A Daily Reid: Renee Good is the George Floyd of #STOPICE
Movements are built on stories. And there are few stories more powerful in America than the cold blooded murder of a young white mom in front of her suburban neighbors
MAGA will rue the day that one of their own murdered Renee Good.
Ms. Good was a 37 year old woman living in Minneapolis. A U.S. citizen, she was the mother of three children, including a 6 year old son and two teenagers from her first marriage. But for the fact that after two relationships with men, including a late husband who died at nearly the same age that she did, she was most recently in a lesbian relationship, she might have been considered the all-American girl by the JD Vance types on the right. After all, she’d done as they command: married young, had children, and moved to the suburbs. A Colorado-born poet who played the guitar as a hobby, Good was also a devoted Christian and a college graduate who was starting a new life in the wholesome Midwest. Hardly the stuff of “domestic terrorism.” Indeed, she was shot dead in the front seat of her SUV about 100 yards from her home in a quiet neighborhood, as her partner dissolved in tears on the sidewalk in full view of their neighbors and passers by.
This is the story of a murder; and how it sparked a movement.
The MAGA killer
ICE agent Jonathan Ross is the ICE agent who casually executed Renee Good by firing three bullets into her face through her front windshield while holding his cellphone in his other hand, recording it all — though not with a police-issue bodycam — then coldly walked away after calling the woman he’d just killed a “fucking bitch.” He now has two fundraising campaigns going on his behalf, one of which has cleared more than half a million dollars. It won’t surprise you to learn that hedge fund billionaire, Zionist Harvard scold and almost congenital asshole and diversity hater Bill Ackman is his largest donor. Apparently GoFundMe is ignoring its own rules about raising money for people who committed crimes (though Ross has yet to be charged with one, since the FBI is refusing to cooperate with Minnesota authorities or provide access to Good’s car and other evidence in the shooting. (A fundraiser for Good’s widow and family has raised more than $1.5 million, also on GoFundMe.)
In the other fundraiser — on a right wing site co-founded by a Stephen Miller lookalike, that’s frequently used by people who lose their jobs for spouting the n-word and such — the call to action got … shall we say … colorful:
After stating that Good had engaged “in a blatant act of domestic terrorism aimed at killing or maiming the men protecting our borders from the endless invasion,” the description continued: “But this didn’t happen in a vacuum - it’s the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish) fanning the flames of resistance.”
The description went on to call Frey a “sanctuary city traitor” and states, “His rhetoric empowers violent agitators, turning Minneapolis into a warzone for our heroes enforcing the law and deporting the hordes that weak leaders like him protect.”
The fundraiser was posted January 7 on GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding website popular with right-wing causes, and has raised more than $186,000 of its $200,000 goal as of Monday afternoon. The co-founder of GiveSendGo, Jacob Wells, has promoted the campaign extensively and claims to have corresponded directly with the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross.
“God bless you all! Keep sharing,” Wells wrote on the social network X, receiving positive responses from the actor Dean Cain, among others.
After being circulated online and verified by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the clause “(who is Jewish)” was removed from the description of Frey late Monday.
Perhaps no one informed the GiveSendGo crowd that Ross is reportedly married to a Philippine immigrant, because like JD Vance and Chris Rufo, the irony is apparently part of the allure. (Let’s hope his new friends don’t try to deport wifey…) It also won’t surprise you that he is all the way maga:
Jonathan Ross has lived just outside of Minneapolis since 2015, the Daily Mail reports, where neighbors say he displays pro-MAGA symbols outside the home. One resident of Ross’s cul-de-sac told the publication that until recently Ross had flown pro-Trump flags and a “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden Flag.
Ross has served as an ICE officer since at least 2013, according to the report. At that time, Ross was living in El Paso with his wife.
Ross was identified by the Minnesota Star Tribune after Kristi Noem said during a press conference that the unnamed officer had been dragged in another vehicle incident during an ICE enforcement operation in 2025. This detail was enough to enable journalists to discover his identity.
“You would never find a nicer, kinder person,” Ed Ross added about his son. “He’s a committed, conservative Christian, a tremendous father, a tremendous husband. I couldn’t be more proud of him.”
