It isn't just US Tent: here are the contractors building Alligator Auschwitz -- and their contact info

Do you believe in public accountability?

Then here is the list, courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times (I added the contact information)

CDR Maguire and its affiliated company, CDR Health

Doodie Calls

Garda World

Garner Environmental Services

Gothams LLC

Granny's Alliance

Longview International Technology Solutions

US Tent Rental

PLEASE use contact information responsibly to register your disapproval of the company's involvement, to spread this information to other people involved in resisting mass deportation, to any mutual funds or retirement funds that might want to divest themselves of these companies ...

PLEASE DO NOT dox any individuals, send threats, or perform any illegal activities with this FREELY AVAILABLE INFORMATION gleaned from their PUBLIC WEBSITES.

The Delmarva Times: A case study in the local cultivation of extremism and the appetite for mass murder

 

In Delaware, despite being among the bluest of blue states, we have had our experiences with the active cultivation of a far right population that uses increasingly violent and even exterminationist rhetoric.

Certainly the Delaware Republican Party has done its bit for pushing politics as hard to the right as possible, which is exceptionally odd given that the long tradition of the First State's GOP had long been one of bipartisan centrism under the likes of Governor and later US Representative Mike Castle.

But in 2010 Castle lost his US Senate primary to upstart right-winger Christine O'Donnell, whose most famous moments came from (believe it or not) denying she was a witch and demanding in a debate with her Democratic opponent, "Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?" (She lost in a landslide to Chris Coons.

The DE GOP has gone down hill so fast that large Democratic majorities control both houses of the General Assembly, and the Democratic primary for Governor, Mayor of Wilmington, and about half of the seats in the General Assembly effectively IS the election. They have so badly lost that one GOP State Representative wrote a highly publicized editorial bemoaning the "tyranny of the majority" that has blighted the state with "one-party rule" through the horrible mechanism of ... Democrats winning elections:

Elections have consequences, and the choices made by individual voters over years have created a monoculture of thought and action in the state Legislature. Delaware House and Senate Democrats can already pass any bill requiring a simple majority vote, without the need for any participation by Republican lawmakers. As a result, too many such bills fail to incorporate any perspective not shared by the majority.

Then this year there was the rather bizarre stunt of inviting the GOP poster girl for transphobic hate, Representative Nancy "Tranny, tranny, tranny" Mace, to visit Delaware and spew her hate about Representative Sarah McBride, the first-ever openly transgender Congresswoman, and one of Delaware's most popular politicians.

They've been reduced to running increasingly fringe candidates in a handful of safe districts, and by mimicking what has worked for Republicans nationwide: creating a network of bogus organizations (the Caesar Rodney Institute, the Delaware Women's Self Defense Association, and others) and developing an alternative hard-right media presence. 

This media presence was built off the audience for some pre-existing right-wing talk shows (WMDT, etc.). We now have one statewide news site controlled by a conservative grocery chain owner, another regional paper owned by a GOP legislator, and ever-the-right-wing-upstart First State Update, literally produced by an incel in his basement (but people patronize it because he monitors police bands and usually manages to beat everybody online with reports of major traffic accidents or shootings). Given that we have no TV station in Delaware and our state "newspaper of record" is a Gannett publication, what sounds like a dribble of hard-core MAGA is actually much more.

Because we generally live in a world where national news -- even on the far right -- is dominated by a handful of major corporate players, we don't usually consider the impact of these local wannabes. Instead we talk about Fox News, One America, the New York Post, the Washington Examiner, the Daily Signal, the Daily Wire, etc.

But I am increasingly becoming aware, as we listen to MAGA voters clamoring for ever more brutal behavior by the Trump regime, that we've missed a critical point here. These local far-right "news" sources are the first-line breeding ground for extremism.

Take The Delmarva Times, for example, which aspires to be "your premier destination for comprehensive news coverage of the Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset regions, as well as broader state-level developments in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia," and "to provide timely, accurate, and insightful journalism that serves the diverse communities of the Delmarva Peninsula."

An end to denial: President Trump and MAGA are serious about everything up to, and including, genocide ... here are the receipts

 

Here's my conundrum: How does Dr. Aviva Dautch, the Director and publisher of Jewish Renaissance, the leading Jewish arts magazine in the UK, understand what's happening here from across the Atlantic Ocean when tens of millions of people here who are not MAGA seem not to get it?

Also in the UK, George Orwell -- who has been fucking DEAD for 75 years -- still gets it from the grave: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Meanwhile, what do we have over here? This Newsweek headline from June 8 pretty much sums it up: "75 Democrats Express 'Gratitude' to ICE in Antisemitism Vote Amid LA Riots." Some day in the far future an alien cultural anthropologist examining the ruins of Earth, will turn one of she/he/it's heads toward a colleague and remark, "They had a term for this. They called it 'Stockholm Syndrome.' They just couldn't recognize it when it was happening, apparently."

