F*ck Your Fascism

Life After Good Was Murdered in Minnesota

Last week I wrote “Renée Good Was Murdered Yesterday” while the shock of the brutal and uncaring killing was still fresh and the facts were still being shaped in real time. We all watched in horror as an agent not only put three bullets into the head of a young white woman in broad daylight, but muttered “fucking bitch” as her lifeless body accelerated her vehicle crashing into a parked car along the curb in South Minneapolis just blocks from our Indigenous Food Lab kitchen.

I wrote it because something felt wrong immediately. Not just about the killing itself, but about how quickly the federal spin machine moved to justify it.

In the days since, that feeling of anxiety and dread has only sharpened. ICE is escalating its unconstitutional brutality toward our friends and neighbors, and the truth is this: any of us can be next at any moment.

What we have witnessed over the past week is far from reflection, restraint, or accountability. It is the implementation of a grander plan to sow chaos, to further divide Americans, and to normalize the sickness of racism that has always had its hands around the throats of this country.

The killing of Renée Good has become less about what happened to her and more about what her death is being used to justify.

We now know federal investigators have been ordered to dismiss her intentions entirely, even with her last words being, “I’m not mad at you, bro.” Instead, she is being painted as an agitator, un-American, and an enemy of the state. A card-carrying member of the imaginary Antifa.

When did being anti-fascist become un-American?

THE MINISTRY HAS FALLEN

Moments after videos emerged of Renée’s murder, statements came fast. The agent was defended. The murdered woman was labeled a terrorist. The language of justification arrived before the facts had even settled, coming from the highest levels of government, including our sitting, clearly senile president.

Calls for an independent investigation were treated as political attacks. Protests continue to be framed as disorder. And instead of de-escalation, Minnesota is now expecting more federal presence. More SUVs with tinted windows. More Proud Boy–adjacent agents cosplaying as military, but with real guns. More pressure for our communities to keep their collective sanity under siege.

That fuck Greg Bovino and his entourage of racist bros have been wandering around Minnesota trying to provoke a reaction out of our communities. This isn’t leadership. It’s bait. And it’s cowardly.

People here are feeling this pressure in real time. And even though there isn’t much hope being offered by institutions, we are still coming together to protect and feed those most vulnerable amongst us.

Restaurants are quieter than usual, but we are communicating and learning from each other. Parents are afraid to take their kids to school because they don’t want to be killed by their own government, yet people are organizing to act as human shields to protect our youth and teachers.

People are learning fast and daily. We’ve been teaching ourselves about the invasive and likely illegal surveillance tactics ICE uses. Read about Webloc. Read about TANGLES. Read about the role of Palantir. Read about how our own phones are being weaponized to track, intimidate, and harass us.

We all knew our phones were spying on us before. Now we know they may be actively hurting us.

Turn off your phone.

Turn on humanity.

We are building underground networks of communication and support because we have to. Our federal government is compromised, and there is no longer any meaningful safety net preventing fascism from advancing.

This is not about removing dangerous criminals from the US, it never has been. It is about criminalizing more citizens to crush perceived opposition. This roadmap towards an openly racist society has been carefully thought out and articulated and is Stephen Miller’s racist wet dreams. It’s splattered all over the Project 2025’s handbook for authoritarian pedophiles.

Minnesota is being pushed to our limits but we are responding by coming together with love and support.

Our cities are flooded with federal forces under the banner of immigration enforcement while our senile narcissist of a president talks openly about an upcoming “day of reckoning.” Kristi Noem spins murder of US citizens as necessary action. Pam Bondi orders lists of names from Minnesota, targeting people as Antifa and domestic terrorists simply for standing up against their agent’s illegal and violent actions.

This is not governance.

This is a stress test for the wannabe authoritarian regime.

And Black and Indigenous people in this state and beyond recognize this pattern instantly.

Because this stolen Indigenous land has never been without racism or violence in our eyes since europeans landed on boats here 500 years and still think they own the place.

Fort Snelling, MN and the Dakota Concentration Camp 1863

GHOSTS OF FORT SNELLING

The Whipple Building is now serving as headquarters for Trump’s goon squad here in Minnesota, and it happens to sit on the historic grounds of Fort Snelling.

This is not a neutral nor kind place. Fort Snelling sits overlooking the sacred space of the Dakota people, a place called Bdote, where the two rivers meet (Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers.) This space also carries extreme trauma in the form of memory. It has echoes of past violence that was inflicted on our Indigenous relatives by the same federal authority now operating there again.

What Minnesota textbooks call the Dakota War of 1862 was not spontaneous. It was the predictable result of racist federal policy. The United States forced the Dakota onto reservations through broken treaties, then withheld food and annuity payments. Warehouses were full while families starved.

We were told to eat grass.

Starvation was not collateral damage. It was a weapon of war.

When violence erupted, the state framed it as proof of Dakota savagery rather than the outcome of deliberate deprivation. That framing gave moral cover to everything that followed.

The federal government staged the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged in Mankato after sham trials lasted barely minutes. Evidence was thin or nonexistent and President Lincoln personally approved the executions.

