I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
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jul 2, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Even my browser treats Auschwitz as a revenue generator. What a time to be...something
jul 2, 2025, 4:14 am • 2 0 • view
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jul 2, 2025, 3:34 am • 6 1 • view
That’s good Let’s run with that
jul 2, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
💯
jul 12, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
Everglades Concentration Camp. That's the name.
jul 2, 2025, 2:35 am • 3 0 • view
Republicans’ wet dream: Auschwitz with interiors by Perdue chicken factories.
jul 2, 2025, 3:50 am • 4 3 • view
Flauschwitz?
jul 2, 2025, 3:25 am • 0 0 • view
It’s Alligator Auschwitz
jul 2, 2025, 3:17 am • 13 0 • view
Alligator Auchwitz is what they mean. Fucking repulsive.
jul 2, 2025, 12:43 am • 17 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 3:34 am • 5 0 • view
This is correct
jul 2, 2025, 3:34 am • 1 0 • view
DeSantis Concentration Camp
jul 2, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 1 • view
"Alligator Alcatraz" merchandise is already on sale, so the place is in dire need of a better name. "Occupation Zone" hits the mark - evoking both the Nazi occupation of Europe, & the Israeli occupation of Gaza - with implications of authoritarian control, displacement, & human rights atrocities.
jul 2, 2025, 5:35 am • 0 0 • view
More like Alligator Auschwitz
jul 2, 2025, 6:35 am • 15 2 • view
That’s what I’m calling it
jul 2, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
My thoughts exactly.
jul 2, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
The difference between Alcatraz and Auschwitz was a trial.
jul 2, 2025, 12:08 am • 22 0 • view
I call it the everglades detention camp or sometimes death camp, have never referred to it as Alligator Alcatraz. We are talking about human beings after all and not food for reptiles.
jul 1, 2025, 11:06 pm • 4 0 • view
It makes me sick. I will quickly change the channel if I hear that, so basically can't watch the news
jul 2, 2025, 1:29 am • 20 0 • view
I cut the cord to these corporate assholes years ago. I can't watch any of it.
jul 2, 2025, 1:49 am • 15 0 • view
I'd like to ask that Asshat wearing the "merch" when he's going to pose in the Dachau shirt? Or will the Auschwitz one be next? Perhaps he can pose in a shower? < spit >
jul 1, 2025, 10:39 pm • 15 1 • view
Oh, some of them would absolutely wear Auschwitz merch. lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-...
jul 2, 2025, 8:58 am • 9 0 • view
Just about to post the same
jul 2, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Send it back and call it what it is, Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s not a cute name. It’s a horrifying name.
jul 2, 2025, 1:09 am • 3 0 • view
The Trump/DeSantis concentration camp…
jul 2, 2025, 12:17 am • 6 2 • view
Alcatraz was an actual prison, housing people who we're given due process and convicted of heinous crimes! The concentration camp in the Everglades is not that.
jul 2, 2025, 12:37 am • 23 3 • view
Agree. We're under no obligation to use the fascist's preferred terminology. We may, if it suits us. But we don't have to when it doesn't.
jul 2, 2025, 3:38 am • 5 0 • view
Thank you for this post. I’ve made many posts asking people to stop giving it monikers and call it out by name: concentration camp. I think your level of outrage is more on point than my entreaties. Surely even the most callous wouldn’t feel happy to wear a hat celebrating a concentration camp.
jul 17, 2025, 7:45 am • 1 0 • view
It is absolutely And should only be named as such No “cute” names to soften reality
jul 2, 2025, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
Everglades Concentration Camp
jul 1, 2025, 10:36 pm • 23 2 • view
Fz:-AacxB?9'@@!
jul 2, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
So Aligator Auschwitz?
jul 2, 2025, 1:25 am • 5 0 • view
We know they'll do it because they can't resist calling Trump's budget fiasco the "big beautiful bill"
jul 2, 2025, 12:16 am • 188 2 • view
They do it all day long and it’s gross
jul 2, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
Fucking pisses me off every time some news outlet uses that stupid cutesy-ass name. Like, we don’t ALL have to become morons here, do we?
jul 2, 2025, 12:30 am • 55 2 • view
They always put it in quotes but it still feels like they’re enjoying it
jul 2, 2025, 3:27 am • 1 0 • view
This pisses me off so much. They should call it the Medicaid slashing bill. The trillion dollar bill. The secret police bill. Calling it the big beautiful bill even in critical coverage (it’s never critical enough) reinforces the positive imaging. It’s incredibly basic propaganda and yet they do it.
jul 2, 2025, 1:39 am • 88 5 • view
It's never even neutral coverage
jul 2, 2025, 1:51 am • 32 1 • view
The actual name of the bill is The Big Beautiful Bill. That's what it says on the cover. So journalists are being neutral when they call it that and would not be if they made up a negative nickname of their own.
