The #ConcentrationCamp in #Florida is a torture prison, where our undocumented brothers and sisters are being held, starved, mistreated, and eventually some will die (if they haven't already). It's not cute.
So we need to stop using the cute #Republican term, #AlligatorAlcatraz, to describe it.
What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cru...
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NEVER AGAIN?
Israel plans to confine Gaza residents in a closed concentration camp atop Rafah ruins, as the genocide continues. Defense Minister Israel Katz is calling it a "humanitarian zone," but it is a de facto concentration camp. Internees will not have freedom of movement or the ability to leave. They will be forced to move there, whether they want to, or not. Living conditions will be deplorable.
As a side note, for anyone unfamiliar with the slogan, “Never Again,” it was chanted by prisoners as they were liberated from Buchenwald at the end of World War II. It was used by Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane in his 1971 book, Never Again! A Program for Survival. It is a slogan often repeated by Jews, though there has been disagreement about whether it applied just to Jews and antisemitism, or whether it was a more universal slogan, meant to oppose all forms of fascism and genocide. The slogan originated from the 1927 poem, Masada, by Yitzhak Lamdan, about the siege of Masada, when the Sicarii (Jewish assassins who target Roman leaders and Jewish collaborators) were captured and chose to commit mass suicide rather than be captured.
'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows
DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for ICE detention centers
yup, as we enter hurricane season #FEMA 's budget is cut and the money is being spent building a concentration camp in #Florida
#AlligatorAlcatraz #ICE #ConcentrationCamp
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/alligator-alcatraz-funding-fema-ice
Drop Site News · 'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows
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@georgetakei #AlligatorAuschwitz is the hashtag trending here. Probably because the ICE detention centers do not hold convicted criminals, like prisons do, but kidnapped people, like a #ConcentrationCamp does. Words matter.
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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@danwentzel
"They" want you to give it cute names like Gator Gulag.
It gives them something to root for. Something to put on Tshirts.
Nothing blows their dresses up like taking a term Democrats use with disgust, and plastering it over an American Flag and selling it on Tshirts.
Lets stick with #ConcentrationCamp.
American Heritage Dictionary:
Concentration Camp -
noun
1- A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect.
2- A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions.
3- A camp where large numbers of persons—such as political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees—are detained for the purpose of concentrating them in one place
Fuck "Alligator Alcatraz"
If it
...looks like a concentration camp...
...feels like a concentration camp...
...acts like a concentration camp...
...it's a concentration camp.
Don't let them tell you differently.
The "city upon a hill," (John Winthrop, 1630), was founded on the curtailment of others' rights, lives. "Alligator Alcatraz . . . could hardly be more American. It channels this country’s long history of paranoia, xenophobia & systematic exclusion thru the grotesque 20th-century innovation of the #concentrationcamp, all of that repackaged as an aggressively stupid meme complete w/AI-slop images, Etsy insta-merch & an almost lifelike salesbot in #Noem.
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/06/alligator-alcatraz-american-history-from-the-dark-side/
Salon.com · Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side - Salon.comYeah, it's a concentration camp. It's also a meme, a troll and an especially ugly distillation of American history
Etsy is selling "Alligator Alcatraz" psychopathic merchandise & refuses to take it down.
Well, this assures I refrain from shopping on Etsy for a while--at least until they take down this evil fascist shit.
Boycott! I'll also write them a scathing email.
I've been a devoted Etsy shopper for years.
Republican concentration camps to provide slave labor to billionaire donors: Follow the money
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/07/06/republican-concentration-camps-to-provide-slave-labor-to-billionaire-donors-follow-the-money/
#concentrationcamp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “#AlligatorAlcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
“‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is a #concentrationcamp,” Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night, a history of concentration camps, said on Tuesday.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197508/alligator-alcatraz-trump-concentration-camp
The New Republic · The Grand Opening of an American Concentration CampThe Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
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"What were you doing the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp in the Everglades?
No one can say, years from now, that nobody knew about the camp, or that no one pushed back."
~ Melissa Gira Grant
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #AlligatorAlcatraz #ConcentrationCamp
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https://newrepublic.com/article/197508/alligator-alcatraz-trump-concentration-camp
The New Republic · The Grand Opening of an American Concentration CampThe Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
The author of this article "visited four continents to write a global history of concentration camps. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model: mass civilian detention without real trials targeting vulnerable groups for political gain based on ethnicity, race, religion or political affiliation rather than for crimes committed. And its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country."
MSNBC · The case for calling Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz' a concentration camp
Don Q said it, and the crowd laughed. #111Words #DonQ #Omen #RonDisease #Laughter #Politics #Plunderland #ConcentrationCamp https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/07/don-q-said-it-and-crowd-laughed.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.comDon Q said it, and the crowd laughedWhen Don Q said it to a crowd, they laughed. So when he stood in front of another crowd, he said it again, and the new crowd laughed, too. S...
Breaking: First Convicted Felon Arrives at Alligator Auschwitz
Don't let them try to fool you. It's a #ConcentrationCamp.
It is a hopeful thing that #Americans are against #Trump's #Florida #ConcentrationCamp. But since the end of American #democracy the mere opinion of the people do not matter -- there must be direct action.
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'Alligator Alcatraz' Unpopular Among Americans—Poll - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/alligator-alcartaz-florida-detention-center-unpopular-poll-2094509
Newsweek · 'Alligator Alcatraz' Unpopular Among Americans—Poll
This is a MAGA loyalist gloating over concentration camp merch from Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" distributed by the Republican Party of Florida to raise funds for "political spending".
I actually thought he was giving a sarcastic critique when I saw, "I repeat, this prison has merch. Things are going insanely well." Then I saw the video and discovered that he was legitimately gleeful over this concentration camp merch, calling it "drip".
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1940027896946471298
As Noah Garfinkel retweeted, "Begrudgingly, I must shout out 1940s Germany for realizing concentration camp merch would have been a bridge too far."
So classy! The revolution will be merchandised.
Alligator Alcatraz’ merch appears on Amazon and Florida GOP website, making light of controversial facility
https://www.fastcompany.com/91362081/alligator-alcatraz-merch-shirts-hats-amazon-florida-gop-detention-center
Fast Company · 'Alligator Alcatraz' merch appears on Amazon and Florida GOP website, making light of controversial facilityShirts, hats, and other merchandise celebrate a controversial Florida-based migrant detention center that has raised human rights concerns.
