Michael Barry Bowler
mnirishdem.bsky.social
Michael Barry Bowler
@mnirishdem.bsky.social
MN Irish Guy
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We have become so used to sentence first, trial after, that we forget that this is not normal.

LEO shoots are investigated to determine the facts. Officials do not comment until the facts are established (and usually do not comment even then). It should be about truth, not taking “sides”
Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"
January 8, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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For months, Trump’s DHS has wreaked lawless havoc in our neighborhoods. Tear gassing infants, families, and police. Firing their weapons at peaceful citizens. Killing innocent people.

It’s brutal, unconstitutional, and out of control.

It must stop.

Kristi Noem must go. Now.
January 8, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.”

So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?
January 8, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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More shocking video from this dark day….
👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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@timmiller.bsky.social on the Minneapolis shooting: "We all knew that a tragedy like this was gonna happen when you send masked armed thugs into communities...to menace people, to escalate, tensions, to grab people that aren't violent criminals...eventually, there was going to be a tragedy."
January 8, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Gov. Tim Walz issued an order for the Minnesota National Guard to prepare to be deployed if necessary following the killing of a 37-year-old woman by a federal immigration agent Wednesday.
Walz orders MN National Guard to prepare for possible deployment following ICE killing • Minnesota Reformer
Gov. Tim Walz issued an order for the Minnesota National Guard to prepare to be deployed if necessary following the killing of a 37-year-old woman by a federal immigration agent Wednesday. Dozens of m...
minnesotareformer.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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The U.S. economy entered 2025 as the “envy of the world.” It exited well behind its peers.
Trump Says We Have the “Hottest” Economy. Markets Tell a Different Story.
The U.S. economy entered 2025 as the “envy of the world.” It exited well behind its peers.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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When FBI agents killed white separatist Vicki Weaver while trying to take her criming husband into custody, it fueled the anti-government militia movement that formed one tributary into today's MAGA right, which is shrugging off today's state murder of Renee Good.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ri...
Ruby Ridge standoff - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed today that a woman was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a confrontation between federal agents and protesters in south Minneapolis. The woman’s mother identified her as Renee Nicole Good, 37.
January 8, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.

This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.

I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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A 37-year old mother.
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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“Self defense”
January 8, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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Yes. That woman was reacting in self defense to the attempted assault of the thug reaching into her car and trying the door handle. If it were me, I'd have accelerated away from the threat, as well.
January 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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Equally infuriating and heartbreaking.
💔
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
So very home in our home state. We can’t let these keep happening here on top of political assassinations and school shootings!
I must be held accountable or they will kill with impunity. This could have been any one of us.
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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Ice killed a 37 year old and Kristie Noam is wearing a cowboy hat
January 8, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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Renee Nicole Good should be alive.
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 AM
@crampell.bsky.social excellent work on hosting the 11th Hour again tonight. Well done, I really enjoyed the program. Thanks!
November 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
@crampell.bsky.social excellent work filling in on the 11th Hour this evening. Very much enjoyed and appreciated you doing this and looking forward to you being back on weekenc coverage too.
October 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM