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Alcatraz
May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Pam Bondi Hops on Board Trump’s Alcatraz Delusion Train
Donald Trump’s attorney general cracked a grim joke about reopening Alcatraz.
May 5, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Cognitive Decline? Trump Spews a Word Salad to Explain Alcatraz Idea.
Obviously this is a well-conceived plan by a very stable genius.
May 5, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Seems to Have Decided to Reopen Alcatraz Because of a Movie
Is this how the president of the United States is making major decisions now?
October 14, 2019
Nick Martin
The Fight to Occupy Alcatraz
On Columbus Day, Native activists are returning to the island. This time, they have partners in the establishment.
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