vance didn’t condemn the scandal.Final panel contains commentary and a stylized cartoon. Hurley concludes this wasn’t a harmless college chat but a preview of future Republican leadership embracing extremist rhetoric. The cartoon depicts two panels: the first showing a child in an “ordinary group chat,” and the second showing an adult in a suit at a desk in a hate-filled online space with monitors reading “BAN THEM ALL,” “WHITE POWER,” and “HATE.” The adult has a briefcase, symbolizing political ambition.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A tweet by the Hampton Institute account reads:
“Capitalists believe people exist to serve the market. If a person cannot serve the market in a profitable way, their life has no value.
Socialists believe the market exists to serve people. If a market cannot serve the people in an equitable way, it has no value.”
The tweet is timestamped 3:41 PM, 14 Jul 2019.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked. They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If Congress lets ACA subsidies expire, average premiums could climb 75%+. In FL, over 4.7 million people are enrolled in marketplace plans; 1.4 million may lose coverage. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Families on Obamacare brace for higher health care premiums next year
Tax credits made ACA plans affordable for middle-class families. They're set to expire at the end of this year.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We see the pattern right? Schools mirroring neglected, lice-infested carceral institutions while incentives are given to students in exchange for ignoring their health needs. Because attendance is a KPI warranting public funds…meanwhile parents working varying collar-colors of wage-slavery…
Screenshot from Reddit’s r/Teachers thread. Two users discuss schools requiring kids to return a day after testing positive for COVID. One user explains how incentives pressure sick kids to attend, while the other shares they had to take unpaid leave because their entire family lacks sick time.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
When a life is on the line, capitalism still asks for your subscription 💳 For the monopolists, it’s profit over people every time.
A Twitter exchange between a user named Palm and Team YouTube. Palm jokes, “maybe don’t put ads before first aid vids? I don’t have time to watch a Red Lobster ad when my grandma is choking on a fish bone.” Team YouTube replies with a tone-deaf promotion of YouTube Premium for an ad-free experience.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 13/10/2025
“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation” Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog
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More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation
By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
🫡 I'll be there in Daytona Beach Florida! October 18! 🚫 👑 !
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
You're awesome! 💙
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Screenshot of a tweet by Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) that reads: “Chaos erupted at a DeSantis event when a protester screamed: ‘Is that your fcking legacy? You bow down to a fcking pedophile! You’re a f*cking pedophile!’ The Epstein fallout isn’t fading. It’s detonating and DeSantis just got dragged into the blast radius.” Below the tweet is an image of Ron DeSantis at a podium in front of American and Florida state flags.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Honor the first stewards of the Earth across continents, cultures, and generations. Their resistance is survival. Their wisdom is the future. 🌱
Illustration of an Indigenous woman with long dark hair and a feather in her hairpiece, standing in profile with eyes closed in peaceful reflection. The warm-toned background features rolling hills, a stylized orange sun, and soft clouds. Overlaid text reads:
“October 13, 2025
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
— Kanipawit Maskwa”
Artwork is credited to © StandingBearNetwork.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Last week in Chicago. Many are examining the TRUST Act against the actualized efforts of various local police tactical groups like NIPAS (Northern Illinois Police Alarm System), as these agencies are allegedly restricted from assisting ICE.……
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Judge "You are going to jail" "I'm rich." Judge "Why didn't you say before! We can't have you going to jail, nudge, nudge, wink, wink"
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The facts speak for themselves. Florida’s public schools are being gutted, educators underpaid, truth-telling punished, unions attacked. You don’t need to “tough it out” or “suck it up” to be a teacher. You need LEVERAGE. Organize!! 📢🗣️🪧 portal.floridaea.org/fasttrack/217
Slide titled “Florida’s Educational Landscape” with bullet points and key facts highlighted in yellow. The slide states that Florida spends nearly 30% less on public education today than before the Great Recession, ranks last in average teacher pay, and 48th in education funding effort. It also notes that average teacher salaries have decreased by 11% over the last decade (adjusted for inflation), and that many classrooms lack staff. The slide criticizes state policies that divert funds from public to private schools and highlights ongoing attacks on educators.
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Florida Education Association @floridaea.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What can you do this #BannedBooksWeek to stand up to censorship in our schools? Here are five simple ways to take action against book bans in your community and beyond. Then, check out @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social resources for even more ways to defend the freedom to read: bit.ly/48kZ96T
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Word. Tell your local scab, centrist, or neolib shill. 😅
Black and white photograph of political theorist Hannah Arendt, shown in profile, looking pensively to the side. Above her is a quote: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist.” — Hannah Arendt.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A tweet from Hampton Institute (@HamptonThink) reads:
“It’s important to understand the US has never had a left-wing party. Liberalism is a center-right ideology. Liberals deradicalized unions, interned citizens, squashed liberation movements, escalated wars & championed mass incarceration, all in the name of capitalism/imperialism.” The image includes a circular graphic of a raised fist labeled “Bury Capitalism.”