jul 2, 2025, 10:37 am • 3 0 • view
Bs. They know it's an attempt to force propaganda out of their mouths. They could just call it the budget reconciliation bill, which it is.
jul 2, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Journalists started calling the ACA Obamacare once conservatives relentlessly called it that It's laziness You also see slips of them saying "Democrat party" instead of *Democratic party" because conservative message discipline made right wingers all say this for the past ~15 years It's laziness
jul 2, 2025, 1:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Actually, that title was removed yesterday. The neutral official title is "H.R. 1"
jul 2, 2025, 1:18 pm • 6 0 • view
And yet our media will continue to go with whatever they think looks cool on a crawl at the bottom of the TV screen
jul 2, 2025, 1:50 pm • 7 0 • view
And naming it that is blatant propaganda. And it’s an independent journalist’s job to report information, not regurgitate propaganda. So they should find a different way to talk about it
jul 2, 2025, 2:27 pm • 14 0 • view
"Alligator Auschwitz"?
jul 2, 2025, 4:16 am • 4 0 • view
We should push back and call it Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 4:27 am • 14 2 • view
Tagline--Removing the workers will set you free.
jul 2, 2025, 5:09 am • 4 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 4:42 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you
jul 2, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
i thought alligator auschwitz was the compromise usage, anyway.
jul 4, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree. But it isn't unthinkingly. The media is purposely using it to sensationalize the news. It's all about profit for them, too.
jul 2, 2025, 4:24 am • 2 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz
jul 2, 2025, 2:32 am • 5 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz could do?
jul 2, 2025, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
If we are going to call it what it is, the word concentration is too polite. People are concentrated into DEATH CAMPS. Concentration is not the end product desired, is it? You put people in an alligator and mosquito infested swamp not to concentrate them, but to kill them.
jul 2, 2025, 12:47 pm • 2 0 • view
It'a Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 12:25 am • 47 1 • view
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jul 2, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Everglades Detention Camp is appropriate. It's not cute of funny. They are selling merch and assholes are buying it. America, I hate to say it, but we deserve what is coming if we rejoice in torturing others.
jul 2, 2025, 1:58 am • 7 1 • view
Could we leave Alligators out of it as well? They're just living their lives in the Everglades as they should be. This abomination was thrown together on land that had been abandoned when airport plans were defeated by counties & environmentalists back in the 70s. 1/
jul 2, 2025, 1:43 am • 6 0 • view
Thank you! I follow friends of the Everglades, Clyde Butcher and many other people who are out there protesting about the use of this land for *anything. And we're all enraged about the human beings that will be incarcerated there.
jul 2, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you! I just followed Friends & will look for Clyde & others. I feel similarly about Louisiana’s swamps, though so many have long been penetrated by oil wells & pipelines, lots of which are now abandoned
jul 3, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
People think "swamps" are scary wastelands. My friend heard two guys in a store saying: they have all that wasted land in the Everglades. They need to use it for something. (Our south Florida water supply doesn't count, apparently.) They are both ignorant and racist. Surprise, surprise.
jul 3, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
2/ The state had sneaked in the runways back then before it was halted permanently. It's a human rights and environmental disaster. No one in Florida was asked to support this. It was announced and started with no county approval, much less any voter input. DeathSantis strikes again. 👺
jul 2, 2025, 1:46 am • 6 0 • view
3/ sorry, Miami-Dade has used the runways intermittently as a training facility. That's where it's located, on Everglades land. The pollution, damage to water flow and wildlife habitat will be incalculable. And the human suffering far worse. GOP? I hate them all.
jul 2, 2025, 1:55 am • 5 0 • view
They happily went along with "Big Beautiful Bill". Modern political media is as vapid as it is amoral.
jul 2, 2025, 2:03 am • 8 0 • view
Isn’t that the title of the statute as presented in the Senate?
jul 2, 2025, 2:06 am • 1 0 • view
Call it by its docket number, H.R. 1, not the childish cheeseball nonsense.
jul 2, 2025, 2:09 am • 6 0 • view
It is Because we’re in The Stupid Place
jul 2, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
I don’t disagree. I just also don’t think media outlets are wrong to refer to the title of the statute like the guy to whom I was replying does.
jul 2, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
Feel free to fall for the Republican's stupid messaging stunts. Just be aware you are doing exactly what they want.
jul 2, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
in this case, it's good that it's tied explicitly to Trump, even when he inevitably pretends he doesn't know what's in it because a whole lot of people are about to get materially screwed and this bill is 100% his brand www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
jul 2, 2025, 2:50 am • 2 0 • view
The title screams Donald Trump. It’s like his “beautiful calls” he lies about having with other heads of state.
