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Is Ice Trump’s Gestapo?

“Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine.”

The words are those of Renee Good’s wife Becca. They cut to our heart – our humanity. She was shot in the face by an ICE agent, who then muttered: “Fuckin’ bitch.” The murder of this 37-year-old mom as she tried to drive around the ICE guys who stopped her is national news, of course. Almost everyone has seen at least one of the many videos of the incident and, you might say, the national dialogue about virtually anything else has been put on hold.

Free Press is committed to documenting the people taken by ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested, detained, deported, and/or imprisoned many people that it has unilaterally determined to be undesirables.  At first, they claimed they would deport only criminals, but it has already gone beyond that.  We at the Free Press consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide.  It appears the government will revoke Visa's to get rid of undesirable students.  This article will be updated as long as is necessary.

Familiar tale gracefully blends feminism and fantasy

Feminism has a crucial role to play in modern life, but I sometimes wish it would leave our fairy tales alone. The results of its revisionist meddling are too often unconvincing and unsatisfying.

Remember last year’s Maleficent? It turned an age-old story on its head by revealing that the fairy (Angelina Jolie) who turned a princess into a “Sleeping Beauty” was not evil at all. No, she was merely wronged and misunderstood. Worst of all, we learned that the somnambulant princess could not be awakened by a kiss from the handsome prince, but only by a motherly peck from that same fairy.

How heartwarming. And how utterly unromantic.

Thank goodness Disney’s new live-action version of Cinderella doesn’t wear its feminism on its sleeve. It has nods to modern sensibilities, to be sure, but they’re handled with a lighter touch.

A leaked video from an ICE detention site

This video, from Substack "Kathy" should be required viewing.  Please log onto Substack to view.  https://substack.com/@parislychee/note/c-204980477

 

Jesus Christ. This is Israel to the fucking ‘T’. Palestine is the laboratory. Now it's home in the good ol’ fucking USofA.

A leaked video from an ICE detention site shows fifty human beings jammed into a single cell with no beds, no bathrooms, nothing. Some of them are U.S. citizens.

"They hit his face. They beat him until he can no longer stand."

"They have been here more than ten days without bathing and enduring hunger."

"Look how they have us here. Look at what kind of immigration they have us under, people who are legal, people who are not legal, people who are losing their families, they are kidnapping us."

ICE is only supposed to use cells like this for short-term processing, not to run secret long-term holding sites in the shadows.

The footage was recorded inside the ICE Baltimore Field Office at 31 Hopkins Plaza in Baltimore, Maryland.

Meet the Pakistani man who helped save a homeless woman found frozen outside

A homeless woman named Bobbi was found frozen outside a South Fort Worth, Texas Food Mart during a winter storm. Store manager Farris Hussain intervened by lifting her from the ground and carrying her inside to warm up until help arrived. This quick action likely prevented a life-threatening situation. Hussain jumped into action after a customer walked into the store and yelled that Bobbi is outside frozen.
 
The Fort Worth Fire Department confirmed that emergency crews responded to the scene and paramedics took Bobbi to a hospital for further care. The incident highlights the importance of community support and the role of frontline workers in ensuring the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals during extreme weather conditions.
 
Hussain told CBS News affiliate in Fort Worth, Texas, "She felt as stiff as a rock," he said, "I mean it was.

Another MAGA Flip-Flop

Blame Abigail

When History Stops Asking Questions

Alex Pretti

History rarely turns on arguments. It turns on moments people cannot unsee.

A photograph. A short video. A few seconds that settle in the mind and refuse to leave. These are the moments when debate stops and something heavier takes its place. Not opinion, but
recognition.

The killing of Alex Pretti during an encounter with ICE agents appears to be one of those moments.

The images circulating do not feel chaotic. They do not feel unclear. They do not show panic, aggression, or a scene spinning out of control. What they show is restraint on one side and lethal force on the other. That imbalance is immediately visible, and it is why the images carry so much weight.

This article is about why certain moments, moments like this, cut through the noise while others fade. It is about why discipline, restraint, and dignity have always carried more power than outrage ever could.

What the Moment Demands

Street encounters are not remembered for what was said. They are remembered for how people stood, or sat, or knelt.

FCC Equal Time: Promise or a Threat?

Kimmel

The equal time provisions under decades of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) actions have largely been eroded and haphazardly enforced, if all. Ostensibly, provisions still exist on the books as statute and via FCC regulations. “Under section 315, if a broadcast station permits any legally qualified candidate for public office to use its facilities, it shall provide an equal opportunity to all other legally qualified candidates for that office.”

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