Get In the Way of Bad Behaviour

I love Jackie Kashian, she's one of my favourite living comedians. Top 10 for sure, probably top five, now that I think of it. Here is a great bit of hers about how in the era of Trump, the privileged among us have an obligation to protect people who are less privileged. "White Lady Meat Shield" was a call to action for white women specifically. She posted this short version to her YouTube in February of 2025, although she's been doing the bit since at least 2018 when I saw her in Portland Maine and bought the above enamel pin from her merch table.

It hits a little different in January of 2026.

I will not share any of the multiple videos of Renee Good's murder by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

I have not seen them, I do not want to see them, and I do not think I need to see them to understand what happened to her.

I don't feel the need because I already know cops, and I know violent, angry men who feel slighted or embarrassed by women who are not sufficiently deferential.

I know, I know, I know.

I read the words of Renee who was a poet and her wife Becca who is a widow at a vigil in my hometown in Canada on Saturday night. It was cold and it felt strange to be doing this so far away and I wondered how cold it is in the ground in Minnesota. Probably even colder than those flagstones in front of city hall radiating January into the soles of my feet. Other people brought their own words and were more eloquent than me.

It is noteworthy the outpouring of sadness and rage for a white mom murdered by ICE while behind the wheel of her SUV. The growing list of people killed while in ICE's custody has a dedicated Wikipedia article. I didn't know any of their names before I read them in the group chat where we organized the vigil.

Obviously I don't really know what to do. On Saturday a young person who identified themselves only as Mackayla reminded us that art is resistance to fascism, even if it's not very good and nobody sees it until after you're dead. It's a record of your life and your resistance so do it and stick it under the floorboards if you need to. Some archivist 200 years from now will find it remarkable. Unless you make something using AI, in which case the archivist will be like, "What the fuck is this garbage" and toss it directly in the incinerator.

What I can tell you is that Minnesotans fucking hate ICE and have no chill about it. Here's a video I saw on Bluesky of ICE getting heckled out of a Target store in Minneapolis-St Paul. They also briefly detained a pastor in Minneapolis on his way to church, but they let him go because he's white and it wouldn't be "fun" to arrest him.

“Before I knew it, I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic, and so I approached her, and we were at that point chanting, ‘We are not afraid, we are not afraid.’”

Callaghan then said he told ICE officers to take him instead of harassing her. An agent then “came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, ‘Are you afraid now?’” Callaghan recalled.

After he said he still wasn’t afraid, the officer handcuffed him before putting him into the back of an SUV. “They came back three times and they asked me if I was afraid yet, to which I replied, ‘Hell no, I’m not afraid of you, and I’m never going to be afraid of you.’”

The people are not afraid of these goons, even with their guns and masks and sanctioned ability to murder whoever they want, and that's something.

Here's an ICE agent absolutely eating shit on the slippery streets of Minnesota.

All solidarity with Old Man Winter.