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Florida, which recklessly removed fluoride from public water exactly one year ago and once hosted the notorious money-wasting ICE gulag "Alligator Alcatraz," suffers appalling annual firearm casualties. In an average year 3,172 people die by guns; 63% are suicides (1,995). These are wartime casualty figures.

The Sunshine State, which recently named an airport after the morbidly obese Dummkopf Trumpf, has executed twelve death row inmates this year, more than all other US states combined.

Recently Roman Catholic-raised Gov Ron DeSatan (R) -- a double Ivy League graduate -- put to death two prisoners on the same day via lethal cocktail ("the stainless steel ride."). Quite an historic accomplishment, reminiscent of poor Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian Catholics that were both involuntarily seated in Thomas Edison's rocking chair in a Massachusetts prison on 23 Aug 1927.

Butterfield Blues Band, "Two Trains Running":

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And since it's also Sunday, you heathens (thx, Corky):

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Velvet Underground, "Sunday Morning."

Believe all women!!!! Until it doesn't match the DNC model.
#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-01 11:46 PM

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When asked about the allegations for a July 28 The New York Times article, Moreno's spokesperson said, "Senator Moreno's top priority is the safety and well-being of his daughter and granddaughter. While he will not litigate these matters in the media or respond to baseless public attacks, he will do whatever it takes to ensure a just outcome for his family."

Signorile noted that Moreno's "cowardly" lack of public support for his own daughter's claims might be to avoid hurting Miller's re-election chances, especially as recent polling has seen Miller's district trend from Republican-leaning to Democratic since the president's 2024 re-election.

However, Signorile then pointed out that court filings related to Miller's ex-wife seeking of a restraining order against him included a text message threat that Miller made to Bernie Moreno.

"I'm sick of this, you know I never hurt our daughter. Take this however you want, everyone is going to get to know you better than your wife does," Miller wrote to Bernie Moreno in the text. "Enjoy the ride brother, I wouldn't have to do this if you could keep your lying daughter under control."

While the text doesn't clearly express Miller's exact meaning, Signorile pointed out that a March 28, 2024 Associated Press report found a profile seeking "1-on-1" sexual encounters with "young guys" on the Adult Friend Finder website; the profile was created using Moreno's work email address.

"Hi, looking for young guys to have fun with while traveling," the profile said, alongside its username, "nardo19672," which seemingly referenced Moreno's full first name, Bernardo, and his birth year and month. The profile also listed his full date of birth but didn't include a photo. Geolocation data showed that it was set up from an internet address in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where Moreno's parents owned a home in 2008. The profile reportedly stayed unused six hours after it was created over 15 years ago, but its data became accessible through a massive website leak in 2016.
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Portishead - Western Eyes Bizarre Festival 1998 in Koln

This is an alternate version. Does anyone know the song sampled at the very end? Sinatra?

"I feel so cold on hookers and gin.." "..this mess we're in."

How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air" (July 2020)
www.vanityfair.com

... On March 31, three weeks after the World Health Organization designated the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, a DHL truck rattled up to the gray stone embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, D.C., delivering precious cargo: 1 million Chinese-made diagnostic tests for COVID-19, ordered at the behest of the Trump administration.

Normally, federal government purchases come with detailed contracts, replete with acronyms and identifying codes. They require sign-off from an authorized contract officer and are typically made public in a U.S. government procurement database, under a system intended as a hedge against waste, fraud, and abuse.

This purchase did not appear in any government database. Nor was there any contract officer involved. Instead, it was documented in an invoice obtained by Vanity Fair, from a company, Cogna Technology Solutions (its own name misspelled as "Tecnology" on the bill), which noted a total order of 3.5 million tests for an amount owed of $52 million. The "client name" simply noted "WH." ...

Though Kushner's outsized role has been widely reported, the procurement of Chinese-made test kits is being disclosed here for the first time. So is an even more extraordinary effort that Kushner oversaw: a secret project to devise a comprehensive plan that would have massively ramped up and coordinated testing for COVID-19 at the federal level. ...

Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House's official coronavirus task force.

Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner's team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. "The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy," said the expert.

That logic may have swayed Kushner. "It was very clear that Jared was ultimately the decision maker as to what [plan] was going to come out," the expert said. ...

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Kushner predicts much of the country will be 'back to normal' in June (April 2020)
thehill.com

... White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on Wednesday expressed optimism that much of the country could be "back to normal" by June as several states prepare to lift restrictions meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

"I think what you'll see in May as the states are reopening now is May will be a transition month, you'll see a lot of states starting to phase in the different reopening based on the safety guidelines that President Trump outlined on April 19," Kushner said on "Fox & Friends."

"I think you'll see by June that a lot of the country should be back to normal, and the hope is that by July the country's really rocking again," the president's son-in-law continued.

The ambitious timeline could be politically risky given that cases in the U.S. are still climbing and health experts have cautioned that parts of the country will have to alternate between imposing strict social distancing measures and easing them back until there's a vaccine in order to avoid new outbreaks. ...



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