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NEW: At least 30 people have been detained during an ICE raid at a construction site for off-campus student housing at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Detainees are being held inside a white bus with barred windows. One says he has residency.

Federal immigration agents descended on a construction site for new apartment buildings on Thursday morning, rounding up dozens of workers as distraught family members, friends and colleagues watched them be questioned and detained by authorities. miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

At least 50 Venezuelans who were deported and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador came to the U.S. legally and never violated immigration law, according to a new analysis from the libertarian Cato Institute. Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com/news/2025/05/2…

.Rick Scott says President Donald J. Trump's latest judge appointee will face questions on Hope Florida pnj.com/story/news/pol… via PNJ

Who will be the next Florida Department of Education commissioner? There's lots of talk surrounding this aide to Ron DeSantis. tampabay.com/news/education…

NEW w/Emily L. Mahoney: The golf course developer that wanted more than 300 acres of Florida state forest — a move the Cabinet granted early approval — is poised to do a 180 after backlash The company now wants to sell the state 340 acres for conservation tampabay.com/news/environme…

The power of public backlash: Last summer, golf resort Cabot Citrus was poised to get 324 acres of state forest, to much criticism. A year later, it could now strike a deal with the state to sell 340 acres and EXPAND the state forest. w/ Max Chesnes tampabay.com/news/environme…

ICYMI: A person posed as a "60 Minutes" producer to try to find out who was sharing intel re: the 600-acre land deal in NE Florida. The TV program confirmed they don't employ a producer by their name and did not interview DeSantis, as the person claimed. tampabay.com/news/environme…

About 100 people gathered outside Tampa city hall to protest ICE detentions of undocumented immigrants. Tampa Bay Times

~1 yr after the Tampa Bay Times revealed a deal to trade 324 acres of preserved forest to a luxury golf resort, top Florida officials approved buying 100s of acres of forest from the same resort for conservation. On the course reversal, w/ Max Chesnes: tampabay.com/news/environme…

NEW: Florida child welfare agency turned over a migrant teenage boy in foster care to ICE, a move that appears to violate a 30-year-old state rule that prohibits workers from acting upon a child’s status miamiherald.com/news/politics-… w/ Carol Marbin Miller Syra Ortiz Blanes

NEW: The fired state employee who leaked plans to develop nine Florida state parks is suing the DeSantis admin for retaliation In the lawsuit, James Gaddis alleges he was directed to keep the park plans secret (Tallahassee Democrat first reported) tampabay.com/news/environme…

NEW: Duke Energy released a study last month that estimated it would cost >$1B for Clearwater to drop its services, more than the city’s entire annual budget. The consultants hired by Duke have a history of producing soaring estimates in other states: tampabay.com/news/business/…

NEWS: A Miami federal judge has found Attorney General James Uthmeier in contempt of court for violating her restraining order to stop enforcing a new state law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants when they arrive in Florida. miamiherald.com/news/local/com… by Jay Weaver

Worth noting: Zalupski was rumored to be behind the controversial proposal recently to trade away 600 acres of St. Johns County preserved wilderness We’ve asked his company lawyer multiple times if Zalupski was involved in his personal capacity and have never received a response

Two big Florida stories converging.

Records show both the American Petroleum Institute and Chevron lobbied on the bill.