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demmiblue's Journal
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January 11, 2026
The fucking ghouls are really trying to provoke the protestors. From the White House:
They have declared war on America, and they won't leave.
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2026-01-11T01:41:34.101Z
January 10, 2026
DURAN DURAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO RENEE GOOD AFTER FATAL ICE SHOOTING IN MINNESOTA
Duran Duran paid tribute to the victim of a fatal ICE shooting in Minnesota during a recent concert.
At its Friday (Jan. 9) concert at the Thunder Valley Casino in Sacramento, California, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame–inducted band dedicated its 1993 song “Ordinary World” to 37‑year‑old Renee Good, who was shot and killed earlier in the week during an ICE operation in Minnesota.
The somber moment was captured in a fan-recorded video posted on Threads.
“We believe that people in this world have a right to live their lives in peace and lives of freedom and happiness in their own country,” Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon told the audience. “For all the ordinary people in this world, we wish upon you an ordinary world.”
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/duran-duran-renee-good-minnesota-ice-shooting-tribute-1236152613/
At its Friday (Jan. 9) concert at the Thunder Valley Casino in Sacramento, California, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame–inducted band dedicated its 1993 song “Ordinary World” to 37‑year‑old Renee Good, who was shot and killed earlier in the week during an ICE operation in Minnesota.
The somber moment was captured in a fan-recorded video posted on Threads.
“We believe that people in this world have a right to live their lives in peace and lives of freedom and happiness in their own country,” Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon told the audience. “For all the ordinary people in this world, we wish upon you an ordinary world.”
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/duran-duran-renee-good-minnesota-ice-shooting-tribute-1236152613/
January 10, 2026
Well, dayum!
"The loudest protest so far": Anti‑ICE rally targets Minneapolis hotels believed to be housing federal agents
CNN's Omar Jimenez describes the scene outside a hotel in downtown Minneapolis where anti-ICE protesters believe federal agents are staying. Demonstrators can be seen shining lights at hotel windows and making noise through drums and whistle blowing. https://cnn.it/458p7Iu
— CNN (@cnn.com) 2026-01-10T13:47:19.221525093Z
At least two hotels in downtown Minneapolis became the target of anti-ICE protesters banging on drums, whistling and shining lights on windows, CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez reported from the scene late Friday.
“This definitely seems to be the loudest protest we’ve encountered so far… They’re under the belief that there are federal agents here. The goal seems to be that no one at this hotel can sleep, with the target, in that case, being federal agents,” Jimenez told CNN’s Laura Coates while outside a hotel which he said was at least the second one which protesters went to “appearing to be under the belief that (federal) agents are staying” there.
“We haven’t quite seen a protest like this carried out in this exact way up to this point, at least I haven’t personally, and I’ve been here… since the day of the shooting,” he added, referring to the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-immigration-crackdown-01-09-26
“This definitely seems to be the loudest protest we’ve encountered so far… They’re under the belief that there are federal agents here. The goal seems to be that no one at this hotel can sleep, with the target, in that case, being federal agents,” Jimenez told CNN’s Laura Coates while outside a hotel which he said was at least the second one which protesters went to “appearing to be under the belief that (federal) agents are staying” there.
“We haven’t quite seen a protest like this carried out in this exact way up to this point, at least I haven’t personally, and I’ve been here… since the day of the shooting,” he added, referring to the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-immigration-crackdown-01-09-26
Well, dayum!
January 10, 2026
Political cartoonists are not fuckin' around this week. (thread)
Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T13:35:16.393Z
1. Pat Bagley
2. Michael de Adder
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T13:35:16.394Z
Michael de Adder
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T13:35:16.396Z
9. Dave Whamond
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T13:35:16.401Z
11. Dennis Goris
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T13:38:43.370Z
The view from @laloalcaraz.bsky.social
— DTwyman (@dtwyman.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T14:32:51.076Z
January 10, 2026
Trump: "AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap o
Trump: "AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%."
Trump: "AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-10T01:13:42.352Z
January 10, 2026
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T23:45:41.304Z
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-09T23:22:14.030Z
January 9, 2026
Loreena McKennitt Nights from the Alhambra - FULL
January 9, 2026
AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T19:49:41.373647178Z
January 9, 2026
Timeline cleanse: 'Wheels on the Bus' with Ms. Rachel and Zohran Mamdani in Lower Manhattan 🥹
👋
— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) 2026-01-09T20:46:34.445Z
January 9, 2026
For Renee Nicole Good- by Amanda Gorman (poem)
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
— Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T02:54:46.789Z
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026.
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.
Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.
What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.
You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026.
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.
Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.
What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.
You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.
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