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Creek Migration, Timucua Ground, and the Rise of the Alachua Seminoles (1700–1783) If you’ve ever driven through Interlachen, passed signs for Micanopy, crossed the Ocklawaha, or stood on the rim of Payne’s Prairie, you’ve already walked through Seminole history — whether you were told so or not. These names are not decorative. They are not accidental. They are echoes of a world that existed long before Florida became a territory, a state, or a destination. Long before borders, deeds, or railroads, this land already had governors, economies, and laws — and they were Indigenous. This is where that story begins. Ancient Ground: The Timucua World For thousands of years before European contact, north-central Florida — including what is now Putnam County — was part of a thriving Indigenous landscape shaped by the Timucua. The Interlachen region sat within the sphere of the Utina chiefdom, also known as the Agua Dulce (Freshwater) Timucua, whose territory stretched along the St. Johns Rive...

  Prison Blood, Political Access, and the Quiet Economy of Discretion (1960–2026) There is a moment that comes in long investigations when the facts stop behaving like isolated events and begin to line up. Not because someone is forcing them into a theory, but because they keep repeating the same shape. That is what happens when the history of the prison blood plasma industry is placed alongside the business and legal careers of Tony Rodham, Hugh Rodham, Dan Lasater, and the broader Clinton family access network. On the surface, these look like different stories: one about prisoners and plasma, another about bonds, pardons, and international ventures. But beneath that surface is a shared structure — a system that turns custody and discretion into commodities. This is not a story about secret conspiracies. It is a story about how power works when it is routinized, monetized, and rarely forced to explain itself. I. The Prison Blood Plasma System: Cummins Was the Hub, Not...