#DeSantis administration

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Are you aware of ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ?

"This site is a multigenerational home for the Indigenous peoples of Florida, and it is not the home of a harmful and unnecessary prison." - Friends of the Everglades

Source

“Alligator Alcatraz” is an immigrant detention center being built illegally in the Big Cypress Preserve of the Florida Everglades to house 5,000 people in tents in summer, with plans to use alligators and snakes as opposed to walls and buildings as a deterrent to the people being kidnapped, trafficked, and contained.

“State authorities project that the center will be operational at the beginning of July, with an initial capacity of at least 1,000 detainees and a gradual expansion thereafter”

As of 6/26: Construction has already started and has been connected to LOGISTIC EVENT CORPS and US TENT RENTAL. FL National Guard and Highway Patrol have been sent to “secure the perimeter and entry points of Alligator Alcatraz”. Homeland Security is largely funding it with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) using its Shelter and Service Program, which usually allocates money to governments and nonprofits to “provide migrants with temporary shelter, food and transportation”.

There are 15 Miccosukee and Seminole villages in Big Cypress, which also supplies 40% of their drinking water, but the tribes WERE NOT CONSULTED and EXPLICITLY OPPOSE construction.

The Mayor of Miami is opposing construction until environmental impact assessments are done and is reportedly considering legal action

“Levine Cava also reported that the state of Florida offered only 20 million dollars for the property, while its most recent appraisal exceeds 190 million”

DeSantis has claimed the project has zero environmental impacts, which has been vehemently denied by environmentalists:

"There will be impact because sewage will be generated, water will be used, and it will create light pollution affecting the habitat” - Eve Samples, Executive Director of Friends of the Everglades

“She also contends the state failed to follow proper procedure by skipping a required environmental review before building a federal facility. Samples raised additional alarm over the threat to endangered species, noting that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) maps show panthers living in the area.”

“In addition to the criticisms of the immigration plan itself, construction in this region -considered ecologically sensitive- could cause irreversible damage to the ecosystem of the Everglades, one of the most important natural reserves in the United States.” [x]

In 1969, Marjory Stoneman Douglas founded Friends of the Everglades to stop construction in the same location based on the findings of the 1st ever environmental impact study done in FL and was successful

"Development of the proposed jetport and its attendant facilities will lead to land drainage and development for agriculture, transportation, and services in the Big Cypress Swamp which will inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem and thus the Everglades National Park."

US President Ford established Big Cypress National Preserve in 1974 In order to “assure the preservation, conservation, and protection of the natural, scenic, hydrologic, floral and faunal, and recreational values of the Big Cypress Watershed”

Call Scripts:

Use these exactly, or use pieces, or base your own message on them - as long as you contact ASAP

Friends of the Everglades: “Dear Gov. DeSantis and Attorney General Uthmeier, Don’t make the same mistake Florida avoided 55 years ago. I’m urging you to STOP the reckless plan to build an “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in the heart of the Everglades. This land is critical to the future of the Everglades — that’s why thousands of Floridians joined forces to stop the Everglades Jetport from paving over this very ground in 1970. Now Attorney General Uthmeier wants to do what even President Nixon’s administration knew was wrong: open the door to development in one of America’s most fragile and iconic ecosystems, surrounded by Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve. You have the power to stop this anti-Everglades proposal, and I’m calling on you to use it. NO AIRPORTS. NO ROCK MINES. NO PRISONS on this land. ONLY EVERGLADES! Sincerely, [your info here]”

Jessica Namath: “My name is (name] and I'm calling to ask that you help protect our nation's FIRST National Preserve - Big Cypress - and stop "Alligator Alcatraz". The Everglades are no place for ANY 1,000 person facility. The infrastructure can't support it, and the impacts to the indigenous community and ecosystem would be catastrophic. Please oppose this terrible idea!”

