The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook.
The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.
“You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”
ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”
“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”
Trevor Dubois, an indigenous man who was in the hospital for chemo following a brain cancer diagnosis, was murdered by Saskatoon hospital security via. forceful restraint on Friday over a plastic lighter that police are publicly calling an “imitation firearm”. The cops are now trying to make it seem like Trevor had methamphetamines and drug paraphernalia in the hospital room with him after security murdered him to justify what took place.
here’s the saskatchewan health authority’s most recent statement regarding the incident. there’s a lot of talk but nothing of substance is being said. his family just wants answers and yet they haven’t even been told his time of death. his family also believes that the “imitation firearm” in question is a bright pink and green cigarette holder/lighter, but police refuse to release a photo of it.
according to those who knew him, he was a kind person who always went out of his way to help the less fortunate. he was seeking certification as a social worker and was heavily involved in his community. his family also says that he was against anything that has the potential to cause harm to people.
lastly, here is a quote from his brother, ryan (from this aptn article):
Most non-Minnesotans have no idea what this means, but to put it plainly: we're raised with not just the expectation but essentially -programming- to assist others who get stuck during the winter. We'll help people we'd otherwise punch on sight if they're stuck in the snow and ice, for zero reward.
This is the level of rage we're at with ICE. I'm not joking to say it's almost physically painful to not help someone stuck like that, and it's worth it because the people stuck are ICE.
The only way we have to express how mad we are above this is channeling the First Minnesota all over again.
DO NOT CALL THE REGULAR POLICE.
they are not on your side.
Very explicitly, in the video, the regular police straight up lie to the couple, telling them they will go to jail for harboring a fugitive if they dont hand the doordasher over, and that it doesnt matter if ice has a warrant for her arrest. NEITHER OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. You CANNOT be harboring a fugitive if the person you are haboring doesnt have a warrant out for their arrest! The warrant is what makes them a fugitive!
If ice wants access to someone on your property, do NOT hand them over unless you are shown a warrant signed by a judge! Make as much noise as you can to attract bystanders - it was the fact that a crowd gathered and started yelling at them that made ice leave in the video. And DO NOT expect the regular police to help you - they are just another arm of the state and will only do or say whatever they think is necessary to make you comply.
And make sure you film everything so you have evidence of what really happened if ice tries to enter your property illegally.
Posting on 1/13/2026
So, in my part of Canada, there's a convention. If someone's doing you a favour, and it turns out harder than expected:
1. You offer an alternative.
2. The other person expresses doubt, and assures you they will do what they committed to.
3a. If you needed it the original way, you now express gratitude, showing the person that you recognize the extra work they're doing.
3b. If the alternative is actually okay, you make a little joke, emphasizing that there isn't much difference between the two options and the easier one really is fine.
This works fine most of the time. (Issues can come up when you're worse at thinking up alternatives than the other person.) But my language skills are NOT good right now, and migraines are making them worse.
Basically, I just made a 'joke' that was mostly nonsense in the correct tone of voice, and had to pray that the guy driving me home from the car repair shop accepted it and let me out of the car.
He did, thankfully.
every time i see a post going 'remember that biden contributed materially to the harm trump's administration is doing now!' i think about how the biden administration also attempted to enforce antitrust laws, give the IRS the power to hunt down and prosecute corporate tax-dodgers, and break up business cartels and illegal monopolies. for a single, shining moment, the american people were so close to getting the leverage to force corporate power back into line with the interests of the citizenry rather than the oligarchy. we were close. we were almost, almost about to do that.
and then day one, week one, of trump's administration gave elon musk the mandate to dismantle every single government organization that did anything for anyone. cases years in the making were dropped flat. reforms decades in the making were thrown away. and our guardian watchdogs like the FDA and the CDC were shot out behind the barn.
so like, yeah, actually. remember that biden's administration contributed to the harm trump's administration is doing now. not just by failing to meaningfully address police militarization or acknowledge the gazan genocide or enshrine civil rights in a totally airtight foolproof way.
but by mildly inconveniencing billionaires to the point that they ripped apart the last few rusting gears of our failing democracy.
people will make jokes all the time about how middle school bullies can somehow zero in on your insecurities and accurately pick them out (ie the "how do mean 14 year olds know which slurs to call you?" tweet). fucking john mulaney even has a bit about it. but the moment you suggest that closeted trans girls don't get treated like cis boys during childhood or that closeted trans boys don't experience cis "girlhood" you get told you're insane
i was placed firmly in the "other" category at a very young age and my female peers made it extremely clear to me that they absolutely didn't see me as one of them. my attempts to conform only resulted in them punishing me more severely. i wasn't seen as a girl or a boy by the other children, i was seen as Wrong.
most trans people of all genders I've known have talked about experiencing a very similar phenomenon
Adults (parents in particular) do this to trans kids too. And then when you come out all these transphobes who already diagnosed you as Gender Wrong start trying to shove you back into your AGAB piñata because they want to keep beating the weirdo outcasts who failed gender at age 10 with sticks forever rather than reckon with the idea that maybe treating gender diverse children like shit is bad.
They'll talk about how much better they thought you were as a boy, how much they miss their daughter. They're lying.
THE LESBIAN AGENDA IS SUCCEEDING
Hey did you know that this is literally just pink colonialism?
in this month, which is both pride and indigenous history month, please unpack ur “i wanna move to a farm w my wife uwu” shit and realize it holds an inherent expectation of access to land stolen from indigenous people. it’s irresponsible to move to a rural area to ““live off the land”” without giving serious thought to whose land it was before white settlers took it over and how you can work to undo that theft. becoming a white settler yourself ain’t it.