jul 2, 2025, 3:26 am • 1 0 • view
Agreed
jul 2, 2025, 2:11 am • 1 0 • view
I think a lot of statute titles are stupid. My rule of drafting is that any statute with a title that’s designed to be a cutesy acronym, or that contains a person’s name, will probably be a piece of shit. But that doesn’t mean I make up different names for them.
jul 2, 2025, 2:13 am • 2 0 • view
Call it H.R. 1. That is its official docket number.
jul 2, 2025, 2:10 am • 0 0 • view
It is no longer an HR once it passes a vote.
jul 2, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Yep. bsky.app/profile/bjke...
jul 2, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I also want all the Florida Cuban Trump converters to know that they voted for internment camps in a central planning dictatorship.
jul 1, 2025, 11:42 pm • 10 2 • view
It is my understanding that, as a group, Cubans hate Mexicans and Central Americans as much as US M A G A s do, so I'm not sure they cate.
jul 2, 2025, 12:18 am • 4 0 • view
Well, they'll have plenty of time to work out their differences when Trump throws them into the camps too.
jul 2, 2025, 12:43 am • 7 0 • view
Trump is already going after Cubans. The 75-year-old man who died in an ICE concentration camp last week was Cuban, came over in the '60s. They also left his dog tied outside an animal shelter, where it got loose and was hit by a car.
jul 2, 2025, 12:49 am • 2 0 • view
😢💔😢
jul 2, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
OMG. Disgusting!
jul 2, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 2, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 2, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
I’ve been there
jul 2, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
Krokodile Koncentration Kamp, make it stick
jul 2, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Call it Krocodile Koncentration Kamp
jul 2, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view
youtu.be/m4L20t8Dvlg?...
jul 2, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Crocodile concentration camp?
jul 2, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Alligator Aushwitz
jul 2, 2025, 1:27 am • 5 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 6:23 am • 2 0 • view
It's beyond disgusting. It's depraved,
jul 2, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz
jul 2, 2025, 6:53 am • 1 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz explains more clearly what it is. Because Alcatraz was for actual criminals. This new Auschwitz is for people who are nurses and teachers and construction workers and other people who have paid over $90B a year into Soc. Security, which will now flounder.
jul 2, 2025, 12:20 am • 106 10 • view
"Alligator Alcatraz" sounds like it could be the title of a cool action movie. "Alligator Auschwitz" is RIGHT THERE and much more appropriate.
jul 2, 2025, 1:05 pm • 11 3 • view
#AlligatorAuchswitz
jul 2, 2025, 12:52 am • 11 1 • view
"Alligator Auschwitz" seems much more appropriate.
jul 2, 2025, 3:27 am • 5 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 1:34 am • 5 0 • view
will bunch said it should be called "Alligator Auschwitz" because that is what it is.
jul 2, 2025, 3:21 am • 3 0 • view
someone called it "Alligator Auschwitz" earlier and i'm not too sure about that but i'll just leave it here
jul 2, 2025, 1:01 am • 4 0 • view
Please please please stop calling it what THEY WANT!!! It is Asshole Auschwitz unless you can think of a name that is more properly disgusting and equally holds them accountable.
jul 2, 2025, 1:25 pm • 3 0 • view
#AlligatorAuschwitz
jul 2, 2025, 4:20 am • 4 1 • view
It is so f’n vile and the fact that it’s 2025 in The United States of America and a political party is using that slogan is f’n mind boggling.
jul 2, 2025, 5:02 am • 1 0 • view
Dachau
jul 2, 2025, 3:28 am • 1 0 • view
DeSantau?
jul 2, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
I feel it’s gotta be Gator Dachau or something catchier
jul 2, 2025, 3:30 am • 1 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz was right there *head smack*
jul 2, 2025, 3:32 am • 4 1 • view
If we have to name it, I nominate Gator Gulag
jul 2, 2025, 1:13 am • 3 0 • view
I'll be referring to it as Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 1:41 am • 3 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz.
jul 3, 2025, 1:37 am • 6 0 • view
It's fucking disgusting
jul 1, 2025, 10:36 pm • 31 1 • view
Magitmo.
jul 2, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
Counterprogram with #AlligatorAuschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Its not cutesy it's chilling to use terms used by uncaring slave owners
jul 2, 2025, 6:22 am • 0 0 • view
Aligator Auschwitz
jul 2, 2025, 3:06 am • 3 0 • view
“Alligator Auschwitz”
jul 2, 2025, 12:37 am • 19 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 7:25 am • 8 2 • view
And selling fucking MERCH 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
jul 2, 2025, 9:06 am • 6 0 • view
It's Alligator Auschwitz. MAKE 👏🏻 THEM 👏🏻 SAY 👏🏻 IT 👏🏻 OUT 👏🏻 LOUD
jul 2, 2025, 12:17 am • 13 0 • view
"Alligator Auschwitz". That is what we all need to be calling it.
