Miami-Dade State Attorney drops charges against man who fired 11 times in 2021 I-95 road rage incident under “Florida Stand Your Ground” law. FHP said another driver threw a water bottle at Eric Popper’s car, but he claimed it was gunfire.
#BecauseMiami
At last night's Fort Lauderdale City Commission meeting, "Mistress" spoke during public comment to propose that $250,000 of a $1 million solid waste management contract go "to support doms and subs in Broward County to build a dungeon."
#BecauseFlorida
#BREAKING
: US Marshals at Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s home just posted Notice of Levy that his house is to be seized and auctioned off to pay $63.5 million judgement against him for violating First Amendment Constitutional rights of Little Havana businessmen
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, cracking under pressure of failed presidential campaign, FBI bribery investigation and state ethics complaint, physically attacks Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald reporter Sarah Blaskey in city hall during commission meeting
#BecauseMiami
Miami-Dade Commissioners give developers and their lobbyists unlimited time to speak at public meetings, but real residents and wildlife experts like
@RonMagill
, who are concerned about the impact of unfettered development, are limited to just 60 seconds.
#BecauseMiami
Atlas Air flight 95 departed from Miami International Airport Thursday night at 10:32pm ET and immediately circled back to land at MIA at 10:46pm, according to FlightAware, after video shows flames coming from the Boeing 747-8:
"Where Gouging is a Pleasure!"
Floridians getting ripped off on grocery prices while Publix PROFITS are up 49% (!!!) to $4.3 billion in 2023, compared to $2.9 billion in 2022.
#BREAKING
: Miami Proud Boys member and ex-GOP candidate Gabriel Garcia arrested for role in Capitol mob after he uploaded Facebook videos of himself storming the building
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#BREAKING
: Ron Magill and friends win again! Appeals Court finds Miami-Dade County Commission broke the law when they voted to approve development on endangered Calusa bird rookery
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned Black history, drag queens, and Disney World. Next he'll probably ban this song (if only because Elton John). "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." — Maya Angelou
#BREAKING
: Federal Court directs U.S. Marshal to seize cash, goods and land from Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo to enforce $63.5 million civil corruption judgement for weaponizing city government to violate the Constitutional rights of Little Havana business owners
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Sources say
@MiamiPD
property supervisor Nicole Clark, who had reportedly expressed concerns about her hostile work environment, collapsed inside the police station and died while her husband confronted her superiors about their abuse and they threatened to arrest him.
Miami-Dade cops in plainclothes and unmarked SUVs shoot and kill farmer on his own property without identifying themselves, “left him to die” while “laughing and joking around,” then handcuffed and detained the man’s son and wife for hours, family says
Florida man thinks someone is breaking into his condo, asks neighbors to call 911, grabs licensed gun,
@HollywoodFLPD
shoot him, drag him into elevator, wait 30 minutes to get help while he's dying, then cover up footage for a year
#BecauseFlorida
Miami Mafia Twist: Unit owner in historic Downtown building — passed every inspection since 1925 — was forced out with 70 other businesses by fire marshal, gets shady email from real estate company with secret offer to buy — and it’s Mayor Francis Suarez firm!
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“I did not know you could do Blackface through animation”: Elie Mystal ROASTS PragerU right-wing indoctrination video with Frederick Douglass defending slavery — now approved for grooming in Florida schools!
#BecauseMiami
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#BREAKING
: Federal Court orders City of Miami to garnish wages of Commissioner Joe Carollo to pay off $63.5 million corruption judgement against him for First Amendment retaliation, weaponizing city government against Little Havana businessmen for political revenge
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Controversial
@MiamiPD
Captain Javier Ortiz fired following years of misconduct allegations, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in abuse lawsuits, and getting promoted after falsely claiming he's Black
#BecauseMiami
Miami rents are up over 36% last year — biggest increase in the US — and working class Miamians can’t afford it. After 12 years in government, what is Mayor
@FrancisSuarez
’s solution? Find a cheaper place, get a raise, or a better paying job.
