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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition

Posted on | January 15, 2026 | No Comments

Last week when I wrote about the death of Renee Good, almost nothing was known about the background of the woman who got shot to death while trying to run over an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

Now we have several important facts, although still not the kind of coherent biography we need to fully understand her suicidal behavior. Most importantly, however, we do have more video of the incident — including from the ICE agent’s own cell phone — that demonstrates that Good and her lesbian “wife” were not innocent civilians:

Renee Nicole Good’s wife was antagonizing ICE agents and even urged her to “drive baby, drive” just moments before the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, according to shocking new video taken on the agent’s own cell phone.
The video — filmed by agent Jonathan Ross on Wednesday and obtained by Alpha News — shows the heated interaction between the Goods in the lead-up to the shooting.
Renee can be seen behind the driver’s seat of the plum-colored Honda Pilot, while her wife, Rebecca, stands in the street next to the car. A dog is also sitting in the back seat, peering out an open window.
As Ross records the interaction, Renee says to him, “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you” before her spouse starts jawing at the federal officer as whistles and sirens can be heard in the background.
“You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead,” Rebecca sneers at Ross while filming on her own phone outside the car.
Rebecca then tries to get back into the passenger side, as an agent orders, “Get out of the f–king car” and Renee backs up.
As the car is in motion, Rebecca, who is still out of the car, can be heard shouting, “drive, baby, drive, drive” before Renee peels off and clips Ross, prompting him to open fire. . . .
A video taken in the aftermath of the shooting Wednesday showed Rebecca sobbing as she cried, “It’s my fault.”
“I made her come down here; it’s my fault,” she said, her face covered in blood after having attempted to help Renee. “They just shot my wife.”

In the immediate aftermath of last Wednesday’s shooting, it had not yet even been clearly confirmed that Good was part of an anti-ICE protest, and some were still claiming that she was just a random Minneapolis mom who had coincidentally encountered this ICE raid in her neighborhood. But the truth has now been established:

Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday. . . .
Good and her wife, Rebecca, 40, were raising the boy together in the mostly working-class, activist-heavy neighborhood of south Minneapolis, which features tree-lined streets and a large number of homes with windows decked out in LGBTQ+ flags or signs depicting George Floyd.
Just as many others did in the lefty enclave, Good sent her son to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 that from its inception has been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” according to co-founder Susie Oppenheim.
It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in “ICE Watch” — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.

Rebecca Brown (left) and her lesbian “wife” Renee Good (right)

Via online accounts (that are not yet confirmed, I hasten to add) we are being told that Good faced criminal charges in 2022, and was subsequently charged with violating probation in October 2024. It is also being alleged that Good’s “wife” (no records documenting a legal marriage) Rebecca Brown was accused of abusing Good’s children, but that also is unconfirmed and, in fact, we do not even know if Rebecca’s surname was actually “Brown,” which may be an alias. What we do know is that the couple were living in Kansas City, Missouri, after the 2023 death of Renee’s second husband, and that Renee’s partner filed to have her named changed to Rebecca Brown Good. That was in late 2023, and sometime after Trump was elected in 2024, the couple reportedly moved to Canada, but in recent months had relocated to Minneapolis.

There are still many gaps in this narrative. How did Renee Good meet her lesbian “wife”? Renee was from Colorado Springs, and at least used to be a Christian. So her ending up in a relationship with a lesbian seems kind of weird, and I have yet to see a single news article explaining this bizarre trajectory. All I know is Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime, Gays, Immigration, Minnesota

In The Mailbox: 01.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 14, 2026 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Military Moves In The China Seas
357 Magnum: The Register Brings Us the Worst Tech from CES, also  RIP Scott Adams
EBL: Scott Adams, RIP, Charleston and Savannah, Galileo, Battlestar Gallactica, and Anchovy Lemon Spaghetti with Chili and Parsley
Twitchy: Try To Spot The Difference – How CNN & NYT Reported Inflation Under Biden vs. Trump, Secret Service Suspends Agent Who Revealed Sensitive Information To James O’Keefe, and Mike Johnson Makes Massive Prediction For GOP Midterm Chances
Louder With Crowder: Tom Homan torches woke Philly sheriff who threatened ICE, “Join the Tribe”: Steven Crowder makes the definitive case FOR tribalism, Secret Service Agent Leaks Private JD Vance Security Information To Undercover Journalist, Joy Reid Admits Good Was Part Of Network That Trained White People To Impede ICE, and MAGA bro takes on four MN leftists all at once, proves the left can’t meme OR fight
Vox Popoli: The Drift Deathmarch, I Stand Corrected, Once Lethal, Always Lethal, Rejection, and Germany Econo-Suicide Continues
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm Part 3
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Ah, the state of American education
Stoic Observations: Superficial – The Game
Jim McCoy: Bowl of Red

