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@espierce.bsky.social

Balloon-Juice, salt water adjacent, Floridastan resident, reader

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@espierce.bsky.social

Voted for her and the rest of the Florida Democrats this past Monday. LFG, Florida!

Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social

Today, I’m honored to share that President Obama is supporting our campaign for the U.S. Senate. President @barackobama.bsky.social & I both started as organizers in our communities, because we immediately understood that real changes come from regular folks joining the fight. #AngieForFlorida

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LFG, Florida! Time to bring it home.

National Democratic Redistricting Committee@democraticredistricting.com

New polling shows the Florida governor’s race is a dead heat. We can’t let Byron Donalds continue DeSantis’ legacy of stripping rights and silencing voters. Choose a new path forward. Elect David Jolly to be the next Governor of Florida! 👏 https://bit.ly/4hUh8pa

bit.lyWith 2 weeks to go, new UNF poll shows Donalds and Jolly neck and neckThe new poll also shows the race for U.S. Senate has tightened, though Republican Ashely Moody leads Democrat Angie Nixon 49% to 45%.
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Holy shit, the Rays are going to the World Series!

MLB Daily News@insidemlbnews.bsky.social

The Rays advance to the World Series to face the Brewers. First matchup between teams without a World Series title since 1980.

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#RaysUp

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social

As a Red Sox fan can I just say it's fun to read The Athletic Yankees beat reporter list all the ways Austin Wells f**ed up trying to stretch a double into a triple in game one of the ALDS. www.nytimes.com/athletic/765...

nytimes.comYankees’ Austin Wells missed the stop sign in costly base-running blunder: ‘The risk was wrong’"Just obviously not a good decision,” Aaron Boone said of Wells' attempt to stretch a double into a triple in the eighth in a 1-0 game.
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Michael Harriot@michaelharriot.bsky.social

Sunday's @washingtonpost op-ed on why “The Great aWOKEning is over" was so absurd, I thought it was a parody article... Until I saw who wrote it 9 years ago, that same columnist whitesplained why I should "be careful" who I called a white supremacist

dlvr.itThrowback Thursday: Megan McArdle Can’t Tell Me Shit About White SupremacyBefore Jeff Bezos hired her, the whitest white woman who ever whited dedicated an entire column warning me to “be careful” who I called a white supremacist.
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#JollyforFlorida

Florida Phoenix@floridaphoenix.com

Now that Donalds is in a competitive race in a Republican-heavy state, there are distinct rumblings in GOP-land about whether the party — and especially the far-right conservative, white nationalist faction — will ever vote for a Black man. floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/03/h...

floridaphoenix.comCommentary: How many Republicans will vote for a Black man for governor? • Florida Phoenix“Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.” — Harry Belafonte, 2010 With U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds one step closer to the...

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Angie Nixon
@angieforfl.bsky.social

Join USF Bulls for Angie students for a rally on Sun, Oct 4 at the Oval Theater. This event is happening one day before Florida’s voter registration deadline, and voter registration will be available on site. #AngieforFlorida #Tampa RSVP: Angie4us.com/USF

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Let’s get this done Florida.

David Jolly@davidjolly.bsky.social

Cook Political Report just shifted this race in our direction for the second time. They’re seeing what Floridians are seeing. We have the momentum and the message for a better Florida. Let’s go win.

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Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Can a Democratic Socialist win in deep-red Florida? @angieforfl.bsky.social thinks so. The candidate for US Senate joins our friends at @revealnews.org this week to talk about her grassroots campaign for Congress and how the DSA is reshaping the midterms. Listen here: https://tinyurl.com/2dtcnstt

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LFG Florida Dems and independents! Let’s take our state back now.

David Jolly@davidjolly.bsky.social

BIG NEWS: Another new poll has us leading 48% to 46%. Be a part of history. Share the word, make a plan to vote, and let's get this done!

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Elon doesn’t want you to see this.

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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This is huge! 👇

David Jolly@davidjolly.bsky.social

HUGE NEWS. The Florida Governor's race was just moved in our direction once again. We're going to win this race. Help us get there. Go to davidjolly.com

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#RaysUp

WUSF@wusf.org

The Hillsborough County Commission voted 5-2 on Friday in favor of a new stadium and mixed-use development for the Tampa Bay Rays on Hillsborough College property in Tampa. It follows approval by the Tampa City Council a day earlier. Read more: www.wusf.org/politics-iss...

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David Jolly@davidjolly.bsky.social

The Hope Florida grand jury identified serious unanswered questions and a failure to cooperate that kept investigators from getting the full truth. Floridians deserve answers. As Governor, I will reopen the investigation, pursue the facts, and hold anyone who broke the law accountable.

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The fuckers have hit the mainstream media. This is why TackyO (pictured below) did not run for Governor as was rumored for the last three years.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration diverted $10 million in Florida taxpayer money to a charity tied to his wife, a grand jury found. The transactions amounted to misuse of public funds as “part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the jury said. nyti.ms/3SjdBXA

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Catherine Rampell
@crampell.bsky.social

"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...

cbsnews.comGrand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope FloridaA Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.

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Odie Hugh Manatee
@odiehughmanatee.bsky.social

Leave it to Australia to send a real reporter to America because ours suck ass. Good job, mates!

Raw Story@rawstory.com

An Aussie TMZ reporter confronted Sen. Rick Scott outside a Senate hearing Thursday, challenging him to explain how punishing someone for using the Fifth Amendment could be constitutional. Scott himself invoked the Fifth 75 times during the largest Medicare fraud investigation in American history.

bit.lyAustralian reporter lays into fleeing Rick Scott over unconstitutional 'witch hunt'An Australian TMZ reporter confronted Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) outside a Senate hearing Thursday, challenging him to explain how punishing someone for using the Fifth Amendment could be constitutional.The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had just voted 8-5 along party lines ...