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Even more heartbreaking are videos and stories of people making the trek just to have pics taken in front of the sign for the infamously named place.
The overt racism of this Administration is nothing short of astounding. Sad joke on all those who thought the rights movements in the 60s meant the country was evolving...
First thought when those pictures of tents and bunks was the show naked and afraid. Imagine a ungodly humid night with a light on over you in the middle of a swamp. One assumes the lights are for attracting and concentrating biting insects as punishment for freaking picking our food. Wow.
#NurembergTrials2.0NOW
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Let’s call it the DeSantis concentration camp.
We're with you, George. We will not accept this quietly.
Clearly cruelty is the point for these aholes in charge . Can only hope they get the days and future they richly deserve when there are revolution comes
Cruelty lays in the people who voted them. Never foget, THEY are to respond to Country and the Heavens for allowing this with their free vote. US should do for themselves what Germany did after the Nazi regime. Or it will never change!
For decades, we fed soldiers into phony wars, to profit death dealing weaponry investors. Now we feed immigrants into prisons to make money for prison investors—prisons that look like Perdue chicken factories. In a time of fanatical, fecal capitalism, follow the money.
The racism from the Golden Escalator has escalated from permission to SAY to permission to DO with unholy speed.
There are dozens of anecdotal "buyer's remorse" posts & MSM interviews from the ag, construction & services industries.. but at the end of these interviews, 90+% state "yes, I still support trump.. yes, I'd vote for him again" They LOVE seeing the raids- as long as it's not directly hurting them!
until it DOES start hurting them.
Keep posting, George. You are one of the now-few people still alive, with an audience, who has firsthand knowledge of what happened in the camps back then.
Yep... way to go right wing nut jobs. Please, don't learn from our past mistakes and instead, jump right into being the hateful, fearful, righteous fascist pigs you apparently want so hard to be.
Green card is a completely legal status. "Arresting" these people is an outlaw move.
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We are all heartbroken. Our fellow countrymen have sold us out for fascism in hope they'll get a bigger piece of the pie, with no appreciation for democracy or the blessings they have. And we are all grieving. <3 <3
The lack is f humanity is disgusting. I hope for a saner time when those responsible are held responsible.
And yet here we are. Many "christians" have no problem with treating human beings worse than animals.
I'm with you, sir. My parents survived the Nazi concentration camps, and told me 60 years ago, "If it could happen there, it could happen anywhere." Never forget.
Read "Everything She Touched"
I agree. It's beyond despicable.
When do the pointless beatings begin?
I think we’ve already passed into something worse, unfortunately. But the resistance is strong.
When people start dying in this fucking Concentration Camp will Americans finally admit that this is the work of the MAGA Rethuglicans and them only? Or will they claim that this camp and others proposed are the work of a righteous regime that’s only trying to protect real (white) Americans? WTAF?
At some point, I doubt that Americans will be told what goes on there.
Well so far we know they’re being treated like subhumans which isn’t surprising with the Nazi fucks running this despicable operation. Just a matter of time before it leaks that they’re caught burying or feeding those deceased to the alligators to cover their tracks like Hitler did with the ovens!
My heart breaks for you, for the people currently in these camps, and for anyone who is terrified they may be sent to one. Which any intelligent person would realize is literally any of us. I am deeply ashamed to be a citizen here.
#AlligatorAuschwitz
Jesus.
We never learn.
Makes me think of Carlin You’re not free if someone takes your rights away. They just took them away. They keep taking them away.
And, they're not done yet. The ADF, the Heritage Foundation along with Project 2025 have plans for the transgender community. Can anyone tell me, when if ever, has a Theocratic Religious based Government been successful?
George, thank you for sharing your life with us. It cannot be easy. You have opened many minds and we appreciate you continuing to do so. ♥️
Green card holders?!? Those aren’t undocumented immigrants.
At this point they dont care if you have a green card or a visa or if you are actually a citizen. It's a numbers game and if you have brown skin or speak Spanish you are one of those numbers. And everyone gets the same horrific treatment. They hired criminal and thugs to round up as many people as
they can. I believe with all my being those thugs are getting paid per person. How soon before it becomes dead or alive. They have already taken meds away from people and denied medical care. Trump just wants them gone and has convinced his cult that these people are evil and want to murder and rape
and drug our children and take all jobs away from citizens. His cult is mindless enough to believe it. And the repubs in congress just sit there with there hands up their asses and let the genocide happen. We all know if he and Miller aren't stopped it WILL end up in genocide. Humanity lost.
