June 25, 2026

01a Apocalyptic

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Simultaneous disruption and progress, with a relentless Taiwan-focused capability development deadline.

That’s the overriding theme of the 25th edition of the Department of Defense’s China Military Power Report, released on Dec. 23, 2025. Despite extensive leadership purges and ongoing disciplinary investigations across China’s military and defense industry, the 2025 report concludes that China continues to make progress toward General Secretary Xi Jinping’s 2027 “Centennial Military Building Goal” and associated warfighting capabilities against Taiwan.

The report shows China’s military undergoing simultaneous disruption and advancement, with leadership purges and procurement-related investigations generating short-term turbulence even as Xi’s armed forces surge forward.

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The official White House narrative of how a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in her vehicle in Minneapolis is bumping hard up against what can be seen in videos of the incident.

U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are all insisting that the victim, Renee Nicole Good, deliberately rammed her vehicle into an ICE officer who then fired shots in self-defence because he feared for his life.

Yet three videos from the scene — each verified by CBC News as authentic — contradict these claims and raise serious questions about why the White House is defending the fatal shooting as justified.

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Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was shot and killed while attempting to run over a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis on Wednesday, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” federal immigration operations, according to a new report.

According to a report from the New York Post, Good moved to Minneapolis last year and linked up with the anti-ICE group through parents at her six-year-old son’s charter school. The school boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” local sources told the outlet.

“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a vigil near the site of the shooting on Wednesday night.

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner held a press conference on Thursday and issued a stark warning to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Krasner told ICE agents who are in his city, or planning to come to his city, to “get the F out of here” if they were coming to “commit crimes.” Krasner’s press conference was in response to the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot after seemingly driving her car into an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this week. The press conference was somewhat unusual, given that the incident had no connection to Philadelphia whatsoever.

“Let me be clear,” Krasner said. “If any law enforcement agent — any ICE agent — is going to come to Philly to commit crimes, then you can get the F out of here. Because if you do that here, I will charge you with those crimes, you will be arrested, you will stand trial, you will be convicted — whether it’s in state or federal court, it’s my office prosecuting it, that’s how the law works — and you will do your time. Because Donald Trump cannot pardon you for a state court conviction.”

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The federal agent who shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Good on Wednesday, has served as a deportation officer with ICE since 2015, records show. He was seriously injured last summer when he was dragged by the vehicle of a fleeing suspect whom he shot with a stun gun.

Federal officials have not named the officer who shot Good, a 37-year-old mother who was shot as she tried to drive away from federal agents. But Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem said the agent who shot Good had been dragged by a vehicle last June, and a department spokesperson confirmed Noem was referring to the Bloomington, Minnesota, case in which documents identified the injured officer as Ross.

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This weekend, Democrat Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar joined thousands of leftists in Minnesota to protest ICE.

But, she might be wishing she hadn’t, now…

At one point during the protest, Rep. Omar stood right next to a woman who started screeching into a microphone about two of Omar’s buddies — Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

And, it’s obvious that it started to make Rep. Omar feel very uncomfortable.

Watch this for yourself:

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good in her SUV during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, after giving her an order to get out of the car which she failed to obey, instead trying to leave the scene in her car, resulting in the fatal shooting.

Throughout is coverage thus far, PBS News Hour has leaned heavily on a selection of facts and assumptions to skew against the officer’s defensive shooting action, and ignoring inconvenient facts — like the fact that Good, a radicalized mother of a toddler, showed up in a dangerous situation to block legal immigration enforcement action, spurred by her wife who urged Good to “drive, baby, drive” before the officer shot at Good three times, killing her.

PBS hype of liberal “outrage” began on Night One of the controversy, when few facts were in. Outraged Democrats were presented as nonpartisan:

Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: State and local officials in Minneapolis are outraged tonight after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman there. Federal officials accuse that woman of trying to run over officers with a vehicle, claiming the shooting was in self-defense.

Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: The city’s mayor says the video tells a different story….

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Nationwide unrest challenging Iran’s theocracy saw protesters flood the streets in the country’s capital and its second-largest city Saturday night and into Sunday morning, crossing the two-week mark as an outside monitoring group said at least 116 people had been killed.

With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult. But according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which relies on a network of contacts inside the country, the death toll from clashes between protests and Iran’s security forces has climbed steadily, and more than 2,600 others have been detained over the last two weeks.

Faced with its most significant challenge in years, Iran’s theocratic rulers have issued increasingly stern threats to what it claims are agitators being influenced by the U.S. and Israel — and answered threats of a U.S. intervention by President Trump with corresponding threats of their own.

