And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.
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They won't stop until each camp is overloaded with so many people the only final solution will be to kill them to make room for more. If much of the Church says nothing, and does nothing, what is the point of claiming to follow Jesus?
jul 2, 2025, 12:09 pm • 4 0 • view
I think they will fly some to El Salvador, to die there.
jul 2, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
So tired of this Jesus/Bible/religion "special pleading" BS. Religion doesn't yield peace, forgiveness... It's a tool the powerful use to warp and control minds. Religion supports war, slavery, nazis, Oct 7th, Gaza genocide, stake burning and will do so again. Enlightenment beat dark ages.
jul 3, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s face it:whatever anyone’s religious or spiritual beliefs, whatever someone identifies themselves as, the thing that matters is HOW THEY TREAT ALL OTHERS. That speaks far more clearly than any label.NO label will hide cruelty,indecency or sadism. Not now, not ever. The administration is rotten.
jul 2, 2025, 12:47 pm • 5 1 • view
Republicans can thump those Bibles but refuse to read or abide by the Will of God.
jul 3, 2025, 9:28 am • 3 1 • view
What do we do in the face of such evil?
jul 2, 2025, 2:14 am • 4 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 6:03 am • 2 0 • view
It more comparable to early German concentration camps than to the interment camps that you reference. Donald Trump is an American Hitler and Republicans are American version of Nazis.
jul 2, 2025, 11:20 am • 5 0 • view
It’s quite a step worse. They’re packed into overcrowded tin cans and rarely allowed outside their cages. Japanese concentration camps were horrific. This is an amplified level of cruelty. It will be seen by the world as a war crime/crime against humanity. #NoFascistUSA bsky.app/profile/jamu...
jul 14, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
It’s gonna cost $450 million a year and guess what FEMA is footing that bill… I’d like to know what’s gonna be left for hurricane victims and I’d also like to know what they plan to do with all of those people when there is a hurricane!
jul 2, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately, quite a few Catholics voted for him: www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265015/...
jul 2, 2025, 12:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Even if they were all violent criminals, it doesn't matter. Nobody is to be deprived of liberty without due process, period.
jul 2, 2025, 3:17 am • 131 9 • view
And definitely not in a place where they can be attacked by alligators or pythons.
jul 2, 2025, 3:21 am • 20 1 • view
I am 110% repulsed by pop-up concentration camps, to say nothing of the sadistic showboating, but the compulsive nerd in me needs to point out that a Burmese python mature enough to take large (100lbs+) prey eats probably once every 5 weeks. Gators, on the other hand . . .
jul 2, 2025, 5:29 am • 12 0 • view
Facts are always good, thank you.
jul 2, 2025, 5:30 am • 2 0 • view
Appreciate your grace. ✌️
jul 2, 2025, 5:34 am • 2 0 • view
They won't even need that....they got it done just in time for hurricane season. What happens to a lit of people licked in a cage protected by a tent during a hurricane? They know.
jul 2, 2025, 12:14 pm • 3 0 • view
The nonhuman animals aren’t a real danger What will kill people are heat, inadequate food and water, lack of sanitation, and lack of medical care They’re using wildlife to distract from the human cruelty inherent in this
jul 2, 2025, 7:24 pm • 5 0 • view
It's also in the middle of nowhere, so people can't get there to protest or visit.
jul 2, 2025, 7:31 pm • 3 0 • view
The evil has returned, Father. It was clear in 2016 where this was headed, yet so many claimed our concerns were unfounded, yet here we are.
jul 2, 2025, 10:53 am • 12 1 • view
Hell, my holocaust surviving great grandparents were saying this back in 2001 when those tea party whack jobs popped up all over the place. This shit is exactly what they wanted.
jul 2, 2025, 11:31 am • 11 0 • view
“Alcatraz” presumes they are criminals. Call it what it is… Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 1:42 pm • 3 0 • view
😭
jul 2, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Concentration camp may be overly optimistic: we may end up having to call it an exterminationcamp. You know, like Treblinka, etc.
jul 2, 2025, 12:58 pm • 3 0 • view
If Jesus were to really come back to Earth, a lot of people might be surprised that don't meet muster, if God really is who I was taught He was. Then again...we don't know the "mind" of God. Jesus must have done a whole bunch of crying since man's creation.