jul 2, 2025, 2:50 pm • 10 3 • view
The death party creating American Auschwitz.
jul 2, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a strange situation, because pointing out the alligator moat is headline catching and indicative of the perverse cruelty, but it also makes it seem like something out of a cartoon. It's like they're being weird about it so it's easier to pretend it's a game and not affecting real people.
jul 2, 2025, 4:21 am • 1 0 • view
Desantis Dump
jul 3, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
It's a death camp. The 1st of many thrown up here in the broken states of America. 🤬
jul 2, 2025, 4:39 am • 3 0 • view
Call it Florida DeSantis’ Concentration Camp #1. There will be a lot more torture camps that 🍊Fascist plans on to keep track of. We can’t give them cutesy names that make the Republican sociopaths gleeful. Always use Concentration Camp in the title. bsky.app/profile/iamf...
jul 3, 2025, 12:08 pm • 2 0 • view
has the antidefamation league come forward to explain why this us setup is different?
jul 4, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Should actually be called “alligator auschwitz“
jul 2, 2025, 6:34 am • 2 0 • view
Trump’s Concentration Camps: coming to an agricultural area near you.
jul 2, 2025, 12:12 am • 6 1 • view
I prefer "Republican gulag." Or "Republican concentration camp." Maybe you see where I am going with this.
jul 1, 2025, 10:44 pm • 12 1 • view
they're fucking selling merch
jul 2, 2025, 12:46 am • 5 0 • view
Alligator Auschwitz
jul 2, 2025, 5:48 am • 3 0 • view
I was going to say, at the least simply call it by its official name not this nickname. Then add "concentration camp." Then I look it up, and...indeed its official name IS Alligator Alcatraz, those sick fucks.
jul 2, 2025, 12:27 am • 51 5 • view
They needed an official name for merchandizing purposes.
jul 2, 2025, 12:32 am • 5 0 • view
I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I hate everything right this moment
jul 2, 2025, 12:33 am • 6 0 • view
Indeed you are not.
jul 2, 2025, 12:41 am • 2 0 • view
So one could go by the way the camps in Europe were named, by the nearest town. So it's Ochopee Concentration Camp.
jul 2, 2025, 12:28 am • 35 5 • view
They built it at the site of the Dade-Collier airport, so I propose that we call it the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.
jul 2, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
It's almost closer to Miami than to Ochopee. And Miami Concentration Camp locates it better, and has a bit more political cache.
jul 2, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
Ochopee isn't even really a town, it's an unincorporated area which, legally, I'm sure adds some slipperiness. Here is its post office
jul 2, 2025, 12:35 am • 26 3 • view
Here's where it is, just perfect to bear the brunt of a hurricane when still at full strength
jul 2, 2025, 12:37 am • 32 7 • view
If these a holes ever gave a thought to what would happen to the detention camp and the people housed there if a hurricane hit that area I guess they said screw it they're just immigrants.
jul 2, 2025, 1:35 am • 8 1 • view
It reminds me of two other events -- the forced march of Armenians to Deir ez-Zohr in the Syrian desert in 1915, and the Herero Genocide of tribal peoples in Namibia in 1905. In both cases, the leaders claimed it wasn't genocide because it wasn't DELIBERATE -- just a logistics failure. familiar?
jul 2, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I imagine that's why DeSantis put it there. It was deliberate. A hurricane or tropical storm may kill everyone there. But you know, a Black lady was running for office with a funny laugh and too many people were uninterested in stopping fascism at home.
jul 2, 2025, 2:37 am • 19 0 • view
🤢🤢. Just in time for hurricane season. It's sickening to even think about.
jul 2, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Ok...
jul 2, 2025, 2:37 am • 2 0 • view
I was born and raised in SC. Believe me, I'm familiar
jul 2, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
And here specifically is why they are tents: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Ok...
jul 2, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
A study in two concentration camp photos One is in Florida 2025 One was in occupied Poland during WWII
jul 2, 2025, 5:35 am • 18 3 • view
jul 2, 2025, 12:10 pm • 9 2 • view
For the crime of migration. Our ape tribes of requiring paperwork is one of the more crazy things we’ve come up with.
jul 2, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed.
jul 1, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
“Kristi’s Concentration Camp”
jul 2, 2025, 3:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Kristi's Koncentration Kamp -- KKK
jul 2, 2025, 4:07 pm • 3 0 • view
#AlligatorAuschwitz
jul 1, 2025, 10:38 pm • 23 8 • view
They’ve already redefined “deportation” which is a far bigger deal. “Alligator Alcatraz” at least is transparently depraved.
jul 2, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
I'm going with #AlligatorAuschwitz because that's what it is.
jul 2, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view