Diane Roberts, formerly BadDebutante on the twixxy thing
@dkroberts.bsky.social
Writer, political columnist, childless cat lady. Allergic to fascists.
Hey, Florida Republicans: your primary choices range from embarrassing to crazy. Well done. floridaphoenix.com/2026/08/03/f...
Florida's GOP primary for governor: Undignified. Unedifying. Flat-out godawful. • Florida Phoenix
I know y’all would probably rather not talk about the Republican candidates for governor of Florida. However, distasteful as it is, we must: The primary is Aug. 18. Now, this family-friendly publicati...
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Will we ever stop destroying our best things? Florida's government seems hell-bent on using our waters as one big toilet. floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/30/s...
Sweet samples shows sour truth: Sewage injected beneath Florida Key is bubbling back up • Florida Phoenix
There’s an old saying, one that’s often brought up when Florida men fire off their guns to celebrate New Year’s: What goes up must come down. Look out for those falling bullets, boys! But when it come...
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Florida surveillance state: we don't need no stinking constitution--https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/23/florida-wildlife-agency-targeted-its-critics-for-secret-surveillance/
Ron DeSantis is a loser once again. Free Speech is the winner: floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/20/a...
A victory for 'the right to tell people what they do not want to hear' • Florida Phoenix
“‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’” That’s how federal judge Mark Walker began his 2022 injunction blocking enforcement of Ron DeSantis’ “Stop Woke Act” in Fl...
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Florida treats its once-beautiful waters like a toilet. Craig Pittman shows how Ron DeSantis is full of it: floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/16/f...
Florida governor’s betrayal of clean water promise reaches peak with biosolids veto • Florida Phoenix
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been a huge fan of Bugs Bunny cartoons. I just love it when he does something outrageous and then turns to the camera and says, “Ain’t I a stinker?” It’s hilarious!...
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Department of EverythingTrumpTouchesDies: US loss to Belgium in the World Cup. Here in Foreign Parts, you could cut the Schadenfreude with a knife.
Will this one stick? University of Florida presidential follies. floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/06/p...
Power struggle delayed the University of Florida's presidential search • Florida Phoenix
As Oscar Wilde might have said (had he lived in Florida), “To lose one university president may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three in three years looks like carelessness.” Or arrogance with a ...
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Florida is dirty is pretty much every conceivable way: floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/25/l...
Lobbyists work for and against Florida governments dealing with PFAS pollution • Florida Phoenix
A couple of millennia ago, when I was in elementary school, the teachers dispatched us kids to sell chocolate bars to support our school. That’s how I learned one of the basic principles of salesmansh...
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North Florida! Coming to a back yard near you! floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/18/p...
Python captures by Florida scientists overshadowed by hoopla over annual amateur contest • Florida Phoenix
According to the Bible, the world’s first con man was a snake. It deceived Adam and Eve, leading them to commit the first sin, which is how we wound up living in this messed-up world we have now. I me...
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One good line in the Fla budget: floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/01/j...
Justice for the Groveland Four • Florida Phoenix
Florida has a budget. Finally. It is not, however, a thing of beauty. There’s $725,000 for an “education” company connected to former Florida Man and current ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee for mat...
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Sing it with me, children: "We don't need no ejucashun . . ." floridaphoenix.com/2026/05/28/r...
Red snapper fish fight highlights Florida governor’s disdain for science • Florida Phoenix
One of the great joys of living in Florida is our access to fresh seafood — shrimp, scallops, grouper, you name it. I grilled some on Memorial Day and it was delicious! The source of all this bounty, ...
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In the stopped-clock-right-twice-a-day dept, we have Byron Donalds: floridaphoenix.com/2026/05/21/g...
GOP frontrunner for governor says Florida needs growth management • Florida Phoenix
Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was in high school, there was a popular song, played on the radio and even featured in the movie “All That Jazz” called “Everything Old is New Again.” “Don’t ...
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Bottom of the pile again: teacher pay in Florida. floridaphoenix.com/2026/05/18/d...
