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Important Reports and Information, You'll Not Find Much of on Billionaire TV News

May 7, 2026 v. Opened 9.27.25 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

'TV News' is a misnomer, as these days they do little reporting about the important news stories of the day. Instead they allow themselves to be led around by top government officials, who use them to distract their viewing audiences from what's really going on in government, by spinning tales of nonsense - like the United Nations escalator conspiracy, the Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and the like.

Billionaire controlled Network TV News no longer appears to be generally staffed by competent, dedicated, truth-seeking newspeople, but instead by teleprompter reading actors and models. TV News whittles away their audiences' precious time by showing them what seem the same repetitive police crime videos and social media accident videos. Billionaire Network TV News is also guilty of broadcasting long-winded weather reports [do they really think people need to spend ten minutes to find out what the temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation will be tomorrow?]. They sprinkle the crime, accident and weather reporting with cleverly disguised advertorials for their corral of signed celebrities, their TV syndicated or related shows, and their licensed music and movies, which they present as the news.

So, in the interest of community service, we've decided to provide our audience with short reports, with links to sources we find reliable, of the important stories we think are not well covered, or not properly covered by billionaire TV News - if covered at all. We hope you'll appreciate our efforts to inform you. And if you do, please spread the word, so that your friends and family will start migrating their news consumption from billionaire TV News to the web. It's worth noting that the six TV Network News organizations are controlled by billionaires, family and their friends; and they're using TV News and sometimes their other shows, to manipulate voters' perceptions,

This is not your parents or grandparents TV News, which ended sometime around Walter Cronkite's retirement in the early 1980's when TV News reliably informed Americans about the real news stories of the day. At that time TV News was reporting stories that were were important to know and understand as participants in our democracy, in order to stay informed of issues so that we the people, and the representatives we selected, would collectively and communally address them.

We've started this news section in late September / early October 2025 and had been updating weekly until about mid November 2025, when we hit some capacity road blocks. It's mid April 2026, and we're embarking on this effort again, hoping that the remedies we put in place over the winter, will enable us to continue, uninterrupted, going forward.

This begins the local news feed _ 5.7.26

• CLICK here to read the rest of our November _ Queens News Local Reports NYC.

Queens News - Queens Local News _ Weekly Reports

June 22, 2026 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

*** What Follows was posted Week Ending 4.17.26 & updated 5.7.26 - we're working up to a more robust news offfering. Please stay tuned.

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Gonzales Rojas & A Queens Tale: How the Rich get Richer

Did Billionaire Cohen Place a Bet or a Buy on an NYS Senate Seat?

Thousands in Cohen-Affiliated Donations Flood Gonzales Rojas' Campaign in the Final Stretch of the Campaign, Followed by a Mysterious $850,000 PAC Donation

We Choose Jessica Ramos - but Read Below and Decide for Yourself

June 20, 2026 / Queens Politics & Government / Queens News NYC / NYS Election 2026 Queens NYC / Queens Buzz NYC / News Analysis & Opinion.

The Back Drop is an Out-of-Control System, Facilitated by the Supreme Court's Failed Decision, which Enables Billionaire Purchases of the Electorate, via Disinformative TV News Ads & a Media that No Longer Serves the Public

All too slowly, voters are waking up, to how their representatives, and thus government, are being purchased right in front of their eyes.

The biggest part of the problem, I have decided, is the corrupt billionaire-owned, network TV News, which is now controlled by about six billionaires, who have little competition in the TV News space. How this happened, beginning circa the 1980's, when billionaire Rupert Murdoch of Fox News started purchasing mass media outlets on our shores, is another story, for which there's not enough time between now and election day, Tuesday, June 23, 2026.

So for the moment, let's focus in on something we can take some positive action upon. And that is to vote for those candidates who will represent us when making decisions in Albany or Washington, D.C. One of the most important of these races, has been laid before the people of NYS Senate District 13, where NYS Senator Jessica Ramos is fighting to keep her seat.

We recommend voting for Jessica Ramos - and voting against Jessica Gonzales Rojas - because we believe Ramos has far more integrity than Gonzales Rojas. And voting for and electing politicians lacking in integrity is why things are so very messed up right now. But read what we've found below and decide for yourself.