It’s disgusting that this country learns nothing. And will continue not to as we have gutted education.
It's the cruelty that Trump really loves.
Goddamn it.
Not exactly the same-these feature gators, snakes and disease carrying i sect vectors/s.
If there is any one person who can claim to just flat out have a right to punch that mealy mouthed orange dictator in the face, it'd be you. I hate what's happening in the country.
ICE=NAZIS... NO DIFFERENCE!
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This should break everyone’s hearts.
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States need to start rioting, it will end in blood sweat and tears, the time for waiting is over, action has to be taken to stop this by any means necessary
Is this really true?
Well, this regime assumes that these people will all be disappeared eventually and after that nobody will ever hear their cries and complaints again. It's easy to let them suffer if they are helpless to resist or to even be heard. Make them heard if that's the least you can do. Thank you, George.
I wept when I read this. It's what you get when you put a bunch of chicken shit bigots in charge of anything. I hope there will be a reckoning after the midterm and the next presidential elections. That hope helps me keep my heart together during these terrible times.
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I'm sorry, George. It's horrible. I hope all the people that caused this are brought to justice in our lifetimes
Interestingly, these “conditions” are some of the preferred torture methods in places like Cuba and Venezuela. It’s just… I have no words.
they should have lost their faith eons ago. better late than never. I mean really, there's already so much proof that religion is a disease. these assholes in charge use it to do harm. so yeah, while I am disgusted by this, I feel frustrated too. stop waiting for a 'savior' that doesn't exist.
DeSantis is an evil, demented, smarmy POS.
Praying for the guards to get eaten by the gators. Slowly.
From Gaza to Florida.
When will officials stand up and say no? This is a crime against humanity as was Executive order 9066.
As a Canadian I am horrified at what America has become but I’m also mentally exhausted from the news of the new lows reached every day by your government. I cannot even imagine what it must be like to be living this in real time.
Believe me- there are those of us who were just fine learning about past atrocities as a history lesson. We in no way needed modern ‘Muricans to relive Naziism.
"it's a form of torture" THAT is the point. They are SICK.
Sorry that its happening again Mr. Takei
Remember Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse ? The Trump administration is allowing the same to happen to ordinary people . How many have died or been tortured just for pleasure?
Its a choice, isn't it? The DHS concentration camp administrators could choose to provide at least minimally healthy conditions, proper food hygiene, etc, but they just ... won't. IF the CC's are supposed to be seen as waypoints to get immigrants out of the country as quickly as possible, I mean.
Concentration Camps are generally used as both Labor and Murder Camps.
the good news is that it hopefully crashes both DeSantis changes of a 2028 presidential run...
There is no good news from this
No, there certainly isn't. However, that doesn't mean that we can't work to turn this into a major backfire for the fascist administration. Whatever horror they commit, we need to turn against them.
With the big ugly bill they can delay elections forever. There's no election for DeSantis. After Donald is gone it's Vance and after he's gone who knows. That's why it's important to fight them right now.
George, we respect everything you have to say in regards to this, but you MUST stop sharing images without Alt Text. It is critical that all users of Bluesky have access to the information you are sharing and leaving out AltText alienates people who have visual impairments.
This goes against the Geneva Convention agreements. This is a massive human rights violation. Why the fuck Is no one doing anything?!
The guardrails are all gone I would just HOPE AGAIN HOPE that individuals in any branch of the military would STOP following these HEINOUS orders
It’s been a long time since the Geneva convention meant anything to those in power
I’ve been to that one in Owen’s Valley. I am truly sorry.
I only ever expected to hear this sort of thing in an old "iron curtain" state or an underdeveloped country in my lifetime. But this is America, bible thumping and with a written constitution! We now understand that this counts for nothing and the constitution has no status or protection at all.
The christian fanatics- the white nationalists ALREADY DECLARED WAR on US/us. courtesy of a feckless, << ZERO Dem leadership @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social We are where we are. They would whine "but we didn't have the support"- & that's just it!!! youtube.com/shorts/Bhhul...
It is scary as hell from outside the US, can imagine it is many times more scary from within.
If you don’t teach real woke history it will repeat itself. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-a...
We never thought we would see another civil war...
I just read that people being held unconstitutionally in NYC are also noting the same things. This is by design. Now with their massive budget, the kidnapping and torture will have boundless money. I have never hated people so much as I do this disgusting group of people Trump, Noem, Miller, Vance.
Add GOP members of Congress to the list and some SCOTUS Justices
Very sorry you have to experience this. It’s evil.
A reminder. Ron DeSantis is running for president in 2028. He needs the MAGA votes. He needs to show that he is evil as Donald Trump.
And yet, here we are. Back to the worst of American history.
mortifying. if only 73M+ people had know this is what 💩🍊🤡 planned to do.....
If this were a dog kennel, it would be immediately shut down. Felony charges for animal cruelty and torture would be filed. My grandfather survived Dachau. Many of my family didn't. All my life I wondered how the German people could allow such abominations. Now I know.
American Exceptionalism turns out to be repeated, ordinary cruelty.
The 'relief'? Permanent indentured 'workers' Sen Cotton- SLAVERY WAS A NECESSARY EVIL Now? trump- we won't deport them .. we are giving them a choice... work in the fields & pick crops .. 2 meals & 2 10 min breaks or off to El Salvador or Siberia
America has been taken over through a coup orchestrated by a vile minority supported and infiltrated by a foreign enemy (Russia). This insidious plot has been in the works for many years and has as its ultimate goal the destruction of American democracy and rule by a tyrannical oligarchy! #SheWon
It's a truly terrible state for a nation to fall into, all because of the hate of one demented angry man who is hell-bent on destroying the US, and we all know what the next step is, the furnaces...
As a Pole who visited Auschwitz Birkenau on a mandatory school trip many, many years ago, and was left speechless by what I saw... I can't believe this horror seems to repeat itself... and in America of all places.
FWIW, the Nazis were inspired by our Jim Crow laws and race "science."
This one is a death camp.
1st hurricane will wipe it off the map!! And Im sure they’ll leave to detainees in there!!
Wait a minute: the Christian Nationalist racist regime is *taking away* Bibles, saying there's no freedom of religion in the concentration camp? I would have expected them to *force* Bibles on people there!
Many of the detainees are Roman Catholics and use RC Bibles. We aren't considered Christians by evangelicals.
Kissinger got off light.
Someone needs to make a damn visit. It seems people are there with no reason.? The basic human rights need to be met. If they can’t get food, clean water and a bible then this is unacceptable and tortured.
George, especially you must be remember your own experiences during WWII and probably never imaged this could happen again in the USA.
Growing up within/out the Japanese American community, all my friends families had so much taken from them during the incarceration of Americans. Further JAG lied to the SCOTUS help persuade FDR. We are going backwards. Many people became Republicans because of what Truman did with the bombs.
i'm so sorry you have to witness this again when it never should have happened to you or anyone ever. thank you for sharing what you've witnessed and helping raise awareness.
i was just thinking about posting something very similar. thank you for wording it so well! 🌸
DeSantis is a wannabee trump/Stephen Miller.
Im sorry Mr Sulu that hx is repeating itself. It’s embarassing and sad.
No right to Religion, but the Republicans are always praying in the WH?
If anyone belongs in Alligator Alcatraz...it's these two assholes!
Im so sorry. When we livd in Seattle, visited detention camp on Bainbridge. Moving. Planning to visit Japan.
May the people who help enforce this illegal, violent regime rest in hell.
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MAGA is a cult of evil.
This MUST be stopped!
So sad...
It actually pains me to point out that these are very likely to be *_MUCH_* worse than the one that you grew up in George… It absolutely breaks my heart as well…
If this is true. They want all these camps to be third world
I HATE this has been allowed.
It breaks my heart too! #NoConcentrationCamps
This is MAGA Magadan. More people should know about Magadan and other Soviet Gulags, which were set up in inhospitable terrain for the purpose of inflicting extra suffering on the prisoners. The US has the Eighth Amendment - no cruel and unusual punishment - why are we not talking about this?
