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“Americans can and will die from this” How they try and scare people into falling in line. Reminds me of Covid all over again.

@Rottinghaus_P @markbernhard55 @ZachLahn Then he shouldn’t mind debating in rural Iowa, which was the point of the initial tweet.

@perdrix_fl @markbernhard55 @ZachLahn Rob is visiting all over Iowa, rural and urban. Zach has no events scheduled. Don’t think it’s Rob that is afraid.

Rob Sand is wanting debates only in Iowa’s four largest cities - nothing in our rural communities. Sounds like typical politics. Our cities were built by the outpouring from our rural communities. We will not ignore them when it comes to debates nor when I am governor.

@iowana @ZachLahn All it took for Douglas and Lincoln were 2 podiums set on a stage at railroad stops. Why make it so difficult?

@ZachLahn What rural community has the facilities to handle such an event?

@markbernhard55 @ZachLahn Why is Rob Sand afraid of the other 35% ?

@ZachLahn 65% of Iowans live in urban areas. What are you afraid of?

@jsolomonReports It won’t cost a penny if local governments reduce their spending.

Property tax proposal could cost Florida locals $11B justthenews.com/nation/states/…

@FoxNews Bad example and fundamentally wrong. Hunter was prosecuted for lying on his application to obtain a firearm - not because he was a casual drug user. Do better.

BREAKING: Supreme Court unanimously strikes down federal gun ban for 'habitual' marijuana users, the same law that was used to prosecute Hunter Biden

@TheCriticalDri1 @grok Digital codswallop…

Hi @grok what are synonyms to the word “slop”? The internet desperately needs them as the word is overused by people that think they’re witty and sharp. In reality it’s lazy.

@JeffreyBrandes Bay County’s general fund budget was $238 million dollars in 2025. Its budget in 2021 was 170 million dollars. Bay County’s population grew by 14% while its budget grew by 40% Math ain’t your friend in this discussion Jeff.

A quick 101 on county budgets: When evaluating a property tax cut, don’t compare the loss to the county’s total budget. That’s the wrong denominator. County budgets are made up of dozens of separate funds. Utilities, solid waste, gas taxes, impact fees, grants, transportation funds, and tourist taxes are often legally restricted to specific purposes. The fund that matters most is the General Fund. That’s the fund that pays for many core government services and is heavily supported by property taxes. Example: Bay County’s total budget is $734M. Sounds huge. But its General Fund is $281.7M. So a $41M reduction isn’t 5.6% of the budget. It’s 14.5% of the General Fund. But it doesn’t stop there. The entire General Fund isn’t available to cut or reallocate. Before a county spends a dollar on parks, libraries, or new programs, it must pay debt service on outstanding bonds, pension obligations, constitutional officers, and other fixed commitments. Those obligations get paid first. Which means the truly discretionary portion of the General Fund is often much smaller than the headline number. That’s why the right question isn’t “How big is the county budget?” It’s “How much property-tax-supported revenue is being lost, what obligations remain, and how much flexibility is actually left?”

@JeffreyBrandes @JeffGradeA You’re jumping ahead of the argument. Only 30% of the revenue increase in the last 5 years will be reduced. Until you can justify the initial increase nobody should have to justify the reduction. You go first.

@JeffGradeA I’m happy to have the conversation about reducing or even abolishing property taxes. But every government has to balance the books. So what replaces the revenue? Higher sales taxes? More fees and assessments? More dependence on Tallahassee?

Since Governor DeSantis enjoys a good debate, I’d be happy to debate him on property taxes. One stage. No scripts. Just the numbers, the assumptions, and the consequences.

@AGGancarski Or, as a thought, they cut the local budgets…

It is a progressive redistribution of the tax burden.

@Fla_Pol @AGGancarski Based on the numbers in the article, the homestead increase would only claw back 30% of the increase we’ve already had in the past 5 years.

State economists say homestead exemption increase could cost local governments nearly $12 billion a year Reporting by @AGGancarski #FlaPol flapol.com/4eCAJbH

@RobertFreundLaw “Whole” does not imply “only” and to assume such is a misreading of statement. That from a real consumer of those fish filets.

