Earlier this week, Miami New Times obtained a 150-page WhatsApp chat that appears to include volunteers working with the 2018 campaign of Miami-Dade County Commission candidate (and former Republican state Sen.) Alex Diaz de la Portilla. They discuss stealing and shredding absentee ballots taken from voters that year. The workers…
Fair warning: This article about American foreign policy and potential acts of war contains spoilers for the fantasy HBO TV show Game of Thrones, because we live in the bleakest and most hellish political timeline imaginable.
If you’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, you’re not allowed to endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns of any kind. So it sure was bizarre to see Farm Share — a charitable organization that gives food to the needy — allegedly holding a campaign event with former state Sen. Daphne Campbell.
Baxley went on WLRN to talk about abortion, but for some bizarre and entirely in-character reason, he justified his anti-abortion stance by echoing straight-up white-supremacist talking points about Western European birthrates.
An explosive, 150-page WhatsApp chat leaked to Miami New Times appears to show members of Miami-Dade County Commission District 5 candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla’s 2018 campaign team discussing destroying or stealing absentee ballots from voters who selected one of Diaz de la Portilla’s opponents, Zoraida Barreiro.
In a bizarre, cryptic announcement, Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen said this afternoon the Trump administration plans to begin shipping migrants from the U.S./Mexico border to Broward and Palm Beach Counties “on a weekly basis without designated shelters or funding to house them, feed them, and keep them safe.”
According to a story today in the Washington Post, revenue at Trump National Doral Miami is plummeting — and has been since 2015.
Amendment 4 was supposed to automatically restore voting rights for former prisoners after their sentences were over. But Florida Republicans clearly weren’t happy about that and passed a law forcing ex-inmates to pay a slew of exorbitant court fines and fees before getting their rights back — a law derided as a 21st-century version of a Jim Crow-era “poll tax.”
During his TV appearance, Sen. Marco Rubio essentially dared the Iranian regime to attack the U.S. and see what the hell happens. And despite the fact that the U.S. is preparing plans for an Iranian invasion while sailing an aircraft carrier into the region, Rubio is spinning the entire ordeal as something the U.S. is nonsensically being forced to do.
The Florida GOP is, in a nutshell, using the larger powers of the state to restrict small governments everywhere — actions that expose the party’s “small government” platform as a flat-out lie. Here’s a list of bills that explain why.
City of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo allegedly spent a good chunk of time last year filing politically motivated code complaints against his unwitting nemesis — Bill Fuller, the owner of Little Havana’s most iconic bar, Ball & Chain. But now Fuller says his own investigation has uncovered numerous code violations dating back a decade at Carollo’s Coconut Grove home.
Daniella Levine Cava, the sole Democratic candidate in the race, says she raised more than $830,000 in the first month of her campaign. That amount is more than any nonincumbent mayoral candidate in Miami-Dade has ever garnered in a single month.
Giancarlo Granda, the former Fontainebleau pool attendant who bizarrely received $1.8 million in loans from famous evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr., officially denies knowing anything about alleged “racy” photos referenced in a Reuters story published yesterday.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida declared yesterday that this was, by its estimation, the worst legislative session for civil rights in ten years.
This past Friday, CBS News confirmed that John Kelly — the former Homeland Security chief and White House chief of staff under Donald Trump — had joined the board of Caliburn International, the for-profit company that runs the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in South Miami-Dade. The news is…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has two sons who magically keep getting involved in some pretty lucrative deals with the Miami-Dade government. Julio Gimenez is reportedly part of a group looking to build an “eco-friendly” steel mill in Miami-Dade County. And, in what absolutely must just be a coincidence, the county has proposed selling Julio’s company a plot of public land for $16.8 million in a no-bid deal.
Importantly, local cops have warned the measure will likely make Floridians less safe.
Tomas Kennedy, one of the more active civil rights organizers in Florida, helped put together a large-scale protest at the Florida capitol. In response, he’s been banned from the public building for a year and can’t come back for next year’s session.
The Florida Legislature today passed a bill legalizing the use of self-driving cars statewide. Naturally, Uber — which could save gobs of money by replacing human drivers with robots — is quite pleased.
In a statement sure to remind critics of the runup to the Iraq War in 2003, longtime Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart suggested on Fox News last night that Russian agents in Venezuela currently have the capability to strike the United States with nuclear bombs. Diaz-Balart, part of the coalition of Florida lawmakers advising Donald Trump on Latin American issues, provided no evidence to back up his claims.
Early this morning, Juan Guaidó announced he and a seemingly small band of low-ranking Venezuelan military guards were mounting a revolt against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro’s government. Sen. Marco Rubio has spent the morning loudly cheerleading Guaidó’s efforts while lobbing melodramatic threats at the Maduro regime.
On June 30 of last year, activists in more than 600 cities planned demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s policy of separating children and parents who’d arrived at the U.S. border seeking asylum. Emails obtained by The Intercept show that a private contractor monitored numerous protests in South Florida.
