Criminalize the Symptoms
While you spread the disease.
The old dogs have got a new trick,
it's called criminalize the symptoms
while you spread the disease. — Ani DiFranco “Tis of Thee”
All the videos in this post were recorded on January 11, 2026, in Minnesota. They all feature protestors and demonstrators (not the undocumented) being criminalized by ICE agents:
The Big Lie is always a call to demonstrate loyalty.
It comes as no surprise the Epstein Files would have been followed in quick succession by calls to show loyalty to Trump.
If the military “arrest” of Maduro in Venezuela threw international relations off kilter, the rapid move to talk of “buying” Greenland and the moronically-named “Donroe Doctrine” promise to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence from the British Empire, by re-colonizing the Western Hemisphere.
It is not contradictory to celebrate independence from Empire while re-building your own—it lets you see where loyalties lay.
The past week’s actions in Minnesota are the Trump Administration escalating confrontations with the general public, on fabricated grounds. While violent crime leaves evidence (the reason given for National Guard deployed in cities), the beauty of fighting corruption and fraud comes from the nature of the offenses—they are hidden. Framing a three-year old public fraud case as new (evidenced by locked day care center doors, and nothing else) became the pretense to send a large wave of ICE agents into the city.
2,000 federal agents sent to Minneapolis area to carry out ‘largest immigration operation ever,’ ICE says
Despite the newly-imported goons, it was a local goon who murdered Renee Good. He appears to have conflated the woman in the driver’s seat who had just calmly said to him, “It’s okay. I’m not mad at you, dude,” with the woman standing outside the vehicle who lightly taunted him, saying, “Go have a sandwich, big boy.” As he circled Good’s car, the frame of the officer’s home movie (it was not body camera footage) shifted, as he switched his phone from his right to his left hand, before stepping in front of the vehicle. His sidearm was holstered on his right hip. He held the camera in his left hand as he shot three times, first through the side curve of the windshield, and then twice into the opened driver’s side window that Good had spoken to him through, not 15 seconds earlier.
The immediate response—before releasing the footage recorded by the shooter—on the part of the full core of the Trump administration (Trump, Vance, Noem, Holman, et cetera) was to push false narratives that portrayed the shooter as the certain victim and the one shot as having perpetrated a deadly threat. They left no room for counter-argument; not so much as a suggestion of neutrality until facts were collected. They were manufacturing the “facts.”
Less than 24 hours later, the Administration leaked the home movie/evidence to a right-wing site, which then was reposted by the Administration. This is a now-common information war strategy: Claiming third-party legitimacy for testimony introduced by one of the contending parties. The video does nothing to exculpate the shooter—it captured Good’s demeanor, it shows the shooter took a position in front of the car before it moved, it shows the camera was never dropped, and it recorded the shooter’s regard for his victim, calling her a “fucking bitch,” before he walked about 100 feet to the car to see how well he shot.
He made no effort to aid the victim. Instead he turned and walked back to his parked vehicle, and fled the area. He did not disappear completely, however. His home movie showed he is still at large, and being protected by the feds.
The shooting was the reason given to send more ICE agents into the region. NPR reported on January 11 that there are now more ICE agents in Minneapolis than there are police on the city’s force.
Noem Says Hundreds More Agents Will Be Sent To Minneapolis To Support ICE After Fatal Shooting
That’s called an “occupation,” kids.
The next step for the Administration is to start visibly punishing protestors, across the city. Yes, ICE has no authority over U.S. citizens, but ask Robby Roadsteamer how it works, when they abduct you from a public sidewalk, claiming you are “trespassing.”
Now Greg Bovino (Can we put him and Steven Miller in a steel cage and allow only the last one living to leave; and throw that one into a shark tank?) is personally taking part in these operations staged to provoke violence. From January 11, 2026:
When the Administration does not get the violence they want, they will make it happen. One faction of the Boogaloo (the second Civil War) Boys plans to use the war as the pretext for eradicating their political enemies. If the pussy Liberals don’t fight back, that’s okay; they will still kill as many as they can get away with. But there will have to be another wave, after the immigrants, trans, and other “sub-humans” have been taken care of.
The ultimate goal is not to get the Liberals to riot, though—it’s to get MAGA to riot. Just as they did on January 6. This time, though, they have been given assurances that when they riot, they will succeed. The economic hardships and the evisceration of social programs have hit MAGA hardest, and they will be looking to lash out. They will turn their attention to whichever targets they are told are the source of their suffering. From January 11, 2026:
Prosecutors in DOJ’s Civil Rights Division will not investigate Minneapolis ICE shooting, sources say
A corrupted Department of Justice did not conduct one investigation of ICE activity in 2025, and it appears de facto ICE Immunity has been extended into 2026. The goon squad is beyond reproach—this is also by design; not to shield members as much as to provoke the public into producing justice.
The Minneapolis shooter sought a reason to fire his gun, so he took a position where any attempt to flee an illegal abduction would produce an appearance of justification. The victimization complex Trump has bred among MAGA is used for cover when perpetrating aggression against nonviolent opposition. It is not a new phenomenon: when the police show up in riot gear, they are planning to riot. The riot gear provides them visible and metaphorical shields, while they agitate and aggress against demonstrators.
The shooter will be shielded by the Trump Administration. The Justice Department has already told us they have no plan to investigate what happened. It happened as they TOLD YOU it happened. The videos may show something very different, but what is on the video did not happen. That agent’s life was in danger, he discharged his firearm to protect himself and fellow agents from a deadly threat, and the perpetrator was a declared Enemy of the State.
The shooter will not be prosecuted; the shooter will be honored.
Get ready.
Why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun,
cuz we'll never live long enough
to undo everything they've done to you.