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Laura Elliott

@lauraelliott3.bsky.social
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Air Force veteran. Lives in the hellscape of FL. Grew up out West. Gabby was my kitty. "He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end." William Penn

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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"James Uthmeier,...now Florida’s attorney general, was “in a position of authority” over those who arranged the $10 million settlement that later went to political committees, the grand jury found. U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, then the state’s attorney general, advised a deputy to sign off on the deal."
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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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Florida gonna Flori-duh.
orlandosentinel.com
Experts: Florida ‘moving backwards’ on teaching evolution, climate change in public schools
The state announced new K-12 science standards on Friday and is now taking public comment on them.
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Alberto Resists 🏳️‍🌈 🦋 @alberto-resists.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'll walk across glass to get to the polls to cast my vote in November. Quote me on this.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
British editorial cartoonist David Parkins illustrates the bottom line.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TEXANS, VOTE FOR TALARICO!
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You can't make this stuff up. Our FL AG is bullying the Catholic Church because they require students who attend their schools (which the State of FL now pays for BTW) to be vaccinated.
orlandosentinel.com
Florida attorney general, a Catholic, fights state bishops over school vaccines
The state’s Catholic bishops told Attorney General James Uthmeier that they “do not have to justify to your office their position on Catholic teaching.”
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well, it's a start.
orlandosentinel.com
Florida orders Flock cameras off of state roads
FDOT also no longer intends to issue permits for the cameras.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It wasn't the alligator that killed her. Not wearing her seatbelt is likely why she was ejected from her vehicle and got run over. Wear your seatbelt because we have alligators on our freeways! Yes, it happened in Florida. I'm sorry for her family.
orlandosentinel.com
Central Florida woman dead after alligator sets off chain-reaction crash on I-95
A 20-year-old Palm Bay woman is dead after a crash involving three cars and an alligator in Brevard County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
DeSantis rigged the system. "State wildlife commissioners, all appointed by Gov. DeSantis, last year structured rules for future bear hunts — including setting kill quotas — so the state agency’s executive director, Roger Young, could act w/o listening to public opinion or requiring board input."
orlandosentinel.com
Florida to stage another December bear hunt — but no debate this time
Last year’s bear hunt, Florida’s first state-sanctioned hunt of its largest land mammal since 2015, resulted in 52 bears killed over 23 days in December.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Wow, Florida now has 2 US Senators who are crooks! Do we get a prize? We're counting on Angie Nixon kicking Ashley Moody's corrupt butt out of the Senate in November.
orlandosentinel.com
Grand jury blasts DeSantis staff, Hope Florida board for lack of ‘due diligence’
The governor and those involved denied wrongdoing and said the state’s actions were proper.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ashley Moody, currently our Senator (appointed by DeSantis to replace Rubio) is also mixed up in this illegal activity. ...U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, who was attorney general at the time, knew of the scheme and authorized her chief deputy at the time, John Guard, to sign the settlement agreement...
orlandosentinel.com
Hope Florida grand jury finds Medicaid settlement money ‘misused for political purposes’
The not-yet released reported was obtained by CBS News Miami and detailed wrongdoing but also an inability to bring criminal charges.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Another pedophile member of the GOP who was appointed to his position by Governor Ron DeSantis. Why is no one surprised?
orlandosentinel.com
DeSantis appointee for Clerk of Courts arrested on child sexual abuse charges
Mike Caruso, the Palm Beach County clerk of courts and a staunch ally of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, was arrested Tuesday morning on child sexual abuse charges, state officials announced.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
250 CADILLACS! Is that some sort of crazy commemoration of the 250th anniversary of America? Gas guzzling luxury for the political elite who are responsible for the soaring price of gas?
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Perfect description!
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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O'BrienP 🇺🇸 ❤️ 💙 ☘️ @obrienp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"The nonprofit group Florida TaxWatch called the plan poorly-thought out and rushed through the Legislature with little time for debate or analysis." Sounds exactly how the GOP does everything in Florida, especially those tasks that are done at the behest of top idiot, Ron DeSantis.
orlandosentinel.com
Property tax cuts could hurt local government credit ratings
Florida TaxWatch called the plan poorly thought out and rushed through the Legislature with little time for debate or analysis.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
In a nutshell.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Doing this is so Florida. Florida is a menace to the rest of the country. "The law loosened regulations on nursing education, making it easier to launch shoddy schools and harder to shut them down."
orlandosentinel.com
‘Getting worse’: State lets Seminole nursing school stay open, despite struggles
The school’s president was banned from operating schools in Pennsylvania, but Florida let him open a nursing school here in 2020.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I loved Zima!
