“A society that lives by organized greed or by systemic terrorism … will always tend to be violent because it is in a state of persistent disorder and moral confusion. The first principle of valid political action in such a society then becomes non-cooperation with its disorder, its injustices, and more particularly with its deep commitment to untruth." - Gandhi
Yes, Chris, we are all we have right now. The government we have right now is not helping the people. The government we have is harming the people, by breaking down all the laws and ignoring what's good for the country. It's obvious this administration doesn't care about the country or they wouldn't be f****** around with Venezuela. It's all just a ruse, a distraction, one after another, to keep from releasing all the Epstein files. If anybody believes Trump, the well-known CON, is going to turn around and help the Venezuelan people, LOL, WELL, THEY CAN GO POUND SAND. FUCKIN IDIOTS.
The sheer horror of the scene on that Minneapolis street is eclipsed only by the lying garbage from Kristi Noem and the wholly-remote-from-reality text put out by the president.
Renee Good and her family had just moved to Minneapolis from the Waldo neighborhood in Kansas City - about three miles from where my family and I live. She was not only a sister, she was literally our neighbor. I'm so filled with hate and fury that I believe my head will explode.
I can tell you, Chris, what will help you. If you are so filled with hate and fury put it to good work. Start a group or join one. One that gathers in the public eye at least once a week with signs protesting this administration. IN OTHER WORDS, DO SOMETHING!!!
And, Chris, here's what's uplifting about that. When we started back in April, protesting in front of the federal post office in our town, we were first met with middle fingers and thumbs down and nasty yells. Now it's mostly 98% positive thumbs-up, raised fists in solidarity, thanking us. But we need more to join us, all the time......that's what it's going to take.
Thanks for the advice, Susie S. But I've been to every protest at Mill Creek here in KC since the disastrous last presidential election (in which I was a poll worker, by the way) and I still go occasionally to the local Tesla Takedown. I drove down to Jefferson City to protest the proposed Republican redistricting. I gathered signatures to make abortions legal again in our state and then again to try to prevent the Rep. majority legislature from undoing it after it passed. And all the protest signs I've made and carried, all the times I've raised my fist at honking cars, all the petitions I've signed and had signed, and all the phone calls and contributions I've made have not blunted my current feelings about the murder of Renee Good in the least. I'll be going back to Mill Creek this Saturday to honor Renee and the other victims of ICE. Maybe that will do it but, frankly, I doubt it. Anyway, I'm sincerely glad it's worked for you. Let's all keep it up.
That's great, and thank you for all your activism, Chris!! I was at many of the KC Capitol rallies as well. 👍 Resist and stay strong. I also do Postcards to Swing States! 😊
Good on you, Susie! We possibly traded smiles in Jeff City and we may do so again. I haven't yet swapped my sign for a pitchfork -- although, for the first time in my long life, I can see that as a possibility. Until then, I'll keep in mind that we all need to keep a firm hold on the moral high ground. So far at least - our line is holding.
I have to disagree, Chris. We are NOT HOLDING THE LINE. The Dumpster has traversed WAY OVER THE LINE. ICE thugs have been given the go-ahead by Dump, JD, Noem, et.al. and now they are shooting people in the streets, in different views of the videos; what they show is murder. And then they all lie about it. They've taken it WAY PAST "Due Process" for a long time now and it's getting worse. ICE thugs see it as a CLEAR ROUTE/FREE REIN to kill our citizens.
Susie, I totally agree with you. Our rage has to be put to productive use. I belong to an Indivisible group in bright red central Arizona and it is amazing how reactions have shifted from opposition to support over the last year. Today I finished up my sign that I am taking to one of our twice weekly protests tomorrow.
Whatever you to protest this, please don't let your hate and fury boil over on to the street - this is just the sort of opportunity trump has been praying for.
I wrote a fairly extensive reply to Susie S. listing my current activist credentials. I don't see it here but, to summarize, don't worry. The first time I was arrested at a protest it was over the invasion of Iraq so you can trust that I'm old enough to separate expressing my feelings in a sympathetic private forum from actually acting them out.
