Here’s a news story I did not see on Fox or other conservative sites this weekend. The largest synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, was destroyed in an arson fire early Saturday morning. A suspect is in custody but has not yet been identified publicly.
Just read that Omar has now admitted that the car was in motion when the ICE agent shot the woman.
What is happening? Hochul and AOC now saying the demos in Jewish neighborhoods yelling out Pali slogans is not right.
Are Cows jumping over the Moon?
It is interesting that they have not released the synagogue arson suspects name. Maybe they are not very sure ??
Everything bad is Good.
Shirehome: “Are Cows jumping over the Moon?”
The theory at some conservative websites is that the Democrats newfound condemnation of antisemitism is so they can tar the Republicans with Tucker and Candace.
I think we can all agree that the Democrats are extremely disciplined and play the long game.
Is J D paying attention or playing 5D media chess? Oh, so clever (not).
Don’t stand still JD while the media fits you with the Tucker millstone. If need be the Republicans can run someone else in 2028, being VP won’t save you from this own goal.
@Shirehome:What is happening? Hochul and AOC now saying the demos in Jewish neighborhoods yelling out Pali slogans is not right.
Are Cows jumping over the Moon?
Memo went out and all the NPCs got their new patches. Hamas has always been bad and antitsemitism is always and exclusively found on the Right and among Christians. Muslims like Zohrani Mamdani and Linda Sarsour are completely free of it.
Yeah those Christian Zionists are notoriously antisemitic, especially towards nonpracticing (secular, atheistic) Jews. Their antisemitism is particularly Solomaic; finely deviding which Jews are still God’s chosen and which are not.(sarc)
Here’s something I don’t understand about the recent incident in Minneapolis. I would be grateful if someone would explain it. I will say at the outset that I did not watch any of the videos, since I knew I would find them distressing. So perhaps someone who did watch the videos has an insight into my question:
How did shooting Nicole Good stop her car quickly enough to not hit the ICE officer?
A car that’s moving forward can’t stop instantly. Even if you hit the brakes it can take a while for a car to stop. Presumably she didn’t hit the brakes, and the car would therefore take even longer to stop.
I absolutely support the right of the officer to defend himself from attack – I’m just not clear on how it did prevent him from being killed or being injured worse than he was.
Similarly, I get that she was using her car as a weapon – I just want to understand how shooting her neutralized the weapon quickly enough to let him avoid more serious injury.
Interesting question, Ilana. With the driver no longer able to keep the pressure on the gas pedal, the car would drift off until it hit something, which it did. It appears to me, watching the videos, that her final split-second act was to turn the wheel right, as she realized he was firing. Plus, a person trying to obliterate a law officer with a vehicle is a public danger, without regard to whether she manages to kill that officer. These are my guesses.
If she’s trying to hit that ICE officer with her car, she could then try to hit other officers with her car unless neutralized. She has shown the intent and ability to run down ICE officers.
“Minnesota as a Systems Failure: How NGOs process dissent until reality no longer matters”
“In my upcoming book (preorders open next week), I argue that late-stage empires do not fail because they are weak or poorly intentioned. They fail because they become autopoietic.
Autopoiesis is a term from systems theory. It means this: a system responds to reality only through the constraints of its own internal organization.
You’ve almost certainly encountered autopoietic institutions, even if you didn’t have a name for them:
A corporation where middle management defines OKRs that have no relationship to customers, yet performance reviews insist everything is “on track.”
A bureaucracy that measures success by compliance with procedure rather than outcomes.
A late Soviet state in which leadership was reassured by reports everyone knew were false, but which could no longer be contradicted without threatening the system itself.
Autopoietic systems lose the capacity for the environment to redefine their purpose. Inputs still arrive, but they are reinterpreted until they are compatible with the system’s existing outputs. Feedback loops close. Contradictions are absorbed. External signals stop producing corrective changes in internal behavior.
At that point, the system is no longer adaptive relative to its original purpose. It becomes self-referential. It is capable of internally justified expansion without reference to external success.
