Cable news people call them “prison camps” or “Trump prison camps,” but look in any dictionary: prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held. As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is:

“[A]n institution for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes.”

But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:

“[A] place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”

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    Every major media outlet is controlled by someone that is a member of the Epstein club.

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      And daily reminder for everyone: just because they caught Epstein doesn’t mean this sort of shit stopped. It just passed to new management.

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      You might be right about that. There were only a handful or two before this recent round of consolidations already.

      The NYTimes is fucked Israel broke their brain somehow, I don’t think they’ve broken a single story, probably too busy worrying about, antisemitism, as defined by opposing fascists pursuing a final solution.

      Washington post is worse than before and they were quite bad already. WSJ is murdoch owned, none of the city papers are very popular and aggressive.

      All the networks are garbage, seemingly half owned by Ellison now. The tech giants are all aligned with the administration. What else is there? There are some good periodicals, like magazines, that have integrity and are not sold out to the epstein club, but no major daily news outfit that I can think, no major network, none of the tech giants. None of the social media even pretends to not cheat for the administration, tik tok now being subordinated to Israel.