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Andrew Perez / Zeteo:
‘F**king Bitch’: Watch What ICE Agent Said Right After Renee Nicole Good's Murder in Minneapolis  —  Newly released cell phone video shows the moment when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, identified as Jonathan Ross, murdered Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, in Minneapolis …
CNN:
ICE agent's cellphone captures fatal confrontation in Minneapolis
Washington Post:
How Renee Good ended up in a fatal encounter with ICE in Minneapolis
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center  —  The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned by declines in attendance and donations during President Trump's second term.  —  The Washington National Opera decided on Friday to move its performances …
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Washington Post:
Washington National Opera is moving out of the Kennedy Center  —  The Washington National Opera decided on Friday to move out of its longtime home at the Kennedy Center.  The center said it ended the relationship.  —  The Washington National Opera announced Friday that it plans to leave …
Cari Spencer / MPR News:
Renee Macklin Good's wife releases statement about ICE shooting  —  {"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"parag raph", “content”:[{"text":"On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent.  Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.","type":"text" …
New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump Officials From Freezing Billions in Social Services Funds  —  The ruling temporarily halted plans to freeze more than $10 billion in funds for anti-poverty programs bound for five Democratic-led states.  —  A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the Trump administration …
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Geoff Mulvihill / Associated Press:
Judge says Trump administration can't block child care, other program money for 5 states for now
Jordain Carney / Politico:
John Thune and Donald Trump had a ‘spirited’ conversation over Senate war powers vote  —  McALLEN, Texas — Shortly after five Republican senators broke with Donald Trump and voted Thursday to advance a measure constraining his military options in Venezuela, the president lashed out and called for them to lose their seats.
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Trump dials Collins with ‘profanity-laced rant’ over Venezuela war powers vote
Simon Rosenberg / Hopium Chronicles:
Our Mad King's Vainglorious Venezuelan Victory Lap Was Rudely Interrupted By A Newly Assertive Congress Yesterday
Discussion: Washington Post
Shaun Boyd / CBS News:
Gov. Jared Polis considers clemency for Tina Peters as he begins final year in office in Colorado  —  Gov. Jared Polis says he has an ambitious agenda for his final year in office.  —  He's been full throttle since he was elected governor seven years ago, leading the state through COVID-19 …
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
After pressure from Trump, Colorado gov. signals possible clemency for election denier Tina Peters
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Americans sour on ICE amid immigration crackdown shootings  —  Americans now disapprove of ICE and support protests against the agency, according to a new poll conducted the same day a federal officer fatally shot a 37-year-old mother in Minneapolis. … The agency's net approval fell 30 percentage points in a year.
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high  —  Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence … On Wednesday morning, Jan. 7, an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot and killed a 37-year-old mother, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 282. 1/9/26  —  ... The cover-up by DHS of the killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross is well underway, with Kristi Noem declaring him innocent before any investigation has been conducted while refusing to cooperate with state and local investigators.
Discussion: Sahan Journal
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Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
The right-wing dehumanization machine is speeding up
Politico:
UK's deputy prime minister raises X deepfake deluge with JD Vance  —  In the past the U.S. administration has criticized the U.K.'s online safety regime.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  LONDON - Britain's Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy raised the recent flood of AI-generated sexualized images of women …
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The Guardian:
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards  —  X's deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines.  Why won't Apple and Google pull it? … Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable …
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Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Senators urged Apple and Google to remove Musk's X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes
Amanda Chu / Politico:
Leading conservative group pulls support for GOP Obamacare defectors  —  The conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity says it's pulling support for Republicans who vote in favor of reviving the expired Obamacare subsidies, adding new strain on the GOP as it scrambles to preserve …
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NBC News:
2025 was the worst year for hiring since 2020, December jobs report shows  —  The U.S. added 50,000 jobs last month, a mixed report capping off a difficult year for the labor market.  —  The U.S. economy added just 50,000 jobs in December, capping off the worst year for hiring since 2020 …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’ … President Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.
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Lynsey Chutel / New York Times:
After Machado Offers Her Nobel, Trump Says It Would Be an ‘Honor’ to Accept It
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Jim Jordan commits to public hearing for Jack Smith  —  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said in an interview Friday he will invite former special counsel Jack Smith to testify in an open hearing as soon as this month in what would be a politically high-stakes event for members of both parties and the White House.
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Federal court blocks key parts of Trump's anti-voting order, restores states' control over elections  —  A federal court blocked core provisions of President Donald Trump's anti-voting executive order Friday, ruling that the president had no authority to impose new election rules that threatened …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Kristi Noem impeachment goes mainstream among House Democrats  —  Democrats who wanted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were on the fringes.  Then the shootings in Minneapolis and Portland happened. … Now that sentiment is thawing, and impeachment is going mainstream.
Time:
Doctor Says More Than 200 Reported Dead in Tehran as Regime Opens Fire on Protests  —  As protests against Iran's government swelled significantly in size on Thursday night, the regime responded in many places by opening fire.  A Tehran doctor told TIME on condition of anonymity …
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Shadow Over ‘60’ … Earlier this week, on Tuesday, members of the “60 Minutes” team gathered for a meeting to discuss the future of Sharyn Alfonsi's delayed piece on migrants deported by Donald Trump's administration to a notorious El Salvadorian prison.
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: White House contacted Secret Service about MTG, sources say  —  The relationship between President Trump and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene grew so poisonous that the White House told the Secret Service that Greene may have tipped off Code Pink protesters about his surprise visit …
Ned Resnikoff / Public Comment:
The Poison Always Drips Through  —  Sometimes, history seems to be commenting on itself.  That's what it felt like when I learned that Renee Good was murdered roughly a mile away from the spot where, five and a half years earlier, Derek Chauvin choked George Floyd to death.
New Republic:
Transcript: Can Trump's Thugs Be Reined In?  These Dems Have an Idea.  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Maduro in Minneapolis  —  The shadow of Maduro hangs over Minneapolis.  —  On January 3rd, the American military extracted the murderous dictator Nicolás Maduro from Caracas.  On January 7th, ICE killed a mother in her car in Minnesota.  These are two glimpses of a larger story about death and lies.
 
 
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Renee Nicole Good is ALL OF US
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis. …
Paul Krugman:
The Mad King's Madness Deepens
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the visual investigations of the Minneapolis ICE shooting by The NYT, WaPo, and Bellingcat, and how they helped people trying to make sense of events

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