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@RepMTG Rich, white Georgia sorority girl in 2023 discovers the two-tier Justice system.

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The Disney feud, shanghaied immigrant flights, hyped-up voter fraud. If DeSantis is so brilliant at governing, why is he in constant need of Republican lawmakers to fix his miscalculations?

State lawmakers are cleaning up behind DeSantis | Fred Grimm

Elephants have long been associated with the Republican Party, but these days, writes columnist Fred Grimm, Republican Florida legislators have more in common with the shovel-wielding folks walking…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon lunatic who harassed Florida massacre survivor, need not fear GOP...

Two years ago, the cringe evoked by the video of Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing young David Hogg might have given way to a shrug. Repulsive stuff, you’d think, but inconsequential. Just a d…

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@Kasparov63 @RadioFreeTom Back when Kennedy accepted Khrushchev insistence that there were no missiles in Cuba. "I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that Premiere Khrushchev was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."

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@PatriciaMazzei Junior League may be the most ferocious gang in Parkland

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The last of me

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Remember an Alamo. But not that Alamo.

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@realDonaldTrump says the purveyor-in-chief of fake news. Birther. Hillary's health. Great flock of clucking chickens come home to roost.

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A question philosophers won’t be pondering for centuries

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Why was Matt Gaetz the ONLY member of Congress to vote against a major anti-sex trafficking bill?

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@mollyesque @KatyTurNBC @MSNBC Investigative reporting techniques in the Age of Trump

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Voter suppression is a Republican’s best friend

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Texas AG threatens to criminally sanction any group that tells voters to apply for a mail-in ballot to avoid COVID-19

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Growing fear that a caravan of savage election lawyers are set on invading Florida

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@ddale8 @PamBelluck Every perceived slight, no matter the occasion, must be revenged

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@realDonaldTrump God save us from this man. (And me an atheist)

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Mao’s Cultural Revolution reimagined

Florida’s education department rejects math textbooks, saying some had critical race theory

Even math textbooks can’t measure up to Florida’s strict new education standards. The Florida Department of Education says it has found that many math textbooks submitted by publishers …

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@BillyCorben @Olivianuzzi @Bencjacobs @NYMag He’ll get around to it, right after he finally reads Art of the Deal.

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“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” she told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”

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@fred_guttenberg

New killings add sad sense of inevitability to Parkland remembrance | Fred Grimm

The news out of Michigan the night before the Parkland remembrance might have seemed a shocking coincidence in a society less inured to mass murder. Another unhinged gunman. Another campus shooting…

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@funder Just like old times in Florida. See 1956.

Beware of what happens when Florida’s underwhelmed election cops get bored | Fred Grimm

Generalissimo DeSantis wants his own police force. Fifty-two strong. Answerable to the non-elected minion the governor picked to be his secretary of state. Ostensibly, the $5.7 million “Offic…

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If there’s a fourth wave coming — which isn’t unlikely— local governments, businesses and hospitals in Florida will be barred from instituting proven public health measures.

Florida decides 60,800 deaths don’t warrant mandates | Fred Grimm

Florida has attached an asterisk to the term worldwide* pandemic. Other places around the globe are still in the throes of COVID-19, maybe, but here among the palm trees, the virus has been officia…

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I had wondered why my email suddenly went berserk. Like a spewing geyser of loathing.

Florida columnist retires after claiming state has become ‘gay-bashing authoritarian dystopia’

A columnist with a Florida media outlet announced his retirement this week, blaming it on the state and the country leaning into conservative politics.

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@grantstern

State lawmakers are cleaning up behind DeSantis | Fred Grimm

Elephants have long been associated with the Republican Party, but these days, writes columnist Fred Grimm, Republican Florida legislators have more in common with the shovel-wielding folks walking…

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@RonFilipkowski And wait til she gets started on Dr. J

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@ggreenwald Such a sincere fellow, your Tony

Sound and fury signifying nothing but status in MAGA world | Fred Grimm

Without the bombast, none of us would have heard of Anthony Sabatini. He would have made no more impression on the Florida electorate than a shimmer of gossamer on a moonlit night. Yet in our not-s…

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@TrueFactsStated

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@JebBush @GovRonDeSantis Relatives of those 75,000 Floridians lost to Covid might wonder at the cost of “freedom.”

