Investigative reporter Jason Garcia is covering the Fl legislative session.On Sundays he lists a Bill Tracker and what’s happening This Week so makes it easy to take time-appropriate action.
To note, the vote on the Florida SAVE Act is Weds !!📲📲📲
Thanks Diane for your report. I'm one who protests and sends letters by the hundreds to our deep red reps to no avail. Now Sen. Ashley Moody is putting forth legislation saying that it is ok to kill protesters. I don't mind saying that I'm deeply afraid to even go out and am embarrassed for our country, our relationships with our world allies, the survival of our democracy which today is in the toilet,. and now doubts of whether or not we will be able to vote. The post-WWI rules based world order was developed with world peace in mind. Yeah, it has not always gone so well what with the civil rights issues in the 60's, Viet Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But on the whole it has gone reasonably well. Now all that is being torn down, and for what? One man's ego? Shame on us for letting this happen.
That's exactly what they want. They want us scared so that they can do whatever the hell they want to. They have dismantled every facets of our somewhat normal lives. He needs to go along with his cronies. There is much bldg going on here in Florida and we have water issues.
Florida, once upon a time was a wonderful place to come and vacation but, after living here now for 3 yrs you really find out what this state has become.
This admin is soulless, Satanist, borderline (echoing) Russia.
They want women barefoot and pregnant again, women will live being undermined at every turn. Our Healthcare system that bowed to the infidel will at some point stop caring for the sick and just people die. They have proven there is nothing they won't try to win the midterms. ICE ( Ts ICE) I should say, shooting protesters and lying about it when we all saw with our own eyes that was not necessary.
Some want OUR USA to act and behave just like third world countries. They want us to hide not protest. I could go on but the point to this is: we as Americans that have a shred of common sense know this has to stop he must be stopped any means necssary!!!
Miller, vought, Thiel, need to be relieved of there so called roles.
Florida is disastrous, we couldn't even get FEMA with back to back hurricanes.
DeSantis did nothing but run his pie hole knowing full well help was not coming. Rick Scott is no better he can not be reelected.
If you still believe the orange glow is going to help you, you are sadly misguided. He is trying to stay out jail where he should be right now if congress would have impeached him. They are all culpable.
Enough is enough until it isn't!
I'm sick and tired of this murderous administration and there are not enough judges that aren't bought and paid for by this admin.
Congress is asleep at the wheel when they should be wide awake.
I need someone in congress that is on the correct side of the constitution to help us in Florida certainly Republicans won't call it out and MAGA well, they need to pack a lunch and bring friends if they think our right to vote is going to be taken women especially. What is the stat on that? 5 women to 1 so called Man, thats why they want our voting rights taken. I believe women are going to Rise up once again.
I do not speak as eloquent as some, I do not mince words so forgive the mistakes but, I'm pretty sure anyone on here understands where I was headed.
Thank you for this article. Everyone needs to read this.
Deborah, your words are just fine and I agree with you. Going along with you and the article I too think that Americans have not been paying attention. Sure we are all busy but that does not excuse the fact that a convicted felon, narcissist, and unrepentant liar is now president.
“Sen. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, is sponsoring a bill that would demand proof of citizenship to register, although it’s already illegal for non-citizens to vote.
You’d need a REAL ID driver’s license, a birth certificate, or a valid passport; you’d need to prove residency in Florida, too.”
Just a note, Florida Real ID does NOT indicate citizneship,just valid legal status.
Florida is a FUCKING HOLE! The legislative body does NOTHING TO HELP FLORIDIANS! They might as well shove their heads FURTHER UP THEIR ASSES, maybe there is daylight through their bellybutton!
Sticking your neck out so that teens can see salacious depictions of sex acts in books like Gender Queer is wild. And I quote: "This has been the most turned on I have ever been in my LIFE, I am DYING". Do kids really need access to this at school??
Sometimes it's best for public schools not to have X rated materials available for students.
Hey, you keep signing my dad up for your emails, funny thing though is he's in a long term care and can't access his email or the internet. I guess you bought a bunch of email addresses but please stop.
