{"id":300221,"date":"2025-08-11T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=300221"},"modified":"2025-07-31T02:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:23:25","slug":"a-totally-normal-thing-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/a-totally-normal-thing-to-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Totally Normal Thing to Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>30 Jul 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While I was at the gym, I saw a man on the machine next to me wearing an Alligator Alcatraz T-shirt, and while most things don\u2019t politically supine me anymore this really did. That shirt is merch for a literal concentration camp. The people being held there aren\u2019t criminals who were found guilty in a court\u2014 they are people whom Trump has deemed undesirable. And now that five more sites have been approved in several other states, the situation is only getting worse. It\u2019s honestly terrifying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concentration-camp-cartoon.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-300222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concentration-camp-cartoon-1024x773.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concentration-camp-cartoon-1024x773.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concentration-camp-cartoon-300x226.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concentration-camp-cartoon-768x580.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concentration-camp-cartoon.webp 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Racket-Cartoons-daniel-medina-e1678774481899.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-231508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Racket-Cartoons-daniel-medina-e1678774481899.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Daniel Medina &#8211; My cartoons stand up firmly against racism, xenophobia, hate bigotry, and ignorance. Regardless of the political party one belongs to, if you try to take advantage of the people, you will not be safe from my pen. Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:contactdanielmedinacomics@gmail.com\"><em>contactdanielmedinacomics@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/racketcartoons.substack.com\/p\/a-total-normal-thing-to-sell?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=549592&amp;post_id=169618712&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=b6biw&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" >Go to Original \u2013 racketcartoons.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the gym, I saw a man on the machine next to me wearing an Alligator Alcatraz T-shirt. That shirt is merch for a literal concentration camp. The people being held there aren\u2019t criminals who were found guilty in a court\u2014 they are people whom Trump has deemed undesirable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1753,1012,883,2759,249,70],"class_list":["post-300221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-concentration-camps","tag-food-for-thought-editorial-cartoon","tag-migrants","tag-prisons","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300224,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300221\/revisions\/300224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}