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While Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security and the ICE Gestapo are certainly working hard to keep the horrifying conditions inside our concentration camps a secret, the reality is that more evidence supporting the whistleblowers accounts above keeps emerging every day. Take for example this February 10th Guardian piece about an Irish man held for five months in a Texas concentration camp; a story that likely held the national media's interest only because the kidnapped man was white, but is more important to us here because his testimony matches closely enough with the reports of abuses that amounted to intentional torture we've already seen, to suggest this is a systemic atrocity. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/irish-man-ice-detention-fears-life-ireland-help-seamus-culleton Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help "An Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government. Seamus Culleton said conditions at his detention centre in Texas were akin to “torture” and that the atmosphere was volatile. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.” Speaking from the El Paso facility to Ireland’s RTÉ radio, Culleton implored the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, to raise his case with Donald Trump when he visits the White House next month for St Patrick’s Day celebrations." First of all, virtually no other outlet talking about this right now has included Culleton's quote about not being afraid of other camp inmates, but being terrified of the DHS/ICE monsters running the camp, who he feels are capable of anything - meaning violence. If you read the rest of the story however, you'll discover that Culleton, who is married to an American citizen and had a waiver to work (and thus reside) in the country, was snatched up right before the final hearing that would have resulted in him obtaining a full green card. Which mirrors other evidence and testimony we've seen that strongly implies this is quite intentional - DHS is kidnapping people and torturing them to try and force a deportation (self or otherwise) before they can obtain papers that secure their residency in America. Furthermore, Cullenton goes on to describe conditions at the El Paso concentration camp, that directly mirror the testimony of the whistleblower who worked at the Baltimore concentration camp I shared with you in the post above this one. "Culleton told RTÉ he had been locked in the same room with 71 other detainees in squalid conditions and with insufficient food and negligible time outside for fresh air, sunshine or exercise. “You don’t know what’s going to happen on a day-to-day basis. You don’t know if there’s going to be riots, you don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a nightmare down here.” Showers and toilets were “filthy” and daily meals were child-sized, he said. “So everybody is hungry.” So that's again massive overcrowding, dangerously unhygienic conditions, intentional starvation, and warehousing people in cages for long periods of time; all confirmed. Sounds like a concentration camp to me; how about you? #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #DHS #Gestapo #Trump #Fascism #EthnicCleansing #ElPaso #SeamusCulleton #Genocide #MigrantCarceralComplex #MigrantRights #Nazis

Okay, I found all my threads. I'm going to need to do some annoying housekeeping posts to merge some threads, and now that I found everything I can start catching up on something besides Epstein and concentration camps (the threads I had handy, when I came back to work a week or so ago). All of this will be annoying, but it's easier to do on a holiday weekend when, in theory Trump and the dipshits running our society should produce a little less news. We'll see if that theory holds.

So I'm up late, watching the news on YouTube when I stumble across this short (14m) Majority Report Segment, about an anonymized ICE employee, testifying to a local news station about the horrifying and inhumane conditions inside a concentration camp located in the Baltimore George H. Fallon federal building. This "detention center" recently made national news when a whistleblower leaked video showing dozens of migrants crammed inside a single cell like sardines in conditions that well, resembled a concentration camp more than even a jail. Look, I'm not going to lie to you; some of the testimony provided is hard to hear, but this is another story that I think probably has more impact when you hear a real, actual person who was in position to know, talk about the dehumanizing and dangerous conditions inside ICE concentration camps - which as we're learning, appear to be both intentional and systemic in nature, and not the result of one or two bad facilities. As an aside, shoutout to the WUSA 9 news guys here for going super old school on this high-quality journalism. They reported that the ex-ICE employee couldn't be identified because they'd signed an NDA (uh, should we be making people who work for the migrant carceral complex sign NDAs? Is there any innocent reason for that practice?) but confirmed that they did work at the Baltimore facility in question through employment records, so this is about as credible as an anonymous whistleblower interview can possibly be. If only every news organization still cared this much about doing the job right. ICE Worker Leaks Concentration Camp Ghoulish Conditions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fWTFnmH0w As I mentioned above, the leaker's account of the conditions inside the Baltimore concentration camp are difficult to hear, especially considering the fact that he's clearly still an extremely reactionary immigration hardliner himself. This isn't exactly a person sympathetic to the migrants he was paid to help confine. In very broad strokes the former ICE employee describes habitual and horrific overcrowding, people forced to lay in feces and urine, women forced to wear diapers due to lack of sanitary supplies, as well as physical and psychological abuse of detainees. Furthermore, much of this testimony was supported by headcount sheets, and screenshots from group chats with co-workers. This nightmare is real. I think perhaps the most important part of the leakers testimony however, is their articulation of the way running the concentration camps saw the ICE employees themselves to begin to see the confined migrants as less than human, even literal animals. As any historian worth her salt will tell you, this dehumanization is both an ever-present byproduct of locking people up en masse in concentration camps for the crime of their birth, and a necessary precondition for pogroms, genocides, and other mass extermination programs under reactionary fascist governments. After the segment featuring the ICE concentration camp whistleblower, the video then opens into a broader discussion between Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland about the growing evidence that all of this torture and mistreatment is intentional, to force kidnapped migrants to give up their legal attempts to stay in the country "voluntarily." And finally our hosts close by noting that the secrecy behind all of this dehumanization, torture, and abuse is rooted in the way DHS and ICE function as part of the specially empowered national security state that grew out of US political class reaction to 9/11 and the War on Terror. The chickens of racialized American imperial adventurism have indeed, come home to roost. #ICE #Fascism #TMR #DHS #ConcentrationCamps #Baltimore #FallonBuilding #EthnicCleansing #PoliceState #WhiteSupremacy