Billionaire Steve Cohen, of SAC Capital Cheating Inc, Applies for Casino License

NYS Senator Jessica Ramos is fighting to keep her seat because she was about the only Queens government official who fought to stop billionaire Steve Cohen and affiliates from siezing control of Flushing Meadows Corona Parkland from the taxpaying public, to build a casino. Steve Cohen founded SAC Capital which was charged with huge insider trading violations, which they settled to $1.8 BILLION in fines and essentially agreed to stop trading for the public. Cohen bought the Mets and within a couple of years the Mets were caught cheating multiple times too. The cheating seemed to conveniently go on hiatus, when Cohen applied for an NYS casino license.

Click here for more context on Queens Steve Cohen and SAC Capital Insider Trading.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our story on Jessica Gonzales Rojas' campaign funded by the billionaire whose casino license Gonzales Rojas helped make possible?

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The Four Way NYS Congressional Race in Manhattan

ICE Profiteer Lasher, Former Palantir Professional Bores, Attorney Anti-Trumper Conway & Trust Fund JFK Grandson Schlossberg

We Prefer George Conway - but See What we Found below and Decide for Yourself

June 20, 2026 / Manhattan Politics & Government / Manhattan News NYC / NYS Election 2026 NYC / Manhattan Buzz NYC / News Analysis & Opinion.

The Back Drop is an Out-of-Control System, Facilitated by the Supreme Court's Failed Decision, which Enables Billionaire Purchases of the Electorate, via Disinformative TV News Ads & a Media that No Longer Serves the Public

All too slowly, voters are waking up, to how their representatives, and thus government, are being purchased right in front of their eyes.

The biggest part of the problem, I have decided, is the corrupt billionaire-owned, network TV News, which is now controlled by about six billionaires, who have little competition in the TV News space. How this happened, beginning circa the 1980's, when billionaire Rupert Murdoch of Fox News started purchasing mass media outlets on our shores, is another story, for which there's not enough time between now and election day, Tuesday, June 23, 2026.

So for the moment, let's focus in on something we can take some positive action upon. And that is to vote for those candidates who will represent us when making decisions in Albany or Washington, D.C. One of the most important of these races, has been laid before the people of U.S. Congressional District 12, where four well-funded, fairly well known, candidates are vying to replace Jerry Nadler.

District 12 was redistricted in 2023 and Nadler, originally representing NYS U.S. Congressional District 10, defeated Carolyn Maloney, who was the incumbent of NYS U.S. Congressional District 12, but which had been redistricted in Nadler's favor electorally. Nadler has represented this district for 34 years, so this will be a big change. Maloney has endorsed Bores. We choose George Conway.

• CLICK to read the rest of our report on the candidates running for NY District 12 including Alex Bores, George Conway, Micah Lasher & Jack Schlossberg.

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Will Chuck Park Defeat Grace Meng in the Primary?

Can a Proverbial David, Chuck Park, Beat the Queens Machine Goliath, Grace Meng?

Updated June 22, 2026 v. 5.31.26 / Jackson Heights Queens Neighborhood / Queens Politics & Political News / Queens News / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz.

Late Sunday, on a beautiful afternoon, I headed over to attend a 'Dumplings & Dialogue' event hosted by the 6th Congressional District House candidate, Chuck Park, at Kabab King in Jackson Heights.  The Park campaign's volunteer press liaison, had reached out to me a few times, with compelling narratives that caught my interest. 

In the photo above or at right shows Chuck Park with some of the volunteers who participated in the Dumplings and Dialogue campaign event hosted by 6th District Congressional candidate. Standing next to Chuck is Noor Shams who is a food writer,community organizer and cofounder of Alaap NYC - https://www.alaapnyc.com - and Rachel Gurjar who is a chef, cookbook author and culinary creative - https://www.rachelgurjar.com/about/. As you can see here and will see below, the campaign seems to have attracted a young, diverse, energetic group of volunteers.

The Park campaign narratives sent to me by the volunteer press liaison, included: Meng's acceptance of big money donations, Meng's support for sending billions in unconditional aid to Israel, Park's opposition to the awarding of a casino license to a billionaire tied to one of the largest insider trading scandals by a hedge fund in modern history [aka the firm was caught cheating] and Meng's lack of achievement in doing anything meaningful for the immigrant families of Queens which make up about half the borough's population.  That Chuck Park's campaign had put together a simple, but resonant narrative, as to why Meng should be replaced, struck a chord, as I began my effort to delve more deeply into the two candidates of this contest.  Park's effort to unseat Meng sounded viable, which has not been the case for well over a decade.