jul 2, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Horrible
jul 2, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
No words and the world is watching. Watching and praying from Canada.
jul 5, 2025, 1:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Those camps were much nicer than these. And Canada did it too. Both sides of my ex husbands family was in camps for 2 years in Canada. They were all citizens and most were born there.
jul 2, 2025, 12:37 pm • 5 1 • view
I tend to agree. Neglect is one thing, but when you put a concentration camp in the Everglades with no AC or oversight, you are purposely torturing and killing people.
jul 2, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
It is a concentration camp, much like Nazis used the swamps of Poland for the same. That these people would use the opportunity as a photo op is so inhumane, so despicable!
jul 2, 2025, 2:50 am • 10 1 • view
jul 2, 2025, 12:47 pm • 9 2 • view
Thank you Father Martin. Please never stop speaking up. We need clergy to speak up in this time. The Sacrificial love of Jesus Christ will uphold us. We must imitate Christ in these times & make sacrifices. Even if that means losing our own lives to protect others. St.Edith Pray for us.
jul 2, 2025, 8:07 am • 1 0 • view
Please be reminded, the 900+ pgs of Proj. 2025 published was Phase I. Vought, 1 of the main founders & authors of the Project, indoctrinated Vance. He made a comment to 2 reporters, posing as people who wanted 2 be involved, that there was a Phase II that wouldn’t be published 4 the public 2 see.
jul 2, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 1 • view
Make no mistake this camp exists to get its victims to sign "voluntary" deportation orders by means of misery and death. Its vileness cannot be overstated.
jul 2, 2025, 2:19 am • 8 1 • view
Worse than that.
jul 3, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
I keep praying for justice.
jul 2, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
May God help us all. And if this ever ends, may we endeavor to hold all of them responsible for crimes against humanity
jul 2, 2025, 1:46 am • 53 0 • view
Help us all to take action, right? The power of prayer is close to zero.
jul 2, 2025, 11:23 am • 5 0 • view
Prayers are hopes; hopes can become will and then action. So yes, help us to speak out and take action. But if a lightning bolt struck the orange clown one day, I won’t weep.
jul 2, 2025, 12:00 pm • 10 0 • view
I’m so with you
jul 2, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Then hope is a viable word.
jul 2, 2025, 12:02 pm • 2 0 • view
So is prayer. But yes, prayers for the strength to do everything we can and at least a bit more. Hope to bring others into the actions by our words and deeds. Today we need to be calling the House about the bill that is funding this horror show.
jul 2, 2025, 2:36 pm • 3 0 • view
and also, unironically, defunding programs that made America great!
jul 2, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I am going to skip talking about Medicaid and Billionaires for a few days. That seems to be well covered (except when I call my electeds). I don't see a lot about the lesser issues of Medicare and funding ICE as a Gestapo.
jul 2, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
...but stupid criminal pervert prez selling gold card immigrant papers
jul 2, 2025, 7:46 pm • 3 0 • view
To cartel members’ families! What is wrong with this picture!
jul 2, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
All this won't stop until "the people" make it stop. Every decent American needs to stand up against these fascist moves, before it's too late and peaceful protest isn't possible anymore because they'll declare it illegal. Time is running out -_-
jul 2, 2025, 11:58 am • 2 1 • view
Instead of crying about it, maybe Jesus should get his ass back here and fix some of the shit he helped break. He should bring his dad too 👍
jul 2, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Heartbreaking. I'm weeping.
jul 2, 2025, 3:31 am • 3 0 • view
If Jesus existed, Republicans wouldn't.
jul 2, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
All of this is happening in Jesus name. Had your cult never existed we’d live in a much kinder world.
jul 2, 2025, 12:11 pm • 4 0 • view
Ask George Takei about this. He knows.
jul 2, 2025, 7:28 am • 14 0 • view
So what are we going to do about it?
jul 2, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Today's reading, Father Martin, are about the outcasts of one stripe or another (7/2/25): Hagar and Ishmael. Matthew's demoniacs. The LORD hears the cry of the poor. We need to turn to them as well. Ishmael under a desert bush, his mother not wanting to watch him die. USAID. That's where we are.
