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DeSantis’ Fascist Florida

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Aside from the obvious alarming fascist stuff DeSantis is doing, like banning books, implementing laws against the gay community and women, going after universities and students, threatening and taking action against businesses who speak out against him, etc., this is another alarming thread. This is a journalist who works for several different media organizations, including Forbes. Prof, have you heard about this?


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Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah
My family is not safe. My son has been taken on the gov's orders, and I've had to send my husband and daughter out of state for their safety.

THIS is the reality of living in DeSantis' Florida.

There is no freedom here. Only retaliatory rule by a fascist who wishes to be king


Rebekah Jones@GeoRebekah

A week after we filed our lawsuit against the state, a kid claiming to be the cousin of one of my son's classmates joined their snapchat group. They recorded their conversations, and anonymously reported my son to police for sharing a popular internet meme.

Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah

They said they had to complete a threat assessment since they received an anon complaint, which both the local cops and the school signed off on as not being a threat. The kids were joking about cops and video games, which included this meme:

Image


Rebekah Jones@GeoRebekah

Two weeks later, bringing us to earlier today, an officer told me the state issued a warrant for my son's arrest for "digital threats of terrorism."

I asked on whose orders. The officer said it was the state.

They aren't letting him come home tonight. They kidnapped my son.



Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah

I had to get my husband and daughter out of here because CPS now interprets my home as dangerous because they've charged my 13 year old son with a felony for sharing a meme.

Less than a week after filing the first lawsuit in America against a state's Covid lies




Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah

I'm sorry for not getting back to everyone who is frantically calling and messaging me. I'm trying to keep it together and stay here and fight for my kid.

This state has already gotten away with pointing guns at my son during their raid. I will not let them hurt him again.

Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah

I am begging as a mother and an American for the
@CivilRights

@TheJusticeDept
to stop this.

My son has paid an already heavy price for his mom being a legally-protected whistleblower.

@POTUS

@JoeBiden

@FLOTUS

@VP

@marceelias

@AttorneyCrump

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So basically there is no proof of any of those allegations being true

Also here is rhhe definition of fascist so you can quit making a fool of yourself by blindly following whatever leftwing extreme organization where you get you information.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/f ... l%20rights.
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Dunno. But the first paragraph applies with the title of the thread, which you don’t care about.


I’m asking the prof if he’s heard about this.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:48 am So basically there is no proof of any of those allegations being true

Also here is rhhe definition of fascist so you can quit making a fool of yourself by blindly following whatever leftwing extreme organization where you get you information.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/f ... l%20rights.
Yep, that’s Desantis. Thanks for the self own and confirming.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:50 am Dunno. But the first paragraph applies with the title of the thread, which you don’t care about.


I’m asking the prof if he’s heard about this.

Rebekah Jones convicted felon who agreed she needed mental health care as part of her plea agreement.
This is who you are believing.

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Glennfs wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:54 am Rebekah Jones convicted felon who agreed she needed mental health care as part of her plea agreement.
This is who you are believing.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-p ... ny-charge/
Well. I never said I believed her. I found what she said alarming though, and I asked the prof if he had heard of this. The first paragraph applies though as a thread on the GOPs blatant movement to fascism, so it’s not hard to believe at this point.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:53 am Yep, that’s Desantis. Thanks for the self own and confirming.
Not even close

Notice she doesn't reference what the meme was her kid was allegedly arrest for. The picture of the obese guy sleeping was shown and carefully worded to let low information liberals believe it was the meme.
I wonder what the meme was and why the kid wasn't admonished or warned as opposed to being arrested.
Ms Jones has obvious mental health issues and should not be shamed or taken seriously.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:59 am Well. I never said I believed her. I found what she said alarming though, and I asked the prof if he had heard of this. The first paragraph applies though as a thread on the GOPs blatant movement to fascism, so it’s not hard to believe at this point.
There has to be far more to the story of her 13 year old getting arrested.
I can't help but hope and believe they would warn a kid that age more than once before arresting them.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:00 am Not even close

Notice she doesn't reference what the meme was her kid was allegedly arrest for. The picture of the obese guy sleeping was shown and carefully worded to let low information liberals believe it was the meme.
I wonder what the meme was and why the kid wasn't admonished or warned as opposed to being arrested.
Ms Jones has obvious mental health issues and should not be shamed or taken seriously.
No, it's bang on accurate. Your link proves it. Complete self own.


