"many migrant laborers are leaving Florida almost as soon as they arrive, to the chagrin of retirees who are relying on them for repairs. “I know what the political climate is like in this state now,” said Rick Bautista. “But we need people.” #ian #Labor tampabay.com/hurricane/2022…

Taylor Lorenz Only one winner and it’s this

Stephen A. Smith might be right. Maybe it's wrong to judge Jerry Jones for something that happened 65 years ago. Maybe he was just "curious." How could anyone know? A thread.

Well, we finally agree on something.

#tesla text today - EV market cooling? “This is Tesla in Tampa. Exciting news! If you take delivery between now and December 31st, you will receive 10,000 miles of FREE Supercharging good for 2 years. In addition, you will receive a price adjustment on your order of $3750!”

@TwitterSupport Why?

#tesla #cars interesting 7days with Tampa dealer - “we don’t negotiate u r removed from list” to negotiating multiple x in a few days. Why? Interest rates? #twitterfallout ? #teslaStock ? #Carmarket crisis? And will these offers continue on 1/1 when new EV tax rebates start?

I grew up a racist in St. Petersburg. Here’s how I changed | Column tampabay.com/opinion/2023/0…

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I can’t answer this question for Bill Maher but YOU CAN A thread.

Important conversation on proper stewardship of City of Sarasota assets (specifically real estate) & allowing me to share my one mayoral death threat story - appropriate for Sarasota, made by an octogenarian. youtube.com/watch?v=qtQHgx…

Art is in the process, not the product. Capitalism has kept AI people from understanding this. I feel sad for them.

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Cuba’s Miguel Coyula wins #IDFA Envision competition with CHRONICLES OF THE ABSURD bit.ly/3V5rWox

BREAKING: Australia has passed a Bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $50,000 This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.

A Republican state representative in Florida wants to stop local communities around the state from doing anything at all to deal with WATER, WETLANDS AND POLLUTION flhouse.gov/Sections/Docum…

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

A downstream effect of college being so unaffordable is that private equity has bought up youth sports and turned it into a college scholarship hunger games that is ruining communities and putting parents in debt

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