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The crowd is getting bigger and even though there’s cloud cover is freaking hot out here.

More people are showing up.

There two drones above the crowd. Don’t know who they belong to. Took a potato picture of one of them. You need a permit to fly a drone downtown though.

In case there were crisis actor rumors out there.

Law enforcement on top of the courthouse. Again, things are calm here. Everyone is being safe and respectful.

Counter protesters are here. Yelling “they took our jobs” on a megaphone

I still don’t really know what this means. Help me I’m old.

Brian Gavidia was NOT arrested. I spoke to him on the phone yesterday

Some personal news, round 2: I'm joining Texas Monthly this week as a senior editor, focusing on travel, the outdoors, TM's dining guide, and service packages. Leaving my role as Houstonia's EIC was a difficult decision, but when your dream pub calls...well, you pick up.

Texas DPS asked a migrant if he had tattoos. He didn't. They searched his phone and found a pic of him standing next to of a man that did. That was enough to label him Tren de Aragua, getting him shipped to El Salvador, lawyers say. via Alejandro Serrano texastribune.org/2025/06/18/tex…

NEW: Florida budget keeps full funding for AP, IB school programs next school year My latest for @OrlandoSentinel: orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/18/flo…

DeSantis uses emergency powers to seize ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ from Miami-Dade County tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…

What is 'Alligator Alcatraz'? Florida seizes Everglades land for immigrant detention center tallahassee.com/story/news/pol…

Agents used a foster kid as bait to locate the child's parents. It's one example of how the Trump administration’s deportation campaign is encircling vulnerable children and squeezing the agencies tasked with caring for them. w/ Ana Ceballos Syra Ortiz Blanes miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

"Trying to find the undocumented parents of a child living in the shelter, the agents staked out the parking lot of the office building, assuming they would eventually come there to visit their youngster."

More news: The DeSantis administration is looking to build not one, but two immigration detention camps in Florida — one in the Everglades nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz and the other on a military base in North Florida. miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

Quarter size hail in downtown Tallahassee moments ago. Show us your best photos and we may use them online or in print.

Flash Flood Warning including Tallahassee FL, Quincy FL and Midway FL until 8:15 PM EDT

While the federal government has given Florida officials its blessing to create an immigration detention center in the Everglades, tribal nations with ancestral ties to the land have not. tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…

Happy Screw Day for all who celebrate