News for Americans
Iran, Portland, Minnesota
This is of course for everyone, but I know Americans struggle to find good news sources and they need to hear what I have to tell them.
I’ll address Iran first and then we’ll delve into the Trump regime pushing America into martial law after.
I am hearing reports that US news outlets are not covering the situation in Iran, so let’s see if we can’t get you all up to speed. First of all, while Iran has been in the grips of religious extremists for a long time, the people of Iran are regular folks, who want freedom, they aren’t a bunch of extremists or a fucked up culture like Russia, they deserve our support in their attempt to free themselves from an authoritarian regime.
They have finally had enough and are rising up en masse. Massive crowds of people fill the streets in all their cities and are clashing with security forces. Reports are that they have taken over the second largest city in Iran. They burnt the statue of the extremist religious leader oppressing them. They are tearing down Irans’ flag and replacing it with the pre-Islamist flag. Kurdish militia groups have entered Iran and are fighting the security forces. The Iranian people have seized control of many official buildings. Although they are looking to one of the surviving monarchy for leadership, he has stated that he would like to put together a democratic government. Meanwhile, in the US the right-wing is proposing a ‘peaceful resolution’ to Trump trying to take Greenland by force via Barron marrying the princess of Denmark and Greenland being the dowry. You can’t make this shit up. Not only does Trump desire a monarchy for the USA, and act like it already is one, but right wing Americans are totally cool with it.
Unfortunately, the Iranian government has now completely shut down the internet, landlines, and communication coming out of Iran. So after a day of heartening images showing huge numbers of people flooding the streets and taking back their cities from their authoritarian government, just as the secuity forces started shooting people Iran went dark. Hopefully, the people can restore communications soon, and we will see they have prevailed. I am hopeful that they have the numbers and persistence to pull it off this time, but it may well come down to which side the military chooses or if they stand aside and the people are able to overcome the considerable security forces.
That last point has particular significance to Americans at this point.
The governor of Minnesota has alerted that states National Guard to be prepared to defend its citizens against murderous ICE agaents. Immediately following this, Oregon has told ICE and CBP to leave after they shot two more people there yesterday.
I will give you the details of the shooting in Minnesota further down in this piece, as Trump, Noem, and all of the Trump administration are blatantly lying about something that you can see with your own eyes as we have video from at least four angles of the cold blooded murder of a woman trying to drive home from dropping off her six year old kid at school.
Many of you have been wondering how a civil war might break out in the US and what that might look like. Well, a states National Guard being mobilized against the 2,000 ICE officers deployed there to ratchet things up is a very plausible scenario. Legally (I know, quit laughing) Trump cannot federalize the local National Guard until he deploys regular US military, setting up a secanario where National Guard are facing off versus the regular US military. Decisions will have to be made. Governors and National Guard leaders refusing to federalize and follow Trumps orders. The regular military will have to decide to follow the convicted felon who occupies the White House as he demolishes it and America, or if the military is going to revolt.
It is quite possible the current situation in Minnesota will fizzle out and the one brewing in Portland may not rise to that level.
But, it is coming.
The Trump regime is actively trying to push the United States into martial law so that it can suspend elections and whip up its base enjoying watching federal goons oppress blue states and cities.
I know everyone is waiting to see what the next election or two bring and hoping it won’t come to a civil war in the United States, but I hope you all are preparing for the worst and arming yourseleves and stockpiling supplies because it is coming, sooner or later.
By executing a woman when she was attempting to comply with their orders, ICE has signaled to you that it doesn’t matter what you do, they WILL kill you, even if you are a pretty white lady, the widow of a fallen US soldier, doing what they ordered you to do. For nothing. Just because they want to. Just because they can, and they have orders to foment unrest.
The Trump regime immediately exonerated the shooter, both pointing out the that in the US he has immunity as a police officer and so can do whatever he wants, and immediately issuing a narrrative contrary to the reality all of us can see on the multiple videos of this state execution of an innocent woman.
This clearly signaled to all thugs in uniform that it is open season on Americans and that the government will protect you from any repercussions.
And, was immediately followed by Customs and Border Patrol agents in Portland shooting two people there. Which was immediately followed by a parade of lies from this administration about the circumstances of those executions.
Expect more of this. A LOT more. Government goons are going to continue doing this until the people realize that there is no one to protect them and start killing the Gestapo first. At which point Trump will declare martial law, try and send in the military and suspend elections. This is their goal.
You can’t stop this process by remaining peaceful. This is going to happen either way. Just the peaceful protests that are going to happen in response to these (and future) killings are going to be used as an excuse to claim that your cities are out of control, the military needs to be sent in and elections need to be suspended or otherwise compromised. Trump and the Nazis behind him are determined to institute martial law and they are going to do it one way or another.
By the way, in case you missed it:
Your best case scenario is that state governors activate their National Guards and throw out or arrest the ICE, CBP and other thugs, and their Guards resist federalization, at least preserving your current rule of law (such as it is). Which of course sets up the higher level dilemma when Trump orders the military in to take direct control of those states.
