Mexican Butterworts arrived in great shape and I'm ecstatic. The seller threw in what appears to be a second Pinguicula gigantea, which is fantastic as at least two of them was the goal and now I won't have to wait for the eventually happening offshoots or leaf-cuttings.
I'll post a picture later once I'm done with the swooning.
Kind of. Carnivorous plants with a more or less present, succulent winter-phase. This specific branch of the Genus occurs in tropical parts of Mexico with more or less dry/drier winters.
They make really cute flowers and catch gnats with their leaves. Another thing that attracts me are the many miniature species in this group.
Never grown them but they say that if you can grow an African Violet, you can grow those.
Steven Wilson plays here in September, and it can't come soon enough. The pickins have been more than a little slim concert-wise so far this year. This clip features guitarist Randy McStine, the newest member of Wilson's band.
I knew better than to live alone. I hate it, I'm depressed as shit. Is this better or worse than living in my car? I don't know anymore, and it's only been a month.
We should at least let him cool his heels in the Gator Gulag for a few years until we figure out what to do with him. It's just a short flight from there to Gitmo, anyway.
What's sickening is that all these undocumented people being arrested because they allegedly "broke the law" are being arrested at the direction of someone who is a convicted felon and rapist, but who never spent a day in prison. I'll bet you $1 that some of those ICE agents also have criminal records. I know that if my psycho cousin wasn't 66 and disabled, he would have applied to be an ICE agent, because there's nothing he loves more than being cruel to people.
I seriously cannot believe there hasn’t been one shot yet. There would likely have been one shot HERE by now. At workplaces I can see but they are also doing house raids. Sooner or later someone will kill one, because unidentified thugs in battle rattle are liable to get shot by a gun owner. And it’s not all undocumented, they are picking up swathes of citizens as well.
It won't be long before they're coming after US citizens who've said things this thoroughly corrupt administration doesn't like and summarily ships them off into exile.
And you just know with that much money flooding into a rogue and lawless org, there’s going to be tens of billions of dollars of grift and corruption and theft and embezzlement.
Hey RFK Jr., you disgusting piece of shit – here's something you can actually fix, that is if you aren't too busy with your conspiracy and "health" cult bullshit.
"The herbicide ingredient used to replace glyphosate in Roundup and other weedkiller products can kill gut bacteria and damage organs in multiple ways, new research shows.
The ingredient, diquat, is widely employed in the US as a weedkiller in vineyards and orchards, and is increasingly sprayed elsewhere as the use of controversial herbicide substances such as glyphosate and paraquat drops in the US."
< In 2024, toward the end of his presidency, Joe Biden’s administration granted her a permit allowing her to work legally in the US. She had also been navigating the process to obtain legal permanent US residency – colloquially referred to as a green card – for years.
Nonetheless, instead of supporting the candidate Biden endorsed to succeed him, then vice-president Kamala Harris, Olivera’s husband supported Trump in November’s White House election. He told KGTV that Trump’s promises to deport criminals en masse appealed to both him and Cynthia. And, echoing other mixed immigration status families who have had members affected by Trump’s policies, the Oliveras did not believe she would be hurt by her lack of legal US residency.>
< By 1999, when she was about 19, US immigration officials at the Buffalo border crossing had determined Olivera was living in the country without legal status and obtained an expedited order to deport her. But, after being deported, she was able to return to the US by driving to San Diego from Mexico within a few months.>
To every MAGA not personally damaged by the convicted felon and his handlers this is a feature. He is doing exactly what he promised. Hell, even if it does damage them they are on board because he is hurting brown people, hurting federal workers, hurting those French guys.... Farmers are still on board despite once again getting destroyed be this orange menace. He promises to hurt the Chinese, so they are all good.... At least banks get new land to sell off for pennies on the dollar...wut? Not good for banks, either? Deregulate for teh win, then. What can go wrong?
