Ken Winker (@kenwinker) profile picture

Retired as an analyst from the Florida Legislature, plays the Blues harp, loves to read, and I am a curious man. Also, I play the uke.

Tallahassee, FL
Joined November 2008
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Ken Winker retweeted
A grocery company that experiments on shoppers to see how much it can overcharge them is merging with a delivery company that tracks their every click and scroll to do the same. Two of America's biggest ripoff machines should not become one. The FTC must block this merger.
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Just last month, DoorDash couldn’t seem to find the money to pay their deliveristas — until our administration forced them to give back $131M+ in stolen wages and penalties. This week, they’ve managed to find $17 billion to acquire one of their main competitors. Corporate consolidation means higher prices, harsher exploitation, and greater economic inequality for New Yorkers. We’ve stood up to these giants before. That doesn’t stop now.
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Ken Winker retweeted
I saw Flavio Bolsonaro had the audacity to thank the American people for “taking him in.” I don’t know why he said this? The American people didn’t do anything; his puppeteer, TRUMP did. We don’t want him here. Common-sense Americans want our tax dollars spent on OUR healthcare, OUR roads, OUR schools, but instead, the Republicans are using them to let this guy live the movie star life with our money. The Republicans have lost their minds. I don’t want to pay for this guy! Who the hell does he think he is? Not only is he stealing from the American taxpayer, he is further calling himself the “leader of Brazil,” after he just got smacked in an election. This is blatant election denialism, and it represents the dangerous, anti-democracy ideology that must not be allowed in our country. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST NOT BE THIS GROWN MAN’S SUGAR DADDY! When Democrats win this election, unlike Flavio, every dollar going towards this sham must be investigated and DEFUNDED. That security detail? DEFUNDED. When Trump is gone, the Bolsonaros must be deported. They are not “asylum seekers”; they are authoritarians leeching off the hard-working American taxpayer. We work too hard for this. Enough.
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Hey Ashley…….you are so full of shit!
THE COMMUNISTS ARE COMING! Florida, we need to show up and VOTE! They are coming for Florida - our nation’s flagship for freedom. We will never let them tear down what we have built. Florida IS Freedom.
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Ken Winker retweeted
You do not actually have to worry about that Sir ..IT DOES NOT happen
Abbott: And I care about our children. I don't want to see them transgendered at school.
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Flávio Bolsonaro is a foreign national under criminal investigation. Rubio is colluding with him to evade justice. Cowardly fascists and authoritarian thugs used to flee to Russia or Saudi Arabia to escape accountability. This administration welcomes them to America. Disgusting.
Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family have landed in Miami after fleeing his country. This comes a day after they were granted United States visas by the Trump administration.
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Hey coach….you look like shit with that “beard” you’re trying to grow.
"We all have a job to do and at the end of the day my job is to...go out there and to get the desired results, that's what we all aspire for on a daily basis." Mike Norvell reacts to statement from FSU president Richard McCullough
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Thank you my friend, Rep. @CarlosGimenezFL! Socialist Angie Nixon wants to turn Florida and the rest of this nation into Communist Cuba. Together, we will never let that happen!
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Some ask why I’m posting so much about Flavio Bolsonaro, but the answer is simple: Trump says we have no money for *our* health care, but can pay for this THUG to jet-set around our country with *our* money. You see that private jet? It’s a middle finger to every American that’s feeling these high prices right now because REPUBLICANS raised them. The government always tells you they have no money for your life, but can roll out the red carpet for a criminal illegal alien who is being investigated for money laundering in his own country. His family gets to live the movie star life, while the Republicans protecting him raise your prices to benefit the elites funding their campaigns. It’s disgraceful. Flavio needs to become a national American symbol for the right’s contempt for us, the American taxpayer. Deport Flavio! Have the last laugh and give them all the finger on Election Day!
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I’m sending a sledgehammer message to shipping companies whose tankers are transporting illegal Russian diesel to our ports. Reverse course while there’s still time.
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Apparently it’s a no- no to post a partial or any photo of a ballot. So I took the photo down - my bad- and will only say I voted for all democrats. And that of course includes David Jolly- Gwen Graham ticket for governor and also Angie Nixon for Senator.
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Flavio Bolsonaro, I hear you have never worked a day in your life. Now that Brazil is working to freeze your assets, it appears you now seek to be a leech on the American taxpayer’s dime. That won’t fly here. You see, there’s an election here in a few days, and just like you, the right-wing traitors will see a historic defeat. I feel very confident that Democrats will use their new mandate to defund your new luxury life here, while you await deportation, so we can spend it on more important things, like *our* health care. *Our* children deserve to go to a doctor more than your jet-setting. Then, for the first time ever, you will have to get a job, but if we Americans have it our way, no one will hire you. Your dad’s Trump and Rubio’s grift of the American taxpayer is coming to an end real soon! Your deportation will follow. Enjoy!
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Her own performance got her fired. And Sean Hannity. I don’t think “the media” especially loved Karoline Leavitt, but she wasn’t fired. Of course, Trump is the one who hired and fired her, but can’t ever blame the cult leader.
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Losing an election is not grounds for asylum. Yet the Trump Administration is giving Flávio Bolsonaro safe haven in the United States. In Brazil, he is under investigation for alleged corruption, money laundering and currency evasion, and was ordered to surrender his passports. The Trump Administration owes Congress answers on its role helping Bolsonaro flee Brazil in contravention of Brazilian law. apnews.com/article/brazil-fl…
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Ken Winker retweeted
Angie Nixon: I haven’t been involved in corrupt schemes like diverting $10 million of taxpayer dollars from sick kids…used a seat in the U.S. Senate to trade millions of dollars in stocks...I haven’t had donors who were in the EPSTEIN FILES. Ashley Moody has a WHOLE LOTTA EXPLAINING TO DO.
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Ken Winker retweeted
AOC takes the stage in Kissimmee, FL for Boricuas for Angie Nixon rally
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Ken Winker retweeted
Mark Zuckerberg is flat out trying to fuck with the election. @finkd @Meta
Hey @Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie @Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event. This page is a critical communication tool for reaching Latino voters and mobilizing our community. With just seven days until Election Day, every minute matters. We are calling on Meta to immediately restore the page and provide an explanation for its removal. Voters deserve access to critical election information, especially in these final days. @andymstone
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Hey @Meta 👋We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie @instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event. This page is a critical communication tool for reaching Latino voters and mobilizing our community. With just seven days until Election Day, every minute matters. We are calling on Meta to immediately restore the page and provide an explanation for its removal. Voters deserve access to critical election information, especially in these final days. @andymstone
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What is FSU waiting for? AD let go a month ago and you’re just now saying a search for a new AD is starting soon? So…new AD…then fire head coach? Can’t wait for another FSU statement.
FSU President Richard McCullough's statement comes a month after the university announced that Michael Alford would no longer be serving as FSU’s vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics.
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