Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to resist feds before shooting

 NY Post

But first: NBC News Analysis Destroys the Left’s Narrative on the ICE Shooting

MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.

"Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.

“ 'She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday. 

"But they decided to leave the country after President Trump was re-elected in 2024, and moved to Canada for several months before settling in Minneapolis, a former Missouri neighbor told KMBC. 

“A neighbor who, you know, is not a terrorist. Not an extremist. That was just a mom who loved her kids, loved her spouse,” another neighbor, Joan Rose, told the outlet." . . . More...  

UPDATE: Jimmy Kimmel dons shirt that back’s Minneapolis mayor’s call for ICE to ‘get the f— out’ of city following shooting

"Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel backed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s profanity-laced tirade against ICE after a woman was shot and killed by one of the agency’s officers on Wednesday.

"During Wednesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” he voiced his support for the Democratic mayor’s response to the shooting and held up a shirt referencing the mayor’s call for ICE to “get the f— out” of Minneapolis.

"Renee Nicole Good, 37, was fatally shot on Wednesday during an ICE operation in south Minneapolis Wednesday. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), agents were attempting to make arrests when Good tried to use her vehicle as a weapon against officers, prompting a federal agent to fire in self-defense." . . .

Scott Jennings Nails It: Democrats Radicalized Their Base — and Minneapolis Is Paying the Price

Amy Curtis 

"Everything that we see happening in Minneapolis, including yesterday and going forward, is the direct result of Democrats radicalizing their voter base for the better part of a decade. . . an authoritarian threat to democracy, and an existential threat to our freedoms."

What happens when a political party spends a YEAR radicalizing their base against ICE agents with increasingly unhinged rhetoric?
Tragically, I fear we're learning exactly what happens right now in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/FHTqJbGFaK

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 8, 2026

fighting and disagreements aside, it's terrible. You don't want people to die in law enforcement situations or otherwise."

" 'But it strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic of political vigilantism right now. Why are people showing up in vehicles, in convoys, not just in Minneapolis but all over the country, in an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities?" Jennings asked.

" 'This is not an isolated incident. We have had hundreds of car rammings against ICE agents all over the country. According to DHS, this lady in this car today, along with other vehicles, had been tracking ICE agents around," Jennings continued." Why are people believing they can drive their car into a federal law enforcement situation and that is an appropriate thing to do?"

" 'I understand they don't like the fact that these agents are enforcing existing immigration law," Jennings said. "But that's not how we change laws in the country. If you don't like a law, you talk with the politicians. You don't drive your car into the middle of a building or a law enforcement situation that's being occupied by the people who are simply there to enforce the law."

" 'If I don't like how much the IRS is charging me in taxes, I don't drive my car into the Treasury Department to try and run somebody over," Jennings added. "I call my Congressman. Political vigilantism is being encouraged by Democratic officials like the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan, who earlier this year told people to 'put your bodies on the line' and Tim Walz calling these guys Gestapo all year. What do you think happens when you radicalize a base of people about this?"

"Jennings is right, of course, which is why Democrats like Peggy Flanagan, Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and Zohran Mamdani have decided to blame ICE for this shooting, calling it a "murder" and continuing to fanning the flames of unrest." . . .

Maduro Now Polling As Most Popular Democrat

 Babylon Bee Parody

"U.S. — The 2028 presidential race took a surprising turn this week following the events that took place in Venezuela, as the latest round of polling showed that deposed dictator Nicolas Maduro had taken the early primary lead as the most popular Democrat.

"A poll of likely Democratic voters taken in the first week of January 2026 showed a dramatic shift in support from other popular candidates to Maduro, now that he has been relieved of his position as leader of the Venezuelan government and arrived in the United States.

" 'The voters obviously love him," said one pollster. "Honestly, it shouldn't surprise anyone. He has everything Democrats want in a politician: suppression of freedom, unbridled corruption, and straight-up socialism. Now that he's residing in the U.S., he's a shoo-in for the nomination. There's already a campaign office set up for him, and ‘Maduro 2028' signs are being printed as we speak."