It's particularly fascinating to find Jewish writers like Jeffrey Salkin just two days ago ("Not Every Struggle Requires a Nazi Metaphor," July 1, 2025) adamantly condemning the use of Nazi and Holocaust "metaphors" from some sort of bizarre moral high horse ridden without the slightest understanding that we are not now creating metaphors but MAKING DIRECT HISTORICAL COMPARISONS.

Here are two of Salkin's dumbest observations:

"Never Again": it turns out that "never" lasts 85 years, one month, and 18 days ...

 

It turns out that there are 6.5 million people alive in America today who would have been alive when the first mass transit of inmates arrived at Auschwitz on June 14, 1940.

After that it required not quite fifteen months -- until September 3, 1941 -- for the first mass Zyklon B gassing of 600 prisoners to occur.

Officially, the Jews and Poles and others sent to Auschwitz were being "deported" from Germany into Poland for "labor."

"Never Again!" the world -- including the United States -- swore in 1945 when the full enormity of the Holocaust burst upon the armies liberating the death camps and concentration camps from East and West.

"Never Again."

It turns out that the definition of "Never" is 85 years, one month, and 18 days, as the first inmates -- immigrants supposedly being "deported" arrive at the Florida Everglades camp known affectionately to President Trump, Governor DeSantis, and all MAGA Republicans as "Alligator Alcatraz," but thought of by most actual human beings as "Alligator Auschwitz."

Curiously enough, amnesia over the parallels here seem rife. Searches for the facility on the Anti-Defamation League's website and that of the American Jewish Committee turn up nothing ...

On the other hand we can find this quite prominently posted at National Review:

Jeffrey Blehar -- officially the music critic at NR billing himself as "happy to find something non-political to talk about" -- makes the following fascinating statement (among a host of others) denying ANY connection between the mass deportations of the Trump administration and what happened in Germany throughout the 1930s leading up to that day in June 1940:

The Nation promptly denounced this as “abominable sadism” and as Trump’s “Alligator Auschwitz” — a comparison that deserves to be mocked but not addressed — 

Apparently nobody wants to talk at all in either the circles of the political elites or the corporate national media about such questions as "How long did it take for Nazi rhetoric to shift from denaturalization to deportation to not saying anything and just killing Jews by the millions?"

Two notes: 

ONE: The Nazi law providing for the revocation of citizenship for undesirables as the 1938 Projekt documents, occurred in July 1933 -- placing Trump and Hitler right on the same timetable since their ascensions to power:

The passage in July 1933 of a law allowing the government to revoke the citizenship of those naturalized after the end of WWI had given Nazi officials a tool to deprive “undesirables” of their citizenship. The law targeted the Nazis’ political adversaries as well as Jews; 16,000 Eastern European Jews had gained German citizenship between the proclamation of the republic on November 9, 1918 and the Nazi rise to power in January 1933.

TWO: The first official Nazi concentration camp -- Dachau -- opened in March 1933, but here Mr Trump had the advantage on Herr Shickelgruber: he inherited a system of privatized concentration camps from his predecessors, but with the assistance of Florida Governor DeSantis he managed to put his own flourish in the matter with "Alligator Alcatraz" by late June/early July. He is only about three months behind.

I know it's complicated right now. One must denounce antisemitism, which extends to all criticism of the Israeli Defense Force's operations in Gaza and anything presented in front of the International Criminal Court) while embracing Islamophobia. 

All pro-Palestinian protesters are terrorist sympathizers, and Zohran Mamdani -- chosen by NYC Democrats as their candidate for Mayor -- must not only be an antisemite, a terrorist supporter, a communist, and a socialist, but a target for denaturalization and deportation according not just to various MAGA Republican politicians but the President of the United States.

Alas, if only there were some historical situation that provided useful parallels. But, apparently, there is not.

I am left, really, with only one question, that Mr Blehar of the National Review will have to look up in order to understand the reference before he can mock it:

When will Tom Homan convene the Wannsee Conference? 

(Which, strangely enough, you CAN find on the ADL website, even if you can't find anything about American concentration camps in the Everglades.)

According to various timelines, and allowing for minor differences, the decision to liquidate all the illegals we cannot otherwise push out of the country or have eaten by alligators will come sometime in early 2026 ... just in time for the midterm elections.

Democrats will no doubt be divided on whether to view this decision as dangerous extremism worthy of a strong letter of protest or another opportunity for bipartisan cooperation.

