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"This is close to an extinction level event for Republicans."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a stark assessment of the GOP's devastating midterm losses across the country, but points to Florida as the major exception.
"In January, when everyone in office leaves, who were either term limited or got voted out of the ten largest states in this union, only one state will have Republican control of their state, the state of Florida."
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Texas has been the most significant Republican state this century. A Democrat sweep of statewide races — and possible capture of the Legislature — takes away one of the anchors of the modern GOP.
A huge loss.
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Today I issued an Executive Order designating “Seminole Wind” by John Anderson as the official anthem of Florida.
I have also directed the @FLSecofState to erect historic markers in the City of Apopka depicting John Anderson’s contribution to Florida’s heritage.
In addition, I have tasked @FLDEPNews to work with the @SJRWMD to designate wildlife drive and trail system within Lake Apopka North Shore as the John Anderson Wildlife Drive and Trail System.
Joseph Neville retweeted
Friends, in just two days, Christians were murdered on two continents.
On Friday, gunmen opened fire on a funeral at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Karak, Jordan, and killed nine people. On Saturday, armed men attacked Orthodox churches and homes in Oromia, Ethiopia, and killed more than forty.
These are not statistics. They are our brothers and sisters, members of the mystical Body of Christ. When Saul set out to destroy the Church, the risen Jesus asked him, “Why are you persecuting me?” The Lord is still being persecuted in these victims of anti-Christian violence.
Christianity is by far the most persecuted religion in the world today. Those of us who worship in comfort have to ask what the deaths of these martyrs demand of us. At the very least, they demand that we pray for them, learn their names, press our leaders to act, and refuse to look away.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
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WOOOOOOOO
HOLY SHIT
Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.
The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.
Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FITF Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election. Both testified that the FITF was not involved in the Hunter Biden investigations. Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony.
Floris is also on record privately claiming to be “running a shadow government” during the 2020 election in her role on the FITF.
Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law.
The FBI has already dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad that engaged in political weaponization targeting their opponents, including President Trump.
Thanks to @TheJusticeDept @FBIKansasCity and @USAttyPirro.
-DKP🇺🇸
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BREAKING: A judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading consumers about their data privacy. cbsn.ws/4z27Nlh
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#Broncos legend Aqib Talib responds to Ryan Fitzpatrick's tirade against Bo Nix, repeatedly telling Fitzpatrick he "sucks" while pulling the reciepts on his career 💀
“You are disrespectful to the quarterback position ’cause you suck. Period. ... We’re talking about a guy [Fitzpatrick] who played for nine different teams in 17 years. ’Cause ain’t nobody want his ass."
"We’re talking about a guy who only played for a team for more than two years once. That’s Buffalo. And his record as a starter in Buffalo was 19-35. That’s f*cking suck."
"A guy who played 17 years, 147 starts, and never sniffed a playoff game. He never touched the playoffs ever. That’s disrespectful to the quarterback position."
"You suck. You suck, bro."
"We’re talking about a guy who got 169 interceptions, more interceptions than he has starts. How can a quarterback of his caliber talk about what is disrespectful to the quarterback position?"
"Nobody’s worried about what Fitzpatrick said. Nobody was worried about playing against you. You suck.”
(via @_gridironpod)
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All 8 Flock cameras in Winona, MN were cut down and hauled away in a single night. Public response?
Total solidarity—comments like “the cameras tore themselves down,” “whoever did it was fishing with me,” or “they were at Bible study.”
These are automated license plate readers that photograph every passing vehicle, extract plate/make/model/color/stickers into a searchable database shared across agencies.
Winona PD later decided not to replace them, citing eroded community trust over surveillance. Message received.
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The Flock saga is reaching truly chilling levels: when an Illinois college tried to cancel its contract and the company refused to take down its cameras, the college covered them. Then workers in unmarked vehicles repeatedly removed the coverings.
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JUST IN: House Speaker Mike Johnson announces plans to advance legislation restricting federal use of Flock surveillance cameras.
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A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause. wapo.st/47i84o5
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🇺🇸 A Florida woman used Claude like a private diary and is now facing a felony charge after Anthropic reported one of her entries to the police.
According to an arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller wrote that she planned to “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff's Office, near Fort Myers.
Claude’s safety systems flagged the message, a human reviewer looked at it, and Anthropic decided the threat was serious enough to report to law enforcement.
She was detained and charged with making a written threat of violence, a second-degree felony in Florida.
The law requires the threat to be made somewhere another person could see it, which a chatbot with human reviewers apparently qualifies as.
Anthropic says it may share user information in emergencies when it believes that's needed to prevent death or serious injury.
AI companies are under a lot of pressure on this right now.
British Columbia is suing OpenAI after it flagged a mass shooter's conversations about gun violence but never alerted police.
So, useful reminder: an AI chatbot may feel like a private conversation, but it is definitely not the diary under your mattress.
Source: WINK, TechSpot / Writer: Julie
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It’s AWESOME to hear the FTC is going to treat healthcare the same as every other industry!!! Prices up front!!
WATCH: @AFergusonFTC lays out how the @FTC will enforce maximum price transparency to protect patients nationwide.
“Healthcare providers must disclose their prices to consumers and must do so starting today. If they do not, then the FTC will take them to court... We will not rest until pricing transparency in healthcare is the universal norm.”
Thank you, Chairman Ferguson and the FTC, for fighting to deliver real, upfront prices for Americans!
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🚨BREAKING: Federal judge rules Flock's camera network violates 4th Amendment rights, accusing the company of building an "indiscriminate mass surveillance" network.
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NEW: A Federal judge just ruled that a warrantless Flock/ALPR search violated a woman's 4th Amendment rights!
"Why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the time?"
"Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society, and it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts"
Judge Sara Hill (N.D. Oklahoma) notes other courts, including in Oklahoma, ruled the other way on Flock searches. She argues that a decision from 1983 shouldn't govern 2026 networks of what she calls "indiscriminate mass surveillance."
"This Court is now faced with technology that appears to be approaching the dragnet type law enforcement practice Mr. Knotts warned of."
Setting up for an interesting fight in circuit court if the government appeals.
Story by @jason_koebler
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Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California"
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BREAKING: 3 New York police dispatchers suspended after allegedly using Flock cameras to secretly track another employee’s vehicle for months.
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He makes an interesting argument that Flock cameras violate the 2nd Amendment because they track people going to gun stores, gun ranges, and so they enable the Federal government (we know they have access to Flock data) to make a database of gun owners.
As we know, if the government is ever going to attempt a gun grab, they are going to need a gun owners database.
So, does the 2nd Amendment prohibit the government from making a database of gun owners?
I am not a Constitutional scholar, but I found there are laws that restrict building such a database, and that the Supreme Court has never reviewed whether such a database violates the Constitution.
On whether it is constitutional, some argue that even the Supreme Court is not the final decider of what is or is not Constitutional, since the government's power comes from the people.
Popular constitutionalism holds that the people, through elections, juries, protest, and ordinary politics, also interpret the Constitution, and that political means can contest and eventually overturn Court decisions.
So keep that in mind, too.