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Gay DJ Fat Tony shares what he claims really happened at the Peltz-Beckham wedding
DJ Fat Tony has weighed in on the most explosive drama of the year (so far!), the Peltz-Beckham family wedding debacle.
Speaking on ITV’s This Morning on Friday (23 January), DJ Fat Tony, whose real name is Tony Marnoch, shared his first-person eyewitness account of what exactly went down on the fateful night of Brooklyn Beckham’s much-discussed wedding.
In a series of Instagram story posts, Brooklyn claimed his mother, Victoria Beckham, “humiliated” him when she “danced very inappropriately on me.”
Speaking on This Morning, Fat Tony said “the whole situation was really awkward for everyone in the room,” as he recounted the events.
“There was no s**tdropping, there was no black cat PVC catsuits, there was no Spice Girl action.”
Pop star Marc Anthony performed at the wedding reception and Fat Tony claimed that he called Brooklyn to the stage.
“The next minute, everyone was expecting it to be Nicola to go up and do the first dance,” he said. Anthony then asked for “the most beautiful woman in the room” to join Brooklyn, then said Victoria’s name, instead of Brooklyn’s partner, Nicola.
‘The whole situation was very awkward.’
“Victoria is by the stage, she goes onto the stage, and of course at that point Brooklyn is suddenly, literally, devastated because he thought he was going to do his first dance with his wife.
“Then Nicola leaves the room crying her eyes out. Brooklyn is stuck there on stage.
“And then they do this dance and Marc Anthony’s going, ‘Put your hands on your mother’s hips’. It was a Latin thing.
“The whole situation was very awkward for everyone in the room.”
Fat Tony was asked if the actions were “inappropriate.” He responded: “If [Brooklyn] feels that it was inappropriate and awkward, it was inappropriate and awkward.”
Fat Tony also furthered that the newlyweds were “devastated” but the dance “is a very small part of a bigger problem” for the Beckham family.
Who is DJ Fat Tony?
DJ Fat Tony, otherwise known as Tony Marnoch, is a notable British DJ and author.
He’s best known for his work during the ‘80s and ‘90s club scene, where he was a prominent voice in house music. He continues to have influence today.
Fat Tony has DJ’d for the likes of Madonna and Prince, as well as the Beckham family.
In his 2022 memoir, I Don’t Take Requests, Marnoch shared his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and his HIV diagnosis.
Today, the DJ continues to platform LGBTQ+ communities and works as an activist.
Fat Tony married his partner, creative director Stavros Agapiou, in June 2025. Boy George officiated as master of ceremonies.
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Trans Space Force colonel forced out by Trump flooded with donations after Congress campaign launch
A former Space Force colonel fired by the Trump administration over her gender identity has raised over $100,000 less than 24 hours after launching a political campaign.
Retired astronautical engineer Bree Fram’s campaign to represent Virginia in US Congress has already skyrocketed into outer space less than a week after she made the announcement.
The 46-year-old Colonel announced her intention to run for the Congressional seat in a Tuesday (20 January) Instagram clip.
“Too many Americans are afraid of what their own government is doing to them, instead of being confident in what it can do for them,” she said in the clip. “That’s why I’m running for Congress.”
Following the announcement, Fram launched a 24-hour fundraising haul aimed at raising funds for her campaign. In less than a day, it received more than $102,000 from at least 400 donors across 46 states, according to MetroWeekly.
She thanked donors in a social media post after the fundraising haul closed, saying they had helped to “turn the page on chaos, vengeance, and attacks on personal freedom.”
Fram was infamously removed from her position as an active duty officer of the United States Space Force in June 2025 after the US government enforced its ban on transgender military personnel. She is believed to be the highest ranking trans officer to have been fired under the executive order.
During her 23 years of service, Fram was deployed in Iraq and Qatar as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, eventually serving in both the US Air Force and Space Force. She came out as trans in 2016 and later became the first trans woman to reach the rank of Colonel.
She was among thousands of personnel ejected from their positions in the United States armed forces over the executive order, despite Trump administration officials struggling to justify the action.
Following her campaign announcement, Fram told InsideNoVa that she was not running “on a platform that is about identity” but rather on the basis of defending Americans’ “basic rights, particularly freedom of speech [and] freedom of assembly.”
