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Michelle Goldberg: The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption. ICE, said Ellison, is all but telling people, "You want to defend your neighbors, you're going to do it at the risk of your own life.' I think that's the unmistakable message.

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The most chilling thing to read. "The bottom line is this: When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life," Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas said on Newsmax." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o ...

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More: "All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-09 09:21 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

No paywall link archive.is

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-09 09:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."

#1 | Posted by qcp

That's what the MAGA elites are saying.

Time for the MAGA peons to fall in line.

How does that square with being an American? It doesn't.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-09 09:26 AM | Reply

New MAGA slogan "Be nice or get Iced."

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Rep. Roger Williams: "People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil."

#4 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2026-01-09 09:28 AM | Reply

Excellent article. Thanks for posting it. We are very far up sheetz creek without a paddle:

Homeland Security's social media feed is an unending stream of demented propaganda and bellicose Christian nationalism. An image posted on New Year's Eve shows a classic car on an idyllic beach with the slogan, "America after 100 million deportations." Homeland Security has added the words, "The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world." One hundred million, it's important to note, is almost twice America's entire immigrant population. They are telegraphing the creation of a far-reaching police state.

In such a system, the relationship between every citizen and their government is transformed by the constant demand for submission. Since Good's death, Republicans have been lining up to threaten those who don't immediately comply with ICE's orders. "The bottom line is this: When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life," Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas said on Newsmax.

#5 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2026-01-09 09:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

- "The bottom line is this: When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life," Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas said on Newsmax.

And by 'federal officer' he now means Jackbooted Nazi Thug for Trump.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 10:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

- "The bottom line is this: When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life," Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas said on Newsmax.

And by 'federal officer' he now means Jackbooted Nazi Thug for Trump.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 10:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The message is act stupid you get shot. I for one think the Federal agents are too nice with you rabid liberals.

#8 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 10:25 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

The message is act stupid you get shot.

#8 | Posted by fortfisher

Then I guess you're one of the walking dead.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-09 10:28 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I for one think the Federal agents are too nice with you rabid liberals.

#8 | Posted by fortfisher

By all accounts, the murdered woman was apolitical.

You made her an Honorary Liberal after you murdered her.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-09 10:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Federal agents" ?

Political troops.

FTFY.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-09 10:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

- I for one think

One supposes there is a first time for everything, but that wasn't this time.

Your Fascist Cult is doing your thinking for you.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 10:34 AM | Reply

#8 | Posted by fortfisher

Please never get me wrong. I well understand that you are a block of fascist lead and are immune to both facts and morality.

I just feel the need to oppose you for as long as I have the legal right to do so freely. It seems important.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-09 10:35 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

The message is act stupid you get shot.

#8 | Posted by fortfisher

Just out of the most idle of curiosity----

Why does that never apply to Ashli Babbitt?

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-09 10:36 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

This isn't about law enforcement it's about Domination.

Ice is the SA. We are at the 1934 level of Nazism.

Normalizing Police Violence against Any Displays of Resistance to "State" policy, however small or isolated.

Making Spontanous Protests into a "Liberal plot" and Equating rational,peaceful, dissent with "Terrorism ".

All to forward the agenda of a Clich of Criminal Usurpers of the people's Perogatives.

This won't end peacefully. Trump and ICE are guaranteeing Violence.

Possibly at the State level as Trump is Targeting whole regions and State's for Oppressive and Discriminatory policies of Punishment and deprivation.

My honest opinion is we will have open Violence between the State's before this ends in Trump's Death.

He8 gonna a take a lot of people with him.

Our Entire system of Government is already in a Terminal Crisis.

The next three years are going to determine our future in Existential Terms as a,"Free" People.

If we Fail, like Germany in 1945, only Crushing Military Defeat from Outside will stop them.

War is what they want and War is what they'll get.

Who are the Allies going to be to Defeat MAGA?

