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senseandsensibility

(25,659 posts) Sat Jul 12, 2025, 02:32 PM Jul 2025

These detainees are living in cages....32 individuals per cage...3 tiny toilets [View all]

per cage... Debbie Wasserman Schultz just now after touring Alligator Alcatraz. She said they drink and brush their teeth out of the same water as they poop. This is close to an exact quote.

This was a live press conference on MSNBC a few seconds ago, but Alex Witt interrupted it after the second or third sentence. It was BREAKING NEWS!!!

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These detainees are living in cages....32 individuals per cage...3 tiny toilets [View all] senseandsensibility Jul 2025 OP

Shut it down, release those interned there wendyb-NC Jul 2025 #1

We're becoming a totalitarian state Dave says Jul 2025 #11

WTF! Baitball Blogger Jul 2025 #2

Yup senseandsensibility Jul 2025 #3

Overton Window shifted right Dave says Jul 2025 #12

and said disease will spread beyond the facility MadameButterfly Jul 2025 #18

It's insane and it's what they have in a lot of prisons mucifer Jul 2025 #26

They "drink and brush their teeth out of the "same water as they poop.""? AZJonnie Jul 2025 #4

The camp was built in 8 days. Baitball Blogger Jul 2025 #6

According to another accounting of what she said, it was this: AZJonnie Jul 2025 #21

I heard it live and tried to transcribe it senseandsensibility Jul 2025 #23

Totally all good, I don't know which account to believe now lol AZJonnie Jul 2025 #24

In many jails, including the one where markodochartaigh Jul 2025 #9

Makes sense. That is different from the insinuation made by the quote AZJonnie Jul 2025 #10

I agree, we should markodochartaigh Jul 2025 #22

we pitch and moan about other countries abuses , now e are doing it and not allowed to cover this nor AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #5

We are no longer the gold standard for human rights. Baitball Blogger Jul 2025 #7

We never have been JustAnotherGen Jul 2025 #8

We exited that stage a long time ago Dave says Jul 2025 #15

These camps were built for you and I Johnny2X2X Jul 2025 #13

You are right Dave says Jul 2025 #16

I'm inclined to think that the fresh water wells are shallow. taxi Jul 2025 #14

Humans meant for slavery in the American south were treated the same way Marthe48 Jul 2025 #17

I am sickened at what this country has become. And yet, if I listen to the endless blather on cable news - yeah it's ba Nanjeanne Jul 2025 #19

Alex twit...not ready for primetime. spanone Jul 2025 #20

From the administration that's suing California for its free-range chickens comes 32 Men in a Cage. Efilroft Sul Jul 2025 #25

International courts like The Hague and others need to prosecute this administration for torture and inhumane kimbutgar Jul 2025 #27

Omg Demovictory9 Jul 2025 #28