Grace Meng first won her congressional seat back in 2012.  The Joe Crowley-led, Queens County Democratic machine, placed his cousin, Elizabeth Crowley's, name on the primary ballot, which pundits believed was to siphon votes away from Rory Lancman, who was a leading contender. Elizabeth Crowley held an NYC Council position at the time, and did not appear to campaign seriously, supporting this hypothesis.  Meng won with less than 51% of the vote, but it was more than enough, as Crowley had made it a three-way race and had taken 16% of the vote. The Crowleys are no longer the influential people they once were in Queens politics, and it's possible that tricks like this contributed to their descent. The deadline for a trick like this has passed, as the final day to place a name on the ballot was May 19, 2026.

Who is Chuck Park?

CLICK here to read more about the election contest in the NYS 6th Congressional District where Chuck Park is challenging Grace Meng.

Early Voting Begins - Cliff Notes / Crib Notes Election Guide on Select Primary Races

Early Voting runs until Sunday, June 21, 2026. Election day is Tuesday, June 23, 2026.

LINK

https://www.vote.nyc/page/find-your-poll-site

Below is a brief election guide [the cliff notes], on who we think are the best candidates, in a number of the contests with which we have become familiar. We will expound on our rationale for having chosen these candidates next week, but wanted to get this out there now, as Early Voting begins Saturday. Basically we've favored candidates who we believe are qualified, and who will demonstrate more integrity to serving you than serving the people who fund their campaigns to pay for all of those dishonest TV News attack ads.

• Manhattan. We choose George Conway for Congress on the UWS - not either of the two 'chosen heirs / successors' like Jack Schlossberg [Kennedy] and Micah Lasher [Nadler], nor JStreet backed and Democratic machine supported Alex Bores. Bores has been accused of inappropriate behavior. Conway is qualified [an attorney], knows his way around D.C. as the former husband of Kellyanne Conway [former Trump campaign manager & senior advisor], and he promises to be a thorn in Trump's side for the next two years, far more than he had been while his ex-wife had worked for Trump. To get involved see - https://www.georgeconwayforcongress.com

• Manhattan. We choose Layla Law-Gisiko for NYC City Council - not Carl Wilson nor Lindsey Boylan nor Leslie Boghosian Murphy - see previous report on this race. Layla Law-Gisiko for NYC Council vs Carl Wilson. She may not be actively campaigning, but she's still actively fighting for the community [see her Instagram page] - https://www.laylaforny.com

• Brooklyn. We choose Brad Lander for Congress - because he will represent all New Yorkers, versus AIPAC funded and Democratic machine supported Dan Goldman. To get involved see - https://linktr.ee/bradlander

• Queens. We choose Chuck Park for Congress Flushing - not Democratic machine supported, absentee Congresswoman Meng, who's received nearly $1 million in AIPAC and related funding, and who supports unconditional funding of Israel's imperialistic expansionist efforts - see prior report on this race. Chuck Park running for Congress vs Grace Meng Queens. To get involved see - https://chuckforqueens.com

• Queens. We choose Claire Valdez for Congress Qns & Bk - not the wealthy real estate developers and Democratic machine favored candidates Reynoso or Won [report coming next week]. To get involved see - https://clairevaldezforcongress.com/

• Queens. We choose Jessica Ramos for NYS Senate Jackson Heights - not Democratic machine supported Gonzales Rojas, whose partner is paid a six figure salary, which comes from a nonprofit, that reportedly accepted generous donations made by entities affiliated with Insider Trading plagued billionaire, Steve Cohen. While Gonzales Rojas' husband was accepting the billionaire's indirect donations, a company affiliated with the billionaire sought and received approval for a casino license next to CitiField which includes transferring control of public parkland into private control - thanks in part to Gonzales Rojas' actions / non actions [scroll down for 6.10.26 report]. To get involved see - https://www.ramosforstatesenate.com/