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Meet the misogynist witch-burner cited by Alito to support criminalization of abortion.

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@CongressmanRaja

Beware of what happens when Florida’s underwhelmed election cops get bored | Fred Grimm

Generalissimo DeSantis wants his own police force. Fifty-two strong. Answerable to the non-elected minion the governor picked to be his secretary of state. Ostensibly, the $5.7 million “Offic…

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Climate change? I guess it didn't make the cut

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Don’t want him to win. Worried about the ramifications for his Florida constituents if he loses

Bad news for DeSantis is worse news for Florida | Fred Grimm

If Ron DeSantis loses the GOP presidential primary and loses big, writes columnist Fred Grimm, what will life be like in Florida until he’s out of the Governor’s Mansion?

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@jkbjournalist @cguld His priest. Bless me father for I have taken the 5th

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@gtconway3d

Barefaced Floridians embrace inalienable right to kill their neighbors | Fred Grimm

Would our forefathers have bothered tussling with the Redcoats had they known that 244 years later, bossy-pants busybodies would infringe on our God-given right to spew COVID-19-laden spittle onto …

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@davidhogg111 Not so great white hunter. Much more skilled at enabling mass murders than shooting elephants.

NRA honcho so traumatized by Parkland massacre, he went cruising | Fred Grimm

In the aftermath of the Parkland horrors, Wayne LaPierre — so very beset with trauma — could only find refuge at sea, “the one place that I hope I could feel safe.” Actual s…

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@DeFede Collateral damage between Glenn Youngkin and the wrath of God.

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@BillyCorben @dick_nixon

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@davidfrum Just as this mendacious weasel was so respectful of the parent of the slain children of Sandy Hook

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@joncoopertweets @Disney

State lawmakers are cleaning up behind DeSantis | Fred Grimm

Elephants have long been associated with the Republican Party, but these days, writes columnist Fred Grimm, Republican Florida legislators have more in common with the shovel-wielding folks walking…

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@NewsbySmiley @BrowardVotes My early voting place in Broward: two not-so-young women ahead of me were told that they might want to return to the booth and cast votes on the opposite sides of their ballots that they had unwitting left blank. In the crush of election day, I doubt there was time for such help

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@grantstern Same gov, different outlook

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Donald Trump buys himself an attorney general for 25 grand and shuts down investigation of Trump U.

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@therecount Loser slouches home from Iowa in a vindictive mood.

PragerU videos teach Florida students that slavery wasn’t so bad | Fred Grimm

The rightwing propaganda outfit Prager University has received the green light from the Florida Department of Education to have its slavery-defending, pro-colonialism videos shown in public school …

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@Mdixon55 @GovRonDeSantis Two years after Trumpsters screamed treason and theft when blue states adjusted voting parameters because of a killer pandemic

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@TB_Times

State lawmakers are cleaning up behind DeSantis | Fred Grimm

Elephants have long been associated with the Republican Party, but these days, writes columnist Fred Grimm, Republican Florida legislators have more in common with the shovel-wielding folks walking…

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@NAACP

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@MIAagainstFash Marco Rubio, in one of his many disguises

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What moral distinction led Florida to outlaw greyhound racing but tolerate another parimutuel awash in drugs, criminality, deaths and scandal.

Death of Florida racehorse sullies an already tainted industry | Fred Grimm

Medina Spirit, the maybe (or maybe not) winner of the Kentucky Derby, dropped dead Monday. The Florida-bred thoroughbred collapsed after a routine workout at Santa Anita Park in California — …

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Just what Florida needs: bigots traipsing about in public toting AR-15 assault rifles

‘Open carry’ is as much about political intimidation as self-defense | Fred Grimm

Are you Jewish? Gay? Black? Hispanic? Asian American? Native American? If so, does 2023 come with a certain foreboding? Are you unnerved by MAGA Republicans’ tacit acceptance of gun-toting bi…

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@KatiePhang The Delusions

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@BBCWorld well, i guess that settles the matter

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@thehill Just as he was soooo respectful of the Sandy Hook parents

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@deanbush @DeFede @FIU @CBSMiami Oh yeah. Civil behavior and human decency are just gratuitous leftie conceits.