jul 2, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm tired of Jesus weeping. I'm ready to flip tables.
jul 2, 2025, 2:06 am • 7 0 • view
I would go further. People will die in those conditions. Future historians will describe them as America's Death Camps. #AlligatorAuschwitz
jul 2, 2025, 1:17 pm • 194 21 • view
God forbid it ever gets to the level, but honestly this is correct right? Like the Japanese internment camps were horrifying in their own right, but these look like WAY less humane conditions already. So shameful.
jul 2, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Concur. And look how well that went down after the fact.
jul 2, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
In tents, in the Everglades? Surrounded by dangerous reptiles? No doubt. I believe this is our Evil Regime's perfect prison, for when they meet their downfall. It is coming.
jul 2, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
There are more than 500 known mosquito-borne viruses and at least 100 can cause disease in humans. news.yale.edu/2021/11/22/r... IOW it's a human science experiment.
jul 2, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
The prison guards will suffer too, this shameful chapter in American history.
jul 2, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Probably with criminal records. They will probably have access to mosquito repellent. Medical.
jul 2, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, mosquitos definitely bad. What about hurricanes? This administration is comicbook villany.
jul 3, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
If only it was. Sadly America is heading for a fusion of The Handmaid's Tale and 1984. www.goodreads.com/quotes/13943... "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."
jul 3, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
I'll go further still. People will be killed. If the conditions are deliberately inhumane and people die as a result, it's murder.
jul 2, 2025, 2:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep. Intent might be difficult to prove unless some scientists/ doctors go on the record.
jul 2, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. It's almost a cliche to say "If you want to know what you have would have been doing in 1930's Germany, look at what you're doing right now" but it seems to become truer and truer every day that this administration is in power.
jul 2, 2025, 1:51 pm • 105 9 • view
If we let this move forward, Nazi Germany will start to look like kindergarten
jul 2, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
One wld strongly argue that the Nazis were more humane. In as much there was the excuse of a de lousing shower. So the Jews and Sinti and Roma and Homosexuals and... could pretend it was a work camp. Right up till the last. Current detainees don't know what will happen. And neither does this Govt.
jul 2, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Concur. I would like to think I would be in a basement somewhere in Berlin churning out antiNazi, proCommunist propaganda... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestetner
jul 2, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a sickening feeling. We will never be able to say "we didn't know". These people are monstrous and are rubbing our faces in it.
jul 2, 2025, 2:26 pm • 53 5 • view
It's the gloating. They revel in being evil... The pager is reportedly mounted on a slice of a Lebanese farmer's olive tree presumably felled by the IDF. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
jul 2, 2025, 2:39 pm • 23 3 • view
It's the gloating and knowing we live in a country where people are so depraved as to be cheering this and buying merch to celebrate. I'm heartsick.
jul 2, 2025, 2:50 pm • 38 2 • view
Wait til they pass the murder bill. The largest gloat in US history.
jul 2, 2025, 3:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Also making me feel sick.
jul 2, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
My solution(s) Stop Fox from broadcasting hate speech. Teach critical thinking in your schools. Teach the responsibilities of Citizenship. Rot starts from the head. SCOTUS. Fire the lot. Remove Presidential nomination. Sortilege from senior judges w. fixed terms and an oath of non partizan justice.
jul 2, 2025, 2:57 pm • 19 1 • view
That statement hasn’t been a cliche since 2015. Trump has been following the Nazi’s rise to power like it’s a step-by-step manual. It’s been painfully obvious since he first started campaigning, it was never a secret or an exaggeration to call him or his goals fascist.
jul 2, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 4, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 1 • view
Not going to "like" that image. But yes... If he is going to work for the Gestapo he's gonna have to shave the beard off.
jul 4, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Definitely this is a death camp.
jul 2, 2025, 2:25 pm • 4 0 • view
jul 3, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 1 • view
Quicksilver Messenger... Justice!
jul 3, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/dell...