"Democratic voters were quick to voice their support for Maduro. "He represents everything we stand for," said one progressive American. "We've been waiting for a really good candidate like this ever since Obama left office. Maduro is like Obama on steroids. Oppression of dissent, killing opponents, torture chambers… this is the guy we need."

"CNN political analyst James Carville had already given Maduro his endorsement and all but named him the uncrowned Democratic frontrunner. "I wish he were a little bit more to the left, but I'll take him," Carville said on the air.

"At publishing time, the Democratic Party had decided to continue its tradition of foregoing an actual primary and had named Maduro as its candidate."

The Trump Corollary: We’re Nation-Building OUR Nation

"Things went much better when we called the shots in Latin America"

Ann Coulter; Substack  

"Whatever happens in any of those places has very little effect on any American’s life. By contrast, Latin Americans are killing, raping, addicting and pickpocketing Americans every single day."

"We’re not “nation-building” in Venezuela. We’re “puppet-government-installing.”

"And not a moment too soon. Our complete withdrawal from the Western Hemisphere over the past fifty years, while we concentrated on turning distant hellholes like Somalia into “a proud, functioning and viable member of the community of nations,” as Madeleine Albright said in 1993, seems to have left the U.S. sitting in the middle of a crime-ridden ghetto.

"Back when the U.S. was constantly meddling in Latin America, removing and inserting leaders at will, I note that 100,000 Americans weren’t dying of drug overdoses every year. Cuba and Venezuela weren’t emptying their prisons and mental institutions into our country for fun. Third Worlders weren’t streaming across our border, killing, raping and robbing Americans. Instead of cocaine and Fentanyl, the region’s main exports were things like oil and sugar. Today, they can’t manage to extract natural resources there for the taking.

"To be sure, mistakes were made, such as the State Department backing Fidel Castro (based on the Walter Duranty-like reporting of The New York Times’ Herbert Matthews).

"If only we’d kept intervening, that error might have been corrected half a century ago.

"But liberals got sanctimonious about the U.S. bossing around lesser countries. Why, they’re just as capable of self-government as we are!

"No, they’re not. With rare exceptions, brief periods of prosperity in Latin America are invariably followed by revolution, seizure of major industries, grandiose promises to “the people,” graft, corruption, gangsterism, violence and economic collapse. As historian Paul Johnson put it, “Everyone in [Latin America] talked revolution and practiced graft.” . . . More...

Venezuelans Celebrate The Demise Of Collectivism While New Yorkers Embrace Its ‘Warmth’

 

"You have to marvel at the sequence of events we just experienced. On Jan. 1, a socialist was sworn in as mayor of New York, promising the “warmth of collectivism.” On Jan. 3, President Donald Trump announced that he’d forcibly removed Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, ending the country’s 23-year embrace of socialism.

"We will leave it to the pundits, the lawyers, politicians, and various other “experts” to debate the merits of Trump’s action.

"But what we can’t let happen is for the left and the mainstream media to ignore or downplay just how tragic Venezuela’s embrace of collectivism has been.

"So, we thought we’d do our readers a service and republish an editorial we wrote more than six years ago, in which we detailed the cold, hard truths about socialism. The situation in Venezuela had only deteriorated further in the years after this editorial ran."

Venezuela: A Humanitarian Crisis The Left Couldn’t Care Less About

"You can bet that the next time a country tries to enact Venezuela-style socialist policies, the left will be cheering it on. Until disaster inevitably strikes and it suddenly loses all interest."

"Try to imagine this scenario. A once-wealthy country spirals downward over the course of several years into a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Starvation and violence are rampant. The economy has collapsed. Millions have already fled. And all the while, an autocratic ruler acts with complete indifference, when he’s not trying to crush dissent and blame other countries for the misery he’s inflicting on his own. 