Sierra Club FL Chapter: “Dear Governor DeSantis - You have repeatedly claimed to be a defender of the Everglades. Now is the moment to back up those words with action. The proposed “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE facility would devastate a vital part of the Everglades — undoing decades of restoration progress and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars already invested in protecting this unique ecosystem. This project threatens to destroy the very heart of the River of Grass, undermining the hard work of generations of advocates and scientists dedicated to restoring Florida’s natural heritage. I urge you to listen to the thousands of Floridians who stand against this plan. Show real leadership by rejecting this harmful project and fully committing to protecting and restoring the Everglades for future generations. The time to act is now. Stop Alligator Alcatraz, and stand by your promise to protect the Everglades. Sincerely, [your info here]”

Friends of the Everglades provide this to contact DeSantis and Uthmeier. You can also email DeSantis through his website, or use the contact info below:

DeSantis Mailing Address: The Capitol / 400 South Monroe St. / Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001 | DeSantis Phone: (850)717-9337 or (850)488-7146

Uthmeier Mailing Address: Office of the Attorney General / State of Florida /!PL-01, The Capitol / Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050 | Uthmeier Phone: (866)966-7226

Call the companies involved and confront their complicity, demanding they stop their service

US Tent Rental (Sarasota, FL): (941)727-3311

Logistics Event Corps (SweetWater, FL): (305)232-8368

BTW DeSantis has already said he wants to build another detention center at Camp Blanding, 30 miles West of Jacksonville, in Northeast FL

[my-midlife-crisis]

Sounds familiar...

Where have I heard this before?

Oh, yeah.

[derekpadron]

Dear President Trump, PLEASE Allow Disabled Americans on SSI, Medicaid and Food Stamps to Build Assets from Higher Savings Accounts to Condos, Homes or Townhomes for them to live in and invest in, for Cars to drive to College, University and Work, to Pay for their College and University Educations, to Invest, and to Pay for their Medical Expenses - of up to $2 Million in Assets - Allowed for Disabled Americans trapped under Communist SSI, Medicaid and Food Stamps so we may GROW Our Monies from Our Jobs and Investments in order to Rise Up and Out of SSI, Medicaid and Food Stamps Government Assistances for Good to No Longer Use Government Assistances and Save Tax Payers TRILLION$ of Dollars in Government Budget Debt!

[fightthefirenow]

'Why are they picking up 75-year-old men?'

A Cuban in the U.S. almost 60 years dies in ICE custody; Trump celebrates Alligator Alcatraz

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(Reuters) - Florida sued the Biden administration on Wednesday, accusing it of threatening to withhold more than $800 million of funding for transportation infrastructure because of a new state law that some public sector unions have viewed as anti-labor. Signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on May 9, Senate Bill 256 prevents unions representing transportation workers, teachers and other public sector employees from having dues deducted from paychecks, and would instead have employees pay dues to their unions. Other provisions require employees who want union representation to sign authorization forms, and require unions seeking certification as bargaining agents to show that at least 60% of eligible employees are paying dues. Florida said the White House is conditioning transportation funding on the state's agreement not to enforce provisions that the Secretary of Labor believes undermine collective bargaining.

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Is this a joke?

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

Hi friends, this is a (occasional) daily segment where I share with you the most baffling headlines out of the Trump Administration. I will also accompany sources to provide the level of threat and if possible, background on what this means for all of us.

Matt Gaetz

Yesterday I posted about the Trump Administration selecting Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as the pick for Attorney General. After his nomination, Matt Gaetz resigned effective immediately. Friends, they are trying to paint this as he is confident he will receive the position and assisting the house in having a filled seat by Jan. 3rd. However, as many news sources are reporting, this is very convenient timing for the senator who is an alleged pedophile and has faced human sex trafficking investigations, with a report from the Ethics Committee to be released sometime this week.

What does his resignation mean?

The Ethics Committee investigation will likely end, as he is no longer a member of congress.

With resignation, Florida will have a special election to replace. This number could increase with Trump selecting Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz.

Will he become attorney general?

“Republican senators have already expressed doubts that Gaetz could get confirmed as attorney general, as the pick gets fierce pushback across the party.” (X)

“Gaetz's combative style has earned him enemies in Congress, and his reputation could prove an obstacle to his confirmation in the Senate. Some senators greeted his nomination with surprise.” (X)

Who would replace Matt Gaetz?

