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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.
Largest floating array installed in Ohio comes online
D3Energy has energized a 6-MW floating solar array on a village reservoir in Monroeville, Ohio. It is the largest floating solar system in the state and among the five largest in the country.
Roughly one-third of Ohio's 88 counties have restricted utility-scale solar since a 2021 state law gave them that authority. Monroeville has embraced solar for nearly a decade. The village's 4-MW ground-mounted array has been running since 2017.
The floating array is Monroeville's second solar project. Its array floats on 12 acres of water the village already owned. Between the two, the village of 1,300 has roughly 13-times as much solar per resident as the rest of Ohio, one of the highest concentrations per capita in the state.
Tesla's solar gigafactory clears key tax hurdle
Tesla's proposed $10.1 billion solar cell and module manufacturing facility in Texas has cleared a major local regulatory hurdle following a unanimous vote by a Houston-area school board.
You’ve seen Tape-Op Magazine in any Rock N Roll producer worth drinking with living room’s table near a liquor bottle. Akashic released a book Tape-Op Making Music Conversations With Record Producers which is edited by Tape-Op Magazine’s Larry Crane with John Baccigaluppi.
Tape-Op conversations with legendary producers starts with a premise – What does a Record Producer Do?
The table of contents Tape-Op Making Music Conversations With Record Producers is an impressive scroll. If you’re from a Hip Hop background, then your eyes become huge. RZA, Hank Shocklee, Jon Brion and Mark Ronson are interviewed.
Then you look at the Table of Contents again. Tape-Op’s book interviewed Lee Scratch Perry, Brian Eno, Jack Antonoff and Finneas O’Connell.
I started reading Tape-Op Making Music Conversations from the beginning because I assumed these other 20+ producers are important. I’m reading Glyn Johns discussing working with the Rolling Stones and other Rock N Roll legends like the Beatles, The Who, the Eagles and Led Zeppelin.
Yesterday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attempted another extrajudicial execution on U.S. streets, ramming into the car of DoorDash driver Wilber Rafael Garces Perez and then shooting him, simply to enforce civil immigration laws.
Said Lauren Bonds, Executive Director of the National Police Accountability Project, “Whether it’s Austin, Houston, or Biddeford, Maine, ICE agents are starting car chases and firing into vehicles. Law enforcement should never take these actions, but especially not to enforce civil immigration laws. Fortunately Mr. Garces Perez survived, but he could have been killed. This has become a nationwide crisis that puts everyone at risk. Congress must step in immediately and take control.”
The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflicting the same evils and abuses as usual upon their fellow man.
We’re already presently watching the empire building AI into its killing machines and causing all kinds of horrifying problems while these technologies become more and more complex and unpredictable.
n case you missed it, on Election Night 2024, the Decision Desk HQ feed showed Trump’s reported vote total jumping from 46,219,886 to 87,665,393 between 9:30 p.m. and 9:33 p.m. At 9:32 p.m. Elon Musk tweeted, “Game, set and match.” As the injection of 41,445,507 votes for Donald Trump appeared in the election system. Votes were injected, removed, and reallocated for both candidates throughout the night, and Trump’s final total landed at 77,302,580. Once again, no one at the state level was able to explain why these wild fluctuations were happening, and officials have remained quiet about the fake county vote banks we discovered last fall. Reminder: voting is an additive process. Which is why we began investigating. Mainstream Media Finally Clocks In The texts referenced in the recent NPR article are between Elon Musk and former conservative influencer and mother of one of his children, Ashley St. Clair. “Director Alex Gibney’s forthcoming documentary Musk reveals text messages between the tech mogul and his ex-girlfriend, Ashley St. Clair, a former MAGA influencer. The messages, which NPR has obtained and authenticated, are perplexing.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the Punxsutawney Phil of Capitol Hill. Like the fabled groundhog who emerges from his burrow in the late winter, Johnson emerged from his Capitol Hill office last Wednesday, looked at Congressman Thomas Massie’s Impeachment of Secretary Hegseth, saw the shadow of defeat, quickly adjourned the House, and then burrowed back to his office until after the November General Election.
Instead of six more weeks of winter, we will have at least six more weeks of war, brought to us by Secretary Hegseth and his boss, President Trump, with the help of Speaker Johnson who avoided a procedural vote, taking it upon himself to adjourn, under the Rule 1, Clause 13, of the House of Representatives.
Consider. The Administration, compelled by Israeli interests, has driven America into a war of choice against a nation that represented no threat to our country. The war against Iran is becoming more dangerous every day, more casualties, more expense, and more devastating economic and moral consequences.
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Media Double Standards
We often hear that “both sides” of the political spectrum engage in objectionable behavior. There are countless radio hosts, streamers, podcasters, and talking heads who spew hate, disinformation, and crackpot conspiracy theories for fame and fortune. That understood, I’m not talking about any of them, as important as some may be.
I am focusing on an appalling assortment of extreme right wing crooks and kooks who aren’t just pontificating about politics from the sidelines. I’m talking about people currently in elected office, in the White House and the Cabinet, and running the Republican Party. People who are or were in top Trump administration positions, shaping public policy, directing agencies, spending $billions of tax dollars to mislead voters, rigging elections, and turning cruelty into policy. I call these highly important and influential people “The Crass Menagerie.”