• FYI - AIPAC - the American Israeli Political Action Committee. Recently AIPAC has become the poster person for appearing to buy influence in the U.S. federal government. AIPAC has been working the political influence game since the 1950's and Israel has received over $300 BILLION [in today's dollars] of U.S. taxpayer handouts. As Israel has a population of only 10 million, that's the equivalent of EACH PERSON living in Israel receiving $30,000 of our money for free.
  • Israel doesn't fund their own wars, even though they have a $600 billion economy and one of the higher standards of living in the world. We, the American people do. This is in part, why our government can't afford to do more to help its citizens with healthcare and education, while the Israelis' government can. And billionaire TV News doesn't inform us, because at least one owner [Rupert Murdoch of Fox News] appears to have his hand in the till [look up Genie Energy on illegally occupied Syrian Golan Heights]. All of the top billionaire TV News owners have shown an interest in Israel, including some with documented business interests, like Murdoch above. Here's a link to learn more about who's accepting money from AIPAC and affiliated donors. It will help you better understand what's been going on under our noses, and why our taxpayer dollars are funding Israeli wars, instead of U.S. education, healthcare and infrastructure. Compare that with the Israelis, whose government has been increasing support, while ours cuts back. Trump's fraudulent campaign slogan was America First. but Trump's policies reveal his real policy agenda puts middle and working class Americans Last.
  • But on some level these failures are also the voters' fault for not paying closer attention. Voters have been failing miserably to do their voting homework - to make sure they're getting accurate information from reliable sources, and sources who actually have their best interests at heart - BEFORE they go into the voting booth. TV Talk is cheap relative to the returns taken from public wealth, so pay attention to media and pols' actions and follow the money - https://www.trackaipac.com/congress.

• FYI - Open Secrets - a nonprofit that tracks donations to politicians. Don't stop with AIPAC, because there are numerous other selfish interests out there doing the same [just not as long, nor as effectively as AIPAC]. Here's another information source that TV News fails to disclose as well, to help voters understand who's funding all of those dishonest TV News attack ads. You can start following the money on your own, because the TV News featherweight anchors appear unaware, or just plain don't care - https://www.opensecrets.org
• We will have more about the primary races, including some important background material, about how the Democratic Party is working hard to maintain their inept colleagues and incompetents of the status quo. The Democratic Party Machine has been using their leverage to pressure union heads to make endorsements of status quo candidates, that were not voted upon by union members - only union leadership. And the Democratic Machines has been leveraging their ties to their billionaire TV News allies, who have been using their influence to distract voters with a relentless barrage of nonsense news that distracts from and ignores the incredible deficiencies of the Democratic party incumbents.
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Stay Tuned. More & More Expansive Updates coming soon.

Queens National News - Queens Weekly News Reports NYC

Important Information and Reports, You'll Scarcely Find on Billionaire TV News

May 7, 2026 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Queens Politics / Queens News NYC / Queens News Updates / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz NYC.

'TV News' is a misnomer, as these days they do little reporting about the important news stories of the day. Instead they allow themselves to be led around by top government officials, who use them to distract their viewing audiences from what's really going on in government, by spinning tales of nonsense - like the United Nations escalator conspiracy, the Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and the like.

Billionaire controlled Network TV News no longer appears to be generally staffed by competent, dedicated, truth-seeking newspeople, but instead by teleprompter reading actors and models. TV News whittles away their audiences' precious time by showing them what seem the same repetitive police crime videos and social media accident videos. Billionaire Network TV News is also guilty of broadcasting long-winded weather reports [do they really think people need to spend ten minutes to find out what the temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation will be tomorrow?]. They sprinkle the crime, accident and weather reporting with cleverly disguised advertorials for their corral of signed celebrities, their TV syndicated or related shows, and their licensed music and movies, which they present as the news.

So, in the interest of community service, we've decided to provide our audience with short reports, with links to sources we find reliable, of the important stories we think are not well covered, or not properly covered by billionaire TV News - if covered at all. We hope you'll appreciate our efforts to inform you. And if you do, please spread the word, so that your friends and family will start migrating their news consumption from billionaire TV News to the web. It's worth noting that the six TV Network News organizations are controlled by billionaires, family and their friends; and they're using TV News and sometimes their other shows, to manipulate voters' perceptions,

This is not your parents or grandparents TV News, which ended sometime around Walter Cronkite's retirement in the early 1980's when TV News reliably informed Americans about the real news stories of the day. At that time TV News was reporting stories that were were important to know and understand as participants in our democracy, in order to stay informed of issues so that we the people, and the representatives we selected, would collectively and communally address them.