“This is the calling”
The mother of two emphasised the need to restore democratic freedoms dismantled by the Trump administration in an interview with The Advocate, promising not to back down from the fight.
“No matter what rock we might look under, you can find something this administration has [done] that is worthy of not only an investigation but being held accountable,” she said, accusing Donald Trump of failing to “faithfully execute the laws of the United States and to fulfil his oath to support and defend the Constitution.”
Her focus is on ensuring Congress focuses on protecting Americans by investing in issues like social security, disease prevention, housing, and more.
“This is the calling,” she said. “If we don’t stand up now, we might not have anything to stand up for in the future.”
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Miss Major remembered: LGBTQ+ rights advocates honor her legacy
On October 13, transgender civil rights icon Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away at 78 after time in hospice care. For over five decades, Griffin-Gracy fought for trans equality — and in a country that still wrestles with queer rights with as much temperament today as it did when she arrived in New York City in the 1960s. Nevertheless, she persevered as a torchbearer to brighten the lives of those who saw the world as grim and dismaying. Val-de-Marne: les Hôpitaux Confluence lancent leur entrepôt de données de santé
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EEOC scraps job discrimination guidance after commissioner complained about trans rights
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted this week to rescind the most recent version of its workplace harassment guidance, which included examples based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
As NPR reports, the commission voted 2-to-1 on Thursday to rescind the guidance, with EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas and commissioner Brittany Panuccio, both Trump appointees, voting against Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal, the commission’s only Democrat.
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The guidance, approved in 2024 under the Biden administration, cited the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which established that workplace discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation is a form of sex-based discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It included examples of unlawful workplace discrimination involving intentional misuse of pronouns that do not align with an employee’s gender identity and denial of access to restrooms that align with an employee’s gender identity.
As NPR notes, Lucas, who was an EEOC commissioner at the time, voted against the guidance, writing in her dissent that “Biological sex is real, and it matters. Sex is binary (male and female) and is immutable,” and that “It is not harassment to acknowledge these truths — or to use language like pronouns that flow from these realities, even repeatedly.”
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President Donald Trump named Lucas the EEOC’s acting chair last January, after firing two Democratic commissioners and the agency’s general counsel. Lucas opposes both DEI initiatives and federal civil rights protections for transgender people and has said that her priorities include “rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination.”
Following Trump’s January 2025 executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize an individual’s sex as determined by their “immutable biological classification as either male or female,” Lucas stated that while the agency would continue accepting all discrimination charges filed by workers, complaints that “implicate” the anti-trans executive order would be elevated to headquarters for review. After reportedly burying a number of lawsuits involving discrimination against trans and nonbinary workers, the EEOC moved in July to resume processing complaints that “fall squarely” under legal precedent set by Bostock.
In May 2025, a federal judge ruled that the EEOC had exceeded its authority with the updated 2024 guidance, vacating the section related to anti-LGBTQ+ workplace harassment.
As NPR notes, neither that decision nor the rescission of the guidance changes anything about federal laws protecting LGBTQ+ workers from discrimination in the workplace. But it does remove a key resource for employers who rely on the EEOC for guidance on what constitutes unlawful harassment.
“There’s no reason to rescind the harassment guidance in its entirety,” Kotagal said on Thursday, according to NPR. “Instead of adopting a thoughtful and surgical approach to excise the sections the majority disagrees with or suggest an alternative, the commission is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Worse, it is doing so without public input.”
Kotagal was likely referring to the fact that Thursday’s vote came without the usual 30-day notice and comment period.
While Lucas asserted Thursday that the EEOC would continue to pursue cases of “unlawful harassment,” both former EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows — who was fired by Trump last year — and Craig Leen, a partner with the employment law firm K&L Gates, noted that the rescission of the EEOC guidance leaves employers in the dark about how to approach issues of harassment.
“There is no public transparency as to how the commission is going to look at these issues, some of which can be quite complicated,” Burrows told NPR.
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Hackers exploit critical telnetd auth bypass flaw to get root
The Defunct Scooter Company, and the Default Key
Äike were an Estonian scooter company, which sadly went bust last year. [Rasmus Moorats] has one, and since the app and cloud service the scooter depends on have lost functionality, he decided to reverse engineer it. Along the way he achieved his goal, but found a vulnerability that unlocks all Äike scooters.
