@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-01 02:37:31
As Florida’s Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against "Gater Gitmo"
Florida’s Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced last week that construction of the jail,
at the site of a disused airbase in the Big Cypress National Preserve, had begun.
According to Fox 4 Now, an affiliate in Southw…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-07-01 09:35:41
Trump will visit a remote immigration detention site in the Florida Everglades (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-everglades-immigrant-detention-facility-visit-5dc5568ec15534947c29c9149b773d1d
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p6#a250701p6
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-31 16:10:37
Pharmaceutical company Eversana acquires Waltz Health, which provides drug price-comparison software to insurance companies, creating an entity valued at $6B (John Tozzi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@oekologisch_unterwegs@mastodon.online2025-07-31 16:05:22
Wusstet Ihr, dass der #Zaunkönig zu den kleinsten Vögeln in unseren Regionen gehört? 🐦 Interessanterweise baut das Männchen mehrere Nester. Warum? Mehr zum #Brutverhalten findest Du im Artikel. 🌲🔍
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-07-01 19:41:43
In the future, “they took us on buses, soldiers. When we arrived I was surprised: didn’t smell like I remember Everglades smelling. Wasn’t that wet rain smell. Was…different. Piles, sinking, of what had been people…my stomach turned.
I turned to the soldier with a different flag patch on their sleeve and tried to explain, ‘I didn’t do this, this wasn’t me.’
In lightly accented English, soldier said, ‘yes you did, you voted for this,’ punctuated with a rifle gesture to start carry…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-01 19:54:29
Hundreds of protesters greeted Trump and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, as they arrived at the hastily assembled concentration camp in the Florida Everglades .
The space was previously a largely disused airstrip surrounded by swampland abundant in alligators and Burmese pythons.
“You’ll have a lot of people that will deport on their own because they don’t want to end up in an Alligator Alcatraz, or some of these other places,” Governor Ron DeSantis said.
“Th…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-08-01 15:17:02
@frankstohl@mastodon.social2025-08-01 07:05:25
Das Wetter schreit in Ebersbach an der Fils nach Überschwemmung #wetter
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-07-01 21:47:17
In 2020, there were some people who marveled at how China built hospitals quickly to handle the start of the pandemic.
Now, some people are marveling over how the US has quickly built a camp in the Everglades to concentrate people.
There are many issues with how China runs itself as a country, and denies human rights to people.
But so too, there are issues with how the US runs itself as a country, and denies human rights to people 😳
The heart breaks.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-28 22:35:57
Protesters line highway in Florida Everglades to oppose 'Alligator Alcatraz' (Makiya Seminera/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-florida-everglades-protest-db34866aae64a3ff6880310403be40fd
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p84#a250628p84