In the time I was away, more evidence has emerged about the widespread, if not ubiquitous abuses and neglect going on inside ICE's concentration camps; particularly as it pertains to DHS's intentionally barbaric treatment of migrant children. While the following selection is by no means exhaustive, I'd like to share a short (15 minutes) video from The Humanist Report that talks about this systemic and intentional neglect of migrants and in particular migrant children; then I'll share two articles Mike used in making this video you can read to go deeper on the subject if you like. Kids in ICE Concentration Camp “Distraught” and “Horribly Sick” Due to Inhumane Conditions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTZVBoO3vXw Although I strongly advise you to just watch the video, host Mike Figueredo touches on three major topics. First, glaring evidence that the neglect is systemic and intentional; detainees are held in squalid conditions, illnesses and viruses (including measles) are spreading in the camps, access to food and water are intentionally restricted to levels that compromise the health of kidnapped migrants, and necessarily medical care is routinely denied. Figueredo then explores what this looks like in real time by examining the horrifying physical and psychological toll being foisted on literal children in the Dilley, Texas ICE concentration camp. Finally our host makes it clear that by DHS and ICE's own admissions to caged migrants, they are intentionally torturing migrant children to try and force their parents seeking asylum or other legal means of staying in the country, to self deport. To put it bluntly, purposely starving people, serving children maggot-infested food, and making literal toddlers dangerously sick without providing medical care is pretty much straight up 3rd Reich-style Nazi behavior. As I pointed out above - depraved indifference to life in the camps is what the Nazis tried *before* they settled on murdering the Jewish people (and other enemies of the Reich) via Zyklon-B. In terms of source material, Figueredo uses a variety of articles, but the two most important ones are a CBS (boo) piece about Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff's investigation into conditions in the camps last fall, and a Pro Publica report about the horrifying treatment of children in the Dilley, Texas concentration camp that contains a lot of direct testimony from the children being tortured and their parents. https://archive.ph/71uqE "Ossoff investigation details alleged medical neglect, poor conditions at ICE detention centers" Keeping in mind that Ossof is a cop-humping centrist who literally couldn't talk about obvious human rights abuses his own office uncovered without moaning about Americans demanding secure borders, there are two major findings here in the Dem Senator's survey of over 500 reports of abuse and neglect, from Jan. 20 and Aug. 5, 2025. First, necessary medical care is being routinely denied in the camps (above and beyond ICE simply not paying for medical providers as we detailed in a post above). And secondly, detainees are being purposely given too little food, the food they are given is moldy and maggot infested, and ICE is also withholding access to clean water; all of which is directly contributing to what can thus only be described as "engineered sickness" in the camps. Now lets turn to the concentration camp for kids, in Dilley, Texas. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/us/dilley-ice-children-propublica "The children of Dilley" This is a tough article to read if you have any humanity left in your soul because at the end of the day, what we're talking about here is the US government purposely torturing kidnapped children, to force their parents to self deport. The authors again describe substandard food portions, lack of access to medical care, lack of adequate schooling or activities for children, literal 1 year old babies being held in a concentration camp, and much worse. In particular, the authors provide clear evidence that the kids, who aren't supposed to be held here for more than 20 days, as mandated by detention regulations, are spending far more time inside the camps than that - at least one child reported being detained for over 120 days. "Although a long-standing legal settlement generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days, a data analysis by ProPublica found that about 300 kids sent to Dilley by the Trump administration were there for more than a month. The administration in legal filings has said the agreement from 1997 is outdated and should be terminated because there are new statutes, regulations and policies that ensure good conditions for immigrant minors in detention." So once again, we see ICE and DHS ignoring the laws and rules they don't like. To torture children. And it's "working." "There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me." Folks, there is no reforming this. The people responsible should be in jail - or worse.

For those of you who're new here, the way it works is I use this account as my Blog, which is supplemented by my website. I then try to group stories by topic, in the same thread - so for example, if you scrolled up after popping out any of the stories about DHS building warehouse concentration camps today, you'd find other posts from months ago about concentration camps, specifically Alligator Alcatraz.

It's an imperfect organization system, and a lot of times I have to use my best judgement when deciding what category a post should be in, but it lets both my readers and myself find stories they half remember easily enough.

Naturally of course, taking five months off because I was sick and sad, also means my own notes about what thread is what and when we last updated them are a mess, but I'll figure it out as we go. What I can't do is just ignore the almost six months worth of news I missed, because everything these nazis do is built on everything else. I'm working on it, just be patient with me for a bit.

Naturally, if you're going to start sprouting up concentration camps all over the country, while mass arresting more migrants and your political opponents to fill them, you're going to need Gestapo forces and administrators all over the United States of America too; and the buildings to house them. So I guess you won't be shocked to learn that the Trump administration, DHS, and ICE are currently going about acquiring space all over the country to do just that, right? https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-dhs-expansion-plans Amid Secretive Expansion, Leaked Docs Reveal Locations of New ICE Facilities Nationwide "Overall, Wired reported on Tuesday, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—has been aggressively expanding its footprint across the country, with “more than 150 leases and office expansions” that “have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas.” Quite frankly, I could have put this store in our "DHS is doing ethnic cleansing" thread, because as the article goes on to note, these new ICE facilities are being embedded directly in major metropolitan areas, and next to locations the Gestapo is already targeting - like schools, mosques, and hospitals or childcare facilities. As the author of the original Wired report noted: “The leasing plans give a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere,” the report concluded." I chose to put it here in the concentration camp thread however, because I think when taken together with ICE's plans to build a nation-wide gulag system for migrants and dissenters they call "terrorists," a very clear picture of how exactly the Trumpenreich fascist dictatorship will be created is emerging. A while back I wrote an article on NIDC predicting that the massive DHS and ICE funding in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill would facilitate the transformation of those agencies from Trump's Gestapo, into his Schutzstaffel, or SS because the militarization of these forces would allow the Swine Emperor to effectively occupy the United States militarily under a semi-permanent state of martial law. (You can find that article here, if you care: https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/28/a-schutzstaffel-of-his-own/ ) Taken together, this massive influx of funding to build concentration camps all around the country, combined with ICE's intention to embed itself directly in our urban areas nationwide, sure do look an awful lot like a permanent fascist military occupation of America to me. #ICE #DHS #Gestapo #MartialLaw #Trump #PorkReich #Schutzstaffel #MilitaryOccupation #OccupiedAmerica #GOP #USPol