The write-up is a tale of app and Bluetooth reverse engineering, ending with the startling revelation of a hardcoded key that’s simply “ffffffffffffffff”. From that he can unlock and interact with any Äike scooter, except for a subset that were used as hire scooters and didn’t have Bluetooth. Perhaps of more legitimate use is the reverse engineering of the scooter functionality.
What do you do when you find a vulnerability in a product whose manufacturer has gone? He reported to the vendor of the IoT module inside the scooter, who responded that the key was a default value that should have been changed by the Äike developers. Good luck, should you own one of these machines.
Meanwhile, scooter hacking is very much a thing for other manufacturers too.
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Spammers abuse Zendesk to flood inboxes with legitimate-looking emails, but why?
Short answer: we have no idea.
People are actively complaining that their mailboxes and queues are being flooded by emails coming from the Zendesk instances of trusted companies like Discord, Riot Games, Dropbox, and many others.
Zendesk is a customer service and support software platform that helps companies manage customer communication. It supports tickets, live chat, email, phone, and communication through social media.
Some people complained about receiving over 1,000 such emails. The strange thing ais that so far there are no reports of malicious links, tech support scam numbers, or any type of phishing in these emails.
The abusers are able to send waves of emails from these systems because Zendesk allows them to create fake support tickets with email addresses that do not belong to them. The system sends a confirmation mail to the provided email address if the affected company has not restricted ticket submission to verified users.
In a December advisory, Zendesk warned about this method, which they called relay spam. In essence it’s an example of attackers abusing a legitimate automated part of a process. We have seen similar attacks before, but they always served a clear purpose for the attacker, whereas this one doesn’t.
Even though some of the titles in use definitely are of a clickbait nature. Some examples:
- FREE DISCORD NITRO!!
- TAKE DOWN ORDER NOW FROM CD Projekt
- TAKE DOWN NOW ORDER FROM Israel FOR Square Enix
- DONATION FOR State Of Tennessee CONFIRMED
- LEGAL NOTICE FROM State Of Louisiana FOR Electronic
- IMPORTANT LAW ENFORCEMENT NOTIFICATION FROM DISCORD FROM Peru
- Thank you for your purchase!
- Binance Sign-in attempt from Romania
- LEGAL DEMAND from Take-Two interactive
So, this could be someone testing the system, but it just as well might be someone who enjoys disrupting the system and creating disruption. Maybe they have an axe to grind with Zendesk. Or they’re looking for a way to send attachments with the emails.
Either way, Zendesk told BleepingComputer that they introduced new safety features on their end to detect and stop this type of spam in the future. But companies are advised to restrict the users that can submit tickets and the titles submitters can give to the tickets.
Stay vigilant
In the emails we have seen the links in the tickets are legitimate and point to the affected company’s ticket system. And the only part of the emails the attackers should be able to manipulate is the title and subject of the ticket.
But although everyone involved tells us just to ignore the emails, it is never wrong to handle them with an appropriate amount of distrust.
- Delete or archive the emails without interacting.
- Do not click on the links if you have not submitted the ticket or call any telephone number mentioned in the ticket. Reach out through verified channels.
- Ignore any actions advised in the parts of the email the ticket submitter can control.
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Video Friday: Humans and Robots Team Up in Battlefield Triage
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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Enjoy today’s videos!
One of my favorite parts of robotics is watching research collide with non-roboticists in the real (or real-ish) world.
[ DARPA ]
Spot will put out fires for you. Eventually. If it feels like it.
[ Mechatronic and Robotic Systems Laboratory ]
All those robots rising out of their crates is not sinister at all.
[ LimX ]
The Lynx M20 quadruped robot recently completed an extreme cold-weather field test in Yakeshi, Hulunbuir, operating reliably in temperatures as low as –30°C.
[ DEEP Robotics ]
This is a teaser video for KIMLAB’s new teleoperation robot. For now, we invite you to enjoy the calm atmosphere, with students walking, gathering, and chatting across the UIUC Main Quad—along with its scenery and ambient sounds, without any technical details. More details will be shared soon. Enjoy the moment.
The most incredible part of this video is that they have publicly available power in the middle of their quad.
[ KIMLAB ]
For the eleventy-billionth time: Just because you can do a task with a humanoid robot doesn’t mean you should do a task with a humanoid robot.
