And In Not What It Initially Appears To Be,

Charlotte Clymer with another interesting story about rightwingers.

Why Sydney Sweeney Needs to Be Canceled by Charlotte Clymer

Her career needs to end. Read on Substack

Actually, this has nothing to do with Sydney Sweeney.

I’ve seen some of her movies and shows. She’s a good actor. She seems nice. I have no real opinion of her beyond that.

The rightwing media ecosystem is currently obsessed with Ms. Sweeney, and per their usual outrage machine schtick, they’ve made her their latest vehicle for claiming Democrats are out-of-touch with America.

This week, Fox News and various other conservative outlets have spent considerable time claiming that Democrats are furious over a jeans advertisement featuring Ms. Sweeney—the details of their supposed outrage are too absurd to get into here, and I’d rather not insult your intelligence by pretending you should care.

But I figure tens of millions of Trump supporters are feverishly googling “Democrats” and “Sydney Sweeney” for that sweet, sweet hit of outrage to feed their addiction, and it occurred to me that a provocative headline could be a great opportunity to get them here and offer a read-out on what Democrats and progressives are currently, actually, passionately discussing.

I’m in approximately ~5,000 group chats with fellow Democrats (heavy sigh), give or take a few, and Sydney Sweeney has not come up once in any of them. Not a single one.

Here’s what we’ve really been talking about this week:

We’re pretty horrified by the ongoing horror in Gaza. Children there are starving-to-death, and the Israeli military has brutally slaughtered more than 1,000 innocent civilians attempting to get food assistance, almost all of which is being blocked by Netanyahu’s government.

All of our allies—including the United Kingdom—have been urgently pleading with Netanyahu to end the blockade and feed starving people in Gaza and please, oh please, stop shooting at them.

We’re wondering why Republican Christians in Congress would disregard Christ’s clear teachings on this matter. Pope Leo XIV condemned “the very grave humanitarian situation in Gaza, where the civilian population is crushed by hunger and remains exposed to violence and death.”

But hey, what the hell does he know?

We’re disgusted by the cover-up over the Epstein files, and it’s fairly obvious to everyone that Donald Trump is desperately attempting to conceal and distract from his involvement in a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.

Remember when the Republican Party pretended to care about pedophiles and sex trafficking and the so-called “Deep State” and Trump pandered to them for votes by claiming he would released the Epstein files and then he didn’t?

We’ve been talking all month about the fall-out of Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill and the fact that upwards of 17 million Americans will lose their health care coverage and millions will lose food assistance and a ton of rural hospitals are about to close down.

We have no idea how we’re going to help all these people when that legislation is fully implemented, and in discussing how to get medical treatment for the sick and food for the hungry, we don’t really care who these vulnerable folks voted for last year.

We’re considerably worried about the country’s total unpreparedness for natural disasters like hurricanes and tsunamis and flooding and earthquakes because Donald Trump and the Republican Party have gutted the NOAA and the National Weather Service and FEMA.

We imagine a lot of people are going to needlessly die in flood waters and devastating cyclones because of Republican incompetence and cruelty, and again: we have no idea how we’re going to help these folks when that happens.

We’ve been talking a lot about the accelerating erosion of constitutional protections and the Trump administration openly forcing colleges and corporations to pay him a bribe in order to avoid being targeted by his dictatorial madness.

We’ve been talking about Trump’s efforts to silence Stephen Colbert and his other most prominent critics in pop culture, except, of course, when he’s too chickenshit to take on the creators of South Park.

We wonder how the Constitution will survive this era. We wonder how the courts can resist threats of violence. We wonder how democracy can endure when even the most concerned Republicans, like Sen. Lisa Murkowski, have largely given up on their oaths.

Sydney Sweeney and which endorsements she’s landed and what ads she’s appearing in and what products she’s hawking to the public — none of that matters to us.