Iran’s parliament speaker warned the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if America strikes the Islamic Republic, as threatened by President Trump. Qalibaf made the threat as lawmakers rushed the dais in the Iranian parliament, shouting: “Death to America!”

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Three Democratic congressional lawmakers who represent Minnesota said they were denied access to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Reps. Angie Craig, Ilhan Omar and Kelly Morrison told reporters that they were initially allowed into the building, but then informed they must leave.

“Shortly after we were let in, two officials came in and said that they received a message that we were no longer allowed to be in the building, and that they were rescinding the invitation to come in and declining any further access from the building,” Omar told reporters while standing outside the facility.

Added Craig, “The response was that, since the funding for this center came from the one ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ not the congressional appropriations bill, that they were denying our access.”

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The new cellphone video from the point of view of the ICE agent involved in the shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota blew up all the false narratives the Democrats were spreading about the shooting.

Yet, not only did the Democrats seem to want to ignore reality, they manipulated it with what they were tweeting out to their followers, as they stoked division with their X account. They left out the fact that she hit the ICE agent in a despicable graphic they posted. That’s a rather critical part of the story to leave out. Instead, they suggested she said something non-confrontational, and then there were “gunshots.”

Now comes the next part — the part they seem to have been agitating for: the agitators in the streets over the “murder.” It doesn’t matter that the facts don’t support the lie. The Democrats don’t care about reality.

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Hundreds of rowdy anti-ICE protesters shouting curses descended on a Minneapolis hotel Friday night, where they believed federal agents were staying after the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good.

The frenzied crowd flooded the outside of the Hilton Canopy Hotel — and some parts of the interior — blowing whistles and banging on drums while chanting “f–k ICE” and waving various signs calling for the federal agency to “GET THE F–K OUT OF MN,” according to social media videos and the Daily Mail.

“They need to get the hell out of our city,” a pink-haired demonstrator, 27, told the outlet.

“I don’t know for sure they are here but we will do whatever it takes to keep Minneapolis safe.”

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On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. They differed slightly in solutions as well as crowd makeup – white older adults dominated the morning’s march organized by the groups behind the No Kings protests, while a more racially diverse crowd swathed in keffiyehs and N95 face masks led the afternoon’s, planned by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. However, both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to Donald Trump’s warmongering in Venezuela.

“From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power,” said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter.

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A tense moment during an anti-ICE demonstration in Minneapolis has drawn widespread attention after a vocal agitator told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that she was being “paid” to attend the protest.

Ingraham was reporting from outside the Whipple Federal Building as demonstrations erupted following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

Good was shot dead while ramming an armed ICE agent with her vehicle during a confrontation with federal immigration authorities.

“Do you have a job?” Ingraham asked a masked protester.

The loud agitator had been shouting “shame” and profanities at law enforcement and the media while riling up the crowd.

“I’m [getting] paid right now,” the woman replied.

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Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) ended his political career on Monday, announcing that he would abandon his reelection campaign in light of the fraud scandals involving his state’s nutrition, healthcare, and child care programs. But as bad as Walz’s welfare fraud scandals are, and they are very bad, the more important lesson to learn from his failed administration is about the real damage that can be done to a state’s finances when the Democratic Party achieves full control.

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An ICE supporter and protester outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, January 9, 2026. Adam Bettcher/AP

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A video reportedly filmed by the federal agent who shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis earlier this week was released on Friday by a conservative Minnesota outlet whose most prominent reporter is married to the city’s former police union head.

Alpha News—notable in part for its sympathetic coverage of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer convicted in 2021 of murdering George Floyd—has since Wednesday published a flurry of articles including “ICE shooting in Minneapolis: Minnesota attorney explains how presumed innocence has been ignored again” and “REPORT: Woman killed by ICE agent was member of ‘ICE Watch’ group working to disrupt immigration arrests.”

Conservative commentators have seized on the 47-second clip to argue that it exculpates Ross and shows Good driving towards him.

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The woman legally married to Renee Good — shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis — released a statement Friday, her first public remarks since the Wednesday incident.

Rebecca “Becca” Good was present at the scene when an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, 37. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Renee Good attempted to run over law enforcement with her vehicle. Rebecca Good said her spouse “literally sparkled” and “kindness radiated out of her,” in her statement shared with Minnesota Public Radio News.

On the same day Rebecca Good made her remarks, Minnesota-based Alpha News released video footage of the shooting from an ICE agent’s perspective in which Rebecca was seen repeatedly asking the agent “You want to come at us?” before appearing to shout “Drive, baby drive” to Renee.