Majority of Americans, including independents, believe ICE shooting was unjustified. Most Americans disapprove of how ICE enforces immigration laws, with widespread dissatisfaction. Trump’s defense of federal agents clashing with protesters aligns with his unpopular foreign policy and economic record. Source: ANGELINA KATSANIS / Getty Since the killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan […]
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Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty The First Amendment is under siege. In a chilling escalation of the Trump administration’s war on the free press, the FBI conducted a pre-dawn raid this week on the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson. According to The Washington Post, federal agents arrived at Natanson’s Virginia residence early Wednesday […]
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Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty The GOP is never beating the death cult allegations. In a move completely antithetical to the agency’s entire purpose, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will no longer factor the monetary benefits to human health when crafting restrictions on air pollutants. According to The New York Times, the […]
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Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty Surprise, surprise. We’ve found ourselves with President Donald Trump engaging in yet another instance of “rules for thee, but not for me.” On Tuesday, Trump was touring a Detroit Ford Factory when a worker called him a “pedophile protector,” to which the ever classy Trump responded by flipping him off […]
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Source: Gary Gershoff / Getty The 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place Sunday night, and, well, professional KKKaren Megyn Kelly had thoughts, or whatever. That’s right, y’all, Kelly, who claimed she didn’t even watch the award show, still managed to get salty about who got awards, jokes made by comedians, and the fact […]
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Source: Michael S. Schwartz / Getty Every once in a blue moon, conservative podcaster, political commentator, minister, and Uncle Ruckus acolyte Jesse Lee Peterson pokes his head out from under his used Klan hood (I’m guessing) to remind Black people that he would have been a slave patrol snitch if he were born in a […]
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Source: Xinhua News Agency / Getty ICE and Border Patrol have only been deployed to Minneapolis for a few weeks, and it’s already been a crapshow. The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good has understandably put the city on edge, with anti-ICE protests continually escalating. On Monday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit […]
Read MoreSource: The Washington Post / Getty Amid the tragic killing of Renee Nicole Good, and the protests that have come in response to her death, as well as ICE and Border Patrol continuing to terrorize communities in the Twin Cities, President Donald Trump would like to take the time to remind America about one thing: He […]
Read MoreSource: Michael M. Santiago / Getty New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was outraged Monday after learning that a city council staff member had been detained by federal immigration officers earlier that day. “I am outraged to hear a New York City Council employee was detained in Nassau County by federal immigration officials at a […]
Read MoreSource: R1 / R1 Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal decided to give ICE (the flying monkey division of the Wicked Witch of the White House) a dose of reality when she warned the reckless masked militia, “You don’t want this smoke.” Straight like that. Sheriff Bilal didn’t mince her words or cower before an administration that […]
Read MoreSource: The Washington Post / Getty When it comes to ICE, Border Patrol, the senseless killings of Keith Porter Jr. and Renee Nicole Good, and other violent incidents, there’s one MAGA fallacy our federal government and its supporters will cling to above all others: the idea that the protesters are in the streets for no […]
Read MoreIt’s time to address the elephant in the room. The film that cleaned up at the Golden Globes and is poised to win in all the major categories at the Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay) is one of the most racially problematic mainstream movies Hollywood has produced in recent memory because the […]
Read MoreAfter three-plus years of ownership, Elon “Mein Kampf” Musk has managed to essentially strip X of Black Twitter, creating a void now filled by Threads, Instagram and TikTok. Unfortunately, the Black corners of those apps are now infected by an interminable conversation that was already tired when I was in college…25 years ago. Suggested Reading […]
Read MoreSource: Samuel Corum / Getty In today’s episode of If America Isn’t A Racist Country, Why Is Our President A White Supremacist?, President Donald Trump, the man who got himself reelected almost exclusively by presenting himself as Martin Luther King Jr. for white people, is now out here claiming the Civil Rights Act of 1964 […]
Read MoreSource: GoFundMe / GoFundMe On Dec. 31, 2025, Keith Porter Jr. was outside his Northridge, California, apartment, where he was reportedly firing a rifle in the air to celebrate the new year. An off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer decided to treat Porter as an “active shooter” threat. Instead of calling the actual police, […]