#15 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-09 11:14 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

The message is act stupid you get shot. I for one think the Federal agents are too nice with you rabid liberals.
#8 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 10:25 AM

Uh, she was a 37 year old white mother of three who just dropped off her six year old at daycare.

Renee Good's presence in that neighborhood is understandable.

ICE's presence is insertion and chaos.

The ICE simultaneous raid on Roosevelt High School three miles away is merely ramping it up.

"This is so upsetting," Carol said Thursday as she tearfully recounted what she had witnessed. "All these men, who were fully armed, suddenly jumped out of the SUVs and started running towards the school."

School was being dismissed at the time, and hundreds of students were walking out of the building, she said.

"Some of the teachers and school workers were trying to keep the Border Patrol away from the students, telling them to stay off school property," she said. "They just pushed [the teachers] away. I saw one teacher get tackled."

While that was going on, Carol said, dozens of neighborhood residents spilled out of their homes.

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If by "rabid liberal" you mean to attack people who assert their first ammendment rights, then Russia has a very exciting offer for you!

#16 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-09 11:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

oops the body cam just released. You people are stupid. TDS has destroyed what little brain matter you had.

#17 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 01:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

oops the body cam just released. You people are stupid. TDS has destroyed what little brain matter you had.
#17 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 01:03 PM

Thanks for the heads-up, here's what I've found POV BODYCAM footage from ICE Agent who shot US CITIZEN 159 views 6 minutes ago

She sounds soooo dangerous: "That's fine dude. I'm not mad, boy. Show your face."

"It's okay." the other person states.

"I'm not mad at you," says Renee calmly.

The other person "We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later. That's fine. US citizen, former (I can't make out what division she may have claimed). You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I say 'go get yourself some lunch,' big boy. Go ahead."

"Get out of the car." agent Ross instructs. You can see the beatiful dog in the back of the SUV. The other person tries to enter the passenger door.

"Get out of the ---- car!" Ross can see that the driver is turning her wheel.

Ross is a murderer. He wanted to kill these women and so executing one while aiming for both.

I'm uncertain if the dog is left alive.

#18 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-09 01:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

LOL!!!! You're an imbecile

#19 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 01:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

More: "All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."

#1 | Posted by qcp

Many of whom probably have, unironically, Gadsden flags or "don't tread on me" or "III percenter" type stuff on their vehicles, clothes ect.

Because in the end, they really didn't want lack of government intrusion into people's lives, they wanted lack of intrusion into their lives so they could act with impunity for their own self-interests.

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-09 01:37 PM | Reply

LOL!!!! You're an imbecile
#19 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 01:32 PM

I don't believe that. You are worth at least this reply:

Is her wheel being turned visible or not?

#21 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-09 01:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The message is act stupid you get shot. I for one think the Federal agents are too nice with you rabid liberals.

#8 | Posted by fortfisher

That's because you're an unAmerican piece of s*&^.

#22 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-09 01:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Go service a trucker you scumbag.

#23 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 01:40 PM | Reply

Be honest, s(*&bag, are you one of these masked p^&&ies running around?

You seem like a big enough scumbag to jump at the opportunity to hurt people with impunity simply because you're a miserable piece of s*&^.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-09 01:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Go service a trucker you scumbag.
#23 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 01:40 PM

Before that, could you answer the question is the wheel is visibly being turned on the body cam?

#25 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-09 01:44 PM | Reply

Be honest

The sun would sooner set in the east than anyone supporting the execution of Reene Good being honest about anything.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-09 01:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Posted by fartfisher

This clown is straight-up troll, interested in nothing except getting a reaction.

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE OBLIGE???

#27 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-01-09 06:01 PM | Reply

Posted by fartfisher
This clown is straight-up troll, interested in nothing except getting a reaction.
WHY DO YOU PEOPLE OBLIGE???
#27 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-01-09 06:01 PM

Every troll is special, unique and xenophobic.