That’s a long-winded way to explain that none of these institutions were lying in the usual sense. They were maintaining equilibrium.
______________________MORE DETAIL AT LINK_____________
This is a Big Re-think of institutional capture from NGOs to bureaucracies both neutral and managing the state.
I expect this stay at home mum in Utah is on to enough that she’ll be giving seminar talks about her book in months to come.
DOJ and any branch of the Federal government looking into possible RICO case building against the actors in multiple Blue Cities will need to hear her out.
A major theme of Trump II era is combating financial corruption. This began with DOGE, and now focuses on the Anarcho-tyranny running most Blue cities that function to keep the CommieKKKrats ensconced in perpetual local and regional power.
The brilliance of Trump’s ICE surging was covered by GOP maven Ned Ryan last August and in interviews since.
He explains that with ICE enforcement comes a dramatic drop in crime levels for oppressed and ignored urbanites.
Standing up law and order in these locales takes the cap of submission off to dissent, crushed by CommieKKKrat policies like defunding police and COVID faux emergency powers.
The cumulative effect hoped for is mass pushback to CommieKKKrats through traditional mechanisms like voting, which these evil satrapies have organized to keep quiet (“You RACIST!).
November this year will be a big deadline and test. But to me, this Big Theme is about exposing systemic political graft, vote buying and corruption of offices of all kinds.
THIS is The Great War we need to support because it draws in the neutral and unaligned normies who were essential to victory in November 2024.
THIS is the most important transformational moment of our time. Illegal aliens, the US version of Euro “no go zones” as corrupt scams is unifying. Even 70% of Democrat voters are riveted by the Somali Fraud in Minnesota, (Rs by 79%, and in between for Indy’s) finds Rasmussen polling.
The fact that the GAO estimates that there is a total of $300-600billion in Fed fraud (10% of US annual budget) means this War on Corruption must and can be won — restoring America out from CommieKKKrats corrupt hands.
Ilana:
The gunshot to her head probably killed her immediately, but her dead foot was still probably on the gas pedal. Sorry about the graphic speculation.
She didn’t have to die, just step out of the car and live to tell the tale. Her wife has some serious guilt and complicity in her death.
If someone will attempt to kill an armed LEO odds are they don’t care about unarmed others.
Ilana:
I have watched several videos from different perspectives of the shooting. There is a video that is taken along the left side of the car looking forward, showing the officer at the door (who told Good to step out of the car). There is another further back that shows the position of Good’s car relative to some white lines on the pavement, from which it is evident that she had backed up before starting forward. And one is similar the first video mentioned above, except that it is slightly further to the left of the car and shows the officer in the front of Good’s car as he moves from the front of the car to the front left corner.
From what I could see on the third of the video clips, the ICE officer was at the front left corner of the car when Good shifted into Drive and started forward. Just prior to this her gear shifter was in Reverse (the back up lights were on in the back of her vehicle) and she had driven back about 3 feet (also visible in the video from the rear of the car.). When she shifted, from R to D (and hence demonstrated that she was not going to obey the command of the officer at her door to step out of the car) the ICE officer at the front left corner of the car drew his pistol and started to fire.
It appears the officer might have fired three shots. One went through the windshield, one went through the rearview mirror, and it is possible one went through the side window. (I’m not sure this is a certainty.) I don’t know if there is any determination which shot killed her, but my understanding is that an officer may use deadly force to “protect himself and others”, so the Supreme Court has found in a previous case that he is authorized to continue shooting as the car is moving away from him as long as he believes the driver might harm someone else.
F
the Supreme Court has found in a previous case that he is authorized to continue shooting as the car is moving away from him as long as he believes the driver might harm someone else.
Defense of others is a recognized form of self-defense.
Ilana: How did shooting Nicole Good stop her car quickly enough to not hit the ICE officer?
That question and other questions may not be relevant in a self-defense situation. Hopefully some lawyers can clarify.
