Trump’s authoritarian playbook contains two chapters — domestic and international. His goal is to achieve and maintain as much power as he can for as long as he can. His chief articulator is Stephen Miller.
But things keep getting in Trump’s way. Things like the 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, who had just dropped her six-year-old off at school, only to run into an ICE operation on a snowy Minnesota street, perhaps by design. (I’m speculating here.)
Trump and Miller and the rest would have us believe that this woman was a left-wing terrorist wielding her car as a weapon when armed ICE agents blocked her way. But there is nothing radical about monitoring ICE raids — this is activity protected under the First Amendment.
Whatever brought Good to that place at that time, the video evidence contradicts the government’s story. In the videos, she looked like a frightened driver trying to extradite herself from the confrontation.
We have a free press. Now is the time for it to investigate this in full and demand accountability.
Trump will forge his path forward no matter what any of us say. He is an aggressor at home and an aggressor overseas. Aided by his henchman Miller, he will take this as far as he can.
The only thing that can stop him is a counter-force in the form of a broad-based resistance movement. Renee Nicole Gooddeserves to be remembered as a martyr for that movement.
HEADLINES:
Federal agents shoot 2 in Portland, Ore. (NYT)
JD Vance just sharply undercut the Trump team’s ICE shooting narrative (CNN)
Minneapolis protesters vent their outrage after an ICE officer kills a woman (AP)
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis (MST)
Walz Declares ‘Day Of Unity’ To Honor ICE Shooting Victim—More Federal Agents Head To Minnesota (Forbes)
A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota (Atlantic)
Transcript: Trump’s Agents Kill Citizen—Then Damning New Info Emerges (TNR)
Videos contradict Trump administration account of ICE shooting in Minneapolis (NYT)
The woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday in Minneapolis seemed "obviously scared" and was trying to leave, an eyewitness to the killing told HuffPost's Jessica Schulberg, undercutting President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's accounts of the incident. (HuffPost)
Judge disqualifies US attorney in New York, tosses Letitia James subpoenas (Politico)
Project 2025 creators pitch marriage bootcamp, two-children families (Axios)
House takes step toward extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, overpowering GOP leadership (AP)
Inside Donald Trump’s Attack on NASA’s Science Missions (Atlantic)
Germany's president says the US is destroying the world order (Reuters)
Senate votes to block Trump from future military strikes on Venezuela (CNBC)
China’s massive oil-for-loan debts at risk in post-Maduro Venezuela (SCMP)
Europe draws red line on Greenland after a year of trying to pacify Trump (WP)
Senator Mark Kelly says that taking Greenland “would probably be the biggest mistake any president has made in the history of this country.” (Atlantic)
Vance criticises Denmark and Europe’s handling of ‘critical’ Greenland (BBC)
Shortages, cash handouts and killings: How Iran’s protests spread (CNN)
Protests Spread in Iran, and Crackdowns Escalate (NYT)
Trump said that the US would withdraw from dozens of international and U.N. entities, including a key climate treaty and a U.N. body that promotes gender equality and women's empowerment, because they "operate contrary to US national interests." (Reuters)
Tech titans divided over whether to pay billionaire tax or flee California (Guardian)
Defossilize our chemical world (Nature)
Widely used pesticide linked to more than doubled Parkinson’s risk (MedicalXpress)
How the internet changed politics — and our lives — forever (WP)
The AI Power List (Business Insider)
Google announces AI Overviews in Gmail search, experimental AI-organized inbox (ArsTechnica)
The AI Shift: Agentic AI is coming for quantitative research (Financial Times)
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests (Fortune)
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism (Onion)
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