Rep. Jim Clyburn Offers A Historical Warning
05 Dec 2025
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The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, released a new survey this week in an attempt to...
Hegseth Takes His “Secretary of War” Title Too Seriously
04 Dec 2025
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been under fire for his continually evolving explanations and bla...
President Trump Is Disconnected From His Beloved Base
03 Dec 2025
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President Trump is old, and it shows. But in his second term in the White House, he's not just old –...
With Next Phase Of Ceasefire Unclear, Gazans Brace For Winter
02 Dec 2025
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It's been nearly two months since the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas went into...
Trump Capitalizes On The National Guard Shooting
01 Dec 2025
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Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot just a few blocks away from the White Hous...
Protecting The Franchise: How Can We Secure Our Elections?
26 Nov 2025
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Fear is mounting about the integrity of next year’s elections and all the tricks MAGA World might ...
The Tennessee Democrat Fighting The MAGA Machine
25 Nov 2025
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Congress is not exactly a barrel of fun at the best of times. Still, after the unexpected exit of Ge...
MAGA Threats Made Him Leave The Country
24 Nov 2025
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A lot happened while we were off this weekend, from President Donald Trump's overly friendly meeting...
Trump's Grift Goes Global
21 Nov 2025
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From $400 million planes to $300 million ballrooms, from cryptocurrency to just plain… currency, P...
US Absent From Global Climate Conference
20 Nov 2025
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For the last two weeks, a critically important climate conference has been taking place in Belem, Br...
"Things Happen": Trump Goes All In On MBS
19 Nov 2025
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President Donald Trump joyously welcomed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, also known...
The U.S. Takes Aim At Venezuela
18 Nov 2025
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This week, President Donald Trump told reporters that he would be willing to hold talks with Venezue...
Were There Any Winners In The Government Shutdown?
17 Nov 2025
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The longest government shutdown in American history ended last week, thanks to 8 Senate Democrats gi...
Make America What Again? Policy Priorities For A Progressive Future
15 Nov 2025
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Good policy is good politics, or so the saying goes. So, uh, how do we agree on what that is? Jane ...
Scam Calls Are Getting Worse: Here's Why
14 Nov 2025
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This week, a court filing showed that the Trump Administration has declared the current funding stru...
The Government Reopens — To More Epstein Chaos
13 Nov 2025
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The House returned on Wednesday and ended the longest shutdown in government history. House Republic...
Misread the Moment: Rep. McBride On Senate Democrats
12 Nov 2025
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The government shutdown is inching closer to an end as members of the House of Representatives retur...
Sen. Sanders Slams The Surrender Dems
11 Nov 2025
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Monday night, the Senate passed legislation to reopen the government, sending it to the House. The e...
Inside the Deal to End the Shutdown
10 Nov 2025
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On Sunday evening, senators from both parties reached a deal that could bring an end to the governme...
If Not A Recession, Why Does It Feel Like One?
07 Nov 2025
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After Tuesday’s election results, everyone seems to have gotten the message that affordability is ...
Is Trump About To Lose His Trade War?
06 Nov 2025
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It was a big day for President Donald Trump as the Supreme Court heard arguments on his power to imp...
Dems Win Big: A Midterm Preview?
05 Nov 2025
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Tuesday was Election Day and Democrats won big! Voters in New York City elected Democratic Socialist...
Chicago Fights Back
04 Nov 2025
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A federal judge once again blocked the Trump Administration from sending the National Guard to Portl...
The GOP's Anti-Semitic Turn
03 Nov 2025
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Last week, former Fox News host and conservative pundit Tucker Carlson invited white supremacist and...
Will Trump's Trade Truce With China Last?
31 Oct 2025
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President Donald Trump announced a trade truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a 90-minute m...
The Redistricting Game
30 Oct 2025
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A Virginia judge allowed the state’s Democrats to pursue a redistricting plan on Wednesday that wo...
Is This Mamdani's Moment
29 Oct 2025
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Highly anticipated elections are happening across the country on Tuesday. In states from California ...
The Price of Care: Fixing The ACA
28 Oct 2025
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The main issue keeping the government closed is healthcare — specifically, the enhanced Affordable...
The Reality of Being An American Farmer Right Now
27 Oct 2025
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Chinese and American negotiators announced on Sunday that they had agreed to a “framework of a dea...
FBI Takes Down NBA-Mafia Gambling Ring
24 Oct 2025
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On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced over 30 indictments as part of a massive investigatio...
The Key to Unlocking the Epstein Files
23 Oct 2025
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With the government shutdown in its third week, the House of Representatives is still out of session...
Trump’s Deadly Attacks in the Caribbean Sea
22 Oct 2025
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Since the start of September, President Donald Trump has ordered a series of lethal strikes on boats...
