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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Detainees held in Donald Trumpf's new jungle gulag in Florida are finding worms in their food. Toilets don't flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere. Prisoners began arriving at this torture chamber on 2 July. Inside the compound's large white tents, rows of bunk beds are surrounded by chain-link cages. Detainees go days without showering or getting prescription medicine, and they are only able to speak by phone to lawyers and loved ones. At times the air conditioners abruptly shut off in the sweltering heat. Insider accounts paint a picture of the place as unsanitary and lacking in adequate medical care, pushing some into a state of extreme distress. "The conditions in which we are living are inhuman," a Venezuelan detainee said by phone from the facility. "My main concern is the psychological pressure they are putting on people to sign their self-deportation."

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The ACLU describes the facility as state-sponsored cruelty and an attack on indigenous people's sovereignty. In a strongly worded statement posted to the Archdiocese of Miami's website, Archbishop Thomas Wenski condemned the conditions at the remote detention site in the Everglades: "It is unbecoming of public officials and corrosive of the common good to speak of the deterrence value of alligators and pythons' at the Collier-Dade facility." Democratic lawmakers filed a lawsuit to gain access to this torture chamber. Conservation groups warned government agencies in a legal filing that they're breaking the law by failing to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve from the increasingly destructive effects of this horrible Bastille in the swamp. Sources:
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    #1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-12 04:44 AM | Reply

    The Lincoln Project is what the moderate GOP wing was, before the party went courting Southern racialist Democrats to them them into Southern racialist Republicans.

    #2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-12 06:01 AM | Reply

    i.pinimg.com

    #3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-12 06:21 AM | Reply

    Dachau didn't originally have an oven either.

    #4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-12 06:24 AM | Reply

    Follow the money.

    #5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-12 06:32 AM | Reply

    Years ago in NYC, both mobsters and cops used to ditch incriminating evidence in the hyper-toxic Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. NYPD scuba divers needed triple-layering to enter the mire. This gulag and the surrounding swamp looks like a great way to get rid of "things."

    The water in this photo of the Gowanus Canal looks much cleaner than from years ago: upload.wikimedia.org

    #6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-12 06:46 AM | Reply

    OH MA FAWKING GAWD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    prisoners not happy with....prison.

    wow....first time I've ever heard of that ? ( sarcasm dumfx

    --and I'm not buying any of that.

    dems are lying trash

    #7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-12 09:50 AM | Reply

    OH MA FAWKING GAWD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    #7 | POSTED BY NAZIDAN

    Of course Nazis don't care that people are being illegally arrested and sent to a concentration camp without due process.

    Not sure that's the flex you think it is.

    Or maybe it is.

    Perhaps some of you have stopped pretending to disagree with the actions of the Nazis party and are glad Americans following suit.

    #8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-12 02:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

    Lawmakers decry 'horrific' conditions at Alligator Alcatraz

    OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) " What was meant to be a surprise inspection turned into a tightly managed tour, but what Florida lawmakers saw inside Alligator Alcatraz left them horrified.

    komonews.com

    #9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-12 10:13 PM | Reply

    The Burmese python, an invasive species in Florida, can absorb entire skeletons: www.miamiherald.com

    The Everglades is a mobster's delight and a perfect place for Trumpf's infernal swamp Bastille.

    #10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-13 11:08 AM | Reply

    I heard PETA is about to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, on count of the alligators decline in health from all the ethnic food.

    #11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-13 12:52 PM | Reply

    #11 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

    Don't quite your day job.

    Do you have a day job?

    Or are you just rotting away in that trailer your great grandfather left your mom?

    #12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-13 01:02 PM | Reply

    Then there is this:

    " Conversation

    Blaise Ingoglia
    @GovGoneWild
    Just finished my walkthrough of Alligator Alcatraz. Here's what I saw:

    The rhetoric coming from Democrats does not match the reality.

    The place is well run, safe, secure, clean and air conditioned.

    We reviewed the intake area, medical tent, mess hall, recreation areas and sleeping quarters.

    I actually laid down in one of the beds and it was really comfortable.

    So, any complaints about squalor conditions is nothing more than ------- and political theater"

    x.com

    #13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-13 01:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

    Loser Jeff gets his news from twitter
    lol

    #14 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-07-13 01:35 PM | Reply

    en.m.wikipedia.org

    Lololololololololol

    #15 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-07-13 01:37 PM | Reply

    BullBringer gets his propaganda straight from Goebbels himself!

