Open Thread | Making Clear The Continued Assault Against Women

Posted on January 20, 2026 by rikyrah

They are making it plain. But, those of us who read Project 2025 been knew.

Jesus Freakin Congress
@TheJFreakinC
🚨 If you’re confused why the Trump administration is suddenly claiming there’s “massive fraud” in daycares… without evidence… here’s the reality:

It’s not about fraud.
It’s about defunding childcare.
And it’s laid out plainly in Project 2025.

Project 2025 argues that the federal government should stop supporting large-scale childcare systems and instead “support parents directly” so one parent can stay home.

Sounds benign… until you look closer.

👉 There is no plan to replace a real income.
👉 No wage replacement.
👉 No guarantee families can survive on one paycheck.

“Paying parents to stay home” in Project 2025 does not come anywhere close to replacing what a parent earns in the workforce. It’s not a living wage. It’s not sustainable. It doesn’t cover rent, healthcare, groceries, student loans, or childcare for other kids.

So what’s actually happening?

👉 They want to defund daycare
👉 While not offering a real financial alternative
👉 While cutting programs like Head Start
👉 While rolling back access to birth control and abortion

That’s not support. That’s coercion.

When childcare disappears and reproductive autonomy disappears, women don’t “choose” to leave the workforce… they’re forced out.

This is the pipeline:
• Undermine abortion access
• Restrict contraception
• Defund childcare
• Offer symbolic “parent support” that doesn’t cover lost income
• Push women back into financial dependence

Project 2025 isn’t subtle about its worldview. It prioritizes a single-income, male-breadwinner household… without building an economy where that’s actually possible.

So when you hear panic about “daycare fraud,” understand what’s really being set up:

No childcare.
No reproductive choice.
No real economic alternative.

That’s not family values.
That’s economic and government control.

The more financial desperate families get, the more the rich can exploit the working class.
5:58 PM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2008327251981463774?s=20

Jesus Freakin Congress
@TheJFreakinC
And notice how “fraud” is only happening in blue states, when red states receive the most federal assistance?
6:53 AM · Jan 6, 2026
https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2008522199989383601?s=20

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Happy Birthday, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted on January 19, 2026 by rikyrah

Today is the official celebration of the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Look Back-1965 Selma March

This is my favorite section from

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]”

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, “Wait.” But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?”; when you take a cross county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading “white” and “colored”; when your first name becomes “nigger,” your middle name becomes “boy” (however old you are) and your last name becomes “John,” and your wife and mother are never given the respected title “Mrs.”; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness”–then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an “I it” relationship for an “I thou” relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has said that sin is separation. Is not segregation an existential expression of man’s tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness? Thus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.

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Weekend Open Thread

Posted on January 17, 2026 by rikyrah

Good Morning. I hope that you are enjoying this weekend, fully vaccinated and boosted, with family and friends. That new booster shot has been approved..be sure to get it. Call and see if your pharmacy has it.

Order your free COVID Tests., if you still can.

MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸
@MAGACult2
ANONYMOUS LETTER FROM A MINNESOTA EDUCATOR ON THE GROUND

I am a lifelong resident of Minneapolis and an educator who teaches at both a high school and a college here in the city. I have friends, family, colleagues, and students across the political spectrum. I am writing as an American citizen who loves this country and is deeply frightened by what I am witnessing in my city.

Before becoming an educator, I worked with Homeland Security in the early 2000s as a theft and fraud investigator for a major insurance company. I had direct exposure to federal law enforcement at that time. What is happening now does not resemble the agencies or officers I knew then. The ICE agents operating here appear poorly trained, are acting with little oversight, and are being encouraged to treat residents as enemies. They are operating with total impunity. That should concern everyone.

There is widespread disinformation about what is happening in Minnesota. I am asking people, regardless of politics, to stop relying on national pundits and political talking points and instead look to local reporting and firsthand accounts from people who live here. What is happening is real, ongoing, and deeply disturbing.