This Supreme Court Could Change The Future of Elections
21 Oct 2025
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In two weeks, millions of Americans will be voting — but a Supreme Court case could change electio...
Over 7 Million Americans Protested Against Trump
20 Oct 2025
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Millions of Americans were in the streets over the weekend, rallying against President Donald Trump ...
America Has No Kings
17 Oct 2025
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This weekend, people across the country are taking to the streets for the second iteration of the “...
Rural Healthcare Is At Stake In The Shutdown Fight
16 Oct 2025
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A federal judge halted the Trump administration’s efforts to get rid of roughly 4,000 federal work...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Sounds Like A Democrat Lately
15 Oct 2025
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As the government shutdown chugs along, cracks form within the GOP. The biggest crack? Georgia Repub...
Your Shutdown Outrage Won’t Change The Next Election
14 Oct 2025
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Week two of the government shutdown isn't proving to be any more successful than week one. In fact, ...
Trump Is Prosecuting His Enemies
13 Oct 2025
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Things have been moving fast since President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social last month QUOTE: "...
What A Week!
10 Oct 2025
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This week has been… a lot. On Thursday, Israel’s cabinet approved the first phase of a peace agr...
Trump's War And Peace Plans
09 Oct 2025
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In September, after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump signed ...
Will SCOTUS Greenlight Trump’s Worst Ideas?
08 Oct 2025
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The new Supreme Court term started on Monday, and the justices have a lot on their plates. They’ll...
Fed Versus Blue
07 Oct 2025
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For the past four months, President Donald Trump has been sending the National Guard into cities tha...
The Politics Of 'AI Slop'
06 Oct 2025
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Even if you don’t know what “AI slop” is, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered it basi...
What Happens When We Can’t Rely On Federal Data
03 Oct 2025
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Because of the government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will not release its monthly unem...
Trump's Shutdown, Your Problem
02 Oct 2025
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It's Day 2 of the government shutdown. And we'd like to note that despite the government closing sho...
How Trump Wants To Wield The Shutdown
01 Oct 2025
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Well, the Government has shut down and, as of Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump didn’t sou...
Dems Throw Down For Health Care
30 Sep 2025
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Is the government about to shut down? Congressional leaders and the White House appear to be at an i...
How To Survive Online Speech Wars Without Self-Censorship
29 Sep 2025
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Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a wave of everyday people have be...
Dems Are Primed For Shutdown Fight
26 Sep 2025
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We’ve been on quite the journey with our First Amendment-guaranteed right to free speech, haven’...
Trump Takes Down US Immigration System
25 Sep 2025
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The machinery of mass deportations has been operating both in plain sight and out of view since Pres...
Trump Dumps Putin?
24 Sep 2025
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the brutal war has cost millions of lives. But President Donal...
Dr. Trump’s Bad Medicine
23 Sep 2025
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., noted anti-vaxxer and, apparently, part-t...
The Big Business Behind The Kimmel Suspension
22 Sep 2025
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On Friday we learned that according to President Donald Trump, when coverage is negative, "It's no l...
Trump’s War On Free Speech
19 Sep 2025
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Democrats on the Hill are hitting back after ABC suspended "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely. They’...
How NOT To Run The FBI
18 Sep 2025
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The investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk has raised a lot of questions – not just ...
What The FBI Doesn’t Understand About Online Extremism
17 Sep 2025
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FBI Director Kash Patel spoke on Tuesday about a massive rise in the number of investigations into s...
What Did Trump’s DC Police Takeover Accomplish?
16 Sep 2025
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Memphis, Tennessee, is the latest city in President Donald Trump's Crime Takeover-A-Go-Go. On Monday...
Shutdown Showdown, Part [We've Lost Count]
15 Sep 2025
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The clock is ticking until the federal government runs out of money and potentially shuts down—aga...
Political Violence In America
12 Sep 2025
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The search for a suspect in Charlie Kirk's death continues. The FBI released some grainy photos of a...
Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk Killed In Utah
11 Sep 2025
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On Wednesday, 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an on-campus...
Chicago Teachers Fight To Keep ICE Out Of Schools
10 Sep 2025
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Millions of kids have started school over the past few weeks – that includes students in Los Angel...
Laura Loomer's Rise To The Top
09 Sep 2025
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Say what you will about President Donald Trump’s first administration, but at least some of the pe...
Georgia To Vote On Energy Costs
08 Sep 2025
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A crucial race for Georgia's Public Service Commission is coming up in November. And though the name...
How Trump's Hatred For Windmills Is Hurting All Of Us
05 Sep 2025
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President Donald Trump really, really, really hates wind and solar power. He made sure to make that ...
Senator Van Hollen On Epstein: Release The Damn Files!
04 Sep 2025
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Congress is back. It’s back and it has a lot of work to do. If Congress doesn’t fund the governm...
Putin Cozies Up To Modi And Xi
03 Sep 2025
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and held hands with Indian Prime...
