Jeff Brown

You can tell the way they really love veterans by how they continue to make accessing their healthcare, benefits, and disability due to injuries sustained in service more and more difficult

Democracies cannot function like this. The President is a public servant of the people, not a diety who doles out government services based on perceived personal slights.

The cover of the Vulgar Boatmen album Please Panic

If your “representatives“ are refusing to represent you, do not vote for them.

New Findings Reveal Human Rights Violations at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome Detention Centers These findings confirm a deliberate system built to punish, dehumanize, and hide the suffering of people in detention.

Research shows inhuman conditions at Alligator Alcatraz: overflowing toilets with fecal matter seeping into where people sleep, limited access to showers, exposure to insects, lights on 24 hours, poor quality food and water, and lack of privacy, including cameras above toilets.

Stranger Things 2 poster showing four main characters on bikes

The president himself is in uniform, but don't worry, it's not a war, it's a "special military operation"

Pips: Quantum physics edition

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Updating my LEGO White House

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Concepts of a plan

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now

“The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and other materials. The order also prohibits any new construction at the site.” (🎁 link)

As has been made clear before, the claim that everyone at Alligator Alcatraz has final orders of removals is just a straight up lie, point blank.

Florida begins awarding contracts for second immigrant detention center Florida has begun the early stages of building a second immigrant detention center to join Alligator Alcatraz.

Florida has begun awarding no-bid contracts to open up another immigration detention camp in the northern part of the state.

As we have said for weeks, the state of Florida and the federal government refuses so far to show legal agreements giving them authority to detain immigrants at Alligator Alcatraz. This is why people detained there have so far been denied any semblance of a legal process.

New Detention Numbers Are Out, ICE Still Hiding Data on 'Alligator Alcatraz' At least 56,945 immigrants are held in ICE detention this week, with untold numbers hidden from public view in off-the-books sites in Florida and in field offices across the country.

At least 56,945 immigrants are held in ICE detention this week, with untold numbers hidden from public view in off-the-books sites in Florida and in field offices across the country. open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

Despite the state of Florida claiming that they have an evacuation plan for the Everglades detention center, which is highly relevant in the middle of the state’s hurricane season, no one has actually seen it. Those who ask for it get a similar response to the one below 👇

How 7 immigrants came to the U.S. and ended up at Alligator Alcatraz Here’s what the detainees and their families and friends told us.

This is really disturbing. A person detained in the Everglades was handcuffed and left outdoors in the sun as punishment for attempting to go on a hunger strike. As mosquitoes swarmed him, he pleaded with guards to bring him inside and was kept outside for nearly three hours.

The hourly rates paid for by taxpayers to staff the Everglades detention camp are more than what we pay teachers in Florida. Just horrible priorities as usual from our state government.

Update on this — contracts were posted back online this morning…. But only their cover sheets! Which is basically nothing!

DeSantis continues to use emergency orders to steer millions of taxpayer dollars to politically connected contractors without a competitive bidding process. Just one company (Critical Response Strategies) involved in the Everglades detention camp got a $78 million contract!

Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.

The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz.

Glad to see lawmakers asserting their oversight authority here

The Trump admin said the Everglades detention camp would be for the “worst of the worst.”

Four men sent there so far have nothing on their record other than recent arrests for diving without a license, and were likely only arrested due to racial profiling, as Adam’s excerpt shows.

Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.

Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.