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                                SHARED FOR INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ABOUT CANDIDATES                   RUNNING IN FLORIDA!   He Joked About 15-Year-Olds. He Now Controls Foreign Policy. Brian Mast joked about having sex with 15-year-old girls. Mast was reelected four more times. Bernard Taylor is a firefighter and paramedic, he is running to take that seat. Blue On the Ballot Jul 5 In 2020, Brian Mast was forced to apologize for Facebook posts Mast wrote in 2009 and 2011. Mast called the posts “disgusting and inappropriate.” Those were Mast’s own words. About Mast’s own jokes. The jokes were about having sex with 15-year-old girls in South Africa. Mast also made a pick-up line involving rape or murder. Mast made those posts with a friend. That friend later became Mast’s campaign manager. Mast knew exactly who that man was. Mast ...

  Sunday Pages: "The Black Paintings" Fourteen paintings by Francisco de Goya Greg Olear Jul 5 Every piece at PREVAIL is free to read and always will be. No paywalls, ever. Your generous support keeps it that way. Thank you! Dear Reader, Madrid, the beautiful and vibrant city where I sit typing this, was founded in the mid-ninth century by the Emir of Córdoba. The name is a corruption of Maŷriţ , a derivation of the Arabic word for stream . That was during the Islamic period, before Ferdinand III of Castile “reconquered” the Iberian peninsula, repulsing the Almohads at Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. He was a pious king, was Ferdinand III, but he was not a fanatic. He recognized that the diversity of his dominions was Spain’s superpower. He took the land from the Almohads but did not try to stamp out their faith. He openly crowed about Spain being a kingdom of three great religions. Despite three centuries of proof of concept, his namesake, Ferdinand II of Aragon, did not agree....