Hi, Brigitte, I would be happy to unsubscribe your dad from his Tropic Press subscription. Two ways this can be done. You can simply hit the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the post and you will automatically be removed from the email list by Substack. Or I can do it for you. However, I have no idea what email address to unsubscribe. If you'd like me to do it, send me a private message at jcb@tropic.press with the email address you want removed and I will take care of it for you.
Well, this is one valuable read, my fellow citizens. As a Floridian for 40 years, I've seen many changes but none so disturbing as what is happening here now. I try not to be hyper-focused on the political landscape now because one can drown in the morass, immobilized, instead enjoying reading such things as Fiction (oh my! reading), you know, stuff that actually brings joy and wonderment to my life, new refreshing ideas that challenge preconceived biases I might have, just deficiencies I haven't thought about. This is just one small thing that I'm so grateful for. Instead, I'm forced to be pulled away from valuable pursuits to be jerked around by our politicians who treat us as imbeciles. You're right, Diane, I am nervous. So. I listen to community radio, check facts, and am involved in supporting my local community. Not big things, really, but I do think they're personal, honorable, my God given right as a result of being born in this country, which I did nothing to earn. I guess I'm a bleeding heart in thinking others should be able to live their lives freely without our politicians sharing their morality, while also trying to lift up others in my small imperfect way. I'm learning.
So, thank you, Diane, for your reporting. I don't think it was accidental that I read your piece this morning. It was very illuminating.
Investigative reporter Jason Garcia is covering the Fl legislative session.On Sundays he lists a Bill Tracker and what’s happening This Week so makes it easy to take time-appropriate action.
To note, the vote on the Florida SAVE Act is Weds !!📲📲📲
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasongarcia/p/the-billionaire-and-the-no-bid-contract?
Yes! I'll share it with everyone. Thanks.
Thanks Diane for your report. I'm one who protests and sends letters by the hundreds to our deep red reps to no avail. Now Sen. Ashley Moody is putting forth legislation saying that it is ok to kill protesters. I don't mind saying that I'm deeply afraid to even go out and am embarrassed for our country, our relationships with our world allies, the survival of our democracy which today is in the toilet,. and now doubts of whether or not we will be able to vote. The post-WWI rules based world order was developed with world peace in mind. Yeah, it has not always gone so well what with the civil rights issues in the 60's, Viet Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But on the whole it has gone reasonably well. Now all that is being torn down, and for what? One man's ego? Shame on us for letting this happen.
That's exactly what they want. They want us scared so that they can do whatever the hell they want to. They have dismantled every facets of our somewhat normal lives. He needs to go along with his cronies. There is much bldg going on here in Florida and we have water issues.
Florida, once upon a time was a wonderful place to come and vacation but, after living here now for 3 yrs you really find out what this state has become.
This admin is soulless, Satanist, borderline (echoing) Russia.
They want women barefoot and pregnant again, women will live being undermined at every turn. Our Healthcare system that bowed to the infidel will at some point stop caring for the sick and just people die. They have proven there is nothing they won't try to win the midterms. ICE ( Ts ICE) I should say, shooting protesters and lying about it when we all saw with our own eyes that was not necessary.
Some want OUR USA to act and behave just like third world countries. They want us to hide not protest. I could go on but the point to this is: we as Americans that have a shred of common sense know this has to stop he must be stopped any means necssary!!!
Miller, vought, Thiel, need to be relieved of there so called roles.
Florida is disastrous, we couldn't even get FEMA with back to back hurricanes.
DeSantis did nothing but run his pie hole knowing full well help was not coming. Rick Scott is no better he can not be reelected.
If you still believe the orange glow is going to help you, you are sadly misguided. He is trying to stay out jail where he should be right now if congress would have impeached him. They are all culpable.
Enough is enough until it isn't!
I'm sick and tired of this murderous administration and there are not enough judges that aren't bought and paid for by this admin.
Congress is asleep at the wheel when they should be wide awake.
I need someone in congress that is on the correct side of the constitution to help us in Florida certainly Republicans won't call it out and MAGA well, they need to pack a lunch and bring friends if they think our right to vote is going to be taken women especially. What is the stat on that? 5 women to 1 so called Man, thats why they want our voting rights taken. I believe women are going to Rise up once again.
I do not speak as eloquent as some, I do not mince words so forgive the mistakes but, I'm pretty sure anyone on here understands where I was headed.