I’ve been seeing alot of these kind of posts targeting white people who want to purchase land, and as a native person myself, the hostility is really unfounded. I get what it’s all going for but it’s just barking up the wrong tree. Yes, the land is stolen. And it was stolen a long time ago, and many aboriginal people were hurt when the land taken and abused. There’s nothing wrong with a few people on the internet having daydreams about managing a farm.
I wasn’t able to discern race from either of the above two responses, so I’m not going to make any assumptions, but I have seen a few of these posts posted by white people. So, if you’re a white person, instead of crying “colonialism!” Out on the internet because people want to own a farm, actually go out and help native people. Learn their cultures and languages, and help preserve them. Donate your time and money to fundraisers and organizations that help native people. Guilt shaming other people for purchasing land that was long taken from us long ago doesn’t actually help natives! If you’re looking for places to donate, please help the local Indian Bands in your provinces, states, county, etc. Do a cursory search on the internet or ask around near where you live. You’ll find something that you can actually do to help someone who needs that help right now.
For example, I’m Haida- from the north-west coast people who live on Haida Gwaii. Our language is dying, and only twelves dozen speakers are still alive after heavy erasure. You can learn some of the language here (for free!:
And even watch a recent documentary to see what life on the island is like today, (I’m not sure if you watch it for free or not, I purchased a Blu-Ray copy of the film):
You can even donate some money to the Haida museum on the island:
This is some research I just did right now. Please, if you’re concerned about what has happened in the past, and what you can do to fix it, please do something worthwhile. Getting mad at strangers who want to own some land doesn’t get native people anywhere.
The primary thing I don’t get about the pink colonialism argument is that the land I live on RIGHT NOW is just as stolen as farmland out by Firth. Just because I live in city limits now doesn’t mean the land Lincoln is sitting on was any less stolen. Moving to a ruraler corner of Nebraska doesn’t steal any more land and isn’t more colonial than moving to downtown Omaha would be.
i believe the idea is:
‘ranching reminds me personally of the settling of the frontier and thus is more closely connected to colonialism than Living In Omaha, because it activates my guilt, and guilt means there’s something wrong, so the people doing this thing that has upset me are clearly committing a Wrong and need to have their guilt activated so they’ll stop, and now i can stop feeling bad about benefiting from genocide and move on with my day, because i have externalized the inherited crime onto the people who triggered the episode’
Donald Duck Goes To Group Therapy For His Debilitating Executive Dysfunction And It’s Just Played Completely Straight For Like Four Pages Like What
FUUUUCK dude, children (notably a demographic that likes pretending to be animals) are wearing animal tails!!!! this is genuinely sooooo concerning and sinister!!! i, the overly online weirdo, who is sexualizing harmless accessories worn by literal children, because i am overly online, am completely in the right here btw.
DUDE the weirdo freaks are wearing ANIMAL EAR HEADBANDS in front of CHILDREN 😨😨😨😨 what is the world coming to!!!! what will these degenerate freaks do next!!!! i am normal by the way.
i promise you the average person does NOT associate animal-themed accessories with hardcore furry porn. like i think this is a you problem.
they made a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good.
scroll to the bottom of the page to report the fundraiser, and list this reason:
"Under 5 CFR § 2635.202(b), 'an employee may not, directly or indirectly, accept a gift given because of the employee's official position.' This fundraiser directly violates that federal statute as it is raising funds explicitly because of the beneficiary's actions while on duty as an ICE agent, which makes him an employee of the Executive Branch. Disbursement of these funds to the named beneficiary would violate federal law."
fundraiser here
It’s truly awful how only a few corporations control the economy, to the extent they’ve taken away the ability to “vote with your dollar”. How is a person that barely makes their rent going to buy everything from small businesses, when the big corporations have outpriced them so severely they’re sometimes the only affordable options? The small business employees need to make a livable wage, but the consumers need groceries too. How are you going to blame the consumers who barely make enough to live, when the ones truly at fault are the mega corps that are ruining the world?
And these mega corps have entwined with your life so deeply that it’s close to impossible to go about your day without engaging with any of them. Social media, technology, shopping, literally everything. You can’t boycott everything, because that’s not a realistic option for most people. How can you boycott the only grocery store you can afford? When the next one over is too far of a commute? When it’s the easiest place to claim your food stamps/benefits? When you have dietary restrictions the food bank doesn’t cater to, or it’s simply inaccessible to you regularly? It’s almost unfair to demand everyone to boycott every unethical company, because these companies have gone to great lengths to make themselves as involved in your lives as possible.
The web of capitalism envelops us all, and not everyone has the same freedom of movement within that web. Some are completely stuck. Others can wiggle a bit. But don’t be mad at someone trapped in the web for not being able to dance when the one to blame is the spider who spun the web in the first place.
Men shouldn’t need to become girl dads to become feminists, but this was what radicalized my father. He was never an incel or even a misogynist, but the day that I was born and he held me in his arms, he immediately developed gender consciousness and an almost misandrist worldview.
My dad listens to a lot of music by female artists, and would play music by women for me when I was a kid. I’ve never met a man who keeps up with women’s sports as much as my dad. He can name close to all of the players on the women’s squad of his favorite football team, and pick out the ones that made it to the national team. When I was a little girl, he always put women’s sports on the TV for me. Football, volleyball, tennis, swimming, fighting, literally anything.
He’s a surgeon, and always made sure to mention his female colleagues to me. The woman who was the best colorectal surgeon he knew, the woman who ran the research center he went to, the woman who taught him stitches, etc etc.
He always made sure I saw him treating my mother well. I watched him bring her gifts every week, call her “my queen,” blow dry her hair for her, play guitar for her while she cooked. He never yells at her (or me), to the extent that as an adult my tolerance for shitty male behavior is so low that I find most men insufferable, because all I can think of is how my father would never do these things.