Opinion

A stark but unsurprising contrast in the philosophy of governance and civil rights enforcement is emerging between the proposals of Project 2025 and the grassroots efforts of the Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity.

While Project 2025 seeks to curtail federal oversight and reshape the civil service, the Ohio initiative, much like the historic 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, aims to intensify and reinforce the accountability of government officials who’ve committed civil rights violations. The Protecting Ohioans’ Constitutional Rights citizen-led ballot amendment initiative was cleared for signature gathering earlier this year. The initiative seeks to restore a fundamental check on government power by allowing Ohioans to hold public officials and entities accountable in civil court.

The city of Columbus no longer celebrates "Columbus Day" and has removed all Christopher Columbus statues, however there's a movement to return one. Instead, as of 2020, the day is referred to as "indigenous People's Day" -- something the Free Press and many local activists had been demanding for decades. 

In honor of this day, here is a poem by longtime local activist Michael Eckhardt, from his recently published book, Navigation: In these uncertain times. You can purchase the book from the Free Press here. 

dance with destiny

tall ships danced

across the water

the course of history

about to change

fence rows appear

each post a stake

in mother earth's breast

church and state combine

to commit acts of genocide

manifest destiny continues

proud indigenous peoples

deceived and displaced

environmental harmony

replaced by greed

just a spark remains

steeped in tradition

a pride and respect

too strong to overcome

Are American's seeing the images of ICE attacking people? It would seem that the entire population would revolt. There are a brave few protesting but not enough to change the behavior. Unless enough American's take to the streets or revolt in other ways, we will see this government to continue to commit crimes against innocent American citizens, for at least 3 more years.  In a Democracy, public opinion alone would be enough to stop this.  

Here are just a few links of ICE running wild in America.  I urge everyone to have access to TwitterX/ TicTok and/or Bluesky.  This is just a small sample of the horrors being inflicted.

Illinois State Police confronted a group of aggressive anti-ICE protesters,

WATCH: Law enforcement officers clash with anti-ICE demonstrators 

The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called 'Trump Gaza proposal,' which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of a significant portion of Gaza's population.

 Since the start of the current conflict, the United States has been Israel's staunchest ally, going as far as framing the outright slaughter of Palestinian civilians as Israel's "right to defend itself." This position is defined by the wholesale criminalization of all Palestinians—civilians and combatants, women, children, and men alike.

If we are to speak of a Palestinian victory in Gaza, it is a resounding triumph for the Palestinian people, their indomitable spirit, and their deeply rooted resistance that transcends faction, ideology, and politics.

For decades, the prevailing notion was that the 'solution' to the Israeli occupation of Palestine lay in a strictly negotiated process. “Only dialogue can achieve peace” has been the relentlessly peddled mantra in political circles, academic platforms, media forums, and the like.

A colossal industry burgeoned around that idea, expanding dramatically in the lead-up to, and for years after, the signing of the Oslo Accords between Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Israeli government.

The Unmaking of 'Peace'

The situation in Gaza has been horrifying. Provoked by Hamas attack and killing of Israelis at a concert two years ago, Israel has launched a devasting attack on
Palestinians throughout Gaza and even encouraged actively and passively settler violence in the West Bank. More than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed and millions were dislocated in a way many experts and observers call genocide and see as war crimes committed by Israel. One headline described the reaction among both Palestinians and Israelis as “elation” in greeting the ceasefire and the coming release of the remaining prisoners. No matter the rationalizations on all sides about the justification and necessity of war, the people love peace, hopefully making it impossible for the ceasefire to not be permanent.

Fewer governments, including the one currently in the United States, seem to be advocates for peace, despite the news from Gaza. Trump, while covetous of a Nobel Peace

Trek Manifest is recording an entire album at Natalie’s with a live band October 11th.

Do I understand this correct?

Yep it’s a live album recording indeed! I’ve been doing these shows with the band so it only made sense and it’s honestly way overdue.

i’m gonna ask you about some live Hip Hop band’s songs for a fun history discussion. I don’t expect you to know these songs. I don’t expect a book report on each song, I just want reactions. Look them up from tidal, Spotify, apple music or YouTube. It’s kinda like an Beavis And Butthead informal live band hip hop discussion.

Just give me reactions:

KING Tim III and the Fatback Band - Personality Jock
Ok! This is some disco type vibes but a little rap feel to it!

Stetsasonic - Go Stetsa
Legendary right here! Heard a few producers sample these guys!

The Goats - Do The Dugs Dig
Ok never heard of these guys but you can never go wrong with this break beat!

This isn’t a live band b, it’s a live rap album. BDP My Philosophy live hardcore worldwide
Legend. God MC enough said with this one!

On Friday morning I jumped out of bed just before 5 am Eastern US time full of fear that President Donald Trump might have become the declared recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, following in the footsteps of noted warmonger President Barack Obama, who is fondly remembered for also institutionalizing the killing the American citizens overseas whom he targeted in weekly White House staff meetings. Trump has undoubtedly decided to follow the Obama model in his bombing of Iran and his apparent intention to overthrow Venezuela rather than Libya, but has expanded on that with his killing of Venezuelans on fishing boats in international waters without any evidence that criminal activity is intended. In both cases, as well as in that of their predecessor George W. Bush, the argument inevitably used has been that “terrorism” was involved, justifying instant death for the potential perps before they could actually act.

On Friday, October 10, 2025, the ceasefire took effect. After 735 days, tens of thousands of the two million displaced Palestinians began the painful walk home—some to rubble, others to houses barely standing. After two full years of relentless bombardment, more than ten percent of Gaza’s population was either killed or injured.

Over 81,000 were reported killed, including 67,000 confirmed dead and 14,000 missing and presumed dead. Among them: 20,000 children, 22,000 women, and 22,000 fathers. At least 1,000 infants under one year old perished—one Palestinian child every hour for two years.

The medical sector was systematically targeted: 1,670 medics and 140 civil defense workers killed, 125 health facilities destroyed, and 34 hospitals reduced to ruins. Gaza’s health system, once fragile, was deliberately annihilated.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Less than two months after President Donald Trump convinced U.S.-backed Thailand and China-assisted Cambodia to sign a peace agreement stopping their deadly border war, the two Buddhist-majority neighbors have exchanged hostile rocket and gunfire for the first time.

"If President Trump can help persuade Cambodia to comply with these [peace agreement] terms, that would be welcome, it would ensure Thailand faces no further encroachments," Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Wednesday (Oct. 8).

On Monday (Oct. 6), the border feud spread from the battlefield to the economy when Cambodia's de facto leader Senate President Hun Sen told his countrymen to boycott Thailand's goods and currency, use Cambodian currency or U.S. dollars, or else "you may face heavy losses."

Mr. Hun Sen ended his X post saying: "I would like to attach a video in which a Thai national displayed my photo to shoot at, in order to win prizes."

The video showed a uniformed man shooting at a carnival contest's targets, all of which displayed Mr. Hun Sen's face, life-sized, already shot in the forehead by other players.