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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.
A stunning investigative report by Hebrew-language outlet Ynet has laid bare the embarrassing cataclysm not only of the US-Israeli war on Iran, but the Zionist entity’s effort to destroy the Resistance via covert and overt military and intelligence operations. Violent Mossad-orchestrated protests, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s murder, and a Kurdish invasion were intended to produce regime change and “total victory” over Tehran. Yet, as Ynet concludes: “what started as a far-reaching Israeli move, rich in imagination, final in its solution, ends in heartache.”
Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala.
Forgive me the click-bait headline, but I need to get your attention to how India’s Hindu nationalist party has applied the voter-purge trickery and anti-immigrant race-baiting that Trump promises to import to the USA.
This is no accident: Trump cronies have spread their dark magic on the targeting of voters of the wrong color or religion from Hungary to Russia and other proto-fascist states. And now, with great success, they’ve taught Trump’s Hindu fascist BFF, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi even hired Trump’s bodyguard.
India’s state elections this week produced Trump’s wet dream. In West Bengal alone, 9.1 million people, overwhelmingly Muslims, were stripped from the voter rolls, tagged — using AI — as suspected alien voters who crossed illegally from Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma).
Modi’s voter purge assaults hit eleven other states including Tamil Nadu (9.78 million purged), Rajasthan (3.1 million) and my beloved Kerala (2.4 million). Kēraḷa valare sundaram āṇu. [Look it up!]
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition welcomes the imminent release from Israeli detention of our colleagues Thiago Ávila and Saif Abukeshek, unlawfully abducted by Israeli forces from civilian flotilla vessels in international waters and held under punitive conditions for over a week.
I woke up this morning intending to write an article about Israel’s refusal to release the last two Flotilla hostages—Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek—who were kidnapped by Israeli pirates on April 29 while in international waters, 500 nautical miles from Gaza. I was delighted to read on my news feed that Thiago and Saif, whom Israel accused of being Sumud Flotilla leaders, will be released today.
They Faced Torture and Inhumane Treatment
According to Adalah’s lawyers, who represent the hostages, both men were subjected to physical and psychological torture, including:
Ohio Republicans violated court rulings and kept running elections using gerrymandered maps. They repeatedly ignored (or only minimally complied with) court orders until deadlines passed. The courts ultimately lacked sufficient ability to compel Ohio to comply with orders and implement acceptable replacement maps. As a result, Ohio voters cast ballots in 2022 and in 2024 using maps that the Ohio Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional. [1][2][3]
What the courts said:
The Ohio Supreme Court struck down multiple sets of state legislative maps and congressional maps because they violated Ohio’s anti-gerrymandering rules and unfairly favored Republicans. News coverage and legal summaries describe the court rejecting five sets of legislative maps and two congressional maps, each time ordering the state to try again. The court’s January 2022 congressional ruling ordered lawmakers to pass a new map within 30 days, and later rulings gave similar redraw deadlines for legislative maps.[4][5][6][7][8]
How Ohio Republicans defied the rulings:
Since the outbreak of war on February 28, 2026, between the United States, Israel, and Iran, renewed attention has focused on resistance to the Iranian regime, particularly within diasporic Iranian communities and international media spheres. Public figures—some Iranian, many not—have spoken in solidarity. They post statements, deliver award-show remarks, share symbolic gestures, and call for international awareness. These interventions are often sincere. In some cases, they carry personal risk. Yet their prominence reveals a deeper tension: the growing tendency for political movements to be understood primarily through the voices of those who are already visible.
The difficulty is not celebrity participation as such. Public figures have long lent their voices to political causes. The problem emerges when visibility itself begins to organize political authority—when recognition substitutes for representation, and when the most amplified voices are treated, implicitly, as the most authoritative. Under contemporary media systems, fame does not merely amplify political struggle; it shapes how struggle becomes intelligible.
Last June, immigration officials detained an Egyptian mother and her five children and held them for nearly a year in a notorious Texas detention facility known for poor conditions — the longest detention of any family since the center reopened last year under President Trump. To expel a family to Egypt for a crime they did not commit makes a mockery of democracy.
This week, a Colorado court sentenced Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 46, an Egyptian citizen, to life in prison for throwing gasoline bombs at a pro‑Israel rally last year, killing one person and injuring a dozen others in Boulder, Colorado. Soliman apologized in court and condemned his own actions as contrary to “the teachings of Islam” in a statement before sentencing. He expressed sorrow for the death of the 80‑year‑old woman who succumbed to injuries sustained in the firebombing. “There are no words that can express my sadness for her passing,” Soliman said through an Arabic interpreter, according to the Associated Press.