Chicago Caught In The Trump Administration's Crosshairs
02 Sep 2025
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The Trump administration is preparing a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Chica...
Introducing Shadow Kingdom: Coal Survivor
01 Sep 2025
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The What A Day team is off. But we’re excited to bring you the first episode of Season 2 of Crooke...
Cash Bail Keeps People In Jail
29 Aug 2025
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This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending cash bail in Washington ...
Why Conservatism Is Dead In The Trump Era
28 Aug 2025
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President Donald Trump’s administration is full of sycophants. That was made quite apparent this w...
Three Signs Of The Trumpification Of The Economy
27 Aug 2025
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In the federal government’s latest excursion into the private sector, the US announced last week t...
Trump's Trolling Weakens Polling
26 Aug 2025
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A lot has happened so far since President Donald Trump took office for a second term, but one thing ...
What Do Liberals Actually Believe?
25 Aug 2025
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Third Way, a center-left think tank, released a list of words it thinks Democrats should stop using ...
Why We’re In A Redistricting Race To The Bottom
22 Aug 2025
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On Thursday, California lawmakers passed a redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats up to five ...
The Smithsonian Gets The Trump Edit
21 Aug 2025
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The White House announced it's leading a "comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian muse...
Does Washington, D.C. Need Federal Intervention?
20 Aug 2025
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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced it's launching a much-needed and super important inv...
The AI Chatbot Childhood Is Officially Here
19 Aug 2025
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The conversation surrounding artificial intelligence in the US is hard to avoid right now. Powerful ...
What It’s Like To Have Trump Hold Your Science Research Hostage
18 Aug 2025
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The Trump administration’s crackdown on universities across the country for alleged antisemitism h...
The White House's Mob Boss Approach To AI Chips
15 Aug 2025
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Nvidia, a U.S.-based chip manufacturer that's now the richest company on earth, has agreed to pay th...
Can Trump Broker Peace With Putin?
14 Aug 2025
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Ancho...
Baltimore Mayor Responds To Trump Bashing His City
13 Aug 2025
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National Guard troops began showing up on the streets of the nation's capital overnight, a little mo...
Netanyahu's War Expansion Plan
12 Aug 2025
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing massive backlash — both domestic and international —...
80 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, New Nuclear Threats Emerge
11 Aug 2025
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President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week to d...
RFK Jr. Is Putting American Lives At Risk
08 Aug 2025
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If you got a COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna or Pfizer, congratulations, you got a vaccine that use...
The Truth About El Salvador's Mega Prison
07 Aug 2025
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We’re starting to hear the horror stories from some of the Venezuelan men who the Trump Administra...
The Voting Rights Act Is Again Under Attack
06 Aug 2025
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The Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during t...
Amid Bad Jobs Report, Trump White House Leans Into Politics
05 Aug 2025
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The fallout from President Donald Trump’s decision last week to fire the head of the Bureau of Lab...
How The Israeli Far Right And Netanyahu Embolden Each Other
04 Aug 2025
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Gaza Friday ...
Why Red And Blue States Are Waging A Redistricting War
01 Aug 2025
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Republicans in the Texas State House released their plans to redraw the state’s congressional map ...
Loyalty Over Competence At Trump's Justice Department
31 Jul 2025
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove as a federal appeals court judge, a lifetime appointment t...
Trump's Tariff Deadline Is Two Days Away
30 Jul 2025
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Friday is President Donald Trump’s alleged tariff deadline, the day when dozens of countries eithe...
All Eyes On Gaza As Hunger Crisis Grows
29 Jul 2025
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Global outrage is building as the hunger crisis in Gaza descends into new depths of horror. Even aid...
New EPA To Argue Greenhouse Gases Are Totally Fine
28 Jul 2025
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Sometime this week, the Trump Administration is expected to launch an assault on one of the major co...
Immigration Lawyer Details Horrific Conditions at ICE Detention Centers
25 Jul 2025
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The Trump Administration is quickly ramping up its efforts to arrest and deport as many undocumented...
Trump Targets Obama, Deflects From Epstein
24 Jul 2025
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While pressure mounts on the White House to release documents related to the late convicted sex offe...
Mike Johnson Staves Off Epstein Vote
23 Jul 2025
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House lawmakers will start their Summer break a few days early today, vacating the capital until Sep...
A Look At Trump And Epstein's History
22 Jul 2025
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Despite President Donald Trump's best efforts, his administration can't escape the conspiracies swir...
How AI Is Weaponizing Voicemail
21 Jul 2025
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As artificial intelligence programs become more widely accessible, so too do increasingly sophistica...
Inside 'Alligator Alcatraz' with Rep. Maxwell Frost
18 Jul 2025
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Alligator Alcatraz, a pop-up immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, has been touted...