Call To Action:

We simply can’t afford to assume that all of this will fail on its own. Email your senators. Show them YOU know the facts and that someone like Matt Gaetz can not be the AG for an already corrupt elect-administration.

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https://thehill.com/policy/international/5277814-florida-arrests-undocumented-migrants/

[sirpuntine]

I live in the middle of rural assfuck nowhere FL and for some reason they destroyed the community garden I was growing in to build a sheriffs office DIRECTLY NEXT to the only nearby gathering place and I can’t help but feel it’s a direct result of DeSatan absolutely raw dogging Trumps EOs on law enforcement

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Florida sprints ahead with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center project - POLITICO

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I Hope Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is Not Trying to Force Every College and University Students to Learn, Study and be Brainwashed into Christianity! I am Zen Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu and I was Forced by my Communist Marxist Catholic Nun Teacher under Orders of Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and Richard Nixon to Learn Communism of Poseidon, Jesus's Socialist God, in the First Grade! I would be Punished by that Socialist God Poseidon of Jesus, According to my Communist Catholic Nun, if I ever became Rich or Earned Money!

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I love being a mother, even if I regret the person I chose to parent with, but my god, the entire process of having a kid is so fucking awful, and it baffles me that there are people who would literally force it on children before altering their pro-life views,

like. yes, pregnancy is beautiful in a sense. to this day, I cannot get over it. my youngest is five months, and I still cradle him in wonder like how the hell did my body grow you, I think about it all the time, how wild it is that our bodies just do this, come together, replicate dna, grow organs, like is that not fucking crazy? and maybe my life has just been loveless, but I have never experienced a love for anyone or anything that’s even come close to the love I feel for my child, it’s all encompassing, overwhelming almost.

and yet, I’d still choose not to endure this again. I’m not sure how I survived it twice, and I love kids, I’d have more kids if it wasn’t so fucking awful, and yeah, not everyone has my experience, but even women I’ve met who loved pregnancy and had smooth ones have still had their bodies ripped apart and forever changed by this process like it is not “just nine months.” I am five months postpartum, and I am still struggling.

My hair is falling out in clumps, like I have actual bald spots, and my hair is everywhere and getting wrapped around my babies fingers, and I can’t stop it. And that’s normal. Like not some rare thing, more than half of moms experience postpartum hair loss, it is so expected it’s not even treated like. Five months postpartum, and my bladder still hasn’t healed. Sure, I’m not wetting myself on the daily, and feeling has finally returned, but I cannot hold it for long, and any kind of laughing or coughing will end me. Five months postpartum, and I still get random bouts of nausea so strong I almost vomit, and my joints hurt so fucking bad sometimes I crawl up my own staircase, and I’ve just come to accept that maybe my bones will always hurt.

Five months postpartum, and as a breastfeeding mother, I am still struggling with leaking, and always ending up sticky and wet, and the pain when I can’t pump enough, and mastitis when I get a clog, and the aggravation of my herniated discs because it’s so hard to breastfeed with good fucking posture and the pressure to pump at work but not inconvenience anyone and to do it all but never ask for help because no one else can feed your child and to eat more and drink more and be healthy and everything else when you hardly have time to crawl out of bed.

and my hormones ?! my appetite ?! the bone deep level of exhaustion that comes from hardly any sleep and waking every couple of minutes when your baby whines or is so quiet you want to make sure you’re alive?? the overstimulation that comes from having a child attached to you at all times when you already struggle with feeling claustrophobic in your own skin? The inability to have a second to even shower or brush your hair or pee in silence because you have no support ?

It’s been 5 months since I’ve had him, and I’m still struggling so hard to feel like a functioning human being, and that’s so normal. I don’t even have postpartum depression or psychosis like some moms get or stroke and heart problems that can come on after labor or diabetes or thyroid issues (that I know of, yet).

And that’s not to mention the excruciating, traumatizing, not at all empowering pain of an induced, unmediated birth, that had me literally sobbing and shaking so hard I accidentally ripped out my IV and couldn’t breathe and decided I’d never withstand torture if it was ever required of me. Or the pain of not being able to stand or walk without support for weeks because my pelvis shifted so much it was excruciating to take a step, or the fact that I couldn’t feel my bladder to know when it was full for months, or the months of bleeding or the fucking stitches that left me unable to sit or the pain of adjusting to sore, bleeding nipples during breastfeeding the the excruciating after birth contractions that came along during it.or the constant pressure and societal demands to work or you’re lazy or to stay home or else you’re abandoning your kids and to do all the house stuff or your a failure but go out with friends too or you’ve let yourself go and always somehow being wrong and a failure.

