“Days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a Minneapolis woman in an incident that was captured on video, voters 82 – 18 percent say they have seen a video of the shooting and a majority (53 percent) think the shooting was not justified, 35 percent think it was justified, and 12 percent did not offer an opinion, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll of registered voters released today. There are differences based on political party and gender. Republicans (77 – 10 percent) think the shooting was justified, while Democrats (92 – 4 percent) and independents (59 – 28 percent) think the shooting was not justified,” says a brief Quinnipiac poll conducted January 8th – 12th following the murder of Renee Good.

Following up on CBS News’s Tuesday morning story about an exodus from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division over the orders not to open up an investigation into ICE agent Jonathan Ross over the murder of Renee Good, the New York Times adds to the disgraceful picture with additional reporting that the top three prosecutors in the Minnesota US Attorney’s office quit when they were commanded to open an investigation into Good’s widow, Rebecca, who was present at the scene.

The most on-brand part of this is that one of the guys who quit, Deputy US Attorney Joseph H Thompson, oversaw all the prosecutions into the welfare fraud in the state and obviously had been tasked with continuing those cases, the fraud being the whole reason ICE is in Minneapolis now.

The CEO of a Troy, Michigan “private health care investment firm and search fund platform” business resigned on Saturday, two days after he was caught on video in Minneapolis screaming “The storm is here … no one can stop what is coming” to the “fucking terrorist” libs protesting ICE in the city, calling for “patriots” to “get out here. We need the backup,” and warning “all you liberal, commie motherfuckers, keep your hands to yourself or you’re going to get hurt today, alright? We executed one of you yesterday,” referring to Renee Good, USA Today reports on a woke cancelation.

“It is with a sad heart I announce my departure and formal resignation of Harmony Investment Group, With recent developments in America, the board and I have decieded [sic], we have different views of the future of America. It was a great run. We built many great things. Mountains were moved. Fortunes were made. Until next time, So long my friends. Thank you for everything,” wrote Jayden Scott, a skinny, kind-of hipster-looking douche who talked a much bigger game when he had what the video showed to be at least a dozen ICE agents behind him as he screamed.

He also fucked up in admitting that Good was “executed.” It was supposed to be “self-defense.”

“Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away. He was a fantastic guy, who liked and respected me when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. He bravely fought a long battle against a terrible disease. My condolences go out to his family, and all of his many friends and listeners. He will be truly missed. God bless you Scott!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Tuesday, mourning a cartoonist who got canceled because he screamed “fuck Black people” three years ago.

“Chairman Comer, We want to take a moment, given everything, to address you directly. This past year has seen our Government engage in unprecedented acts, including against our own citizens. People have been seized by masked federal agents from their homes, their workplaces, and the streets of their communities. Students and scientists with visas permitting them to study and work here have been deported without due process. The people who laid siege to the US Capitol have been pardoned and called heroes. Agencies vital to the country’s national security have been dismantled. Universities, media companies, and law firms have been subjected to threats to their funding, access, and licensing unless they made concessions and surrendered their right to constitutionally protected free speech. American troops have been deployed on the streets of our towns and cities. The Justice Department has been used as a weapon, at the direction of the President, to pursue political opponents. And most recently and searingly, an ICE agent killed an unarmed mother only days ago. Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences.”

“For us, now is that time,” write Bill and Hillary Clinton in a letter to House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer responding to his subpoenas for their testimony in the Epstein investigation.

Might’ve been a little more morally defensible if this was about something else.

“Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Tuesday, obviously deeply concerned for the regular folks of Iran.

However, make some small edits to change it to “Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY,” and everyone’s like “LMAO! Trump would never post something like that. That’s fake news!”

A smarter fascist state would have put Jonathan Good on trial and then purposely engineered the case so that the jurors would have to find him not guilty rather than just pretending he acted appropriately.

Since being told straight up that millions of fucking morons and moral cowards only realize now that they were lied to about groceries magically becoming more affordable so they could keep a vile obese old degenerate from dying in prison isn’t torture enough for readers, here’s some fun international news: The AP reports from Seoul that independent counsel Cho Eun-suk on Tuesday demanded that a court sentence disgraced former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to death for his YouTube conspiracy bullshit-inspired December 2024 imposition of martial law.

