The "Just comply if you have nothing to hide" crowd immediately get to work blocking Minnesota state officials from investigating the senseless murder of an innocent mother of three by a bloodthirsty masked thug in Minneapolis on January 7th

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/minnesota-officials-say-they-cant-access-evidence-after-fatal-ice-shooting-and-fbi-wont-work-jointly-on-investigation

>Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on investigation

>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The head of Minnesota's state investigations agency says the U.S. attorney's office has cut off its access in the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent.

>"The investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation," Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said in a statement.

>It had been decided that the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension would investigate Good's shooting death along with the FBI, but that later was changed by the U.S. Attorney's office, according to Evans.

>The BCA "has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation," Evans wrote.

>This is a developing story and will be updated.

When the usual oil shills say we need more drilling, leaking pipelines and deregulation. Remember to post that trump tried to give land away to drill and no one wanted it.

https://www.cpr.org/2026/01/09/bureau-of-land-management-oil-gas-auction-zero-bids-colorado/

Going once, going twice, sold to ... no one.

On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management auctioned off leases on more than 20,000 acres of public land in Colorado for oil and gas drilling. The land, divided into 23 parcels, was offered at the minimum starting price, just $10 an acre, and could be leased indefinitely once oil and gas starts flowing.

But during the sale: crickets. Not a single parcel received a bid, and only two companies had even registered for the sale.

The sale reveals the limits of the Trump administration’s push to open more public land to oil and gas drilling. Simply put, many areas across the West with easily accessible oil are already developed.

“In general, everything that is really high value across the West that will ever produce oil has already been sold,” said Aaron Weiss, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, an environmental group, which criticized the auction.

The BLM did not directly respond to criticism about the sale.

The sale represents a renewed push by the Trump Administration to ramp up domestic oil and gas production, and achieve so-called “energy dominance.” The United States is already the world’s largest producer of crude oil.

Thursday's lease sale, or lack thereof, came on the heels of a previous auction in December, which yielded nearly $5 million in revenue for Colorado and the federal government. While that may seem significant, it did not meet the threshold set by President Trump’s landmark domestic policy law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The law mandates that the BLM hold a replacement sale if a quarter or more of the acres offered for leasing receive no bids.

https://ictnews.org/news/five-native-americans-detained-by-ice-during-ongoing-raids-in-minneapolis/

At least five Native American men have been detained and an unknown number questioned by immigration officers across the Minneapolis area in the midst of what a top official called the “largest immigration raid ever.”

After 2,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived in Minneapolis early this week, Indigenous residents on the city’s southside have witnessed agents question and even detain community members. Blocks away from a local Native American housing community, a 37-year-old mother was shot by ICE agents Wednesday, sparking nationwide protests.

“I think some of them [ICE] don’t even know what they’re doing or where they’re at,” said Little Crow Belcourt, White Earth Ojibwe and the director of the Indigenous Peoples Movement. “They’re just pulling people over at random, if you’re Brown. Some of our Native (American) people get mistaken for our relatives south of the border.”

Minneapolis’ southside, particularly around Franklin Avenue East, has historically been an area for Indigenous people to gather and live. South Side Housing was first taken over by the Indigenous community in 1975, when it became Little Earth, and since then the area has become the center for the Indigenous community. Community members often call Little Earth an urban reservation, Belcourt said.

On Tuesday, ICE agents attempted to enter Little Earth Housing Project property. Little Earth is the first Native American community housing project in the United States. Property managers told ICT they informed ICE that they were not welcome and turned agents away.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-federal-agent-involved-minneapolis-shooting-during-immigration-surge-city-2026-01-07/

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis on Wednesday amid an immigration enforcement surge, according to local and federal officials, the latest violent incident during President Donald Trump's nationwide crackdown on migrants.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey adamantly rejected the Trump administration's claim that the agent fired in self-defense, saying he has seen video of the shooting that directly contradicts what he called the government's "garbage narrative."

"They're already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense," he said at a press conference. "Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly - that is bullshit."
A visibly angry Frey said federal immigration agents were responsible for sowing chaos in the city, telling ICE: "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis." But he also urged residents to remain calm.
The shooting drew protesters into the streets near the scene, some of whom were met by heavily armed federal agents wearing gas masks who fired chemical irritants at the demonstrators.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/world/europe/finland-scandal-beauty-queen-china-racist.html
Finland’s prime minister apologized on Wednesday to China, South Korea and Japan in an effort to quash a growing racism scandal in the country.

Over the past few days, lawmakers in Finland’s most prominent anti-immigration party have posted pictures of themselves pulling back their eyelids, apparently in support of a Finnish beauty queen who was stripped of her crown last week for making a similar gesture.

“I sincerely apologize for recent offensive social media posts by individual members of Parliament, which do not reflect Finland’s values of equality and inclusion,” Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said in a Chinese-language statement posted on social media on Wednesday by the Finnish Embassy in China.