Elements of Justified Use of Deadly Force in Self-Defense
According to a University of Memphis Law Review article on self-defense, there are three elements of a justified use of deadly force in self-defense argument. First, the most fundamental component required for using deadly force in self-defense is proportionality. A person must be confronted with deadly force before using deadly force.
Second, the requirement is necessity. “To use deadly force to defend against deadly force, the use of force must be necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury.” The danger must be imminent or immediate.
The third component of, justified use of deadly force is “reasonable belief. The defender must reasonably believe deadly force is necessary to prevent the use of deadly force on the defender. This component includes both a subjective and objective requirement: The defender must have a “reasonable belief that the force is necessary to defend against deadly force (subjective), and a reasonable person in the defender’s circumstances would also believe such force is necessary (objective).”
The reasonable person standard is a benchmark applied to defendants to establish their liability by comparing their actions to how a typical, rational person would have acted in the same situation.
Nota Bene: The above is relevant to an individual; it may not be relevant to a law enforcement officer. Also, it is widely relevant, but it may not be locally relevant in Minnesota.
Finally, do everything you can to not be in a situation justifying deadly force. It will make a shambles of your life, whether or not you win the legal case.
Ilana,
It looks to me like he dodged and fired the first shot at almost the same time, so the car hit him a glancing blow.
The best videos I’ve seen are at this link (they don’t show any blood etc.): https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-america-this-week-jan-153
* * *. *. *
I sympathize with Felonious 51 letter signer Polymeropoulos’ Havana Syndrome injuries, but I’m not impressed by his weasel words justifying signing the letter.
The link above gives a clear explanation of the laws and cases (SCOTUS) that apply to the death of Renee Good. It also analyzes what Renee was doing with her vehicle (weapon) before she was shot and killed. It is not bloody, she is not shown after her fatal decision.
It seems some young people don’t outgrow the youthful feeling of invincibility. Photos and videos of many young leftists show “crazy eyes,” not the thousand yard stare that is often shown in photos of young soldiers who have been too long in the line.
Minneapolis Mayor Frey has blood on his hands for Ms. Good’s killing, because he didn’t suppress the insurrection against ICE, which led to her death.
New Video – Uncovering The Biggest Fraud Scheme In America – Nick Shirley
I would add that it’s become a gruesome, toxic, heady brew of virtue, self-righteousness, infallibility and HATRED
—leading, essentially, to INSANITY—generated massively and ubiquitously by the Media 24/7 and generously funded by mega-wealthy agents of subversion and perversity.
What hath Covid wrought?
(For that matter, what hath social media…)
+ Bonus:
Amidst it all, a refreshing, hopeful, and impressively articulate expression of unabashed sanity…by a young’un (all things being relative)… https://instapundit.com/769174/
The more people investigate, the industrial level system of fraudulent schemes in Minnesota just keeps getting bigger, more complex, and wide-spread with each passing day, as it involves more and more people and companies/organizations; if you really look, it’s seemingly everywhere.*
Talk about something being rotten in Denmark!
It’s looking so bad that I predict that very soon–despite his bluster about “over my dead body,” Walz will be forced to resign, and that he might well also eventually be brought up on criminal charges.
Something I haven’t seen discussed: when the officer was moving across the front of the car, left to right, Good was smiling at him, making eye contact, and sliding her hands around the steering wheel, as if to say I’m following you, aiming at you as you move. I thought it looked very threatening, and showed malign intent.
I’m late out the gate (because reasons), but if you haven’t read the entire DataRepublican message that TJ linked, do it ASAP.
It is the best exposition of the current political and social system that I have seen anywhere.
That’s what happens when you let a brilliant systems analyst, rather than an armchair pundit, loose on a problem.
“Minnesota as a Systems Failure: How NGOs process dissent until reality no longer matters”
Note: Snow on Pine on January 12, 2026 at 9:41 am said: Analysis of why Minnesota is a failed state.*
*Links to a Powerline post that summarizes and comments on the DataRepublican post.