If anything, in regards to Ms. Sweeney, we’re embarrassed for the shamelessness of Republicans who are attempting to exploit her as a distraction from the death and destruction they’re causing and enabling.

Maybe if we got a hungry or sick child in a rural part of the country to record a video talking shit about Ms. Sweeney, that would be enough for Trump and Republicans to pay attention to their suffering. (snip)

Four important clips from The Majority Report. Each video clip is a different subject

10 Women Disarm an F-16, & Torquemada’s Work in Spain, in Peace & Justice History for 7/30

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With Famine, No Electricity, Fuel, Water, No Family, How Are You Going To Survive?’ in Gaza

After over 21 months of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, the humanitarian crisis in the Strip has reached its worst point yet. 94% of Gaza’s hospitals have been destroyed or damaged. Dozens of children have died from malnutrition. And Israeli troops continue to kill scores of Palestinians as they try to receive food from the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”

In this second part of Zeteo’s live ‘Unshocked,’ Dr. Yasser Khan – a Canadian ophthalmologist and plastic surgeon who has traveled twice to Gaza since October 7, 2023 – describes to Mehdi and Naomi how Israel’s humanitarian assault on Gaza has turned injuries and disabilities in Gaza into, “a death sentence.”

Dr. Yasser Khan: “It was horrific, the most horrific things that I’ve ever seen.”

In the interview, Dr. Khan shares the stories of his many patients, the vast majority of whom he says were women and children.

Dr. Khan also discusses how upon returning from Gaza, many of his colleagues in the medical field refused to believe such stories, with some even going out of their way to tell him that, “‘he’s done nothing to be a hero.’”

Dr. Khan explains how he came to the conclusion that what he was seeing in Gaza was indeed a genocide and why he takes so much inspiration from the people in Gaza. Mehdi, Naomi, and Dr. Khan also take questions from a live audience.

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The Mass Starvation Of Gaza Is A Disgrace To Humanity

These were the words used by the King Of Belgium recently and every day things are getting worse, as starvation starts to run rampant across the area. And all of this was man made. We cannot be silent about this.

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Trump’s DEATH TRAP Leaks… and CHAOS ERUPTS

‘I Call It Israeli Settler Terrorism’ — Father of Killed Palestinian-American Speaks Out

Sayfollah Musallet, a Palestinian-American born in Florida, was visiting family in the West Bank town of Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya when Israeli settlers brutalized him, beating him unconscious and blocking an ambulance from reaching him, according to the victim’s family. The young Palestinian-American was pronounced dead by the time he arrived at a hospital.

And although days have passed since Sayfollah was apparently killed by Israeli settlers, no one from the White House has contacted the family. No one from Congress. No one who represents Florida, where Musallet hails from.

Kamel Musallet, Sayfollah’s father, spoke with Zeteo’s political correspondent Prem Thakker about the lack of accountability from both US and Israeli officials over the ongoing settler violence in the West Bank. “An American has been killed by Israeli violence… Israeli settler terrorism,” Kamel told Prem.

Sayfollah is the seventh American killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the past 21 months. Most US politicians remain conspicuously silent about the widespread violence carried out by Israeli settlers.

This video was released earlier on Zeteo.com, if you want to get earlier access, make sure you subscribe: zeteo.com/subscribe

While We Watch Colbert and South Park, They Build A $1.2 B Desert Concentration Camp In Texas

https://beingliberal.substack.com/p/while-we-watch-colbert-and-south?r=3j50y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

While America’s distracted by the Steven Colbert Show drama and South Park revenge, Trump’s government just dropped over a billion dollars to build the largest detention center in U.S. history

Being Liberal

Jul 25, 2025

Welcome to Fort Bliss—A $1.2 Billion Dystopian Human Suffering Factory—Funded By You.

You read that right.

Everything is bigger in Texas. $1.26 billion taxpayers money funneled to private pockets. 5,000 prisoners. No due process. Tent concentration camp in a desert.

