JD Vance defends Minnesota shooting as self-defence amid immigration crackdown

The report / written article has several sections with different versions.  But it seems clear that Gestapo leader Stephen Miller is pushing everyone to send the message to ICE thugs and all right wing news media that the government would shield ICE gang thugs as long as they kept the harassment and terrorizing the brown people.  The goal of ICE is to make brown people too scared for their lives to stay in the country or come here.  The goal of the government is to force the public into instant obedience and to never protest anything the tRump people do or demand no matter how illegal, abusive, or scamming.   Hugs

A third officer, positioned in front of her car on the left, drew his gun and fired three times while jumping back, with the last shots aimed through the driver’s window after the car’s bumper appeared to have cleared his body.

The video did not appear to show contact and the officer stayed on his feet, though Ms Noem said he was taken to a hospital and released.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-09/minneapolis-shooting-fbi-bca-blocked/106212576

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ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis.

In short:

US Vice-President JD Vance says an ICE officer was clearly justified in shooting a woman during an immigration enforcement surge.

Minnesota authorities have accused the FBI of seeking to block their access to an investigation into the death of Renee Nicole Good, 37. 

What’s next?

Protesters have taken to the streets and some local schools have cancelled classes for the day.

US Vice-President JD Vance has defended the immigration agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman amid tensions between state and federal officials.

Renee Nicole Good was shot in the head in front of a family member on Wednesday, local time, during an immigration enforcement surge.

Mr Vance said the shooting was justified and that Ms Good was a “victim of left-wing ideology”.

“I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognising that it is a tragedy of her own making,” he said.

Mr Vance said the officer was clearly acting in self-defence.

A piece of paper stapled to a powerline saying "RIP Renee" with a photo of her.

There has been an outpouring of grief and anger in the community following the shooting. (AP: Mike Householder)

FBI ‘reversed course’ over joint probe

Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said it had been blocked by the FBI from taking part in a joint investigation into the shooting.

Following the shooting, the BCA initially said it had agreed to jointly investigate the shooting with the FBI.

But on Thursday, a day after the shooting, BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said the federal agency had “reversed course” and taken sole control over the probe.

He said that step meant the state bureau would no longer have access to the scene evidence, case materials or interviews.

“As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation,” Superintendent Evans said.

The FBI and the office of US Attorney Daniel Rosen, the chief federal prosecutor in Minneapolis, did not immediately respond to questions about the BCA statement.

Keith Ellison, the state’s Democratic attorney general, told CNN the FBI’s decision was “deeply disturbing” and said state authorities could investigate with or without the cooperation of the federal government.

A maroon car with yellow police tape around it

Renee Nicole Good was shot inside her car on Wednesday, local time. (Reuters: Tim Evans)

Ms Good’s death has left Minneapolis on edge, with protesters taking to the streets in anger and schools cancelling classes as a precaution on Thursday.

Minnesota and Trump administration officials have offered starkly different accounts of the shooting, with US President Donald Trump describing the slain woman as a “professional agitator”.

Democratic politicians and protesters have contested that claim, with the Minneapolis City Council saying she was “out caring for her neighbours” and died “at the hands of the federal government”.

Vance says officer deserves gratitude

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Wednesday, local time, that the officer who shot Ms Good had been “dragged” by a vehicle during a previous incident in June.

According to court documents, the officer was part of a team trying to apprehend a man in the country illegally.

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JD Vance defended the shooting as self-defence during a press conference on Thursday. (Reuters: Kevin Lamarque)

He broke a window and reached into the vehicle, attempting to open the door when the driver sped off, dragging the officer the length of a football field in 12 seconds.

The officer’s right arm was bleeding, and an FBI agent applied a tourniquet.

He was transported to a hospital, where he received more than 50 stitches.

Prosecutors said he had “suffered multiple large cuts and abrasions to his knee, elbow, and face”.

Mr Vance said the ICE officer “deserves a debt of gratitude”.

“This is a guy who’s actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America,” he said.

“He’s been assaulted. He’s been attacked. He’s been injured because of it.”

City and state officials blame immigration surge for shooting

A heavily armoured police officer spraying a chemical agent at a crowd.

