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Punk, you've given me another explanation for Florida's condition: bsky.app/profile/jjde...

Folks, we finally know why Florida is so batshit:

Punk, perhaps you should hide that Dezeen article, and any others you find on that site, from your spouse.

Authors like Sinclair Lewis (read while in high school) and Carl Sagan, and Bernard Cornwell (his Sharpe series), slumber in the totes. Anyone looking for ideas for housing books in the home should take a look at some of the homes which have been featured in DEZEEN: www.dezeen.com/2023/04/01/b...

There's another shelf for additional Hiaasen books, including duplicates, which I sometimes give to others. One thing about children's books: adults would gain something from reading some of them. I first read ANNE OF GREEN GABLES as an adult. Same with Roald Dahl, and Frank Cottrell Boyce.

my grandparents on my mother's side retired to Florida from Cleveland, FOR ONE MONTH, and then continued on, to settle in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They escaped the flatlander's zoo Florida has become.

Most of my books are in a storage area in totes. My bookshelves remain crammed largely with children's books, from the days when I read aloud to my grandchildren. There is, however, a solid shelf of comic novels by Carl Hiaasen, set in Florida, which not only amuse me, but remind me that MORE

#LINK_TO_RACHEL_MADDOW_SHOW JULY 27, 2026 SOMETIMES, THE BILL COMES DUE, FOR MISTAKES AND BLUNDERS BY THE TRUMP REGIME SOMETIMES, PEOPLE ORGANIZE AND BEAT THEM www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6qF...

Some of the arrests have occurred quietly, while others have happened as angry fellow passengers filmed. In December, we reported that ICE thugs were arresting people with deportation orders at airports with the help of information provided by airlines to T.S.A. Now, they've gone much further.

The Trump regime has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans. Immigration agents in plain clothes have grabbed targets at check-in counters and arrival gates, with enforcement actions at airports in recent weeks.

#GIFT_ARTICLE [BAD NEWS FOR EVERYONE TRYING TO DO THINGS LEGALLY] ICE NOW TAKING MASS INCARCERATION-DEPORTATION INTO AIRPORTS Thugs arresting spouses, tech workers and others, including those with active applications to stay. By Hamed Aleaziz and Miriam Jordan www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

The Legislature often has to initiate a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ALLOWING THEM TO PASS A LAW. It’s an astonishingly backward system, and it’s why Alabama has the longest Constitution on the planet, with an absurd 977 amendments.

Often, that means CREATING REVENUE FROM FEES AND FINES. In most of the U.S., if residents want to raise taxes to pay for a library or sewage system, they are free to impose a new tax on themselves. NOT ALABAMA. Cities and counties do not have home rule, so they have to go through the Legislature

As a result, Alabama has one of the cruelest tax systems in the country. Taxes on most property are exceptionally low. In 2019, property taxes accounted for JUST 7 PERCENT of state and local revenue, the lowest among the states. All levels of government look for money anywhere they can get it.

While almost every state levies fines and fees that fall disproportionately on the bottom rung of the income ladder, the situation in Alabama is far more dramatic, thanks to its Constitution. Over a century ago, wealthy landowners and businessmen rewrote the Constitution to cap taxes permanently.

In states like Alabama, almost every interaction a person has with the justice system comes with a financial cost. For poor people, this system is a trap, sucking them into a cycle of sometimes unpayable debt that constrains their lives and almost guarantees financial hardship.

#GIFT_COLUMN [WHO'S READY FOR A HORROR STORY FROM 2022? THIS ONE WILL MAKE YOU SO GLAD YOU DON'T LIVE IN ALABAMA] ALABAMA TAKES FROM THE POOR AND GIVES TO THE RICH If it was punishing to walk in summer heat in 2022, it must be hell now By Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/o...

1 Do interval training 2 Run errands with a friend 3 Eat fermented foods 4 Lift weights 5 Include a little protein in every meal 6 Take the stairs 7 Get the shingles vaccine 8 Make a list of your parents’ chronic health conditions 9 Go to bed at the same time