If your governors don’t use their National Guards to protect their people from execution by Trumps Gestapo then the people will have to take matters directly into their own hands and you will fall into anarchy and a hot civil war of that flavor rather than a clash between the local military and federal forces.
Trumps Gestapo has received the full green light to execute you without repercussions, and in fact the regime wants them to do so to further its agenda. This is already happening and going to contiune.
You must prepare yourselves.
Form cells. Network. Set rally points for when you are separated, arm yourselves, get gas masks or respirators and goggles. Stockpile food and water. Have a bug-out bag packed. Have portable first aid kits. Have scarves or balaclavas or good medical face masks with you. Bury some extra weapons. Get concealed carry permits if it is feasible in your area. For you Washingtonians, this is incredibly cheap and straightforward.
Renee Nicole Good, 37 year old widow of an American soldier, was driving home after dropping off her six year old son at school. Her mother and her first husband describe her as religious, leading youth groups and never having participated in protests before. Her sum total of involvement with the law prior to this was a single traffic infraction. While trying to turn around in the middle of ICE kidnapping someone her car partially blocked the road. She rolled down her window and waved ICE vehicles around her. We see her do this on video. At least one of their vehicles easily went around her.
Then, despite having a clear path to leave ICE goons stopped, dismounted their vehicles and disobeying the rules and training of their organization and placed themselves in front of her vehicle.
When she attempted to comply with their shouted orders for her to move her vehicle out of the way, one of them again went directly against the training and rules and fired into her vehicle. They are taught that firing at a moving vehicle doesn’t stop it, if you perceive it as a threat you are supposed to get out of the way, and not place yourself in front of it to begin with.
Nonetheless, he executed her.
Firing point blank into her head.
First one shot, then following up with two more shots to her head. An execution.
Then, when a doctor approached from the gathering crowd, identified herself as such and attempted to render aid, the ICE agents prevented her from doing so.
Then, they prevented ambulance personnel from getting to the scene for 15 minutes, until they were sure she was dead.
This is America now.
Before any investigation could be done, Trump, Noem and the rest of the adminstration immediately began lying about the situation and trying to slander the slain woman, calling her an agitator and terrorist and completely fabricating that an ICE agent was hit by her vehicle, seriously injured and in the hospital. This is completely untrue. She drove slowly as she attempted to comply with their shouted orders to move her vehicle and at no time strcuck any ICE agents with her car. Trump lied, completely, stating the opposite of what happened, trying to make his executioner look like a victim and hero, despite the fact that we have multiple videos of the entire incident.
Noem did the same, stating these lies while the video of the truth played beside her and trying to explain ICE repeatedly shooting people in their vehicles as some sort of anti-fascist conspiracy, complete with a training program:
After right wingers all across the United States complained about the public reaction to white supremacist Charlie Kirk being assasinated by a fellow right winger, they immediately went online and gloated about their Gestapo executing an innocent mother and spread the disinformation that she was a ‘anti-fa terrorist’. They are gleeful about her death, after of course insisting on civility when someone from their side who advocated genocide was murdered by their own kind for not being extremist enough.
Republican congress members are openly advocating for extra judicial executions of Americans they don’t agree with.
By the way, this is what an I.C.E. agent looks like:
These people want you dead.
Their ethos is a white nationalist state.
They take joy in anyone who doesn’t believe what they do being killed.
They are your enemy.
They are the enemy of anyone who believes in a decent America.
They are the enemy of freedom.
They are fascists.
The only good fascist is a dead fascist.
There is no convincing these people of the error of their ways.
They have made ignorance a virtue. They are proud of being ignorant and violently resist any sort of information counter to their beliefs.
Many of them are basically cult members, happy to believe anything their leaders tell them, even if it completely contradicts the last thing they just told them.
You cannot convert them or save them. It doesn’t matter if they are your neighbors or family. They are your enemy.
They want to put you in camps.
Threy already ARE putting you in camps.
They want to execute you.
They already ARE executing you.
While you wait to see how the next election turns out the government is pushing the situation to make sure you don’t even have another election.
So, please, please recognize that you don’t have until November to start preparing to deal with what is coming.
It is already here.
It is just going to get worse.
Rest In Power Renee Nicole Good
I haven’t heard the names of the two folks shot in Portland yet. Only that the Trump administration is slandering them as ‘Venezuelan terrorists’ and saying they attacked CBP with their car. Here’s an idea, if you are surveilling people to kidnap them, why not attack them when they aren’t in cars? Oh, that’s right, bullets are faster than alligators.
Please allow me to remind you that ‘anti-fa’ is anti-fascist. If you aren’t anti-fascist, you are a fascist.
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Recommended: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/opinion/renee-good-minnesota-shooting-ice.html
Hi Karl, What is your source for Kurdish militia forces fighting IRI forces in Iran? I follow the rolling uprising in Iran fairly closely, but I haven't seen mention of that. Thank you for reporting on Iran & for your service in Ukraine. May you be well.