[ UBTECH ]
I am less interested in this autonomous urban delivery robot and more interested in whatever that docking station is at the beginning that loads the box into it.
[ KAIST ]
Okay, so figuring out where Spot’s face is just got a lot more complicated.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
An undergraduate team at HKU’s Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing developed CLIO, an embodied tour-guide robot, just in months. Built on LimX Dynamics TRON 1, it uses LLMs for tour planning, computer vision for visitor recognition, and a laser pointer/expressive display for engaging tours.
[ CLIO ]
The future of work is doing work so that robots can then do the same work, except less well.
[ AgileX ]
I’m a gay Black southern man who never felt safe in church. Here’s why I still became a pastor.
I never wanted to be a pastor.
Yes, I know it may seem almost sacrilegious for a pastor and faith leader in the Christian tradition to admit. But it’s true. I never desired or sought after the title, even though I knew that someday I would be one. And even though I have been resistant to the idea, one thing I cannot deny – that I’ve been coming to grips with for the last year or so – is that I do have a pastor’s heart. And it is that pastor’s heart that sets the tone for my book, Faith Deconstruction For Dummies.
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Much of my care is informed by my own experiences. My care is also informed by my years of faith leadership, including my time as the senior pastor of a small, non-denominational, Pentecostal-leaning ministry in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.
I enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University for two reasons. First, I had very real questions about what I’d been taught from the Jesus story in its entirety. The second reason was that I needed to prove to those who claimed they saw something in me that I hadn’t quite seen in myself – a call to ministry – that they were wrong.
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And by extension, I enrolled to prove God wrong.
How could someone like me, a same-gender-loving Black cisgender male from the South, be called to do ministry? My very presence, as far as the church universal was concerned, was an abomination. What claim did I have to profess the good news of Jesus Christ in anyone’s pulpit? It didn’t help that someone dear once told me God didn’t hear my prayers.
I carried that declaration with me for a long time.
I left the church of my upbringing – the very place where my great aunt served as church secretary and my grandfather (and eventually my father) were eulogized – because I knew it wouldn’t be a safe space for me emotionally, spiritually, or culturally. Like Hagar, the Egyptian servant to Abraham’s wife, Sarah, I decided to take my chances in the wilderness rather than stay in a space that denied my humanity. But eventually, I returned to church and over the course of nearly a decade, became determined enough to boldly engage the questions I had about Jesus, God, faith, and the church universal.
When I declared publicly that I believed Jesus’ humanity was more important than his divinity, I was encouraged to “go to seminary.”
Faith Deconstruction For Dummies is informed by my own deconstruction journey. It is also informed by my care for people and my understanding of the power and dangers of harmful theology rooted in Christian nationalism and fundamentalism, a theology that has historically run rampant in many of our churches, whether or not they claim to be affirming.
What is faith deconstruction? It depends on who you ask. For me, it is the process of thinking critically about what you believe. In the book, I describe it this way: “For some, faith deconstruction is a critical examination of their faith and theology. Some deconstructionists describe faith deconstructing as weeding. When one deconstructs their faith, they take a deep look at not just their faith, but the influences of their faith understanding.”
Faith deconstruction isn’t anything new. For generations, there have been those whose work centered around pushing back against the harms of religious abuse, manipulation, indoctrination, and persecution, asking questions and providing a different perspective than what we’ve been conditioned to believe. In faith deconstruction, one re-examines the lessons, doctrines, traditions, and harmful theology they’ve been subjected to.
What I bring to the discourse is a lifetime of firsthand experience with harmful theology, and also the knowledge and awareness that religion isn’t all bad. It’s the people who have made it so harmful.
And yes, there are those who deconstruct and completely denounce or walk away from the faith practice of their origin. But that’s not the case for everyone. For some, their faith is strengthened because of their deconstruction. It just depends on what weight and value you place on what you believe. Faith Deconstruction For Dummies is not an attempt on my part to take anyone’s faith from them. I made my intent clear when I was approached to do this book, and that’s still true today. People’s faith is near to them. People are sensitive about their faith. I honor that.