What gets me is the number of MAGA chuds who say he has already fulfilled his promises - but when I ask them for examples, they either have none, or point to something that is yet to be acchomplished ( or even attempted )
And social media and everything else has made them dumber. Attention spans are eroding to pea brain levels every day that goes by. And people are PROUD of this ("I'm not one of them there elitist pencil-necked GEEKS who KNOWS STUFF!")
"In an interview with KGTV, Francisco Olivera stated he changed his mind and voted for Trump with his wife's encouragement and, even though he knew she was not up to date on her citizenship, he never thought the plan for mass deportations would hit home.
...
"'... the Trump administration had little sympathy for Olivera, despite her husband’s support of the president, with a spokesperson saying in a statement that Cynthia was 'an illegal alien from Canada','"
We’re sharing a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Douglas Adams was someone who thought deeply about the biggest problems in the world, from the internet, to artificial intelligence, to space exploration, politics, and conservation—he was a sharp critic and a profoundly disruptive thinker of the way we do things. Written and narrated by Arvind Ethan David, Adams’ former protégé, this one-of-a-kind audiobook includes rare archival material from the Adams Estate, interviews with Adams’ personal friends like Griff Rhys Jones and David Baddiel, and reenactments of his work to form an immersive journey through the mind of one of the most visionary writers of our time. Get Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth now at Audible, Spotify, pushkin.fm/audiobooks, or wherever audiobooks are sold.
I had to alter a couple of blouses that I intend to wear to my trial because I lost 30 lbs and they are too big. It's a simple job, but I find that I struggle to do it because I can't see as well as I used to, and my back starts to really hurt in about 2 minutes while hunched over the sewing machine, as does my torn rotator cuff.
So I guess my sewing days are over. I have 5 gorgeous Renaissance gowns I made which are all now too big and require altering, and I can't do it. I will have to pay someone to do it, which is expensive.
We bought some inexpensive risers to put under our sewing machine. They aren't pretty but they get us into a better position for long sessions. Daughter is nearly six feet tall and the tiny little table setup that came with our 1950s machine just wasn't doing for her.
I can't do it anymore, either. Mine is a Rocketeer in the original cabinet. It might be better to have a portable tabletop model, but I don't have a table, either.
No, more light doesn't help. One blouse is black, as is one Renaissance gown, and it always was difficult to rip seams out of black clothing that has been sewn with black thread, even when I was much younger. Now it's a real challenge. It's the seam ripping that takes most of the time and effort with alterations, and it has become painful.
We're right in the middle of moving from a split-level to a ranch. Still boxing shit up in a frenzy - the movers will be here at 8:00 tomorrow morning. Just took a 5 minute break to catch my breath.
We've been here 40 years. Raised 2 kids into adulthood (kinda sorta maybe), and overall have had an absolute blast! But my knees are as old as I am, and the split is a non-starter anymore. Fortunately the new place is literally next door. I intend to die here, but not for a good long while.
This is supposed to be my forever home, too. If I lose my license due to loss of eyesight, I'll have to move to town. All my friends I could have depended on have either died or moved away, and public transit is not dependable enough for medical appointments or shopping.
I hear you. Many of my retired friends, and my elderly aunts and uncles, faced the same problem. I was lucky to be living in a small liberal college town which had ParaTransit vans (part of the City bus system) that would take people door-to-door with 24 hours notice, plus a non-profit called Services for Independent Living, which also had a wheelchair van (but it often got full and you might have to schedule a week in advance) and which also LOANED people wheelchairs, hospital beds, mobility devices, ramps, etc. Every sidewalk in the entire town had sidewalks with ramp crossings. Not that many people have these services available to them.
I looked at a LOT of what they call "independent living" retirement homes, but they all offer a lot of amenities I don't want or need, such as gyms and pools and movie theaters and restaurants, and you pay for them as part of your (very high) rent. They also provide some meals, which you also pay for, and which I can't eat because I'm gluten-intolerant. I am not paying for shit I'm not going to use. So I bought a condo because it's wheelchair accessible...the only one like that I found in all of greater St. Louis, because the geography here is very hilly, so almost all of the affordable condo buildings have steps at the front door, or steps up/down to the parking lot.