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You and your family, all immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers deserve better!
Prior to the election, there were warnings that there would be camps like this.
Yes. That's how Trump got so many votes. There are a lot of people cheering on Alligator Alcatraz. Hell, if he hadn't promised camps, he might have lost.
They broke George's heart. Get 'em!
Here’s a great history on the evolution of concentration camps around the world. The invention of machine guns and barbed wire made modern concentration camps viable and the US was an early pioneer.🧵
It’s astonishing. And depressing. 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. Not the future Roddenberry envisioned. How will we ever get past being chimps in a troop? Oof.
I always looked forward to the creation of the Federation. Looking more and more like we’re the mirror universe with the upcoming Terran Empire.
Breaks my heart and soul
We never seem to learn, do we?
Concentration camps
THIS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA TODAY...TODAY...TODAY...and worse yet, in the state of Florida, which once was a relatively safe place for retirees to go and enjoy the rest of their lives !!!
I believe this is. Under international law, regarded as torture
That is a concentration camp. WWIII will be fought against the US if WE THE PEOPLE don’t fix this NOW.
They want this to be a combination of internment camps and residential schools. It makes me sick to know that when we're just coming out the other side of the trauma, it's being retriggered all over again. We've had to double the number of our crisis counsellors in the last 3 weeks.
Im so sorry you had to go through that. Thank you for all the joy you have brought to life
I’m so sorry. You’ve been trying to warn people.
Other countries learn from their histories. Ireland was plunched into famine by England, and now they lead the world in food aide, Germany teaches the horrors committed by their grandfathers and great grandfathers to never walk that road again... we're telling our past selves "hold my beer"
During the Felon's last administration, he pointed to the existence of the Japanese detention camps during WWII as justification for doing it *again*. Zero empathy in that guy.
We’ve known that since he was 5 years old and threw rocks into a baby carriage.
Let’s not give Germany too much props here since they’re helping Israel with its own ethnic cleansing
Clearly we did not learn from history- nor did we defend ourselves from the enemy growing within!
It's why Rethugs have been destroying education for decades. They've been playing the long game, eroding everything decent about America, just to get to this point.
It won’t be like the ones you knew. We’ve learned so much as a nation. We’ll make them much worse now. 🤬
@kylekulinskishow.bsky.social you could help spread the word about this
I don't want to hear a single other person condemn others for how forcefully they oppose the regime.
To the Colombian guy I say the first step towards liberation is realizing that there is no God and that we are on our own
They also took his medication and are subjecting him & the other detainees to sleep deprivation while denying them decent food & sanitary living conditions. His being denied something that provides solace in such an environment isn't going to liberate him from anything except a will to live.
How TF is maggots in the food a problem already? They must be putting the maggots there.
In Florida? Stop refrigerating food and it takes only hours.
That's not valid. There is no reason for there to be a situation where food isn't being properly stored in a facility that isn't even two weeks old.
The reason is they don't wanna.
Which goes to what I said to begin this.... It's not happening without choice to make it happen.
Cheap insanitary ingredients stored in insanitary conditions ... Doesn't take long for maggots to hatch and grow. It'll be all expenses spared catering as they've obviously decided the victims are not to be treated as human.
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Trump and Miller DID learn from history. Cos they always intended to repeat it. I'm sure Trump and Miller are hoping to best Hitler's Mass Murder numbers.
Geek GOP perfidy post of the year. These Nazis can’t wait to start incarcerating people. F em.
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Musky got this right. Trump is America’s Hitler.
Don't give baby Hitler any credit, he's currently campaigning against the jews.
I guess he’s forgotten that his daughter is married to a Jew. Jared must be one of the “good ones “.
Maybe Taco’s anti-semitism is driven by a jealously of Jared shagging his daughter.
I was talking about Muskolini in that case (I forgot his nickname)
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Paging the Hague/ICC. Amnesty International? Time for international inspectors.
The US withdrew from the ICC treaty in 2002 under Bush. The original treaty was never ratified by the US Senate. The US has not agreed to subject itself to the UN or any other inspectors or courts. Only times it has, it immediately withdrew from treaties when enforced against them.
