Amanda Uliano

A lawyer by day, poker aficionado by night and Broadway star in her dreams.

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

@BaronDestructo Vala! She truly became an ally.

[Florida Politics @Fla_Pol]

State economists say homestead exemption increase could cost local governments nearly $12 billion a year

Reporting by @AGGancarski

#FlaPol

https://t.co/6HKFHuYXbg

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

@BaronDestructo Vala!!!

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

@AmazonMGMStudio @SGFansUnited #SaveStargate

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

@MichaelShanks You can GIF me any day 😉🤣

[Jeff Brandes @JeffreyBrandes]

Question:

Did we just trigger an affordable housing extinction event?

Under this proposal, a city or county could approve hundreds of starter homes, extend roads, add parks, increase sheriff patrols, expand fire coverage, and serve new residents…

…while receiving little or no additional property tax revenue from the first $250,000 of value.

Why would they do that?

Local governments respond to incentives just like everyone else.

If starter homes create costs but generate little revenue, what gets approved instead?

Higher-priced homes.

Commercial development.

Anything that helps pay the bills.

The danger isn’t that local officials suddenly become anti-affordable housing.

The danger is that we create a system where approving affordable housing becomes fiscally irrational.

Affordable housing doesn’t disappear because politicians vote against it.

It disappears because the math no longer works.

And when the math stops working, so do the building permits.

[Jeff Brandes @JeffreyBrandes]

3. If local governments can’t raise enough revenue locally, they won’t become smaller.

They’ll become dependent.

Dependent on Tallahassee grants.
Dependent on state appropriations.
Dependent on political decisions made hundreds of miles away.

The Governor and Legislature are about to become the unelected county commission for Volusia, Flagler, Hernando, Sumter, and dozens of other communities.

Because whoever controls the money ultimately controls the budget.

This isn’t just a tax debate.

It’s a transfer of power.

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

@BaronDestructo No! This is terrible news. I was so looking forward to returning to this world, meeting new characters and hopefully
Getting an update on Daniel and Vala 😉😌 @MichaelShanks @TheClaudiaBlack

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

@BaronDestructo Vala!

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

@BaronDestructo Vala!

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

@scottwolf The bread is acceptable - but the ketchup! No.

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

Mueller.

@nytimes
https://t.co/TB4AgITf6x

[HuffPost Politics @HuffPostPol]

Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies. https://t.co/vayenTqaDc

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The U.S. Olympic curling team enrages MAGA by tearing into ICE on the world stage and taking a brave stand for the embattled people of Minnesota: "There's no shades of gray" and "We love our country."

This is what real Americans sounds like...

"I'd like to say I'm proud to be here to represent Team USA and to represent our country. But we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been for everybody. This stuff is happening right around where we live," said Rich Ruohonen, the skip for the United States Men’s Curling Team. He is himself from Minnesota.

"And I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a Constitution," he continued. "And it allows us to freedom of the press and freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures and makes it that we have to, you know, have probable cause to be pulled over."

"And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong," he said. "There's no shades of gray. It's clear. And I really love what's been happening there now with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity, and respect for others that they don't know and helping them out and we love Minnesota for that."

"I want to make it clear that we are out here. We love our country," he went on. "We're playing for the U.S. We're playing for Team USA. And we're playing for each other, and we're playing for our family and our friends that sacrificed so much to get here today."

"And that doesn't change anything because what the Olympics means is excellence, respect, friendship," said Ruohonen. "And we all, I think, exemplify that. And we are playing for the people of Minnesota and the people around the country who share those same values, that compassion, that love, and that respect."

Ruohonen's words are especially courageous given the deranged rhetoric coming out of the Republican Party right now. Senator Rick Scott has called for any American Olympians who dare question the idea that U.S. is currently a beacon of "freedom and democracy" be "stripped of their USA Olympic uniform."

MAGA is not American. Real Americans believe in the sanctity of free speech. We proudly stand with our Olympic athletes!

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with our Olympics heroes!

[Brent Terhune in Cincinnatti July 11 @BrentTerhune]

MAGA didn’t watch bad bunny

[Amanda Uliano @audukelaw03]

👇

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

if you stand up and speak out against the depredations of Katie Miller's repugnant husband and the corrupt administration he serves, that MEANS you love America

[Michael Biesecker @NewsDudeAP]

Full statement from Micayla Pretti, younger sister of Alex Pretti, who was killed by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday:

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

The Pretti family’s heartbreaking request to all of us: get the truth out about our son.

Alex was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA whose last act was to protect the woman next to him. We will not let this Administration spread lies.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:

"We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."