Those perplexed by the tireless forward motion of ICE—despite outrage, funerals, and the sort of historical comparisons that usually prompt solemn museum exhibits—have misdiagnosed the problem. The obstacle is not condemnation. Condemnation is plentiful.
The fuel is reward.
What Donald Trump doesn’t want to reveal is what people are seeing.” This is an important distinction. Policy is substance.
Optics can foul everything up.
The President is not disturbed by the act; he is disturbed by the review, by the American public, that the acts are receiving.
We must recognize tyranny and call it what it is.
We must also remember that when tyranny comes it is also accompanied by hardship and poverty.
A Big Problem. . .
The deceased acquired an additional inconvenience: a name. Renee Nicole Good. A citizen. A wife. A mother. A poet.
None of these facts were operationally useful and should ideally have remained undisclosed. As many of us know human details (the details of a human life) complicates administrative clarity.
Death In Minneapolis:
January 7, 2026
Blonde hair, blue eye, white Christian unarmed mother of 3, Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, today.
Please note that hate and inhumanity beget hate and inhumanity.