Oh crap George, I had completely forgotten about your personal history. This is all so horrifying. Much love to you and your’s.
I live in Florida and yesterday my 2 cleaning people were here. Over the 4 yrs they've been coming. I had no idea one was MAGA. Until one asked me what I thought of "Alligator Alcatraz." I told her it was evil, deplorable and horrific. She replied " I LOVE it." FIRED!! 🤬
May I ask what nationality she is?
White, 36 yo female Born here. English/Italian. Her skin is very ghost white. I was under the impression she was a person with empathy. People can be so disappointing.
Wow. Good for you for ridding your home of her.
Thanks! Had to put the Trash out!!
Thank you for that.
Yw. They NEED to be treated as such.
I look forward (hopefully) to the day the felon & crew end up in there. To quote a Clint Eastwood Western: they’ll get a fair trial, & a first class hanging
A Floridian CECOT
The fact that history is repeating itself in a single lifetime makes the camps even more egregious.
A lot of us can imagine the horror, but only that. I cannot fathom 70 or 80 years of safety from it, a comforting distance, the convincing feeling of freedom that can only be fully understood with such a perspective. For so long hoping America has grown, never to return. I'm so terribly ashamed.
This is their better selves. You can't appeal to MAGAts better selves - their better selves are sexually predatory Nazis.
I'm disgusted as its clear they're recreating Nazi Germany 2.0. Gop truly hates our country so badly they chose to end democracy.
It sounds like conditions in prisoners of war camps where they are being treated poorly so they will sign confessions of being spies. I wonder if the goal is to have detainees of the Florida immigration detention facility sign self deportation papers.
I am so sorry anyone who lived through that has to see us regress... 😔 When I was in high school, we only talked about the Japanese American camps in an advanced literature class-NOT history class, but that was before contemporary social media. They can't hide the truth with the world watching.
Christians have long argued that we are a Christian or "God Fearing" nation. This idea is used to support the injection of religious dogma into American policy. Their error is right here: "I will decide what you worship and when."
and courtesy of the christian FANATICS of SCOTUS, churches can 'preach politics' from the pulpit AND Maintain their tax exempt status as if this wasn't already happening, for certain- now it's 'legal' INDOCTRINATION BE THY NAME!
Conservative Christians don't fear God nearly enough
Furthermore: The perspectives of people like George, who survived this very thing in America, are invaluable. Many relatives of mine fought in WWII, spoke of the horrors they saw; not one spoke of the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans. We must be reminded that we are not immune to such inhumanity.
There is only one way to put an end to the concentration camps in America, and that is the same way they were dealt with in Germany. Only this time, it won't be the American Army, but the American People marching in.
And you KNOW this!
Das Volk elected a fascist. Das Volk has spoken.
And of course those nominating Trump for the prize factored this in
It’s beyond the pale how tragic this is. And I am beyond sorry that Japanese Americans were forced into concentration camps during WWII.
A concentration camp by any other name is a concentration camp. It is beyond disgusting that a concentration camp was built in the US again.
There's a need for bulldozers and people who free these people. Destroy the camp like Auschwitz and the rest after 1945. Don't wait for things to get better.
Thank you for sharing, @georgetakei.bsky.social, I really appreciate it.
I know the subject matter is serious, but @georgetakei.bsky.social sharing your post is the coolest thing ever. Career defining :)
Thanks Michele! It is a great honor any time it happens!
Subtle flex that this isn’t the first time haha
Please, please look at this. This deposition is from 2016 by Katie Johnson swore that Trump raped her at Jeffrey Epstein's house in 2016 when she was 13. This is a thread. 30 minutes, 10 parts, cut up for length purposes. bsky.app/profile/just...
It’s mainly a money making industry with a clear attempt to imitate the horrors of past wars and promote an ideology of hatred. The disproportion between the punishment for a crime never committed corresponds to the pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany periods. Here it’s a public matter.
Keep up the good work @georgetakei.bsky.social
There is no excuse for this to happen in a Democracy. Trump and DeSantis are despicable humans.
>like the ones i grew up with the fact this shit is being repeted in living memory... fucking hell
And people wondered how the Holocaust could have happened
This is heartbreaking!!!