How Ron DeSantis Let Billionaires Destroy Florida

"Florida Governor and U.S. presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has raked in millions of dollars—and even a golf simulator—from wealthy corporate interests. At the same time, he’s stripped protections from renters, let insurance & utility companies hike rates, and cut taxes on the wealthy. Jason Garcia exposes his real record."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDNJXvQpe9g

#DeSantis #corruption #cronyism #payToPlay #politics #Florida #economy #homeOwners #renters

@w3c Sure, if by "everyone" you mean corporations. #PayToPlay

Aaaaand there it is. The Ontario conservatives have tarnished the KC honour immediately, and possibly irrevocably. #onpoli #PayToPlay #KingsCounsel #abpoli https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/07/07/more-than-a-dozen-kings-counsel-lawyers-donated-to-ontario-attorney-general-doug-downey.html

The king of dark money effectively controls the US supreme court now - The Guardian https://apple.news/AgroDzit2QW2cYA5puvEOeA #DarkMoney #corruption #PayToPlay #GOP #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited

Justice Alito took undisclosed fishing trip with GOP billionaire who later had cases before the court - ProPublica https://apple.news/APqAN1qWFT_qpFizC95yFhQ #GOP #corruption #PayToPlay #SupremeCourt #bribery

@berkeleylaw y but there is no process, procedure, mandate in place to force change to end #corruption #unethical #conduct #PaytoPlay #harlancrow #OpusDei #FederalisSociety control of #SCOTUS

RT @hays_ag
@NBCNews going with word of mouth without any science to substantiate astro-turf story for clicks
#PayToPlay model not working @cesarconde_

cc,@comcast @Saysdana https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1650148798172102658

Dumped #coso trolls have invaded it as they too are fleeing the #birdieapp Had an older woman (mid-50s or older) be downright nasty to me in a fist-shaking #getoffmylawn kinda way. About my teen getting a job. She insinuated he was a slacker who wouldn’t get off his phone, couldn’t read or write cursive (he can) or read an analog clock (he can). Just to be nasty. After #paytoplay, blocking VPNs, blocking #contentcreators for posting content and now this…I am #done #noregrets

#SocialMedia #Advertising #Subscriptions #PayToPlay: "In short, the limits of the advertising model have been hit. Facebook and Instagram recently announced Meta Verified, which also includes algorithm boosts for subscribers. These subscription models build on the long, slow decline of organic reach on social media in order to nudge people into paid advertising. This could be seen for example in Twitter’s normalisation of ‘promoting’ tweets tempting ordinary users who might be put off by the language of advertising to nonetheless consider paying for one off signal boosts. The problem is that it is ‘organic reach’, the capacity to be seen and heard without paying that drew many people to social media in the first place. The promise of participatory media was that we could have our say in this new public sphere. We are now being told “Thank you for using Web 2.0. Your free-trial period has ended!” as the media commentator Charlie Warzel recently put it, at precisely the moment when these platforms have become part of the institutional landscape rather than disruptive novelties."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/04/14/social-media-has-changed-will-academics-catch-up/

Chaos in blue bird invaded by impersonators just shows that their verification system is broken. One thing I believed #Mastodon did it right with rel="me" attribute.

#BlueCheck #failure #Chaos #impersonators #impersonations #verification #verifiedaccounts #verified #paytoplay #bluebird #birdsite

People who like having to #PayToPlay and #PayToVote will LOVE the changes #ElmoMush is making to the #BirdSite 👉 https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/03/28/elon-musk-says-only-verified-twitter-accounts-will-appear-in-for-you-feed-be-able-to-vote-in-polls.html

#Payola and #JimCrow are back!

@j Personally? No. For clients? They have been for years. #socialmedia #paytoplay

My thoughts on #DougFord

Rich people don't have stag & doe parties to raise money to pay for their wedding.

