4PM - DECEMBER 20, 2025

Columbus Liberation Center, 1004 Parsons Ave.

The people of Columbus are coming together to fight back against ICE’s assault on our immigrant neighbors and coworkers in a mass meeting held at the Columbus Liberation Center. Endorsed by organizations across Columbus, including the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Ohio, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, ICE Out of Cbus, Muslim American Society - Columbus, and local leaders like Rep. Munira Abdullahi, the meeting builds on the actions that community members have already taken against ICE since they descended on our city. We will discuss why and how we must organize to get ICE out of Columbus. 

Olivia Rowland, an organizer with ICE Out of Cbus, said: “It’s clear that these ICE attacks, which follow President Donald Trump’s despicable comments regarding our Somali neighbors, are meant to cause fear and terror. The ruling class wants to divide us to distract us from the real issues facing all workers. This mass meeting will show that we are united, and we will fight back. We won’t stop until ICE is out of Columbus!”

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S.-trained Royal Thai Navy is gearing up to stop all Thai ships in the Gulf of Thailand transporting fuel and military supplies to Cambodia, the first major use of the artillery-firing navy in the five-month-long border war.

The U.S. Seventh Fleet uses the Gulf of Thailand when its aircraft carriers and other vessels dock near Bangkok at Sattahip port where Thailand's First Naval Area Command is based to secure the gulf, which is peppered with inhabited Thai and Cambodian islands, navy facilities, and oil rigs.

In addition to intercepting Thai ships, including fishing and commercial vessels, the navy said it would stop Thai-owned ships sailing under foreign flags and registrations, if they are suspected of transporting fuel, weapons, ammunition, or other military equipment across the gulf to reach Cambodia's south coast.

Thai shipping companies facilitating their travel, vessels' owners, suppliers, chandlers and others linked to Thai ships violating the ban would also be held responsible, officials said.

One year into Trump 2.0, he’s gaining speed on his sled down the mountain.

“A Washington Post average of national polls so far in December found that 39 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing, compared with 57 percent who disapprove. On the economy in particular, the average is slightly worse for Trump, with just 36 percent approving and 58 percent disapproving.” Karl Rove, George W. Bush’s consiglieri, and columnist for the Wall Street Journal cautions that unless Trump reverses course he is heading for an epic failure in the 2026 midterms.