Woah! How weird! "Does the Devil pray?" - I was just thinking that last night!
If the prayers of all the "good" people can move things - doesn't that apply also to the "prayers" of "bad" people?
I'm just reading "The Stand" by Stephen King. and that thought is a part of the story - the eternal fight between good and evil.
Evil sure seems to have the upper hand at the moment.
I'm not a religious or scripture-y person, but I find comfort in James 2:19 " Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble." Emphasis on the "tremble." We may tremble every day at their works - but THEY must tremble even more at the thought of the retribution which will surely come.
I really think it's about time we started making some serious moves to make the devils who currently run the government tremble - AND fall!
But like Ghandi - stand witness morally and massively. Tens of millions of us standing together silently witnessing - and shaming. Are you aware of Reverend Dr. William Barber and his group, Repairers of the Breach? Talk about moral leadership....
Awww, Jess. But we DID know Renee Nicole Good. She was our thoughtful neighbor who watched our kids when we had to go to the DMV (god forbid). She was the kind soul who noticed when she hadn't seen us for a while and asked if we were OK? She was the sweet mom who showed unconditional love to her kids and community. She was the woman literally caught in the disastrous crossfire between the Right's wrong-headed regime and the rest of us.
Renee is our sister. She is our daughter. She is our friend.
This is exactly the message that so many of us need to hear. Actually, what we want to hear. We are all brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and neighbors. And, we cannot permit ICE or the ice-hearted knuckleheads in DC destroy us.
I have felt that way since the weekend as the orange regime threatens to take over the western hemisphere. It is a debilitating rage and fear all balled together. 🤬
Denmark says that they'll shoot first and ask questions later if Trump tries.
Greenland in "summer" is like Hoth on a bad day. Greenland in winter... don't ask.
Malcolm Nance is a retired naval intelligence officer who has walked the ground there. He has a Substack with a great podcast about the Greenland mess. If they try, it's not going to be a walkover. Denmark has reinforced. Norway and Sweden are getting into it, too.
We are in the worst world crisis since the Cuban Missile Crisis and it's Trump's damned fault. World wars have started over less. Russia and China are laughing their asses off right now.
And none of it is necessary - we signed a treaty with Denmark that gives the US all the power it needs for defence IN NINETEEN FIFTY ONE! That's why we have a base there right now.
Please read this piece from Lucian Truscott who lays it out in plain words:
....And are getting by with it. Fuck the Corrupt Supreme Court, who unabashedly gave Shitler an unconditional free pass to keep up the sick retribution that his sick mind can't let go. Knowing that, how can anybody, in their right mind, believe he cares about this country?!?! When everything he does weakens it. He is the puppet in the Mandate 2025, which was written by others. He's just they're dunce, and he's perfect for that because he is so hateful and blames everybody else or his problems, or what he sees as his problems lol
Not that I know of, but there's a few frames from the videos that might help identify him. I hope her shade stands at the foot of his bed for the rest of his miserable life (may it be short and painful) to accuse him.
Felt the same last night and this morning and had an e-mail from a best friend saying the same. Made a list of stuff to do and am working on it. Did some exercise. The sun has come out. Rene Nicole Good. I've written her name on my calendar. She died a martyr. We can spend a little time sighing and weeping, but then we'll get back up and honour her memory by following her example.
I live in Minneapolis, and I cannot believe the horrible events of yesterday. ICE also raided Roosevelt HS and attacked the students and staff. Schools are closed today for safety. This vengeance has gone too far. As Mayor Frey said "Get the F*** our of our state."
I knew schools were closed, but the reason why. Maybe that douchebag Nick Shirley will go pound on Roosevelt’s door and shout “Where are the children?”
I'm in Kansas City, Jess, and I love thrift storing. Would love to meet you sometime when you're in town.
As for ICE ... I'd probably have Homeland Security down my throat if I said what I think of them, but I'm starting to wonder if I wouldn't be safer in jail than I am in the so-called free world.