Read MoreSource: Taylor Hill / Getty If there’s one thing the tragic killing of Renee Nicole Good has revealed — not that it really needed much revealing at this point — it’s that bootlickers, white nationalists, and other assorted right-wingers will stick to a lie no matter how reliant the lie is on expecting everyone to […]
Read MoreDid you know the United States has created more laws than any other nation in recorded history? The Le[e]gal Brief with Lee Merritt, Esq. is a weekly series that examines those laws and their impact on Black America. Each week, Lee Merritt will break down the law through statistics and history. This week’s episode of […]
Read MoreSource: WISH-TV / WISH-TV Earlier this month, an incident involving a Black man and police officers in South Florida reminded us of a crucial fact that should be highlighted as widely and as often as possible for the safety and security of a free society: Police be lying. When a cop shoots and kills an […]
Read MoreBEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 11: Ryan Coogler (C) and cast and crew of “Sinners” accept the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award onstage during the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/CBS via Getty Images) Let’s just be honest. Sinners […]
Read MoreSource: Anadolu / Getty A significant number of Americans are rightfully outraged after an ICE agent fatally shot Minnesota resident Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday. Instead of acknowledging the tragic nature of the events or holding the ICE agent accountable, the Trump administration has unleashed a torrent of lies and begun a smear campaign on […]
Read MoreSource: Netflix / Netflix With the holidays over, we’re officially in January doldrums. Both culturally and on a general vibes level, January just feels like a fake month. While this January is unusual in the sense that two popular, critically acclaimed shows are returning in Bridgerton and The Pitt, the historical lack of January bangers […]
Read MoreWhite women’s presumed protection is conditional, unraveling as authority feels threatened by dissent and nonconformity. The killing is celebrated by those seeking to punish women who step outside traditional gender roles or express progressive politics. This violence is the culmination of a sustained war on women, waged through legal, economic, and physical attacks on their […]
Read MoreSource: SDI Productions / Getty Therapy is not just for people in crisis, people who are “crazy,” or people who can’t cope. Therapy is for average humans living in a decidedly not average world. If you have a brain, relationships, emotions, or a nervous system that reacts to stress, then therapy might be worth considering. […]
Read MoreSource: Scott Olson / Getty In this dystopian hellscape created by the MAGA-movement and nutless Republicans, armed gang members ride through neighborhoods looking for people to kidnap. In Minneapolis on Wednesday, they killed a woman, Renee Nicole Good, 37, a mother of three. A gentle soul, which I can say without pause, because she was […]
Read MoreSource: Being the first Black person to do something is always a historic honor — it also sucks. Just ask Raheem Morris and Terry Fontenot. The Atlanta Falcons recently fired their head coach (Morris) and general manager (Fontenot), who were the first two Black employees to hold those positions in the franchise’s history. Black head […]
Read MoreSource: Al Drago / Getty Look, at some point, something has to be done about the fact that the administration of President Donald Trump just doesn’t believe any long-standing, constitutional rules apply to it. The federal government is out here kidnapping foreign presidents and trying to deport legal immigrants with no real cause or due […]
Read MoreSource: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty On Monday, we reported that the Trump administration had begun sending hundreds of federal agents, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota — with plans to deploy approximately 2,000 agents in total — and not even a full week has […]
Read MoreRenee Nicole Good — a young white, conventionally attractive woman and mother — was shot to death by an ICE agent in her car on a street in Minneapolis, a major U.S. city with a majority white population. The optics are much different than what the public is accustomed to when they think of ICE […]
Read MoreRenee Nicole Good — a young white, conventionally attractive woman and mother — was shot to death by an ICE agent in her car on a street in Minneapolis, a major U.S. city with a majority white population. The tragedy is too common, but the optics are much different than what the public is accustomed […]
Read MoreAs I was driving down the highway one spring day eight years ago, I saw a shaggy, gray-black canine cruising along on the snowpack, right next to the road. Could it be one of the hardest animals to spot in Alaska, a wolf? Yes. I pulled over and stopped. The wolf padded along the treeline, […]
Read MoreThe Alaska Legislature will reconvene in Juneau in less than two weeks, with a stack of difficult issues weighing on lawmakers: School funding, disaster rebuilding, chronic vacancies in the state workforce, low oil prices (less state revenue), taxes, the mythical natural gas pipeline project that wants a massive tax break, backfilling for the loss of […]
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