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“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.

The List: 29 ICE and Border Patrol Agents Who Committed Violent and Sexual Crimes

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Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security likes to claim that every immigrant is a criminal. But a new list shows the real criminals work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol. Said Lynn Tramonte, Executive Director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, “As the government pushes to hire new agents rapidly, background checks and vetting processes are being tossed aside. How many more predators are in the process of joining these federal agencies? No one knows, and that is terrifying.” 

Matter News Community Conversations: United Against Anduril

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Thursday, January 22, 2026, 7:00 PM
Two Dollar Radio Headquarters, 1124 Parsons Ave., Columbus, 43206

The construction of Anduril’s Arsenal-1 manufacturing facility has drawn together diverse voices in opposition, from environmentalists and affected neighbors to pro-Palestine and anti-war activists.  

Join Kat Finneran of No Anduril Plant, Prince Shakur of the Dugout, and Baladna’s Yezen Abusharkh for an inside look at the coalition drawing attention to the plant’s wide-ranging impact.

 

The Government from Hell

Judging from opinion polls, the American public has increasingly become largely disenchanted with the bizarre behavior of President Donald J Trump and the clownish entourage that surrounds and encourages him. Last week featured a meeting between Trump and the foreign minister of Denmark as well as his counterpart from Greenland’s legislative assembly. The meeting did not resolve the issue of Trump’s “unacceptable” demand that the United States must have ownership of Greenland, “buying it” if necessary, to maintain its national security against possible invasion coming from Russian and Chinese ships that, per Trump incorrectly, are already infesting Arctic waters to the north. To support his position, Trump has now announced that he is considering punishing with tariffs all countries that do not agree with his position on Greenland, which would be something akin to Washington committing international suicide.

The Open Society in the Age of Vulgar Imperialism

Karl Popper once argued that the defining virtue of democracy lies not in expressing a collective will or fulfilling a historical destiny, but in something more modest—and more radical: fallibility. A democratic society, in Popper’s view, is one that accepts its own capacity for error. It builds institutions that allow rulers to be removed without violence, policies to be revised without catastrophe, and political conflict to unfold through open debate rather than force. Democracy matters not because it guarantees truth or justice, but because it institutionalizes the possibility of being wrong.

This vision of the open society remains one of the most compelling defenses of liberal democracy. Yet today, it is colliding with political and economic realities it was never designed to withstand. Across much of the world, the procedures of democracy persist in form while their substance erodes under mounting inequality, imperial coercion, and authoritarian drift. The result is not simply democratic decline, but democratic hollowing—institutions that survive even as their capacity for self-correction withers.

Putin Has Put Ukraine---and the World---At the Brink of Atomic Apocalypse

Vladimir Putin is at the brink of igniting multiple global-scale atomic catastrophes at as many as 19 nuclear power plants in Ukraine.  

Putin’s primary stated goal is to deprive Ukraine of electricity, freezing and starving it in the dark.  

But as Newsweek has just reported: “The International Atomic Energy Agency said electrical substations ‘vital for nuclear safety’ were affected by the massive Russian strike on Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, leading the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to lose all of its off-site power. Other Ukrainian nuclear power plants were also impacted when their power lines were disrupted, the nuclear watchdog said.”

Israeli Knesset Approves a Law to Execute 9,300 Palestinian Hostages

A new Israeli law calls for all Palestinian hostages including children to be executed by hanging, electric chair, and/or poison has been passed. It would be carried out after 90 days of passing laws with no right for an appeal. The law also applies to 20 Lebanese hostages taken in Lebanon last year but the law does not apply to Israeli lawless settlers or IDF terrorist soldiers who murdered Palestinians.

Israel is currently holding about 9,300 Palestinian hostages for many years without charges or trial. 5,000 of them were detained in Gaza during the war while the others were arrested during raids in the West Bank or at checkpoint or re-arrested released prisoners.  

These people are illegally held and they deserve the right to freedom from the Israeli concentration camps. Basic element of democracy required Israel to either charge or release them immediately.

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