#BecauseMiami
Florida now ranks 46th for SAT scores in the U.S. — down another 17 points to 966, trailing South Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana and Washington, D.C. — while state education leaders focus on pronouns, book bans, and trans athletes
#BecauseFlorida
Miami Design Preservation League walking tour waits while firefighters hose the blood off the Ocean Drive sidewalk from this morning’s fatal spring break shooting near 11th Street
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🎥 Mitch Novick
WE’RE
#1
: Miami is MOST EXPENSIVE U.S. city for groceries — costing $327.89 weekly! Also highest inflation rate (DOUBLE national average), least affordable housing market (80% of income spent on housing), and auto insurance (256% above national average)
#BecauseMiami
Miami-Dade cops caught on camera covering up alleged DUI crash of Officer Willy Knapp — husband of a police major and brother of sheriff candidate
@MKnappDade
— who rear-ended teen's car after hours at a bar and driving with an expired tag
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Federal judge finds “substantial evidence" that Miami government is guilty of unconstitutional “racial gerrymandering,” recommends city toss out redrawn district map before November elections
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#BREAKING
: GUILTY! Jury finds Miami Commissioner
@JoeCarolloNow
abused his power, weaponized city agencies like police, fire and code against Little Havana business owners for political revenge in First Amendment retaliation case. Must pay $60 MILLION in damages.
#BecauseMiami
Video shows Popper cut off a driver who then started tailgating him on I-95 in North Miami. Popper slammed on his brakes and, seconds later, started shooting.
#BecauseMiami
Florida Education Commissioner behind new “Black people benefited from slavery” curriculum
@SenMannyDiazJr
accused of being “pervert” and “inappropriate teacher” who “would roll on ecstasy and party with students” at Hialeah Miami Lakes High
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: The ENTIRE Dogs & Cats Walkway at Maurice Ferré Park — which Miami Commissioner
@JoeCarolloNow
built by misappropriating $1 million in public money to his 4th wife — is lined with Angel's Trumpet plants which are TOXIC and POISONOUS to humans and pets.
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Miami cop fired for killing unarmed Black man, then rehired with backpay, commits hit-and-run in police SUV en route to golf with superior officer at Trump Doral, state attorney
@KathyFndzRundle
does not prosecute him (again)
#BecauseMiami
The home of a well respected local journalist — who has been exposing rampant corruption in Miami government — was burgled, he’s still waiting for a detective 21 hours later, and now
@MiamiPD
is actively trolling him. Looks like the Miami Mafia is sending a message.
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Attorney for Little Havana business owners who won $63.5M judgement against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo for violating their Constitutional rights says US Marshal will seize all his assets — home, boats, cars, personal items of value — and auction them
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: In bombshell order today, Federal Judge K. Michael Moore declares City of Miami redistricting maps “unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”
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@VickyMendezEsq
Miamian and self-proclaimed "chisme real estate critic" Menephta Fernandez roasts ripoff real estate listings on her TikTok and Instagram. Her videos are vulgar, hilarious, and pissing off realtors (pobrecito).
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Minutes ago, during public comment at the Miami City commission meeting, corrupt Commissioner Joe Carollo was served with a summons in the lawsuit to remove him from office for violating the Citizens’ Bill of Rights of the Miami City Charter
#BecauseMiami
Please stop this. There’s only a “gas shortage” because of these unnecessary runs on stations. Deliveries are just delayed, but there’s a steady supply if everyone just calms TF down.
The scene at nearly all the gas stations in Miami Springs on NW 36th Street - no gas.
