and news I want to share. 7-29-2025

USAID's scrutiny of 150 Gaza aid incidents uncovers zero evidence of Hamas's widespread theft, starkly contradicting the Trump administration's unevidenced accusations that justify throttling supplies amid starvation alerts. #Gaza

— Anonymous ⩜ (@youranona.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T12:58:47.304Z

Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the #Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives.Statement from WHO.www.who.int/news/item/27…

— WHO (@who.int) 2025-07-27T16:06:39.948Z

La población del sur de #Gaza es de 18.000 seres humanos por km2.La de Madrid, la ciudad más poblada del Estado Español, es de 5.418 por km2.Ahora, imaginen al pueblo madrileño siendo sometido a bombardeos diarios y el bloqueo absoluto de agua, alimentos y medicinaswww.haaretz.com/israel-news/…

— Guillermo Toledo (@guillermotoledo.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T10:37:53.424Z

What kind of monster does this to an eight year old child? #Gaza#Netanyahu#FreePalestine

— Wendy Harmer (@wendyharmer.bsky.social) 2025-07-24T07:55:52.018Z

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as…

— Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (@msf.ca) 2025-07-24T14:07:25.971Z

#Gaza: Joanne Perry, a Canadian Doctors Without Borders physician works in Al-Helou hospital, where newborn babies are fighting for their lives and medical teams lack essential equipment to keep them alive.Read about her experience: ow.ly/alrK50WuWt3

— Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (@msf.ca) 2025-07-25T13:30:58.166Z

On Monday, WHO’s staff residence in Deir al-Balah, #Gaza, was hit by projectiles and damaged by fire while our personnel and their families were inside.Male colleagues were detained, stripped to their underwear, handcuffed & blindfolded.🔊 Hear what happened on the ground. #NotATarget

— WHO (@who.int) 2025-07-25T14:16:10.978Z

“It is horrific — even for those whose mission is to serve others,” says UNRWA Sam Rose to CNN. “Our staff are collapsing in offices, fainting from hunger and thirst.”Aid workers in #Gaza, meant to care for others, now struggle to stay alive themselves. This crisis is entirely preventable.

— UNRWA (@unrwa.org) 2025-07-26T16:02:06.630Z

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger.#protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-07-23T07:30:33.296Z

#Israel in kulttuuriperintöministeri Amichai Elijahu sanoo, ettei "mikään kansakunta ruoki vihollisiaan" ja väittää, etteivät "brititkään ruokkineet natseja".Sen lisäksi, että hän on väärässä, kielenkäyttö viittaa kansanmurhan aikomukseen.Miksikö, ja miksi hän on väärässä? 1/6#Gaza #kansanmurha

— Oula Silvennoinen (@oula.bsky.social) 2025-07-24T17:55:54.311Z

"We dropped to the ground, then crawled through the rain of bullets.""The tanks fired, the soldiers fired, the planes fired, the warships fired.""The flour was stained with blood, but it was the only thing I could get."#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

— Harms Committed (@harmscommitted.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T15:11:38.536Z

Neoliberal centre right pro-zionist politics is less popular than the pedophile concentration camp party.Probably because in the face of fascism all they offer is fundraising emails and more support for Israel or the military instead of healthcare, affordable rent, free university, trains or food

— The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) (@theserfstv.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T19:35:28.365Z

A family member whose loved one is detained in the Everglades detention camp told me he has been there for 22 days. Contrary to DeSantis’ assertion that people are given the option to self-deport, this person hasn’t even seen an immigration official at all since being detained.

— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T18:59:00.170Z

#Immigration #migrants #TomHomanIt doesn't seem fair to me that only some industries will get the benefit of migrant workers? I'm also concerned about the control farmers etc will have over these workers. http://www.latintimes.com/border-czar-…

— 🐿️Square Squirrel🐿️🌏🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇲🇽🇨🇦🌈🦔🐈🐾 (@squaresquirrel.bsky.social) 2025-07-17T20:43:21.278Z

This is the consequences when we chose the wrongdirection.

— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2025-07-13T17:27:16.853Z

In the beginning…#EpsteinFiles#Epstein

— (@godlessbitch.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T13:26:20.273Z

Welker to Lindsey Graham as he pushes baseless conspiracy theories in an effort to gin up a scandal about Obama: "Are you trying to rewrite history to distract from the Epstein matter, senator?"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-27T15:01:31.705Z

SPOILER: YES

— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T16:01:13.510Z

Dave Granlund PoliticalCartoons.com

And there you have it. If the Trump admin determines that evidence against a specific person is not “credible” they will bury that part from whatever they end up releasing.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T15:56:58.535Z

It’s very simple. Trump can do it. But he won’t. The question that MAGA refuses to deal with is the obvious reason why he won’t.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T15:46:27.632Z

CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-27T13:12:19.904Z

A 79 year old convicted felon and serial child rapist who pancakes his face with powdered Cheetos and swirls his hair into cotton candy has Pied Pipered an entire political party into protecting #GrodyOldPedophiles while burning down the Constitution.Call your reps202-224-3121#EpsteinFiles

— A Republic If You Can Keep It (@arepublicif.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T17:13:41.328Z

Do you know how rare it is for a woman to be a child sexual predator? Ghislaine is exceptionally evil, groomed young vulnerable girls and got them to trust her all to provide Epstein with sexually deviant opportunities. 20 years isn’t enough time. She should rot in prison #EpsteinFiles

— KSlatteryResist (@kslatteryresist.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T02:46:06.233Z

Ghislaine Maxwell quietly met with Trump's DOJ. Let that sink in. A known trafficker with direct ties to Epstein and powerful elites met privately with a Justice Department led by Trump and Pam Bondi. No transcript. No oversight. No transparency.#EpsteinFiles #DOJCoverup #AccountabilityNow

— Cannaman (@midem.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T13:05:31.661Z

WE WILL NOT STOP ASKING ABOUT THE #EpsteinFiles

— Andres Iglesias 🇨🇦🇨🇴⚖️ (@iglesiasplata.bsky.social) 2025-07-24T12:52:51.565Z

Stephen Flynn, the Scottish National Party MP for Aberdeen South, said he couldn’t meet with Trump today because he was busy washing his hair.This is Stephen Flynn.

— call634-5789 (@call634-5789.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T09:34:32.319Z

#USDemocracy #Epstein #EpsteinFiles🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish protesters greeted Donald Trump. One sign said: 12 years is not "on the younger side" it is a child!

— Cat Alyst 🇨🇦🤝💙 (@catalystmeow.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T04:31:37.950Z

Tireless work for women’s rights?🙄All Rowling does is spew tweet misinformation, anti-trans propaganda, threaten lawsuits like a cartoon villain, fund campaigns that hurt trans folks & block people who confront her with facts.That’s not activism, it’s a tantrum with a billionaire’s budget.💁‍♂️

— BearOfScots🏳️‍🌈🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@bearofscots.bsky.social) 2025-06-28T14:43:13.638Z

Four badges pinned to a t-shirt. One has a yellow star on a purple background and reads He/Him. One is white, pink and blue with She/Her on. One is purple with They/Them on it. One is in Trans flag colours (pink, white, blue) with a cartoon frog and text saying Trans Rights.

political cartoon by Michael de Adder
5 SCOTUS Justices (John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett) with ACB pushing a domino which will fall and take out at least 4 others.

First domino is labeled ROE V Wade, next is Contraceptives, then Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Relationships, LGTBQ Rights, and the next one is unlabeled.

Ben Franklin's Join Or Die snake cartoon, colored with flags for each segment representing trans rights, black rights, disability rights, immigrant rights, gay rights, intersex rights, neurodivergent rights and women's rights.

tweet by Ellie still wears her mask, @EllieSageRN

I think that if there is a single thing that cis people should understand about trans people is that we aren't trans because we transition, we transition because we are trans.
Stopping a trans person from transitioning doesn't make them not trans, it makes them miserable.

drawing of a figure from shoulders to hips holding a sign that reads: Cis people think "cis" is a slur because they use the word "trans" as a slur

graphic with cartoon kids across the top holding a sign.
BE
KIND ("kind" is crossed-out)
ANTI-RACIST
ANTI-SEXIST
ANTI-HOMOPHOBIC ANTI-TRANSPHOBIC
Kindness without action is meaningless.
-Travis Alabanza-

Republicans are the best example of this, they can't reasonably argue solely on economic grounds anymore so they go conspiracy-minded. But Dems do the same. Crowing about respectability and human rights while throwing trans people under the bus and funding genocide. It's like a Tex Avery cartoon.

