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This is still my favorite section of the Florida statutes
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Just saw this woman walking up to the Capitol… don’t know who she is but she warmed my heart ✊
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The State of Florida has no problem spending $12 million on flying dozens of migrants from TX to MA for a
@RonDeSantis
political stunt…
but $12 million a year to ensure thousands of Florida children have year-round health care coverage? Oh hell no — gotta sue the federal govt!
FL also says that complying with the new rule will cost the state about $1 million per month. More than 100K children in FL are enrolled in CHIP, and the state collects about $30M/year in premiums.
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Knowing that Florida has a black maternal mortality crisis is too woke and should be illegal according to DeSantis’ new Claremont Institute buddy Scott Yenor
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The state of Florida has dropped
nearly 500,000 children from Medicaid since May. Most are likely still eligible & had their health care coverage terminated over procedural/paperwork issues.
But don’t worry, FL Republicans are laser focused on protecting Confederate monuments!
Florida just released Medicaid enrollment data for January
Since unwinding began enrollment is ⬇️ by c. 1 million (979,090)
Of these 461,389 are children -- who are more likely to remain eligible
CHIP enrollment is only up 49,162 over same period
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"A toddler with cystic fibrosis living in Jacksonville, Fla. missed weeks of her medication after she and her mother were cut off from Medicaid"
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“But in Florida, unlike the nation as a whole… most people who died from Covid died after vaccines became available to all adults, not before.
As the governor’s political positions began to shift, so did his state’s death rate, for the worse.”
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"The $259 million in new federal funding available for Florida through Summer EBT would not only help feed over 2 million children, it would do so while directly boosting the revenue of Florida businesses and produce $466 million in economic impact to our state." -
@FLHouseDems
“Floridians have had to suffer through political stunt after political stunt by this governor while they’re trying to address their affordability crisis. Struggling families can’t eat political stunts."
#Florida
#Hunger
via
@FLPhoenixNews
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“That is the place Florida’s leaders are willing into existence one crushing legislative session after the next. For Floridians, it's a tragedy. For the politicians, it's mission accomplished.”
As usual, very well said by
@NateMonroeTU
Column | Nearly 180 new laws took effect this week. The upshot: Florida is hotter, meaner, and more dangerous
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This is literally a political advertisement created & disseminated using taxpayer money. It’s an outrageous attempt to use the ostensible authority & credibility of the state’s health care regulatory agency to persuade Floridians to vote against Amendment 4 — this cannot be legal
To combat the lies and disinformation surrounding Florida’s abortion laws,
@AHCA_FL
has launched an improved transparency page. The page further clarifies the laws and regulations for abortion in Florida.
To see more please visit our website:
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@JasonWeidaFL
@AHCA_FL
WOW…. You really think using state agency resources & websites for blatantly political messaging like this is appropriate? This ridiculously over the top, even for y’all
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The DeSantis admin spent taxpayer $ to create & promote political campaign materials smearing supporters of a citizen ballot initiative as “fear mongering liars” —ON A STATE REGULATORY WEBSITE CREATED TO HELP FLORIDIANS FIND SAFE NURSING HOMES & HOSPITALS — 60 days b4 an election
HOW TF IS THE STATE OF FLORIDA STILL BEING ALLOWED TO USE OUR TAX DOLLARS TO RUN POLITICAL ADS AGAINST A CITIZEN-LED BALLOT INITIATIVE
CAN A LAWYER EXPLAIN THIS TO ME
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This is WILD NONSENSE for a state agency to publish in the Florida Administrative Register.
Gov. DeSantis has put some deeply unserious people in charge of our government, & they’re using state regulatory authority to issue political propaganda. Truly pathetic & outrageous.
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Today FL’s Surgeon General recommended against anyone—including people over 65 most at risk of hospitalization/death—getting a COVID vaccination or booster. Kinda interesting sidenote — DeSantis admin made sure their propaganda outlet got the guidance b4 FL health care providers
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This guy is paid by Florida taxpayers to speak on behalf on the Governor
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This would be a lie in every state — but it’s uniquely blatant for the head of Florida DCF to say it, given that her own staff testified in federal court last month that they were wrongfully terminating the Medicaid coverage of pregnant woman & new moms after delivery
Governor Desantis finally gets a Medicaid unwinding question at a press conference this morning…. and he can’t answer at all…. immediately punts to DCF Secretary Harris who “answers” with absolutely absurd gaslighting — “no Floridians lost their health coverage inappropriately”
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🚨Florida is one of just 5 states (AK, FL, MT, NM, & RI) that
@CMSgov
has flagged for potential violations of federal requirements in ALL 3 key monitoring metrics during the Medicaid unwinding process, according to letters sent to each state on August 9 (based on May data)
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Rejecting Medicaid Expansion is public policy malpractice.
