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Has Joe Ricketts abandoned Richard Corcoran's New College grift?
Word has it the fake college is canceling its online joint venture with "Ricketts Great Books College" because of lack of student interest; and the…
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Boomer Armageddon, unresolvable vibes, and the American civil wars (real and fake)
Donald Trump will be the last ever Boomer candidate for president, which seems deeply appropriate for this moment in American history - of which many…
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Bernnie Brandt: a constructive, active, young voice vying for the Polk County School Board
I think Bernnie is worthy of the District 1 seat I held, which incumbent William Allen seems to treat as a token of status and stepping stone to some…
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Florida Poly pilfers New College's woke provost; will it drop "Florida" and "Poly" next?
What happens now that Poly has a woke liberal arts academic leader and Richard Corcoran has nobody at New College who can do basic academic…
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Make thirsty Polk candidates own their gross, cynical, out-of-county PAC buddies
A Sarasota-area "friend" of the infamous Bridget Ziegler is spending PAC funds that don't seem to exist on Polk County election texts for Becky Troutman…
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"It's always 1933 and 1940 and 1942 and 2024:" a perhaps timely Billy book excerpt
Here's a July 4th chapter from "A man or a mother," my book-in-progress about 1940s Florida's "Cross Creek" invasion of privacy lawsuit against famed…
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Bound, part 1: American representative democracy rejects the Dred Scott opinion for the first time
Donald Trump put Roger Taney on the ballot; and for the first time, an American political majority clearly chose to bind his power. Will the Supreme…
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A July 4th week chat with my J6 neighbor
My neighbor facing federal J6 charges has an upside down flag hanging from his house. I took a picture. We had a discussion. It was gross; but I also…
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June 2024

State ethics officials to investigate Jefferson County's charter-backed superintendent
The Ethics Commission has found my complaint against Eydie Tricquet sufficient for investigation. It's one of the first investigations in the new…
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An untouchable lib opts out of Florida's political undercaste
Ruling castes can't exist without undercastes. I'm leaving one in the effort to destroy both.
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Jerry Hill falsely told parole commissioners that Leo Schofield confessed; at least one commissioner believed him
Last year, 10th Circuit State Attorney Brian Haas' Office publicly declared Hill's uncorrected Schofield lies don't matter because no one believed them…
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May 2024

Was the Southern Group/Henry Mack "railroad" of Florida Poly and NWFSC just too obvious and too thirsty?
Pro tip: Don't use your public position to openly troll business for a "major league" lobbying firm's new education business. And don't write it all…
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