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The hate in America is staggering. It's impossible to understand how depraved America has become.

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Outrage flowed as the MAGA goon squad grinned and imagined immigrants stacked like pallets of Costco beef jerky, rotting in the heat while ICE agents clink Monster Energy cans and call it victory. The flimsy, unairconditioned tents. The chain-link cells. The swaggering cruelty. Alligator Alcatraz is more than a prison. It’s a demonstration project. A symbol for a new era in which the GOP talks openly of deporting and imprisoning not just migrants, but natural-born citizens who get in their way. It’s a psychological weapon, designed to plant the image of an American jungle gulag deep in your brain. Alligator Alcatraz isn’t just about immigration. It’s about fear. It’s about putting everyone who opposes them on notice. It’s about reminding you that they have the will to build places like this and the cruelty to fill them.

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp. The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

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An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism.

Fiscal hard-liners argued that the bill would add too much to the national debt, while more moderate Republicans suggested that its cuts — particularly to Medicaid — went too far.

Trump’s rhetoric has taken an increasingly authoritarian turn. He floated prosecuting CNN journalists, arresting a New York politician, and even deporting natural-born citizens. Trump also spread easily debunked lies about gas prices and inflation. Yet most press conference’s disturbing content, treating it like routine bluster.

The Atlantic, shed light on how Project 2025 has bolstered presidential authority by downsizing government functions and advancing a Christian nationalist agenda and closely aligns with Trump’s priorities on immigration and political retribution.

Polling reveal 54% of Americans believe ICE has gone too far with migrant arrests. American pride hits a record low with just 58% expressing pride, showing sharp partisan and generational divides.

There hasn’t been a dictator who can rule over a prosperous nation. So the higher the unemployment numbers are the better for the dictator. Starving people are easier to rule than prosperous people.

Fairness is a powerful value. And now the worm has turned. After the passage of the monstrous “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” Democrats have a powerful case to make. Is it fair to deprive children of food, the elderly of nursing home care, millions of health insurance, rural hospitals of needed revenue to make billionaires even richer? Is it fair to increase prices for school supplies, cars, clothing, and other needs, hitting poor and working-class Americans more, so that President Donald Trump can get his misguided tariffs? Is it fair to let banks that defrauded consumers of billions off the hook while eviscerating the agency that protects consumers from predation by banks and other financial institutions? From private million-dollar dinners with Trump to giving favorable treatment to the wealthy if they buy sufficient quantities of Trump cryptocurrency, it is clear that big money rules in this White House and among many Republicans in Congress. And that is palpably unfair to most Americans who don’t have millions or billions to throw around.

Fairness in this case meshes with decency. And the actions by Trump and his minions, including his cult following in Congress, are more indecent, sadistic, and unfair than in any other presidency during our lifetimes—what Lawrence O’Donnell called “the banality of cruelty.” Start with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) brushing off her constituents’ concerns about taking away health care by saying, “We are all going to die.”

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