Save for a BP that has a line down the block, so it'll probably catch up soon
#BREAKING
: In a scathing order today, Federal Judge Rodney Smith denies Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s motion for new trial or to reduce $63.5 million corruption verdict against him for weaponizing city government to violate business owners’ Constitutional rights
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's communications director sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for child porn after luring teen boy to city hall and groping him in the mayor's conference room, city paid boy $100,000 in taxpayer money
#BecauseMiami
:
Attendees of this year’s Florida Floodplain Managers Association conference could not reach the venue at Marriott Biscayne Bay hotel in Downtown Miami due to flooding
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#BREAKING
: City of Miami redistricting consultant Miguel De Grandy admits under oath he gerrymandered Commissioner Joe Carollo’s house into his district to save it from seizure in corruption lawsuit, NOT in the best interests of residents paying him $600 per hour
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#BREAKING
: ¡Pollo Carollo! Miami cops arrest peaceful protester in chicken costume at public park event to unveil Commissioner Carollo’s $1 million taxpayer-financed art project by his 4th wife (not the one he was arrested for beating): ugly dog and cat sculptures.
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#BREAKING
: Little Havana businessmen who won $63.5 million judgment against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo for depriving them of their free speech rights file "Complaint for Declaration" to remove him from office for violating City Charter's Citizens' Bill of Rights
#BecauseMiami
Trump Campaign's Florida State Director Kevin Marino Cabrera — who was caught on video in violent Proud Boys hate group attack on
@SpeakerPelosi
at Democratic campaign office in Miami — just got hired by
@Omnicom
#BecauseMiami
:
DISTURBING VIDEO:
@MiamiDadePD
officer shoots dog six times, killing him while responding to call about dogs barking near Miami Gardens at around 7 p.m. on January 12th
#BecauseMiami
For the last two weeks in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood,
@AimcoApts
60-story tower construction site has been dumping this crap into our bay.
#BecauseMiami
Surfside is only 8 blocks-long but one of the most corrupt towns in Miami-Dade thanks to the shameless "Third World Thuggery" of Mayor
@ShlomoDanzinger
and Vice Mayor Jeff Rose, and the unconstitutional arrest of an 18-year-old activist for political revenge…
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — arrested for bribery and money laundering — misappropriated millions in public money intended to redevelop underserved communities on crooked contracts and no-show jobs for cronies
#BecauseMiami
MiamiCoin is down around 85.5% from its all time high. So if you listened to shitcoin peddler Mayor Ponzi Postalita (aka
@FrancisSuarez
) and bought $1,000 in September, it would now be worth about $145.
#BecauseMiami
Inauspicious debut for new Miami District 2 Commissioner Sabina Covo who, when asked by Chairwoman Christine King to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of yesterday’s city commission meeting, revealed she doesn’t know it.
#BecauseMiami
1. Developer secretly pays Miami Mayor
@FrancisSuarez
$10K a month (at least $170K total)
2. Mayor’s office helps developer fix major zoning issue with city
3. Developer thanks mayor in email
Mayor pretends he doesn’t know what happened!
#BecauseMiami
This happened LAST SATURDAY and
@MiamiHerald
just published it in a Friday night news dump. Their reporter was battered by the mayor in a public building during a public meeting and they buried it on Rosh Hashanah. Senior managing editor
@danabanker
is not responding to texts.
#BREAKING
: “Miami’s most corrupt cop,” fired
@MiamiPD
Captain Javier Ortiz — who has 50 citizen complaints, 20 use-of-force incidents, three suspensions and cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawsuits — has been REHIRED
#BecauseMiami
10-foot alligator with one foot missing crosses busy road, crawls under Florida man’s truck at red light, shakes it from beneath
#BecauseFlorida
(🎥: Daniel Jay Kaufman)
Miami resident and veteran branding and advertising specialist Thom Mozloom says, “Miami has a brand problem” because “guys like Billy Corben...[do] nothing but spew hate about Miami” and he would “like to shut Billy Corben up”
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and top aides lobbied for no-bid city contract (for services the city already had) for a tech company that was negotiating a deal with a firm paying the mayor $20,000/month, newly released emails reveal
#BecauseMiami
BECAUSE MIAMI FACT: Three of the deadliest structural collapses in the U.S. in the last 10 years occurred in Miami-Dade: MDC parking garage (2012, 4 dead), FIU pedestrian bridge (2018, 6 dead), and Champlain Towers South (2021, 98 dead).