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Smirnoff's brilliant new ad campaign: 'Made in America, but we'd be happy to talk about our ties to Russia under oath.'

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@realDonaldTrump Just as the Prez apologized for birtherism, saying Ted's father killing JFK, mocking disabled reporter, belittling POWs, Gold Star families.

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@BillyCorben @MiamiDadePD I’m particularly disappointed that social distancing protocols were ignored

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We shoot a child once every 17 hours in Florida. So naturally, we need more guns with more firepower in more places.

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I wrote a half-dozen columns on the Biogenisis scandal but Scewball still astounded me, this melding of only-in-South Florida sleaze with the criminal audacity of Major League Baseball. I knew what was coming and was still muttering to myself, "This is fucking crazy."

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Just watched the totally enthralling @ScrewballFilm . Congrats to @BillyCorben and @AlfredSpellman , you guys outdid yourselves. It’s worth getting Netflix just to see this film. 👏🏻👍🏻💪🏻⚾️

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@BillKristol Collecting hurricane relief supplies for storm-ravaged Alabama. Red Cross seeking donations of pickled pigs feet, fried bologna, confederate-flag halter tops (rayon only), Skoals snuff and Dale Earnhardt memorial beer cozies.

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@engineers_feed Why engineers need English majors.

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@RemoveRon I’d slip him a copy of this.

DeSantis’ State of the State speech didn’t add up | Fred Grimm

Demagogues can demagogue all they want. It won’t change the math. Ron DeSantis can malign Anthony Fauci, as he did once again in his State of the State address Tuesday, characterizing him as …

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@duty2warn Not an EV.

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@ScienceChannel Pretty sure I saw this guy last month at a Aerosmith concert. Speaking of 500 years old.

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@TheRickWilson Perhaps someone should ‘jog’ his memory

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@BillyCorben Policing tactic. Let them punch themselves into an exhausted submission.

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Hurricane Ian has worsened Florida’s insurance crisis | Fred Grimm

In 2004, Hurricane Charley crossed western Cuba on a trajectory that threatened to devastate the Tampa Bay megalopolis. Instead, the storm tilted eastward, rolled over Cayo Costa and battered coast…

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Indecency

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Nina Totenberg reports that (1) the Chief Justice asked his colleagues to mask up out of respect for Sotomayor’s health concerns, (2) only Gorsuch refused, and (3) his refusal forced Sotomayor to participate in arguments and conference remotely.

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@DavidJollyFL

Florida’s governor cashes in on his manufactured outrages | Fred Grimm

I’m just another cog in the Ron DeSantis fundraising machine. My columns criticizing the governor ought to be listed as in-kind contributions to Friends of Ron DeSantis. Same goes for disappr…

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@thehill Except, of course, when they don't

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@TheDamageReport @fred_guttenberg

NRA’s much-feared leaders enjoy unseemly perks | Fred Grimm

Not that Wayne and Marion haven’t earned their scandalous perks and hinky loans and hefty salaries. With ghastly brilliance, Wayne LaPierre and Marion Hammer have cowed lawmakers in Washingto…

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Woman of indeterminate race rides bus for undisclosed reason.

Publisher Deletes Race From Rosa Parks Story for Florida

A publisher, whose curriculum reaches 45,000 schools, went to extreme lengths to cater to Ron DeSantis' hellish vision of Florida.

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@grantstern Trump may discover that stiffing witnesses to his insurrection incitement ain’t quite the same as stiffing his construction subcontractors. But apparently he can’t stop himself.

