@FirepitMike

Social justice activist. Unitarian Universalist. Enjoy singing and playing guitar, esp protest music. Northside Coalition of Jacksonville

Jacksonville, FL
Joined January 2012
Help us make a difference! Join our Dial and Smile for Holloway for Congress phone bank tomorrow, September 30 from 6–8 PM at 3120 Beach Blvd. Jacksonville, FL 32207! No experience needed, training provided! #UnitedWeWin #Vote #HollowayForCongress #ForThePeople
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Hey folks! The ENTIRE SOUTH has something to say. We need investments into ALL our campaigns. I am excited to see @scott_colom’s race in Mississippi being placed on the map by the folks in Washington. If The People invest in our campaign then we will. AngieNixon.com LFG
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Yep, he's running.
Donna Deegan’s JTA is in crisis. Tens of millions of dollars missing, a whistleblower silenced, 150 employees fired and now the Attorney General has launched an investigation. Jacksonville deserves better.
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.@AshleyMoodyFL CHOSE to help @RonDeSantis & @JamesUthmeierFL steal $10 million from poor kids to fund political PACs.
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Yes you are reading the below message correctly. The same Hope Florida (scandal that stole $10M from kids) also diverted workers from real programs which made those programs less accessible and reliable, harming more people. This is the DeSantis legacy.
To manage the Hope Florida initiative, DCF moved workers away from administering Medicaid and food assistance. The staff left behind are less trained and poorly paid, and the DCF department is now failing by nearly every federal measure. #DefendDemocracy floridatrib.org/2026/09/23/h…
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These slickly produced videos are interesting. When you request body cam footage from JSO you get a standard reply that says you should expect it to take six months to receive it.
Three years on the run from Atlanta. It ended in Jacksonville. On Wednesday, we brought a multi-state manhunt to a close after our team tracked 43-year-old murder suspect Jonathan Soto to an apartment complex on Gate Parkway. Our SWAT team, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and @Atlanta_Police, with the help from our Unmanned Aerial Systems Unit, surrounded the apartment Soto was hiding in. He refused to come out, so we used an energetic charge to open the door. He knew his time on the go was up and he surrendered on a fugitive warrant for murder and possession of a firearm. Soto is the suspect in the February 2023 murder of a popular business owner at the Republic Lounge in Atlanta. He was on the Atlanta Police Department’s most wanted list and was considered armed and dangerous. We’ll keep working with our law enforcement partners to make sure justice is served. Fugitives may try to run, but we’re here to stop them. Soto will now have to face the consequences for what he did in Georgia.
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What happens to a neighborhood when its public school starts losing funding? As this former professor explains, education decisions don’t stop at the schoolhouse door. They shape entire neighborhoods & the futures of the children who live there. 🔗 bit.ly/4huL4H7
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Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia Announces Seven Additional Arrests Following Scheme to Defraud the State
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People are working more and still being left with less time and less room to build a life. I talked with @newsweek about the pressure working families are under and why I believe work should support a life, not consume it. #AngieForFlorida
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Fuel prices are skyrocketing, stretching the budgets of families and businesses alike. @SenateGOP's proposal? Attacking state clean transportation safeguards to deliver a massive handout to their fossil fuel donors. Take action today ✍️ sc.org/Protect-Clean-Air
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Inflation from the Iran War is significantly higher for working and middle class Americans than for top earners.
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BIG NEWS: Another new poll has us leading 48% to 46%. Be a part of history. Share the word, make a plan to vote, and let's get this done!
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Join Florida Dems alongside the Angie Nixon & David Jolly campaigns as we call voters EVERY NIGHT this week! We’re calling folks who may not vote unless they hear from us. Together, we will Take Back Florida. Go to floridadems.org/action to join us.
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The deadline to register to vote is in just ONE WEEK! Visit floridadems.org/vrdeadline TODAY to make sure you’re registered and Election Day ready. Then, send the link to your friends and family and have them do the same. Together, we will #TakeBackFlorida on November 3rd 🔥
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The Jacksonville man’s case is among a string of wrongful arrests linked to faulty use of facial recognition and a lack of investigative rigor. Nick was ordered to live separately from his children, the youngest was 7-months-old. ✍️: @hellokatepayne floridatrib.org/2026/09/28/h…
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NEW: Taxpayers paid a 2nd law firm $111,387 to keep Hope Florida grand jury report sealed for a client DeSantis' office won't name. No one recalls who chose to divert $10M in taxpayer money. Plus, how @JeffAaronLaw steered a $5M grant that landed in @JamesUthmeierFL's PAC. floridatrident.org/governors…
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Replying to @MichelleObama
@MichelleObama said when they go low, we go high. I'm saying when they go low, we get LOUD. Every single time a country has stopped its democracy from falling, it happened one way. People organized and mobilized. The people refused to be quiet. Let's Get LOUD #AngieforFlorida
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This wrongful arrest was part of a sting operation @jsosheriff was eager to publicize. JSO, using AI, rushed to arrest the wrong man while the actual perpetrator walked free for months. His records remained online after a judge ordered them expunged. Meanwhile …
Blood-boiling story this morning from @hellokatepayne: Jacksonville police, relying entirely on an AI-facial recognition tool, arrested the wrong man for a heinous crime, ruining his life.
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