I am not a protester. I have not attended demonstrations. I am in classrooms and on campuses every day. What follows is what I have personally witnessed, along with what has been consistently reported to me by colleagues, students, parents, and neighbors with a wide range of political beliefs.

Here is what I have seen and experienced:
– Female friends who are U.S. citizens aggressively restrained, choked, forced into vehicles, and detained.
– Native American individuals detained, including citizens and members of sovereign tribal nations.
– ICE agents staking out high school and college campuses, then denying their presence to administrators and local law enforcement.
– I have been followed for miles after leaving a school parking lot by an ICE agent who only turned away after prolonged tailing.
– Emergency sirens at levels I have never experienced living here, including during 9/11, the 2008 Republican National Convention, and the George Floyd uprising.
– ICE agents running residential license plates, pulling personal data, and approaching people already knowing their names and addresses.
– Agents positioned outside churches, schools, and grocery stores, blocking traffic, yelling at residents, and intimidating EVERYONE, including people who are not protesting.
– White residents being offered money or “protection” in exchange for informing on neighbors labeled as non-citizens or “leftist protesters.”
– Door-to-door activity in Minneapolis and St. Paul, with local news now running nightly segments on what to do if ICE comes to your door.
– School buses rerouted to pick up students at individual homes because children are too afraid to walk.
– Parents emailing me asking what will happen to their children if they are detained.
– School administrators stated that local police will not intervene if ICE violates rights on private school property without a warrant.
– Reports from detainees of no bathroom privacy, including officers watching women use the restroom.
– Arrests occurring on highways, with abandoned vehicles left behind, causing multiple accidents.
– There are thousands of ICE agents operating here. It feels like an occupation.
– Residents have also documented aerial surveillance during enforcement activity, including drones over neighborhoods and public spaces. Community-recorded video shows drones hovering while individuals on the ground are followed or detained. Regardless of stated purpose, the effect is widespread fear, self-censorship, and the feeling of being monitored simply for existing in public.

What makes this even more frightening is the complete failure of political leadership.

Republican lawmakers from rural Minnesota openly cheer this enforcement without concern for the harm it is causing to Minnesota families, children, and communities. Democratic leaders speak about stopping it in press conferences but are not on the ground and are not backing their words with action. They return to their homes each night while families here live in fear.

Politicians and Government officials are playing with people’s lives.

I have never been this scared living in Minnesota. Not during past protests. Not during moments of national crisis. The fear now is constant and destabilizing because it is happening in everyday places: churches, schools, grocery stores, neighborhoods, and homes.

I do not care what your politics are. This is wrong and should not be happening in America.

This is not about border security or state fraud. This is about retribution for being a “blue state,” intimidation, surveillance, and the erosion of basic civil rights in a major American city, carried out openly and without accountability. We are being made an example.

We need help. If the government, law enforcement, and politicians will not protect people, then it is up to us to protect each other.

Ways to Help:
Legal Support
Immigrant Defense Network (COPAL) https://copalmn.org
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota https://ilcm.org
National Lawyers Guild

Home


MIRAC
https://miracmn.org
ICE Watch & Community Defense
Defend 612 https://defend612.com
Minnesota 50501

Home

Food & Mutual Aid
HelpMe Connect https://helpmeconnect.web.health.state.mn.us
Twin Cities Mutual Aid Project https://tcmutualaid.org
La Viña Church
https://lavinachurch.org
People Helping People https://peoplehelpingpeople.org
DHH Church Food Support https://dhhchurch.org

Please rely on local Minnesota news outlets, not national commentary, for accurate reporting. Please share this widely.

People are being harmed. Minnesota residents regardless of their politics are terrified and angry. Misinformation only allows this to continue.

— Sincerely,
An Anonymous Minnesota Educator
https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/2011434172498231640

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Open Thread | Think On This…..Very Interesting…

Posted on January 15, 2026 by rikyrah

This was a very interesting thread.

