Madaleine
Wife, mom, grandma & gamer. We also have MPD/DID, so there's 14 of us in here. We love reading, writing & we sometimes play video games on Twitch, so come check us out. **NO DMs, please**
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- Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I stopped the mutilation of children. The mutilation. The word is mutilation. They mutilized, you know, mutilation of children."
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- "No one ever said mutilized before I did. I was the first, and they said I was the best to ever use the word. Mutilized. Think about that."
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- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Trump calls him “a failed, second rate actor” in 5, 4, 3,…
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- It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
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View full threadHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
- At first the Germans expressed disbelief, insisting "the SS isn't like that." Later they volced disgust, with one doctor saying it's the work of beasts." -Report on the forced tour of Ohrdruf that preceded said suicide
- Nobody is accepting the mayor and council’s weak statement, excuses that the deal is done, and that they had no knowledge of the purchase — They’ve been repeatedly called failures to the community and speakers keep recommending ways the City can take actionable steps to stop this concentration camp.
- A Dysart High School student who says she can see the warehouse from her neighborhood: “I get a pit in my stomach when I think about how in a few months I have to go to school knowing humans are screaming for help and not getting the rights they deserve.” It’s 11:15 PM.
- It’s almost 10:30 PM and speakers are still going. Still only 2 people who have spoken in favor of the camp. It’s been an incredibly emotional night, so many impassioned responses from the community.
- Surprise is west of Phoenix and has significantly grown over the last 20 years. Several speakers tonight have tearfully talked about the life they’ve built in the area as the children and grandchildren of the migrant field workers back when Surprise was just miles and miles of agricultural land.
- So far, only two have spoken up in favor of the concentration camp. The crowd booed the hell out of them. The mayor told people to stop booing and they booed him too.
- A Surprise resident said that, if this camp gets finalized, it will turn Surprise into an “epicenter of protests,” and lead to more death and more violence. “This doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard or anywhere in the United States.”
- A graduate from Dysart High School, the school across from the proposed concentration camp just spoke out against the facility, describing it as a “death camp.” They point out that Dysart High has a 60% Hispanic population. Another speaker said there are actually 9 schools in the nearby vicinity.
- Residents are chiding the council and mayor for saying they had no idea this facility was being bought by DHS. “It was your job to know,” said a speaker who called the council “failures.” Another said they wouldn’t be making these “we can’t do anything” excuses if it was a proposed homeless shelter.
- Shot from a window, theres definitely hundreds of protesters outside. People inside are starting to boo the other agenda items lmao
- Mayor Kevin Sartor read out this statement before public comment began. The number of people signed up to speak tonight increased to 160.
- The overflow room at the Surprise City Council meeting has also filled up (it has a 500 person capacity). I can’t tell how many are still outside but we can hear them chanting “ICE out” in here so it seems like quite a lot.
- For those who can’t be at the Surprise City Council meeting tonight, tune in live here:
- Most of the windows are not accessible by foot but the ones that are have been mostly covered. I found a section without covers — the inside is still empty but you can see the roll-up garage door leading to the next section of the facility. The back of each section also has huge roll-up doors.
- There are hundreds of people trickling into the Surprise City Council meeting. The main room has filled up, and the overflow room is filling up atm. A crowd of protesters is also outside the building. 130 people have signed up to speak (and that’s just folks who live in Surprise).
- Tonight will be the first Surprise City Council meeting since the Jan. 23rd sale. According to the City, federal projects are not subject to local zoning regulations. They also claim they were unaware of the purchase.
- The meeting is adjourned. Mayor Kevin Sartor ended the long meeting by saying “We hear you, we have a lot to consider and your voices are impactful and powerful.” Surprise showed tf up. The overflow room filled + hundreds outside. It ended with only 2 speakers in favor of the ICE camp.
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- Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano And Her Mother Released The 10-year-old Minnesota girl was released from ICE custody after a month in detention in Dilley, Texas She and Liam Conejo Ramos were released, but hundreds of children remain at the facility. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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- they're really testing god here
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