Friday, March 14, 2025
ICE is $2 billion in the hole – even as Trump wants to increase deportation efforts
Immigration agency will face further strain if administration invokes wartime law to speed up deportations. MORE
Thursday, March 13, 2025
'People Will Not Forget': Senate Dems Blasted Over Any Plan to Cave to Trump-Musk Destruction
Reports on Thursday that Senate Democrats are considering capitulating to the GOP's disastrous government funding plan in exchange for a certain-to-fail vote on an alternative bill sparked anger among progressives, with one House Democrat warning that "people will not forget" if the minority party caves to Republicans and the Trump administration. more
Free Palestine.......STOP THE GENOCIDE!
Free Palestine: The “Free Palestine” movement advocates for a free and liberated Palestine, which includes all people, including Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Druze and residents of all religions and ethnicities. It hopes to create a truly democratic state in which self-determination and human rights are available for everyone. The Free Palestine Movement was born from the Nakba of 1948, the forcible displacement of most of the predominantly Arab population in Palestine and when the newly created Zionist State of Israel launched a complete military occupation of Palesine barring any of the displaced Palestinians from returning.
"But Hamas": The use of “But Hamas” and its political and military goals to justify the oppression of Palestinian people as a whole, by the “Israeli” military occupation ignores the context of the 75-year occupation of Palestine. The root aggression comes from the militarized Zionist movement itself, not the people it oppresses. The military occupation of Palestine and the apartheid system it has created goes back many decades before Hamas (established in 1987) existed and it will continue with or without Hamas unless we and other advocates for human rights around the world stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine and actively work towards its liberation.
War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing: The modern state of "Israel" was founded on genocide, a colonial occupation, formed against the will of the Indigenous people of Palestine, and against the backdrop of zionist terrorist organizations committing massacres and driving out 750,000 Indigenous Palestinians in 1948. We are against religious ethno-nationalism of all forms, anywhere, and believe that any state that is founded on exclusionary policies based on religion, race or ethnicity will lead to oppression. As per many rulings by UN and international courts, settlers who have committed war crimes must be tried, and all Palestinians expelled be granted the Right of Return.
Jews Are Not a Monolith: Being Jewish does not make one from the Middle East. Jewish Palestinians are from Palestine. Jewish Russians are from Russia. Jewish Hungarians are from Hungary. It is a fundamental fallacy that because the Jewish religion came from Palestine thousands of years ago, that all people who identify as Jewish have an ancestral link to Palestine. The Christian religion also came from Palestine, and it would be absurd to consider that all people who identify as Christian come from Palestine.
Is “From the River to the Sea” an Antisemitic Call to Expel Jewish People from Palestine?: Absolutely not. It is calling for complete freedom for all people of all nationalities, ethnic identifications and races in Palestine, not divided into tiny pockets of segregated populations, but across the entire land, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, from Lebanon to Egypt. The term was actually first used by the Israeli Likud party as a genocidal call to expel or exterminate all "Arabs" to establish a Jewish-supremacist ethnostate.
Where Do I Fit in With the Free Palestine Movement?: There is a place for everyone in the movement for Palestinian liberation, including Jews, no matter where you are from. It is important for all people to call for an end to the occupation and the apartheid state for the sake of global humanity, the right of return of all Palestinians expelled under the occupation regime and be on the front lines of a wholesale change in the way their community confronts power, violence and oppression in Palestine and the entire world.
Am I Next?: You very well might be and eventually likely will be.
Please leave a comment below if you are on board with the Free Palestine Movement ↓
GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent
Republicans at the West Virginia Legislature passed a bill that would allow health care providers to “visually or physically examine a minor child” for the purpose of identifying their “biological sex” without the “consent of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.”...MORE
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment.
Immigration authorities removed the girl and four of her American siblings from Texas on Feb. 4, when they deported their undocumented parents.
Tampa among cities protesting arrest, attempted deportation of pro-Palestinian activist
There is ongoing backlash from Tampa and parts of the country over the arrest of an activist who could face deportation for leading pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.
The Trump administration is seeking to deport graduate student Mahmoud Khalil who holds a green card. He helped lead pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
CPAC leader calls for US-born congresswoman to be deported alongside Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil
Conservative Political Action Conference host Mercedes Schlapp suggested on Tuesday night that the Trump administration should “deport” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) alongside Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, even though Tlaib is an American-born citizen. more
Judge slams brakes on Trump administration's attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist
A judge has, for the time being, blocked the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist arrested by ICE over the weekend. CBS News correspondent Michael George has more.
