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Support for Operation Destroy America is fracturing among Republicans and ICE operatives. The ICE-capades have unified masses of locally organized neighbor defenders in oppo; judges continue to thwart efforts at the ethnic cleansing of the nation. Still, the coup-meisters may succeed in destroying the UN, if not the US.
On a bitter cold street corner nurses, union workers, musicians, and other folks gathered to remember the life of Veterans Administration (VA) Intensive Care Unit nurse and American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3669 Union member Alex Pretti and mother of three, writer, and musician Renee Good.
Pretti and Good were murdered in separate incidents by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis last month. Both were participating in peaceful protests against ICE violence in the city at the time of their murders.
In response, the Ohio AFL-CIO organized a vigil across from the Chalmers P. Wylie Ambulatory Care VA hospital in Whitehall.
Jason Perlman, Political Director of the Ohio AFL-CIO was among those who spoke: “Tonight, we honor the lives of our union brother, Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Keith Porter, Jr. and the countless names we don’t know who have died in these for-profit, so-called detention centers. Columbus, do we believe our own eyes? Do we know what we saw? Two citizens were gunned down because they chose love over fear.”
ICE and CPB strike again, and again, while Trump-Rex substitutes himself for the UN. Pinochet returns from the dead in Chile and Bibi promises to destroy more of the West Bank to catch up to Gaza. Trump finds time to attack his base in Colorado, while transforming foreign aid from transcontinental to transactional, sacrificing humans in favor of minerals. No news here, eh!
History rarely turns on arguments. It turns on moments people cannot unsee.
A photograph. A short video. A few seconds that settle in the mind and refuse to leave. These are the moments when debate stops and something heavier takes its place. Not opinion, but
recognition.
The killing of Alex Pretti during an encounter with ICE agents appears to be one of those moments.
The images circulating do not feel chaotic. They do not feel unclear. They do not show panic, aggression, or a scene spinning out of control. What they show is restraint on one side and lethal force on the other. That imbalance is immediately visible, and it is why the images carry so much weight.
This article is about why certain moments, moments like this, cut through the noise while others fade. It is about why discipline, restraint, and dignity have always carried more power than outrage ever could.
What the Moment Demands
Street encounters are not remembered for what was said. They are remembered for how people stood, or sat, or knelt.
On Saturday, January 24, 2026 Immigration and Customs enforcement murdered yet another American citizen who was protesting the Gestapo tactics, and specifically trying to assist a woman who had been thrown the ground by ICE thugs. Pretti was lawfully carrying a weapon, which was removed from his person by another ICE/Gestapo agent prior to him being shot more than 10 times at close range while on the ground, surrounded by CE/Gestapo agents.
Here are two excellent video's depicting the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdyBw45npT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuUTP4Db9dM
The usual warning that this is a graphic video. American's must become accustomed to watching the Federal Government murdering both American citizens and immigrants (legal or otherwise).
Video credit to "Comrade Lunchbox"
Global EV Sales Rose 20 percent in 2025
Last year global electric vehicle adoption grew by 20 percent. There was significant growth in every major region except for North America, according to the research firm Rho Motion. Global consumers bought 20.7 million EVs, an increase of 20 percent from the prior year. China accounted for the majority of that total, with 12.9 million cars and light trucks sold within its borders, up 17 percent.
The highest percentage growth was in Europe, which was up 33 percent with 4.3 million in sales. In North America, where the market was hurt by the cancellation of tax credits for EV buyers, sales of new EVs hit 1.8 million, down 4 percent. To put this in perspective, in 2025 approximately 16.2 million light vehicles were sold in the US. EVs accounted for approximately 11 percent of all vehicles sold within that region.
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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Full disclosure: in high school I was terrible at math.
My mother felt sorry for me and hired a tutor. It was embarrassing, but she loved me and forced me to do it. Unfortunately, now she needs your mayor and City Council to get a math tutor too.
Yes, 100 percent of the focus inside Columbus City Hall is on the corporate take-over of the city disguised as an update in zoning. With all their focus on density and building unaffordable luxury apartments they have forgotten about another part of a functional city government: protecting life.
Do the math.
The Columbus Free Press held a Second Saturday Salon over Zoom on Saturday, January 10. Here is a summary:
U.S. Defeat in Venezuela Strategy
During Operation Buckeye, Mayor Ginther insisted Columbus police were ordered to not help ICE agents from apprehending immigrants, but emerging from that fateful week is a story of an ICE protestor who was arrested by Columbus police for simply exercising their right to free speech.
Now comes word out of Minneapolis that protestors felt as if their local police were there to protect ICE and not those they are sworn to protect. ICE murdered a protestor January 7, a young woman in Minneapolis. ICE turned 37-year-old Renee Good into a martyr.
By most standards Kevin Logan (pictured above) does not look like someone who would vehemently oppose ICE but looks can be deceiving. He's a tall middle-aged white guy with a beard. Standing well over 6-feet tall, the father of four daughters and one son has already lived a life which inspired him to care for those who have been marginalized because of their skin color.
Given up to foster care at birth, Logan spent much of his youth in "the system," with several years spent at the Buckeye Ranch in Grove City. This upbringing shaped and nurtured who he is, he says.