Suppose you call your frozen fish "100% whole fish fillets." But the fillets also include "Sodium Tripolyphosphate [Added to retain Moisture]" and water. Is it unlawful false advertising to say "100% whole fish"? Consumers in CA, NY, and MA allege so. And a court recently allowed the case to proceed, denying Van de Kamp's/ConAgra's motion to dismiss. Court says that at this stage, "the plaintiffs offer a plausible reading of the label, which they allege is false."

@scotus_wire What if the document was allegedly falsified overseas???

Justice Kagan, writing for the Court, held that a defendant accused of falsifying a document to obstruct a federal investigation must be tried where the document was allegedly falsified, not where the investigation was located.

🚨 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal prosecutors brought a document-falsification charge against former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo in the wrong court.

@RobertFreundLaw Hmmm… doesn’t Google do this every day?

Lawsuit accuses Spotify of unfairly reducing compensation to small artists. The complaint alleges that Spotify reduced pay by "suppressing algorithmic discovery" and imposing 1,000-stream minimums, among other things. The plaintiff is a lawyer and music artist representing himself.

@jain_harshit That’s how the Apple plan works. I share it with my kids/grandkids who live in 2 different households… 5 accounts in 3 different cities

It is not about the money, it is about inconvenience. Sharing the google suite of features like drive storage, youtube premium etc with one person managing it just makes it easier for not so tech savy parents as well.

Google just paused the YouTube Premium subscription for my parents because we use a family plan and currently don't live in same city Dear @Google, if you want to verify a family, ask for official proof. Mandating that a family has to stay in same household is very old school

@Th_Midwesterner @matthewmaddock How the heck can a state make a “secret” agreement with a foreign company, or any company for that matter? How is that allowed?

CCP Gotion moves to sue Green Charter Township for damages over canceled battery plant deal themidwesterner.news/2026/06/ccp-go…

@henryolsenEPPC I’m a former postal clerk. You do realize how easy it is to back date an envelope right? That’s what makes “fraud” so easy.

That's not fraud; it's a function of CA law that allows ballots to be counted so long as they are postmarked by election day and received within 7 days after election day. Most of the ballots counted after E Day will either be the mail ballots dropped off on E Day OR . . . 8/x

A few points re: CA voting today: Per tracker.politicaldata.com/?type=statewid…, there were 4.221 million ballots received as of yesterday. That's up 484k from 2022. There were 7.2 million votes cast in 2022, with about 6.95 million counted for Governor. 1/x

@rustybrick @Hobo_Web Hi Barry, You may want to correct your day of the week. 21st was a Thursday… Thanks for all you do!

Google May 2026 core update rollout is now complete searchengineland.com/google-may-202…

@fineout You’all are acting like accountants writing the report of a company earnings. You’re comparing apples to oranges. None of the analysis you quote takes into account the CDD / impact fees. Those make Florida property taxes one of the highest in the nation.

Florida Association of Counties out analysis of DeSantis prop tax proposal: "The concerns are serious" the group says in an alert. Says year 1 w 150k exemption would cost counties $3.6B - year 2 w 250k exemption the cost would be $6.4B (This does not inc cities or schools)

@WAServers @mugzypayton @RapidResponse47 Launch pads are built as far south as possible and close to ocean water. The closer to the equator you get the better you can use the rotation of the earth to launch the rocket eastward.

@mugzypayton @RapidResponse47 ?? They already have a launch pad in Virginia... Alaska, Texas, Colorado, NM and Oklahoma.

Blue Origin plans $600M rocket plant expansion in Florida manufacturingdive.com/news/blue-orig…

@WAServers @RapidResponse47 The area around Cape Canaveral is “rural” once you leave the Island. Takes about 10 minutes to get to farm land in Mims.

@RapidResponse47 More jobs to Florida but most moving there are people looking to retire not work. Need to establish another location in a more rural part of the country to launch from.