Federal authorities in Minneapolis used chemical agents on protesters during democrations on Thursday, a day after the shooting. (AP: Tom Baker)

The agent was among 2,000 federal officers that the Trump administration had announced it was deploying to the Minneapolis area in what the Department of Homeland Security described as the “largest DHS operation ever”.

But Wednesday’s shooting drew immediate condemnation from city and state officials who blamed Mr Trump’s immigration enforcement surge for sowing chaos in the city’s streets.

DHS officials, including Ms Noem, defended the shooting as self-defence and accused the woman of trying to ram agents in an act of “domestic terrorism”.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, called that assertion “bulls**t” and “garbage” based on bystander videos taken of the incident that appeared to contradict the government’s account.

Videos showed two masked officers approaching Ms Good’s car, which was stopped at a perpendicular angle on a Minneapolis street.

As one officer ordered Ms Good out of the car and grabbed at her door handle, the car briefly reversed and then began driving forward, turning to the right in an apparent attempt to leave the scene.

A third officer, positioned in front of her car on the left, drew his gun and fired three times while jumping back, with the last shots aimed through the driver’s window after the car’s bumper appeared to have cleared his body.

The video did not appear to show contact and the officer stayed on his feet, though Ms Noem said he was taken to a hospital and released.

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Minnesota officials forced out of ICE shooting investigation as public trust erodes

I am SCARED

I Have Been Compared To A Bear Before,

and this is why. MUTTS struck me today, because I feel exhausted and wish to hibernate. All’s well; some days are just like that, you know? 🥱 🙂

(This is nice; it’s the rest of the MUTTS email.)

“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”

Charles M. Schulz

The Social Psychology Behind the Trans Terrorism Panic

Randy in a post asked the question I think many ask here.  Why do I champion the trans community so forcefully?  Nan asked me a few years ago if I was feeling like I was trans, and no I am a cis gay male and happy in it.  Although if not for my past I would have liked to be free to explore a more feminine side of myself.  Ron and I do have trans people in our family but I have never met them.  The truth is in the page why I do this.  I want to give a voice to those that have no voice and right now the most targeted unfairly groups are trans people / kids and brown skinned people ICE is going after.   Why do I put so much effort in to giving them a voice?  Because as an abused little boy people in my town knew I was being abuse but no one gave me a voice, no one spoke up for me.  Hugs.  


How Americans are manipulated by online misinformation and political rhetoric.

Mar-a-Lago Spa Would Send Teen Workers on House Calls to Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion: Report

Full disclosure.  Ron was working for tRump at Mar-a-largo as his nighttime butler and nighttime house supervisor.  He knew all about this and told me of it.   Sadly he couldn’t do anything about it other than give the doctor and staff comfort and support. 


https://people.com/mar-a-lago-spa-would-send-teen-workers-to-jeffrey-epstein-s-house-report-11877952

A new report from the ‘Wall Street Journal’ reveals new ties between Epstein and President Donald Trump

Again tRump lies this time about the profit / good about our illegal attack on Venezuela

Israeli Influencer Uses Starving Gaza Children to Make Funny Video

Hi all.  I hate to keep posting such negative awful stuff in the new year but what I always wanted to do with this blog is to give a voice to those that don’t have one.  It is hard to read all these news articles but please remember while we sit comfortably in our homes there are others struggling to simply survive.  The more we learn about these people the more we might be able to help.  This shows how many of the Israeli population are complicit and simply don’t care about the suffering of the Palestinians.   This is why I say it is not just the Israeli government but the countries media leading the population into compliance and hate for the Palestinian people.   Remember they stormed the offices of the justice department of a judge trying to hold IDF soldiers to account for violently raping a Palestinian man causing life threatening injuries.   Those IDF soldiers when on TV later to brag about what they did.    Thanks for all who read / watch and add your voice to the conversation.   Best wishes and hugs.  Scottie


https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67012&slug=israeli-influencer-uses-starving-gaza-children-to-make-funny-video

January 6, 2026

Israeli Influencer Uses Starving Gaza Children to Make Funny Video

Israeli Influencer Uses Starving Gaza Children to Make Funny Video

 

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- An Israeli social media creator mocked Palestinian suffering by using footage of starving children lining up for a hot meal in Gaza during Israel’s blockade on aid in a funny video.