Selectively quoting from Bill Glahn, I suggest:
This is how we got Trump and MAGA – because they operated (to some degree) outside the system, and managed to beat the Gatekeeping Gaslighters in 2016 and 2024.
The danger is that some Trump agents & officials, necessarily alas, are NOT outside the system, and could coopt others to come to the Dark Side with them.
See C. S. Lewis “The Inner Ring.”
Glahn:
@DataRepublican uses the language of systems theory to explain the phenomenon, which should serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of America.
…
The state is failing in the sense that the system is no longer producing positive outcomes for a majority of its citizens. But the system is still working extremely well for the people in charge.
[AF: Our Uniparty, or Elites, or Overlords, or whatever nomenclature you wish.]
…
From @DataRepublican,
Feedback loops close. Contradictions are absorbed. External signals stop producing corrective changes in internal behavior.
At that point, the system is no longer adaptive relative to its original purpose. It becomes self-referential. It is capable of internally justified expansion without reference to external success.
The purpose of a system is what it does. And that “internally justified expansion”?
The output is always the same:
More NGOs
More taxpayer dollars
More institutional capture
More managed disorder
This is equilibrium.
To be clear, “managed disorder” refers to both crime in the streets and the violent resistance to the federal government. Both are tools to maintain “equilibrium” to the ruling system.
In the end stage, @DataRepublican notes,
And it increasingly trades competence for survival. Truth itself becomes a liability if it threatens institutional coherence.
This is why a single individual with a phone was able to outperform an entire legacy media ecosystem.
Nick Shirley succeeded because he was outside the system. He could respond directly to reality. The system could only respond to itself.
…
Now the system believes that it has reacquired equilibrium and will cruise to victory in November, preserving the system.
Only internal system equilibrium was maintained. Without solving the fraud crisis itself, external equilibrium is still out of whack and threatens the entire enterprise.
But the system itself cannot recognize that reality.
https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
Full essay. Footnote:
“C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. “The Inner Ring” was the Memorial Lecture at King’s College, University of London, in 1944.”
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Analysis of why Minnesota is a failed state.*
* See https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/how-and-why-minnesota-failed-as-a-state.php
Tucker (who?) jumped the shark.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/01/11/tuckers-insane-equivalence-cop-assaulting-driver-now-equals-assassinated-charlie-kirk-n2198016
Here’s a news story I did not see on Fox or other conservative sites this weekend. The largest synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, was destroyed in an arson fire early Saturday morning. A suspect is in custody but has not yet been identified publicly.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/mississippi-burning.php
Where did you find a picture of me?
Just read that Omar has now admitted that the car was in motion when the ICE agent shot the woman.
What is happening? Hochul and AOC now saying the demos in Jewish neighborhoods yelling out Pali slogans is not right.
Are Cows jumping over the Moon?
It is interesting that they have not released the synagogue arson suspects name. Maybe they are not very sure ??
Everything bad is Good.
Shirehome: “Are Cows jumping over the Moon?”
The theory at some conservative websites is that the Democrats newfound condemnation of antisemitism is so they can tar the Republicans with Tucker and Candace.
I think we can all agree that the Democrats are extremely disciplined and play the long game.
Is J D paying attention or playing 5D media chess? Oh, so clever (not).
Don’t stand still JD while the media fits you with the Tucker millstone. If need be the Republicans can run someone else in 2028, being VP won’t save you from this own goal.
@Shirehome:What is happening? Hochul and AOC now saying the demos in Jewish neighborhoods yelling out Pali slogans is not right.
Are Cows jumping over the Moon?
Memo went out and all the NPCs got their new patches. Hamas has always been bad and antitsemitism is always and exclusively found on the Right and among Christians. Muslims like Zohrani Mamdani and Linda Sarsour are completely free of it.
Yeah those Christian Zionists are notoriously antisemitic, especially towards nonpracticing (secular, atheistic) Jews. Their antisemitism is particularly Solomaic; finely deviding which Jews are still God’s chosen and which are not.(sarc)
Here’s something I don’t understand about the recent incident in Minneapolis. I would be grateful if someone would explain it. I will say at the outset that I did not watch any of the videos, since I knew I would find them distressing. So perhaps someone who did watch the videos has an insight into my question:
How did shooting Nicole Good stop her car quickly enough to not hit the ICE officer?
