Free the People | Week in Review

The good...

Judge blocks ICE-stapo in Minnesota from arresting or using crowd control tools against peaceful protesters [Link]

A federal agent crosses the street in order to get close enough to spray protesters on the other side with pepper spray on January 10 in Minneapolis

A Minnesota judge has issued an order prohibiting federal agents from "using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity." The order also bars federal agents from stopping vehicles from following them as long as those vehicles maintain a safe distance.

The ruling is likely to be overturned by Trump regime sycophants in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, but it is important that rulings like this continue. Even if it doesn't change things (at least not immediately), we all have to continue to protest, to legally challenge the regime's unconstitutional behavior, and to make it clear that the policies of the regime are not supported by the people of the United States of America.

Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Governor Tim Walz

The bad...

The Trump regime's plan to dismantle public education [Link]

By now, we all know that the Trump regime is planning on closing the Department of Education. But before they do that, they plan to use the power of that department to fundamentally change the very nature of public education.

The Department of Education was created to enforce civil rights and ensure all children, regardless of race, religion, or economic background had access to a quality education. And that's precisely what the Trump regime opposes. The regime is actively trying to push towards private schooling. This may sound, at first, like giving parents more choices in their child's education, but will inevitably lead to massive fraud and wholesale discrimination since there will be no authority to regulate these private schools' tuition charges, enrollment decisions, or curriculum standards.

Similarly, the Trump regime is pushing for our public schools to push their corrupted version of "Christian" values on all students, regardless of their religious background or their parents' rights to train their own children in their chosen religion.

As children leave the public school system, either because their parents prefer private schools or because public schools do not offer a quality education to their particular race or gender or religion, the amount of money available for public schools (from federal or state sources) will decrease, leading to a predictable and inevitable collapse of the entire public school system.

The ugly...

Reporter reveals the sloppy ICE-stapo recruitment process [Link]

Image by Fibonacci Blue from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

The Trump regime spent nearly $30 billion of taxpayer money to beef up its ICE-stapo goon squad in 2025. They have doubled the number of goons in the squad in the past year, engaging in massive hiring campaigns in every state.

Laura Jedeed, a freelance journalist wrote about her experience applying for a job with ICE. To be clear: She had no intention of ever working for ICE, she just wanted to know what the hiring process looked like.

An Army veteran deployed to Afghanistan twice, Jedeed definitely fit the ICE-stapo's target recruiting demographic. But she also has a strong internet presence, and her views opposing ICE and the Trump regime are plastered all over the internet. That should have been an immediate red flag, but she was eventually offered a job anyway.

Jedeed shares her experience attending the nearly-empty recruiting expo in Dallas and the horrifically sloppy recruiting process. She also shares her surprise that she was offered a job, pending the completion of paperwork, and further surprise that she was still offered the job despite the fact that she did not submit the required paperwork. And even more surprise when she was later listed as "Entered on Duty" despite the fact that she never accepted the job at all.

If they missed the fact that I was an anti-ICE journalist who didn't fill out her paperwork, what else might they be missing? How many convicted domestic abusers are being given guns and sent into other people's homes? How many people with ties to white supremacist organizations are indiscriminately targeting minorities on principle, regardless of immigration status? How many rapists and pedophiles are working in ICE detention centers with direct and unsupervised access to a population that will be neither believed nor missed? How are we to trust ICE's allegedly thorough investigations of the people they detain and deport when they can't even keep their HR paperwork straight?

And if they're not going to screen me out, what hope is there of figuring out which recruit might one day turn into a trigger-happy agent who would forget that law enforcement officers are trained not to stand in front of vehicles, get jumpy, and shoot a 37-year-old woman to death on the streets of Minneapolis?

Laura Jedeed

Keeping you informed...

Who's next on our national hit list? [Link]

Donny 2-Dolls was recently asked if there was anything that could limit his use of force around the world to impose his own will on sovereign nations. His answer:

My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me.

Donny 2-Dolls

In his current term of office and under his direction, the United States has attacked Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen in addition to destroying civilian boats in international waters, killing everyone on board. And he hasn't even been in office a full year yet.

So who's next? To put it bluntly: everyone. Here's a partial list of other countries he has openly threatened to attack: