Category COVID-19

Florida Democrats decline and collapse vote-wise 1998-2020: A Twitter Space inspired by this past week’s Miami Herald piece

We’re doing a Twitter Space on Monday at 5:15 pm ET in reaction to this week’s outstanding Miami Herald piece on why national donors are hesitating to put more money into Florida after several cycles of striking out.

Florida’s post-vaccine Covid failure in comparison to other states. Dana Milbank asks how Does Ron DeSantis sleep at night? We’ve been wondering as well…

Governor DeSantis unwillingness to promote vaccines once it became politically inconvenient for him had deadly consequences for Floridians. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank broke down Governor DeSantis’ post-July 1st, 2021 Covid failures in a brilliant piece earlier this week. After vaccines became widely-available, Florida had a 153 deaths per 100,000 residents. This was more than […]

DeSantis Congressional map makes war on Tallahassee and Leon County

This past week, as I spoke to folks of importance in Tallahassee and Leon County Government, a reality dawned upon me. Governor Ron DeSantis congressional map proposal, an unprecedented foray into the reapportionment process for a Florida Governor, isn’t just about partisanship or race as had been claimed, but about something else – dismembering the […]

Audio (free access): On Joe Rogan and far left/right convergence on anti-authority

Dave Trotter and Kartik Krishnaiyer discuss the growing issue of support anti-authority and anti-expertise voices on both the far left and far right. This is highlighted by the Joe Rogan situation. This is the type of content we provide on TFS+ regularly.

Cuts escalating as travel flatlines due to Omicron

First the good news, Delta will add Destin/Fort Walton Beach-New York-LaGuardia nonstops in March, the same month United shuts down its service to the airport completely. Frontier is moving Chicago-O’Hare nonstops to Tampa over to Midway Airport and dropping O’Hare-Miami nonstops immediately and adding Midway-Fort Lauderdale in its place next winter. Breeze will be placing […]

Video: MLK Jr. in St Augustine – Andrew Young Crossing

Video: Shark Valley Alligator on trail

TFS+ : Voting rights or spending?

It’s unfortunately pretty clear with a very narrow Congressional majorities the Democrats cannot tie shoes and chew gum at the same time.  Over at TFS+ we analyze what the Congressional Dems priorities should be in 2022.

Chapel Trail Nature Center trail end

The end of the Chapel Trail Nature Center in Pembroke Pines.

Video: Shark Valley entrance alligator