The First Amendment and Florida media are alive and well, working as watchdogs for The People, thanks to the Fourth Estate, journalists like Jason Garcia and all the staff at The Orlando Sentinel and other papers in Florida that are saving democracy right now. Thank you, thank you for all you do! The corruption and usurpation of power by the GOP and DeSantis is utterly shocking but not surprising. These are not politicians… but they are more like prostitutes. DeSantis flip flops any way the wind blows for whomever is paying his way. The utter disgrace secrecy and that taxpayers do not know what their money is going to or where the Governor is, the censorship, attacks on citizens. This is Soviet-style dictatorship, (did citizens ever find out what Russian companies public employee pensions are invested in?) especially since he removed a duly elected by the public official Worrell and replaced her with a crony. People need to speak out while they still have a First Amendment and they must work to keep a Free Press, because Despot DeSantis is out to destroy them. Most importantly, citizens of Left and Right need to vote these pathological liars and thieves and wanna-be-despots out of office. And subscribe to your local newspaper or to great reporters like Jason. Keep up the good work, Jason! Thank you!
For more detailed reporting on the DOE & Jefferson County investigation, check out Billy Townsend’s Substack. He’s been on this from the beginning & filed complaints that triggered Fl state investigation/coverup.
“Here’s Another Way Everything In Florida Sucks” is such better clickbait though.
Also, most papers have paywalls. The best thing that could happen for democracy in this state would be a common paywall agreement that would allow at least some limited articles for free to subscribers. I’m not interested in 80% of the TBT’s so-called “news,” and I can’t afford to subscribe to 4 different papers to read a couple of articles a week on other papers’ sites. (And that’s one reason I subscribe to this newsletter.)
The First Amendment and Florida media are alive and well, working as watchdogs for The People, thanks to the Fourth Estate, journalists like Jason Garcia and all the staff at The Orlando Sentinel and other papers in Florida that are saving democracy right now. Thank you, thank you for all you do! The corruption and usurpation of power by the GOP and DeSantis is utterly shocking but not surprising. These are not politicians… but they are more like prostitutes. DeSantis flip flops any way the wind blows for whomever is paying his way. The utter disgrace secrecy and that taxpayers do not know what their money is going to or where the Governor is, the censorship, attacks on citizens. This is Soviet-style dictatorship, (did citizens ever find out what Russian companies public employee pensions are invested in?) especially since he removed a duly elected by the public official Worrell and replaced her with a crony. People need to speak out while they still have a First Amendment and they must work to keep a Free Press, because Despot DeSantis is out to destroy them. Most importantly, citizens of Left and Right need to vote these pathological liars and thieves and wanna-be-despots out of office. And subscribe to your local newspaper or to great reporters like Jason. Keep up the good work, Jason! Thank you!
For more detailed reporting on the DOE & Jefferson County investigation, check out Billy Townsend’s Substack. He’s been on this from the beginning & filed complaints that triggered Fl state investigation/coverup.
“Here’s Another Way Everything In Florida Sucks” is such better clickbait though.
Also, most papers have paywalls. The best thing that could happen for democracy in this state would be a common paywall agreement that would allow at least some limited articles for free to subscribers. I’m not interested in 80% of the TBT’s so-called “news,” and I can’t afford to subscribe to 4 different papers to read a couple of articles a week on other papers’ sites. (And that’s one reason I subscribe to this newsletter.)