Stogie's Athlete Of The Week
#0 - Sophia Chepenik
USF Bulls Women's Lacross
#0 - Sophia Chepenik
USF Bulls Women's Lacross
Position Attack
Height 5-11
Class Redshirt Sophomore
Highschool Episcopal School of Jacksonville
Hometown Palm Coast, Fla.
Prev School Clemson
Instagram sofiachepenik
Major Mass Communications
Pre-Season AAC All-Conference Team
AAC Attacker of the Week Honorable Mention (2025 - Week 1)
AAC Attacker of the Week (2025 - Week 3)
AAC Attacker of the Week Honorable Mention (2025 - Week 5)
CHEPENIK’S GAME-BY-GAME
2025 Stats (Goals-Assists-Points-Draw Controls)
vs. KSU (4-2-6-2); at Mercer (1-0-1-2); vs. Lehigh (0-2-2-1); vs. Florida (5-0-5-0); vs. Towson (5-1-6-5); vs. St. Bonaventure (2-2-4-2); vs. Xavier (4-1-5-3);
2025: Started vs. Kennesaw State, scored four goals and recorded two assists which earned her an AAC Attacker of the Week Honorable Mention... Started versus Mercer, scored one goal and controlled two draws... Started vs. Lehigh, recorded two assists and controlled one draw... Started vs. Florida and scored five goals... Started vs. Towson, scored five goals, recorded an assist, and controlled five draws... Five goal performances vs. Florida and Towson earned her AAC Attacker of the Week honors... Started vs. St. Bonaventure, scored two goals, recorded an assist, and controlled two draws... Started vs. Xavier, scored four goals, recorded an assist, and controlled three draws...
2024: Redshirted.
2023 (CLEMSON): Appeared in 15 games for Clemson… Scored 33 goals and completed 20 assists for a total of 53 season points… Recorded 14 ground balls and seven caused turnovers… No. 10 in ACC in Assists Per Game with 20 total and 1.43 avg… Led the ACC Freshmen in goals and assists… ACC Offensive Player of the Week (3/14/23)… Led Clemson in goals against Duke with four… Scored the game-tying and game-winning goal against Duke… Recorded five games with three or more goals scored… Selected for ACC All-Freshman team… Earned ACC All-Academic Team Honors
High School: Played for the Episcopal School of Jacksonville… Finished with career totals of 250 goals, 169 assists, and 300+ draw controls… 3x HS Varsity Lacrosse MVP… 3x HS Varsity Lacrosse Captain… Awarded High School All-American honors in 2021, as well as a Gait top-20 all-star… Awarded Best Athlete in Single Sport for Episcopal School of Jacksonville… Earned US Lacrosse Jackie Pitts Award… 2x US Lacrosse All-American… 3x NE Florida All First Coast… Participated in the South’s All-Star Game and was recognized with ESPN’s Player of the Game award… Played club lacrosse for Snipers Elite.
Personal: First picked up a lacrosse stick and learned the sport in sixth grade at a Jacksonville lacrosse clinic hosted by the McCords.
CHEPENIK'S CAREER HIGHS:
Goals: 5, (2x), last vs. Towson 2/23/25
Assists: 5, vs. Gardner Webb 2/22/23
Points: 7, (2x), last vs. Presbyterian 3/22/23
Draw Controls: 5, last vs. Towson 2/23/25
Rally For Mahmoud Khalil!
Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society along with other organizations like TAARPR, DSA, PSL, FRSO, and more, to call for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University international student who was detained by Homeland Security along with ICE for his work as a student protester, along with demanding the end of Trump’s attacks on free speech, and more.
The event will be at 50th and Fowler, at 5:30 PM on Wednesday March 12th. You are welcome to attend!
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Trump to liberals: Stop ‘illegally’ boycotting Teslas!
People unhappy with Elon Musk have been boycotting the world’s richest man’s car company and President Donald Trump is having none of it. more
Hialeah, a city of immigrants, is set to have its cops take on immigration enforcement
US added to human rights watchlist for ‘narrowing’ freedom and now ranks near Serbia and Congo
The U.S. was added to a watchlist of countries with “faltering civic freedoms” after a global watchdog group raised alarm bells over recent actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration. more
Monday, March 10, 2025
Trump Helps Liberals in Canada
If you had asked Canadians a few months ago who would win the country's next general election, most would have predicted a decisive victory for the Conservative Party. more
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