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: BRAWLING BROS! CAFECITO COWBOYS! Today’s Miami Commission meeting ended with a vote to terminate city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez (effective in 5 months) — and a near brawl between Commissioner Miguel Gabela and Commissioner Joe Carollo
#BecauseMiami
GRAPHIC VIDEO: Couple appears to be engaged in oral sex in a car with kids in the backseat last night after the Heat game on Biscayne Boulevard/US-1 at NE 4th Street in Downtown Miami
#BecauseMiami
via Jay Alkhodary
#BREAKING
: The
@MiamiBeachPD
says anti-Semitic Covid conspiracy fliers were “distributed overnight in residential neighborhoods.” If you received one, please call MBPD at 305-673-7901.
#BecauseMiami
Affordability crisis, nation’s most expensive housing market, worst inflation, highest insurance premiums, corruption, failing infrastructure, bad jobs, no quality of life and hidden taxes have led to Miami’s first population drop in decades
#BecauseMiami
Third World Government, Fourth World Infrastructure: Tonight in Downtown Miami at the construction site of
@myfdot_miami
and
@MDXway
’s billion dollar boondoggle scam signature bridge. Completion was just delayed from 2023 to late 2027.
#BecauseMiami
🎥
@JHopLovesTrains
We not only vote at the ballot box, we can also vote with our wallets. Here are some of the Florida men, women and corporations who financed Trumpism and yesterday's coup attempt:
@MiamiDolphins
,
@Equinox
and
@soulcycle
owner Stephen Ross raised over $12 million for Trump. /1
#BREAKING
: Miami Commissioners vote 4-1 to remove
@VickyMendezEsq
as Miami city attorney, effective immediately, citing insubordination and lack of trust and confidence in her legal advice. Her final unethical act is to attack her clients on the way out the door.
#BecauseMiami
Lawyer who just won a $63.5 million judgement against corrupt Miami Commissioner
@JoeCarolloNow
said he “intends on seeking a discovery of Carollo’s assets and will move to garnish his wages and put a lien on his property as soon as Friday.”
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Miami city attorney
@VickyMendezEsq
under investigation by
@TheFlaBar
for alleged real estate fraud, preying on elderly homeowners, and now has second bar complaint for unprofessional conduct at last month’s city commission meeting
#BecauseMiami
#BREAKING
: Miami Beach mayoral candidate Michael Grieco — once arrested in illegal campaign finance scheme — left bag with ID, cash and Glock 43 handgun loaded with "six 9mm rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber" at South Pointe dog park on a Sunday morning
#BecauseMiami
This is the sound of Miami Commissioner Joe “Wifebeater” Carollo losing his home, socks and underwear to pay the $63.5 million judgment against him for weaponizing city government to violate the First Amendment Constitutional rights of Little Havana business owners.
#BecauseMiami
SHAKEDOWN AT SHAKE SHACK: Miami taxpayers waste over $1 million a year to take cops off the streets so they can babysit parttime Mayor Ponzi Postalita Francis Suarez while he exploits his public office for profit, eats burgers, and gets his eyebrows threaded
#BecauseMiami
We love Miami (ir)regardless of its problems. But we're missing a community-led editorial board providing an independent source of news and analysis that holds our leaders accountable. At we’re trying to save Miami (and the
@MiamiHerald
) from itself. Dále.
Did you bUy ThE d¡P last week, bro? If so, MiamiCoin dropped another 11% — down 88% from it’s all time high. If you invested $1,000 in September, it’s now worth $120. And your rent went up 36%.
#BecauseMiami