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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.
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.
In a move that surprised precisely zero people, Israel once again bombed the shit out of Lebanon while Netanyahu continued to insist that the IDF will continue its extensive occupation of Lebanese territory. Israel’s actions resulted in Tehran calling off scheduled peace talks with Washington, but now we’re seeing reports that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to another ceasefire.
Note: Hijrah is an Arabic term meaning "migration" or "emigration". It primarily refers to the Prophet Muhammad's pivotal 622 CE journey from Makkah to Madinah to escape religious persecution, an event that marks the start of the Islamic lunar calendar. It is marked on June 16, 2026.
The migration of the Prophet Muhammad from Makkah to Madinah was not merely an historical event, nor simply a journey from one city to another. It was a turning point in human history. What began as a small group fleeing persecution would eventually give rise to a civilization that stretched across continents and shaped the lives of billions. Yet before it changed the world, it transformed the people who undertook it.
The Hijrah came after years of persecution, isolation, and hardship. The early Muslims endured ridicule, economic sanctions, social exclusion, and physical abuse. They remained steadfast. They did not confuse patience with passivity. When the time came, they moved. They took action. They sought a new environment where faith, security, and community could flourish.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know it. And his rivals—both within his coalition and across Israel's political spectrum—are preparing to capitalize on his growing weakness.
Former Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon, who also served as deputy prime minister between 2007 and 2009, is among the latest Israeli political figures to join a growing chorus of criticism directed at Netanyahu.
“In the final result,” Ramon said in an interview with Radio Galey, cited by the Israeli outlet Srugim, “we did not win.” He then broke down that failure in blunt terms: “We did not win in Lebanon, we did not win in Iran, and we did not win against Hamas.”
The ADL, that could be nicknamed the Apartheid Defense League accused Australian referee Shaun Evans of making an upside‑down “OK” hand gesture during a live broadcast—something the ADL considers a White supremacist symbol—and demanded that FIFA remove the 38‑year‑old referee from the World Cup. FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) reviewed the incident and determined that the gesture did not constitute a violation, and Evans will face no disciplinary action.
The ADL created unnecessary drama at the World Cup after claiming that Evans, an assistant referee, flashed a hate symbol before Germany’s 7–1 win over Curaçao. Who died and put the ADL in charge?
In a pre‑recorded video showing the VAR (Video Assistant Referee) team working the Germany–Curaçao match last Sunday, Evans was seen making an “OK” symbol by curling his thumb and forefinger in front of his right leg. In 2019, the New York‑based ADL designated this gesture a hate symbol.
Alexis de Tocqueville's warning in Democracy in America remains one of the most insightful critiques of the potential dangers facing democratic societies. Writing in the nineteenth century, the French political philosopher and historian Alexis de Tocqueville feared that industrial capitalism would create a new form of aristocracy unlike the hereditary nobility of Europe. While traditional aristocrats were at least partially constrained by social obligations and local responsibilities, the emerging industrial elite would be governed primarily by the pursuit of profit.
Tocqueville warns that democratic societies must remain alert to new forms of inequality that emerge not through hereditary privilege, but through economic and institutional power. As he writes, “the friends of democracy should keep their eyes anxiously fixed in this direction,” a reminder that formal equality can conceal deeper structural dependencies that threaten civic freedom.