Faith Deconstruction For Dummies provides readers with suggestions for approaching their deconstruction journey, creates space for their questions, and offers a guide to assist them in their deconstruction and the process of deconstructing their faith. It also allows those often overlooked in certain conversations regarding deconstruction to see themselves in the pages because it’s written from the perspective of a Black, same-gender-loving, cisgender male preacher, born and raised in the South with extensive theological training.
I’m simply trying to give people permission to do the things they haven’t been allowed to do: ask questions, investigate, and determine for themselves what they consider not just truth, but purpose. The rest of it is up to you and whatever or whoever you consider to be the divine.
The Rev. Dr. Mashaun D. Simon (he/him/they) is a preacher/public speaker, award-winning journalist, author, lecturer, and thought leader. A native of metro Atlanta, he seeks to curate authentic spaces of belonging and empower others to achieve personal freedom and fulfillment. His book, Faith Deconstruction For Dummies, is available wherever books are sold.
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Oscars 2026 accused of being ‘too straight’ after only a few LGBTQ+ projects are nominated
Following the 2026 Oscar nominations announcement, many movie fans were disappointed at the lack of LGBTQ+ representation on the list, with Out.com labelling the event “Oscars so straight.“
Very few queer films and actors made it onto nomination lists for the iconic golden statuette. Notable LGBTQ+ favourites like Sorry Baby, Hedda and Wicked: For Good received no nominations.
Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the body which awards the Oscars, will now vote on the winners ahead of the ceremony on March 15.
One particular disappointment for LGBTQ+ film buffs was Wicked: For Good being snubbed. Neither Cynthia Erivo nor Ariana Grande were up for the actress categories despite the fact that, last year, they were both nominated for 2024’s Wicked.
Another snub that movie fans were disappointed about was that Daniel Craig has once again been overlooked for his role in Knives Out. In Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, Craig returns to play queer detective Benoit Blanc.
“Daniel Craig getting snubbed for Queer and then his next movie does even worse, getting shut out of the Globes and Oscars despite higher critic and audience scores than Glass Onion,” one fan wrote.
Daniel Craig getting snubbed for Queer and then his next movie does even worse, getting shut out of the Globes and Oscars despite higher critic and audience scores than Glass Onion. He’s still never won a single individual award for playing Benoit Blanc. pic.twitter.com/v68TfvgLKy
— DCOpics (@DCraigOscarPics) January 23, 2026
They also continued: “He’s still never won a single individual award for playing Benoit Blanc.”
Additionally, Eva Victor’s acclaimed directorial debut, Sorry, Baby, was completely shut out. Many were convinced that the film, at the very least, would receive a best original screenplay nod.
‘It’s infuriating if they’re ignored any longer…’
“Sorry, Baby didn’t earn any Oscar nominations this morning, but I’m extremely confident in making the following statement: Eva Victor will be back,” one fan posted.
Sorry, Baby didn’t earn any Oscar nominations this morning, but I’m extremely confident in making the following statement: Eva Victor will be back. She will get her Oscar moment. Sure, a few nominations would’ve been great today. But this feels like the start of something great. pic.twitter.com/4vFbFjlLOy
— Cinema Tweets (@CinemaTweets1) January 23, 2026
“She will get her Oscar moment. Sure, a few nominations would’ve been great today. But this feels like the start of something great.”
In the film, Victor (who uses she/her and the/them pronouns) plays a non-binary, queer literature professor recovering from sexual assault.
Another highlighted that the performances in the dark romantic drama Hedda should have been recognised.
Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss play ex-lovers Hedda and Eileen, respectively. Taking place in one night, the film sees Hedda, a bisexual woman, torn between her comfortable but unfulfilling marriage and the lure of a former, all-consuming love.
“Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss deserve full Oscars for their performance in Hedda, there’s zero hyperbole here,” a fan shared.
Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss deserve full Oscars for their performance in Hedda, there's zero hyperbole here. They knocked just about everyone who acted in a movie in 2025 out of the park. It's infuriating if they're ignored any longer…
— maria ماريا (@mariamazjerin) January 16, 2026
“They knocked just about everyone who acted in a movie in 2025 out of the park. It’s infuriating if they’re ignored any longer…”
Here are the projects that did get 2026 Oscar nominations:
Though there were a lot of LGBTQ+ snubs, there are some nominations to celebrate at the 2026 Oscars.
To begin with, KPop Demon Hunters got a nod for Best Original Song for “Golden”. The track was co-written by queer songwriter Mark Sonnenblick.
