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Jennifer Combs was arrested after making claims in a Facebook post that residents had been hospitalized after consuming the water in Trinidad.

Trinidad officials confirmed that the city has been having water issues, but wouldn't say if anyone had been hospitalized. 

Combs has since filed a lawsuit against the city and several officials, claiming the arrest was an act of "political retaliation."

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I saw that but was there any corroboration or just a random blog on the internet ?

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I hadn't heard of it before the above post but a quick ~~google~~ duckduckgo search suggests "mostly factual with a bit of extrapolation", links I found here

TL;DR - 55bn in concentration camps is true, it's also true some of those camps have incinerators for bio-waste. Whether that means they're for Auschwitz style mass crematoriums is unknown (and to be realistic it's not something they would explicitly document if it were true).

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/politics/government/critics-modern-nazi-concentration-camp-repurposed-55b-us-navy-contracts-to-build-detention-facilities/ar-AA1W4x70

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/detention-centers-warehouses-death-camps-incinerators-claims-a58543

https://healthranger.substack.com/p/blueprint-for-genocide-the-trump

https://migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pentagon-is-quietly-building

etc

EDIT I use google as a verb, but after their recent changes I think I'd better differentiate

[–] markko@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

To your edit, I just use "search". It's generic and it's shorter

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seems it's several blogs and tweets with nothing else.

[–] Entropy_Pyre@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I ran into this about a year ago.

The company is Matthews Environmental Services. There was a DHS convention with several companies in 2025, including the ones that sold the pop-up concentration camps. Whether or not Matthews received a contract or not, I don’t know, but they were listed on the convention site. They advertised turning biowaste into fuel—but if you look into them more you can find a YouTube video of them advertising cremation and perfect extraction of valuable medical devices and other metals from grandma’s body. It’s also worth mentioning that Curtis Yarvin promoted doing exactly this sort of thing with undesirables, and there are those who seem to venerate him even now.

I think we’d know if anything was happening at scale, but every time a detainee goes missing, I admit I do wonder.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I know who Yarvin is, but had not come across Mathews. I can't find anything concrete in a search, but I'll keep an eye open.