Global
“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.
Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the Israeli military establishment has launched a training program designed to “influence public consciousness” around the world, with courses aimed at training hundreds of operatives per year in strategies for “actively disrupting or manipulating the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of target audiences.”
Citing a leaked Defense Ministry tender, +972 reports that lecturers in the program are required to hold “doctorates and/or professorships in the fields of influence, consciousness, security and terrorism, mass communication, [or] digital and network communication,” as well as “at least four years of professional experience in the fields of influence [or] influence intelligence in various security organizations.”
It has long been established by experts and scientists that the carbon dioxide in the air and the resultant increase in global temperatures is produced overwhelmingly by fossil fuels. Even some of the major emitters of these climate pollutants have acknowledged as much, though most have not. The Harvard Gazette, among many others, confirmed this (Exxon scientists predicted global warming with 'shocking skill and accuracy,' Harvard researchers say — Harvard Gazette). Here’s are excerpts from the Gazette.
“Projections created internally by ExxonMobil starting in the late 1970s on the impact of fossil fuels on climate change were very accurate, even surpassing those of some academic and governmental scientists, according to an analysis published…in Science by a team of Harvard-led researchers. Despite those forecasts, team leaders say, the multinational energy giant continued to sow doubt about the gathering crisis.”
Last week a federal judge in Alabama ruled that the suffering caused to a prisoner being killed by gas suffocation executions does not rise to the level of being unconstitutional. The ruling is being appealed, but we know what this means: We must continue to hope and pray for the best, but prepare for the worst.
That's why Death Penalty Action is once again in Alabama, speaking in a church this morning and leading the petition delivery and rally to stop the execution of Jeffrey Lee.
On May 27, 2026, Israel announced it was bombing areas around Tyre, Lebanon, after ordering the forced displacement of the city and surrounding villages south of the Zahrani River, which the IDF declared a “combat zone.”
On June 2, Israeli forces killed Lama Talal Basma, a young Lebanese woman, in a drone strike while she was riding a motorcycle in the town of Ain Baal, near the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon. Lama kept her small kitchen open throughout the war to support and feed her community.
Following is a statement from Lynn Tramonte, Executive Director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Well now we know. According to a majority of the U.S. Senate, and both of Ohio’s Senators, our tax dollars are just an ATM for ICE.