Does Florida really value education? • Florida Phoenix
Florida: We’re Number One! Number One in low teacher pay, that is. We rank 50th out of 50 states. Average K-12 salaries in Florida hover around $56,000 a year. Lower than Oklahoma, lower than Mississ...
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#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous has been talking for months about cutting property taxes. The Lakeland Ledger ran the numbers & offers a look at how this would devastate Polk County & its 17 municipalities. www.theledger.com/story/news/p...
What will Polk County and the cities lose if property taxes are cut?
The primary proposal involves cutting all non-school property taxes on homesteaded properties. The Ledger ran the numbers for Polk County governments.
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Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee
the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.
Pema Levy@pemalevy.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
#Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuke plant authorized by the feds to operate for another 20 years or until it melts down, whichever comes first. www.tcpalm.com/story/news/l...
Florida nuclear power plant approved to operate this many more years
Florida Power & Light nuclear power plant's two reactors, in operation since 1976 and 1983, have been approved to operate for this many more years.
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Florida dipshit of the week (so far--it's only Wednesday)
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoClavicular, the social media influencer, was charged with a misdemeanor for unlawfully discharging a firearm in Florida, after he fired a dozen bullets at an alligator while livestreaming.
Florida's worst invasive species: Bro-Flakes. The Sentinel's Scott Maxwell nails it. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/06/f...
Maxwell: Florida bro-flakes. They’re angry, loud, entitled and convinced they’re victims
“Bro-flakes” are on the rise in Florida. They’re guys who are angry, loud, entitled and convinced the world is out to get White men. The governor and a candidate who wants to replace him have gone all...
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Can Democrats in Florida fight back against gerrymandering for white people? floridaphoenix.com/2026/05/04/f...
Florida Democrats have reason for hope, but could still mess this up • Florida Phoenix
Florida Democrats have gotten a bit giddy lately. Optimistic, even. These are unfamiliar emotions for them. Some election year polls are perking them up something fierce. Democrats — “Dixiecrats” as m...
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As if Lake Okeechobee needs another blow to its environment. floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/30/s...
Secretive push to build new Florida slaughterhouse endangers Lake O • Florida Phoenix
America has had a long love affair with cowboys. We picture them riding, roping, and ranching and just swoon. But we don’t like thinking about what happens to the cattle they’re tending, and how these...
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The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.
I had a small part in writing OUR LAND, Orban Wallace’s brilliant new film about land access in England, feat. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social et al. “We’ve found that [with access] people really do care for the land…We all belong to the land, it doesn’t belong to us.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film
Documentary makers seek to start ‘informed conversation’ in country where public is allowed on just 8% of land
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this is a great piece and i'm also somewhat annoyed because it means i have to rework the piece i was writing for next week www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...
Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement
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#Florida Constitution specifically forbids the kind of partisan gerrymandering that Gov. Ron DeSastrous & President Convicted Felon are trying to muscle through the Legislature during this week's special session. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... via @svdate.bsky.social
Florida’s Constitution Bans The Sort Of Map-Rigging Republicans Want To Do There
The focus of Trump’s mid-decade redistricting war now turns to Florida, where his demands face a constitutional ban on districts drawn to favor a party.
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📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.
Florida continues to cover itself in glory. This week's atrocity? Doing our best to destroy the Suwannee River. floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/23/w...
Way down upon this Florida river, pollution and water withdrawals spell double trouble • Florida Phoenix
If you’re an old canoe paddler like me, Florida offers a delightful assortment of rivers to navigate or just plain contemplate. They range from the laidback Blackwater in the Panhandle to the northwar...
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Sylvester Stallone "is an entitled asshole." Somehow he thinks he's entitled to remove normal people and their boats from the IntraCoastal, where they've always moored their boats and enjoyed the Florida waterway we all own. floridatrident.org/sylvester-st...
Sylvester Stallone played a leading role in booting boaters from Palm Beach. Now they are fighting back.
Of all the large lavish mansions lining the northern end of Palm Beach looking west on Lake Worth Lagoon, the one owned by Sylvester Stallone is
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