Furthermore, Come See Me in the Good Light was nominated in the Best Documentary category.
Ryan White’s documentary chronicles the terminal cancer diagnosis of the late poet Andrea Gibson and their wife, Megan Falley.
Also in the documentary category is Mr Nobody Against Putin. Gay creative Pasha Talanki starred, co-directed and narrated the film. The documentary follows Talankin working at a school in Karabash, set against the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.
Elsewhere, queer filmmaker Adrian Molina earned a nomination for co-directing Pixar’s Elio. Following the film’s release, it came out that the titular character was explicitly “queer-coded” but that got “sanded down.”
Ethan Hawke earned a nomination for Best Actor for his performance as closeted playwright Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon. The biopic follows Lorenz Hart’s life as he reckons with losing his creative partner, Richard Rodgers.
A Friend of Dorothy, Lee Knight’s directorial debut starring Miriam Margolyes, was nominated in the Best Short Film category.
Also, though it may not be explicit LGBTQ+ representation, gay icon Aunt Gladys got an Oscar nod! Actor Amy Madigan was recognised in the best supporting actress category for her work in Weapons, playing the widely memed character.
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 354: Firearms, Sky Driving, and Dumpster Diving
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams took a break to talk about their favorite hacks last week. You can drop in to hear about articulated mirrors, triacs, and even continuous 3D-printing modifications.
Flying on an airplane this weekend? Maybe wait until you get back to read about how the air traffic control works. Back home, you can order a pizza on a Wii or run classic Basic games on a calculator.
For the can’t miss articles, the guys talked about very low Earth orbit satellites and talked about readers who dumpster dive.
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ICE Is So Bad At Immigration Enforcement That It’s Detaining Native Americans
Trump’s version of ICE has always assumed that if your skin shade is anything darker than right-wing podcaster translucent, your ass needs to be gone from this country.
Obviously, that’s not how things are supposed to work here in America, which proudly considered itself to be a melting pot (albeit belatedly and after a lot of post-Civil War legislation and jurisprudence). What makes America great is the blend of people in it. And, because this nation is so large, there’s plenty of room for everyone and no non-bigot will ever claim the addition of migrants has somehow made us weaker.
ICE has always been awful. It’s been even worse recently, now that it knows no one in the administration will ever prevent it from being the racist throwback Trump clearly wishes it to be. It’s even bolder now that the Supreme Court — via Justice Kavanaugh’s shadow docket concurrence — said it’s ok to engage in racial profiling.
Racial profiling should be illegal. It isn’t. Among the many problems with racial profiling is that when you’re just looking for people with darker skin, you tend to do absurdly stupid shit like this:
Federal agents have detained a handful of Native Americans amid the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.
The detention of at least five men in and around Minneapolis has sparked an outcry among Native American groups about Indigenous people being racially profiled as undocumented immigrants by federal immigration agents. Minneapolis is one of the largest urban centers for Native Americans in the United States.
When you’re rounding up Native Americans, you’re rounding up the people who have done the least amount of immigration ever. Anyone engaged in these arrests has migrated more times than the people they’re arresting. This — along with the recent murder of Minnesota native and US citizen Renee Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross — should have been enough to make ICE tuck its tail between its legs and head off to a more receptive, red-coded locality.
It didn’t. And because ICE neither understands nor cares, it’s up to regular American citizens to point out the obvious:
“It is deeply offensive and ironic that the first people of this land would be subjected to questions around their citizenship,” Jacqueline De Leon, senior staff attorney at the nonprofit Native American Rights Fund and a member of the Isleta Pueblo. “Yet nevertheless, that is exactly what we’re seeing.”
You’d think someone at ICE might want to pull back and reassess the situation, especially now that seemingly the entirety of the city of Minneapolis is willing to hassle officers into abandoning the random roll-ups on darker skinned people they constantly claim are “targeted stops.”
If these truly were “targeted stops,” they wouldn’t have targeted people who have far more right to be here than the people detaining them. Jose Rodriguez, a 20-year-old Red Lake Nation descendant, was arrested by ICE in what ICE claims was a “high-risk immigration enforcement stop.” (The officers also claimed to have been “violently assaulted” by Rodriguez but, tellingly, no charges have been filed.)