Morya Apple captioned the video: “Me on a normal day when I reach three in the afternoon without putting anything in my mouth” versus “Me on a fast day at 10 in the morning”.  

 

 

Videos of Israeli content creators making fun of Palestinians suffering without water, food and electricity have gone viral over the past two years during the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.

Last year, an Israeli Tiktok trend showed Israeli settlers prank-calling family members, pretending to seek donations for Palestinian children, to mock their suffering in Gaza.

Three hospitals are under investigation for providing gender-affirming care to trans youth

Jan 07, 2026 Orion Rummler

Minnesotans rally at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul in support of transgender youth on March 6, 2022. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Getty Images)

This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th. Meet Orion and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.

Three children’s hospitals are under federal investigation for providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, as the Trump administration continues to use all the levers it can to block such care. 

Health and Human Services (HHS) General Counsel Mike Stuart has referred three children’s hospitals to the agency’s inspector general’s office: Seattle Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Children’s Minnesota. Gender-affirming care for trans youth is legal in all three states. But HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month announced that medical practitioners who provide gender-affirming care to minors are out of compliance with federal health care standards. Now, the agency is enforcing that declaration. 

In response, Children’s Hospital Colorado has reportedly paused gender-affirming care for trans youth. Children’s Minnesota did not respond to a request for comment, and its website states that “at this time, our gender health services remain unchanged.” Seattle Children’s hospital also did not respond. 

Another hospital, Denver Health, has also paused gender-affirming care for trans youth since Kennedy’s declaration, although the hospital does not appear to be under investigation.

In earlier efforts by Trump administration officials to investigate and halt  gender-affirming care, both Children’s Hospital Colorado and Seattle Children’s Hospital successfully fought back against Justice Department subpoenas seeking trans patients’ medical information. 

The administration previously pressured hospitals to halt gender-affirming care by threatening to revoke federal funding, which worked in many cases, but these HHS investigationsmark a new escalation. They stem from Kennedy saying that, under his authority as health secretary, he can unilaterally decide that gender-affirming care — which  he calls “sex-rejecting procedures” — is not a safe and effective treatment for trans youth.

The response from states has been swift. Just before Christmas, 19 states — including Washington state, Colorado, and Minnesota — and Washington, D.C., sued Kennedy and the federal health agency over the announcement. The states’ lawsuit says the declaration harms their ability to administer state Medicaid plans in accordance with local laws protecting gender-affirming care.

“To me, the declaration is the extremely clear way they are trying to just shut down this care all across the country,” said Katie Keith, director of the center for health policy and the law at the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law. “They are trying to ban it nationwide for minors.” 

On X, Stuart said that all three hospitals were referred to the agency’s inspector general’s office for failing to meet “recognized standards of health care,” citing Kennedy’s declaration. 

The HHS has also proposed two new rules to restrict gender-affirming care for trans youth — both of which must still go through an approval process before they can be enforced. One rule would blockhospitals from receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds if they provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. That care includes hormone replacement therapy for adolescents and puberty blockers for young kids who are experiencing dysphoria — intense discomfort or anxiety felt when someone’s physical gender is out of sync with their identity. It also includes surgery, which is very rarely performed on minors. 

Another proposed rule would bar Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for youth under 18 and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from covering such care for youth under 19. This would disproportionately impact low-income trans youth.Technically, states could still use their own funds for coverage — but experts say that would be extremely burdensome and ultimately cause gaps in care. 

The American Academy of Pediatrics, an organization of 67,000 primary care pediatricians and other specialists, strongly condemned these proposals, saying that they misrepresent current medical consensus and create uncertainty for patients. 

“These rules are a baseless intrusion into the patient-physician relationship,” the group said in a statement. “Patients, their families, and their physicians — not politicians or government officials — should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them.”The American Civil Liberties Union has said it will challenge these two restrictions in court if they are finalized.

tRump’s lies are going to cost the US taxpayer money as tRump uses the US treasury as his own money