“A society that lives by organized greed or by systemic terrorism … will always tend to be violent because it is in a state of persistent disorder and moral confusion. The first principle of valid political action in such a society then becomes non-cooperation with its disorder, its injustices, and more particularly with its deep commitment to untruth." - Gandhi
Resist more. Now.
For Good.
Time to get the spray cans out and start spraying the truth on the walls.
Time to start donating to raise billboards all along the roads.
"Trump is a traitor!"
"JD is a liar!"
"Noem is a killer!"
"Miller is a Nazi!"
“JFK Jr is a crazy quack!”
“Kash Patel is just plain stupid!”
“Hegseth- a pussy with a Nazi cut!”
“Miller is a Jewish Nazi!”
That guy is just so twisted up inside he can’t stand himself. All that rage is leaking out of every orafice.
Orifice.
Miller's family has disowned him. I believe his grandparents were holocaust survivors. Shame on him.
Remember the arrogant Bovino, the nazi leader of the proud boyz aka the Iceholes.
Love to you, sweety. There are millions of Grandmas out here just like you. You’re not alone.
And millions of other mothers and fathers who are just like all of you.
There’s no way to ignore this murder. It was a public execution by a masked man who had too many weapons, and too much RAGE!
He murdered a weaponless woman, who as a mother was observing injustice.
Her name was Renee Good.
Yay Gandhi
This is brilliant and so good for us to hear now. Thank you. Will share your reply.
You're not alone - FUCK ICE!
You won't lose us over that; in fact US is all we have right now.
Yes, Chris, we are all we have right now. The government we have right now is not helping the people. The government we have is harming the people, by breaking down all the laws and ignoring what's good for the country. It's obvious this administration doesn't care about the country or they wouldn't be f****** around with Venezuela. It's all just a ruse, a distraction, one after another, to keep from releasing all the Epstein files. If anybody believes Trump, the well-known CON, is going to turn around and help the Venezuelan people, LOL, WELL, THEY CAN GO POUND SAND. FUCKIN IDIOTS.
And glad the folks of Minneapolis have such a stand-up guy for mayor, telling ICE to get-the-fuck-outta-town!!!
Say her name. REMEMBER GOOD.
The sheer horror of the scene on that Minneapolis street is eclipsed only by the lying garbage from Kristi Noem and the wholly-remote-from-reality text put out by the president.
Noem's "statement" actually made me have to go to the bathroom and vomit.
Ugly inside AND out.
Take care, Jess. We need you.
Renee Good and her family had just moved to Minneapolis from the Waldo neighborhood in Kansas City - about three miles from where my family and I live. She was not only a sister, she was literally our neighbor. I'm so filled with hate and fury that I believe my head will explode.
I can tell you, Chris, what will help you. If you are so filled with hate and fury put it to good work. Start a group or join one. One that gathers in the public eye at least once a week with signs protesting this administration. IN OTHER WORDS, DO SOMETHING!!!
And, Chris, here's what's uplifting about that. When we started back in April, protesting in front of the federal post office in our town, we were first met with middle fingers and thumbs down and nasty yells. Now it's mostly 98% positive thumbs-up, raised fists in solidarity, thanking us. But we need more to join us, all the time......that's what it's going to take.
Thanks for the advice, Susie S. But I've been to every protest at Mill Creek here in KC since the disastrous last presidential election (in which I was a poll worker, by the way) and I still go occasionally to the local Tesla Takedown. I drove down to Jefferson City to protest the proposed Republican redistricting. I gathered signatures to make abortions legal again in our state and then again to try to prevent the Rep. majority legislature from undoing it after it passed. And all the protest signs I've made and carried, all the times I've raised my fist at honking cars, all the petitions I've signed and had signed, and all the phone calls and contributions I've made have not blunted my current feelings about the murder of Renee Good in the least. I'll be going back to Mill Creek this Saturday to honor Renee and the other victims of ICE. Maybe that will do it but, frankly, I doubt it. Anyway, I'm sincerely glad it's worked for you. Let's all keep it up.
