A Spirit Airlines plane was hit by gunfire while trying to land in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the company says. A flight attendant was injured and the flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was diverted to the Dominican Republic, where an inspection showed damage consistent with gunfire. Spirit says they are suspending service to Haiti as they evaluate the incident. Read more from @NBCNews.

https://flip.it/mn2pkc

#Haiti #Spirit #Florida #DominicaRepublic #Guns

Spirit Airlines flight to Haiti diverted after reported midair gunfire https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/11/spirit-haiti-flight-gunfire #Airlineindustry #Airtransport #Worldnews #Americas #Florida #USnews #Haiti

If one considers everything well, one will find something appears to be virtue, which if pursued would be one's ruin, and something else appears to be vice, which if pursued results in one's security and well-being.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NiccoloMachiavelli #Security #Vice #Virtue

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida

A little bit of Democrat joy from @bolts as they report on Monique Worrell, the state attorney who was ousted by Ron DeSantis last year, and beat her replacement, Federalist Society member Andrew Bain, to win her job back.

https://boltsmag.org/tampa-orlando-proscutor-elections-2024/

#Florida #Voting #USElection #MoniqueWorrell #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Children's Day of Action for Palestine and Lebanon

- Tampa, Sunday Nov 10th, 1:30 pm

#Tampa #TampaBay #Palestine #Lebanon #Florida #Genocide

For some reason #Israelis seem to be happy about the #floods that so far have killed more than 200 #Spaniards.

After #Spain recognized the State of #Palestine and despite condemning the Hamas attack against Israel, many Israeli netizens posted on their social networks that they are glad that hundreds of Spaniards have died due to the floods.

Some of them have said this is a divine punishment to Spain for recognizing Palestine and stopping some explosives shipments to #Israel, similarly to how some of them believed #Florida was hit by hurricanes due to the pro Palestine protests.

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/11841?single=

#SanctionIsrael
#BoycottIsrael
#ZionismIsACult
#ClimateChange
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#USAfundsTerrorism

Via Adam Ginsburg:

Our voter assistance hotline has been ringing off the hook with #Florida's Puerto Rican voters making plans to vote. 👀👀

Calls spiked 325% in just two days.

And that's (833) 868-3352, available in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole

https://tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/31/florida-latino-voter-hotline-sees-uptick-in-calls-after-island-of-garbage-remarks/75940330007/

I wish I could #GiveAShit about and the damage #God #Conservative #RedStates and #OilIndustry have fostered in #HurricaneHelene and #HurricaneMilton trying to scrub the #TrumpStink off #Florida

I love Love LOVE that they're so terrified of us!! 👬 💞 👭

#Queer #LGBT #Pride #Rainbow #Florida #Fascism

Every time I hear something about #Florida, I comfort myself by reminding myself that the whole damn state will be under water before too long.

"Pressed by Moms for Liberty, #Florida school district adds clothing to illustrations in classic children's #books"
https://popular.info/p/pressed-by-moms-for-liberty-florida

Apart from the #education & #censorship issues here, & the "liberty" of a minority to dictate what everyone else can see, there's a #copyright issue. But it seems that the school hand-drew clothing on the book pages (which is lawful under #FirstSale) & did not reprint copies with altered images (which would be infringement).

#FigLeaves
@academicchatter

"#Florida school district removes dictionaries from #libraries, citing law championed by #DeSantis"
https://popular.info/p/florida-school-district-removes-dictionaries

PS: It turns out to be a myth that Victorians covered piano legs for the sake of modesty. But one day people will hear that Floridians removed dictionaries from school libraries for the sake of modesty, or prudery, or protecting the children, and wonder whether it's a myth. The truth will be out there, but not in Florida libraries.

#BookBans #Censorship

@academicchatter

Those who learn history are doomed to become it!

#florida #desantis #fascism #maga #education #history #wisdom

1/ Florida has proposed a bill intended to intimidate & silence people--bloggers--who want to critique the governor or state officeholders

https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/

I won't call it fascism--which it IS--because the word has no meaning for some

Instead let's look at the 1798 Sedition Act

Passed by the Federalist-controlled nat'l government, it made it a crime for US citizens to "print, utter, or publish...any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" re: the gov't.

#florida #fascism #politics