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Greg Sargent

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Staff writer at the New Republic

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scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's also a massive sop to the private prison industry. Billions in new funding to build, house, and staff domestic internment camps will make the folks at the GEO Group and elsewhere quite wealthy! 🙃

Joe Walsh (@walshfreedom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This. This is what we’re fighting against. This cruel, inhumane treatment of human beings must not happen in this country. No fucking way. Thread.👇

Patricia Zengerle (@reuterszengerle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Context / In Miami-Dade County, Florida, 54.3% of the population was foreign-born between 2019 and 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Will Saletan (@saletan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Buried in the big budget bill" is a provision that "could fund more complexes" like Alligator Alcatraz. It offers $3.5 billion to states, in part for "detention of aliens." And as Greg Sargent reports, Republican opportunists are beginning to cash in. newrepublic.com/article/197899…

Maria Cardona (@mariatcardona) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So putrid and misguided and cruel, and will absolutely never lead to a real solution. But then again we know that’s not what they’re interested in!

xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The ACA invited states to build out Basic Health Programs for residents a notch above Medicaid income threshold. OBBBA invites states to build out concentration camps for immigrants.

Greg Sargent (@gregtsargent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Trump doesn't just work to protect autocrats from justice in their own countries. He also defends them against justice in the US." Great idea from Will Saletan here fleshing out the pattern of Trump helping fellow criminal elites internationally: thebulwark.com/p/trump-foreig…

Nate Blouin (@nateforutah) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The LDS Church should put the full force of their abilities to work in order to stop this travesty from being pushed by Republican LDS members of the Utah Legislature.

Greg Sargent (@gregtsargent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here is a state Rep in Utah urging people to get on this bandwagon and start looking at creating an "Alligator Alcatraz" in their state. Please start tracking this in other states, folks.

Here is a state Rep in Utah urging people to get on this bandwagon and start looking at creating an "Alligator Alcatraz" in their state. Please start tracking this in other states, folks.
Greg Sargent (@gregtsargent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's hard for people who don't swim in MAGA information currents to grasp, but Ron DeSantis' photo op with Trump at "Alligator Alcatraz" is an enormous coup for him. The brains behind the idea, Florida AG James Uthmeier, is showing that this is a route to MAGA superstardom.

Greg Sargent (@gregtsargent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fascinating from David Kurtz on the pod: The massive funding for ICE puts us on the cusp of transformation similar to the war on terror and the war on drugs. These things "deform our priorities" in ways that "take decades to reverse." Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/197906…

Fascinating from <a href="/TPM_dk/">David Kurtz</a> on the pod: The massive funding for ICE puts us on the cusp of transformation similar to the war on terror and the war on drugs.

These things "deform our priorities" in ways that "take decades to reverse."

Transcript:

newrepublic.com/article/197906…
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Good Michael Tomasky diagnosis of why Jeffrey Epstein mess is such a fiasco for Trump: For the first time, Trump and MAGA are diverging on the conspiracy theory nutball stuff, where "there’s never been an inch of daylight between them. Now there is." newrepublic.com/article/197901…