When you account for the current state spending by DCF & DOC that could be drawing down federal Medicaid $, it more than covers the required state match — Florida would actually SAVE approximately $200 million a year!
DeSantis-led Florida has rejected $11 billion in federal funding in recent years – Orlando Sentinel
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“Florida awards Deloitte $135M contract despite unemployment failures”
Deloitte systems have generated incorrect notices to Medicaid beneficiaries, sent their paperwork to wrong addresses, and been frozen for hours at a time. America's poorest residents pay the price.
via
@kffhealthnews
@rachanadpradhan
@samanthann
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22,372 people with developmental disabilities languish on Florida’s waitlist for home & community-based services — many for years while they & their family struggle to stave off institutionalization…
As Ron & Casey brag about a $15 billion budget surplus & smart fiscal policies
Today,
@GovRonDeSantis
signed the Framework for Freedom budget – laying a foundation for Florida’s success this year and for years to come.
His commitment to smart fiscal policies has resulted in an over $15 billion budget surplus and enables Florida to quickly help when
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Seems worth noting that there are 6,215 kids in Brevard County whose families are worried about them getting health care coverage, not a pony
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The thing about Medicaid expansion, when you boil it down, is that covers more Floridian’s while costing Florida less.
Medicaid expansion covers more & costs less.
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22,759 Floridians w/developmental disabilities, including autism, are on a state waitlist for home & community-based services.
This is entirely due to budget choices made by
@RonDeSantisFL
& the GOP legislature. Meanwhile Ron brags about a record budget surplus & Pushaw tweets👇🏻
Where was this concern for the disability community when autistic children were being forced to cover their faces in school 8 hours a day for months on end, regardless of how much suffering and setbacks this unscientific mandate caused for them?
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This is nonsense. Expanding Medicaid would save lives & grow our provider workforce — entirely with federal $.
Truth is right NOW Florida is failing Floridians with disabilities on a tragic level, while sitting on a surplus of $10 billion in state funds👇🏻
“We don’t want a group of able-bodied, working-age adults coming in and impacting health care for those kids and also people with disabilities.” 👏👏👏
@weida_jason
Also, great piece by
@Paragon_Inst
on Florida resisting Medicaid expansions:
#FlaPol
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Governor Desantis finally gets a Medicaid unwinding question at a press conference this morning…. and he can’t answer at all…. immediately punts to DCF Secretary Harris who “answers” with absolutely absurd gaslighting — “no Floridians lost their health coverage inappropriately”
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I find it extremely telling how silent supposedly sincere “aggressive defenders of children” (eg, Moms4Liberty, RPOF) are about the thousands of kids who are unnecessarily & inappropriately losing their health care coverage—despite remaining eligible for Medicaid—in FL right now
🚨Florida is one of just 5 states (AK, FL, MT, NM, & RI) that
@CMSgov
has flagged for potential violations of federal requirements in ALL 3 key monitoring metrics during the Medicaid unwinding process, according to letters sent to each state on August 9 (based on May data)
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Ok so even if u believe that DeSantis’s Surgeon General isn’t lying or manipulating data THIS time, he’s still saying:
A) yes, FL has the highest number of hospitalized patients infected w/COVID in the U.S.
B) FL state govt doesn’t care, in fact FL DOH thinks it’s a funny joke
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A summary of FL Govt:
Our insurance regulator’s response to Farmers bailing on hundreds of thousands of Floridia homeowners, just as hurricane season ramps up, is to accuse them of focusing on woke politics…
& then childishly “insult” the company w/a lame political one-liner
Patronis added that as Farmers was planning its exit "they were playing politics, and weren’t focused on running a successful company. I sincerely believe that with today’s actions, Farmers Insurance is well on its way to becoming the Bud Light of insurance."
