MorningWalk 9.21.26 Listening to Jason Garcia, Seeking Rents podcast. Basket of deplorableness from Florida today includes US DHS IzG report on #GatorGulag & FL AG Uthmeier’s successful effort to do away with judicial waivers for teens seeking abortions. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Seeking Rents – The Podcast

Politics Podcast · Updated Weekly · "Rent-seeking" is a term in economics that describes when a corporation uses its political influence to twist tax laws and other public policy in its favor. Seeking...

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This is abhorrent. Jackie Kennedy is going to come back from the grave & haunt trump for what he’s done to her beautiful Rose Garden, White House & now this memorial to her husband. 😡

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes, Trump branding dispute, AP sources say.

THIS 👇 HERE.......

Trauma & America today. “This is the old moral grammar of individualism. Every person is treated as the sole author of their condition, even when institutions, families, poverty, racism, violence, or state action helped write the first chapters.” www.milwaukeeindependent.com/explainers/a...

How America’s refusal to understand childhood trauma turns public cruelty into future civic damage | Milwaukee Independent

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Why can’t we have leadership like this? Sane, calm & respectful of the moment. [sigh] America, do better.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2w ago

25 years ago, on a clear September morning, an otherwise ordinary day became one of history’s darkest. Through the darkness, we also saw the best of humanity.

More fallout from this wretched administration’s ill considered #WarOfChoice

Chris Nagano@charliesaito22.bsky.social · 2w ago

Unforeseen, but strategic consequence of demented Trump’s war w/Iran Houthi’s (=backed by Iran) now control Mokha on the Red Sea & thus control the Bab al-Mandab Strait Oil=~$100/barrel, expect it to go much higher Iranians in the driver’s seat of the World’s economy? www.bbc.com/news/article...

“This is a potentially profound consequence of the regulation” Couple pf takeaways: ☑️ Abortion bans have consequences for women’s health ☑️ This administration is gutting research into women’s health Women are second class citizens in the US 😡 www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregna...

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It's Worse in Abortion-Ban States.

'This is a potentially profound consequence of the regulation,' said one abortion policy expert

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Trump's "solution" to the child care crisis is to reward "normal" married stay-at-home parents.    And he'd pay for it by taking money from a program that overwhelmingly helps single, working mothers afford child care.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

The Trump administration is moving to allow married couples with a stay-at-home spouse to collect child care subsidies using funds from a federal program intended to assist working parents, according to people familiar with the plan. nyti.ms/3TiDA1A

#CaptainCalamity “The secretary of defense is a clear & present danger to the national security of the United States & the world.” Randy Manner, retired major general in the US national guard. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Captain calamity: Pete Hegseth under fire for ‘inept’ leadership of US military

The US defense secretary faces internal dissent and discord at the Pentagon, accused of focusing on culture war issues and his own political ambitions as the Iran war drags on

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#HOPEFlorida’s #CorruptionCrew make the NYT. I’m sure the Desantis are thrilled with Casey being the cover girl for the story 🤣 Gift read: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...

DeSantis Administration Misspent $10 Million, Grand Jury Says (Gift Article)

A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife received the money from a state Medicaid settlement and diverted it to political committees supporting a cause favored by the governor.

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NBC News report on condition of women in Afghanistan featuring work of poetry students in online workshops taught by Oxford professor, Kate McClanchy. The poetry of these young women is profound & speaks to the pain of living in world’s most regressive regime towards women. youtu.be/APSJd359eLM

Women and girls in Afghanistan defy Taliban-imposed laws to receive an education

YouTube video by NBC News

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Seniors need love too. Please someone go and give her a forever home. ❤️

For the Love of Missy@missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 3w ago

Super senior and rare orange female at the shelter near me. Someone please go adopt her. $150 chewy gift card for the luck adopter. Please share this. Please. Loudoun.gov/animals.

It’s remarkable how bumper stickers from one bad gop presidency can stay true 24 years later in another bad gop presidency. Wish voters would catch on. 🤔

Summary of #HOPEFlorida scandal makes clear just how loathsome this whole operation was & why it should deservedly sink the campaigns of Uthmeier & Moody. thebradentontimes.com/stories/hope...

Hope Florida Scandal: The stench of corruption could choke a horse - The Bradenton Times

The cloud hanging over the DeSantis administration's blatant diversion of taxpayer money meant to provide healthcare for impoverished children into Casey DeSantis' foundation was said to be the main ...

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"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...

Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.

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Desantis #CorruptionCrew #VoteBlue in November Time to clean their mess up.

2026: you’ve just officially moved into #WorstYearEver territory. Rest in Peace & Power Ms. Parton. Heaven’s choir is richer for our loss. www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/e...

Dolly Parton, queen of country music and humanitarian hero, dead at 80 | CNN

Dolly Parton, who rose from humble beginnings to the greatest heights of American music and became one of the country’s most philanthropic, unifying and beloved stars, has died. She was 80.

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In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️

The real cost of a #Measles outbreak. This is preventable with one simple vaccine. I’m not sure Florida would be as transparent as Colorado given we have #AntiScience #AntiVaxxers at the helm. Gift read: wapo.st/3UaEz4c

Fighting measles is expensive. See what it cost to contain 10 cases.

A week-by-week breakdown of why the public health response to outbreaks is so costly.

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Bill Bramhall/New York Daily News Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026.

OMFG! 11 Food Safety recalls in 3 weeks! Never should have fired those 2500 Food Safety Inspectors. www.newsweek.com/dip-recall-u...

Thousands of dips recalled as FDA issues most severe risk warning

The FDA has upgraded an earlier recall for Whole Foods-issued guacamole and dips to its highest risk level.

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The FACTS speak for themselves!

It’s a beautiful morning! #AngieNixonForSenate #DavidJollyForGovernor Autumn Garrick & Kristine Kraus returning to Seminole County School Board with Holton Mills joining them. And in Sanford, Christine Hollerbach stepping up as Sanford Mayor.

Republican voters in Florida’s House District 7 decided to take action against sleazy Rep Cory Mills by voting him out while the House gop sit on their hands & do nothing.

The many broken promises of this trump administration. And they didn’t even include the biggest one about no more forever foreign wars. (Gift read) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Trump’s Economic Record Doesn’t Come Close to His Campaign Promises (Gift Article)

The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.

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From today’s WaPo, as school is starting, the impact of declining vaccinations for kindergarteners show how vulnerable children are to deadly PREVENTABLE diseases. And why in this day & age are some states not bothering to collect vaccination data? 🤦🏻

Maybe starting a war of choice that disrupts the global economy & giving tax breaks to billionaires wasn’t the best way forward. The mythology that republicans are better at managing the economy has been repeatedly disproven. #VoteBlue

Marketplace@marketplace.org · last mo.

For the first time since World War II, the country’s debt is actually larger than the economy itself. Driven by surging federal spending, the government has already borrowed almost $2 trillion in fiscal year 2026 and is on track to borrow even more before the year is over.

While Americans struggle with #Affordability in almost every aspect of life (food, transportation, health care & more), this administration spends taxpayer money like there’s nothing to stop them (b/c Congress is silent) #VoteBlueinNovember

Tina Smith@smith.senate.gov · last mo.

The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

Just in time for the start of the school year, which started this week in Florida. Don’t expect any info sharing on this by our useless state surgeon general. 😷 up!

The Sick Times@thesicktimes.org · last mo.

A summer COVID-19 wave is still rising in the U.S., according to data through late July. Increases in disease spread are most pronounced in the South and West, but all regions have growing outbreaks. thesicktimes.org/2026/08/11/n...

I stand with the pediatricians. www.aap.org/en/news-room...