Sassiest Minx nka Petty Betty 🐆 🇺🇸
@SassiestMinx
I had a disciplined update drafted, but events have moved faster than even I expected. A thread.

First, a baseline reminder:

Congressional Republicans will never arrive at impeachment the way Democrats do.
They will not frame it around morality, cruelty, victims, or outrage, even if those factors exist privately.
Republicans act when institutions stop functioning and they lose power as a result. I hesitate to call out only impeachment in this analysis. Instead, I am using “institutional change” to encompass both that, and removal of the Speaker, and more sudden & unexpected retirement/resignation announcements.

If movement happens, it will be justified as restoring order, preserving Congress’s constitutional role, and making governance possible again. The language will be procedural, restrained, and frankly boring on purpose.

If you’re waiting for Republicans to say, “Trump crossed a moral line,” you’ll wait forever.
If you’re watching for Republicans to say, calmly, “this is no longer sustainable,” you’re watching the right thing.

Here are the signals that have happened congress went in to recess, which is the date I’m using as a timeline marker.

1. Elite Donors and Corporate Power Have Gone Quiet.
During the election, inauguration, and through late December, major corporate and financial figures were publicly engaged: congratulatory statements, “working together” language, meetings, photo-ops, and selective policy support.

Since the VE attacks, that engagement has collapsed into silence. They are not defending Trump’s actions. They are not amplifying his agenda. They are not publicly owning outcomes. This is not neutrality. This is reputational risk containment.

When elite actors go quiet all at once and/or pushback (See: oil companies), it usually means they no longer believe defending the governing trajectory is worth the downside risk. That matters, a lot.
10:28 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Sassiest Minx nka Petty Betty 🐆 🇺🇸
@SassiestMinx
2. A Senior, Institutionally Respected Republican Drew a Structural Red Line.

I’ve been watching for a very specific moment: a senior Republican, not a MAGA firebrand and not a habitual dissenter, publicly rebuking Trump over function, not morality.

That happened!!!!!

Tom Tillis went on the Senate floor and drew a clear red line around Greenland, not because it’s “wrong,” but because it breaks institutional order and bypasses Congress.

His tone wasn’t fear or performative outrage. It was exasperation and the sound of someone who has already processed the implications.

Important point:
You do not do this publicly unless you’ve already taken the temperature privately!!!! You only do it if you have support, even if it is private support for now.
10:28 AM · Jan 11, 2026

Sassiest Minx nka Petty Betty 🐆 🇺🇸
@SassiestMinx
3. Leadership Has Gone Silent Instead of Directive.

In moments of crisis, functional leadership (Speaker, majority and minority leaders, whips, committee chairs) does one of two things: coordinates messaging, or goes quiet when coordination isn’t possible. Speaker Johnson has done the latter. Remember, the GOP just held it’s “start of the session” pep rally, uh, “retreat” on MONDAY! Messaging has already fallen apart.

There has been no leadership attempt to reframe recent events, set narrative boundaries, or align the caucus around all of Trump’s actions and proposals. Instead, leadership communications have retreated to safe, generic content. That absence is not accidental. It suggests internal disagreement strong enough to prevent unified messaging. Johnson didn’t even take a side on the Renee Good murder. Instead, he posted a sort of “Happy Local Police” post on X right after the Mpls shooting. He’s acting as if this event never happened. However, you can darn well be assured Levitt and team, including DT, have told him to get out there are tow the Trump line, to create unified Republican messaging. That’s his job. He didn’t and couldn’t.

That, IMO, is exactly why Vance was sent instead. Normally, you’d see Johnson in the hallways of the Capitol talking to reporters, or holding a presser, right? Not this time. He’s gone quiet since the 17 Republicans threatened him with ouster & voted yes on the restoration of ACA subsidies.
10:28 AM · Jan 11, 2026

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Open Thread | Our Standing In The World

Posted on January 14, 2026 by rikyrah

This says so much.

