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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com

The first group of immigrants were scheduled to arrive Wednesday night at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the state’s attorney general said.

jul 3, 2025, 2:01 am • 167 71

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phoebe1313.bsky.social @phoebe1313.bsky.social

👎🤬🤬🤬🤬👿👿👿👿👿

jul 4, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
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catherineanntuc @catonahottinroofus.bsky.social

2025’s version of Shitler’s 1930’s concentration camps. No one comes out alive! For those of you who voted for the wanna be Dictator-you have unleashed the Gates of Hell!

jul 3, 2025, 7:05 am • 2 0 • view
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santa-guy.bsky.social @santa-guy.bsky.social

More accurately: Alligator Auschwitz!

jul 3, 2025, 11:54 am • 2 0 • view
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Amylia Dulsky Little @amydulskylitt.bsky.social

Most accurately: Alligator Dachau. But yeah, we can see clearly where this is headed; even though they haven’t built the ovens yet.

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santa-guy.bsky.social @santa-guy.bsky.social

It’s hot enough down there so they won’t need ovens and gators will do the job!

jul 3, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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Amylia Dulsky Little @amydulskylitt.bsky.social

Yeah, that would be an example of German efficiency v.s. Floridian efficiency.

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santa-guy.bsky.social @santa-guy.bsky.social

👍🏼

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jimb-p.bsky.social @jimb-p.bsky.social

ICE, Trump's brown shirts, are now wearing alligator skin jackboots.

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jul 3, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 1 • view
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When is enough, enough? @vindictivequaker.bsky.social

Its a concentration camp. Time to pick a side; Integrity or Complicity.

jul 3, 2025, 2:22 am • 18 3 • view
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shoncooper.bsky.social @shoncooper.bsky.social

Our country is broken

jul 3, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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B-squad leader 💦🥩 @alwayserked.bsky.social

PLEASE STOP repeating Trump’s branding and framing. This is a concentration camp. Alcatraz was for people found guilty in a court of law, not people snatched off the street and given no due process.

jul 3, 2025, 2:35 am • 25 3 • view
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chrisleeworld.bsky.social @chrisleeworld.bsky.social

It’s like they modeled one after the other.

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mrsfranki.bsky.social @mrsfranki.bsky.social

I was already disturbed stories I've read by Canadian or European here on business or travel, had some paperwork question, tossed into detention w/ inadequate food, water, blankets, shackled & moved often at 3am - those detention centers are FOR PROFIT. They don't like letting profitable bodies go.

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mrsfranki.bsky.social @mrsfranki.bsky.social

while those with any awareness of history have dubbed it Alligator Auschwitz

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social

But surrounded by alligators for bodies to be disposed of more efficiently

Alligator Auschwitz Auschwitz
jul 3, 2025, 5:15 am • 6 0 • view
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Layzieyez @layzieyez.bsky.social

MAGAUSCHWITZ. That’s a more appropriate name.

jul 3, 2025, 2:40 am • 12 3 • view
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codemistress.bsky.social @codemistress.bsky.social

It's flooded?!

jul 3, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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mddarling.bsky.social @mddarling.bsky.social

🤬🤬🤬🤬

jul 3, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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keenoire.bsky.social @keenoire.bsky.social

And newrepublic.com/post/197552/...

jul 3, 2025, 2:46 am • 5 2 • view
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Ⓜ️bb 😬✅ @mrmbb.bsky.social

Of immigrants. Not detainees or criminals.

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Doc Jerr @docjerr.bsky.social

Despicable: Concentration Camps in the US, complete with merch. Hideous!

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jul 3, 2025, 12:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Debora Land @deboraland.bsky.social

Please call it a concentration camp because that is exactly what it is.

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Lee Barnhart @lebt.bsky.social

Shame on all elected republicans in the state of Florida and shame on republicans in congress.

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mildredschmertz.bsky.social @mildredschmertz.bsky.social

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Jan K. @jank322.bsky.social

People are buying Alligator Alcatraz t-shirts that they’ll be wearing to cookouts tomorrow. They’ll go to church on Sunday and thank God for the work he’s doing through Trump. I’ve never been this sad about America.

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Jan K. @jank322.bsky.social

I pray that this one day might be a museum to warn kids and others about the horrors of conservative populism.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social

You do not have to participate in their branding. It's a concentration camp.

jul 3, 2025, 2:57 am • 7 0 • view
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Angie @sassystrega.bsky.social

Please stop using that name. It's not a joke. It's a concentration camp on our soil.

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Jocelyn Fox @jfoxtales.bsky.social

*Concentration camp. We are no longer a free country so basically fuck Independence Day I guess? Is that the GOP plan now?

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Charles William @charleswilliam313.bsky.social

*concentration camp

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Canucklynn @canucklynn.bsky.social

Please remember to send feedback to Etsy and Amazon regarding the incredibly tacky merch they are selling promoting this. F'ing classless and cruel.

jul 3, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 2 • view
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angeeang @angeeang.bsky.social

Call it what it is, a concentration camp

jul 3, 2025, 11:26 am • 2 0 • view
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Nefarious Means @nefariousmeans.bsky.social

54 percent of Latino men voted for Trump. Take it up with them.