— 🔫Scott Martin🛼 (@youcaughtscott.com) 2025-06-04T22:43:45.752Z

new pigeon cartoon! take care of yourselves and take care of your LGBTQ+ friends ❤️

— Kamila (also known as Pigeon) (@pigeonface.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T07:21:39.644Z

Meeting JK Rowling to discuss trans rights is like getting Jimmy Savile to front a child safety campaign

— AJ McKenna (@ajmckenna.bsky.social) 2024-07-03T20:48:39.415Z

Bagley cartoon for the Salt Lake Tribune. A Republican rep says, “I had to stomp on trans rights, starve education, and kick a bunch of union members in the teeth..” to a fat cat with a bag of money.. “But I got you your tax cuts.” Standing by is a distressed citizen holding onto two dollars.

Cartoon of "liberal pundits", support for trans rights drops 1 percent and they scramble to denounce trans rights over a lone microphone.

Political cartoons / memes /and news I want to share. 7-28-2025

Image from Nick Turse

#medicare for all from Liberals Are Cool

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Image from It seemed like a good idea at the time...

When the American empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite; They'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.

I don’t know much, but I know this is where all the space aliens are hiding

#aliens from geeky steven

Image from AZspot

#mel brooks from The Broke Medievalist.

Image from Progressive Power

it’s called shade, sir — something your stylist needs to learn:

BREAKING: Trump threatens to arrest NYC Mayoral Candidate Mamdani, calls him a communist and says that he may be in this country illegally.

FACTS:

- Mamdani is an American citizen.
- He is Not a communist.
- Trump is a convicted felon.
- Trump fears Mamdani’s popularity. pic.twitter.com/MDpFM2nOv8

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) July 1, 2025

Image from Liberals Are Cool

#fuck pam bondi from Black Fist Order

Image from Epically Epic Epilogue

Trump: When People Mention Epstein, Just Say Obama

#shamanism from Zuvluguu

FCC Chair Threatens “Consequences” For “The View,” And Basically Admits That Trump Got Colbert Canceled

FCC Chair Threatens “Consequences” For “The View,” And Basically Admits That Trump Got Colbert Canceled

July 24, 2025

FOX HOST BILL HEMMER: “Did President Trump have anything to do with the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show?”

BRENDAN CARR: “I think there are a lot of consequences that are flowing from President Trump deciding, ‘I won’t play by the rules of politicians in the past and let these legacy outfits dictate the narrative and terms of the debate.’ He is succeeding. Look at what is happening. NPR has been defunded, PBS has been defunded, Colbert is getting canceled. You’ve got anchors and news media personalities losing jobs downstream of President trump’s decision to stand up. He stood up for the American people. American people don’t trust the legacy gate keepers anymore.”

BILL HEMMER: “I asked a very direct question. I did not hear a yes or a no in your answer. I heard a maybe. Is The View now in the crosshairs of this administration?”

BRENDAN CARR: “Look, it’s entirely possible that there’s issues over there. I mean, again, stepping back, this broader dynamic, once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there’s a lot of consequences. I think the consequences of that aren’t quite finished.”

FOX: Is The View now in the crosshairs of this administration?

FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there … the consequences aren't quite finished pic.twitter.com/sDZAbtf07I
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 24, 2025

What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains

All The Signs Are That Trump Is Now Preparing To Pardon Ghislain Maxwell

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 7-27-2025

Image from Bowlby's Bric-a-brac

#trump from Art de Trump

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#mike johnson from Liberals Are Cool

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/790078167335436288

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/790085465059540992

BREAKING – Trump gives Ghislaine Maxwell “limited immunity” to talk to administration officials Are they letting Maxwell out of prison in exchange for lying that Trump was never part of Epstein’s sex trafficking?Why else would govt talk to Maxwell – who’s already convicted?

