10 years since our home was changed forever. 10 years since the shooting at Pulse where 49 angels were murdered and 58 people were injured. Today, we remind ourselves that behind every number, there is a life. Full of stories and loved ones. Each a whole universe.
🚨 Florida just shut down its “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE detention center after spending close to $1 billion on it.
The facility was built in 8 days last July on a small airport runway in the Everglades. Governor Ron DeSantis used emergency powers to throw it up. Trump called it a model for other states.
Florida has been spending more than $1 million a day to operate it.
The state put in $608 million upfront. Then another $300 million in operating costs. The federal government has not reimbursed a dollar — the money is tied up in court over environmental lawsuits and the inhumane conditions inside.
Of the 1,400 people held there, 900 have no criminal record.
That’s nearly two out of every three detainees. People with no convictions. Held in a tent city in a swamp.
Rep. Maxwell Frost, who toured the facility, called it “a failed experiment in human suffering.”
DeSantis’s own assessment: “If we shut the lights out tomorrow, we will be able to say it served its purpose.”
What was the point of DOGE?
George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc
Trump one month before the 2024 election: “Think of it - within one year you’re gonna have electric bills and energy bills and gasoline for your cars is going to be 50% cheaper than it is right now. That’s a big thing.”
Just factually speaking People Express went out of business in 1986 and the Spirit-JetBlue merger was rejected in 2024 under the Biden Administration’s DOJ.