And I have no idea if her allegations are accurate and I never said I believed her. I'm asking the Prof if he'd heard of this. Maybe the kid did something really bad. Dunno. But it wouldn't surprise me if it was true considering who DeSantis is. But you're in here with your typical low information liberals attacks, which is what you do. Come to a liberal message board every day to attack liberals and project.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:04 am No, it's bang on accurate. Your link proves it. Complete self own.


And I have no idea if her allegations are accurate and I never said I believed her. I'm asking the Prof if he'd heard of this. Maybe the kid did something really bad. Dunno. But it wouldn't surprise me if it was true considering who DeSantis is. But you're in here with your typical low information liberals attacks, which is what you do. Come to a liberal message board every day to attack liberals and project.
I will tell you this unless the kid posted some sort of horrible threat. If he weren't warned and warned more than once I would consider that to be harassment.
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Yeah, I know who she is, and we have discussed her before.

Rebekah Jones ran against Matt Gaetz for his Congressional seat, and lost in 2022.
She previously worked for the FL Dept. of Health also filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that DePutin was concealing the full extent of the COVID pandemic from the public.

The validity of her allegations, the criminal charges she faced in the past and present are all at Wikipedia. The state ordered her to see a mental health professional monthly as part of her deferred prosecution agreement in 2022. What condition she supposedly suffers from is not stated.

Turning to a non Twitter source (other than Rebekah herself), Pensacola News Journal reports:

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/20 ... 088634007/

Embattled former state of Florida employee Rebekah Jones announced on Twitter Wednesday night that her 13-year-old son had been arrested in Santa Rosa County for “digital threats of terrorism.”

According to the tweets, Jones said an officer told her a warrant had been issued for her son’s arrest after authorities received an anonymous report about messages her son shared in a Snapchat group.

Jones says that someone claiming to be a cousin of one of her son’s classmates joined their private Snapchat group. She says the person recorded the conversations and reported them to the police after her son shared a popular internet meme criticizing police.

According to Jones, a threat assessment was completed in which both local police and the school signed off on the messages not being a threat. Two weeks later, Jones says her son was then arrested. When Jones asked the officers who ordered the arrest, she says an officer told her “it was the state.”

A spokesperson for the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office confirmed Thursday morning that Jones' son had been arrested.

SRSO spokeswoman Jillian Durkin said the Sheriff's Office had received reports of a threat from multiple students and that a felony warrant was issued following an investigation of the reports.

Durkin said Jones turned her son in to the Sheriff's Office.

[snip][end]

I admit maybe there's something else out there we don't know about, but I don't see how her kid posting pictures of a cop snoozing while he should be stopping a school shooting is a threat of digital terrorism.
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Ah that's right. I wasn't sure who she was but now I recall. Thanks for chiming in. DeSantis has been going after her for some time but I agree, there might be something else there. And even if she did suffer from some mental health issues, that doesn't immediately disqualify her. That's straight up Fox level shit.
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ONe thing for sure, the last thing anyone wants is the opinion of people who support fascism.

Regardless of what this story is at the end of the day, cons only make it worse, never better. They cant point to a single action by one of them in the past few years where a con pol has helped society, not one.
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Can it be proved?

https://news.yahoo.com/rebekah-jones-13 ... 14689.html
An incident report released Thursday afternoon by the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office allege that the 13-year-old made repeated threats to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and to stab students who angered him.

Investigators interviewed multiple students who spoke with the teenager, as well as those who saw messages he posted on social media. In the messages to his friends, the teenager made the following statements, among others:

“I want to shoot up the school.”

If I get a gun I’m gonna shoot up hnms lol.”

“I’m getting a wrath and natural selection shirt so maybe but I don’t think many ppl know what the columbine shooters look like.”

“Okay so it’s been like 3-4 weeks since I got on my new antidepressants and they aren’t working but they’re suppose to by now so I have no hope in getting better so why not kill the losers at school.”

The teenager told one of his friends that he planned to shoot up the school the Thursday before Spring Break but there were too many things going on so he postponed it until March 31.
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bradman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:09 pm Can it be proved?

https://news.yahoo.com/rebekah-jones-13 ... 14689.html


Cuz if it can be proved he's screwed.
If he made threats like that he is for sure.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:14 pm If he made threats like that he is for sure.
It's why i can't stomach Twitter. It doesn't get vetted and yet is taken as valid breaking news.
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bradman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:20 pm It's why i can't stomach Twitter. It doesn't get vetted and yet is taken as valid breaking news.
I never stated it as fact. I was asking Prof if he’d heard about it and laid out her thread. I said it wouldn’t surprise me considering how DeSantis runs things. It’s all right there.