"But wait," I hear you saying. "Even with 23 new concentration camps, and 150,000 beds, that's still not enough capacity to do either Trump's ethnic cleansing operation, or the regime's plan to start locking up its political opponents." That may be so, but would if surprise you to learn that the Trump administration is also working with the Navy to create at least six more tent city style concentration camps, and the capacity to literally sprout new ones anywhere they like? https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals “This $45 billion increase, published just weeks ago, converts the US into a ‘geographic region’ for expeditionary military-style detention,” he wrote. “It signals a massive, long-term escalation in the government’s capacity to pay for detention and deportation logistics. In the world of federal contracting, it is the difference between a temporary surge and a permanent infrastructure.” He says the use of the military funding mechanism is meant to disburse funds quickly, without the typical bidding war among contractors, which would typically create a period of public scrutiny. Using the Navy contract means that new projects can be created with “task orders,” which can be turned around almost immediately, when “specific dates and locations are identified” by DHS. “It means the infrastructure is currently a ‘ghost’ network that can be materialized anywhere in the US the moment a site is picked,” Manríquez wrote. Amid its push to deport 1 million people each year, the White House has said it needs to dramatically increase the scale of its detention apparatus to add more beds for those who are arrested. But Manríquez said documents suggest “this isn’t just about bed space; it’s about the rapid deployment of self-contained cities.” So much of the good dirt in this article stems from the reporting of Pablo Manríquez from Migrant Insider, who in turn is working from actual government contract information; so this is definitely real. As the report notes, the Navy currently has about 55B dollars set aside to fund this nightmare, so in addition to the six 10K person-sized, tent city concertation camps expected to be built in Louisiana, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Utah, and Kansas, they're also creating the infrastructure and capacity to build many more such camps anywhere the federal government wants to, provided they own the land. If you want to know what a Trump regime program to create a gulag complex for migrants, trans people, and anyone left of Otto von Bismarck, might look like - this is pretty much what it would look like. #Fascism #ConcentrationCamps #ICE #DHS #USNavy #Trump #EthnicCleansing #Gestapo #WhiteNationalism #Gulags

@burnoutqueen@todon.nl Done. Might take fedi a couple minutes to figure it out.

@burnoutqueen@todon.nl Deal. Gimme a second to find you over there.

Yeah, I did not stutter. While I was away, news emerged that the US government is spending potentially billions of dollars to buy up warehouses all around the country and transform them into concentration camps. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US "The 23 proposed sites would range in size from 500 to 9,500 beds. If completed as planned, the larger facilities would be some of the biggest detention centers of any kind in the country. For example, the 9,500-bed facility ICE is planning for Hutchins, Texas, could fit the entire average daily jail population of Dallas County with thousands of beds to spare. In recent weeks the federal government has given tours of potential sites in more than 20 cities to contractors and shared with them the designs, including preferred layouts, for at least 15 of the sites, according to people familiar with the confidential process. Contractors — the ones who will turn these warehouses into jails — were required to send in their proposals for the first sites this week, starting with Hagerstown, according to those sources. To reach its goal of deporting 1 million people a year, the Trump administration has said it needs more than 100,000 detention beds. Currently, there are more than 73,000 people in ICE custody, a record. The new sites could give the agency an additional 76,500 beds, according to documents shared with Bloomberg News. To fill all of them, the administration would have to expand immigration arrests beyond what it is already doing, said Emma Winger, deputy legal director at the American Immigration Council. “To reach these kinds of numbers, they’d need to go out into the communities and find people who’ve been living their lives and been here a long time,” Winger said. “They’d have to dramatically increase their presence in communities across the country.” It's unfortunate that I don't have more time to go over this article with you. It's pretty rare that I find myself admiring a piece published in Bloomberg, but this is actually a really in-depth look at the way Trump's mass deportation agenda can't be established without what amounts to a nation-wide network of concentration camps, and those camps are threatening and harmful to both migrants and American citizens, regardless of their political affiliation. Like most mainstream corporate outlets covering the Trump regime's ethnic cleansing program however, they're still far too focused on this merely being a waste of astronomical amounts of taxpayer money. It certainly is, but again, I think the fact that they're building concentration camps out of former online retail distribution warehouses as part of an ethnonationalist project to reshape America according to Stephen Miller and Trump's whims would be a major crisis and a crime against humanity even if they were doing it for free. Maybe that's just me. What Bloomberg does provide the space to stress however, is that you don't build this many concentration camps unless you're planning to lock up a lot more people than the Gestpo is currently detaining; which in turn means that far from backing down in Minneapolis, the Trump regime is clearly headed towards a lot more operations just like it. Where the mainstream corporate media always falls down however, is in forgetting that concentration camps for migrants, can just as easily be concentration camps for anyone the Trump regime wants to dispose of for any reason at all. One simple review of Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) makes it pretty clear that Trump and his Gestapo have spaces in camps lined up for "terrorists" who oppose his absolute rule over a fascist America. #Fascism #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #DHS #Warehouses #NSPM7 #EthnicCleansing #Gestapo #WhiteNationalism

I don't think this horrifying January 20th article on Popular Information broke into the mainstream media much at the time, but given the news that the Trump regime is turbocharging its efforts to build concentration camps out of warehouses and military bases all around the country, it probably should have. In the simplest possible terms, ICE is now denying medical coverage to thousands of detainees, and regardless of the reasons why that is happening (more below) this depraved indifference to human life inside what we have already established are concentration camps, is eerily reminiscent of the process that lead the actual Nazi Reich in Germany to conduct the Holocaust. https://popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment "Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population. While ICE employs some of its own medical staff, it often uses third-party providers. ICE’s Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, for example, houses over 500 detainees and has no doctor or dentist on staff. ICE, however, has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025. Last week, ICE posted a notice on an obscure government website announcing it will not begin processing such claims until at least April 30, 2026. Until then, medical providers are instructed “to hold all claims submissions.” ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Popular Information. In other cases, detainees have allegedly been denied essential medical care by ICE." If you read the entire story, you'll discover that this situation likely arose out of another manufactured outrage promoted by fascists both inside and outside the GOP; specifically the idea that having Veteran Affairs process medical services claims for ICE (which ICE paid them for in full) amounted to "robbing veterans to pay off" migrants. That is however not exculpatory for either ICE or the larger Trump administration, because deciding to stuff people into concentration camps and then refusing to provide them necessary, in some cases even life-saving medical care, because of a manufactured political scandal, is still deciding to lock people in concentration camps and let them fucking die. To paraphrase Toni Morrison, the reason the Nazis called what we now know as the Holocaust, the "final solution" is because they tried a bunch of other things before that to solve the "problem" of Jewish people existing inside Nazi-controlled territory. One of those "solutions" was absolutely purposely making life in the concentration and labor camps impossible to sustain - in other words, murdering Jewish people and other folks inside the camps through intentional neglect. I'm pretty sure it's not any sort of accident at all, that Trump, Miller, Noem and other assorted literal fucking white supremacist nazis in this administration and the larger Homeland Security aparatus, are copying from Hitler and Himmler's most evil playbook. #Fascism #ConcentrationCamps #ICE #Murder #Trump #GOP #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #FinalSolution #MurderByNeglect

@complexmath Yeah. I believe the latter of those two scenarios, but I need more to believe the former. It's that simple. And well, I got a fistfull of South African American billionaire tech nazis, multiple US-allied governments (KSA, Israel, Qatar, etc) and pretty much anyone rich with a felony conviction OPENLY BRIBING this guy for SPECIFIC favors we can all see. I just... I dunno man. I believe this mutherfucker will take money from ANYONE but 10 years now I'm waiting for the "Trump is working for Putin" smoking gun and I ain't seen it yet. I got smoking guns for everyone else tho, lots of them, a whole PDF file full of smoking guns...