"When you lay down with dogs, you will get fleas" -- US Tent Rental whines about backlash for contracting with Alligator Auschwitz

 

From the Herald Tribune:

Workers at Sarasota-based U.S. Tent Rental have received death threats and been doxxed after the company was tapped to provide food service for workers building "Alligator Alcatraz,” a controversial massive immigration detention site being constructed in the Everglades.

U.S. Tent Rental employees said that the company is being misrepresented on social media as a main player in the detention center's construction. A TikTok posted on June 24 showed trucks with the U.S. Tent Rental logo driving to the detention site, garnering over 1.3 million views. ...

"If we have to ask every client about their political standpoint or their views on different issues, we'll never be in business," an employee shared about criticism directed at the business. The employee did not give their name because of safety concerns.

U.S. Tent Rental has shut off its phones after receiving dozens of threats over the last few days. An employee said that the company has no responsibility for setting up the detention site and is only providing meals for workers.

The company mostly provides services for weddings and events, but in the past, it has helped set up COVID testing sites and provided disaster relief across Florida and the country, staging food stations for power workers and emergency responders.

U.S. Tent Rental has shut off its phones after receiving dozens of threats over the last few days. An employee said that the company has no responsibility for setting up the detention site and is only providing meals for workers. ...

The company mostly provides services for weddings and events, but in the past, it has helped set up COVID testing sites and provided disaster relief across Florida and the country, staging food stations for power workers and emergency responders. 

A U.S. Tent Rental salesperson, who declined to provide their name to Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporters, added that the company is “humanitarian” and is trying to ensure workers can have meals in an air-conditioned space.

“Everybody has it wrong,” the salesperson said. “Were we there? Yes, but not in that capacity.”

To be very clear: I am not a believer in death threats and I don't dox people's families.

On the other hand, all you have to do to understand why this is not "ask[ing] every client about their political standpoint or their views on different issues," just take that first paragraph and CHANGE ONE WORD:

Workers at Sarasota-based U.S. Tent Rental have received death threats and been doxxed after the company was tapped to provide food service for workers building "Alligator AUSCHWITZ,” a controversial massive immigration detention site being constructed in the Everglades.

It's pretty goddamn difficult to take the money to make sure that the people building a concentration camp in the Everglades "can have meals in an air-conditioned space" and not expect other people to have a problem with it.

Just ask Avelo Airlines, a struggling upstart that contracted to fly deportation flights to plump up a sagging bottom line ... and who's losing tax breaks in Connecticut while facing protests around the nation.

When the Connecticut AG's office asks you to verify that you "won’t operate deportation flights from any Connecticut airport and ... never operate flights with shackled children," and you blow them off ... that's how you lose your reputation AND your tax breaks.

We note, of course, that the national corporate media is mostly not covering these stories, any more than it is paying attention to the hugely successful Target boycott over DEI and LGBTQIA+.

Here's what the real message for businesses needs to be: MAKE A PROFIT OFF OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S RACIST DEPORTATION POLICY AND THERE ARE GOING TO BE CONSEQUENCES.

 

How to argue against marriage equality by arguing in favor of also repealing spousal rape laws ...

I used to enjoy reading First Things (about two decades ago). Despite being conservative in both politics and theology, it was rigorous, logical, and even humane. I could read entire articles wherein I disagreed with both the starting hypothesis and the conclusion ... and still feel like I benefited personally from the experience of reading it.

Sadly, no more.

If "Obergefell Must Go" is an example of that First Things is publishing these days, another once-venerable conservative voice (like National Review) has flattened itself to fit into the neo-MAGA "Intellectual" system that is reflexively anti-LGBTQIA+, anti-diversity, anti-poor people, etc etc etc ad nauseam ad infinitum (for a good dose of Latin).

This article is written by one Robert P. George, who "is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University."

And he's very obviously a homophobic bigot.

Part of that understanding comes from Professor George's overly strident defense of his position in just those terms:

///Americans are waking up to the illiberal tactics—everything from invading churches to stigmatizing believers in marriage as a conjugal partnership as “bigots”—of the organizations that forced same-sex marriage on us by judicial fiat.////

Beware anybody who actually builds into his or her article the boldface sentence that other people (no matter of illegitimate they are presented to be) consider anyone holding the author's position is a bigot ... then you can start with the reasonable presumption that the author is ... a bigot trying to weasel his or her way out of it.

Which is in fact that case here.

Consider his opening paragraph, which characterizes Obergefell v. Hodges as "the case that invalidated state laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife and required states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners."

Our dear Professor George thereby asserts that, LEGALLY, marriage was a "conjugal union" (between one man and one woman) prior to the Supreme Court decision on Obergefell, and that it is this "conjugal" understanding of marriage that the case destroyed and which must be set right again:

////if one believes that marriage is inherently a conjugal bond—that is, the union of one man and one woman, and not a mere form of sexual-romantic companionship or domestic partnership—then the “law” imposed on the nation by the Supreme Court in Obergefell is a defiance of moral reality.////

Note the illegitimate shifting of positions here. In the first paragraph Professor George asserts that the "conjugal union" was an inherent element in the LEGAL definition, but then later on reduces that to the "belief" (as in "if one believes") rather than a legal component in the union.