Finland’s embassies in South Korea and Japan shared similar statements on social media.

The controversy began this month when pictures surfaced on social media of Sarah Dzafce, Finland’s representative to the Miss Universe pageant, pulling her eyelids back at a slant, according to Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest newspaper.
Ms. Dzafce apologized in an Instagram statement last week.

“One of the most important things for me is respect for people, their backgrounds and differences,” she said, adding, “I take responsibility for my actions and will learn from this.”

The Miss Finland Organization then stripped her of her title, saying in a statement that her comment was “offensive, harmful and completely against the values” of the pageant.

> https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-shot-federal-agents-portland-sources/story?id=129038573

Two people were injured in a shooting involving a federal agent in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, according to authorities.

The Department of Homeland Security said the shooting occurred while Border Patrol agents were conducting a "targeted" stop on a vehicle carrying two people allegedly affiliated with the Tren de Aragua gang. The passenger was the target, DHS said.

"When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents," DHS said in a statement.

An agent fired a defensive shot and the driver drove off with the passenger, according to DHS, which called the situation "evolving."

The shooting incident occurred around 2:19 p.m. local time, DHS said. Portland police said officers responded to the 10200 block of Southeast Main Street near Adventist Health, a medical office, for the report of a shooting.

Several minutes later, Portland police officers responding to a call for help at an apartment complex some 3 miles away from the shooting scene found a man and woman with "apparent gunshot wounds," according to the police department.

The shooting victims had driven themselves to an apartment complex in the area of Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside Street, where the man who had been shot called for help, according to police.

Police officers applied a tourniquet and called for emergency medical personnel, and the two shooting victims were transported to a hospital, police said. Their conditions are unknown, police said.

"Officers confirmed that federal agents had been involved in a shooting," the Portland Police Department said in a statement, adding, "Portland Police were not involved in the incident."

The FBI was seen in video responding to the scene of the shooting. Portland police are assisting, a department spokesperson said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/trump-venezuela-oil.html
President Donald Trump said Tuesday evening that the interim authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States.

Trump, in a social media post, said the oil will be sold at its market price, “and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!”
“I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately,” Trump wrote. “It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States.”

Trump said that the oil being turned over the U.S. was “high quality” and “sanctioned.”

The announcement came three days after U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, and his wife in Caracas, and took them to New York, where they are charged in a federal drug-trafficking conspiracy indictment.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Trump plans to meet with representatives from the major U.S. oil companies Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Exxon Mobil, along with other domestic producers, at the White House on Friday “to discuss making significant investments in Venezuela’s oil sector.”

Trump has said that U.S. oil companies would end up investing billions of dollars to rehabilitate Venezuela’s aging oil production capabilities.

Chevron currently operates in Venezuela, the only U.S. oil company to do so. The assets of ConocoPhillips and Exxon were nationalized by Venezuela’s then-President Hugo Chávez in the mid-2000s.

https://www.startribune.com/she-was-an-amazing-human-being-mother-identifies-woman-shot-killed-by-ice-agent/601559922

The woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, was identified by her mother as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

Good died just a few blocks from where she lived. A woman who answered the door at Good’s home declined to comment.

Donna Ganger told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter lived in the Twin Cities with her partner. Ganger said the family was notified of the death late Wednesday morning.

"That’s so stupid" that she was killed, Ganger said, after learning some of the circumstances from a reporter. "She was probably terrified."

Ganger said her daughter is "not part of anything like that at all," referring to protesters challenging ICE agents.

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known," she said. "She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being."

An Instagram account that appears to belong to Good describes her as a "poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN."

Good had previously been married to Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., who died in 2023 at the age of 36. Macklin’s father, Timmy Ray Macklin Sr., was shocked to hear the news that Good had been shot and killed.

He said Good and his son had a child who is now 6 years old.

"There’s nobody else in his life," Macklin said. "I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild."

Macklin added that Good had two additional children who he believed lived with her extended family.

President Donald Trump might have accidentally pardoned the man who was caught planting pipe bombs outside of the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before the January 6 riot.

However, the Justice Department might find that it is unable to prosecute Brian Cole Jr. due to the sweeping order of clemency issued by Trump during his first day back in office. While the White House has brushed off questions regarding Cole's actions, it is clear that the members within the Justice Department are nervous.Trump's nearly year-old proclamation commuted the sentences of 14 individuals and granted “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.” The statement covers 1,500 individuals, including those who were charged with assaulting or resisting law enforcement officers. Speaking to The Mirror U.S., a White House official said that " The pipe bombs were placed on Jan 5. The pardon pertained to events at or near the Capitol on January 6 and does not cover planting bombs at places that aren’t the Capitol on different days. "Cole's lawyers have yet to announce if they intend to argue that he is entitled to a pardon if convicted. Should they attempt to do so, there are several routes they could pursue, all of which require various interpretations of the order.

https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/trump-pardon-unintentionally-freed-jan-1604108.amp