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Posted: Jul 20, 2025 - 12:36pm

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There’s something fishy about the new detention centers being built that doesn’t smell right.



Time to re-read The Monkeywrench Gang by Abbey 

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Posted: Jul 20, 2025 - 12:34pm


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Posted: Jul 20, 2025 - 9:25am

There’s something fishy about the new detention centers being built that doesn’t smell right. The numbers just don’t add up, which leads me to suspect they aren’t just about deportation. They’re about building out the infrastructure of repression. They signal what the state can do and whom it can act upon.

Trump has promised to deport millions. To make that seem plausible, he’s ordering new facilities, converting military bases, and expanding enforcement budgets. But the numbers defy the narrative. With roughly 11 million undocumented residents in the U.S., even deporting a million people a year—a pace no administration has achieved—would take over a decade, assuming no new arrivals and no legal setbacks. This isn’t policy. It’s theater.

But that theater leaves a real infrastructure behind.

Facilities built for mass deportation won’t disappear if the plan falters. They’ll remain: beds, fences, biometric systems, mobile courts, transport fleets. These aren’t temporary fixes. They’re material investments in a model of governance built on threat classification and population control. Once in place, the system doesn’t sit idle. It seeks new uses.

And immigration law offers the perfect entry point. Unlike criminal law, it allows detention without trial, removal without a public hearing, and surveillance without probable cause. It operates in a legal gray zone, nominally administrative and functionally punitive, where due process is thinner and discretion broader. That flexibility makes it a powerful tool—not just for immigration enforcement, but for political containment.

Recent purges of immigration judges under the Trump administration make this shift unmistakable. Dozens have been dismissed, forced into early retirement, or replaced with political loyalists. Some were let go without cause, including judges who had ruled independently or resisted pressure to accelerate deportations. The courts themselves are being hollowed out—less a venue for legal review than a formality. When adjudication is subordinated to executive preference, detention becomes not the outcome of law but its substitute.

This isn’t new. The U.S. has repeatedly used immigration law to police ideology and loyalty. Labor organizers, anarchists, and Japanese Americans were all detained or deported not for crimes, but for who they were and what they represented. The machinery doesn’t need to change. It only needs to be turned inward.

Other countries offer a warning. In Turkey, Hungary, and India, detention infrastructure built for terrorists or border control now targets journalists, NGOs, and political opponents. The logic is consistent: first define an external threat, then redefine the internal enemy. The architecture stays the same. The categories shift.

Meanwhile, a growing share of that architecture is privately run. Corporations like CoreCivic, GEO Group, and Palantir aren’t just contractors. They’re stakeholders in a detention economy that profits from expanded enforcement. Surveillance platforms, transport services, biometric databases, and mobile courts operate through public-private partnerships designed for scale and discretion. In this political economy, authoritarianism isn’t just a threat to democracy. It’s a business model.

The economic reality only sharpens the contradiction. The U.S. needs between one and two million new workers annually to replace retirees and meet labor demand. Yet legal immigration pathways cover barely half that. Instead of expanding them, the state pours money into walls and cells. The same system that depends on migrant labor criminalizes the people who provide it. That’s not economic planning. It’s narrative control.

The danger lies not only in what’s being built, but in what it normalizes. Detention centers, mobile tribunals, and enforcement zones don’t just mark the border. They blur the line between legal procedure and executive power. They prepare the state to act not according to law, but according to loyalty.

This isn’t a warning about a distant future. It’s a description of what’s already underway. The infrastructure is operational. The legal framework is pliable. The political incentive to expand it grows with every manufactured crisis.

Daily life may feel untouched. Stores stay open. Screens glow. But the architecture of fear works quietly, adjusting the space in which people move, speak, and imagine what’s possible. Its first targets are vulnerable. Its ultimate targets are anyone who resists.

Every new site, every court bypass, every data-sharing contract is more than a tool of immigration enforcement. It’s a test of capacity, and of consent. Once the system is in place, all it takes is a redefinition of who counts as a threat.

We must not accept this as necessary or normal, it’s not.

~James Greenberg
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Posted: Jul 19, 2025 - 9:37pm

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We all know that Trump doesn’t give a f*ck about the environment.
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Posted: Jul 19, 2025 - 4:18pm

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs
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Posted: Jul 19, 2025 - 1:45pm

Allentown grandfather’s family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say
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Posted: Jul 19, 2025 - 10:47am

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One of the men in this photo is a twisted and sick individual while the other is just a guy who likes to dress up like a woman.
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Posted: Jul 19, 2025 - 10:34am

The cruelty is a feature.
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Posted: Jul 18, 2025 - 5:13pm

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May be an image of 2 people and text that says 'How to trick Trump into conf confessing Say,




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Posted: Jul 18, 2025 - 12:50pm

@Coaxial: 


Are we sure Trump isn't working for the Russians? He is hell-bent on destroying the US in record time. 

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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 8:48pm

May be an image of 2 people and text that says 'How to trick Trump into conf confessing Say, "Of course you weren't on Epstein 's list, Everyone knows you weren't Rich or Famous enough to added!" img ngfip.com'
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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 5:37pm

The Trump Administration Is Spending $130,000 To Burn $800,000 Worth of Food Meant for Hungry Children
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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 10:39am

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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 8:29am

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"Make America Great Again"...but not if it actually involves leading the world in valuable scientific developments that benefit humanity...



We have completely abdicated our role in the world as leaders of anything other than bullying and greed. Technologies that the US developed to provide clean energy to the world, we have given over the Chinese to lead. Don't want to support higher education in the US? No problem, other countries will be more than willing to take up the reins. Come to Canada, come to Denmark, come to China etc. It's mind blowing how long it took to build up our country and how easy it is to wipe it out. 

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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 7:43am

 islander wrote:


Something, something, small government, blah, blah, individual choice...


the tolerance for dissonance is strong in this one. 
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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 7:17am

"Make America Great Again"...but not if it actually involves leading the world in valuable scientific developments that benefit humanity...

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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 7:11am

 black321 wrote:

Finally, some good news:

Trump Says Coca-Cola to Use Cane Sugar in Coke

Coca-Cola says more details to come; Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has criticized high fructose corn syrup






Something, something, small government, blah, blah, individual choice...
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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 6:43am

 black321 wrote:

Finally, some good news:

Trump Says Coca-Cola to Use Cane Sugar in Coke

Coca-Cola says more details to come; Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has criticized high fructose corn syrup






Yeah, that will stop the import of that horrible Mexican Coke. 
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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 6:34am

Finally, some good news:

Trump Says Coca-Cola to Use Cane Sugar in Coke

Coca-Cola says more details to come; Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has criticized high fructose corn syrup




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Posted: Jul 17, 2025 - 4:45am

Goodbye, separation of church and state
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