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I cannot get over how stupid the Trump administration thinks the American people are.
Yesterday, they leaked to CBS News that the ICE officer who killed Renee Good suffered internal bleeding — supposedly from being rammed by her car. As if we haven’t seen the videos. As if we didn’t watch the car barely roll forward at a crawl, never touching him, never knocking him down, never dragging him. The man stood upright, fired multiple rounds, and walked away.
And even if — if — there were some injury, you expect us to believe we’d only be hearing about it a week later? If that story had any truth to it, they would’ve led with it. It would’ve dominated Fox News. It would’ve been shoved in my face during every debate I’ve had with conservative pundits. But instead, it shows up a over a week later, like some convenient little plot twist?
Get the hell out of here.
And shame on CBS for running with it. Why would anyone take this administration’s word at face value after the years of lies, the non-stop gaslighting, the outright contempt for basic truth? They lie about things we can literally see — things we experience. And they do it with the confidence of people who believe they’ll never be held accountable.
Because what happened after Renee Good was killed wasn’t confusion. It wasn’t chaos. It was a full-speed campaign to bury the truth before it could take hold.
They didn’t wait for an investigation. They didn’t wait for evidence. Kristi Noem called her a “domestic terrorist” before the blood was even dry. Trump said she ran over an ICE agent. DHS echoed the story. And they did it fast — not because they knew what happened, but because they were terrified of what we were about to see.
And they were right to be afraid. Because once the videos started dropping — Ring cams, phones, security footage — their story collapsed. The ICE officer wasn’t attacked. He escalated. He pulled the trigger. And now Renee Good is dead.
That’s when the lies stopped being sloppy and started being calculated.
Because these lies aren’t just about covering their asses. They’re instructions. A green light to ICE and every other federal agency: If you shoot, we’ll protect you. If you kill, we’ll clean it up.
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That’s the real threat — not just one killing, but a government actively normalizing it.
And they didn’t stop at lying about what she did. They went after who she was. Her pronouns. Her sexuality. Her family. Fox News turned her into a caricature, an “other,” someone easier to discard. It’s the same play every time: dehumanize the victim so people stop asking questions.
That’s not incidental. That’s the mechanism of state violence.
And when the lie didn’t hold — when Minneapolis refused to let it go — the response wasn’t to pause. It was to double down. More ICE agents. More threats. Trump floating the Insurrection Act like it’s a casual next step.
Because Minneapolis isn’t just a city to them. It’s a test.
Cities are where resistance lives. Where people organize. Where federal power runs into real opposition. They’re stress-testing the country — seeing how much outrage we’ll burn through before people back down.
But here’s the part they didn’t calculate:
We aren’t confused.
We aren’t undecided.
We aren’t falling for it.
We watched them lie to our faces — again. And instead of shutting up, people showed up. In bigger numbers. With clearer purpose. With more resolve.
This narrative is collapsing.
Not because of clever PR.
But because people are choosing each other over authoritarian bullshit. Choosing truth over spin. Choosing solidarity over silence.
And that scares them.
That’s why they’re freezing out local law enforcement trying to get to the truth of Renee Good’s death. That’s why they’re hoarding evidence. That’s why they’re insisting only their version of reality is allowed to exist.
Because a government built on lies can’t survive people thinking for themselves.
I’ve watched this unfold in real time. I’ve debated them on TV—including Kristi Noem’s boyfriend last week on Newsnation. I’ve watched them lie before investigations even start — lie loud, lie fast, flood the zone, and hope we’re too exhausted or scared to keep trusting what we know.
But this didn’t happen somewhere distant. This happened in Minneapolis. In a city where people talk, organize, and remember. That’s why they panicked. That’s why they moved so fast to lock in a narrative and shut out the truth.
They weren’t in control. They were scared.
Scared of the footage.
Scared of the truth.
Scared of what happens when we all compare notes and realize we’re not crazy.
So here’s the question — not later, not in theory, but right now:
Who do we become if we let them get away with this?
What kind of country accepts a government killing someone, lying about it in broad daylight, and daring us to believe our own eyes?
What kind of people let power erase a woman’s life to protect itself?
Because we’re not just watching this unfold.
We are choosing.
We’re choosing whether to live in a country where violence is policy and lies are law — or a country where we stand together, speak the truth, and refuse to let anyone get disappeared just because the government says they should be.
They thought they could scare us into silence.
They thought they could outrun the facts.
What they’re learning — the hard way — is that when we trust each other more than we trust them, their lies stop working.
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