A car that’s moving forward can’t stop instantly. Even if you hit the brakes it can take a while for a car to stop. Presumably she didn’t hit the brakes, and the car would therefore take even longer to stop.
I absolutely support the right of the officer to defend himself from attack – I’m just not clear on how it did prevent him from being killed or being injured worse than he was.
Similarly, I get that she was using her car as a weapon – I just want to understand how shooting her neutralized the weapon quickly enough to let him avoid more serious injury.
Another day another “Biden” scandal…
“Ex-CIA ‘spy who lied’ wants Trump to expose ‘horrific’ Biden Havana Syndrome ‘cover-up’”—
https://nypost.com/2026/01/12/us-news/ex-cia-spy-who-lied-wants-trump-to-expose-horrific-biden-havana-syndrome-cover-up/
Interesting question, Ilana. With the driver no longer able to keep the pressure on the gas pedal, the car would drift off until it hit something, which it did. It appears to me, watching the videos, that her final split-second act was to turn the wheel right, as she realized he was firing. Plus, a person trying to obliterate a law officer with a vehicle is a public danger, without regard to whether she manages to kill that officer. These are my guesses.
Another and another and another…continued…
“A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That Is ‘Ten Times Worse’ and Will Cause ‘World War III’”—
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/01/12/another-nick-shirley-video-is-ten-times-worse-and-will-cause-world-war-iii-n4948176
H/T Instapundit.
Correction: Renee Nicole Good, not Nicole Good
Ilana:
If she’s trying to hit that ICE officer with her car, she could then try to hit other officers with her car unless neutralized. She has shown the intent and ability to run down ICE officers.
Snow on the Pine post on top, to Powerlineblog story. Which links to X.com, and “DataRepublican (small r)” HERE https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2009859719373205881
“Minnesota as a Systems Failure: How NGOs process dissent until reality no longer matters”
“In my upcoming book (preorders open next week), I argue that late-stage empires do not fail because they are weak or poorly intentioned. They fail because they become autopoietic.
Autopoiesis is a term from systems theory. It means this: a system responds to reality only through the constraints of its own internal organization.
You’ve almost certainly encountered autopoietic institutions, even if you didn’t have a name for them:
A corporation where middle management defines OKRs that have no relationship to customers, yet performance reviews insist everything is “on track.”
A bureaucracy that measures success by compliance with procedure rather than outcomes.
A late Soviet state in which leadership was reassured by reports everyone knew were false, but which could no longer be contradicted without threatening the system itself.
Autopoietic systems lose the capacity for the environment to redefine their purpose. Inputs still arrive, but they are reinterpreted until they are compatible with the system’s existing outputs. Feedback loops close. Contradictions are absorbed. External signals stop producing corrective changes in internal behavior.
At that point, the system is no longer adaptive relative to its original purpose. It becomes self-referential. It is capable of internally justified expansion without reference to external success.
That’s a long-winded way to explain that none of these institutions were lying in the usual sense. They were maintaining equilibrium.
______________________MORE DETAIL AT LINK_____________
This is a Big Re-think of institutional capture from NGOs to bureaucracies both neutral and managing the state.
I expect this stay at home mum in Utah is on to enough that she’ll be giving seminar talks about her book in months to come.
DOJ and any branch of the Federal government looking into possible RICO case building against the actors in multiple Blue Cities will need to hear her out.
A major theme of Trump II era is combating financial corruption. This began with DOGE, and now focuses on the Anarcho-tyranny running most Blue cities that function to keep the CommieKKKrats ensconced in perpetual local and regional power.
The brilliance of Trump’s ICE surging was covered by GOP maven Ned Ryan last August and in interviews since.
He explains that with ICE enforcement comes a dramatic drop in crime levels for oppressed and ignored urbanites.