I'm also not sure I want to live surrounded by a lot of other Olds, some of them in declining health, so if I make a good friend, they are probably going to die on me. That sounds selfish, but it's true.
The site-prep agreement with Lemoine CDR Logistics LLC — a joint venture that includes one of Ron DeSantis’ biggest campaign contributors — is one of at least five new contracts and purchase orders totaling more than $25 million issued in recent days for work at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the isolated airfield that is now home to a hastily constructed prison camp that is already holding immigrants swept up under the Trump administration’s mass deportation program.
That’s not all. Separate records show that the Governor’s Office has paid out more than $85 million over the past two weeks to the dozen or so vendors known to be working on the detention facility that Florida officials have gleefully dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
And almost all the cash for these contracts and vendor payments is coming from the same place: A massive “emergency management” fund that has been seeded with $2 billion in taxpayer money — money that Ron DeSantis is free to spend virtually however he wants.
The no-strings-attached bank account was a gift from Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature, which created the fund in 2022 at DeSantis’ request. Technically known as Florida’s “Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund,” it’s a pot of money that the governor can tap into during any declared state of emergency without any oversight whatsoever from the Legislature — the branch of government that is, at least in theory, supposed to control the state’s purse strings.
There should be more oversight of his ability to declare "emergencies" - he's like FFOTUS in that regard, in that he declares an emergency for his own purposes, not there is an actual emergency.
Also see the note at the top-In alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will no longer be updating the Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters product. Additional details and the opportunity to submit comments are available at the NESDIS Notice of Changes website. All past reports, spanning 1980-2024, and their underlying data remain authoritative, archived, and available via the Billion-Dollar Disasters dataset landing page.
Miami has already cancelled elections. ‘Scuze me, deferred elections without input from voters, allowing the current term-limited Republican officials to remain in place for another year.
This seems kind of inevitable -- when you treat half of the most heavily armed country in the world as the enemy, they're going to start acting like it.
***Several suspects are in custody after a police officer was injured in a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, in the late-night hours of the Fourth of July, officials said.
Just before 11 p.m., the Alvarado Police Department said it was called to the 1200 block of Sunflower Lane, outside the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility, on a report of a suspicious person. When officers arrived, they saw a person who appeared to be carrying a firearm, according to a news release.
Alvarado police said that when one of the first responding officers tried to engage with the person, an unknown number of suspects opened fire. At least one bullet struck an officer in the neck, police said.
The injured officer was flown from the scene to a Fort Worth hospital, was treated and later released, Alvarado police said.
A federal law enforcement source told CBS News Saturday that local police arrested eight people. The official said some of those apprehended were wearing body armor.
The source told CBS News that early reports indicate that more than a dozen masked individuals dressed in black arrived at the Prairieland ICE detention facility late Friday night and vandalized vehicles and security cameras in the parking lot.***
Thanks for this!
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
JIANG: What is the NEC's estimate for how many people could lose healthcare coverage?
HASSETT: The bottom line is the best way to get insurance is to get a job
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ltcjr2urpt2g
What a deeply fucked up idea of humanity the US right has.
You don't get to get healthcare unless you are productive. Work. Make. Do. Function, or else why should we even bother helping you stay alive?
Texas — Sometimes you stand only as a warning to others.
Ok all you beautiful people. I am out for the day. Take care please!
Enjoy your day, Rosy.
Mexican Butterworts arrived in great shape and I'm ecstatic. The seller threw in what appears to be a second Pinguicula gigantea, which is fantastic as at least two of them was the goal and now I won't have to wait for the eventually happening offshoots or leaf-cuttings.
I'll post a picture later once I'm done with the swooning.
Succulents?
Kind of. Carnivorous plants with a more or less present, succulent winter-phase. This specific branch of the Genus occurs in tropical parts of Mexico with more or less dry/drier winters.
They make really cute flowers and catch gnats with their leaves. Another thing that attracts me are the many miniature species in this group.
Never grown them but they say that if you can grow an African Violet, you can grow those.
So, Central Southern Mexico? Oaxaca?
