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TALLAHASSEE — In less than 24 hours, Florida lawmakers questioned, debated and added to the November ballot what could become the most sweeping restructuring of the state’s tax system — and city and county governments — in a generation. Now it’s up to voters. Legislators voted largely along party lines Tuesday to approve a constitutional amendment proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that would raise the state’s homestead exemption to $250,000. It will save millions of Floridians thousands of dollars on their property taxes in 2028, if voters approve it in November. Join the conversation

Sir Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump's Maga supporters and Russia of spreading misinformation about London on social media. The Mayor of London, who has frequently clashed with the US president, said people were using the algorithms on social media to portray Britain's capital as lawless. He said "China, Russia or Maga influencers" were unhappy about London because it was "progressive, liberal, diverse". Speaking at the SXSW culture festival, he said: "We're not perfect, but we are the greatest city in the world in terms of culture, tourism, music." Social media apps, including Elon Musk's X, have seen a surge...

Polymarkets are now projecting Pratt will NOT make the runoff. Sudden change. Hmmmmm......

ransomnote: O'Neil sometimes repeats images of document pages as needed for each post.The Mel K Show repostedTyler O'Neil@Tyler2ONeil🚨READ ITThe Justice Department just secured a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and it reveals some new bombshells🧵1/20 ransomnote: Page 1 of the document:June 3, 2026 Tyler O'Neil@Tyler2ONeil·6hReminder: the SPLC raises money by claiming it exists to "dismantle white supremacy," but DOJ says the SPLC was actually propping up the hate it told donors it aimed to destroy. SPLC paid "field sources," whom SPLC says were merely informants.🧵2/20ransomnote: pages 2 and 3 of the documentTyler O'Neil@Tyler2ONeil·6hYet the field sources used...

NEW ELLENTON, S.S. (WRDW/WAGT) - Aiken County deputies arrested a suspect in connection with a kidnapping and the impersonation of a law enforcement officer. Investigators have arrested 39-year-old Jonathan Willard of New Ellenton. Willard is charged with kidnapping and impersonation of a law enforcement officer. Willard is currently incarcerated at the Aiken County Detention Center. An Aiken County Sheriff’s Office incident report showed deputies were called early Friday to the area of Williston Road and Boggy Gut Road for a reported kidnapping. An arriving deputy found the woman on the ground in distress with a pair of handcuffs next to...

Elon Musk’s interventions in UK politics have reignited over the past week, prompting concerns about the influence of the world’s richest man ahead of a by-election that could trigger a change in prime minister. Musk has written more than 110 posts, retweets and replies about British politics since last Wednesday on his social media platform X, with a focus on the murder of student Henry Nowak. UK politics accounted for more than one-third of his X activity over the past week, according to FT analysis — almost three times the share devoted to SpaceX, even as Musk sought a $1.8tn...

A baby was pulled out of the midst of a fight at a Pennsylvania kindergarten graduation after a brawl broke out. An unidentified man has been cited with disorderly conduct for allegedly instigating the fracas at the Ben Franklin School kindergarten graduation on Monday. Video obtained by WJAC from inside the Harrisburg school showed many parents screaming as two men tussled in the back of the room. 'Oh my god! Oh my god!' one woman can be heard screaming. Caught in the middle of the fight was a toddler. A woman rushed over to rip the child out of a...

Southern California-based Hasan Piker, the communist darling of left-wing livestreaming, resorted to gay insults Tuesday night after being upset his “friend” lost to a gay state senator. SNIP “You know what it is? I know what it is,” Piker responded. “F–ing car-reliant infrastructure. The more cars you have, the more chuddy the f-ing city is. That’s it. No public transit. No f–ing people living close to one another.” SNIP He then made a sudden switch from ranting on public transportation to the gay community in his critique of the West Coast city. “It’s just f–ing rich liberals who just want...

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Keir Starmer condemned Nigel Farage for his comments calling for “pure, cold rage” in the wake of Henry Nowak’s murder. On Tuesday morning, the Reform UK leader claimed Nowak’s death was evidence of a “two-tier culture” in Britain where white people’s rights “matter less than those of ethnic minorities.” He went on to call on people to respond to the incident with “pure, cold rage.” By Tuesday evening, there were violent protests in Southampton over the police’s actions in Nowak’s death. In his opening remarks addressing the demonstration in Southampton, Starmer said now was a time for “serious work, not...