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Iran, Persia, And All That Jazz
Don Surber: Rubio for president of Cuba

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In The Mailbox: 01.13.26

Posted on | January 13, 2026 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day Capturing Maduro (2026), What Are The CEW Used To Capture Maduro? and A Day With The 5th U.S. Colored Troops (1864), 
357 Magnum: Billionaires Flee California Ahead of Tax Insanity
EBL: Iranian Women Lighting Cigarettes, Mediterranean Cod, BUGONIA, The worst of the worst captured in Minneapolis, and What would Vince Lombardi say?
Twitchy: Epstein Files Must Be Damning For The Clintons To Ditch Subpoena, Apartment Manager Busted For Voting Multiple Times For Former Tenants, and Jessica Tarlov Jumps In The Renee Good Debate Because She Can’t Let Other Libs Out-Stupid Her
Louder With Crowder: Gay Minneapolis “pastor” doubles down on unbelievable story ICE held him at gunpoint, Landlord Jailed After Fraudulently Casting Former Tenants’ Mail Ballots, Ilhan Omar claims fraud isn’t the problem, you discriminating against Somalians for committing fraud is the problem, Taylor Sheridan’s “Landman” makes a mockery of woke college students with a they/them from – wait for it – Minneapolis, and Philadelphia Sheriff Issues Vile Threat Against ICE Agents
Vox Popoli: A First Challenge, The Bullies of IU, A Beautiful Catch, Greenland: the 51st State, and Reddit Doesn’t Disappoint
Stoic Observations: A Trustless Society, Soul In Horns, and State Machines For The Judiciary
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 5, Tomato Wyrm Part 2, and Chatting About Fountain Pens
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Brave, also, Vulgus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
Based Book Sale: 2025 In Review & Appreciation
Ammo.com: Florida Murder Rates

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Palantir’s Mike Gallagher & Matt Babin On AI & Shipbuilding,  
Don Surber: Beat The Press
Matt Taibbi: Escalation Weekend – Three Days of Confrontations Between Minnesota Protesters & ICE, 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Hello, Nurse!

Posted on | January 12, 2026 | No Comments

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Maybe she’s a nurse. Maybe she’s a doctor. Maybe she’s just a model in scrubs. Who cares?
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Anais Foulquier, Song Sung Blue, MAGA Maduro vs. Machado, Let’s Make Pizza, Chalet Girl, The First U.S. Governor Of The Territory Of Greenland, Pretenders, “Let It Go”, The Odyssey, “Punk Rock Girl”, Passenger, Americana, and Venezuelans Celebrate Maduro’s Arrest

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Julia Lescova, Fish Pic Friday – Sydnie Wells, Hurricane, The Wednesday Wetness, Gone Fishin’, Tattoo Tuesday, A Bottle Bill for Maryland?, Trump and the ‘Donroe’ Doctrine, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday 

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

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FMJRA 2.0: Still Stuck In The Ruts

Posted on | January 11, 2026 | No Comments

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It was another .500 week for the home team – we lost two of three to the Cardinals, and it would have been a sweep except for a six-run rally in the sixth against Orlando Pena, which gave Jim Kaat his first win in relief. The shoe was on the other foot when the Tribe came to town, though – Pat Dobson lost Game 1 3-4, but in Game 2 the boys rallied for two in the bottom of the 10th to win it for Roger Nelson, who’d come in to relieve Kaat; in Game 3 Bucky Dent, Jim Hargrove and Dave Winfield combined for two runs in the bottom of the ninth to give Charlie Hough his fifth win. So we finish the week 3-3, 31-41 overall – three games behind the third-place Brewers and 6.5 behind the division-leading Twins. Next week we’re facing the Expos (41-28) on Tuesday and the Pirates (26-46) on Friday, so unless things go badly wrong we’ll have another .500 week, or maybe a 4-2 week if we can sweep the Bucs.
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BREAKING: U.S. Strikes Venezuela UPDATE: Maduro Captured, Trump Says
First Street Journal
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FMJRA 2.0: On An Even Keel
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Old Trucks & Young Girls
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Vandalizes J.D. Vance’s Ohio Home
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.06.26 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

New York City Is Decadent and Depraved
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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Minneapolis Is Decadent and Depraved
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

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In The Mailbox: 01.10.26

Posted on | January 10, 2026 | No Comments

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Adding the stuff that Feedly wouldn’t show me last night.
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The Vivian James of the UK counterrevolution?