Steven Wilson plays here in September, and it can't come soon enough. The pickins have been more than a little slim concert-wise so far this year. This clip features guitarist Randy McStine, the newest member of Wilson's band.
https://youtu.be/GLPr0hxNh6U
I knew better than to live alone. I hate it, I'm depressed as shit. Is this better or worse than living in my car? I don't know anymore, and it's only been a month.
Come live with us. We have plenty of room.
Washington state is a decent place.
You're right, it sucks. It's also the only way I know to live. I've only lived alone since I left home over 55 years ago.
I cannot tell you what is the better way to live your life, but I can tell you that it matters that you are sad.
Peace and solace to you.
I'm curious how ending birthright citizenship and de-naturalization effects the likes of Cancun Ted.
His father was a Cuban emigre,and Ted was born in Canada. Shouldn't he be deported?
They will continue to do the usefulness checks for now.
We should at least let him cool his heels in the Gator Gulag for a few years until we figure out what to do with him. It's just a short flight from there to Gitmo, anyway.
Yes but mostly because he's an asshole.
What's sickening is that all these undocumented people being arrested because they allegedly "broke the law" are being arrested at the direction of someone who is a convicted felon and rapist, but who never spent a day in prison. I'll bet you $1 that some of those ICE agents also have criminal records. I know that if my psycho cousin wasn't 66 and disabled, he would have applied to be an ICE agent, because there's nothing he loves more than being cruel to people.
"Broke the law" as in "Are witches what turn people into newts".
I'd be very surprised if less than 10-20% of them have a criminal history, and I expect that number to go way up.
Also, many people are being arrested in the courts where they showed up to have their cases adjudicated, as they are supposed to.
It has nothing to do with law and order or due process or fighting crime.
I’ll bet that the ICE agents include lots of Proud Boys and pardoned J6ers
Many of those ICE agents are probably pardoned January 6ers.
Jinx
Jinx back!
If they're not then they're related to one.
And there will be more with the hiring they are going to do with their new obscene budget.
We're fucked. :(
I'm armed. I have NO compunction in regard to rebelling against these authoritarian abominations.
I refuse to go down without a fight.
I seriously cannot believe there hasn’t been one shot yet. There would likely have been one shot HERE by now. At workplaces I can see but they are also doing house raids. Sooner or later someone will kill one, because unidentified thugs in battle rattle are liable to get shot by a gun owner. And it’s not all undocumented, they are picking up swathes of citizens as well.
I would not turn up unannounced at some of the households I know personally, and these are friends of mine.
It won't be long before they're coming after US citizens who've said things this thoroughly corrupt administration doesn't like and summarily ships them off into exile.
Ships some of US off into exile.
And you just know with that much money flooding into a rogue and lawless org, there’s going to be tens of billions of dollars of grift and corruption and theft and embezzlement.
Yep. Absolutely.
None of which will ever be prosecuted.
And there will be more with the hiring they are going to do with their new obscene budget.
We're fucked. :(
Sounds like a very safe bet.
Hey RFK Jr., you disgusting piece of shit – here's something you can actually fix, that is if you aren't too busy with your conspiracy and "health" cult bullshit.
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"Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows"–https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/06/weedkiller-diquat-organ-damage-study
"The herbicide ingredient used to replace glyphosate in Roundup and other weedkiller products can kill gut bacteria and damage organs in multiple ways, new research shows.
The ingredient, diquat, is widely employed in the US as a weedkiller in vineyards and orchards, and is increasingly sprayed elsewhere as the use of controversial herbicide substances such as glyphosate and paraquat drops in the US."
Monsanto turned into a real pig in the poke for Bayer.
See also: "Bayer and the Holocaust"–https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/bayer
Considered to be the worst acquisition in history.
It's like M&A in the 90s where companies had legacy asbestos exposure.
Every acre of Florida cane is treated with it.
RFKJ will make it illegal to not use diquat in school lunches.
"'Totally blindsided' Trump-supporting family furious over mom's ICE detainment"
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-deportation/
There are no hungry leopards out there. These are their salad days.