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AlamedaMark @alamedamark.bsky.social

Stood it up in 8 days. Does it have showers and toilets? Proper industrial kitchen? Medical facilities? Exercise yard? How long will detainees stay there? Ask the right questions!

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Gina @ginalolabridgetta.bsky.social

I’d like the detailed logistics of how exactly this concentration camp is going to operate in a Cat 2 or more hurricane scenario How many pumps do they have on hand to keep the raising water at bay? How do they plan to provide drinking water to the detainees during and after the storm?

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Gina @ginalolabridgetta.bsky.social

Our beloved country has turned into a dystopian mess in a matter of a few months I felt like giving up for a little bit but fuck that

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JTyler @jtyler5.bsky.social

This is what they're doing to the people who pick your fruit, replaced your roof, cut your grass, watched your children, bathed your grandmother......... Shame on every single Republican who voted to allow this to happen.

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johnwthompson.bsky.social @johnwthompson.bsky.social

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RubinRubin 🌈 @thetallsister.bsky.social

I’m afraid @thegodpodcast.com is going to rain on their parade

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Bif Bee @bifb.bsky.social

Can’t believe you got through 1942 and are still spewing euphemisms like this… We have seen this before… “relocation center”… “exclusion zone”… “interment camp”… “forced removal”… “non-alien”. Vile , we see you!

jul 3, 2025, 3:04 am • 2 1 • view
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Matthew @matthewhm.bsky.social

I'm sure these detainees will be treated far worse than Al Capone.

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julielynne123.bsky.social @julielynne123.bsky.social

Boooooo 😡

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Cityzen Shane @skatoaster.bsky.social

CONCENTRATION CAMP

jul 3, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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petsoclock.bsky.social @petsoclock.bsky.social

Not a detention center, it’s a concentration camp for people snatched off the street without due process

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lynnskutches.bsky.social @lynnskutches.bsky.social

@chicagotribune.com Saw someone post earlier today that it should be called it "Alligator Auschwitz" not "Alcatraz" since folks in Alcatraz at least had legal due process before being locked up.

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david425.bsky.social @david425.bsky.social

Wonder how many of them will be Americans

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Sleepy the Basset @sleepybasset.bsky.social

General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social A general strike is when working people refuse their labor until demands are met • Research shows 3.5% of the population is required, or 11 million Americans. Currently, over 360,000 have joined. General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social

jul 3, 2025, 4:48 am • 1 1 • view
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Mark Hougaard @mhougaard.bsky.social

Call it what it is - It is a concentration camp for individuals kidnapped without due process.

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CallsignBaker GOP=🤡's @bobtheangryone.bsky.social

Pure. Fucking. Evil.

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Bill @corvairguy1.bsky.social

It’s a concentration camp. People will die there and then disappear

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It Dan @valenvsfel.bsky.social

*first ethnic cleansing political prisoners

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Angela Ford @angela-ford.bsky.social

Judgement day will not be kind to a lot of people. God help us.

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Shane @theshaneman.bsky.social

Don’t use their cutesy name for a fucking concentration camp.

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Agent of Chaotic Respite @chaoticrespite.bsky.social

😡😡😡😡😡

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hopesnopes.bsky.social @hopesnopes.bsky.social

OBSCENE. America's Auschwitz.

jul 3, 2025, 2:34 am • 13 0 • view
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JessicaBlack @jessbheart.bsky.social

Detention center implies the existence of due process.. these are concentration camps definitionally.. many of these people have had no trail and are presumed guilty.

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z1229.bsky.social @z1229.bsky.social

Cruelty is the point.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social

Why is this worded like it’s a form of hospitality instead of incarceration? Do better.

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Iputadollariniwinacar @iputadollarin.bsky.social

Ok. Let's be honest It's a waypoint. No one is incarcerated there for years Trump wants you to think it's indefinite prison

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SmileyTiff @smileytiff.bsky.social

This is absolutely a concentration camp!!

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IslandGirl🏝️🌋🗻 @islandgirl808.bsky.social

Alligator Aushwitz

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Wokey McWokeface @dotofblue.bsky.social

It's a CONCENTRATION CAMP. For people denied DUE PROCESS!

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Pet Charles @petcharles.bsky.social

American Auschwitz

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Grumpy Sue 🤡86 47🤡 @grumpysue.bsky.social

YOU MISSPELLED CONCENTRATION CAMP!

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Dr. Merri @merri24.bsky.social

Quit calling it detention center. These people have not been afforded habeas corpus. It is a concentration camp. As long as mainstream media soft pedals these atrocities they will continue.

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Deborah Jurges @lottesenkelin.bsky.social

What it is called doesn't matter as much as raising hell with your legislators. The camps will continue until the people make them stop. 202 224 3121 Congressional Switchboard resist.bot/petitions/PU...

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Mike in the Box @mike-in-the-box.bsky.social

You're talking about a concentration camp where thousands of people are being illegally imprisoned. Many will likely die there. Call it what it is. Don't use a cute euphemism to try to make crimes against humanity look like Disney World. Do your job. Find your humanity.