America 2025 – Detention Will Make You Free

What’s Being Built—And Why It Should Terrify You

A $1.26 billion federal contract has been awarded to construct a 5,000-bed detention camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

It will be operated under military supervision with private contractors and no guaranteed legal oversight.

This is part of a broader Trump-era policy goal: scaling ICE detention to 100,000 beds nationwide—up from around 40,000.

This facility is slated to fast-track deportations under EO 14159, which targets up to 1 million removals per year.

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Fort Bliss? It’s Another Alligator Auschwitz,
Of Texas Desert Kind

Let’s be clear: this isn’t just a holding site—it’s inhumane state-sanctioned cruelty.

Fort Bliss sits in El Paso’s desert, where summer temps regularly hit 100–110°F. Inside tents, that can spike above 120°F. No air conditioning. No proper plumbing. Just canvas and suffering. And in winter? Temperatures dip below freezing at night, with no insulation to protect detainees.

The result?

Heat exhaustion. Hypothermia. Dust storms. Insects. Infections. Psychological breakdowns.

Just like at Florida’s now-notorious “Alligator Alcatraz,” ambulances driving through the gate will be a daily feature. Already, reports from that prototype camp detail detainees suffering from medical neglect, contaminated food, and makeshift showers rigged with hoses. Some have called it “worse than jail”—and Fort Bliss will be five times bigger.

Here’s what we know—and why it’s enraging—that private contractors stand to profit from building this $1.2 billion tent detention camp at Fort Bliss:

Who’s Getting Rich from the Fort Bliss Camp?

Acquisition Logistics LLC (Prime Contractor)

Awarded the main Department of Defense contract—worth $1.2‑$1.26 billion—to construct and operate the 5,000‑bed tent camp for ICE detainees at Fort Bliss, supported by $232 million in Army funds so far.

Based in Virginia, without previous large-scale detention experience, mostly focused on smaller administrative and logistics contracts (often under $2 million).

Disaster Management Group (Subcontractor)

A key subcontractor owned by Nathan Albers, a Republican donor whose former firm pleaded guilty in 2019 for employing undocumented workers under a shell-company scheme.

Disaster Management specializes in erecting large-scale temporary housing (often used in refugee projects). It has received over $500 million in federal contracts since 2020.

Its workforce practices have drawn legal and ethical scrutiny: a 2022 Department of Labor review found wage and overtime violations, leading to nearly $16 million in recovered back pay and compliance enforcement.

Amentum (Another Subcontractor)

A large engineering and tech services firm tapped to support unspecified portions of the Fort Bliss project, likely involving logistics, structure builds, and base coordination.

Why This Should Outrage You

It’s Yet Another Trumpian Grift! Public Funds Are Fueling Private Profits
Taxpayer money is funding manufacturers of suffering—people with no due process detained in harsh, tented desert conditions. It’s a state funded deliberate cruelty.

The Blueprint of Authoritarianism

Let’s break it down:

Scapegoat a vulnerable group.

Detain them en masse with no trial.

Use military infrastructure and private contractors to bypass accountability.

Build in remote areas—out of sight, out of mind.

Brand it with Orwellian irony.

“Fort Bliss”? That’s not just cruel. It’s fascist stagecraft.

This isn’t about security. It’s about dehumanization at scale, with taxpayer money funding open-air internment that recalls the ugliest chapters of history. Sound familiar?

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The International Criminal Court Must Indict Donald Trump NOW.

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What You Can Do

Expose it – Share this article. Make people say the name: Fort Bliss Concentration Camp.

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Mobilize; Organize or attend protests in Texas. Follow groups like the ACLU , RAICES, and the Detention Watch Network.

Demand Oversight: Call reps. Demand medical transparency, independent inspections, and an immediate halt to construction.

Support Legal Aid: Many detainees will have no lawyer. Contribute to immigrant defense funds now.

Final Thought

Stop saying “it can’t happen here.” It already is.

We’re not just locking people up—we’re engineering human suffering. And we’re doing it with public funds, in military facilities, under desert sun, with names like Alligator Alcatraz, Fort Bliss to mock our conscience.

If we let this slide, history won’t ask if we knew. It will ask why we stayed silent.

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The ADA & More, In Peace & Justice History for 7/26

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African Nation Says It Will Repatriate Migrants Deported by U.S.

The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home.

Mswati III, King of Eswatini, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2023.Credit…Dave Sanders for The New York Times

By John Eligon and Hamed Aleaziz

John Eligon reported from Johannesburg and Hamed Aleaziz from Washington.

July 16, 2025

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The tiny African kingdom of Eswatini announced on Wednesday that it would repatriate the five migrants who had been deported there by the United States, a day after American officials said the migrants’ home countries had refused to accept them.

The migrants came from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba, and had been serving time in American prisons for serious offenses, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Their removal was the first so-called third-country deportation from the United States to take place since the Supreme Court ruled this month that the Trump administration could move forward with the practice.

The flight included individuals whose own countries “refused to take them back,” Homeland Security Department Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X Tuesday night.

But an Eswatini government spokeswoman, Thabile Mdluli, said in a statement on Wednesday that the governments of her country and the United States, together with the International Organization for Migration, will “facilitate the transit of these inmates to their countries of origin.”

The International Organization for Migration said that it had no involvement in the removal of the migrants from the United States and had not been asked to provide any support with repatriation.

The Trump administration has worked aggressively to broker deals with international partners willing to take deportees. Legal experts have challenged the deportations on the grounds that the migrants could be subject to mistreatment and torture.

Earlier this month the Supreme Court approved the deportation of eight men to South Sudan, only one of whom is from that country. Their families have not heard from them since, according to their legal team. Officials in South Sudan have said the men are “under the care of the relevant authorities,” but have provided no further details.

After the Supreme Court decision, immigration officials acted quickly to implement new regulations that allow the government to carry out third-country deportations in as little as six hours, even without assurances that the migrants will be safe.

Former immigration officials view the deportation efforts as part of the administration’s push to get migrants to self-deport.

“This is another clear example of how the United States is flagrantly violating the law restricting it from deporting people to countries where they will likely be persecuted or tortured,” said Matt Adams, a lawyer for the migrants sent to South Sudan.

The Trump administration used the deportations to Eswatini “simply for political theater,” he said. “Spending millions of dollars to fly five men to the other side of the planet.”

Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is tucked between South Africa and Mozambique and has one of Africa’s last ruling monarchies. The kingdom is divided between those who praise its adherence to tradition and those who argue that the lavish lifestyle of King Mswati III stands in painful contrast to the poverty afflicting many of the country’s 1.2 million people.

Some citizens of Eswatini and foreign governments have also raised concerns about the country’s human rights record, accusing the government of using excessive — sometimes lethal — force against people who oppose the king.

Those opposed to the monarchy were quick to condemn the arrival of the deportees.

“This is appalling,” said Lioness Sibande, the secretary general of the Swaziland Peoples Liberation Movement, an opposition group. She described the move as an example of the West’s long history of exploiting African nations. “The West is always disrespecting us as Africans and thinking we are their dumpsite,” she said.

In her statement, Ms. Mdluli, the government spokeswoman, sought to temper the concerns of Eswatini citizens. She said the deportees were being held in isolation units at correctional facilities.

The decision to take migrants from the United States came after months of talks that included “rigorous risk assessments and careful consideration for the safety and security of citizens,” she said. “The nation is assured that these inmates pose no threat to the country or its citizens.”

Ms. Mdluli added that she could not reveal what Eswatini received in return for taking the migrants because the terms of the agreement with the United States remain classified.

A correction was made on

July 16, 2025

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An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to eight men deported to South Sudan by the Trump administration. One of the men is from South Sudan; they are not all from other countries.