So, it's a day that ends in a "y". No surprise here to anyone who has been even slightly attention for the last ten years.
From the original Guardian story RS used…
< In 2024, toward the end of his presidency, Joe Biden’s administration granted her a permit allowing her to work legally in the US. She had also been navigating the process to obtain legal permanent US residency – colloquially referred to as a green card – for years.
Nonetheless, instead of supporting the candidate Biden endorsed to succeed him, then vice-president Kamala Harris, Olivera’s husband supported Trump in November’s White House election. He told KGTV that Trump’s promises to deport criminals en masse appealed to both him and Cynthia. And, echoing other mixed immigration status families who have had members affected by Trump’s policies, the Oliveras did not believe she would be hurt by her lack of legal US residency.>
If it's possible I now feel even LESS sorry for them.
Right?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
She had already been deported once before.
< By 1999, when she was about 19, US immigration officials at the Buffalo border crossing had determined Olivera was living in the country without legal status and obtained an expedited order to deport her. But, after being deported, she was able to return to the US by driving to San Diego from Mexico within a few months.>
Ah, so the past IS prologue.
So a repeat offender. Jeez lady, is Canada THAT bad???
To err is human. But stupidity is earned.
as I commented downthread:
This Canadian says: You made your shit sandwich, now eat it.
Attack the Capitol and maybe he'll give you a pardon.
Have they tried not being dumb asses? Worth a try.
That'd be a first.
I'm gonna print a million "I'm one of the GOOD ones. I voted for him. Please don't deport me." T-shirts.
They won't make a jot of difference, but at least I'll get rich.
Yeah, we will be late to the party, but perhaps it’s time WE start grifting the rubes. Everyone else is.
My partner and I were trying to come up with some idea to grift the stupid chuds.
Best idea we had was to make sunflower powder from my sunflowers and sell it as a dick remedy.
You don't even need sunflowers - just empty your vacuum bag into tiny containers with eagles and guns on them.
“Totally blindsided”
More like totally stupid. Trump’s doing exactly what he said he would do, you dumb motherfucker.
To every MAGA not personally damaged by the convicted felon and his handlers this is a feature. He is doing exactly what he promised. Hell, even if it does damage them they are on board because he is hurting brown people, hurting federal workers, hurting those French guys.... Farmers are still on board despite once again getting destroyed be this orange menace. He promises to hurt the Chinese, so they are all good.... At least banks get new land to sell off for pennies on the dollar...wut? Not good for banks, either? Deregulate for teh win, then. What can go wrong?
"He is doing exactly what he promised"
What gets me is the number of MAGA chuds who say he has already fulfilled his promises - but when I ask them for examples, they either have none, or point to something that is yet to be acchomplished ( or even attempted )
"We thought the leopard was going to eat someone else's face!"
THIS
They should have kept their eyes open and voted for somebody else.
They get zero sympathy from me. Zero.
I'm done with stupid people. They're on their own now. I once felt sorry for them but then they destroyed the country.
And I'm getting tired of the whole "50% of Americans don't even have a 100 IQ so we need to figure out how to reach them."
Naw. They're unreachable. Fuck 'em.
I think it's more a character failing than an intellectual one, but I also do not doubt that some of them are dumber than bricks.
And social media and everything else has made them dumber. Attention spans are eroding to pea brain levels every day that goes by. And people are PROUD of this ("I'm not one of them there elitist pencil-necked GEEKS who KNOWS STUFF!")
"In an interview with KGTV, Francisco Olivera stated he changed his mind and voted for Trump with his wife's encouragement and, even though he knew she was not up to date on her citizenship, he never thought the plan for mass deportations would hit home.
...
"'... the Trump administration had little sympathy for Olivera, despite her husband’s support of the president, with a spokesperson saying in a statement that Cynthia was 'an illegal alien from Canada','"
Shoulda bought that million dollar a plate birthday tribute ticket, loser.
