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'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows

DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for ICE detention centers

yup, as we enter hurricane season #FEMA 's budget is cut and the money is being spent building a concentration camp in #Florida

#AlligatorAlcatraz #ICE #ConcentrationCamp

dropsitenews.com/p/alligator-a

Drop Site News · 'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document ShowsBy Ka (Jessica) Burbank

#USpolitics #ICE [1] TheyPoop

"PRACTICAL Questions #duet #everglades #environment #maga #ice #immigration #concentrationcamp" [ ± 1-3 min]
by hawkpodcasts
----- the video that 'he' borrowed this from is here:
---> Trump's Alligator Alcatraz Like a KILL SHELTER FOR DOGS, Dem Candidate Blasts <- [9:32 min] by Status Coup News
---> youtube.com/watch?v=jDlr3Z2imls <-

youtube.com/shorts/YDV7etM1Ni0

Quote by hpc, the shorter version:
"Jul 7, 2025
Practical Questions About The New Concentration Camp in the Everglades in Florida - Where Will The Sewage Go? Are They Going to Dump Raw Sewage In The Water?"

Quote by SCN, the longer version:
" Jul 6, 2025
Status Coup's Ashley Bishop was in Ochopee Florida where she talked with protesters outside Alligator Alcatraz. One person was Cindy Banyai, a Florida House candidate about why she is against this ICE detention center and more."

#USriseUp #FascistsAreHere
#TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#TalkAboutIt #CallYourRep
#VoteUpAndDownTheBallot

Minnesota History
The Fort Snelling Concentration Camp

"The Dakota non-combatants arrived at Fort Snelling on November 13, 1862, and encamped on the bluff of the Minnesota River about a mile west of the fort. Shortly after, Marshall and his soldiers moved the Dakota to the river bottom directly below the fort. In December soldiers built a concentration camp, a wooden stockade more than 12 feet high enclosing an area of two or three acres, on the river bottom. More than 1,600 Dakota people were moved inside. A warehouse just outside the camp was used as a hospital and mission station. Throughout the camp's existence, soldiers of the Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiments guarded the stockade, controlling movement in and out. It is estimated that between 130 and 300 Dakota people died over the winter of 1862–63, mainly due to measles, other diseases, and harsh conditions."
mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/us

Minnesota Historical SocietyThe US-Dakota War of 1862This National Historic Landmark resides on Dakota homeland, known as Bdote, with history spanning 10,000 years. Learn stories of the military fort and its surrounding area, home to a wide history that includes Native peoples, trade, soldiers and veterans, enslaved people, immigrants, and the changing landscape.
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@danwentzel
"They" want you to give it cute names like Gator Gulag.

It gives them something to root for. Something to put on Tshirts.

Nothing blows their dresses up like taking a term Democrats use with disgust, and plastering it over an American Flag and selling it on Tshirts.

Lets stick with #ConcentrationCamp.

American Heritage Dictionary:
Concentration Camp -
noun
1- A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect.
2- A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions.
3- A camp where large numbers of persons—such as political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees—are detained for the purpose of concentrating them in one place

The "city upon a hill," (John Winthrop, 1630), was founded on the curtailment of others' rights, lives. "Alligator Alcatraz . . . could hardly be more American. It channels this country’s long history of paranoia, xenophobia & systematic exclusion thru the grotesque 20th-century innovation of the #concentrationcamp, all of that repackaged as an aggressively stupid meme complete w/AI-slop images, Etsy insta-merch & an almost lifelike salesbot in #Noem.

salon.com/2025/07/06/alligator

#USPol
#Fascism

Salon.com · Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side - Salon.comYeah, it's a concentration camp. It's also a meme, a troll and an especially ugly distillation of American history

Etsy is selling "Alligator Alcatraz" psychopathic merchandise & refuses to take it down.

Well, this assures I refrain from shopping on Etsy for a while--at least until they take down this evil fascist shit.

Boycott! I'll also write them a scathing email.

I've been a devoted Etsy shopper for years.

Continued thread

The author of this article "visited four continents to write a global history of concentration camps. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model: mass civilian detention without real trials targeting vulnerable groups for political gain based on ethnicity, race, religion or political affiliation rather than for crimes committed. And its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country."

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

MSNBC · The case for calling Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz' a concentration campBy Andrea Pitzer