jul 2, 2025, 1:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Republicans like it BECAUSE it’s a concentration camp. They view anyone who isn’t white, heterosexual and Christian as less than human. That’s why they could not care less about all the death that will result from cuts to USAID. Brown people in foreign countries aren’t human to them. 🤬
jul 2, 2025, 2:29 pm • 7 1 • view
You have hit the nail on the head. And yet, none of the haters have horns or tails or really look evil, well except Miller. They smile sweetly at the grocery store. Share stories of their grandchildren. I don't know how to reach them.
jul 2, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Don’t forget Homan. He looks like a lunkheaded goon.
jul 2, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn't he really just look stupid? I'm not sure what stupid looks like, but I would assume Trump and Homan have it.
jul 2, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Laughing about a hell alligator infested prison shows their dark soul or lack thereof 😢
jul 2, 2025, 6:15 am • 2 0 • view
It's more like Auschwitz!
jul 2, 2025, 11:59 am • 5 0 • view
My heart has rage. Silent rage… I can’t even really pray for forgiveness for them without feeling hollow in what I’m thinking and saying
jul 2, 2025, 7:56 am • 4 0 • view
I'm having a really hard time forgiving right now. I feel like I should but I just can't. Not right now.😪
jul 2, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Because they haven’t seen their error.
jul 2, 2025, 11:15 am • 3 0 • view
The internment camps *were* concentration camps.
jul 2, 2025, 2:52 am • 12 0 • view
They haven't done any crime, but they eat dogs and cats (in accordance with Mr orange potus 🤡)
jul 2, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It's all in the Project 2025 manifesto .. you somehow expected a different result?
jul 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
We all must refer to it as a concentration camp. It is exactly what it is. Language matters.
jul 5, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
And remember 100% #Palestine infants have no record of any violent crimes yet we are letting them starve. We are bombing them. We keep sending more bombs. #Infantcide Speak up, speak up for #Gaza
jul 3, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
History is rhyming. Trump Treblinka Southeast Sobibor Dachau DeSantis. Alligator Auschwitz Antebellum Bergen-Belsen
jul 2, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I really wish WWJD would trend again. It seems many Christians need to reflect upon their decisions.
jul 2, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
All those good Catholics on Fox News. All those good Catholics who enjoy watching the good Catholics on Fox News. Such a difference between righteousness and self-righteousness.
jul 2, 2025, 3:16 am • 5 0 • view
I don't think people with records of "violent crime" should be held there either.
jul 2, 2025, 3:01 am • 32 0 • view
the conditions in these are probably worse. At least the Japanese weren't penned up in crowded cells all day every day.
jul 2, 2025, 11:05 am • 3 0 • view
So wrong, so sickening. Perhaps in Germany during WWll the average citizen didn’t know about their camps. But we know, there is no excuse not to act.
jul 2, 2025, 1:57 am • 4 0 • view
Yes! I’ve being saying this for months now. It’s shameful and inhumane.
jul 2, 2025, 7:55 am • 0 0 • view
The internment camps for Japanese Americans were far lower density. The issue was that they were confined there. This is a high density concentration camp, of nearly identical density to Nazi concentration camps.
jul 2, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 3:14 am • 7 0 • view
I have to tell you, I'm rapidly losing patience with people who claim religious faith. After my mother attempted to raise me catholic, after half a lifetime of respecting religious ppl. I'm over it. Christians need to come get their trash.
jul 2, 2025, 10:12 am • 142 6 • view
When I was around 15, I got denied absolution from a visiting Polish priest (for making out with a boy) and from that day on, I rejected the church for rejecting me.
jul 2, 2025, 12:48 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The cartoon is wrong, too. There's a lot of blame to go around, but the ppl who were most in a position to prevent this facism are the ppl in Democratic leadership. If you can't see that you aren't dealing with reality.
jul 2, 2025, 9:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Okay, but Jesuits are exempt. I'm not a Catholic anymore myself. But this SJ guy gets it.
jul 2, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I got in an argument with a woman that is so Catholic she had 7 kids because I asked her to please stop calling them “illegal immigrants.” She told me I was playing word games. I said no human is illegal, and I am shocked she can call herself Catholic and not understand that. Church needs work
jul 2, 2025, 10:16 am • 115 4 • view
Was raised in the same bullshit. Nuns were cruel, and priests were pedophiles
jul 2, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Christians have lost their way. Jesus taught us to love one another.