Something to lift your spirits:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/preview-douglas-adams-the-ends-of-the-earth-on/id203844864?i=1000715411482
We’re sharing a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Douglas Adams was someone who thought deeply about the biggest problems in the world, from the internet, to artificial intelligence, to space exploration, politics, and conservation—he was a sharp critic and a profoundly disruptive thinker of the way we do things. Written and narrated by Arvind Ethan David, Adams’ former protégé, this one-of-a-kind audiobook includes rare archival material from the Adams Estate, interviews with Adams’ personal friends like Griff Rhys Jones and David Baddiel, and reenactments of his work to form an immersive journey through the mind of one of the most visionary writers of our time. Get Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth now at Audible, Spotify, pushkin.fm/audiobooks, or wherever audiobooks are sold.
I had to alter a couple of blouses that I intend to wear to my trial because I lost 30 lbs and they are too big. It's a simple job, but I find that I struggle to do it because I can't see as well as I used to, and my back starts to really hurt in about 2 minutes while hunched over the sewing machine, as does my torn rotator cuff.
So I guess my sewing days are over. I have 5 gorgeous Renaissance gowns I made which are all now too big and require altering, and I can't do it. I will have to pay someone to do it, which is expensive.
I haz a sad. I love sewing.
We bought some inexpensive risers to put under our sewing machine. They aren't pretty but they get us into a better position for long sessions. Daughter is nearly six feet tall and the tiny little table setup that came with our 1950s machine just wasn't doing for her.
I can't do it anymore, either. Mine is a Rocketeer in the original cabinet. It might be better to have a portable tabletop model, but I don't have a table, either.
Will more light help?
Your eyesight is always sharpest when there's as much light as possible.
No, more light doesn't help. One blouse is black, as is one Renaissance gown, and it always was difficult to rip seams out of black clothing that has been sewn with black thread, even when I was much younger. Now it's a real challenge. It's the seam ripping that takes most of the time and effort with alterations, and it has become painful.
I can't even thread the needle or the machine itself anymore. Not that I was very good at it anyway, but I could at least mend things as needed.
Not gonna lie, with my knee, toe chair lifts we installed for my sister have been a godsend to my mobility too.
I know I'll be getting one someday.
Chair go up, chair go down. My knee doesn't hurt when I use them.
Huzzah! My sister lives in a 3-story house, and she installed a chair lift and it changed her life.
We're right in the middle of moving from a split-level to a ranch. Still boxing shit up in a frenzy - the movers will be here at 8:00 tomorrow morning. Just took a 5 minute break to catch my breath.
Whee!
I hate moving. The last time I moved I swore on oath that I would never move again, but then life happened.
We've been here 40 years. Raised 2 kids into adulthood (kinda sorta maybe), and overall have had an absolute blast! But my knees are as old as I am, and the split is a non-starter anymore. Fortunately the new place is literally next door. I intend to die here, but not for a good long while.
This is supposed to be my forever home, too. If I lose my license due to loss of eyesight, I'll have to move to town. All my friends I could have depended on have either died or moved away, and public transit is not dependable enough for medical appointments or shopping.
I hear you. Many of my retired friends, and my elderly aunts and uncles, faced the same problem. I was lucky to be living in a small liberal college town which had ParaTransit vans (part of the City bus system) that would take people door-to-door with 24 hours notice, plus a non-profit called Services for Independent Living, which also had a wheelchair van (but it often got full and you might have to schedule a week in advance) and which also LOANED people wheelchairs, hospital beds, mobility devices, ramps, etc. Every sidewalk in the entire town had sidewalks with ramp crossings. Not that many people have these services available to them.
I looked at a LOT of what they call "independent living" retirement homes, but they all offer a lot of amenities I don't want or need, such as gyms and pools and movie theaters and restaurants, and you pay for them as part of your (very high) rent. They also provide some meals, which you also pay for, and which I can't eat because I'm gluten-intolerant. I am not paying for shit I'm not going to use. So I bought a condo because it's wheelchair accessible...the only one like that I found in all of greater St. Louis, because the geography here is very hilly, so almost all of the affordable condo buildings have steps at the front door, or steps up/down to the parking lot.