According to the AP however, experts say it’s more likely Yoon will get life in prison. Which, no matter where you may stand on capital punishment as a moral quandary, is unlikely to be his ultimate fate. Sooner or later some right wing government is going to return to power and claim a mandate sizable enough to walk it back – whether it’s a commutation or at least giving Yoon a cushier carceral living situation and then eventually a supervised release or whatever. It could take a decade or two, maybe longer, but the fact is that Yoon’s not a serial killer or a drug cartel boss where the offense is universally recognized as a serious harm inflicted on the public. One day the majority of South Koreans will have moved on and no longer care about the near-destruction of their democracy by a madman who got pilled on what was essentially localized QAnon bullshit.

Now don’t take that as an argument for executing Yoon so much as a consideration that its irreversibility would not be limited to just his body temperature. Really the question boils down to whether his crimes are not okay in the sense that he can do a 15 or so year “life” sentence or if they’re so not okay that he needs to pay the ultimate price as a deterrent to those who would study his mistakes to learn how to get it right next time. Maybe a noose should be part of their calculus.

“Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which their are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention. All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden’s HORRIBLE Open Border’s Policy. Every place we go, crime comes down. In Chicago, despite a weak and incompetent Governor and Mayor fighting us all the way, a big improvement was made. Thousands of Criminals were removed! Minnesota Democrats love the unrest that anarchists and professional agitators are causing because it gets the spotlight off of the 19 Billion Dollars that was stollen by really bad and deranged people. FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION IS COMING!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Tuesday.

Well that’s a pitch to the Twin Cities. It’s like he expects them to say “Well when you put it that way, we totally support ICE going to door to door and systematically ransacking our homes searching for undocumented migrants. And he’s so right about it all being a distraction from the 19 Billion Dollars that was stollen.” Now maybe it would be better to just not make any pitch at all and simply leave ICE to do their “job.” This whole trying to pay tribute to virtue thing rings a little hollow when nobody’s under any notion that this isn’t all just kayfabe of a “fuck you” to Minneapolis for not voting for Republicans, all ready made as spank material for Fox News viewers who need their rage fix.

Trump’s will is being imposed on the city whether they like it or not. No need for him to waste what little executive function capacity is left in his rapidly decaying mind coming up with a “rationale.”

What’s the harm in telling Newsmax viewers that Republicans are working on a bill to denaturalize and deport any immigrant convicted of any type of fraud that will never pass the Senate without filibuster reform which the GOP does not want to do and thereby creating the expectation that they’re actually doing something? It’s not like MAGA voters are ever going to hold them accountable.

In a letter obtained by CBS News, House Judiciary Ranking Dem Jamie Raskin on Tuesday demanded dog-murdering Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a cough up all “records, documents, memos, and internal communications regarding the solicitation and hiring of anyone charged or investigated for actions in connection to the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.”

The letter upfront acknowledges that it’s unclear how many “have been invited to join the ranks of this Administration, including among the masked Department of Homeland Security agents and officers,” but since nobody with a functioning brain thinks it’s zero, Raskin operates on the assumption that yes, there are probably at least several. “Unique among all law enforcement agencies and all branches of the armed services, ICE agents conceal their identities, wearing masks and removing names from their uniforms,” the Maryland liberal wrote in the letter.

Does this mean Noem is going to respond? No, lol. But the point is to mobilize Dem voters for the midterms by previewing how the next Congress is going to go should the Ds win the majority.

At least four top Justice Department officials in the Civil Rights Division’s unit that investigates fatal law enforcement shootings have resigned over their scumbag Trump minion boss Harmeet Dhillon’s refusal to open a probe into the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, MS Now reports.

Possibly hoping to tide over players disappointed with having to wait at least another 11 months for the twice-delayed Grand Theft Auto VI, publisher Rockstar Games last month released an update to the now-nearly 13 year-old Grand Theft Auto V with a cool new custom mission creator mode that allows them to dream up their own violent mayhem scenarios and share them with other fans.