Or the pregnancy nonsense, i mean. I was constantly hospitalized, half-dead, literally too sick to even passively consume any piece of media, just counting the seconds till my next dose and hoping I didn’t throw up. I spent days in the hospital, blew so many veins I needed a pic line, covered in bruises, hooked up to a zofran pump at home that I had to carry around 24/7, constantly change for errors

and stab my self daily in the stomach, which fucking hurt, to administer the medicine which left swollen welts in my skin all over my stomach. It was vomiting so hard and so often that I cried, peed, bled, begged, hyperventilated, feeling like I was having a heart attack. Had heartburn so bad I couldn’t sleep. It was ultrasounds and EKG’s and chest X-rays and bloodwork and pricking my finger four times a day and altering my whole diet and being unable to even leave my house or care for myself or my son and getting violently sick in the car for every appointment and suffering through and missing out on almost an entire year of my life and my oldest’s life and sacrificing all my career and friends I’ve made

and doing it with a toxic, abusive person who wouldn’t bring me a glass of water if I asked and called me lazy for not working through it and left me not even hours after birth when I couldn’t even stand to go get drunk and get some sleep, and who still will throw a tantrum if I ask him to hold his son so I can pee.

and it’s the terror and the anxiety and the nightmares that something will happen, that SIDS or an accident or a childhood illness or RSV will rip away the only good that has come from such a nightmare. I mean I spend hours of my life each day googling away my fears. Hours trying to figure out which choice is right, how to manage all the household things and being a mom and working and not losing my entire identity in the process

and it is not “just nine (fucking) months.” And god, some of these people are children, homeless, cancer patients, drug addicted, being assaulted by partners who will kill them, too broke to feed themselves, on medications for mental illnesses that they could not take while pregnant, care givers to people who need them, or Jesus even just someone who made a mistake, who’s birth control failed, who doesn’t want kids or doesn’t want to pause the career they spent their whole lives working towards, who doesn’t want to raise a kids with the person they slept with, who doesn’t feel prepared to be a mom, who doesn’t want to endure the process like how the fuck is that okay.

like sex is a normal fucking thing, and people shouldn’t be punished because they made a mistake or were unlucky enough to have failed precautions, or changed their mind, or were assaulted. people shouldn’t have to be celibate forever because they don’t want kids and there’s always a risk AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON WOMENS BIRTH CONTROL like it fucks you up so bad and not everyone can take it and even invasive fucking surgery can fail and shit happens to people okay, and you’d rather them suffer through the trauma of all of this then let them get an abortion? Or you’d force an eleven year old to carry a child when she is still a baby herself ? You’d force a woman to go through all this to bring a child into a world will be unloved and in danger ?

Like what the fuck is wrong with people that you’d see someone suffer to preserve your pervasive idea of morality, that you’d punish a child to embrace an archaic fucking belief, condemn people who don’t want to risk their lives (because let’s be clear, it IS a risk) when you don’t even want to support the system designed to help them, I mean it really infuriates me. there are so many broken, unloved, children in this world. so many dead children born to dangerous circumstances. how is this right??

I love my kids, and I chose to have them, to suffer for them, and that was a deeply personal choice that I’d make over and over and over again because they are the greatest joys of my life, and I am so fucking thankful for them, for the light they bring into my life every single day, but I grieve for everyone whose forced to endure such a thing without their consent, and I curse every single person who thinks that any part of that is okay.

like, an actual curse. I’m manifesting bad vibes. maybe not a plague, but something on all your houses for sure. A CONSCIENCE maybe. I’m manifesting a conscience for all of you because let’s be real, coming to your senses after all that has got to be painful, and the guilt will be a crueler punishment then death. I hope it grows on you like an unwanted pregnancy you are not allowed to abort.