(Also, please note RE: the People article about Epstein being Putin's wealth manager... Obviously, you cannot take the word of an FBI informant at face value, but, and this is important - part of the regime's strategy in releasing the Epstein files, has been to dump a bunch of cold call reports from an Epstein tips hotline, unredacted with no investigative notes. They are doing this because they're hoping someone prominent can be deceived into running with one of those reports and then the DoJ can produce a gotcha moment where they say "the FBI investigated that and it was just some crazy; LOOK Trump's enemies are listening to insane people because they have TDS!" This? Isn't that. This is an an actual FBI informant speaking in 2017. So while I can't say 'this is definitely true," and you should normalize NOT taking FBI informants at their word - it's not nothing. It's not some random yahoo calling a hotline. Whoever the informant was, was credible enough to be retained for money, by the FBI PRIOR to the Epstein stuff. It's not nothing. I would kill to see the FBI's investigative notes after that tip.)

@pliny Right?

Again tho, like I'm not dead set against the idea. There's apparently an FBI informant somewhere in the files claiming Epstein was working as a wealth manager for Putin and Robert Mugabe. Here, I dug it out: https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-was-vladimir-putin-wealth-manager-fbi-source-claimed-11897555 So it's not nothing; that's a promising lead but to know what it all means Imma need the FBI to tell us more about the informant and they are NOT GONNA do that because FBI is Trumpland and has been for the past decade. But you folks keep talking like you've proven it, specifically proven that Trump is a Russian asset and Putin is running US foreign policy, and that's just not true by any standard my journalism profs at school would recognize. Plus, I feel like if it WERE true, 10 years of high level US intelligence investigations, including MULTIPLE investigations run by the opposition party at the time, probably would have come up with something resembling a smoking gun. I mean the NSA and CIA can get whatever they want and while covering up Epstein is clearly a bipartisan position (or was, until recently), covering for Putin is not. I'm not calling you crazy, but also, I just don't believe you've proven it and I'm going to need you to do that because I can prove VERY EASILY when Trump is working for any OTHER shit tier nazi billionaire oil pig. The fact is, I think Trump is just open for business. He'll take bribes from anyone - so I believe he's taken Russian bribes, but I also know he's taken Qatari bribes, and Turkish bribes, and bribes from crypto-billionaire fugitives, and bribes from rappers who want a pardon, so on and so forth. I just don't think there's a there, there - assuming what you're saying is "Trump is working for Putin; the US has fallen to a foreign adversary" which has been the nature of the discourse this whole time.

Whereas, proving that Trump is working with a Silicoin Valley Tech bro billionaire nazi death cult, is merely a question of looking up campaign finance records, reading public statements by guys like Thiel, Musk, and Andreessen, and looking at the government contracts their companies have with the Trump administration and are getting more all the time. That? Is easy to prove. So I know it's real. Putin? Well, keep trying. But you ain't done it yet.

The reality is that if Gabbard is working for a foreign entity, it is almost certainly the Hindutva movement (Modi, The Bharatiya Janata Party.) The ties between her old man, the cult she's in and the BJP was known as far back as 2016. If she's on someone's payroll, it's almost certainly Modi's. Also, I have no idea what the whistleblower complaint is, nobody does, that's the whole point "whatever it is, is so top secret not even Congress is allowed to see it." I don't wanna have a debate with you about whether or not Trump is working for Putin - you haven't even come close to proving that one time, and it's been 10 years. I think it's unlikely. But with this guy, I can't say "never" because he's the most corrupt world leader I have EVER SEEN - and that's a spirited competition, given the level of ruling class corruption that's now standard in the Pig Empire.

To both of the folks in my replies trying to build a Manchurian candidate theory: https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-peter-thiel-vladimir-putin-russia-christian-angermayer-daniil-bisslinger-2023-11 I mean never say never, but... only one guy gets to rule the world.

I've never been a big proponent of the idea that America has fallen to a fascist regime because "foreign adversaries are running Trump like an asset." Mostly because I know full well that American billionaire nazi cultists, are running Trump like an asset, and it's hard to serve two masters in Vladdy Putin and Peter Thiel, at the same time.

That having been said - a story like this DOES make you wonder.

Tulsi Gabbard Hit With Whistleblower Complaint So Classified It Needs to Be Locked in a Safe: Report

https://www.commondreams.org/news/tulsi-gabbard-whistleblower-complaint

"The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the complaint was filed in May, and it set off “a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint.”

The Journal’s sources say that the complaint is so classified that no one in the US Congress has even laid eyes on it, as disclosure of its contents could cause “grave damage to national security.”

So, let me get this straight - a whistleblower has filed a complaint, AGAINST Gabbard, that is literally so top secret nobody is allowed to even READ the complaint, and the person in charge of dealing with this is... Gabbard... and she has sat on it for eight months?

Having a hard time imaging what, SHORT of foreign interference in American politics and or "treason" this would be. Please remember this is an administration that has responded to bribery by saying "yeah thanks, love the bribes" completely in the open. So they aren't hiding "Gabbard took some money" because they don't hide that. Whatever it is, is worse than that.