"Sometimes two plus two makes five, sometimes it makes three. Sometimes it makes both of them at once." - Cenk Uygur

#28 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-09 06:12 PM | Reply

FatFlusher is a mouth-breathing imbecile. ---- you, you little ------- -----.

#29 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-10 09:12 PM | Reply

imo, ICE is telling us Americans ...

We can operate with impunity.

So, deal with it.

Obey or die.


#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-10 09:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Obey and die is how this is actually going to play out.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-10 09:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I don't mean in a metaphorical sense.
I mean in the Daniel Shaver sense.

People will obey every order from ICE, and still get shot by ICE.
Republicans are okay with that.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-10 09:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1


Obey and die is how this is actually going to play out.
#31 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Given you didn't "see" the arrest attempt of Good; you and your opinion is worthless in the real world.

#33 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-10 09:46 PM | Reply

#33 Hey, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut , when are you going to respond to your lie about the Federal government?

Or are you just a trolling coward: Drop a lie, get schooled on your lie, and then disappear ? ? ? ?

#34 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-10 09:47 PM | Reply

Sooner or later people are gonna Shoot Back.

Iceholes are gonna get Iced by Americans.

Then the real Oppression will begin.

Its unclear where that would go.

How the rest of the Government would react to an ICE an Massacre of Americans.

It's Uncharted Territory in the Modern World, here in America.

Like Kent State but far worse.

We have no Recent history of Government Cracking down with Lethal Violence on Demonstrations of Protest.

Except Kent State.

#35 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-10 09:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#33 Rene Nicole Good was given conflicting "orders" by ICE.

There was no arrest attempt, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut

Now, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut , when are you going to respond to your lie about the Federal government?

Or are you just a trolling coward: Drop a lie, get schooled on your lie, and then disappear ? ? ? ?

#36 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-10 09:51 PM | Reply

Yeah, don't try to run us over

#37 | Posted by THEBULL at 2026-01-11 05:55 PM | Reply

- run us over

Is 'us' ICE thugs or just you Fascists in general?

Walk in front of a car taking pictures when your buddy is distracting the driver and take your chances.

#38 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-11 06:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Walk in front of a car taking pictures when your buddy is distracting the driver and take your chances.

#38 | Posted by Corky

Walk in front of a car taking pictures when her buddy is distracting the driver and screaming "drive baby drive".

#39 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-11 06:31 PM | Reply

Walk in front of a car taking pictures when your buddy is distracting the driver and take your chances.

#38 | Posted by Corky

Remember that, street blocker 'proterroristers'.
I don't wanna see you complaining about fendermeated protesters again, corky.

#40 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-11 06:37 PM | Reply

Spastic ICE thug biffs it.

x.com

#41 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-11 06:44 PM | Reply

Yeah, don't try to run us over
#37 | Posted by THEBULL

You work for ICE?
That explains a lot.

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-11 07:02 PM | Reply

Defend their neighbors? Yes. That makes sense. Protect pedophiles, fraudsters, spouse abusers, drunk drivers that are here illegally, from seeing an immigration judge.

Huh. That makes total sense.

God knows we don't want those here illegally to have to see a judge.

#43 | Posted by Imshakinitboss at 2026-01-12 12:28 AM | Reply

There's an angle that shows Barney clearing his weapon from his holster as she is backing away to keep the other guy from reaching through the open passenger window. When she put the vehicle into drive, Barney unloaded three rounds into her. The state will file at least manslaughter charges, but $20 says Barney skates.

#44 | Posted by dutch46 at 2026-01-12 01:03 AM | Reply

This is beginning to sound increasingly like what's going on in Iran. People getting shot because they are not toeing the line on what's demanded by police state goons.

It is obvious that Good was not after running over any of the ICE agents. She did not pull forward first, she backed up. By her statement, she was not agitated, not upset, not angry, nor frightened, which would be the case if she was to intentionally try to drive over an agent. Instead, she backs up, then turns the wheel, to move out of the way.