Farrukh
@implausibleblog
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that the United States is destroying the world order:

“But there is also the fact that our most important partner, the United States, has broken with the values that it helped to establish and, above all, has played a decisive role in shaping over decades”

“In my opinion, we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe”

“Both disrespect and erosion are well advanced. I believe that, and I want to emphasise it a little”

“Today, the aim is to prevent the world from turning into a den of thieves, where the most unscrupulous take what they want”

“Where regions and entire countries are treated as property rather than major powers”

“Where even medium-sized states, such as ours, are being pushed to the margins of history, and where smaller and weaker states are left completely unprotected”
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/2009373856385876129?s=20

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Open Thread | They Are Now Trying To Attack Fed. Chair Jerome Powell

Posted on January 13, 2026 by rikyrah

Colby Smith
@colbyLsmith
Former Fed chairs and Treasury secretaries put out a statement on Monday defending Powell after the Justice Department opened up a criminal investigation of the chair, likening the move to what happens in emerging markets https://jointstatement.substack.com/p/statement-on-the-federal-reserve
https://x.com/colbyLsmith/status/2010731616684187782

Jason Furman
@jasonfurman
Every former living Fed Chair (Bernanke, Greenspan, Yellen)

Bipartisan former Treasury Secretaries (Geithner, Paulson, others)

Bipartisan former CEA Chairs (Hubbard, Mankiw, Romer–and me)

This is not a difficult or controversial issue. The attack on Powell is dangerous.
https://x.com/jasonfurman/status/2010737147129774577

Colby Smith
@colbyLsmith
NEW: Powell’s decision to respond directly by video on Sunday to the criminal investigation reflected the explosive nature of the Justice Dept’s move.

He worked through the weekend with advisers, culminating in him bluntly calling out the administration for trying to coerce the central bank into lowering rates

Powell’s decision to push back tees up the most challenging moment in his 8 years at the helm of the central bank. Powell, whose term as chair ends in May, must now decide how hard to continue fighting and whether to remain in his role as a governor, a term that ends in 2028.

https://nytimes.com/2026/01/12/business/federal-reserve-changes-course-trump-administration.html
@nytimes
https://x.com/colbyLsmith/status/2010738900566732831?s=20

Annmarie Hordern
@annmarie
FHFA Director Bill Pulte was a driving force behind the Trump administration’s decision to subpoena the Federal Reserve, according to people familiar. Some of Trump’s allies were alarmed by the move, fearing a legal fight aimed at Powell will upset the bond market.
https://x.com/annmarie/status/2010659067773984790?s=20

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Open Thread | Red State Voters….Do You Finally Get It?

Posted on January 12, 2026 by rikyrah

There is nothing positive for the American Voter that comes from the Republican Party. Everything they do is to hurt the average American Voter.

Popular Liberal 🇺🇸
@PopularLiberal
RED STATES BLEED BLUE!
NEW: January 1, 2026—the day Florida, Texas, and every other Republican-led state finally realize the ACA they’ve been roasting is the oxygen mask keeping their families alive. CBS just aired Floridians sobbing: “I voted red—why can’t healthcare be like the Democrats said, just… human?”

Irony is dead: GOP states suck the ACA teat harder than blue ones, yet their leaders went to court 96 times trying to kill it.

Now Musk, Trump, and House Republicans whisper “it’ll be fine” while subsidies vanish and premiums skyrocket. Translation: your lifesaving chemo becomes their next tax cut.

Republican voters—SNAP, housing, ACA—you’re on every program you scream against. Coward influencers call you “patriots” for handing your own kids’ insulin money to billionaires. 96 court cases. 20 years of lies. They’re not “fixing” healthcare—they’re privatizing your heartbeat.

2026 and 2028 are the receipts. Step outside the tribe, America. Save your family’s life. Vote like your next breath depends on it—because it literally does.
https://x.com/PopularLiberal/status/2006831664110928035?s=20

Make it obvious. Make it plain.