I think I've been clear about the vital importance of describing the ethnonationalist migrant cages at the odiously-named "Alligator Alcatraz" facility in Florida, what they are - a concentration camp. By that same measure however, the presence of one purpose-built concentration camp in the Everglades doesn't preclude the transformation of pre-existing migrant cages into more concentration camps. In fact, while the Trump regime and DHS are working to restrict access to ICE detention centers, reports are leaking out about the horrifying conditions and human rights violations going on inside these facilities all the time. The fact that these stories don't penetrate the national discourse the way the new DeSantis Dachau facility in the swamp does, probably comes down a US society that has totally normalized the Gestapo, its migrant carceral complex, and the idea that it's okay to criminalize and brutalize people for the mere accident of their birth on the wrong side of an imaginary line. In this sense "Alligator Alcatraz" is "special" because the Trumpenreich is practically screaming "we've intentionally built a concentration camp" out loud, while the horrifying concentration-camp like conditions found in "normal" migrant gulags across Texas, Louisiana, or Florida for example, are just "business as usual." As a recent human rights report about three other migrant detention facilities in Florida proves however, there is nothing "normal" about the way the Trumpenreich and its Gestapo are treating detainees inside these facilities. Gathering reports from former prisoners, immigration lawyers, and families of folks inside the cages, the report finds evidence of overcrowding, intentional cruelty, and institutionalized dehumanization that are creating all the same conditions and dangers for the Gestapo's victims, that lead folks to confidently call "Alligator Alcatraz" a concentration camp with the full weight of history behind them. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges "Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities. The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees." This article an organizational mess, but what HRW is reporting on massive overcrowding in the three identified facilities, unsanitary holding conditions, dehumanizing treatment of prisoners (72% of whom have no criminal record) paired with violent reprisals by Gestapo guards, and denial of access to necessary medical or psychological care. For example, the testimony about shackled prisoners being forced to eat like dogs is part of a larger body of evidence that Florida Gestapo minions are cramming far too many people into these gulags and don't seem to care about the dangerous conditions or human rights violations that result. "The jail was so far beyond capacity, some transferring detainees reported, that they were held for more than 24 hours in a bus in the parking lot. Men and women were confined together, and unshackled only when they needed to use the single toilet, which quickly became clogged. “The bus became disgusting. It was the type of toilet in which normally people only urinate but because we were on the bus for so long, and we were not permitted to leave it, others defecated in the toilet,” one man said." Of course, this isn't to make excuses for the Gestapo because not only could they simply jail less people for being brown, but the human rights violations, violence, and dehumanization going on inside of these facilities doesn't appear materially different from the abuses going on in "temporary" holding areas. "Some suffered delayed treatment for injuries and chronic conditions, and dismissive or hostile responses from staff, the report said. In one alleged incident in April at the downtown Miami jail, staff turned off a surveillance camera and a “disturbance control team” brutalized detainees who were protesting a lack of medical attention to one of their number who was coughing up blood. One detainee suffered a broken finger." Folks, it's not good enough to say "the cruelty is the point" while refusing act. The dehumanization and endangerment of brown prisoners inside ICE gulags is an intentional part of a larger fascist ethnic cleansing process that typically ends in mass killings and genocide. Once you start treating people like animals, they stop being human, and that's a necessary precondition for the kind of racialized mass murders that live in historical infamy.

At this point, I think we're probably still a long way from identifying the full web of influence, corruption, and misappropriation of resources behind Governor Ron DeSantis' concentration camp in the Florida Everglades, the obnoxiously named "Alligator Alcatraz." As such I'm going to keep this post pretty brief; more or less to keep the issue on our radar as more information emerges. With that caveat noted however, this Talking Points Memo article talks about the outlet's extremely nascent investigation into how DeSantis built the concentration camp, who paid for it, and who profits from it. Would it surprise you to learn that Florida's fascist governor is using a fake "emergency" to make this monstrous bullshit happen, the money trail is a hot mess, and Florida taxpayers are going to be the folks footing the bill for Ron's nazi apology to Downmarket Mussolini? Yeah, it didn't surprise me either. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contracts-desantis-alligator-alcatraz Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ "TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related to the construction and operation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp in the Everglades. The documents identify eight previously undisclosed companies — including two firms with a Fortune 500 pedigree — involved with the controversial facility. They also show that, in at least one instance, resources allocated for the state’s “disaster preparedness” apparatus were diverted to the site as DeSantis’ office used emergency powers to quickly establish the camp, causing a shortfall that needs to be addressed during the ongoing hurricane season." I must confess that part of me feels like I'm insulting my readers' intelligence when I remind folks, over and over again, that nightmare concentration camps for migrants, many of whom are guilty of nothing more than a civil violation, would be an unacceptable eliminationist outrage even if nobody was profiteering from it and it cost the public coffers zero dollars. In the grand scheme of things the lies, corruption, and misappropriation of public funds are a side story compared to the fact that we've just opened a real as fuck concentration camp in a remote part of Florida and there are already reports of widespread human rights abuses and unsafe conditions emerging mere weeks after "Alligator Alcratraz" opened. With that having been said, informed observers must know by now that the rich nazis running the larger American fascist movement do have designs on profiting from fascist repression, ethnic cleansing, and the migrant carceral complex - and projects like Alligator Alcatraz demonstrate how that odious business functions. If you want to know the names of the eleven companies already identified as working with the government of Florida to make this eliminationist bullshit possible, who is getting paid for what, and how many of the folks directly profiting from this are DeSantis donors (there are several) I recommend you just read the article. The short version here however is that like Trump, DeSantis has declared "an alarming number of migrants in Florida" to be a state level crisis, he then used emergency powers to divert a bunch of money, including from disaster prevention and relief funding in a state notorious for having a "hurricane season," to build a fucking concentration camp surrounded by alligators as a make up gift for his ally and former GOP nomination opponent, President Trump. Along the way a bunch of very shitty companies are raking in the money for substandard work, and the entire DeSantis administration is working overtime to keep as much of this as possible a complete secret from anyone who might be in a position to conduct any oversight on this genocidal nazi boondoggle. Think "Halliburton in post-Saddam Iraq" but on a smaller scale. #Fascism #Trump #RonDeSantis #AlligatorAlcatraz #Racism #ConcentrationCamp #MigrantRights #Immigration #EthnicCleansing #Corruption #Graft #Bribery #Eliminationism #EthnoNationalism #Investigation