Again what we see, is lies right off the bat. Good's body is not cold yet, no one has had time to do an investigation into fault, yet the administration goes right to it's Good's fault and the agent acted correctly. It's done with the usual 'no evidence supplied' at the time they start their lies.

This has been a hallmark of the Turnip administration time and again. Claims, with nothing to back up the claims. Merely the 'we say so'. With claims time and again later turning up to be lies, you can trust nothing coming from the administration.

Good was not an illegal. Nor does it seem that the claim of going after the worst of the worst holds any water, when they are going after those trying to work instead of out committing crimes. Those working to make their own way, are not the worst of the worst.

#45 | Posted by BBQ at 2026-01-12 05:04 AM | Reply

45. Wait. You aren't really going to mention the administrations framing of the incident as self defense ... ... the next day ... .. when the mayor, the police chief, and then Governor were calling it "murder" barely an hour after the shooting??

Please.

BOTH sides are wrong. BOTH sides should have said "we are concerned about the incident that took place. We look forward to a full and thorough accounting of what happened through the upcoming investigation."

But they didn't. The Minneapolis team was immediately fanning the flames of hatred and anger by trying to control the narrative with their claims of "murder" before the body of Ms. Good was even cold.

The administration had to fight that narrative with their own.

It was a repulsive display of vulgarity and ugliness on the part of then Minneapolis leaders.

But of course you completely left that part out.

#46 | Posted by Imshakinitboss at 2026-01-12 05:17 AM | Reply

The message is act stupid you get shot.

The right went from "Don't Tread on Me" to "Tread Harder Daddy" at lightspeed.

#47 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-12 08:42 AM | Reply

"BOTH sides are wrong."

What a joke.

Only one side was so wrong they killed someone.

#48 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-12 09:00 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Defend their neighbors? Yes. That makes sense. Protect pedophiles, fraudsters, spouse abusers...
#43 | Posted by Imshakinitboss at 2026-01-12 12:28 AM"

Didn't see anyone here defending President Trump.

#49 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-01-12 09:08 AM | Reply

"The Minneapolis team was immediately fanning the flames of hatred and anger"

The angry and hateful person in the video is the police officer saying fucking bitch.

#50 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-12 09:12 AM | Reply

*** Good-for-Nothing Billionaire Bill Ackman Opens GoFundMe Page for Jonathan Ross with $10,000 ***

"Billionaire Bill Ackman left a hefty $10,000 donation on a GoFundMe for the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good " and sniveled he had intended to similarly support the slain mother's respective fund, but apparently missed his chance.

A donation on the page set up for Jonathan Ross, who Trumpf junta apparatchiks are covering up for, boasted the top donation from flagitious billionaire William Ackman.

The GoFundMe supporting Good's widowed wife and her children was closed by the organizer after it received more than $1.5m

In October 2025, good-for-no-one oligarch Bill Ackman wasted $1 million on an anti-Zohran Mamdani PAC. GoFundMe is being pressured to remove the drive for ICE neanderthal Jonathan Ross."

Source: Billionaires Are Destroying America

Is there anyone on the planet that thinks billionaire Bill Ackman would hire Jonathan Ross to be one of his bodyguards? Let us all enfaust this good-for-no-one wastrel with a deserving karma:



#51 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-12 09:49 AM | Reply

Who's the new s^*%bag retread?

#52 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-12 10:00 AM | Reply

BOTH sides are wrong.

#46 | POSTED BY IMSHAKINITBO

The truth doesn't have a side.

That you think it does is MAGA culture.

#53 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-12 10:22 AM | Reply

We look forward to a full and thorough accounting of what happened through the upcoming investigation.

#46 | POSTED BY IMSHAKINITBO

That's not going to happen.

YOUR SIDE won't let that happen. Not in YOUR SIDE'S interest.

Ms. Good was murdered for making, at best, a wisecrack.

That's the way everyone (literally) sees it except YOUR SIDE.

YOUR SIDE is not going to stop killing American citizens unless they are forced.

#54 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-12 10:30 AM | Reply

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