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Their reporting has been top notch.
Go check out their coverage on the funding of ICE concentration camps, too.
They're on Bluesky.
I was not familiar with that! Incredible.
ICE is engaging in Harm-for-Profit on an epic scale even for Americans, who not only celebrate Harm-for-Profit, but promote people who agree to incentivize harm.
Art of the deal. Run America like a business
ICE is likely paying a premium to get the deal through quickly. E.g., in Hamburg, PA, the warehouse was purchased in 2024 for $57.5 million and sold to ICE for $87 million.
The real profit will come with the private prison companies and contractors hired to refurbish and staff these facilities.
Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.
Purchasing and converting these warehouse detention camps will cost the U.S. government billions of dollars. So far ICE has purchased at least half a dozen warehouses at a cost of $70-$110 million each. It'll cost billions more to refit them into detention camps, and hire staff.
Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people.
ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.
“Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people.
ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.”
Perfect! When We the People take back our country, we’ll have all the right facilities to house every fucking ICE, CBP, GOP, DHS, and ALL the current administration in our WH…make no mistake, WE ARE COMING FOR YOU
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
Warner: "There is a very real threat without reforms at ICE that you could have ICE patrols around polling stations. And people say, 'Why would that matter if they're all American citizens?' We've seen ICE discriminate against Latinos ... you don't need to do a lot to discourage people from voting"
Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez won Saturday's special election for State House District 60, defeating Republican Brad Daigle.
Martinez, a member of the Iberville Parish Council, earned 62% of the vote against Daigle, a small-business owner and member of the Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission.
More of this around the world, please. 😊🫠
atomic bomb-levels of charisma
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
NYC I WANT WHAT YOU HAVE
First, New Brunswick. Soon, the world.
Hey remember back when Russian dash cam videos were everywhere and it was a big sign that the state had basically collapsed and people had to record everything to be safe? Yeah, well guess what that's us now. Buy dash cams for MPLS. www.amazon.com/registries/g...
A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."
"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
Israel has been using AI to mass target Palestinians for years. It has used the genocide in Gaza to accelerate this technique, ramping up the speed of AI targeting to create what Israeli journalists called a “mass assassination factory”.
www.democracynow.org/2023/12/1/is...
I made this 11 hours ago when we passed 200k for January and now it's like 220k. 😂 😂 😂
Y'all, we shipped ~45k whistles in December.
I think we shipped ~35k whistles TODAY.
This team of rogue 3D printing enthusiasts is... really rocking & rolling. 💓💃 And thank you to all of you who helped supply the filament & shipping $ so that could happen!
Kash decided to do a news conference on an airplane tarmac for some reason so he has to yell and cannot hear questions from reporters lol
oh i see they sent JD out again to eat shit
JD Vance lies shamelessly: "Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws."