“Nicer and kinder” except when he’s shooting a woman three times in the face and then calling her a fucking bitch… Natch. Also well done, Kristi Noem, for identifying the masked man for us. (She’s not the brightest…)
It’s doubtful Ross was among the ICE commandoes whose training was shortened to just 47 days “in honor of Donald Trump.” But despite his lengthy tenure in policing and supposed experience, he seems to have been unaware of the rules for dealing with fleeing suspects. Oh, and Renee Good wasn’t even a suspect. She committed no crime. And she’s dead anyway, because she and her wife hurt Jonathan Ross’s precious feelings. And for executing her in broad daylight, Jonathan Ross is MAGA’s new violent hero: their new George Zimmerman … Kyle Rittenhouse (who decided that Good’s murder was his chance to pop back into our unwilling consciousness and float stupid fluoride bullshit with Alex Jones) and Daniel Penny.
And Renee Good is George Floyd
The Good murder took place five years after George Floyd’s neck was pressed under then-police officer Derrick Chauvin’s knee for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, until Floyd lost consciousness and soon died. His murder, not far from Renee Good’s new neighborhood in Minneapolis, where she and her wife had recently moved from Kansas City, also took place in broad daylight in front of a crowd, with cellphone cameras rolling, as Chauvin and his fellow officers behaved with complete indifference to the fact that they were killing a man on camera. The murder shocked a nation that was stuck at home during the COVID pandemic, doom scrolling and staying away from elders lest they die from our coughs. And in one of the most unlikely events in U.S. history — all four cops were charged, tried and convicted of crimes, including Chauvin’s conviction for murder. It was the first time a Minnesota police officer was convicted of murder for killing someone while on duty.
And now, Renee Good is George Floyd. She is the George Floyd of the movement to stop ICE from invading our cities and randomly harassing, racially profiling, beating up, and in fact, killing us.
Like the late Mr. Floyd, Ms. Good was not the first person to die at the hands of ICE — hardly so. Keith Porter was killed by an off duty ICE agent on New Years Eve, and he was the 32nd fatal ICE casualty last year — the post-9/11 agency’s deadliest. But like George Floyd, Good’s public execution is galvanizing a movement.
And yes, the fact that she was a white woman — unlike the mostly brown men and women who have been harassed, kidnapped, detained or killed by what amounts to a federal militia — only adds fuel to the attention and terror, because white people are presumed to be safer in confrontations with police. The treatment of Renee Good — particularly with the masked agent calling her a dumb b—-ch and casually walking off after firing three shots into her face — sends the chilling message that no one is safe in Trump and Stephen Miller’s America. Not even those presumed to enjoy the most safety in America. She is Emmett Till, the northern boy who was supposed to be safer than most Black boys down South, James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, whose white privilege should have protected them against lynching — but who the brazen, white supremacist terrorists murdered anyway.
And according to new insider reporting by Lev Parnas, Trumpworld is freaking out about the implications of Renee Good’s murder:
I’m hearing directly from a source with firsthand access to conversations inside Trump’s inner circle — including Donald Trump himself and Stephen Miller — and I want to be crystal clear about this part:
These are their words, not mine.
My source tells me there is outrage inside Trump world — not because an American citizen was killed, not because a mother of three is dead, not because the country is hurting — but because this case does not fit the narrative they were counting on.
The disbelief being expressed, according to my source, is that this was not a Black woman, not a brown woman, not an undocumented immigrant. They are openly discussing how much harder it is to spin, how much harder it is to provoke chaos, how much harder it is to justify a crackdown when the victim is a white American woman with no criminal record. Read the rest here.
Trump’s lies are killing us
Please check out this piece by Robert P. Jones, on how the regime’s lies are killing Americans. A clip:
Trump’s lies, both big and small, have been corrosive to the foundations of civil society and democracy, which depend on a shared sense of reality. But the events of the first days of 2026 also show that they are deadly. They are literally killing us.
Given Trump’s inclination to dishonesty, his authoritarian leanings, and his inability to admit failure, it’s no surprise that he would respond to electoral defeat with what became known as The Big Lie: his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. What is remarkable is how willing his followers, including his stalwart white Christian supporters, were to embrace this lie.
On January 6, 2021, Trump’s endless “stop the steal” appeals produced the inevitable violent result in an attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Public opinion polls confirmed Trump’s hold on the minds of his followers. Despite Trump losing all 62 lawsuits claiming fraud in the 2020 election, and even after witnessing the violence at the Capitol, fully two thirds of Republicans and 61% of white evangelical protestants said that they believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
The Big Lie has had remarkable staying power among the MAGA base. Trump turned affirmation of the Big Lie into a loyalty test for administration appointments in his second term. And as they were casting their ballots in the 2024 election, PRRI data revealed that majorities of Republicans and white evangelicals (62% and 56% respectively), compared to only 31% of the public, continued to believe this false claim.
Read the whole thing here and consider subscribing to Robby’s SubStack White Too Long by Robert P. Jones.
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