As of Wednesday, Jan 7th 2026, we're still here.

I find that with breaking news it’s good to let things breathe a beat, because then The Take Economy — people who have to find something to say for their own personal economics, regardless of if they have anything good to say — gets their first round of stuff out and you can let that noise die out.

Sometimes something is simply too newsy or dominant to ignore, though. So:

An ICE agent murdered a woman today in Minnesota. We can just do a blowout of takes and facts and all that to save time:

• Trump sent ICE into MN after getting judicially spanked about the National Guard in LA and Chicago, because he can’t sit on a loss.

• MN has been the focal point of a bunch of internet dipshittery because a years-long scandal over childcare fraud turned into a way horny white supremacists could force their way into daycares and criminalize “being from Somalia.”

• Tim Walz, MN Governor, ran against Trump last year, so Trump would order his death if he could get away with it.

• ICE is full of a bunch of verifiably untrained and unqualified military/LEO dropouts who got into this job to pay off either child support or FanDuel debt.

• This masked, anonymous, unaccountable ICE agent shot a 37 year old American citizen point-blank in the face in her car.

• Trump sent those guys there to start shit, they started shit and turns out shit started back in form of a large protest, and they shot and killed a woman.

The response today and probably the next few days is actually really predictable if you (a) are Black or (b) care about a Black person or ( c ) have never asked “Can I touch your hair, it looks so fluffy?”

The people on Team Murderer will spend all their time attempting to muddy the water on the situation / video / involved parties to keep everyone endlessly debating “was this shooting justified?” This is, I admit, a brilliant strategy by Team Murderer because white Americans still fall for this shit every single time. [I guess like google “No Angel” if you really want a deep dive? It’ll count as Doing The Work.] This is what will happen on social media at least until the weekend — long debates from two people who were not there analyzing video frames and quoting SCOTUS decisions on use of force. If you do this… you are Dumb And Wasting Your Life.¹