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🤔
There has been more negative spending against
@RonDeSantis
than against Trump and Biden COMBINED. ($40 million!)
Follow the money. It's Ron DeSantis vs. the system. He's the candidate that the establishment fears the most.
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It’s not that the
@GovRonDeSantis
admin is bad at math. It’s that they are politically consumed hypocrites who’d rather let kids go hungry — while spewing empty rhetoric about “letting kids be kids” — than use federal $ from the Biden admin to help Florida families
Florida officials urged not to pass up millions in food assistance again
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Still nothing but silence from
@GovRonDeSantis
& his office about this incredible security failure…
@JeremyRedfernFL
@BryanDGriffin
Actually I’m wondering if there will be statement from Governor’s office acknowledging that the sensitive medical data, credit card info, & SSNs of millions of Floridians may have been hacked from the FL Department of Health system & could potentially be released online Friday.
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Im sure all the FL Republicans who lost their minds in 2019 over DACS adding a picture of Agriculture Commissioner
@NikkiFried
to gas pump inspection stickers will be absolutely outraged about this overt electioneering by
@AHCA_FL
This is literally a political advertisement created & disseminated using taxpayer money. It’s an outrageous attempt to use the ostensible authority & credibility of the state’s health care regulatory agency to persuade Floridians to vote against Amendment 4 — this cannot be legal
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Good thing Ron scheduled the HD35 special election for the day after the Iowa Caucuses to avoid potential embarrassment LOL
Vote for
@KeenForFL
tomorrow!
Ron DeSantis has scheduled special elections
HD118, a very likely GOP hold, will be held in December
But HD35, a Biden +4 seat that could flip democratic, is January 16
One day after the Iowa caucuses.
Why? So that a flip won’t look bad for Ron until post that.
#flapol
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….and now they’ve decimated the oak trees on the north side of the Florida Capitol
What the hell are y’all doing
@FloridaDMS
??!?!
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Just can’t wrap my head around the idea of someone looking around this wild world - brimming w/clear injustice & awfulness - & then deciding their “make the world better” passion project is gonna be making it harder for trans kids to feel safe & to make their parents worry more
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“Nonprofits have seen a huge uptick over the past 2 weeks in calls from panicked parents of FL kids with cancer, developmental disorders, & other serious conditions, said Miriam Harmatz of the Florida Health Justice Project. Most of these children are set to lose coverage Sunday”
Some of Florida’s sickest kids are losing Medicaid coverage on Easter Sunday. Story by
@CECatherman
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The absolute political perversion of the State of Florida’s public health agency — which will likely accelerate our state’s already high rate of avoidable deaths & hospitalizations — just to throw a Hail Mary as the clock runs out on the Governor’s flailing presidential campaign
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Happy 3,209th day
@AHCA_FL
! That’s how long DeSantis & the FL GOP have been refusing billions in federal money that’s available to provide health care to over 800,000 uninsured Floridians. Soon we will reach the 8-year anniversary of this ongoing disregard for Floridian’s health
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Pushaw ranting YESTERDAY:
“Everything is "public health" to the left except for actual health concerns that are harming & kiIIing Americans every day”…she cites toxic water & enviro hazards as examples
TONIGHT: DeSantis vetos a bill requiring health advisories re: toxic water
DeSantis also vetoed a bill that passed unanimously through the Fla. Leg. It would have required state health officials to issue advisories within 24 hours for high bacteria levels in waters and to close beaches if necessary.
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If they get rid of the grating on the outside of the Capitol windows, how will our raccoon friends check on us in our offices?
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The fact that parts of Miami are literally underwater on the night that
@JoseJavierJJR
loses his Senate seat is a bit too on the nose for me
#Eta
hit Sunday, but the flooding in Miami Beach is wayyy worse tonight. It’s knee-deep in places on my street and there’s so many cars stranded that some people are parking on the bridge
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Really appreciated my HDO fam gifting me this today (during a cleverly deceptive fake staff mtg) for my 5 year anniversary with the
@FLHouseDems
❤️ y’all
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And now we have an actual ad from our state’s main health care agency, promoting the political campaign propaganda they created and put on a state regulatory website last week….