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
If you witness an ICE encounter, protect your community! SALUTE helps you document safely. This is how we keep each other safe in a carceral state built on silence. 📢 🗣️🚨 🚫🧊
An illustrated infographic shows a melting bag of ice labeled “See ICE?” with instructions to “Call + Report and Blow a Whistle.” It explains whistle codes: a short burst means ICE is nearby, a long continuous one means ICE is detaining someone. To the right, an acronym “SALUTE” is broken down to guide reporting: Size/Strength, Actions/Activity, Location, Uniform, Time/Date, Equipment. The bottom of the image says, “Form a Crowd! Stay Loud!” The artist’s name, Alyse Ruriani, appears at the bottom.
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Reading US foreign relations textbooks be like “Page 40 out of 600, and the US has already proposed and violated 5 treaties!” 🤡🦅🇺🇸
A tweet from @enchantinglyah reads: “reminder that the ‘migrant crisis’ in america is due to U.S. interventionism in other countries’ resources/politics that destroyed their economies and left these people with nothing but a false american dream to seek from the very perpetrators that enacted their economic collapse.”
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Michelle likes democracy. @democracymichelle.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We ready for a general strike yet?
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unhinged leftist ☭🔻 @gnommunist.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
look gang! 30 protest targets just dropped. noise demos are fun and don’t hurt anyone
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imeupolicy Last week, 30 Democrats - all of whom have taken campaign donations from AIPAC - signed a letter addressed to Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, calling on him to oppose recognition of the State of Palestine advanced by several countries at last week's United Nations General Assembly.
These 30 Democrats have collectively received over $56 million from AIPAC and other organizations supportive of the Israeli government, and have all voted to give Israel billions of dollars in weapons paid for by our tax dollars.
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nSecretary of State Marco Rubio calling on him to oppose recognition of the State of Palestine advanced by several countries at last week's
United Nations General Assembly.
These 30 Democrats have collectively received over $56 million from AlPAC and other
organizations supportive of the Israeli government, according to trackaipac.com.
• Jake Auchincloss (MA-4)
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25)
• Greg Landsman (OH-1)
• Tim Kennedy (NY-26)
• Dan Goldman (NY-10)
• Grace Meng (NY-6)
• Marilyn Strickland (WA-10)
• Emilia Sykes (OH-13)
• Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5)
• Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6)
• Jared Moskowitz (FL-23)
• Lois Frankel (FL-22)
• Kim Schrier (WA-8)
as R. Suozzi (NY-03)
Panetta (CA-19)
• Brad Schneider (IL-10)
• Angie Craig (MN-2)
• Kevin Mullin (CA-15)
• Juan Vargas (CA-52)
• Ritchie Torres (NY-15)
• Chris Pappas (NH-1)
• Eric Swalwell (CA-14)
• Ted W. Lieu (CA-36)
• George Latimer (NY-16)
• Haley Stevens (MI-11)
• Darren Soto (FL-9)
• Greg Stanton (AZ-4)
• Nikki Budzinski (IL-13)
• Shri Thanedar (MI-13)
• Wesley Bell (MO-1)
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imeupolicy Last week, 30 Democrats - all of whom have taken campaign donations from AIPAC - signed a letter addressed to Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, calling on him to oppose recognition of the State of Palestine advanced by several countries at last week's United Nations General Assembly.
These 30 Democrats have collectively received over $56 million from AIPAC and other organizations supportive of the Israeli government, and have all voted to give Israel billions of dollars in weapons paid for by our tax dollars.
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Ron DeSantis's jet (Tracking) @desantisjet.grndcntrl.net · 07/10/2025
DeSantisJet | FL Gov't Landed in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Apx. flt. time 22 min.
Reg: N943FL On Ground: True Alt: 0 Last Contact: 0:00:00.200786 Trigger: now on ground
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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Activists protest and threaten legal action to halt the $67 million land transfer for the Trump Presidential Library. Historian Marvin Dunn said it appears the Miami Dade College violated state law that requires land sale/ transfers "benefit" the college institution. www.wlrn.org/government-p...
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Activists protest, threaten legal action to halt land transfer for Trump Presidential Library
More than a dozen activists gathered in downtown Miami Monday afternoon to protest plans to build Donald Trump’s presidential library and hotel project next to the historic Freedom Tower, labeling it ...
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“Proud Boys” are a dangerous, violent, homegrown terrorist organization. Be aware and stay safe. 🏴
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Funny how capitalism only “works” when socialism foots the bill. The bourgeois state props up its own contradictions with IMF lifelines and military might. 🇺🇸 🌎 💸 ❌
A sarcastic post by Robert R. Raymond reads: “socialism doesn’t work, that’s why we had to sanction venezuela’s economy. but libertarian capitalism works just fine, that’s why we had to bail out argentina 👍”
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MrWtr0102.bsky.social @mrwtr0102.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
#NoKings 2.0 Saturday, October 18th, 2025 #NoKingsFlorida (Part 1 of 8) #ApalachicolaFL #AtlanticBeachFL #BartowFL #BocaRatonFL #BradentonFL #BrooksvilleFL #CasselberryFL #ClearwaterFL #ClermontFL #CocoaFL Link: www.nokings.org
Map showing locations of the “No Kings 2.0” protests to be held in Florida on Saturday, October 18th, 2025.
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