I must confess I am discouraged by the alarming countercurrent in US discourse, pushing back on the idea that "Alligator Alcatraz" is an "actual" concentration camp. Some of this is fascist ideological flak, some is "enlightened centrists" whistling past the graveyard, and some of this is even coming from cynical folks on the left who know enough about the American carceral industrial complex to confidently (and to be fair, correctly) state America had "concentration camps" long before Trump. Frankly however I can think of few things less productive than entering into a semantic debate about the wholly accurate term concentration camp; I thought it might be better to just talk about the horrifying observed conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz instead, and let reasonable folks figure it out for themselves. To that end I want to share two stories about the same highly-controlled visit to Alligator Alcatraz by 3 Dem politicians, that each focus on different aspects of why I think the term fits and disputing the characterization borders on apologia. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/alligator-alcatraz-lawsuits Hundreds of detainees with no criminal charges sent to Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ "The notorious new “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail in the Florida Everglades contains hundreds of detainees with no criminal records or charges, it was disclosed on Sunday, as lawmakers decried “inhumane” conditions inside after touring the facility. Donald Trump has insisted that the remote camp in swamp land populated by pythons and alligators was reserved for immigrants who were “deranged psychopaths” and “some of the most vicious people on the planet” awaiting deportation. But at least one detainee shouted out to politicians during Saturday’s visit that he was a US citizen, the Democratic Florida congressman Maxwell Frost said. And the Miami Herald obtained and published a list of 700 people held in cages showing that at least 250 had committed no offense other than a civil immigration violation." So let's briefly touch on the important revelations in this article. First of all immigration officials are purposely obscuring the numbers and identities of detainees in the camp. Florida politicians are also lying about who runs the camp, which is clearly ICE, to deny opposition (Democrat) oversight of the facility. Please keep in mind that this is in addition to the migrant cages being located in a remote area in the Florida Everglades, far away from the prying eyes of the media and making official oversight all the more difficult. Furthermore, Trump and regime officials who are justifying keeping migrants in appalling conditions that amount to a concentration camp by saying only the worst types of criminals are being held at Alligator Alcatraz, are once again lying; as I stated repeatedly in prior articles hundreds of people in the camp are simply in the US without permission, which as the article notes is a civil violation, not a criminal charge - let alone a violent one. So, can you articulate what perfectly innocent reason a fascist government might have for building a semi-secret migrant cage complex, demonizing all the brown inhabitants as violent criminals even though many of them have committed no crimes, and are actively working to hide what is actually going on inside Alligator Alcatraz from media, regulators, and opposition officials? Yeah, me neither. Now let's take a look at the conditions the 3 Dem politicians were allowed to see despite the regime's efforts to hide occupied cages from them: https://www.commondreams.org/news/alligator-alcatraz-lawmakers-visit 'This Is an Internment Camp': Lawmakers Horrified by Inhumane Conditions in 'Alligator Alcatraz' "Wasserman-Schultz described it as an "internment camp" where detainees are "essentially packed into cages." "Wall-to-wall humans. 32 detainees per cage," she said. This, she noted, is unusual for immigration facilities, like the nearby Krome detention center in Miami-Dade County, where detainees are allowed to roam freely between buildings." Whatever I think of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as a politician, it is inarguable that she's objectively describing a type of concentration camp. With dozens of brown bodies packed into small cages, inadequate access to washroom facilities and water, purposely reduced caloric counts inadequate for the preservation of healthy adults, exposure to elements and insects; what exactly would you call it? It's not an accident Wasserman-Schultz references America's dark history with the term "interment camps" but I think she's still being too generous to the Trump regime here; this is a camp of cages for cruelty concentrating migrants without any concern for their wellbeing at all - a concentration camp if you will. Folks, this is not a question of semantics. This is a concentration camp, for brown people, on US soil and word games aren't going to stop the nightmare we're speeding towards now. #Fascism #Trump #DHS #AlligatorAlcatraz #Noem #EthnicCleansing #Immigration #ConcentrationCamps

I think I've decided that I need to separate out "concentration camps" from the larger fascist mass deportation story, because given the sheer amount of funding for migrant cages provided by the GOP's recently passed, homicidal-class war reconciliation budget, I think it's very unlikely "Alligator Alcatraz" will be a one-off. As such I'm going to link my previous post about why the facility in Florida is definitely a concentration camp here, so we can reference it going forward. https://social.treehouse.systems/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes/114824828223683936 Alligators, Concentration Camps, and Theatrical Fascism "So, let's be clear what we're talking about here. The fascist Florida government purposely built a concentration camp in the middle of a hurricane alley swamp, to facilitate the fascist Trump regime's ethnic cleansing project. And now, we're treating people who may be guilty of nothing more than a civil violation like War on Terror prisoners at Gitmo."

"As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color." - Fred Korematsu

I must confess that I've been sitting on this story for over a week because I struggle to discuss the ongoing, Pig Empire-wide embrace of Covid denialism at the state level without repeating myself. The key points in this discussion have not changed much over the past few months; Covid is not over, capitalist state policies pretending it is amount to a form of (accidental at best) eugenics, our own governments are no longer publishing the data that would prove Covid is still a danger to everyone, and they're doing it for rich monsters who are taking the very same precautions to protect *themselves* from Covid, that they are denying to you while insisting capitalist life must go on no matter how many people it disables or kills. The fact that the rich bastards profiting from all this have managed to transform wearing masks into a culture war issue taken up by the same fascist right they're funding, is just the crap-cherry on the shit cake.

The plain and simple truth here is that our leaders and the capitalists that own them have abandoned us to a never-ending pandemic, for profit, while refusing to acknowledge that the situation even exists. They're not going to keep us safe, which unfortunately means that we, everyday people, are forced to do that ourselves.

https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-government-has-abandoned-us-to-endless-covid-we-can-do-better/

The US Government Has Abandoned Us to Endless COVID. We Can Do Better.

"Trump’s outrageous argument that if the U.S. collected less data, the picture would be rosier has been made into official policy under the Biden administration: As of May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report admissions, and most of the other data collection infrastructure on COVID test rates, like local dashboards and easily readable trackers on cases and deaths, has already disappeared.

By mid-July 2024, it was possible for Biden to have an active case of COVID and to claim that he is going home to isolate while simultaneously appearing on video in a group of people unmasked, without major media outlets blinking an eye about this contradiction. At this point in the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website is no longer a go-to place for clear COVID information, but instead muddies the difference between COVID and the common cold in its prevention recommendations. As Caroline Hugh, an epidemiologist who volunteers for the Public Health Collective, told Truthout, it is hard to know what’s going on because the “picture has gotten a lot fuzzier and a lot more complicated.”