This was followed up by the detaining of four unhoused tribal members by ICE officers, who found them sleeping under a bridge and decided this — combined with presumably darker-than-white skin tones — was all that was needed to justify some “papers please” hassling, immediately followed by detentions that, at press time (January 14) still hadn’t been ended. (One of the four was released prior to publishing.)
And it’s not like Native Americans didn’t see this coming. They read the Kavanaugh concurrence and saw what’s been happening all over this nation (but especially in “blue” states) and let their fellow Americans know that they should expect ICE to treat them like any other “brown” person officers come across:
A day before Ramirez’s stop, the Red Lake Tribal Council issued a Jan. 7 advisory about the Trump administration’s enforcement in Minnesota. “We all need to be extra careful, and we must assume that ICE will not protect us,” the advisory said.
It’s been obvious since the inception of this so-called “immigration enforcement” surge: anyone not white would be rounded up. The Supreme Court said this is all very cool and very lawful. And the surge in Minnesota is proving that being white is no protection either, not if you’re opposed to what this regime is doing. With threats of a military deployment to Minnesota looming, no American worth their citizenship should continue pretending this is anything more than white nationalism draping itself in executive power.
There were 4 shots: Autopsy reveals Renee Good died from gunshot wound to the head
Lawyers for the family of Renee Good, the unarmed woman fatally shot by ICE officer Jonathan Ross two weeks ago in Minneapolis, released the results of a private autopsy on Wednesday evening that showed she died of a gunshot wound to the head.
Four bullets in total struck Good, the autopsy revealed.
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The fatal shot entered Good’s head near her left temple and exited through the right side, consistent with Ross shooting Good from the left side of her vehicle at point-blank range. A second shot pierced Good’s left forearm, and a third hit her right breast but didn’t enter her torso.
A fourth gunshot grazed her body in an unidentified location.
The lawyers declined to release the full report, but said they would continue “to gather evidence” in connection with the shooting as it pursued what it said was a civil investigation, The New York Times reported.
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“We believe the evidence we are gathering and will continue to gather in our investigation will suffice to prove our case,” lead attorney Antonio M. Romanucci said in a statement. “The video evidence depicting the events of January 7, 2026, is clear, particularly when viewed through the standards of reasonable policing and totality of circumstances.”
The private report precedes the results from the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office autopsy of Good’s body.
The FBI is investigating the shooting, while state officials say they’ve been barred from participating in the probe. Six federal prosecutors resigned in protest over the decision.
Good leaves behind her wife, Becca Good, and three children.
The private autopsy results add to the information reported by first responders attending Good at the scene, and 911 calls in the aftermath of the
911 transcripts reveal the first call came in at 9:38 a.m., about one minute after the shots were fired, the Guardian reported.
One caller told dispatch there were “a bunch of ICE agents on 33rd and Portland, they just shot a lady point-blank range in her car.”
When asked if the woman had been shot, the caller responded: “She’s f*ckin’ dead. They f*ckin’ shot her.”
Incident reports show paramedics arrived at the chaotic scene approximately four minutes later and found Good “unresponsive” in the driver’s seat of her car “with blood on her face and torso.”
Paramedics removed Good from her vehicle and described her as “unresponsive, not breathing, with inconsistent, irregular, thready pulse activity.”
The responders identified two “apparent gunshot wounds” to the right side of her chest, another apparent gunshot wound “to the patient’s left forearm,” and a “possible gunshot wound with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient’s head,” the report details.
They also noted she had “dilated pupils” and blood “discharging” from her left ear.
Paramedics moved Good down the block “for a more workable scene, better access for ambulances, and separation from an escalating scene involving law enforcement and bystanders.”
Responders began performing chest compressions and applied a tourniquet to Good’s left arm before transporting her to a nearby hospital while continuing CPR.
At the hospital, staff “assumed airway and ventilation responsibilities.” The report concludes, “Resuscitative efforts were discontinued at approximately 10:30 am.”
Responding to the release of the private autopsy report on Wednesday evening, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin continued to deny any culpability in Good’s death for the ICE officer who shot her.
“If you impede law enforcement operations, ignore law commands, and use a deadly weapon to kill or cause bodily harm to a federal law enforcement officer there are dangerous, and in this case deadly, consequences,” McLaughlin said. “This was entirely preventable.”
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