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.

Vigil for Alex Pretti and all victims of ICE terror

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Sunday, February 1, 2026, 1:00-2:30pm
Weinland Park Shelter House, 1280 Summit Street

Join in showing appreciation for Alex's courage and the others murderd by ICE.

Peachy Fraud

ICE Out of Everywhere

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Saturday, January 31, 2pm
Westervile ICE Field Office, 675 Brooksedge Blvd.

COLUMBUS! Meet us at the Westerville Field Office, Saturday Jan 31 at 2pm! 50501 calls for a national day of action, we LISTEN!

It’s going to be COLD, but that didn’t stop over 102,000 OSU fans from filling the shoe to watch Tennessee lose. Let’s go!

Scroll through the slides for safety and protest information! National’s slide at the end!

Sponsored by 50501. We are a nonviolent movement dedicated to inclusivity and conflict resolution.

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ICE Out! Nationwide Shutdown

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Friday, January 30
Statehouse rally - 3pm

Enough is enough!

No Work, No School, No Shopping.

No ICE funding!

The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN.

On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping. 

The entire country is shocked and outraged at the brutal killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents. While Trump and other right wing politicians are slandering them as “terrorists”, the video evidence makes it clear beyond all doubt: they were gunned down in broad daylight simply for exercising their First Amendment right to protest mass deportation. Every day, ICE, Border Patrol and other enforcers of Trump’s racist agenda are going into our communities to kidnap our neighbors and sow fear. It is time for us to all stand up together in a nationwide shutdown and say enough is enough!

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The Reborn “Witch of Buchenwald” Must Go

Ilse Koch loved to dress up in odd, fancy costumes while she pranced through the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald, Poland., in the early 1940s

As the wife of the Kommandant, she reportedly loved walking bare-breasted between lines of male inmates, ordering the death of any who might look at her in a way that displeased her.  It was further said she loved fancy tattoos, and would kill those whose decorations she liked so she could strip their skins to use as lampshades and book covers.

Such stories have been widely questioned.  But American Col. Richard Denson described this “Witch of Buchenwald” at one of her trials---where she was sentenced to life in prison---as "no woman in the usual sense but a creature from some other tortured world."[3]

Some MAGAs today deny the obvious parallels between Trump and the Nazis.

But when Vice President JD Vance  called Donald “America’s Hitler” he may have meant it as wishful thinking.

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