jul 2, 2025, 11:47 am • 5 1 • view
I personally think it's a waste of time trying to argue whether these people are "illegal". They do jobs that none of us Americans are willing to do. So, instead of arguing about their status, the government needs to figure out a way for them to become "legal". AND a way to improve their lives.
jul 2, 2025, 12:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Or we could just remind those bigots that the southwestern states once WERE Mexico & ppl moved around for centuries before white ppl forcibly took land & made borders.
jul 2, 2025, 9:06 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s dehumanizing and words matter.
jul 2, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
They all need work... not just the Catholic Church. Except the Unitarian Universalists, they seem to get it.
jul 2, 2025, 1:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm basically at the point where I have no respect for ppl who claim to believe in god. It's a bedtime story.
jul 2, 2025, 10:19 am • 60 2 • view
It’s a frickin’ nightmare.
jul 2, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I tend to agree with you, but this is still a strange comment to leave in response to what Fr. Martin is saying. Maybe you should add, present company excepted.
jul 2, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s plenty of people out there fighting and working for human rights because they believe that every human is a child of God and deserving of love. The leaders of the Catholic Church got so focused on abortion it warped them
jul 2, 2025, 10:22 am • 53 5 • view
jul 2, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Crazily the last 2 popes seem to be far more sincere than their wacko laypeople
jul 2, 2025, 10:47 am • 52 2 • view
🎯💯
jul 2, 2025, 11:24 am • 1 0 • view
Well for one thing Catholics aren’t just white suburban Americans
jul 2, 2025, 11:02 am • 20 0 • view
Globally, I think the majority of Catholics are not-white! The US and a big chunk of Europe are more to White Nationalism than their supposed faith. Catholic or Protestant, Christians *should* be transnational (globalist, even) and the opposite of racist. Also, TRUTH! The lies they spread are 😵💫
jul 2, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I actually should’ve said they sound more sincere than a huge chunk of American laypeople.
jul 2, 2025, 11:28 am • 12 0 • view
American Catholics are different to European Catholics drastically , I'm not one myself but it's night and day.
jul 2, 2025, 1:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I was definitely referring to Americans.
jul 2, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd assumed so but was more so putting it out there for others!
jul 2, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Christians who live by the teachings of Christ need to come get the culty trash then. If this were a truly christian country, none of this horror would be happening.
jul 2, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
So the Bible claims the Holy Spirit is doing a lot of things in the life of the beleiver. Instead the church has a lot of apologetics for why the Spitit isn't actually doing those things. I'll be honest, I am parked in Agnosticism unless/until the "Real God" starts acting like His own book claims
jul 2, 2025, 11:36 am • 1 0 • view
I bring this up because one of the claims is that God is leading his people to truth and transforming lives to make people more like Jesus. If an Almighty is really doing that, I would really expect it to show more in His people, speaking as one who has grown in love, joy, peace, since questioning.
jul 2, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
This is exactly the targeted propaganda that circulated the first time Trump got elected. I’m not sure what anyone’s excuse could be for the second time around. Probably something like government is bad, and needs moral leadership? The irony is lost in the ignorance.
jul 2, 2025, 10:35 am • 2 1 • view
People are already dying while in ICE custody. It’s a death camp.
jul 2, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Jesus wept indeed! Keep speaking out. Thank you
jul 2, 2025, 11:25 am • 0 0 • view
This quote seems fitting for Trump and his followers: “The devil deceives by lies, and builds kingdoms in which everything is in direct opposition to God. Yet he attracts men (and women) rather than repels them, and they are willing to “sell” him their souls in return for gifts of no real worth.
jul 2, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Even IF they have a history of violent crimes, they deserve their day in court, and humane treatment!
jul 2, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 1 • view
When they couldn’t find a crime to call them criminals for they said just them BEING here is crime enough 😭.
jul 3, 2025, 11:32 am • 2 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
jul 2, 2025, 5:47 am • 3 0 • view
Eichmann rightfully ended up hanged in Israel.
jul 28, 2025, 3:25 am • 1 0 • view