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Let’s Make A Pizza, Bold Nelson’s Praise, Chalet Girl, Andrew Branca and the Minnesota ICE Shooting, and Steaking Golden Tilefish
Louder With Crowder: The dude accused of breaking into JD Vance’s home wants to be called “Julia”, Whoopi Goldberg demands NATO save us from Donald Trump, appears confused about what NATO is, Trump Treasury announces major change in policy, no longer allows foreigners to send money overseas, JD Vance brings glorious righteous indignation against the news media lying about what happened in Minneapolis, and “Do felonious assaults with two-ton weapons, expect to be shot”
Vox Popoli: The Tree of Woe Interview, Oreshnik Take 2, and From Theory to Farce

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
BattleSwarm: Is Islamic Iran Cracking? Is Iran Losing Control Of Kurds and Lurs? Ukrainian Robots 1, Russian Horses 0, Venezuela Fallout Roundup For January 5, and LinkSwarm For January 9
Behind The Black: An outline of NASA’s present schedule leading up to the Artemis-2 manned lunar fly-by mission, ISS crew to return on Wednesday January 14, SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites, Isaacman okays flying Artemis-2 manned, despite heat shield questions, and Another spiral galaxy that should not exist discovered in the early universe
First Street Journal: It’s too bad she is gone, but Renee was up to no Good, You will own nothing and you will like it, The progressive ‘urbanists’ just don’t quite understand things, #TrumpDerangementSyndrome: the left are wholly upset, but the Venezuelan people are overjoyed, and You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Legal Insurrection: Video Released of ICE Agent’s Perspective of Minneapolis Shooting, MTG Refutes Allegations She Tipped Off Code Pink About Trump Visit to DC Restaurant, Trump Cancels ‘Previously Expected Second Wave of Attacks’ on Venezuela, U. Maryland Still a Hotbed of Anti-Israel Activism, and Arizona State U. Administrator Admits School Conceals DEI Instruction Despite Federal Ban
Outkick: Insufferable NBA Scumbag Steve Kerr Lies Through His Teeth About ICE Shooting, Into The Hurricane: Indiana Has Changed College Football, Thanks To Curt Cignetti’s Belief In Team And Mendoza, SEC Humiliation Is Complete, As Ole Miss Loss Moves Conference To 0-3 In Playoff Against P4 Teams, Is Paul Finebaum Going To Follow Through And Leave The Country? and Sydney Thomas & Her Girlfriends Tear Up St. Barts To Kick Off 2026, Cig Memes & Sad Oregon Fans
Power Line: The ICE agent’s POV, The Minnesota incident, Trump’s Economy Is Booming, Today in Minnesota fraud, and Mr. Glahn goes to Washington
Watts Up With That: Grauniad Thinks Withdrawing from Climate Treaties will Make the USA Poorer, Dramatic Fall in Global Temperatures Ignored by Narrative-Captured Mainstream Media, Berlin Blackout Shows Germany’s $5 Trillion Green Scheme Is “Left-Green Ideological Pipe Dream”, Natural Gas Is More Important and Cleaner Than Most Americans Realize, and Professor Emeritus Criticises Letting People Choose Whether to Buy an EV

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In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 10, 2026 | No Comments

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Feedly is being difficult and not serving up links for some of the usual blogs. Botheration. 
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Who Funds The Democrat Insurrectionists? also, A Day With America’s First Spy Ring (1778)
357 Magnum: If You Break Into Homes
Twitchy: Doctored Clip Turns Violent Car Attack On ICE Into Martyr Propaganda, Jack Smith Trampled Trump’s First Amendment Right Says…The Washington Post? and Deranged Activist Woman Abandons Small Child In Car To Interfere With Feds
According To Hoyt: Happy Sesquicentennial, Blogging the Future of The Past – Donovan’s Brain, Chattel, Beautiful Losers, and Reading In Woman
Cedar Sanerson: Library Thing

