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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.

Melania, The Movie

Military Bases Prove New York Times to Be Lying About Greenland

This was a headline in the New York Times on Tuesday: “With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest: After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land.” Here is a sentence from the article that followed: “Never in the past century has America gone forth to seize other countries’ land and subjugate its citizens against their will.”

Setting aside Alaska and Hawaii where, respectively, the people were never asked, and the people had been violently taken over years earlier against the will of most of them, it’s true that straightforward conquest went out of fashion around the time of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which became law 98 years ago. But to state so simply the popular wisdom that the United States has supposedly not seized any land in 100 years, one has to pretend that military bases do not exist. Here’s a small sampling of the problems with believing that lie:

War and Peace

Nobel peace prize medal

Irony is lost on President Trump but is a necessity for the rest of us. Today’s headlines feature yet another grievance from Trump about his failure to win a Nobel Prize in 2025 for his totally false claim of having ended eight wars around the globe. He now claims that his obsession with Greenland is less about Greenland than pushing back on his pique about the Nobel. We gain this insight into his thinking thanks to a tweet he sent to the prime minister of Norway holding him somehow responsible for not muscling up on the Nobel committee in his country. You can’t make this up, but I wish this was all made up.

Texas Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy’s Latest Deal Shows How He’d Treat Ohio: Strip It for Parts

Vivek Ramaswamy

A new business deal backed by Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire vulture capitalist running for Ohio Governor, is a preview into how he will approach power, responsibility, and public trust if elected.

Strive Capital, a firm founded and controlled by Vivek Ramaswamy that recently relocated from Ohio to Texas, closed a deal last week to acquire Semler Scientific, a midsize manufacturer of FDA-approved diagnostic devices used by physicians to assess cardiac disease.

Texas Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy’s Latest Deal Shows How He’d Treat Ohio: Strip It for Parts

Vivek Ramaswamy

A new business deal backed by Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire vulture capitalist running for Ohio Governor, is a preview into how he will approach power, responsibility, and public trust if elected.

Strive Capital, a firm founded and controlled by Vivek Ramaswamy that recently relocated from Ohio to Texas, closed a deal last week to acquire Semler Scientific, a midsize manufacturer of FDA-approved diagnostic devices used by physicians to assess cardiac disease.

Slug of Atmosphere Interviewed

Slug of Atmosphere

Minneapolis rap group Atmosphere are playing Columbus, 1-27-2026 with Kool Keith, Sage Francis, RA The Ruggedman, and Mr. Dibbs at Kemba Live. Kool Keith is performing with Ced Gee? Is this an UltraMagnetic MC’s concert? We know Atmosphere is rapper Slug and producer ANT. Atmosphere released an album called Jestures last year via their label Rhymesayers Ent. Atmosphere toured last year with Lupe Fiasco, Pharcyde, and Cypress Hill. Atmosphere is known for their live shows which showcases Slug’s penchant for humanity within humor, and an informed Hip Hop perspective.

Atmosphere’s production by ANT is either hard drums or ballads. Atmosphere are considered amongst the best underground live rap shows. Atmosphere are KRS and The Roots status live. Atmosphere are owners of a label called Rhymesayers. Rhymesayers releases music by MF Doom, Kurious, Black Starr, and Soul Position. Soul Position are Blueprint and RJD2 from Columbus, Ohio.

I’ve known Slug from Rhymesayers for decades. Is this interview about the UltraMagnetic MC’s? ICE invaded Minneapolis.  ICE killed Renee Good.

WES: What is it like in Minneapolis?

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