The House offered a rare rebuke to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, passing a Democrat-led measure to end his war with Iran over objections from Republican leadership. It was one of two Democratic-led measures opposed by the White House that advanced in the GOP-led House. Lawmakers also passed a motion that would unlock a vote on sending aid to Ukraine. The Iran war powers resolution, offered by Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, had been heading for a vote before the House left for its Memorial Day recess on May 21. But...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) lambasted Democrats for suggesting that President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence could imperil reauthorization of the nation’s foreign spy powers that are due to expire next week. Johnson said in a press conference Wednesday that it is “absolutely outrageous” that Democrats are suggesting that they would withhold their votes “because of an interim appointment that is the president’s choice to do.” “It is the most important intelligence tool that we have,” Johnson said of the foreign spy powers. “The idea that they would try to play politics right...

@RobertJenrick Reporting restrictions lifted. 15 men jailed for raping a girl as young as 14 in Bradford. Jameel Ahmed committed 4 rapes, yet could leave prison in a little over 5 years. Sentences for rape gang perpetrators are routinely pathetically short. Britain is broken.

A claim that OnlyFans suffered a massive data breach has spread rapidly across X and Reddit in the past 48 hours, with reports alleging that a hacker is selling a database containing records for 340 million users and creators. The viral story has triggered panic among creators and subscribers, with many rushing to change passwords or delete accounts. However, a closer look at the available evidence shows this is not a direct hack of OnlyFans’ systems. Instead, it appears to be a large-scale compilation of data pulled from older breaches and publicly visible profiles. What the hacker is actually selling...

Pro-Antifa protesters caused a ruckus in Washington State on Monday as city officials recognized the leftist movement as a domestic terrorist organization, according to multiple reports and footage. Two masked leftists with Antifa and black anarchist-style flags loudly interrupted a public meeting as Battle Ground Mayor Eric Overholser read aloud a proclamation that condemned Antifa, The Chronicle and The Post Millennial reported. Police were seen arresting one shrieking agitator who refused to leave. “F* you!” a woman with the black flag began exclaiming as the mayor spoke, footage from The Post Millennial shows. Officials then motioned for police to ask...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After two decades of rising support for LGBTQ+ issues, U.S. attitudes have plateaued and begun to slide back modestly. Approval of same-sex marriage, moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relations, and endorsement of gender changes are all down from peaks reached in the early 2020s. While most Americans still favor legal same-sex marriages, the 65% who do so today is down six percentage points from the peak in 2022 and 2023. Similarly, the percentage viewing gay or lesbian relations as morally acceptable, 62%, has not been lower since 2016. And the share of Americans who consider changing...

One of the rodeo riders whose horse was stabbed over the weekend in a Las Vegas barn said Tuesday she came “face-to-face” with the teenage suspect charged with attacking her mare and two other horses. Arielle Phillips told NBC News she was in a stall with her horse, Detail, late Friday night when the 17-year-old “came by twice to try and make conversation by asking me weird questions.” ~~~~~ Update from Earlier post from Red Badger.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded this evening (Wednesday) in an interview with CNBC to reports about a heated “shouting call" that reportedly took place this week between him and U.S. President Donald Trump regarding Lebanon. “President Trump and I agree on the main issues concerning Iran. Sometimes we have tactical disagreements, but we resolve them," Netanyahu said. According to him: “The question is whether Iran wants to return to another round of fighting. We’ll wait and see, as they say. The United States and we have shared goals; we will see what we can achieve through an agreement." He declined...

A recently unearthed study has set off a tidal wave of outrage after scientists claimed it was 'morally' justifiable to infect people with a virus making them allergic to meat. Researchers Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth from Western Michigan University published an inflammatory paper in 2025, making the case that society had a moral 'duty' to spread ticks that were infected with or engineered to carry alpha-gal syndrome (AGS). AGS is a real medical condition transmitted to humans through tick bites, causing victims to suffer allergic reactions when eating red meat, including beef, pork and lamb, dairy and other products...

Mole people? Crocodile catchers? Mario brothers? A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York City’s vast subterranean sewer system has the city wondering what exactly is going on, with police now probing the underground mystery. Some wore headlamps and carried what appeared to be shovels and other tools. One narrowly missed getting run over by a vehicle as they pulled themselves out of the ground. “They look like they were looking for something important, like money, or for doing some type of hurting,” he said. “Ain’t no fun and games. I mean, seven grown...