As I said at the top of this post, I honestly don't have a whole lot to add here. The current state of bipartisan Covid denialism in the Pig Empire is that "trust the science" liberal governments are simply refusing to collect data or provide support, while the reactionary fascist wing of the Covid denial complex continues to push garbage pseudoscientific arguments about "herd immunity," "immunity debt," and the behavior of seasonal viruses that are not Covid, and don't behave like Covid does. Through it all, both sides are trying to pretend that Covid is somehow "like a cold," while the virus continues to mutate in dangerous ways because of our society-wide eugenicist plan to "let er rip" for capitalism. Even now, our governments are releasing guidelines that encourage parents to send Covid-positive children to school in the fall; the situation is quite grim.

Is there any hope? Yes, but only the hope that we ourselves can create by staying informed and taking precautions; which isn't easy when our governments are refusing to publish data and working to make it harder to take those precautions. Fortunately this article does offer some sources that can help, which I guess is why I decided I had to share it in the first place.

"Recommended resources include Noha Aboelata and Roots Community Health’s “people’s health updates” on YouTube; Ground Truths, the newsletter of Eric Topol; The Sick Times, a weekly newsletter focusing on Long COVID; and Adler-Bolton’s podcast, “Death Panel,” which provides regular deep dives and analysis of COVID policy.

Local mask blocs are another good source of information. These local mutual aid groups provide low-cost or free masks to community members (via bulk purchasing), and they share a lot of locally relevant information about COVID (often on Instagram).

Nationally, groups like the People’s CDC, the Public Health Collective and the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative are synthesizing technical information and sharing it to a wider community with a disability justice lens. Hugh highlighted the importance of reading and combining a variety of information, rather than relying on a single source."

Overall however, I have to concede that the situation is terrible; our leaders have indeed sold us out to capital and our only hope is to keep ourselves safe from Covid as the unacknowledged pandemic continues to rage.

#Covid #Eugenics #Capitalism #CovidDenial #Pandemic #Politics #PigEmpire #MaskBans

Literally the *only* story I'm going to share about the goddamn Olympics:

U.S. Rugby player Ariana Ramsey found out athletes get free healthcare in the Olympic Village and immediately booked a bunch of appointments for routine services many Americans living under our dystopian private healthcare regime simply can't afford:

https://www.si.com/olympics/american-athletes-taking-full-advantage-of-free-healthcare-olympic-village-france

"Like, what?” she said in a post on TikTok describing her new discovery: The Olympic Village offers free healthcare.

The United States, of course, does not. So in the days following her victory, Ramsey made appointments with the Village gynecologist, dentist and ophthalmologist. According to the Paris 2024 organizing committee, the Village also offers cardiology, orthopedics, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry and, of course, sports medicine—all at no cost to the athletes. (Paralympic athletes will also have access to dermatology.)"

The best part of the story is that Ramsey not only convinced a bunch of other U.S. Athletes to take advantage of the program, but after realizing how beneficial having access to free healthcare is, she's decided to become an advocate for Universal Healthcare in America.

On a personal level and as someone who has spent time in multiple countries that offer free healthcare to their citizens, I honestly cannot stress how much it improves not only health outcomes, but also quality of life for labor class people; from increasing your lifespan, to freeing workers from dependence on bad employers just to keep their health insurance, this is one social policy that has ripples throughout almost every aspect of the lives of everyday people. And it says a LOT about the priorities of the American ruling class that they'd do almost anything to keep you from having access to universal healthcare.

#UniversalHealthcare #USPol #Capitalism #Olympics

I think it's fair to say that much of the media coverage and public discourse surrounding Project 2025 has (rightfully) focused on the fact that it represents a blueprint for transforming America into an overtly (as opposed to covertly) fascist nation where virtually every aspect of political, social, and personal live is governed according to white supremacist, theocratic, Christian Nationalist principles. Given the broad coalition of billionaires and corporate actors working to make Project 2025 a reality however, would it really surprise you to learn that this same blueprint represents a massive financial gift to the rich at the expense of labor class Americans? According to a recent study conducted by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee, that's precisely what Project 2025 will do:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/project-2025-taxes

Trump-Aligned Project 2025 Would Mean Higher Taxes for Workers, 'Corporate Welfare' for the Rich

"An economic analysis of the far-right Project 2025 agenda crafted by at least 140 former Trump administration officials shows that the plan would result in higher taxes on working-class Americans and "corporate welfare" for the rich and large businesses."

Like most right wing proposals that actively harm the labor class, the sausage is made by combining multiple regressive taxation policy decisions that ultimately rob American workers and their families of their hard-earned income:

"Together, these changes to tax rates would mean that a family of four earning $90,000 per year would have paid roughly $2,300 more in taxes last year," the JEC found. "If the Child Tax Credit was also eliminated, this family would have paid roughly $6,300 more. Meanwhile, millionaires would pay a lower top tax rate."

The analysis also points to Project 2025's push for a "national sales tax," a highly regressive proposal endorsed by dozens of Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives.

A national sales tax would "force working families to pay more at the grocery store, gas pump, and any other place they buy goods or services," JEC said Thursday, noting that past GOP proposals "would have hiked the cost of essentials like groceries and housing—usually exempt from state and local sales taxes—by 30%."

This would then in turn be combined with significant tax cuts for American corporations, with more goodies for the rich likely on the way during a potential second Trump presidency:

"Meanwhile, Project 2025 calls for reducing the U.S. corporate tax rate from 21% to 18%. According to The Washington Post, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's advisers have discussed slashing the tax rate to as low as 15%, and the president himself has told leading executives and his wealthy campaign donors that he intends to push for additional tax cuts if he wins another four years in the White House."

Look folks, I don't think you need me to tell you that so-called "trickle down economics" has been demonstrably proven to be failed policy, and an utter disaster for Americans who don't happen to be billionaires and/or corporate CEOs. But the taxation changes being discussed here aren't even "trickle down" initiatives so much as directly robbing labor class families to fill corporate coffers. No reasonable person should need any more reasons to think Project 2025 is a nightmare that cannot be allowed to become reality, but even broke cracker fascists who think they'll somehow benefit from the installation of a permanent white supremacist, Christian Nationalist regime should realize that paying thousands of dollars more per year in various taxes to help corporate CEO's buy yet another yacht is a terrible deal for everyone but rich people who are already living high on the hog.