We're all so tired. Take a beat; others will step up.
Yes, gotta take a break or this will break us. Stop, shake the stone from your shoe; we will be here when you get back. ❤️
That's great, and thank you for all your activism, Chris!! I was at many of the KC Capitol rallies as well. 👍 Resist and stay strong. I also do Postcards to Swing States! 😊
Good on you, Susie! We possibly traded smiles in Jeff City and we may do so again. I haven't yet swapped my sign for a pitchfork -- although, for the first time in my long life, I can see that as a possibility. Until then, I'll keep in mind that we all need to keep a firm hold on the moral high ground. So far at least - our line is holding.
I have to disagree, Chris. We are NOT HOLDING THE LINE. The Dumpster has traversed WAY OVER THE LINE. ICE thugs have been given the go-ahead by Dump, JD, Noem, et.al. and now they are shooting people in the streets, in different views of the videos; what they show is murder. And then they all lie about it. They've taken it WAY PAST "Due Process" for a long time now and it's getting worse. ICE thugs see it as a CLEAR ROUTE/FREE REIN to kill our citizens.
Chris, I checked back on my text and I had said I attended many rallies in KC. Not true. I meant to type JC. Didn't proofread. 🙄
Susie, I totally agree with you. Our rage has to be put to productive use. I belong to an Indivisible group in bright red central Arizona and it is amazing how reactions have shifted from opposition to support over the last year. Today I finished up my sign that I am taking to one of our twice weekly protests tomorrow.
Thank you, Michael, for your activism!! RESIST AND STAY STRONG
Whatever you to protest this, please don't let your hate and fury boil over on to the street - this is just the sort of opportunity trump has been praying for.
I wrote a fairly extensive reply to Susie S. listing my current activist credentials. I don't see it here but, to summarize, don't worry. The first time I was arrested at a protest it was over the invasion of Iraq so you can trust that I'm old enough to separate expressing my feelings in a sympathetic private forum from actually acting them out.
I did see it, Chris! You DO do a lot, more than your share. 👍 Be careful not to get burn-out.
Does the Devil pray? I don’t think so.
But for those of us who believe in a higher power, know that the prayers of the believing (and the unbelieving) are heard.
RENEE GOOD Say her name
Woah! How weird! "Does the Devil pray?" - I was just thinking that last night!
If the prayers of all the "good" people can move things - doesn't that apply also to the "prayers" of "bad" people?
I'm just reading "The Stand" by Stephen King. and that thought is a part of the story - the eternal fight between good and evil.
Evil sure seems to have the upper hand at the moment.
I'm not a religious or scripture-y person, but I find comfort in James 2:19 " Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble." Emphasis on the "tremble." We may tremble every day at their works - but THEY must tremble even more at the thought of the retribution which will surely come.
I really think it's about time we started making some serious moves to make the devils who currently run the government tremble - AND fall!
But like Ghandi - stand witness morally and massively. Tens of millions of us standing together silently witnessing - and shaming. Are you aware of Reverend Dr. William Barber and his group, Repairers of the Breach? Talk about moral leadership....
Thank you for another ray of light to watch.
PAST time, Lady Em!
Chris has more sense than that, L. 😊👍
I’m so sorry for your devastating loss.
Awww, Jess. But we DID know Renee Nicole Good. She was our thoughtful neighbor who watched our kids when we had to go to the DMV (god forbid). She was the kind soul who noticed when she hadn't seen us for a while and asked if we were OK? She was the sweet mom who showed unconditional love to her kids and community. She was the woman literally caught in the disastrous crossfire between the Right's wrong-headed regime and the rest of us.
Renee is our sister. She is our daughter. She is our friend.
Stand Up for Renee.
Say Her Name -- Renee Good.
May we be half as good as she was 💙
May her memory be a blessing.
In strength and solidarity!!