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Art is Life @artsmart.bsky.social

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BDR 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌮 @bdruk.bsky.social

Reporting the history of white supremacists’ fascination with alligators and crocodiles eating non-white people would add some much-needed context to the GOP dubbing this abomination “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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BDR 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌮 @bdruk.bsky.social

It’s a concentration camp. Using the correct words matters.

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Wicky @vigeo93.bsky.social

Didn’t it flood?

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🏳️‍⚧️Loki Calcifer Black, PLMSW, CCSS,CPSW @lokicalciferblack.bsky.social

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windycitylensman.bsky.social @windycitylensman.bsky.social

The moral equivalent of sending Japanese Americans to concentration camps. (I am a direct descendant of an interned family.)

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skt72.bsky.social @skt72.bsky.social

It’s Alligator Auschwitz

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Ms B Moran @msbmoran.bsky.social

at a new concentration camp Fixed it for you

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River Tide @eastslope.bsky.social

It's a concentration camp. Just that.

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Fiddle @nbfiddlehead.bsky.social

There is no coming back from this. The STAIN of this will last forever. Just like Germans have to carry the shame of the nazis, Americans will have to carry the Maga shame forever. I was still half hoping someone would stop him but it's looking like this is just life now. He is fully in charge.

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Jim Birken @blue7jazz.bsky.social

You misspelled it. It’s Alligator Auschwitz.

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Rob Honeycutt @robhon.bsky.social

I think you mean "Alligator Auschwitz."

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redfordgirl.bsky.social @redfordgirl.bsky.social

As a resident of a hurricane-vulnerable state (TX), I should point out that if a hurricane blows through the Everglades, all those tents they are using there will blow away to Oz, & take the occupants along for the ride.Maybe DeSantis, Noem, & Trump are just fine with that, though. Would save them $

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Midwest Human @riz4robot.bsky.social

This settlement is a cowardly capitulation by the corporate leaders of Paramount, and a fundamental betrayal of ‘60 Minutes’ and CBS News,” said Rome Hartman, a producer of the Harris interview for the show

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Todd Last Name...... @traj7378.bsky.social

it's a concentration camp...let's not sugar coat it. Call it what it is. It's to enrich white nationalist Stephen Miller who has stock in the private prisons system.

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Orphan of Earth @orphanofearth.bsky.social

Never forget all those responsible. Justice will catch up with them. This evil shit is treason.

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Laura @47forprison.bsky.social

Tbis is a death sentience. It is already flooding.

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Dino Fazio @dinofazio.bsky.social

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Tony Kavanagh @tonykavanagh.bsky.social

Such a coy and demure (and, some might say, disingenuous) way to describe the imprisonment-without-trial of human beings in a custom-built concentration camp.

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The Subsequent Mrs. de Winter @notrebecca.bsky.social

Oh, you mean while it's flooded and there are electrical wires on the floor. @chicagotribune.com why are you normalizing innocent people being taken to a concentration camp?

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shawncorpe666.bsky.social @shawncorpe666.bsky.social

Call it what it is Manzanar 2.0

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Aunt Rove @auntrove.bsky.social

I hope they've figured out how to deal with the flooding that they had today. Better still, that they found a few kernels of morality and realize what an appalling betrayal of humanity they're involved in.

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Kristin @klberts.bsky.social

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marisslynna.bsky.social @marisslynna.bsky.social

It already flooded yesterday. Definitely safe for humans though, for sure. Thumbs up (his own ass) from DeSantis.

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Claudia Smurthwaite @claudiasmurthwaite.bsky.social

Hostages (prisoners), not immigrants. For Fuck's Sake @

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sara2617.bsky.social @sara2617.bsky.social

Stop calling it Alcatraz. It’s concentration camp. Please do not fall into their lingo.

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Abrasive Tea @abrasivetea.bsky.social

God it is hurricane season so many people are going to die

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Shady Cat Lady 🕍 @shadycatlady.bsky.social

I was really hoping a hurricane would blow it down before they interned anybody there.

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Shady Cat Lady 🕍 @shadycatlady.bsky.social

But also, this nickname is unseemly. Call it what it is: a concentration camp. Don’t launder their rhetoric for them.

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CarolesGloves @carolesgloves.bsky.social

Iran should have "bombed" this "military location"

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Lady Bree @ladybree.bsky.social

CONCENTRATION CAMP - you can say it…

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astrastarstrider⚡️ @camelshitonthewall.bsky.social

Quit using that "cute" nickname! Call a spade a spade: It is a CONCENTRATION CAMP.

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Broccolee🥦🥦🥦 @broccolee.bsky.social

call it what it is Alligator Auschwitz concentration camp

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shearlgrey.bsky.social @shearlgrey.bsky.social

Gator Gulag

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Aloomutt @aloomutt.bsky.social

It's a concentration camp.

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Dana Anderson Machado @justmedana.bsky.social

It’s flooding. Where’s the drinking water? Where does the sewage go? Where was the kitchen facility?

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