Thank you for this article. Everyone needs to read this.
Deborah, your words are just fine and I agree with you. Going along with you and the article I too think that Americans have not been paying attention. Sure we are all busy but that does not excuse the fact that a convicted felon, narcissist, and unrepentant liar is now president.
With you 100%
“Sen. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, is sponsoring a bill that would demand proof of citizenship to register, although it’s already illegal for non-citizens to vote.
You’d need a REAL ID driver’s license, a birth certificate, or a valid passport; you’d need to prove residency in Florida, too.”
Just a note, Florida Real ID does NOT indicate citizneship,just valid legal status.
Excellent reporting and work you do. Thank you...from this overworked, underpaid, FL public school teacher...58 years in the state of FL.
I'm aghast and do what I can
Florida is a FUCKING HOLE! The legislative body does NOTHING TO HELP FLORIDIANS! They might as well shove their heads FURTHER UP THEIR ASSES, maybe there is daylight through their bellybutton!
Sticking your neck out so that teens can see salacious depictions of sex acts in books like Gender Queer is wild. And I quote: "This has been the most turned on I have ever been in my LIFE, I am DYING". Do kids really need access to this at school??
Sometimes it's best for public schools not to have X rated materials available for students.
Yes they FUCKING DO!
Fine, stay unelectable if you want.
Nobody but the craziest gender anarchists and leftists want this pornography in their children's schools.
I really wish I could post the images of the smut you're trying to defend, alas this is not an image platform.
I'll just leave you with this:
Florida's legislature is hotly contested to the point that of 1800 bills, only two passed.
They needed moderate democrats to pass the only two, and they likely compromised for key riders which help us.
This is a stupid hill to die on.
Here's the depiction from Paradise Lost by the way:
"Straight side by side were laid, nor turn'd, I ween,
Adam from his fair Spouse, nor Eve the Rites
Mysterious of connubial Love refus'd:
Whatever Hypocrites austerely talk
Of purity and place and innocence,
Defaming as impure what God declares
Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
Our Maker bids increase, who bids abstain
But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?
Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source
Of human offspring, sole propriety
In Paradise of all things common else!
By thee adulterous Lust was driv'n from men
Among the bestial herds to range; by thee
Founded in Reason, Loyal, Just, and Pure,
Relations dear, and all the charities
Of Father, Son, and Brother first were known."
Sorry, not the same as having a book which gives a great POV of a teen giving a blow job to someone wearing a strapon.
It's comical really, that my fellow democrats are willing to die on this hill. Gavin Newsome understands that pushing this topic is a losing cause.
You REALLY need kids to see Gender Queer don't you? No wonder we lost the 2024 election!
Hey, you keep signing my dad up for your emails, funny thing though is he's in a long term care and can't access his email or the internet. I guess you bought a bunch of email addresses but please stop.
Hi, Brigitte, I would be happy to unsubscribe your dad from his Tropic Press subscription. Two ways this can be done. You can simply hit the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the post and you will automatically be removed from the email list by Substack. Or I can do it for you. However, I have no idea what email address to unsubscribe. If you'd like me to do it, send me a private message at jcb@tropic.press with the email address you want removed and I will take care of it for you.
Well, this is one valuable read, my fellow citizens. As a Floridian for 40 years, I've seen many changes but none so disturbing as what is happening here now. I try not to be hyper-focused on the political landscape now because one can drown in the morass, immobilized, instead enjoying reading such things as Fiction (oh my! reading), you know, stuff that actually brings joy and wonderment to my life, new refreshing ideas that challenge preconceived biases I might have, just deficiencies I haven't thought about. This is just one small thing that I'm so grateful for. Instead, I'm forced to be pulled away from valuable pursuits to be jerked around by our politicians who treat us as imbeciles. You're right, Diane, I am nervous. So. I listen to community radio, check facts, and am involved in supporting my local community. Not big things, really, but I do think they're personal, honorable, my God given right as a result of being born in this country, which I did nothing to earn. I guess I'm a bleeding heart in thinking others should be able to live their lives freely without our politicians sharing their morality, while also trying to lift up others in my small imperfect way. I'm learning.
So, thank you, Diane, for your reporting. I don't think it was accidental that I read your piece this morning. It was very illuminating.