Learn about Florida’s pregnancy care laws and efforts to provide transparent health care here:
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After several years of yall attacking reading and rainbows, it shouldn’t be shocking that
@levarburton
made a joke at your expense
American moms weep as a childhood favorite, Reading Rainbow, calls for physical attacks against us because we are protecting the innocence of our children.
@levarburton
, why have you sunk so low? Threatening physical violence against women?
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“The Desantis admin will not let the Biden admin’s attempts to protect kids get in our way of recklessly playing politics with the lives of the kids we desperately don’t want to serve”
Fixed it for you
Enjoyed speaking with the
@dcexaminer
about Florida’s recent lawsuit against
@HHSGov
and
@SecBecerra
.
Florida cares deeply about the kids in our CHIP program. We will always fight to make sure services are available to them, while protecting the integrity of the program and
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B4 anyone else tells me “Dems should stop pushing the transgender thing” ask urself:
- Who filed the bills & is picking this fight & why?
- U good w/Mom4Liberty, & child genitalia obsessed nuts dictating other parent’s decisions?
- Who else are u willing to throw under the bus?
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"We cannot conceive of any reasonable arguments against investing less than one-tenth of one percent (.076 percent) of the state’s budget surplus to secure an exponential return in federal funding dedicated to feeding Florida children."
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“Floridians pay the highest property insurance premiums in the nation…
DeSantis and state lawmakers have responded by making it harder to sue insurance companies and assigning $3 billion to help them withstand storm seasons…
But the legislation has failed to reduce premiums”
NEW: Farmers Insurance says it's leaving Florida's troubled market.
Tens of thousands of Floridians could lose coverage.
w/
@harrisalexc
:
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FL has 207 hospitals w/adult intensive care units (ICUs). 128 had 5 ICU beds or less available this afternoon.
Many are the flagship facilities of their hospital referral area.
26 had ZERO available, including UF Health Jax, Orlando Health Regional, Kendall Regional (Miami).
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FL House member office staff really deserve a big ol' pay raise. Honestly the Rep's need one too, it should be at least a little easier for people who aren't wealthy to serve.
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FL is 2nd in the nation in net child Medicaid enrollment losses (380K kids), while FL Healthy Kids (CHIP) enrollment has only grown by 41K — just 7% of the Medicaid coverage drop — & yet FL is the ONLY STATE refusing to adopt policies to prevent eligible kids from losing coverage
This week, the Agency for Health Care Administration highlighted efforts from this past year that provide robust, long-term support for Floridians’ health needs, including the state’s vulnerable populations. Read our release here:
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💯literally what an exchange with the DeSantis comms trolls is like
🟦 “I think we should expand Medicaid to 133% of the poverty line”
🟥 “YOURE A DEMENTED CHILD ABUSER”
🟦 “You seem pretty weird man”
🟥 “Oh, so much for our productive policy debate”
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Meanwhile, Florida is the ONLY STATE not to adopt any of dozens of strategies promoted by
@CMSGov
to make Medicaid renewals easier & prevent eligible kids from losing their health coverage. On average states have adopted 7 of the strategies; TN & IN are doing 15… Florida — ZERO
North Carolina just posted its Medicaid enrollment report for December and its very exciting to see the Medicaid expansion category with 272,937 people enrolled in the first month.👏
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It’s almost like no one is above the law… y’all sure you work on the Judiciary committee???
If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you.
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Everyone: This is a huge challenge, we’re gonna lose a ton of fed $, & must carefully plan so eligible people don’t lose coverage bc of bureaucracy
Florida: Maybe we should run to this cliff early & push poor kids, parents, and people w/disabilities off
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“… another potentially life-saving public health intervention would involve making fentanyl test strips legal and widely available.
“This went to the state legislature in Florida this past session, but did not pass.”
Florida has seen an “exponential rise” in overdoses linked to fentanyl, according to
@HealthyFla
. In Florida, and around the nation, doctors say the epidemic is now disproportionately affecting people of color.
@kerrsheridan
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“We are talking about the working poor. We’re talking about that single mom who’s holding down two jobs but neither job gives her afford her health insurance. She can’t afford it herself. She needs help. These are not giveaways. These are not handouts.“
A 'Nixon goes to China' moment? Conservative Republican pushes for state Medicaid expansion.