Yet, according to Kotaku, for a game franchise that for decades has been famous not only allowing but pretty much outright encouraging players to massacre innocent, unarmed civilians and responding cops, the publisher’s moderation team were curiously discomfited by one creator’s reenactment of one recent incident of violent mayhem and promptly removed it from the listings.

Probably because they were afraid of offending the kind of people who last week posted joke Craigslist ads about a used Honda Pilot with some bullet holes in the windshield for sale.

You will not be surprised to learn that, according to the New York Times’s sources, federal investigators are scrutinizing murder victim Renee Good to try to find if she had any ties to left wing groups while it’s also “increasingly unlikely” that ICE agent Jonathan Ross “will face criminal charges, although that could change as investigators collect new evidence,” the Times writes.

So really they just want to make it sound like Good, a mother of three, was a “terrorist” to further justify her murder by Ross while Ross himself is apparently in protective custody.

Insufferably pro-Israel Hedge fund douchebag Bill Ackman apparently donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe campaign for ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s legal defense – a campaign launched and managed by a Michigan man named Clyde Emmons, whose Facebook profile pic was of a Hitler salute – or was until the Intercept’s Jacqueline Sweet asked him about it and changed it afterward.

The GoFundMe has raised nearly $500,000 “for” Ross as of this writing. Who the hell knows how much some random racist MAGA asshole in Michigan is going to take for his cut. Now petty and silly as it seems to be ragging on Mediaite for a simple mistake in their coverage, especially when they picked up the Ackman and antisemitism angle earlier on Monday, there’s actually something revealingly on-brand of white nationalist Trump fanboys in the mess. In the latter article Mediaite identified Ackman as a donor to a campaign that, before its creator made some edits, said:

“But this didn’t happen in a vacuum – it’s the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish) fanning the flames of resistance. Frey blasted ICE after the incident, telling them to ‘get the f- out’ of his city, signing executive orders banning federal agents from using city property for deportations and even warning that ICE agents could get ‘killed’ if they keep removing invaders from his sanctuary cesspool,” wrote Tom Hennessey, emphasis added on the part that was later edited out of the crowdfund campaign’s description on GiveSendGo.

But Ackman donated via GoFundMe, meaning that Mediaite misidentified which fanboy had organized the campaign had donated to and which site it’s hosted on. They did not however misidentify which one was launched by a far right antisemite, because both evidently hate Jews.

“This morning, I gave a speech noting how Donald Trump is driving up costs for families, sowing terror and chaos in our communities, and abusing his power to prosecute anyone who criticizes him. I also laid out an argument for how Democrats should fight back and win. In my remarks, I made it clear that despite promising to lower costs On Day One, Trump has done nothing but raise costs for families. I said that if he really wants to get something done, including capping credit card interest rates or lowering housing costs, he would use his leverage and pick up the phone.”

“After my speech, the President called me, and I delivered this same message on affordability to him directly. I told him that Congress can pass legislation to cap credit card rates if he will actually fight for it. I also urged him to get House Republicans to pass the bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act, which passed the Senate with unanimous support and would build more housing and lower costs. No more delays. It’s time to deliver relief for American families,” says Massachusetts Senator Liz Warren in a statement on Monday, showing how easily the fat bastard can be goaded into reacting.

So sick of constant Kremlin fuckery is Moldovan President Maia Sandu that she told a UK politics podcast that she would vote in favor of ending Moldova and ceding to neighboring European Union and NATO member Romania rather than continue as an independent nation, Reuters reports.

“If ‌we have a referendum, I would vote for the unification with Romania. Look at what is happening in the world. It is getting more and more difficult ​for a small country like Moldova to survive as a ‌democracy, as a sovereign country, and of course to resist Russia,” said Sandu, who would be abolishing her office and would have to run for president all over again if she wants to lead Romania.

The only question now is whether Greenland’s prime minister read this Reuters article and then started playing Rush while thinking about what it’d be like to have a Tim Hortons franchise in Nuuk.