Marina Saprova left Chechnya when the Russians invaded in 1994 and moved to Ukraine. In 2014 the Russians invaded her city in Ukraine, so she moved again. Now the Russians are invading her new home and she was asked by a reporter why she didn’t find another place to live. She replied, “I’m tired. Tired […]
By Neil Blackmon I wanted to share some thoughts on John Lewis, love, the power of the vote, and grief on this, the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the 2nd since we lost John Lewis. Over the weekend, looking at redistricting maps and thinking of prospective Voting Rights Act arguments for a VRA challenge to a […]
The combination of sanctions against Russia and increased oil prices both stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine is causing ripples throughout the aviation world. Florida is being impacted as expected. First off, Aeroflot obviously will no longer serve Miami. The last Miami-Moscow nonstop was flown last weekend. Frontier will not fly Orlando-Fort Myers/Milwaukee/Minneapolis-St Paul/Pittsburgh/Sioux […]
As my Twitter feed indicates, while slamming other Florida Republicans recently, I’ve been pretty soft on Marco Rubio because I think, unlike the rest of the party of DeSantis and Trump here in Florida, he’s been strong in condemning Russia and Putin (we will try to have more on the party of DeSantis’ Russian love […]
Falling Waters (near Chipley in Washington County) waterfall from below without narration
Many years ago, Republicans and FOX News began a minor but very noticeable shift, calling Democrats instead “Democrat,” or the “Democrat Party.” It was intentional as many internal memos revealed to end implications that the Democratic Party was in fact, democratic. Well today we have a “Republican” Party that disdains republicanism. The Trump years have […]
Senator Rick Scott’s irrelevance is almost complete. Shunned by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and increasingly anonymous in a Florida GOP led by Ron DeSantis, Scott is on the margins. DeSantis ability to acquire and use power in a fashion Scott was incapable of even conceiving let alone executing while he was Governor coupled with […]
In our continuing look at Mission San Luis de Apalachee a short video of the central square/plaza.
Our Governor is proving once again that despite being Democratically elected himself (albeit with plurality not a majority) he has contempt for western leaders of all ideological stripes that represent democracies and republics. Wednesday, Governor DeSantis added the US’ oldest ally, France to his checklist of nations that are western democracies he attacks. France it […]
Governor Ron DeSantis is now crossing lines that NEVER should be crossed in American politics. While Democrats loved to pick on Donald Trump and say he was racist, I am not sure he ever did something this blatant MONTHS after the history was pointed out. Usually Trump would do something outrageous, be called out and […]
The Florida Squeeze 