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Yep.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I think this is the best teacher joke I've ever seen!😂
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Why we can't have nice things in Florida, like adequate healthcare and therapy for disabled children.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This looks cool! @caramelrhapsody.bsky.social
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This story (which I verified in a WAPO article) has me in tears. This little boy was beaten to death over 3 months after being removed from his mother who was deported without him. This administration is filled with monsters.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"We’ll be a hungry and desperate oligarchy, wondering how we can beg a few more scraps from that high tech nation across the Pacific. I’d prefer to avoid that. Xi Jinping, and most of Wall Street, is fine with it." open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
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The Efficiency Moat: Why China Is Beating the U.S. on AI… And Everything Else
From electric vehicles to drones to solar to AI, the Chinese are doing what the U.S. used to - investing and competing. Chinese strategy is also predatory, but we could learn a thing or two from them.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
DeSantis calls it the Free State of Florida. Yep, free to be over 65 and unhoused. We can spend a billion dollars on Alligator Alcatraz but we can't afford to keep seniors (or other vulnerable people) housed. Gift article. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/12/c...
orlandosentinel.com
Central Florida’s homeless branch out from downtown Orlando, advocates say
The federally mandated three-day count offers a snapshot of a region’s battle with homelessness.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
DeSantis is such an effing crook! Gift article. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/12/m...
orlandosentinel.com
Maxwell: Even the feds know ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ was a boondoggle
Even the feds know ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ was a boondoggle. Spending a half-billion dollars on tents and cages in the Everglades never made sense — as most serious people said from Day One.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Beware! www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/08/f...
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The nurse was branded ‘a danger to public health’ in Maryland. She is still licensed in Florida.
An Orlando Sentinel investigation details Florida’s erratic response to a fake-diploma nursing school scandal, with hundreds of nurses caught up in the legal fracas still able to practice.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Everyone needs to hear this.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Gut punch.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This is cool.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Why were the President and the VP and so many Cabinet members all together at such an unimportant event? So ridiculous.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This!
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The saga of Ben & Jerry's against the billionaires. open.substack.com/pub/benjerry...
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The Rolling Cone Issue #20 - The Rules Don’t Apply to Billionaires. Or So They Thought.
This is a story about ice cream the same way Watergate was a story about a break-in.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Great way to raise money for a good cause (ACLU)!
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
DeSantis is such an idiot. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/22/d...
orlandosentinel.com
DeSantis signs Florida law banning local DEI funding, says white men are ‘disfavored’
White men have been discriminated against through diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday after signing legislation which prohibits counties and cities from funding ...
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The bail bondsman, Moncrief, flood guilty to racketeering and human trafficking charges were dropped. He is going to serve about 3 years and pay some minor restitution. Read the article for the s*** he did to these women. This sentence is ridiculous. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/18/o...
orlandosentinel.com
Orange bail bonds company helped owner coerce jailed women for sex, lawsuit claims
The suit says they would threaten to revoke women’s bonds and send them back to jail if they refused the owner’s demands.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
@lindaforfar2.bsky.social @stickfigureme.bsky.social
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is worth a listen. A focus group with Catholics. The comments by Republican Catholics choosing Trump over the Pope are wild. It's long but the last half is the best. youtu.be/9k4VOBfdCso?...
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Will JVL Survive These Focus Groups of Catholic Voters? | The Focus Group
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Gabby left this world today. She's in kitty heaven beating up other cats, her favorite pastime. She was a sweet, smart, & stubborn kitty who was always looking to sneak out of the house & kick some cat butt! She was in our lives for 13 of her 14 yrs & she is deeply missed. She was a special kitty.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Welcome to the fascist state of Florida. Do not come to spend your money here, especially if you are not an American. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/12/a...
orlandosentinel.com
A Valencia College student was leaving for work. ICE was waiting outside
“I feel so heartbroken because I love this country,” said the Venezuelan national, who has applied for asylum but now fears his new life in the United States will be upended.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
DeSantis is sooo corrupt and lawless. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/11/m...
orlandosentinel.com
Maxwell: We sued Florida for public records and got them … once again
Scott Maxwell: The state of Florida has again paid to cover legal fees the Orlando Sentinel incurred while fighting for records that were clearly public. This time, they dealt with the state’s erasure...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A different perspective. Always helpful.
Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The corruption & lawlessness in FL under DeSantis is endless. We can't even get required maternal health reports properly posted from these goons. Support the Florida Trib if you are so inclined, even with a one-time donation. floridatrib.org/2026/04/02/a...
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As Florida restricted abortion, state’s maternal mortality committee went dark
A secretive panel hadn’t publicly released any annual findings about maternal deaths in years until a Florida Trib reporter asked about the lack of action
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