"Under normal circumstances, there would be regular protests in Washington. Hollywood actors would be busy creating tear-jerker videos and making emotional award ceremony speeches. Musicians would be putting on global benefit concerts. The corruption, desperation and daily human misery would be above the fold in newspapers and leading the nightly news. It would be on everyone’s mind. 

"But in this case, the catastrophic suffering is being almost completely ignored. Why? Because it’s happening in Venezuela — a socialist state that the left has for years championed and now refuses to admit has been a monumental failure.

“ 'Much of the Western left, including those who once had only kind words for (Hugo) Chávez and his successors, is treating Venezuela as an embarrassment best brushed under the carpet,” James Bloodworth writes in Foreign Policy. 

"It is almost impossible to describe what’s happening in Venezuela today. " . . . More...

What Caused Venezuela's Collapse Is No Mystery — Except To Economically Illiterate Journalists

 Investors.com  

"That list of "accomplishments" reads like the Democratic Party platform. It is their unwillingness to admit that socialism can't work that drives so many mainstream journalists to look for something, anything, else to blame when socialist economies invariable fail."

Economics: Why is it that reporters keep scratching their heads about Venezuela's descent into extreme poverty and chaos? The cause is simple. Socialism. End it and you will end the misery.

"When the New York Times wrote about Venezuela's ongoing collapse a year ago, it described how the country was suffering "painful shortages … even of basic foods," and how "electricity and water are being rationed, and huge areas of the country have spent months with little of either."

"Here is how the Times explained the reason for Venezuela's dire situation: "The growing economic crisis (was) fueled by low prices for oil, the country's main export; a drought that has crippled Venezuela's ability to generate hydroelectric power; and a long decline in manufacturing and agricultural production."

"There's no mention — not one — of the fact that Hugo Chávez tried to turn Venezuela into a socialist paradise, policies that his successor Nicolás Maduro has continued. The Times' coverage is par for the course.

"Venezuela was never a model free market economy. A couple decades ago, the Heritage Foundation gave it a 59.8 ranking on its Index of Freedom — which measures how free or government-controlled an economy is. That put it at the edge of being "moderately free." . . .

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Does California Want To Be Part Of The Nuclear Renaissance?

 Issues & Insights 

"If natural gas is banned, then nuclear will have to make up the shortage It can take 10 to 12 years to add new nuclear capacity, from the planning and licensing phase to completion of construction. We should add a few years this being California" . . .

"As the California Coastal Commission agreed this month to keep the state’s last nuclear energy plant open for at least five more years, the Trump administration announced federal funding for the development of small modular nuclear reactors.  

"The Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo Power Plant, the only remaining nuclear energy facility in a state, was saved this month from an imminent death when the Coastal Commission voted to issue the permit the plant needs to obtain a federal license to operate for another 20 years. The twin-reactor site has been providing safe, clean and reliable electrical power for four decades.  

"Nationally, the Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec Government Services in Michigan were chosen to develop light-water small modular reactor projects. Each will receive up to $400 million in federal cost-shared funding.  

"Champions of limited government will dispute the federal government’s involvement rather than allowing the market to make that choice.  

"They should. It’s a legitimate gripe.  

"But $800 million is a small amount of the private capital to be invested in nuclear power once public policy clears the way for the marketplace. Government has picked nuclear energy to be a loser for decades, suppressing its growth with regulatory and licensing hurdles, and even state-level bans on new plant construction (including California’s almost half-century-old in-effect moratorium). The number of domestic nuclear reactors peaked at 112 but now there are only about 90, says the Energy Information Administration, and 23 are decommissioning as of August.  

"Maybe it’s time to make up for the penalties imposed without justification on nuclear power?  

"California has been at the forefront of banning nuclear power, but some lawmakers have been considering rolling back the ban so the state can meet its clean energy goals. A bill was ntroduced earlier this year to exempt small modular reactors – the same technology that administration is betting on – from the nuclear ban." . . .