#USPol #Project2025 #ClassWar #CorporateWelfare

If you've been cruising the Fediverse recently, you've no doubt seen a number of amusing posts under the hashtag #CDCSays, about why the U.S. Center for Disease Control is probably trying to kill you for capitalism; in particular as that relates to their updated COVID isolation guidelines. While these posts are objectively hilarious, the simple truth is that these aren't really jokes, and pretty much everyone who understands this virus and how it works, thinks the CDC has sold us all down the river for capitalists, corporations, and the bosses, to keep the fuckbarrelTM churning.

Of course, there's only so much these folks can communicate in a joke on social media, so today I thought I'd share a recent article by Reina Sultan on Self.com. Inside, she talks to three medically qualified experts who work in this field about why the CDC's new guidelines, and the drastic reduction of the isolation period recommended if you've contracted COVID, are wishful thinking at best and quite possibly capitalist death cult propaganda:

https://www.self.com/story/cdc-new-covid-19-isolation-guidelines

Although it's definitely worth reading the entire short article, let's look at some important highlights here for folks who're absolutely not gonna click on a link about COVID because they'd rather pretend everything is fine:

- reducing COVID isolation recommendations from 5 days, to 24 hours "if you’ve been fever-free" and "your symptoms are improving" will "likely make more people sick—and this approach increasingly places the burden of public health on individual people, which is dangerous for everyone, but especially for those at a higher risk of complications from the virus."

- changing testing from a way to determine if you can leave isolation, to merely something you might want to use to "assist" your decision making, is a terrible idea.

- COVID is most certainly not over; "wastewater analysis data suggests there are still more than 760,000 new cases of COVID a day in the US—meaning roughly 1 in 63 people are actively infectious."

- Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, says "There is no evidence to suggest that these waves (of COVID infections) are becoming smaller on average over time, or that we're having fewer waves.”

- Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH says "that the CDC’s messaging implicitly communicates two falsehoods: that COVID has “ceased to be a threat,” and that it “stops being transmitted when people stop having a fever.” According to Dr. Jirmanus, "infectiousness has little to do with specific symptoms, since you can be sick (and contagious) without a fever and with few, mild, or even no symptoms at all. And if you’re testing positive on rapid tests, you’re very likely still able to infect others, even if you feel fine."

- Shortening the isolation period "supports economic interests and is not in the interest of protecting health." Yes, this means that the bosses and capitalists are okay with making you sick and maybe even killing you, so they can keep extracting wealth from our labor.

- In fact, Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD says the CDC’s updated recommendations are moving in the wrong direction. “COVID isolation should be expanded, not reduced or eliminated. There is no change in the scientific evidence around COVID transmission that would support reducing the recommended isolation period below five days... Extending isolation beyond five days would be a safer approach, both to prevent viral spread and to allow people adequate time to recover.” Ideally, she recommends you isolate "for 10 to 14 days, if you have that option, and take two rapid tests with negative results at least 24 hours apart before going about your daily life as usual again" but acknowledges that without sick leave, this will be impossible for many workers, who she then advises to wear "a well-fitting respirator and limit in-person activities only to what is essential.”

Additionally, these experts point out that long COVID is real, remains poorly understood, and is therefore something we should absolutely not be fucking around with as a society by continuing to "let er rip" and reducing protective measures; which is precisely what the CDC has done here with its joke ass updated isolation guidelines. Finally, all three experts also remind us that these policy updates all seem to be designed with non-disabled, non-immunocompromised people in mind; which is pretty alarming when you realize that roughly “4 out of 10 Americans have chronic diseases that put them at higher risk of COVID.” All of which just reinforces the argument I've been making for a while; rich people and their captured regulatory bodies will absolutely toss disabled people, sick people, and the elderly into the furnace for five points a share.

Look folks, I get that we're all tired of this virus and this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but these are highly qualified doctors telling you in so many words that "it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you." And the CDC at least, sure is.

#COVID #Capitalism #CDC

@tehdeminz@meow.social My crappy $8 mouse is acting up; forgive me for the retwee/unretweet; the damn button just won't obey.

Like, I really don't think people understand what I'm saying here. The term "trans pogrom" is not a rhetorical device, and it's not a hypothetical either. The fascist Republican Party is telling you loud and clear, in their own words what they mean to do about trans and queer people just "existing" and I'm tired of being told I'm overreacting just because comfortable bougie assholes don't *want* to believe it's true. "They can't *do* that" doesn't work either; they have a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court that has already demonstrated that the laws don't mean f*ck all to them, and thus they can do *anything* they bloody well want to.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/08/14/the-gop-has-a-master-plan-to-criminalize-being-trans/amp/

I realize that most of our society doesn't give a crap, but at least read the goddamn headline: "The GOP Has a Master Plan to Criminalize Being Trans."

This is not "red meat" for the base, these nazis are dead f*cking serious. And it's not QAnon nation pushing this alone either; it's powerful fascist Republican think tanks, elected officials, judges, lawyers, major media and propaganda organizations. Do you understand what it means when someone criminalizes your existence? If "being trans" is illegal, how exactly does a person in "violation" of the law avoid breaking the law? A pogrom is just like a genocide, in fact one usually leads to the other; it's a process. First you isolate your targets, then you criminalize their existence, then you round them up, and eventually you start doing murders. That's the history, that's how this process works. When someone criminalizes your existence, it means they intend to f*cking KILL you.

The GOP is not making anti-trans legislation a primary plank in their political program for no reason. They're not trying to ban LGBTQ content in the public sphere for sh*ts and giggles. They are not trying to make it illegal to help, or support trans people because it'll look good on a campaign flier. They are not trying to give the Department of Justice a mandate to prosecute officials in other states for failing to police LGBTQ people and prosecute an anti-trans pogrom because it'll be a spicy talking point for Fox News monologues. And they certainly aren't trying to do all this on the federal level, through Project 2025, because they're undecided about how to proceed here.

This is a pogrom in process. This is what a pogrom looks like. This is how you make it "legal" to start murdering people you don't like in a "liberal democracy." This is no different at all than what the Nazi Party did to set up the Holocaust. They are serious, they are politically empowered, they mean to f*cking "end" trans and queer people, and they are prepared to throw *your* ass in jail if you try to stop them.

#TransRights #Pogroms #Fascism #USPolitics