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The New Neoconservatives, also, Senate Advances War Powers Resolution to Rein in Trump on Venezuela
American Greatness: SecTreas on Minnesota Fraud – ‘Our Generosity Has Been Taken Advantage Of’, House Oversight Committee Will Call Minnesota Reps, Governor, AG to Testify on Social Services Fraud, Two Venezuelan Tren de Aragua Gang Members Shot by Border Patrol in Portland During Car-Ramming Attack, J.D. Vance Completely Dismantles Leftwing ‘Gaslighting’ on ICE Shooting in Minneapolis, and CMS Announces Full Audit and Deferment of Medicaid Payments in Minnesota, DOJ Surges Prosecutors to State
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 69 – Happy Birthday, Alaska
Cafe Hayek: Are Free Traders Narrowly Materialistic? And Yet Another Open Letter to Donald Trump, Trump Is Mistaken About the Value of the Dollar, More Than A “We”e Exaggeration, and Oh, Look Who’s Paying Trump’s Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Thoughts on Housing Affordability, A U of Chicago Professor and What Prostitutes Can Teach About Economics, Come and Get Me! (Por Favor), Christmas 2025 – Bring A Chain Saw, and From China: A 2000-Year-Old Jacquard Loom?
Da Tech Guy: Minnesota Shooting: Five Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Media outlets tell ICE’s side of the story
Gates Of Vienna: Darkly Dystopian Visions, We’re as Dangerous as the Islamists, Death of Sense, Trump and Global Power, and Death to Khamenei!
The Geller Report: Minneapolis Shows the High Price of Defying Federal Law, Iranian Regime Guns Down Protesters as Uprising Explodes, TRADE SHOCK: Trump Slashes U.S. Deficit in Half — Lowest in 15 Years, The Insurrection Act Could Be Invoked Tomorrow, and HOMES FOR FAMILIES, NOT HEDGE FUNDS
Hollywood In Toto: FireAid Funneled Cash to Podcasters, Illegals and Fungus Planting, Father Mother Sister Brother Is Pure Jarmusch Gold, Jimmy Kimmel Just Crossed a Big Red Line, Primate Will Drive Horror Movie Fans Bananas, and Will Disney Ever Stand Up to ABC’s Chronic Liars?
Matt Taibbi: How Big Pharma Mixed Addiction With Social Justice, Fire Departments’ New Emergency – Affording Their Trucks, Who’s To Blame In Minnesota?
Nebraska Energy Observer: And now, Cuba, Plus a Roundup of the Week, Persecution, Iran Continued, and What it is all About; Maybe, Iran and more, and Venezuela
Shark Tank: Florida Council of 100 Outlines Positive Business Outlook For 2026
Shot In The Dark: Walzing Out Of The Room, The REAL Victim, and Is It Just Me
STUMP: Congressional Mortality Update 2026 – More Consequences
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Organ Harvesting Endorsement, Firing Line Friday: The New Frontier: The Great Society,  and Pregnant Organoids: Will Catgirls Follow?
This Ain’t Hell: Disgraced Vet Removed from Cemetery, Valor Friday, New Weight Standards, Today- An Oil Tanker Twofer, and Soviet Era Traitor Dies in Prison
Transterrestrial Musings: The Crew On Artemis II, Minnesota, Stop Using Mercator Projection, Lileks, and 2026 In Space
Victory Girls: Minneapolis City Council Hands Power to Socialists, Cea Weaver, Mamdani Housing Director, Cries When Confronted, and Minneapolis Mom Was Trained ICE Watch Observer
The Federalist: At SCOTUS, Female Athletes Gear Up To Protect Women’s Sports, How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Delivering 120 ‘Marshall Plans’ To The U.S., Democrats Want Anti-ICE Protesters To Die So They Can Protect Their Fraudulent Patronage With Riots, We Need A J6-Level Manhunt For Everyone Who Obstructs Immigration Law Enforcement, and When Can We Start Uprooting Domestic Terror Cells Attacking Law Enforcement?
Mark Steyn: A Friend of Sacha Distel, Never Again, Again and Again – Russell Crowe in Nuremberg, “It Was a Very Good Year”, Live Around the Planet – Gunning For Greenland Fortress America, and Thank you, Trump

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In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 9, 2026 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“I think it’s okay for a cop (or anyone really) to shoot someone who’s trying to run them over.” – Sensurround

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Paralog 9mm spotted in the Wild
Director Blue: A Day Of Fear – America’s First Serial Killer Panic (1885)
EBL: To The Shores of Tripoli, Cilia Flores is ‘more extreme’ and ‘crueller’ than Maduro, Charles De Gaulle, and Kathleen Kennedy : Critical Drinker
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Has A Reminder About The NYT & WaPo After These Analyses Of The Mpls ICE Shooting, Jasmine Ratchet Tells Doozy Of Charlie Kirk Lie In Attempt To Shame The Right, and Asra Nomani Shares Deep Dive On Far-Left Network Behind Anti-ICE Protests
Louder With Crowder: Debunking Every Lie The Left Wants You to Believe About The Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Mamdani’s housing czar says making NYC housing “worth less” via rental control is the plan, Scott Jennings puts blame for MN tragedy where it belongs… Dems radicalizing their base to IMPEDE law enforcement, and Hey, remember when the Minneapolis Mayor threatened ICE agents literally two weeks ago?
Vox Popoli: CPB is Dead, They Should Have Fired Lamar, Greenland Needs Americans, and 88 Million x
Cedar Sanderson: Wisdom Of Ages
Ammo.com: Where Does Texas Rank In Homicides?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Yes, Our New Boomer Is That Big
Don Surber: Temu Radar Failed Venezuela

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