Governor DeSantis silence on Florida’s ties to Russia are in stark contrast to other GOPers around the country. While many GOP Governors across the country review their own state’s investments in Russian companies in wake of Russia’s naked aggression in Ukraine, DeSantis remains silent. It’s incredibly significant given DeSantis leads a state that has been […]
I have a long history of opposing western intervention and US imperialism while supporting liberation movements across the globe. Therefore, I have been stunned by that so many vocal people in the United States and United Kingdom who associate with the progressive ideology have reflexively either taken Russia’s side in the conflict, or have joined […]
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine to reset the boundaries of a New Cold War. He will use the control of Ukraine to threaten and destabilize Eastern Europe the way he has undermined Ukraine since 2014. He is doing this because he believes Russia is vulnerable to a NATO invasion across the flat European landmass, which includes […]
Miami plays in the NCAA Elite Eight today vs Kansas. It’s a remarkable achievement given Miami has never gotten this far in the NCAA Tournament despite having at least a half dozen teams (if not more) in the last 25 years on paper better than this one. Miami has won both the Big East and […]
JetBlue is cutting the following routes for the summer, taking an ax to their Fort Lauderdale hub: Fort Lauderdale-Cartagena/Chicago-O’Hare/Cleveland/Grand Cayman/Port-of-Spain/Portland (OR)/Providenciales/Seattle-Tacoma/St Maarten West Palm Beach-Los Angeles also being cut for the summer. Southwest is bumping Fort Lauderdale-Havana nonstop back to THREE TIMES daily in the summer. A lot of empty planes going to be making […]
Last fall, I repeatedly complained that Governor DeSantis avoided congratulating the NCAA Women’s Soccer National Champions, Florida State Seminoles while he was busy tweeting about (boys) little league baseball, American football and other sports going on in Florida (in-between tweets about Florida businesses and attacking Covid regulations, etc, etc). It should be noted FSU has […]
The State of Florida, as discussed repeatedly on this site has invested more than $300 million in public money in Russian companies. These include energy conglomerates, oil producers, and banks with direct ties to high-ranking Russian oligarchs. These ties extend to government officials who are involved in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. As I have […]
Slavery created an economic system that wasn’t long-term beneficial to the American south. We discuss on this week’s Florida History Podcast, how the system of slavery in the south kept the economy of the region down as a lead in to discuss the 1740 Siege of St Augustine and the War of Jenkins Ear which […]
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