This is critical because almost all legal definitions of marriage prior to Obergefell DID NOT include "conjugal union" (I haven't actually found one yet that did, but I only searched 28 states), and when the word "conjugal" appears it is in the context of the act of marriage conferring "conjugal RIGHTS" on each of the partners.

And that's where this particular bigot palmed his homophobic card.

Take the quickest note from Oxford Reference (I cite it because it is brief; I have not found any legal commentaries that disagree with it):

////Conjugal Rights

////The rights of either spouse of a marriage, which include the right to the other's consortium (company), cohabitation (sexual intercourse), and maintenance during the marriage. There is, however, no longer any legal procedure for enforcing these rights. The old action for restitution of conjugal rights was abolished in 1971 and a husband insisting on sexual intercourse against the wishes of his wife may be guilty of rape. See also consummation of a marriage.////

Note two critical points:

ONE: "conjugal rights" are one set of rights stemming from having become married, and are not viewed as part of the definition of marriage. AND ...

TWO: Since 1971 and the introduction of the legal concept of "spousal rape," that term actually has zero legal bearing on the institution of marriage.

Hmmm .... 1971?

That would ,mean that the legal element of "conjugal rights" (for which Professor George inappropriately substitutes "conjugal union") had already been eliminated from the legal definition of marriage ... 47 years BEFORE Obergefell v Hodges was decided.

Moreover, in order the reinstate it -- on conservative theological grounds -- would not only eliminate marriage equality, but also necessary return to the doctrine that within a "conjugal union" the husband has a right to sexual intercourse any damn time he pleases, no matter what the opinions or lack of consent by his wife.

Professor Brown knows this, which is precisely why his pontifications morph "conjugal rights" into "conjugal union," as even he must actually know that telling people you intend to remove the necessity for CONSENT for wives is a nonstarter.

He plays a few other silly, stupid games throughout the article, but this is the heart of it. His detestation of homosexuals engaging in a long-term relationship if so profound that he is quite willing to remove women's protections against spousal rape to prevent queers from being able to claim equal citizenship.

The problem, of course, is that Professor George's sleazy slight of hand will pretty much disappear when the article becomes a footnote in some Heritage Foundation position paper on why only "tradition families" should be considered legitimate.

Now you know.

Contrary to the current MAGA formulation of how liberal all the professors in higher education are, there are plenty of folks out there publishing queer-bashing op-eds in formerly respectable journals.

https://firstthings.com/obergefell-must-go/

The world pushes back on US international human trafficking -- and you need to get involved

 

Here is the complete text of Angie Cano's post:

Hundreds of Venezuelan men including my husband were kidnapped by the U.S. government and thrown into El Salvador’s mega-prison, CECOT. They had no trial, no lawyer, no notice. Some had asylum claims. Others had wives and children here. They were not criminals they were treated like hostages.

Now, the world is finally paying attention.

1. The United Nations has called this a disappearance.

2. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) is being asked to issue emergency protections.

3. And for the first time, President Nayib

Bukele is being reported to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity for using these men as political leverage in a proposed prisoner swap.

This is not immigration enforcement.

This is state-sponsored human trafficking, arbitrary detention, and a coordinated attack on human rights.

The U.S. and El Salvador must be held accountable because the longer we stay silent, the more this abuse becomes normalized. My husband and hundreds like him are still in CECOT.

They are still incommunicado. They are still waiting.

We demand:

Immediate access to the detainees

Legal review of each case

Full cooperation with UN and CIDH investigators

And the return of those unlawfully deported

To every human rights group, journalist, and policymaker watching this we need your voice. We’re done waiting for justice to trickle down. We are fighting for it, and we won’t stop.

#humanrights #ICC #CIDH #DeepStateSecrets #EnforcedDisappearances #CECOT #ImmigrationJustice

Several notes here:

FIRST: You really should be following her page.

SECOND: DON'T STOP TELLING THIS STORY IN ANY VENUE YOU CAN FIND. Use real names and make these cases into identifiable human beings.

THIRD: PUSH BACK AGAINST REGIME NARRATIVES ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT. The United States should not be above international law, no matter how exceptional we like to think we are.

FOURTH: FIND AN ORGANIZATION OUT THERE WORKING ON THE PROBLEM AND JOIN IT. DONATE IF YOU CAN.

This President and his regime will be remembered by their crimes.

We will be remembered for our resistance (if we never quit).