Shepherding the Vulnerable

Lessons from Renee Good's Tragic End In the raw aftermath of tragedy, we often reach for simple narratives-heroes and villains, victims and oppressors. But sometimes, the truth demands we look deeper, into the fragile spaces where human weakness meets manipulative forces. Kira Davis's Substack essay, "The Face of Renee Good, and What It Taught Me" (published January 13, 2026), did that for me. It sharpened my focus on Renee Nicole Good not as a martyr or a monster, but as a stark embodiment of the weak-a woman whose life and death expose the dangers of unbreakable ideological filters, the predation of…

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Minnesota Throws Hail Mary at ICE

How Federal Plenary Power Dooms Minnesota's Complaint In Minneapolis, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul have filed an 80-page complaint against the Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge. The suit-State of Minnesota et al. v. Noem et al.-frames the deployment of roughly 2,000 DHS agents as a "federal invasion," complete with "militarized raids" and political payback. It's bold, loud, and almost certainly doomed. From an originalist standpoint, this is another round of blue-state resistance that will hit the brick wall of federal supremacy. The Constitution's text and history allocate immigration authority squarely to the national…

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