— Tristan Snell (@tristansnell.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T00:43:51.674Z

#Instagram from Saywhat Politics

This means his personal lawyer Todd Blanche is telling Maxwell to talk about Clinton and not about Trump.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-07-25T20:02:17.124Z

Absolutely plausible…

— Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T21:36:10.440Z

#ghislaine maxwell from Liberals Are Cool

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https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/790083683711320065/comicsareforkids-fourth-in-a-series-i-of-comics

#republican hypocrisy from Alan's Posts

Image from RECORD GUY

Love this for him

— Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T15:50:32.018Z

Image from Robert Reich

Three asylum-seekers leaving routine court hearings at San Francisco immigration court Thursday morning were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, including one man who a judge had just said might be mentally impaired.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2025-07-25T17:58:24.038Z

Hmm… Imagine if everyone wore masks, sunglasses and flak vests. It would be so confusing. And of course no one identified as a police officer. #ResistanceFashion

— Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T12:30:52.120Z

"No he didn't. [Trump] said all Muslims would be banned. Not true, Piers. People can Google it right now. You're wrong and I'm right, as ever."You can watch my latest clash with @piersmorgan on Trump's Islamophobia & fascism, & mass deportations, here:www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C6O…

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T16:48:58.295Z

Image from Liberals Are Cool

Image from Depsidase

If you say “I’m fine with immigration as long as it’s legal” or “I came the right way” but you’re not sounding the alarm over this, you’re lying.A company says an employee was detained by federal agents during an immigration court hearing, despite being here legally with a valid work permit.

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-07-26T14:12:06.846Z

Image from Liberals Are Cool

#late stage capitalism from Liberals Are Cool

#social security from Social Justice In America

#republican assholes from Social Justice In America

Image from Robert Reich

Pisses me off these moralist religious nuts want to save souls by exerting control on the marginalized. Like Jesus didn't hang out with criminals and sex workers to shame them. The people he usually shamed were the ones on their high horses trying to break these people.

— Otter (@oceanotter.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T15:51:30.672Z

Image from Bowlby's Bric-a-brac

This is genocide. And our tax dollars are funding it.

— Abdul El-Sayed (@abdulelsayed.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T20:13:12.183Z

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Image from A sudden, violent jerk....

#Motivation from ItsTimeToMotivate

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How long will South Park, whose creators just signed a 50-episode deal with Paramount, last under Trump’s regime? Let’s hope the company's new "bias monitor" finds Trump jokes funny.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2025-07-26T16:31:26.025Z

Image from Liberals Are Cool

#fuck trump from Wooddove2

Trump, FCC want to reshape the media landscape starting with CBS

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-fcc-want-reshape-media-landscape-starting-with-cbs-2025-07-25/?taid=6883edff636c00000106647c&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

By David Shepardson

July 25, 20254:41 PM EDTUpdated July 26, 2025

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Summary

Companies

FCC chair says Trump administration reshaping media

Democrats say FCC actions violate First Amendment rights

FCC not dropping complaint against CBS over ’60 Minutes’ interview with Harris

WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and the Federal Communications Commission have vowed to force American broadcast media outlets to make significant changes.

CBS may be just the beginning.

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“President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr told CNBC Friday. “The media industry across this country needs a course correction.”

On Thursday, the FCC voted 2-1 to approve the $8.4 billion merger between CBS parent Paramount Global (PARA.O), opens new tab and Skydance Media after Skydance agreed to ensure CBS news and entertainment programming is free of bias, hire an ombudsman for at least two years to review complaints and end diversity programs.

Trump has repeatedly attacked broadcast networks for what he perceives as unbiased news coverage and called on Carr to rescind their licenses.

“The new owners of CBS came in and said, ‘It’s time for a change. We’re going to reorient it towards getting rid of bias,” Carr said. “At the end of the day that’s what made the difference for us.”

Carr’s comments suggest the FCC will ramp up efforts to rid mainstream media of what he and President Trump consider a deep and enduring liberal bias, creating an opening for more conservative views among the biggest media companies.

The FCC regulates broadcast media outlets, which use the public airways and are required to act in the public interest. Carr has cited the public interest standard in seeking the changes at CBS.

Democratic FCC Commission Anna Gomez accused Paramount of “cowardly capitulation” to the Trump administration. She also said the FCC was imposing “never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law.”

Earlier this month, Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to settle a $20 billion lawsuit filed by Trump, claiming CBS News’ “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Paramount did not admit wrongdoing.

Some Democrats have called the payment a bribe and vowed to investigate. “Trump demands allegiance from everyone around him and it’s disgusting to see companies like Skydance and Paramount bowing to his endless and illegal demands,” Representative Frank Pallone said.

Soon after being designated chair by Trump in January, Carr reinstated a “60 Minutes” complaint, as well as complaints about how Walt Disney’s (DIS.N), opens new tab ABC News moderated the pre-election televised debate between then-President Joe Biden and Trump and Comcast’s (CMCSA.O), opens new tab NBC for allowing Harris to appear on “Saturday Night Live” shortly before the election.

Disney and Comcast did not immediately comment Friday.

Carr told Reuters Thursday the FCC is not closing its investigation into the “60 Minutes” interview.

The FCC has required companies like T-Mobile (TMUS.O), opens new tab and Verizon (VZ.N), opens new tab to end diversity programs before approving deals. Carr in February told Comcast he was opening a probe into its diversity efforts.

Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Edward Tobin

FCC Chair: Trumpifying CBS Will Just Be The Start

Trump’s DEATH TRAP Leaks… and CHAOS ERUPTS

After helping GOP-led Texas, Trump admin denies FEMA aid to another Democratic-led state

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/maryland-fema-aid-flooding-texas-trump-wes-moore-rcna220869

The denial of federal money to assist Maryland’s flood recovery continues a trend of spurning devastated residents in states with Democratic governors.

July 24, 2025, 3:13 PM EDT

By Ja’han Jones

On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s administration denied Maryland’s request for FEMA aid to deal with the fallout of devastating floods in May, continuing the administration’s disturbing trend of denying disaster aid to states led by Democrats.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, denounced the administration’s determination that the aid is “not warranted.” In a social media video, Moore vowed to appeal the decision and said the federal government is effectively telling residents of western Maryland — where many are still coping with the effects of the flooding — “you’re on your own.”

https://x.com/iamwesmoore/status/1948421286927257884

After the recent deadly flooding in Texas, Trump and his administration promised, and ultimately approved, FEMA aid for the Republican-controlled state. In the time since, FEMA’s response there has received criticism — including from the agency’s now-former head of urban search and rescue operations, who just resigned in disgust.

But the fact that Texas received a promise of FEMA aid at all was noteworthy. As I wrote at the time, it was a markedly different stance than the one Trump’s administration has taken with numerous states led by Democratic governors — such as North Carolina, Washington and California — who’ve had their requests for federal assistance denied.

Trump has sought to effectively shutter FEMA and force states to handle the financial burden of natural disasters on their own. But in the meantime, the denial of funds to Maryland is yet more evidence that the administration sees FEMA as a political tool for aiding its allies and harming its perceived foes — leaving Americans’ lives and livelihoods hanging in the balance.

Ja’han Jones

Ja’han Jones is an MSNBC opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog. He is a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include “Black Hair Defined” and the “Black Obituary Project.”

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?

PolitiSage

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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Ghislaine Maxwell received limited immunity during meetings with deputy attorney general: Sources

https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062

“She didn’t hold anything back,” Maxwell’s attorney said earlier.

ByAaron Katersky, Katherine Faulders, Brandon Baur, and Jon Haworth

July 25, 2025, 5:55 PM

https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/trump-rule-pardon-epstein-conspirator-ghislaine-maxwell-124086488

Trump doesn’t rule out pardon for Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine MaxwellIt comes as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell – who’s serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking – for a second time.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who sources told ABC News initiated the meetings with the Department of Justice, answered questions for about nine hours over two days after being granted a limited form of immunity, the sources said.

The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said.

The so-called proffer immunity is commonly granted to individuals prosecutors are seeking to make cooperators in a criminal case. Maxwell has already been tried, convicted and sentenced for sex trafficking underage girls.

FILE – Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020.

John Minchillo/AP

DOJ did not immediately respond to request for comment. A lawyer for Maxwell did not immediately respond.

The second meeting between Maxwell and Blanche lasted for about three hours.

Maxwell’s attorney, David Markus, told ABC News afterward, “There have been no asks and no promises.”

Markus said Maxwell was asked about “maybe 100 different people” during her interview with the deputy attorney general. He said she answered every question.

“She didn’t hold anything back,” Markus said.

He declined to be specific about who Maxwell was asked about or whether she provided information about others who might have allegedly committed crimes against victims, as Blanche said he was seeking.

“We haven’t asked for anything. This is not a situation where we are asking for anything in return for testimony or anything like that,” Markus added on Friday. “Of course, everybody knows Ms. Maxwell would welcome any relief.”

Blanche didn’t speak to reporters upon his arrival at the federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida. On social media, Blanche said he would reveal what he learned from Maxwell “at the appropriate time.”

FILE – Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020.

John Minchillo/AP

The first meeting between Maxwell and Blanche on Thursday lasted six hours.

Maxwell is currently appealing her 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking and other offenses in connection with Epstein, the deceased financier and convicted sex offender.

“We don’t want to get into the substance of the questions,” Markus had said about Thursday’s meeting. “There were a lot of questions and we went all day and she answered every one of them. She never said ‘I’m not going to answer,’ never declined.”

It is almost unheard of for a convicted sex trafficker to meet with such a high-ranking Justice Department official, especially one who used to be the president’s top criminal defense attorney.

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked President Donald Trump on Friday if clemency is on the table for Maxwell.

“I can’t talk about that now because, you know, it’s a very sensitive interview going on,” Trump responded. He went on to call Blanche a “great attorney” and said “I don’t know exactly what’s happening. But I certainly can’t talk about pardons.”

Trump was also pressed by ABC News’ Bruce if he can trust what Maxwell is telling the DOJ during these interviews.

“Well, he’s a professional lawyer. He’s been through things like this before,” Trump said, referring to Blanche.

After Trump’s comments on Friday about clemency, ABC News asked Maxwell’s attorney whether that gave her an incentive to tell Blanche what he wanted to hear.

“No,” Markus answered. “She wants to tell the truth.”

Markus said Maxwell’s legal team has not approached Trump about a pardon, but suggested it could happen in the future.

“We haven’t spoken to the president or anyone about a pardon just yet. And listen, the president this morning said he had the power to do so we hope he exercises that power in the right and just way,” he said.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche look on as US President Donald Trump (not on frame) speaks during a news conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on June 27, 2025, in Washington, DC.

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Annie Farmer, who testified against Maxwell at trial, questioned why Maxwell was granted a meeting with the deputy attorney general in the first place.

“It’s very disappointing that these things are happening behind closed doors without any input from the people that the government asked to come forward and speak against her in order to put her away,” Farmer said. “There were so many young girls and women that were harmed by her.”

Maxwell’s attorney said on Friday she’s been treated poorly for the last five years and is grateful to be able to meet with Blanche as she appeals her sex trafficking conviction and seeks to leave prison.

“If you looked up scapegoat in the dictionary, her picture would be next to the definition,” Markus said. “She’s keeping her spirits up as best she can.”

Blanche’s meetings with Maxwell comes as the Justice Department has tried to quiet calls from Senate Republicans to release more information about Epstein and his interaction with high-profile figures.

And it comes as questions swirl about Trump’s connections to Epstein and reports that his name appeared in the Epstein files.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his name was mentioned in the Epstein files multiple times, along with other high-profile people.

Trump has denied that account, and appearing in the files is not necessarily indicative of any wrongdoing.

“I want all the information out,” said Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.

“Just put everything out, make it as transparent as you can,” echoed Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

The Justice Department said earlier this month that it planned to release no additional information despite an earlier commitment to do so.