They came by air. An endless stream of corporate jets and helicopters landed at Miami Executive Airport, disgorging hordes of bewildered, bedraggled New Yorkers in scuffed Louis Vuittons and rumpled Paul Smiths. They came by sea. Super and mega yachts crowded the Port...
Pete Hegseth, the United States’ Secretary of WhatsApp Group Spam, today announced that the USS Lyndon B. Johnson, a Zumwalt-class destroyer based in Key West, launched a Tomahawk cruise missile that sank a 45-foot yacht anchored just off Downtown Miami. “We got ‘em!”...
Upon reflection that its unilateral $67 million donation of prime Downtown Miami property simply wasn’t sufficient to honor America’s Dear Leader, Miami Dade College’s Board of Trustees recently voted to hand over its entire Wolfson Campus to build Donald Trump’s...
Miami’s politicians swelled with pride at announcing they were rapidly spending $840 million to build a thing literally no one in their city even remotely wanted. When their constituents forthrightly declared that they didn’t want the thing and would really rather...
This is the fourth essay in a five-part series. To read the previous piece, see here.Reorgy Week At the tail end of Beast, my squad sat on the ground beside Lake Fredrick, the field camp where we’d spent the last several weeks, backs against our rucksacks. The...