Opinion

Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants.

Miss Rachel is honored for the Glamour Woman of the Year 2025 Award. This is a well-deserved distinction. She is like a modern Mr. Rogers, and she grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Her journey began with a YouTube channel aimed at helping her son with a speech delay, which has since grown into a global movement. Her work has empowered millions of children and their parents, making her a role model for compassion and creativity in education. 

At the Glamour Women of the Year ceremony, Ms. Rachel made a lasting impression with her gown embroidered with drawings from children in Gaza, symbolizing hope and resilience. She expressed her pride in sharing art from these children and their stories during her Instagram story post.

That was not before StopAntisemitism has conducted a hate and smear campaign against her.  Miss Rachel said she's willing to risk her career to keep advocating for kids in Gaza. She’s faced pushback for speaking out about the struggles children are facing due to conflict and lack of resources.

Friday, December 26, 8:30pm
Natalie's, 945 King Ave, Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43212

Comedian, filmmaker and Columbus native Travis Irvine comes home for the holidays to present his annual Christmas comedy show featuring an eclectic cast of comedians, characters, carols and more!

Food & Bar: Our full food and drink menu will be available before and during the show.

Twilight of the Shadow Government, by Kevin Shipp and Kent Heckenlively, is a notable and provocative contribution to the limited body of literature critical of the Central Intelligence Agency. Its significance rests largely on Shipp’s background: he is a former CIA officer who served for approximately seventeen years in senior roles, making him a rare example of a high-level insider willing to publicly criticize the agency.

Shipp’s career reportedly ended after he attempted to alert superiors to a vulnerability that he believed endangered CIA assets. According to his account, his concerns were unwelcome, and the agency retaliated in ways that placed both him and his family at risk, ultimately resulting in his forced departure from the CIA. While readers must evaluate such claims carefully, his narrative is detailed and internally consistent, lending it a degree of credibility.

https://gregmitchell.substack.com/p/a-bari-bari-flub-goes-viral

This is a documented (but incomplete) map of their abductions and the level of escalation throughout the week. Data is from ICEOUT.

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Columbus is arguing about “public safety” again — but this time, the debate isn’t happening in a City Council chamber or on the courthouse steps. It’s happening in the gap between two artifacts floating around the city like opposing flyers for the same event.

One is a statement on Fraternal Order of Police (Capital City Lodge #9) letterhead, signed by lodge president Brian Steel, insisting that while local law enforcement doesn’t have authority to enforce federal civil immigration laws, they still have an “absolute duty” to respond when federal partners ask for assistance — and that “public safety depends on cooperation.”

The other is a Facebook post from “West Columbus ICE Watch” (also calling itself Westgate ICE Watch), introducing itself as a neighborhood network formed because residents believe ICE activity is spreading, fear is rising, and people need a way to report sightings anonymously and share mutual-aid resources. The post says it plainly: they’re organizing because they don’t want “a repeat of history.”

ICE is on the streets of Columbus arresting people. Supposedly Columbus officials and police are not cooperating with ICE, and if true, this is good news.

But you need to tell your friends and family about what else your “elected” Columbus City Council has recently done. It would make President Trump proud.

In the greatest power-grab in Columbus history your City Council took revenge on the residents of German Village over side-walk improvements by changing the City Charter. Wait a minute… Doesn’t the city already update the City Charter once every ten years with a panel of citizens who make recommendations?

Correct. That’s how the City Charter is supposed to be updated in a rational democracy, but not Columbus.

Anne Frank wrote about people stolen in the night and their homes left gutted, and that warning feels painfully current in a country that insists it learned its lessons. Today’s immigration raids leave a disturbingly similar wake, with homes abandoned mid-life, belongings scattered where they fell, and pets staring at the door as if their owners might still walk in and rescue them from the silence.

ICE does not simply take people; it leaves behind the wreckage of entire worlds. Toys stay where children last played, food spoils unfinished, cars idle in driveways, and phones, wallets, and IDs vanish into agency custody and often never return. ICE policy even requires officers to hold a person’s original identification documents, adding another blow to families already torn apart.

This investigation lays bare what happens to everything left behind when someone is taken. Cars are dragged to impound lots and auctioned before families can react, homes slide toward foreclosure or are snapped up by landlords, and pets are dropped at packed shelters with no one left to claim them.