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Starting today, around 22 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare, about 92% of all enrollees, will see their tax credits run out.

The average recipient will likely see their premiums more than double in 2026.

Certain people — including residents of many states that voted for Trump in 2024 — will be more financially exposed to a subsidy lapse.
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2006535876805906587?s=20

Steven Rattner
@SteveRattner
Florida, Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia stand to suffer the most from the Obamacare subsidy expiration because they haven’t expanded Medicaid, leaving many low-income households uninsured.

My
@Morning_Joe
Chart
https://x.com/SteveRattner/status/2008868755573723604?s=20

Of course, the Democrats are trying to help.

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Weekend Open Thread

Posted on January 10, 2026 by rikyrah

Good Morning. I hope that you are enjoying this weekend, fully vaccinated and boosted, with family and friends. That new booster shot has been approved..be sure to get it. Call and see if your pharmacy has it.

Order your free COVID Tests., if you still can.

One of the most important people of the 20th Century that you’ve probably never heard of.

Jerry Mitchell
@JMitchellNews
#OnThisDay in 1939, news broke that Pauli Murray had applied to a Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina, sparking white outrage across the state.

“Members of your race are not admitted to the university,” her rejection letter read.

“The days immediately following the first press stories were anxious ones for me,” she recalled. “I had touched the raw nerve of white supremacy in the South.”

A year later, she was jailed twice in Virginia for refusing to give her seat on a Greyhound bus. She graduated first in her class at Howard University School of Law, but Harvard University wouldn’t accept her because of her gender. (Harvard didn’t admit women until 1950.) Instead, she became the first Black student to receive Yale Law School’s most advanced degree.

In 1942, she helped George Houser, James Farmer and Bayard Rustin form the Congress of Racial Equality, known as CORE. Four years later, she became a deputy attorney general in California. Thurgood Marshall described her 1951 book, “States’ Laws on Race and Color,” as the “bible” for civil rights lawyers.

A year later, she lost her post at Cornell University because of McCarthyism. She left her law career to work on her writing at MacDowell Colony, a haven for artists and writers in New Hampshire, where she worked on her first memoir alongside James Baldwin.

“Writing is my catharsis,” she said in an interview. “It saved my sanity. But you cannot sustain anger for years and years. It will kill you.”

She researched her ancestry. “If you call me Black, it’s ridiculous physiologically, isn’t it? I’m probably 5/8 white, 2/8 Negro — repeat American Negro — and 1/8 American Indian,” she said. “I began years before Alex Haley did. I’m always ahead of my time.”

She also penned a book of poems, “Dark Testament,” writing the words, “Hope is a song in a weary throat.”

During her time as a professor in Ghana in the early 1960s, she began to accept that ancestry, she said.

“The difficulty is coming to terms with a mixed ancestry in a racist culture,” she said.

She said she didn’t consider her experience unique.

“I don’t believe that, ‘You came over in chains so how can you feel American?’ That’s poppycock. Thousands are just like me. In fact I probably feel more American than many whites. I just want this country to live up to its billing.”

After returning from Africa, President Kennedy appointed her to his Committee on Civil and Political Rights. She worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and other top civil rights leaders and took part in the 1963 March on Washington. But she remained critical of “the blatant disparity between the major role which (Black) women have played and are playing in the crucial grass-roots levels of our struggle and the minor role of leadership they have been assigned in the national policy-making decisions.”

She helped found the National Organization of Women. In 1977, she became the first Black woman to serve as an Episcopal priest.

“Being a priest is the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” she said. “The first 48 hours were the most difficult of my life. I found myself on the receiving end of tremendous human problems I didn’t know how to handle.”

She rejected the idea that she should slow down. “We shouldn’t stop growing ‘til our last breath,” she said. She died eight years later, and in 2012, the Episcopal church named her as a saint.