This was absolutely a front for #developers to pay off #Ford to open up the #Greenbelt and profit off destroying this protected land. The #IntegrityCommissioner either got it very wrong, or is in on the #PayToPlay grift too.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9477701/ford-stag-and-doe-integrity-commissioner/

#ONpoli #corruption #DoughforFord #FordNation #grift

I've spent the better part of a year trying to de-Google my life and work. It has proven nearly impossible in surprising ways. Especially difficult is decoupling from Google Calendar. Every other task or function I've found a suitable or better solution. #lifegoeson #arethesemeaningfulproblems #personalstand #paytoplay

A little glimpse behind the scenes of a photo shoot. This is what happens when the photographer (me) runs out of treats, but keeps taking pictures... ☹️ 😒

Indie was just disappointed in me, but I'm fairly certain Beau was plotting my demise. 😳

#ModelStrike #PayToPlay #OrSufferTheConsequences

#DogWalk #Dog #Dogs #Dogstodon #DogsOfMastodon #Pets #PetPhotography #Photography #Animals #MastoDogs #PetsOfMastodon #ThrowbackThursday #Throwback

118th & TX15th
She Knows How to Stay on Camera

Rep. Monica De La Cruz will proudly fall in-line next week in congress to crash the world economy by letting the debt ceiling fail unless social security cuts, food stamp cuts, Medicaid cuts and, defense cuts are made per the GOP.

Who knew Republicans would pull this by holding the economy hostage like Trump did for 35 days that ended in 2019?

This week beyond camera appearances:

1. No bills submitted on the planks of her platform 3.5 yr campaign run. https://www.monicaforcongress.us/

2. She did get appointed to the Financial cmte; she’ll be regulating the industries that donated $534,000.00+ to her campaign. #PayToPlay https://myrgv.com/featured/2023/01/12/de-la-cruz-selected-for-financial-services-committee/

And https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-republicans-financial-oversight-wall-street

3. She also voted for a house bill that would add over a billion U.S. national debt by eliminating 87,000 tax law, tax enforcement jobs over a ten year period. If enacted, the IRS funding clawback would just go on investigating Texas’s working poor of Texas. Texans have a median annual income of 45K which Monica now earns more than 4 times her constituents in her new tax bracket - WTG congresswoman! (It won’t pass the senate or the POTUS’s desk.)

https://myrgv.com/publications/the-monitor/2023/01/10/de-la-cruz-casts-first-vote-against-irs-funding-increase/

4. Sworn in

5. Voted for the new speaker 15 times.

6. Made sure to document everything on camera and glammed it up on tv.

7. Did not pay back any of that “135,000 communist monies” she and her ex took from the American taxpayers from the paycheck protection plan.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/22/monica-de-la-cruz-ppp-pandemic-loans/

Be sure to see her on break until Tuesday and she is “in district”.

Just a gentle reminder of this news flip-flopping leader our new congresswoman voted fifteen times. She was never going to have a backbone because McCarthy endorsed her failed campaign and ensured she had funding for her 2022 campaign.

She was won because of redistricting by the Tx GOP, low voter turnout and, party DEMs taking it for granted those who vote - will vote for DEMs just because there is a “D” after candidates’ names. Her district is mostly rural and spread thin with a huge helping of retirement age conservatives clinging to the good old days.

She has chosen to do most of her disinformation on her personal Facebook (FB) page so, the American people can be blocked from commenting. (FB See image, her campaign public relations guru posts comments to dissenting constituents.)

“GOP Leader McCarthy: Trump 'Bears Responsibility' For Violence, Won't Vote To Impeach."

NPR, 13 Jan. 2021.
#DemCastTX #TX15 #SoTx #RGV #118th
https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-effort-live-updates/2021/01/13/956452691/gop-leader-mccarthy-trump-bears-responsibility-for-violence-wont-vote-to-impeach

msnNOW: Police visit 1,000 homes of people watching online streams in piracy crackdown.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-visit-1000-homes-of-people-watching-online-streams-in-piracy-crackdown/ar-AA16bjde?li=BBnbfcL
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#PayToPlay

Why New York State Insists That the Penn Station Area Is ‘Blighted’ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/nyregion/nyc-penn-station-construction-project.html?smid=tw-share The great big government handout to #NYCrealestate #paytoplay #midtownwest #boondoggle #transit

It's a suburban sport and as such it's a profit center. Imagine if Clint Dempsey didn't have teammates' families to help with the cost of him playing on his travel team.

#MLS #NWSL #Diversity #PayToPlay

Why soccer is such a white sport in the United States

https://sports.yahoo.com/the-privilege-of-play-why-the-worlds-game-is-a-white-game-in-the-us-150024228.html

Gee I thought it was $8? Like I don’t want one even if it’s FREE. So I guess right now if I tweeted no one would see it. Muskrat will only get money from me from my cold, dead, hands.
#PayToPlay
#TwitterSucks