The Paradise Progressive

29/08/2025

FL Toplines:
AllAlc – fed fail, vigil grows, taxpayer cost, Homan’s hate, Texas camp – crosswalk resistance; DOGE v prop taxes; Jolly’s hope & change; FEMA’s survival; AG appt.

29/08/2025

AllAlc: Another federal attempt in court to keep the Collier County concentration camp open fails.

A federal judge in Miami is refusing to pause her order winding down the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” while the federal government appeals her ruling. “Defendants rehash the same general arguments about the importance of immigration enfor...

29/08/2025

AllAlc: A look at the growth of the weekly vigil outside the Collier County concentration camp.

Prayer vigil set for Aug. 31 outside immigrant detention camp in the Everglades

29/08/2025

AllAlc: A look at the fiscal aspects of Alligator Alcatraz.

Florida could be on the hook for the $218 million cost of converting an airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center that may soon be empty of detainees.

29/08/2025

AllAlc: The ICE czar expresses his displeasure...

The future of the makeshift prison is in doubt.

29/08/2025

AllAlc: If anyone had any doubt that Alligator Alcatraz was a model for concentration camps to come...

President Donald Trump's administration has awarded a $1.2 billion contract to a tiny Virginia company to build and operate what's expected to become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex at Fort Bliss in Texas.

29/08/2025

It's almost like it's a movement or something...

An emergency meeting is planned for Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale as that city and others across Florida are facing state orders to remove rainbow crosswalks by early next month. The state threatens to withhold funding if cities don't comply. These crosswalks celebrate LGBTQ pride and other causes.

29/08/2025

Bloomberg News Service concludes that Florida DOGE is just a dodge for its real purpose...

Ron DeSantis is seeking to complete his project of remaking Florida into a conservative paradise with perhaps his riskiest wager yet: a campaign to largely wipe out property taxes.

29/08/2025

Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly in St. Petersburg: "“No amount of money can stop a movement. I believe in the state of Florida, in this cycle, we have the opportunity to launch a political movement in the state that can’t be stopped."

Former congressman David Jolly believes he and his supporters “have the opportunity to launch a political movement in the state that can’t be stopped.”

29/08/2025

Faraway FEMA developments that could significantly affect Southwest Florida...

President Donald Trump has floated the idea of “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which manages federal disaster response.

29/08/2025

For the record...

It’s Slemp’s highest rank yet in a law career spanning more than a quarter century.

28/08/2025

FL Toplines:
AllAlc empty? Minn shooting reax; Ron’s dilemma; truck crash bashing; CFO v Orange County; FEMA warning; Ron v Chinese students; Jolly v GOP govs; SCOFL nixes Pulitzer ruling