This was not justice.

It was spectacle needed to justify murder and land grabbing.

What followed is discussed even less.

Over 1,700 Dakota women, children, and elders were marched from Mankato to Fort Snelling. Minnesotans lined the roads, not to help, but to abuse. Rocks were thrown. Slurs shouted. Children mocked. Women struck. Elders dragged. Babies ripped from mothers’ arms and bashed against rocks and trees..

At Fort Snelling, families were imprisoned in a fenced enclosure through winter. Shelter was inadequate and food was scarce. Disease ran rampant and hundreds died in captivity .

Those who survived captivity were then loaded onto river boats and shipped down the Mississippi then up the MIssouri river to the newly formed Crow Creek reservation, where my grandmother was born. Hundreds died on that journey alone.

Fort Snelling was a concentration camp by every honest definition. A place where captives based on race were abused, tortured, and forced into unliveable conditions.

This is not ancient history. This was 1863. And this is the foundation the state of Minnesota stands on.

Now it is the same land where ICE has established their own detention facility.

When Black and Indigenous people are detained today without warrants, surveilled daily, and treated as national threats for protesting, we do not experience this as new, this has been already been lived experience.

I saw a woman online explaining how we have normalized the comparison of ICE and the German Gestapo, but actually their actions are more closely related to brutality of Slave Patrols in the 1800s who detained people on race alone and were granted the ability to commit violence as personal discretion with no accountability.

Racism is homegrown here in America and our non melanated citizens may never understand. I guess Trump did mention yesterday how white people were treated unfairly after the civil rights, but should we feel bad they had to gather in hateful mobs and were then forced to commit atrocious acts of violence against those just trying to have similar rights like riding a bus or going to a school in peace?

Right now in MN our homes are being raided, our doors kicked in and our people disappeared.

But it’s just another fucking Tuesday here in MN and ICE is on the foreseeable forecast.

This week in MN

ESCALATION AND DISTRACTION ARE THE STRATEGY

The trauma of Fort Snelling has never been forgotten and now those traumas are back in the open. This particular pain is unintentional but i’m sure welcome to those causing the pain if they knew.

The Trump administration understands escalation and thrives on it. It’s part of the plan.

• Send more agents

• Provoke confrontation

• Allow violence

• Justify more control

Violence creates urgency. Urgency creates permission. Permission creates normalization.

And it just happens to be an election year. Escalation is required in states like Minnesota that refuse to bend.

This regime knows it does not have majority support to win the next election. So it is manufacturing crisis. It distracts us with threats, invasions, and foreign posturing while cutting food, health care, and safety at home.

Meanwhile, scandals fade (Epstein anybody?). Accountability disappears (what murder? You can’t believe what you see with your own eyes…).

Distraction doesn’t require conspiracy. It only requires opportunity.

COMMUNITY IS PUSHING BACK

Our communities are not blind to what is happening.

We are watching the watchers. Showing up together. Turning isolation into collective presence.

Neighbors follow ICE agents, honking horns, blowing whistles, filming illegal behavior. Volunteers act as observers. People warn each other when federal vehicles appear.

This is not chaos, this is community accountability in the absence of trust.

Hunger is now being weaponized. Threats to SNAP and USDA funding loom. Hundreds and thousands of Minnesotans rely on these programs. Children. Elders. Disabled community members. People of every color.

This tactic is old, but we know how to protect each other.

We feed each other.

We are prepared to see food relief coming from Indigenous kitchens, Black kitchens, mutual aid networks. Our food shelves will be stocked full and we will create safe passage to move food to those in need.

We have never waited for permission to feed our people and we will always feed the resistance.

THE REAL DANGER IS NORMALIZATION

The most dangerous thing right now is normalization. The FOX News rhetoric. The social media gaslighting. The demand that we accept this as “how it is now.”

Fort Snelling did not happen overnight. It happened because fear was normalized and violence was justified as order.

Renée Good’s death is not only a tragedy. It is a stress test.

And here is the part people need to hear clearly.

We are now hearing reports from hotel workers that ICE has blocked rooms across Minneapolis–Saint Paul through May.

Let that sink in.

This is not a temporary surge, this is a long-term occupation.

What we are witnessing now is only the beginning.

Minnesota has sued the federal government as of yesterday, and that matters. But we would be lying to ourselves if we said we feel protected by the courts right now. Courts move on schedules. Occupations move on momentum. Our safety cannot wait for a ruling months from now.

Minnesotans are taking action now..

The question is how we stay grounded, refuse manipulation, and keep choosing humanity over fear.

I’m proud to be a Minnesotan.

I’m proud to be a humanist.

Pay attention. Document what you see. Protect each other. Feed each other. Don’t wait for permission to be human. Don’t be manipulated. Get off your phone, its spying on you anyways.

History is happening again and we will prevail here in MN because WE ARE GOOD and we will stand together to fight injustice.

Justice for Renee Good

Convict Jonothan Ross

Impeach the entire Trump Regime

Fuck your fascism and fuck your cowardly ICE agents who are the real criminals in this story.