Samantha Putterman
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Samantha Putterman
@SamPutterman
@PolitiFact Florida government reporter. Also covering abortion, public health. @Poynter | Former: @Bradentonherald @TB_Times | Tips: [email protected]
Florida, USA Joined Nisan 2009
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@StevenCheung47 @grok Who's the specific Democrat donor and liberal activist quoted in that Politico piece on oil industry concerns about Trump's Iran messaging?
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The main person quoted in this story is a Democrat donor and liberal activist. This is how FAKE NEWS is made.

POLITICO@politico
‘Oh, boy’: Oil industry frets over Trump's profit-minded Iran post dlvr.it/TRT0Vq
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Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., said former President Joe Biden reversed U.S. precedent on deporting criminals. That’s False. In the last two years of Biden’s presidency, his administration deported 158,665 noncitizens with criminal charges or convictions.
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Florida hasn’t expanded Medicaid — but lawmakers want to add work requirements miamiherald.com/news/health-ca…
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A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…
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Florida Sen. Ashley Moody said former President Joe Biden reversed U.S. precedent on deporting criminals. That’s False. politifact.com/factchecks/202…
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"Babe, it's not clutter. It's the Japanese practice of tsundoku."
Elle Lookbook@EvaLovesDesign
In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up, not from neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.
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New records obtained by @TheFloridaTrib show Florida officials burned more than $1.2 million per day on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ - sometimes substantially more - and originally sought $1.4 billion from the feds.
✍️ @hellokatepayne
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@jonbrooks maybe its also not afforable for millennials to have kids?
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NEW: Florida House Republicans backed away from a plan to stop DeSantis from using a state emergency fund on immigration.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla. is largely right that FEMA’s current backlog of pending disaster applications is substantial, experts said. An analysis found applications have been pending longer than at any other time during the last 37 years
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NEW: Members of an elite Florida State Guard unit say their director has been using state planes for private flying lessons — and millions of dollars has been misappropriated.
Their complaints to supervisors and @LtGovJayCollins went nowhere, they say:
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The challenge for Dr. Mona Amin was real: How could she provide meaningful pediatric care while competing with large-scale medical misinformation, now coming from the White House itself?
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Read @SamPutterman's installment in @PolitiFact's Year of Lies series: "How Trump’s talk about Tylenol, autism and vaccines affected one pediatrician" politifact.com/article/2025/d…

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New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said. Trump has told people close to him that he wants new ownership of CNN as well as changes to CNN programming." wsj.com/business/media…
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Denaturalization, the process of revoking a person’s citizenship, has been used sparingly, such as for removing Nazis who fled to the U.S. after WWII. Immigration experts say Republicans arguments about
@ZohranMamdani98 are flimsy and unlikely to succeed. politifact.com/article/2025/n…
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@AGJamesUthmeier This story describes the show as: “an adults-only touring show booked for Dec. 23” - is the issue a lack of enforcement on this and that they will let in children? The tickets are for people 18 and older. wuwf.org/local-news/202…
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.@PolitiFact's team effort fact-checking President Trump's "60 Minutes" interview, w/ me, @AbelsGrace @AmySherman1 @SamPutterman @MariaRamirezU: politifact.com/article/2025/n…

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