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This week, the cruelty kept coming — this time camouflaged in Florida swampland and wrapped in corporate buzzwords. Protesters clashed with construction crews building an immigrant detention camp in the Everglades, and the administration called it “efficient.” Marco Rubio presided over the funeral of USAID, insisting the world would thank us for prioritizing trade over lifesaving medicine. Trump’s tariffs continued to squeeze U.S. businesses. And in a pre-July 4th spectacle, the House advanced a sweeping budget bill slashing Medicaid while boosting billionaires.
Meanwhile, the administration keeps selling brutality as policy and policy as profit. For Trump and DeSantis, a 5,000-bed camp surrounded by alligators is a punchline. For millions losing medical aid or facing layoffs, it’s a gut punch. And yet the White House insists that everything — from international aid cuts to SUV exports to Vietnam — is somehow part of a genius plan no one else can see.
Welcome to The Lincoln Logue, your satirical digest of Trump’s America — proudly brought to you this week by the Everglades Tourism Bureau™. (Come for the wildlife. Stay … because you’re not allowed to leave — until the alligators or ICE decide you’re ready.)
Monday, June June 30 — Protesters Slam “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades
▌"It’s not a detention center. It’s a nature preserve with a concentration camp built on top of it."
Hundreds of protesters lined Florida’s Tamiami Trail this weekend to denounce the state’s newest migrant detention center — a sprawling tent-and-trailer compound in the heart of the Everglades, now known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The DeSantis administration, backed by federal dollars, fast-tracked construction by invoking emergency powers and waving away environmental reviews. Native American leaders condemned the desecration of sacred lands, while environmentalists warned about irreversible damage to the fragile wetland ecosystem. But to state officials, gators and pythons make the perfect security detail.
Trump and DeSantis visited the site with grins and soundbites, bragging about the camp’s isolation and its 5,000 detention beds. “Surrounded by dangerous wildlife and unforgiving terrain,” Trump announced, “no one’s going anywhere.” Critics, however, called it what it is: a spectacle of cruelty. Florida state Rep. Angela Nixon said the camp represented “modern-day concentration camps,” designed not just to deport people but to disappear them. Democrats in Congress have begun circulating calls to defund the facility before it fully opens.
Lawsuits are already in motion. The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Everglades filed to halt construction, citing violations of federal wetlands protections. Tourism advocates warned the Everglades’ international reputation would tank under the weight of oil slicks and tents. But for the administration, that’s all beside the point. As one protester put it: “They want this done so fast that by the time the courts rule against it, it’ll already be too late.”
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