I'm also not sure I want to live surrounded by a lot of other Olds, some of them in declining health, so if I make a good friend, they are probably going to die on me. That sounds selfish, but it's true.
𝐀𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬
The site-prep agreement with Lemoine CDR Logistics LLC — a joint venture that includes one of Ron DeSantis’ biggest campaign contributors — is one of at least five new contracts and purchase orders totaling more than $25 million issued in recent days for work at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the isolated airfield that is now home to a hastily constructed prison camp that is already holding immigrants swept up under the Trump administration’s mass deportation program.
That’s not all. Separate records show that the Governor’s Office has paid out more than $85 million over the past two weeks to the dozen or so vendors known to be working on the detention facility that Florida officials have gleefully dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
And almost all the cash for these contracts and vendor payments is coming from the same place: A massive “emergency management” fund that has been seeded with $2 billion in taxpayer money — money that Ron DeSantis is free to spend virtually however he wants.
The no-strings-attached bank account was a gift from Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature, which created the fund in 2022 at DeSantis’ request. Technically known as Florida’s “Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund,” it’s a pot of money that the governor can tap into during any declared state of emergency without any oversight whatsoever from the Legislature — the branch of government that is, at least in theory, supposed to control the state’s purse strings.
https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/an-immigrant-detention-camp-in-the
There should be more oversight of his ability to declare "emergencies" - he's like FFOTUS in that regard, in that he declares an emergency for his own purposes, not there is an actual emergency.
$2 billion seems like a lot, but see this:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/state-summary/FL
Also see the note at the top-In alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will no longer be updating the Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters product. Additional details and the opportunity to submit comments are available at the NESDIS Notice of Changes website. All past reports, spanning 1980-2024, and their underlying data remain authoritative, archived, and available via the Billion-Dollar Disasters dataset landing page.
Watch him declare an "emergency" and stay on as Governor. With, of course, the only state resident who matters, blessing
Miami has already cancelled elections. ‘Scuze me, deferred elections without input from voters, allowing the current term-limited Republican officials to remain in place for another year.
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EFF HIM NOW.
That's a lot of slush.
This seems kind of inevitable -- when you treat half of the most heavily armed country in the world as the enemy, they're going to start acting like it.
***Several suspects are in custody after a police officer was injured in a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, in the late-night hours of the Fourth of July, officials said.
Just before 11 p.m., the Alvarado Police Department said it was called to the 1200 block of Sunflower Lane, outside the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility, on a report of a suspicious person. When officers arrived, they saw a person who appeared to be carrying a firearm, according to a news release.
Alvarado police said that when one of the first responding officers tried to engage with the person, an unknown number of suspects opened fire. At least one bullet struck an officer in the neck, police said.
The injured officer was flown from the scene to a Fort Worth hospital, was treated and later released, Alvarado police said.
A federal law enforcement source told CBS News Saturday that local police arrested eight people. The official said some of those apprehended were wearing body armor.
The source told CBS News that early reports indicate that more than a dozen masked individuals dressed in black arrived at the Prairieland ICE detention facility late Friday night and vandalized vehicles and security cameras in the parking lot.***
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/alvarado-police-officer-shot-suspects-open-fire-fourth-of-july-johnson-county/
I mean, we've been called jackbooted communist thugs the last 50 years.
How about we show them how jackbooted communist thugs really act so they'll know the difference?
I'm waiting for an ICE snatch team to get lured into an ambush.
Someone calls in a tip about a remote job site somewhere...
This shit is going to get a helluva lot worse before it even begins to turn a better direction.
A nation created and built entirely by migrants has turned against its' own. And it's going to get bloody fucking ugly.
Watch your backs, comrades. For fucking real.
This is just the beginning and I am so fucking scared.
Be scared but don't let the chuds SEE you being scared.
Fuck that. That's what they want. They want fear and despair and I refuse to give it to them when I'm outside of my house.
The chuds usually get my "die where you stand motherfucker" look. I won't be showing them much.
Good on you! XD XD XD XD
Storm the Bastille I guess.