How Gov. Ron DeSantis deploys state police to enforce political agenda

[mahatmakanejeeves]

David Weigel Retweeted

How Gov. Ron DeSantis deploys the state police to enforce his political agenda -- from helping plan the migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard to rounding up felons who voted.

washingtonpost.com
How Gov. Ron DeSantis deploys state police to enforce political agenda
DeSantis has increasingly deployed FDLE in support of his own political agenda, according to more than a dozen current and former

Link to tweet

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1. I

think he is truly INSANE.

[PortTack]

2. Look at those tiny hands...he gestures with them the same as tiny hands 1!

[AZ8theist]

5. Tiny hands? I can't get past his tiny brain.

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10. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[NullTuples]

3. WaPo: Democracy dies in darkness - now fork over some $

...if you want to read the story.

(paywall)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. The writers would like to be paid for their work. NT

[NullTuples]

6. The problem is linking to paywalled stories not writers pay

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Oh, it's time to run this again. Thanks for reminding me.

I post this every now and then. It's time for a rerun.

Note that nobody is getting something for nothing. You aren't pulling a fast one on the Washington Post.

You pay taxes that support your public library. The library pays the databases for access. The databases pay the newspapers for inclusion in the databases. The newspapers pay their employees. No one is cheated along the way.

Sun Feb 13, 2022: link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/125619678|How to get around the paywall at national newspapers]

Because the Washington Post, like the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal., is a national newspaper, it is almost certainly available on your public library's database. As in, available for free, with no paywall.

You don't have to go to the library. Since you're reading this, you have access to a computer. Log into your account at the library and find the database of newspapers. The Post will be there. Ask your librarian for help if you need it.

{edited to add} The library doesn't have to be open. Its website is running 24/7, so you can log in at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday morning to read the newspaper.

Articles in the Cody, Wyoming, Enterprise, the Fairhope, Alabama, Times, or the Kodiak, Alaska, Daily Mirror might be just a bit harder to find.

I'll keep posting this as many times as I have to.

* Free, in the sense that you pay for it with your taxes. That kind of free.

[NullTuples]

8. Thank you. But again, my problem is with posting to paywalled links.

I already use the library and support our local system. I also don't mind advertising on news sites; that has been a successful model forever and still is. I do not however put up with trackers & malware. Give me a site with plain advertisements over a paywall any day.

But that's off-topic. My point was that it's rude & annoying for people to post to a general forum and link to a story or supporting info that not everyone can access in the flow of the forum (which means not having to log into their local library, find the publication, find the correct issue and then find the story).

[NullTuples]

9. Here is a paid link that does not block the story for readers of this forum

aka, "gift link"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/05/desantis-fdle-police-immigration-migrant-flights/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjI0MTE3NjY0IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4MzI1OTIwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4NDU1NTE5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjgzMjU5MjAwLCJqdGkiOiJjOGZlM2QwYi1iZTY0LTRlYjUtOWI5NS0zNmQ4OGM2YjIwNzkiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMy8wNS8wNS9kZXNhbnRpcy1mZGxlLXBvbGljZS1pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi1taWdyYW50LWZsaWdodHMvIn0.UrZQ2y2zCKIVTJMvgUnLgFQxY5otLQ63nL--IDl7ecs