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What with Trump-troopers gassing babies in self-defense, Gavin Newsom teaming up with Peter Thiel to protect billionaires from society, and data centers under attack from thirsty malcontents saying water is wasted on data, it’s no surprise that Boss Tweet wants to deport citizens. Aliens. Illegals. Except maybe Melania.
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Monday, January 19, 2026 - 11:00am
Clever Bee Academy, 1977 Cleveland Ave. Columbus, OH 43211
Join us as we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and continue the work of unity, justice, and community.
March begins at 12PM
MLK Ceremony at 1PM
Ending at Clarence Lumpkin Point of Pride
(Corner of Cleveland Ave & 11th Ave)
Dress for weather, if you're not able to walk the distance you are welcome to drive!
Keynote Speaker: Brian Winston
For more info: 614-402-6875
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In the trailer for All That’s Left of You, there is a brief image of orange trees and heavy machinery. For many, it may pass unnoticed. For me, it opened a wound that has never fully closed.
My great-grandfather Ahmad Sulieman Qutiefan owned an orange grove in Beit Nabala (Bayt Nabala), a Palestinian village just nine miles from Yaffa. Those oranges were not inherited wealth. He planted them himself, beginning as a child, after his own father passed away. Knowing his family depended on him, he stepped into responsibility early, planting tree after tree, tending the land with care and pride. The grove became his life’s work. He nurtured it daily, believing it would one day sustain his children and his children’s children.
He never imagined that it could simply be taken.
The ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is the latest in a string of deaths related to ICE raids, traffic stops, and detention facilities. Last year 32 people died in ICE custody―the most in more than two decades. Border Patrol agents have also shot, wounded, and killed civilians during Trump’s mass deportation raids. ICE and Border patrol agents are bullies who intimidate, and attack people based on the color of their skin, the language they speak, or the accents they have. They’ve also shot and killed people in their cars and used deadly weapons against bystanders and people who are standing up for their neighbors.
Saturday, January 17 - noon
East North Broadway and High Streets
Watch: Medical neglect in Butler County Jail, an ICE contract facility (Spectrum News)
In early January, Geraldo Lunas Campos died in civil immigration jail in Texas, choked to death by a guard. Last year, 32 people died in immigration jail, making 2025 the deadliest year since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was founded. Despite the dangers, the Trump administration continues to rapidly grow the nation’s civil immigration system, with help from Congress and some county sheriffs.
“It’s about time,” was my first reaction when I saw the headline on Michelle Goldberg’s column saying “The Right is Furious with Liberal White Women.” This has been an uncontrollable thunderstorm steadily building in ferocity for years. Conservatives have known for a long time that this was a huge problem and have ignored it at their peril. Truthfully, it’s worse that just liberal white women, because they are losing women, one demographic at a time, on one issue after another. Let’s be honest. When you lose women, it’s just a matter of time before you lose everything.
I know something about liberal white women. I was raised by southern women, which is a whole different problem. If you combine that with politics, right or left, it’s “Katie, bar the door” and no surrender until it’s the last man standing. I’ve worked alongside women my whole career, both liberal and progressive, and there’s not much space between those poles, it just a matter of degree before something makes them explode. They never forget, and forgiving can be equally rare.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan play the greatest hits of Mitch Ryder.
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