  Kerry Jackson is the William Clement Fellow in California Reform at the Pacific Research institute and co-author of the PRI book, “The California Left Coast Survivor’s Guide.”

In the 1970s, Tunnel Dweller worked on construction of the Diablo plant. It was daily beset with phony bomb threats causing evacuations which soon became ignored. Soon we might see PG&E workers walking around searching with flashlights and we'd say : "Bomb threat, huh?". They would merely smile and nod, we'd go back to work and that would be that. We figured it was Mothers For Peace or some disgruntled union worker. TD

Poet Renee Nicole Good, 37, named as Minneapolis woman shot dead by ICE agent as video captures grieving wife at the scene

 UK Daily Mail

"A woman shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota has been named as 37-year-old poet Renee Nicole Good.

"The mother-of-three was named by her mother Donna Ganger, who spoke to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on Wednesday afternoon

"The grieving mom denied reports Good would have been 'part of anything like' the protests against ICE that were taking place at the location where she was killed. 

" 'That's so stupid,' she said. 'Renee was one of the kindest people I've ever known.

" 'She was extremely compassionate. She's taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.'

"Good was a poet and mother of three children who grew up in Colorado Springs. She was married to a comedian named Timothy Macklin who died in 2023 and now lives in Minneapolis with her partner, whose named has not been shared. 

"She and Macklin had one child together, a six-year-old son, who is now orphaned. His paternal grandfather told the publication 'there's nobody else in his life. 

'I'll drive. I'll fly. To come and get my grandchild.'

"Good was shot three times in the face at a protest in Minneapolis on Wednesday after she ignored ICE agents' demands to get out of her car, reversed it and tried to drive off." . . . More

Months in planning, over in two and a half hours: how the US snatched Maduro

The Guardian

. . . "the agency also surprisingly briefed it had a human source inside the Venezuelan government – a bold statement given it could risk leading to a person being discovered – though also a way, perhaps, of undermining the confidence Maduro’s successors will have in their own security system."

"It took the US two hours and 28 minutes to snatch President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in the small hours of Saturday morning, an extraordinary display of imperial power that plunges 30 million Venezuelans into a profound uncertainty. But it was also months in the planning.

"Critical to Operation Absolute Resolve was the work of the CIA and other US intelligence agencies. From as early as August, their goal was to establish Maduro’s “pattern of life”, or as Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the US joint chiefs of staff, described it, to “understand how he moved, where he lived, where he travelled, what he ate, what he wore, what were his pets”.

Nicolás Maduro had regularly changed his sleeping location. Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP

"As the US built up its military presence in the Caribbean from September, Maduro had tightened his personal security in an effort to evade capture. Gone were the well-trailed public speeches. He changed his sleeping location regularly – using between six to eight places to spend the night, according to the New York Times.

One of the helicopters believed to be carrying Maduro

"The president also relied even more heavily on Cuban counterintelligence and bodyguards, more trusted than Venezuelans, with the latter not allowed to use mobile phones. Yet such measures were not enough. On Friday evening, as the weather was finally clear enough for the US operation go ahead, Maduro’s location was fixed at a compound on Fuerte Tiuna, a key military base in Caracas.

‘Venezuela helped us a lot’: US’s capture of Nicolás Maduro stirs anxiety in Cuba

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"Spy drones were part of how the CIA monitored Maduro, but after his capture on Saturday the agency also surprisingly briefed it had a human source inside the Venezuelan government – a bold statement given it could risk leading to a person being discovered – though also a way, perhaps, of undermining the confidence Maduro’s successors will have in their own security system." 

"As many as a quarter of all US navy warships had been in the Caribbean since November, bolstered by the arrival of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, with about 4,000 sailors and aircrew onboard. But despite the nearby deployment, on the night of the operation the aim of the US military was to achieve tactical surprise and air dominance." ..

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