Standing up law and order in these locales takes the cap of submission off to dissent, crushed by CommieKKKrat policies like defunding police and COVID faux emergency powers.
The cumulative effect hoped for is mass pushback to CommieKKKrats through traditional mechanisms like voting, which these evil satrapies have organized to keep quiet (“You RACIST!).
November this year will be a big deadline and test. But to me, this Big Theme is about exposing systemic political graft, vote buying and corruption of offices of all kinds.
THIS is The Great War we need to support because it draws in the neutral and unaligned normies who were essential to victory in November 2024.
THIS is the most important transformational moment of our time. Illegal aliens, the US version of Euro “no go zones” as corrupt scams is unifying. Even 70% of Democrat voters are riveted by the Somali Fraud in Minnesota, (Rs by 79%, and in between for Indy’s) finds Rasmussen polling.
The fact that the GAO estimates that there is a total of $300-600billion in Fed fraud (10% of US annual budget) means this War on Corruption must and can be won — restoring America out from CommieKKKrats corrupt hands.
Ilana:
The gunshot to her head probably killed her immediately, but her dead foot was still probably on the gas pedal. Sorry about the graphic speculation.
She didn’t have to die, just step out of the car and live to tell the tale. Her wife has some serious guilt and complicity in her death.
If someone will attempt to kill an armed LEO odds are they don’t care about unarmed others.
Ilana:
I have watched several videos from different perspectives of the shooting. There is a video that is taken along the left side of the car looking forward, showing the officer at the door (who told Good to step out of the car). There is another further back that shows the position of Good’s car relative to some white lines on the pavement, from which it is evident that she had backed up before starting forward. And one is similar the first video mentioned above, except that it is slightly further to the left of the car and shows the officer in the front of Good’s car as he moves from the front of the car to the front left corner.
From what I could see on the third of the video clips, the ICE officer was at the front left corner of the car when Good shifted into Drive and started forward. Just prior to this her gear shifter was in Reverse (the back up lights were on in the back of her vehicle) and she had driven back about 3 feet (also visible in the video from the rear of the car.). When she shifted, from R to D (and hence demonstrated that she was not going to obey the command of the officer at her door to step out of the car) the ICE officer at the front left corner of the car drew his pistol and started to fire.
It appears the officer might have fired three shots. One went through the windshield, one went through the rearview mirror, and it is possible one went through the side window. (I’m not sure this is a certainty.) I don’t know if there is any determination which shot killed her, but my understanding is that an officer may use deadly force to “protect himself and others”, so the Supreme Court has found in a previous case that he is authorized to continue shooting as the car is moving away from him as long as he believes the driver might harm someone else.
F
the Supreme Court has found in a previous case that he is authorized to continue shooting as the car is moving away from him as long as he believes the driver might harm someone else.
Defense of others is a recognized form of self-defense.
Ilana: How did shooting Nicole Good stop her car quickly enough to not hit the ICE officer?
That question and other questions may not be relevant in a self-defense situation. Hopefully some lawyers can clarify.
Below is from the National Conference of State Legislatures
https://www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/self-defense-and-stand-your-ground
Elements of Justified Use of Deadly Force in Self-Defense
According to a University of Memphis Law Review article on self-defense, there are three elements of a justified use of deadly force in self-defense argument. First, the most fundamental component required for using deadly force in self-defense is proportionality. A person must be confronted with deadly force before using deadly force.
Second, the requirement is necessity. “To use deadly force to defend against deadly force, the use of force must be necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury.” The danger must be imminent or immediate.
The third component of, justified use of deadly force is “reasonable belief. The defender must reasonably believe deadly force is necessary to prevent the use of deadly force on the defender. This component includes both a subjective and objective requirement: The defender must have a “reasonable belief that the force is necessary to defend against deadly force (subjective), and a reasonable person in the defender’s circumstances would also believe such force is necessary (objective).”
The reasonable person standard is a benchmark applied to defendants to establish their liability by comparing their actions to how a typical, rational person would have acted in the same situation.