This is exactly the message that so many of us need to hear. Actually, what we want to hear. We are all brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and neighbors. And, we cannot permit ICE or the ice-hearted knuckleheads in DC destroy us.
Good Good Good Good........say her name. And like you, Jess....my sentiments.....FUCK ICE!!!
I have felt that way since the weekend as the orange regime threatens to take over the western hemisphere. It is a debilitating rage and fear all balled together. 🤬
Denmark says that they'll shoot first and ask questions later if Trump tries.
Greenland in "summer" is like Hoth on a bad day. Greenland in winter... don't ask.
Malcolm Nance is a retired naval intelligence officer who has walked the ground there. He has a Substack with a great podcast about the Greenland mess. If they try, it's not going to be a walkover. Denmark has reinforced. Norway and Sweden are getting into it, too.
We are in the worst world crisis since the Cuban Missile Crisis and it's Trump's damned fault. World wars have started over less. Russia and China are laughing their asses off right now.
And none of it is necessary - we signed a treaty with Denmark that gives the US all the power it needs for defence IN NINETEEN FIFTY ONE! That's why we have a base there right now.
Please read this piece from Lucian Truscott who lays it out in plain words:
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/is-there-anyone-on-earth-stupider?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=255301&post_id=183858633&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=9qnjb&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I'm one of his paid subscribers. It's all about stealing their resources and how big it looks on the map.
They are snickering into their Vodka and Rice Wine.
I pray to God that’s all they do.
Say her name:Renee Nicole Good! Remember her. Remember her children.
Trump’s Stormtroopers are untrained thugs committing illegal acts everyday, everywhere.
....And are getting by with it. Fuck the Corrupt Supreme Court, who unabashedly gave Shitler an unconditional free pass to keep up the sick retribution that his sick mind can't let go. Knowing that, how can anybody, in their right mind, believe he cares about this country?!?! When everything he does weakens it. He is the puppet in the Mandate 2025, which was written by others. He's just they're dunce, and he's perfect for that because he is so hateful and blames everybody else or his problems, or what he sees as his problems lol
Thank you for saying this so clearly. We must stop this madness quickly.
Is the murderer in custody? I know he is innocent until proven guilty, but aren't suspected murderers arrested and detained? Do we even know his name?
Not that I know of, but there's a few frames from the videos that might help identify him. I hope her shade stands at the foot of his bed for the rest of his miserable life (may it be short and painful) to accuse him.
Renee Nicole Good 🕯
I just saw his name reported as Jonathan Ross.
Let's wait until we know that's who it is, for sure!!! Still learning was that on a reputable news station and if so, name it?
Hey Susie, I first saw it in Wikipedia, and then I searched it and found it in several other sources including The Guardian.
Still, I'm guessing it's right on then. Jonathon Ross.
Yes. His ICE buddies whisked him off into one of their vans.
Felt the same last night and this morning and had an e-mail from a best friend saying the same. Made a list of stuff to do and am working on it. Did some exercise. The sun has come out. Rene Nicole Good. I've written her name on my calendar. She died a martyr. We can spend a little time sighing and weeping, but then we'll get back up and honour her memory by following her example.
I live in Minneapolis, and I cannot believe the horrible events of yesterday. ICE also raided Roosevelt HS and attacked the students and staff. Schools are closed today for safety. This vengeance has gone too far. As Mayor Frey said "Get the F*** our of our state."
I hadn’t heard that about Roosevelt HS. When did these pathetic excuses for human start invading high schools?
I knew schools were closed, but the reason why. Maybe that douchebag Nick Shirley will go pound on Roosevelt’s door and shout “Where are the children?”
I'm in Kansas City, Jess, and I love thrift storing. Would love to meet you sometime when you're in town.
As for ICE ... I'd probably have Homeland Security down my throat if I said what I think of them, but I'm starting to wonder if I wouldn't be safer in jail than I am in the so-called free world.
Fuck ICE and fuck the idiots who support this execution. Wish they were all bots, but too many kool-aid drinkers even now.