ICE Thugs Murder Woman In Minneapolis. Who ya gonna believe–Kristi Noem or your lying eyes?:
A hospital record obtained by The Associated Press identified the woman as 37-year-old Renae Macklin-Good, though business records spelled her name as Renee Nicole Macklin Good. Calls and messages to the woman’s family were not immediately returned.
In social media accounts, Macklin Good described herself as a “Poet and writer and wife and mom” who was from Colorado and currently “experiencing Minneapolis,” and displayed a pride flag emoji. A profile picture shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek.
What the videos show: Videos taken by bystanders with different vantage points and posted to social media show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward and a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him. It was not clear from the videos if the vehicle made contact with the officer. The SUV then sped into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop. Witnesses screamed obscenities, expressing shock at what they’d seen.
What officials have said: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the officer shot the woman in self-defense after she “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle,” which Noem described as an “act of domestic terrorism.” President Trump took to social media to criticize the woman. But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey blasted Noem’s characterization as “garbage” and called on the federal agents to leave. The city’s police chief, Brian O’Hara, briefly described the shooting to reporters but gave no indication that the driver was trying to harm anyone. Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said state authorities would investigate the shooting with federal authorities.
Left unanswered is why ICE targeted this vehicle in the first place. As to Noem’s claims that the driver was trying to run down the ICE thug, it is a lie. See for yourself.
Undeterred, ICE Agents Wreak Havoc At School After Committing Murder:
Minneapolis Public Schools on Wednesday canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.”
The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” the official added. “I’ve never seen people behave like this.”
The school leader said armed officers with apparent Border Patrol insignia on their uniforms arrived at a street near the school in several SUV vehicles during dismissal on Wednesday afternoon. They broke out the window of a vehicle.
“There’s a car that got hit. I don’t know how it got hit. They broke out the window,” the school official said. “Then different Neighborhood Watch, people, everybody, people, the staff in the school came out. And then they started coming on the property of the school and pushing people and tackling people and shooting pepper spray and pepper balls. And they handcuffed two of our employees.”
Video shared with MPR News show armed, masked officers with apparent Border Patrol insignia on their uniforms dragging a person on a sidewalk outside of the high school and tussling with another person as bystanders blow whistles and shout.
Call them what they are: Nazi storm troopers.
CBS News demonstrated its coziness with the Trump administration on Tuesday night’s broadcast of the “CBS Evening News,” in which anchor Tony Dokoupil praised Secretary of State Marco Rubio and regurgitated right-wing propaganda about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Discussing Rubio’s role in the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and the administration’s widely criticized rhetoric about taking over Greenland, Dokoupil joked about AI-generated memes referencing Rubio.
“Marco Rubio, we salute you,” Dokoupil concluded. “You’re the ultimate Florida man.”
‘Flaming Debris’ From Musk’s Rockets Imperiled Air Space:
When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.
Each time SpaceX did a test run of Starship and its booster, dubbed Super Heavy, the megarocket’s flight path would take it soaring over busy Caribbean airspace before it reached the relative safety of the open Atlantic Ocean. The company planned as many as five such launches a year as it perfected the craft, a version of which is supposed to one day land on the moon.
The FAA, which also oversees commercial space launches, predicted the impact to the national airspace would be “minor or minimal,” akin to a weather event, the agency’s 2022 approval shows. No airport would need to close and no airplane would be denied access for “an extended period of time.”
But the reality has been far different. Last year, three of Starship’s five launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths, twice raining flaming debris over congested commercial airways and disrupting flights. And while no aircraft collided with rocket parts, pilots were forced to scramble for safety.
A ProPublica investigation, based on agency documents, interviews with pilots and passengers, air traffic control recordings and photos and videos of the events, found that by authorizing SpaceX to test its experimental rocket over busy airspace, the FAA accepted the inherent risk that the rocket might put airplane passengers in danger.
And once the rocket failed spectacularly and that risk became real, neither the FAA nor Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy sought to revoke or suspend Starship’s license to launch, a move that is permitted when “necessary to protect the public health and safety.” Instead, the FAA allowed SpaceX to test even more prototypes over the same airspace, adding stress to the already-taxed air traffic control system each time it launched.
Delaware Proposes Plan To Eliminate Carbon Emissions By 2050:
Recommendations include strategies to reduce emissions from vehicles, industrial activities and electricity production — the source of the state’s top climate emissions.
The plan calls for increased bus and train ridership while improving access to electric vehicles and charging stations. Though lawmakers repealed a mandate that would have required manufacturers to produce a set number of electric vehicles, DNREC wants to expand programs that incentivize the optional sale of electric vehicles.
However, Love emphasized the state “can’t EV our way out of transportation emission.”
“A lot of work needs to be done as well to reduce the amount that we drive vehicles, by good land use choices, mass transit and making it easier for people to walk, bike and roll to their destinations,” she said.
Among the recommendations outlined in the plan, DNREC has proposed decarbonization efforts at industrial facilities, while stressing the importance of preparing for potential clean hydrogen programs.
The Clean Action Plan also calls for increased solar capacity, the advancement of offshore wind and the modernization of transmission infrastructure.
The proposal provides additional steps to protect residents from extreme heat, such as installing heat reflective roofs on homes, and the building of structures with elevated foundations in flood zones.
Good proposals. After all, Trump’s war against the climate can’t continue forever. Can it?
Takeaway From Spotlight Delaware’s Legislative Summit–Mimi Minor-Brown Is Still Useless:
Last year, lawmakers introduced a bill that would have created new income tax brackets for the state’s highest earners, which ultimately failed to see a vote on the floor.
Creating new tax brackets for the state’s highest earners is something Meyer had pushed for early in 2025 prior to his inauguration, and something he still supported at Wednesday’s Legislative Summit.
“It’s ridiculous in this state that people making $65,000 a year are paying the same tax rate as people making $6.5 million a year,” Meyer said during a fireside chat with Spotlight Delaware Editor-in-Chief Jacob Owens.
But in a separate panel discussion, leaders in Delaware’s statehouse discussed those same tax reforms, expressing some hesitation about passing them without further insight into their possible impacts. One of those leaders, Delaware House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown (D-Delaware City), questioned the previous proposal because of the nominal tax breaks for Delawareans making less than $60,000.
The bill would have shifted more of the state’s personal income tax burden to higher earners while cutting taxes on the lowest earners. But the proposal failed to move forward, in part because the average savings to the lowest earners was between $15 and $52 a year.
Still, Minor-Brown agreed that those making more $60,000 should not pay the same as the state’s top earners, but said she would want to have experts weigh in on proposals.
“Until we have something on the table that makes sense, we’re going to have to wait,” Minor-Brown said.
What ‘makes sense’, and what ‘makes sense to Mimi Minor-Brown’, are two separate and distinct entities.
What do you want to talk about?