Reference: https://www.memphis.edu/law/documents/bell46.pdf
Nota Bene: The above is relevant to an individual; it may not be relevant to a law enforcement officer. Also, it is widely relevant, but it may not be locally relevant in Minnesota.
Finally, do everything you can to not be in a situation justifying deadly force. It will make a shambles of your life, whether or not you win the legal case.
Ilana,
It looks to me like he dodged and fired the first shot at almost the same time, so the car hit him a glancing blow.
The best videos I’ve seen are at this link (they don’t show any blood etc.):
https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-america-this-week-jan-153
* * *. *. *
I sympathize with Felonious 51 letter signer Polymeropoulos’ Havana Syndrome injuries, but I’m not impressed by his weasel words justifying signing the letter.
Ilana:
https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/minneapolis-is-not-even-a-close-call
The link above gives a clear explanation of the laws and cases (SCOTUS) that apply to the death of Renee Good. It also analyzes what Renee was doing with her vehicle (weapon) before she was shot and killed. It is not bloody, she is not shown after her fatal decision.
It seems some young people don’t outgrow the youthful feeling of invincibility. Photos and videos of many young leftists show “crazy eyes,” not the thousand yard stare that is often shown in photos of young soldiers who have been too long in the line.
Minneapolis Mayor Frey has blood on his hands for Ms. Good’s killing, because he didn’t suppress the insurrection against ICE, which led to her death.
New Video – Uncovering The Biggest Fraud Scheme In America – Nick Shirley
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-video-uncovering-biggest-fraud.html
“…invincibility…”
I would add that it’s become a gruesome, toxic, heady brew of virtue, self-righteousness, infallibility and HATRED
—leading, essentially, to INSANITY—generated massively and ubiquitously by the Media 24/7 and generously funded by mega-wealthy agents of subversion and perversity.
What hath Covid wrought?
(For that matter, what hath social media…)
+ Bonus:
Amidst it all, a refreshing, hopeful, and impressively articulate expression of unabashed sanity…by a young’un (all things being relative)…
https://instapundit.com/769174/
The more people investigate, the industrial level system of fraudulent schemes in Minnesota just keeps getting bigger, more complex, and wide-spread with each passing day, as it involves more and more people and companies/organizations; if you really look, it’s seemingly everywhere.*
Talk about something being rotten in Denmark!
It’s looking so bad that I predict that very soon–despite his bluster about “over my dead body,” Walz will be forced to resign, and that he might well also eventually be brought up on criminal charges.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HznVR8EXR_0
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADt9DU0k-p8
Something I haven’t seen discussed: when the officer was moving across the front of the car, left to right, Good was smiling at him, making eye contact, and sliding her hands around the steering wheel, as if to say I’m following you, aiming at you as you move. I thought it looked very threatening, and showed malign intent.
I’m late out the gate (because reasons), but if you haven’t read the entire DataRepublican message that TJ linked, do it ASAP.
It is the best exposition of the current political and social system that I have seen anywhere.
That’s what happens when you let a brilliant systems analyst, rather than an armchair pundit, loose on a problem.
“DataRepublican (small r)” HERE https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2009859719373205881
“Minnesota as a Systems Failure: How NGOs process dissent until reality no longer matters”
Note: Snow on Pine on January 12, 2026 at 9:41 am said: Analysis of why Minnesota is a failed state.*
*Links to a Powerline post that summarizes and comments on the DataRepublican post.
Selectively quoting from Bill Glahn, I suggest:
This is how we got Trump and MAGA – because they operated (to some degree) outside the system, and managed to beat the Gatekeeping Gaslighters in 2016 and 2024.
The danger is that some Trump agents & officials, necessarily alas, are NOT outside the system, and could coopt others to come to the Dark Side with them.
See C. S. Lewis “The Inner Ring.”
Glahn:
https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
Full essay. Footnote:
“C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. “The Inner Ring” was the Memorial Lecture at King’s College, University of London, in 1944.”