In 2021, a documentary on Murray was released, using her own voice and words as narration. The documentary also includes an interview with law professor Anita Hill.

Even though Murray knew that the odds were often against her success, she kept fighting for what she believed was right,” Hill said. “It takes a lot of courage to be hopeful.”

1939: Pauli Murray applies to University of North Carolina


https://x.com/JMitchellNews/status/2008156199020109857?s=20

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ICE Shoots and Kills a Woman In Minneapolis

Posted on January 7, 2026 by rikyrah

UPDATE:

Her name was RENEE GOOD.
She died at the scene.

Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar
Renee Nicole Good was a mother of three, including a 6-year-old boy who is now an orphan.

Renee was deeply loved by many. Her mom described her as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”

This is who we lost yesterday. By refusing to coordinate with local law enforcement, ICE is not making our community safe. It is making it less safe.
https://x.com/amyklobuchar/status/2009260996603293953?s=20

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
@NoLieWithBTC
This is Renee Good.

She was a mother of a six-year-old child.

She was an American citizen.

She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”

And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
https://x.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/2009054060956274797

Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
A doctor tried to save Renee Good after she was shot in Minneapolis.

ICE agents stopped him.

They claimed they had medics.
They blocked paramedics down the road.

They refused all outside aid.

When the doctor identified himself as a physician, ICE’s response was simple:

“I don’t care.”

That’s a regime that decided she was disposable.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2009067124606509527?s=20

Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE. She wasn’t just killed, she was murdered.

The right was already trying to vilify her before we even knew her name. But I’m just going to say it…

They’re going to have a much harder time doing that this time.

She’s not Brown.
She’s not Black.
She’s white.
5:44 PM · Jan 7, 2026
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2009048460826435712?s=20

Evan Hill
@evanhill
Witness account of ICE shooting in Minneapolis this morning
https://x.com/evanhill/status/2008950593067602017?s=20

Don Winslow
@donwinslow
A source just told me that ICE is rushing the ICE agent who committed the murder out of the state.
5:02 PM · Jan 7, 2026
https://x.com/donwinslow/status/2009037986781122748?s=20

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Open Thread | They Are Going To Kill Children With These Decisions..Everyone Who Voted to Approve RFK Jr., Should Be Held Responsible for the Disaster About to Happen

Posted on January 7, 2026 by rikyrah

THIS WILL RESULT IN THE DEATHS OF CHILDREN.
THERE IS NO OTHER RESULT POSSIBLE.

THIS WILL KILL PEOPLE.

EVERY SENATOR WHO VOTED FOR THIS UNQUALIFIED MAN SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE RESULTS OF THEIR VOTES.

The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: The U.S. drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child in an unprecedented overhaul of childhood health protections.
https://x.com/AP/status/2008257668452847926?s=20

Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran
It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.

This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
1:38 PM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/luckytran/status/2008261731685208219?s=20

g.
@GeauxGabrielle
FACT: 1 in 6 people who get bacterial meningitis die.

And even if you live, if you dont get treatment fast enough, it leads to deafness, neurological damage, and even amputation of limbs.
https://x.com/GeauxGabrielle/status/2008343787672584485?s=20

Neil Stone
@DrNeilStone
Meningitis can kill kids within hours

CDC data shows meningococcal vaccines reduced U.S cases by over 75% since 2005 with effectiveness exceeding 90% in young children.

It was just DROPPED from the routine schedule

RFK Jr acting out his anti vax fantasy.

Kids will die.
https://x.com/DrNeilStone/status/2008293714880282772?s=20

Dr. Annie Andrews
@AnnieAndrewsMD
I have a story to share about Neisseria meningitidis, the bacteria the meningitis vaccine protects us against.

Not for the faint of heart. But PLEASE listen up and protect your children, despite what RFK Jr. and his brain worm tell you.
https://x.com/AnnieAndrewsMD/status/2008563598289928677?s=20

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