Reporting by
@ChristineSexton
#FlaPol
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I’d call re-naming a US Army base after a racist traitor an insane hill to die on if it wasn’t entirely on brand for this dipshit
DESANTIS: "I also look forward to, as President, restoring the name of FORT BRAGG to our great military base in Fayetteville, North Carolina... It's an iconic name and iconic base, and we're not gonna let political correctness run amok."
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Here’s a link to the report, which was promoted and linked to in a press release by the Governor’s office today
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This is absurd — FL Republicans have so drastically underfunded our Medicaid waiver program for people with developmental disabilities that the paltry amount they bothered to appropriate is too inadequate to fully spend!
Not enough providers who are willing & able to take the $
Florida leaves $800 million on the table for disability services, advocates say – Orlando Sentinel
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@mattgaetz
“Just days after Hurricane Ian ravaged his home state, Representative Matt Gaetz was one of many Republicans to vote against a stopgap measure that would continue funding the government and provide billions of dollars in extra disaster assistance.”
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I honest to god believe that was a damn near perfect speech delivered by a real-life good guy who tries to do the right thing — and I’m not ashamed to say it lol
it’s healthy to allow yourself to respond positively to good things & great moments!
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This is borderline insane drivel. But I gotta say — expanding KidCare eligibility was not “an action of Gov. DeSantis”. He signed it, but HB 121 (2023) was passed by Democratic Rep. Robin Bartleman, who tenaciously built on years of work by
@FLHouseDems
like Rep. Nick Duran..
The Biden administration, and its team of journalists, are playing politics with children’s health.
Instead of supporting Governor DeSantis’s actions to expand access to KidCare for over 68,000 uninsured children, Biden bureaucrats are standing in its way. Through their
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“FL is proud to lead the way in standing up for our children. As the world goes mad, FL represents a refuge of sanity & a citadel of normalcy.”
@GovRonDeSantis
IDK man seems insanely abnormal for a citadel of refuge to be so unconcerned about 420,000 children losing health care
Texas and Florida account for c 40% of child Medicaid losses natiowide in 2023.
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“We are a country of laws”*
*Does not apply to Florida’s state procurement, expenditure, transparency, or public records laws
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Tallahassee developers: let’s drop $500k on Bellamy to take out Matlow
Indian Head Acres: LOL
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Standing outside the Capitol, on a break from reading bills & amdments, can’t help but smh thinking:
“Man, apparently I could be getting paid twice as much (w/state employee insurance) to just tweet trash takes, decry reality, & scream nonsense at people I disagree with online”
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Worth remembering that 9 years ago — in a swan song for rational thought — the Florida Senate passed Medicaid Expansion by a vote of 33 - 3
The bill was sponsored by current Republican Congressman Aaron Bean
Medicaid expansion, which for more than a decade has been blocked by legislative leaders, passed the House Wednesday 98-20 in less than 15 minutes and now advances to the Senate.
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“The boy’s mother said the DeSantis administration is putting transgender children at risk.
‘I don’t think there’s a willingness to understand the decisions made by trans youth & their families…& the effect body dysphoria has on a daily basis & how ruinous it can be,’ she said”
Medical treatment for children with gender dysphoria is endorsed by
@AmerAcadPeds
among others, but has come under fire from
@GovRonDeSantis
govt. Now, some hospitals and pediatric clinics have stopped taking new patients or halted treatment.
@TB_Times
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I am so relieved, happy, and proud... and at least for tonight I think that’s enough
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@JeremyRedfernFL
@FLHouseDems
Just asked how much state money was currently being spent on these treatments y’all are trying to ban. Seems like a relevant data point, not sure why u are so dedicated to avoiding providing what should be public information about state expenditures
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8 years ago today… can’t believe how fast time has flown by!! I love you
@bewitchedmae
thanks for putting up with me 😘
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Just a bunch of straight-shooting swamp drainers, on a righteous mission to restore the integrity of— and eliminate politics from— our state’s educational institutions, amirite?
BREAKING: Days after
@FloridaAtlantic
surprised politicos by leaving
@VoteRandyFine
out of its finalists for president, the
@FLBOG
has effectively stopped the search and alleged irregularities.
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Welcome to the Florida House where rules only apply to Democrats
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“It’s not up to me how folks in places like Florida go about their business. But I have to tell you, I’m pretty glad we do it our way and not their way,” Walz said, to applause. “They’re banishing books from their schools. We’re banishing hunger from ours.”
Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' pick for vice president, not a fan of DeSantis' policies. What he said
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@Jake_Bernstein
@axios
Additional context: the press release centered on the “unveiling” of this Claremont Institute report, which makes some truly insane policy proposals… this is far beyond defunding DEI offices. Plz think about what these ppl are proposing & the fact that Desantis is promoting it
Knowing that Florida has a black maternal mortality crisis is too woke and should be illegal according to DeSantis’ new Claremont Institute buddy Scott Yenor
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Guess I don’t have big galaxy brain like
@BryanDGriffin
& his Ivy League educated boss, because banning clean energy generation from offshore wind power — while pushing oil drilling in the vulnerable Apalachicola Bay watershed — is insane to me & def doesn’t = “Florida protected”
We're bringing common sense back.
Media devastated; Florida protected.
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Keep these families in mind as everyone slaps each other on the back about a “successful” legislative session &
@GovRonDeSantis
brags about a $15 billion budget surplus
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My Mom just sent me this amazing pic of my Great-Grandfather Emil sitting on top of an NYC “fire engine”
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Been a few years since our last visit to Wrigley Field
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Cool, do this daily w/ all the geographic breakdowns like you used to & we can avoid all this confusion. If daily is hard, totally understand - and of it’s funding you need, maybe don’t withdraw your Legislative Budget Requests asking for more staff and $ under political pressure
The daily case counts for Florida currently posted on the CDC COVID Tracker are incorrect. The current listing states 28,317.
The accurate data are as follows:
Friday, August 6: 21,500
Saturday August 7: 19,567
Sunday, August 8: 15,319
The 3 day average: 18,795
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Viewpoint: Can we please, for the love of god, expand Medicaid coverage to uninsured Floridians stuck in the coverage gap before I have to start reading bills about robot doctor’s scope of practice?
Viewpoint: AI-generated clinical summaries and the necessity of transparent development of standards for their safe rollout.
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Is it a “flawed media narrative” that 257,901 kids have lost their Medicaid coverage since April
@FLDCFSecretary
&
@weida_jason
?
And since you “are proud of what we are doing in Florida”, why is Florida one of the only states that isn’t publishing detailed disenrollment data?
“Despite the flawed media narrative, Florida has set a strong example for how to conduct redetermination successfully in a large, prosperous state, & we will continue to do so in this and many other areas.” Read
@FLDCFSecretary
& Sec.
@weida_jason
’s Op-Ed:
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Comparing a lifesaving vaccine to OxyContin, as DeSantis just did while announcing his latest political stunt, is unbelievably irresponsible.
It’s also incredibly insensitive to the millions of Americans who’ve lost loved ones during the ongoing opioid epidemic & COVID pandemic
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“I just don’t understand why my mom can’t get health care,” JJ Holmes (
@JJHoImes
) said. “… I wish people could see how hard her life is and see how much pain she’s in. If they did, they’d understand how important this is.”
Sign the petition👇🏻
After years of opposition toward expanding Medicaid from Florida’s Republican leaders, a coalition is seeking to put it in the hands of voters on the 2026 ballot.
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“If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life,
And I had to start again with just my children and my wife.
I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today,
'Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.”
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Even the FLorida Legislature can’t bring my mood down today after this!
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Yesterday I got to witness the Honorable Ann Williams’ installation as Pastor of the Greater Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. She is a former deputy sheriff, the Mayor Pro-Tem of Chattahoochee, the spiritual heart & protector of the FL House Democratic Office, & an absolute icon
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Republican Party of Florida Chair
@EvanPower
is totally on board with hungry kids in Florida losing their health care coverage.
But if he just sees a picture of gay parents exercising their 1st Amendment political rights, Evan starts spewing bigoted BS about “protecting kids”
Oh look, Equality FL who wants to sexually indoctrinate your kindergartener is campaigning for Jeremy Rogers. Jeremy Rogers does not share our North Florida values
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AHCA staff: keep comments to the substance of the proposed rule & plz hold applause after each speaker
Speaker: ‘Transgenderism’ goes against God! We should be guided by the Bible! Gender-affirming care is criminal child abuse!
(Wild Applause)
AHCA: thank u next
Rinse, repeat
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