    #16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-13 01:51 PM | Reply

    " Loser Jeff gets his news from twitter
    lol

    #14 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2025-07-13 01:35 PM | FLAG: "

    A firsthand account of the facility by a Senator. FTFY

    #17 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-13 01:57 PM | Reply

    "The place is well run, safe, secure, clean and air conditioned."

    Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said: "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it justice. They are essentially packed into cages. Wall to wall humans. Thirty-two detainees per cage ... . There are three tiny toilets that ... have a sink attached to it, so ... they get their drinking water and they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit." Nine hundred men are currently in the facility.

    #18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 02:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

    "So, any complaints about squalor conditions is nothing more than ------- and political theater"

    ^
    Just setting the stage to send Undesirable American Citizens to Republican Concentration Camps.
    Because it's so humane, you see.
    It's just better for everyone to keep the non-violent Undesirables separate from Good American Citizens.
    Everyone knows that.

    I can promise you JeffJ has no complaints that Americans are already being detained by ICE.

    #19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 02:09 PM | Reply

    "A firsthand account of the facility by a Senator."

    Sure. Totally impartial and unbiased. This is the same State Senator who authored the Ultimate Cancel Act hoping to outlaw the Democratic Party in Florida. Naturally, JeffJ is okay with that too.

    In February 2023, Ingoglia filed SB 1248, titled the "Ultimate Cancel Act,"[10] that would cancel the filings of any political party that previously supported slavery or involuntary servitude, automatically changing the registration of affected voters to "no party affiliation." The bill was created in an attempt to outlaw the Florida Democratic Party, which historically supported slavery before and during the American Civil War, as well as a criticism of cancel culture, stating that it would be "hypocritical not to cancel the Democrat Party [sic] itself."[11][12] en.wikipedia.org

    #20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 02:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

    "A firsthand account of the facility by a Senator."

    Let's see the pictures of this concentration camp in action, then.
    Let's see the press reporting on the conditions inside the Concentration Camp.

    Reporter's 1978 account of deadly ambush, Jonestown tragedy
    "I wondered why it happened. My best guess is that Jones felt the press people weren't fooled by the staged setup at the mission. After all, we had seen things we weren't supposed to see. We demanded to see the locked buildings where some members lived in crowd, uncomfortable conditions."
    apnews.com

    #21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 02:34 PM | Reply

    The Nazis described their concentration camps as well run, safe, secure, and clean too.

    They forced the imprisoned Jews to put on a show for the Red Cross to prove to them how happy they were living in a concentration camp.

    BullBringer would have rejoiced at how wonderful concentration camps are. Just like he is now.

    BullBringer. You're a Nazi.

    #22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-13 02:39 PM | Reply

    "They forced the imprisoned Jews to put on a show for the Red Cross to prove to them how happy they were living in a concentration camp."

    ^
    Ingoglia's comments is a scene by scene description of that movie.

    #23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 03:14 PM | Reply

    "any complaints about squalor conditions is nothing more than ------- and political theater""

    Are you saying the footage of flooding was fake?

    How can prisoners be safe and secure when a basic downpour floods the place, especially in a hurricane zone?!?

    #24 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-13 04:38 PM | Reply

    How can prisoners be safe

    He doesn't give a shht about innocent people who are brown.

    Unlike the insurrectionists he defended tooth and nail because they're white.

    #25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-13 04:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

    "How can prisoners be safe"

    Since when do prisoners have the right to be safe?

    If the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to America's political prisoners, why should the Eighth Amendment apply to America' political prisoners?

    The Cruelty Is The Point.

    #26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 05:21 PM | Reply

    5 other states are looking at their own iterations of this model.

    One of the suggested names is Juantonamo Bay.

    #27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-13 07:04 PM | Reply

    5 other states are looking at their own iterations of this model.
    #27 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

    Must really make your Nazi heart swell with pride.

    #28 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-13 07:06 PM | Reply

    Ah, good. Then perhaps 5 other states will have lawmakers of both parties who tour the place... and are outraged at the inhumane conditions they find, just as in this case.

    per #9

    #29 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-13 07:09 PM | Reply

    "5 other states are looking at their own iterations of this model."

    The Federal Gravy Train model?
    Of course they are.

    #30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 07:41 PM | Reply

    One of the suggested names is Juantonamo Bay.
    #27 | Posted by BellRinger

    ^
    Thanks for making it clear this is about cleansing the land of Latinos.

    #31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 07:41 PM | Reply

    More fulfilling of whiteman subjugation fantasies.

    #32 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-07-14 09:08 AM | Reply

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