And Twitter has plenty of real breaking news. Literally every legit reporter and network uses it.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:24 pm I never stated it as fact. I was asking Prof if he’d heard about it and laid out her thread. I said it wouldn’t surprise me considering how DeSantis runs things. It’s all right there.


And Twitter has plenty of real breaking news. Literally every legit reporter and network uses it.
Dont know a lot about the kid or his mom, but if she is NOT a con, expect this RARE occasion of a Democrat doing anything wrong to be pounced on by the usual suspects.

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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:24 pm I never stated it as fact. I was asking Prof if he’d heard about it and laid out her thread. I said it wouldn’t surprise me considering how DeSantis runs things. It’s all right there.


And Twitter has plenty of real breaking news. Literally every legit reporter and network uses it.
[bold] i get that.

Twitter> Sorry Drack. i just can't totally agree with your last sentence.

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A Call For Journalists To Stop Tweeting
Twitter is ruining American journalism, says New York Times opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo. He wants people in the profession to do more lurking on the social media site and less posting.

Manjoo (@fmanjoo) tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson that Twitter is ruining journalism because reporters tend to use the social media platform as an assignment desk.

"If something is big on Twitter, we put it on cable news, we put it in the paper, we put it everywhere else," he says. "I don't think Twitter is sort of a reflection of the real world."

Manjoo also argues that Twitter has become sort of a "clubhouse" for journalists. He says he noticed that writing clever tweets was distracting from his actual job as a journalist.

"My job is to write columns, and I would write three words and then check Twitter and write three words and check Twitter," Manjoo says. "And now that I don't have that compulsion anymore, I mean, I'm sort of better in all parts of life, even at my job."
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bradman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:33 pm [bold] i get that.

Twitter> Sorry Drack. i just can't totally agree with your last sentence.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02 ... p-tweeting
A Call For Journalists To Stop Tweeting
Doesn’t matter that you don’t agree. The same journalists who sit on TV or report In paper use Twitter to deliver the same messaging. They literally have links to press.

Twitter is a big tent. You can’t just dismiss it.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:36 pm Doesn’t matter that you don’t agree. The same journalists who sit on TV or report In paper use Twitter to deliver the same messaging. They literally have links to press.

Twitter is a big tent. You can’t just dismiss it.
100% fact.

I remember a former poster here who attacked me at every chance and especially to tell me to stop using Twitter. Until everyone else finally pointed out what you just did.

Hey, dont get me wrong, I hate the place now that a prick owns it, but just sayin.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:36 pm Doesn’t matter that you don’t agree. The same journalists who sit on TV or report In paper use Twitter to deliver the same messaging.

Twitter is a big tent. You can’t just dismiss it.
i didn't say dismiss it. i'm saying it's not used right.

To me, Twitter is nothing more than a perpetual flame war. That's not journalism.
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bradman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:42 pm i didn't say dismiss it. i'm saying it's not used right.

To me, Twitter is nothing more than a perpetual flame war. That's not journalism.

But that’s not true. Your statement that Twitter is nothing more than what you’re saying. Twitter offers lots of things, just like the web does. And there are plenty of real news sources and real information sources. There’s also plenty of crap, personal feeds, company brand feeds selling products, porn, science stuff. It’s not any different than the web for content.
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Drak wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:49 pm But that’s not true. Your statement that Twitter is nothing more than what you’re saying. Twitter offers lots of things, just like the web does. And there are plenty of real news sources and real information sources. There’s also plenty of crap, personal feeds, company brand feeds selling products, porn, science stuff. It’s not any different than the web for content.
That's my personal view of Twitter. i'm sure it's not the same view some hold. Some of those people have good points about the value of Twitter, but overall, i don't share that view. i will not read Twitter, and i will not read news articles that now rely on Twitter news to make their point.

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bradman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 7:02 pm That's my personal view of Twitter. i'm sure it's not the same view some hold. Some of those people have good points about the value of Twitter, but overall, i don't share that view. i will not read Twitter, and i will not read news articles that now rely on Twitter news to make their point.

To each his own.
Ok, but the articles on say, CNN or their reporting team’s feeds, also ted to be found on their main website. Or channel. But if it’s not your thing it’s not your thing.
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