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@MarcACaputo Whenever I feel neglected by my government, I find that pummeling a capitol police officer and evacuating my bowels in that hallways of America’s most revered building really, really makes me feel better about myself.

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Hereby, it is ordered that only unvaccinated professors at Florida universities wearing red baseball caps can submit expert testimony.

In Florida, a Firestorm Over Silenced University Professors Grows (Published 2021)

After the University of Florida blocked testimony in a voting rights lawsuit against the state, critics made accusations of political meddling. The governor denied the claims.

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@NormOrnstein Somehow, the lesser judges at the district court and appeals court levels manage to disclose their largess

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@ArmandoSalguero @MoDakhil_NBA @wyche89 Perhaps you missed, in the Declaration of Independence, the reference to “merciless Indian savages”

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@rumpfshaker

State lawmakers are cleaning up behind DeSantis | Fred Grimm

Elephants have long been associated with the Republican Party, but these days, writes columnist Fred Grimm, Republican Florida legislators have more in common with the shovel-wielding folks walking…

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On #DDay , @marinamaral2 offers another of her stunning colorizations. (Is that the word?) She makes historic moments vivid.

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Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Infantry Division wade ashore on Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944 #DDay

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@SteveSchmidtSES

DOJ reticence gave Trump’s conspiracy theorists free rein | Fred Grimm

You knew as much about the Mar-a-Lago affair as Rick Scott. Which, shorn of speculation and bombast and Nazi allusions, wasn’t much. Nor did the paucity of information temper Marco Rubio̵…

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@JonathanTurley We begin, here, to ponder flying pigs

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@mkraju The way some people exploited the tragedy at Pearl Harbor to declare war on Japan

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Vestige of old Jim Crow still looms over Florida elections | Fred Grimm

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Much ado about not much

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The Surfside tragedy may have been preordained by the astounding corruption in the South Florida building trades in the 1970s and 1980s

Surfside condo built in era tainted by corruption | Fred Grimm

Four decades ago, a Canadian tax cheat, disgraced lawyer and shady businessman named Nathan Reiber relocated to South Florida, a famously permissive destination for miscreants looking to escape tat…

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@GlennaWPLG @WPLGLocal10 Could this be the same governor out to protect the rights of threatening, frothing at the (uncovered) mouth lunatics disrupting school board meetings?

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@realDonaldTrump "If only Hillary could be as gracious in defeat as I was in victory."

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@BrittanyWallman Oil magnates, coal barons, seaside developers and Republican politicians share a common strategy on the matter of climate change: deny, delay, obstruct, make lots of money and die rich before the bill comes due.

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The color s of pettiness

Lights on Skyway Bridge won’t show rainbow colors for Pride Month. Why?

A Manatee County commissioner disapproved of Pride and gun violence recognition. Instead, the state will have three months of patriotic lights on the bridge it is calling “freedom summer.”

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@PoliticusSarah @politicususa Or when you’re picking up you new girlfriend from middle school

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Donald Trump buys himself an attorney general for $25,000

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@shannonrwatts This ain't no kind of mercy. Nikolas Cruz would probably survive longer on death row than in an anarchic hellhole of a Florida prison.

Life in lawless Florida prison may be crueler than a needle | Fred Grimm

If jurors reject the death penalty for Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz, don’t call their decision merciful. Life in a Florida prison is no kind of mercy. Consigning a 24-year-old to spend five d…

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@DavidOvalle305 If only there was a vaccine

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@sciam now, maybe they can train Americans

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@fineout @GovRonDeSantis What Florida lacks in ICUs, we make up with irony

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Re-watched "Body Heat" and a line from Kathleen Turner reminded me that I still have something left that women, albeit fictional, find appealing. "You're not too smart," she said. "I like that in a man."

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@merever3 @jonallendc Trump: “People tell me that Isaiah is a big fan.”

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Ladapo’s ‘bogus’ study undermines student vaccinations | Fred Grimm

Consider this a serious, possibly deadly side effect of the great pandemic: Only 91.7% of Florida kindergarteners received their mandatory vaccination regimes last school year. In an era when socia…

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