We've started this news section in late September / early October 2025 and had been updating weekly until about mid November 2025, when we hit some capacity road blocks. It's mid April 2026, and we're embarking on this effort again, hoping that the remedies we put in place over the winter, will enable us to continue, uninterrupted, going forward.

This begins the national news feed _ 5.7.26

• CLICK here to read the rest of our Queens News National Reports NYC.

Queens News - Queens National News _ Weekly Reports

May 7, 2026 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Queens Politics / Queens News NYC / Queens News Updates / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz NYC.

*** What Follows was posted Week Ending 4.17.26 & updated 5.7.26 - we're working up to a more robust news offfering. Please stay tuned.

It Seems Trump is Talking up the Stock Markets, via Lies, Spread by Billionaire Network TV News - May 7, 2026

MAGA Values. What Happened to AG Bondi Testifying Before Congress on her Handling of the Epstein Files?

Is the Republican Party, by Their Inaction, a Party the Trump Administration's Corruption?

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Trump's Long-winded Speech

Ignores the State of a Faltering Union

The Checks & Balances are Failing: John Thune's Senate is Failing, Mike Johnson's House of Representatives is Failing, the Courts have Faltered, but not yet Failed & Billionaire TV News is Failing the Public

February 26, 2026 / Government Media & Politics / U.S. Politics National News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

I don't have the time to do Trump's State of the Union true justice. But I can't sit by and say nothing, as TV News has already done a good job of saying a lot of nothing, that's worthy of note.

Trump, spent two hours, delivering his same, old, tired, manipulative, bigoted trash, peppered with so many falsehoods, deceits and outright lies, that even PBS had trouble keeping up with them. And the failed billionaire controlled TV News networks didn't even try.

State of the Union 2026

Trump's Address was Riddled with Key Omissions

What Trump Didn't Talk about, is at Least as Important as What he Did Talk About

There wasn't anything new, worth noting in Trump's State of the Union [aka SOTU] speech except the new people and faces he used to try to direct attention away from, that:

1) Donald J. Trump's name reportedly appears hundreds of thousands of times, in the unredacted Epstein pedo-files,

2) little progress made on the economy - unless you believe his Fox News style distortions,

3) little achieved on healthcare as the erection of a website selling prescription drugs, reportedly doesn't make much difference to Americans who buy rx drugs [stock prices of drug companies went up after Donald J. Trump told them how he was 'cracking down' on them],

4) DOGE failed to reduce spending and that prior to Trump becoming president again, there wasn't the 'corruption, waste and abuse' Trump claimed, but by the time Trump leaves office, he will be primarily responsible for about a third to a half of America's $40+ trillion of debt which has been dumped [in multiple acts of cowardice by Republican Presidents and the Republican Party] on America's children and unborns in order to further enrich some of the richest people on the planet,

5) a couple of Hispanic Americans from Texas, working for ICE, put ten bullets [looked like murder] in a white citizen and resident of Minnesota in his own neighborhood as he was helping a woman protester the ICE agents had pushed to the ground, nor about the shooting [looked like murder] of Renee Macklin Goode, also a naturalized white American citizen from Minneapolis, nor numerous other deaths, as well as beatings and pepper spraying of other American citizens and immigrants - both legal and illegal - who have suffered at the hands of Kristi Noem's ICE agency,

6) the bombings by Pete Hegseth's Department of War of fishing boats in the Caribbean and Pacific in what also looked like the murder of innocents and a war crime,

7) the incredible turbulence in the stock market, the volatility of which Trump and members of his Administration appeared to trade on, with Inside information, due to Trump's erratic decisions regarding tariffs on / off / up / down statements,

8) Trump and Republicans included a statute prohibiting states from exercising their rights on limiting the encroachment of AI into everything,

9) little done vis-a-vis China,

10) Trump and Little Marco Rubio have been betraying Ukraine and Europe vis-a-vis the Russians [Bill Gates admitted to some Russian co-mingling and yet Donald J. Trump denies he did anything - not unlike how he denied raping E. Jean Carroll, the Democratic Hoax Epstein pedo-files, money laundering at his casinos, cheating his workers and contractors out of their pay, inciting the January 6th Insurrection, and so forth,

11) Trump has turned back the clock on slowing or preventing the impending crisis soon coming from Climate Change with the last few years being the warmest and driest on human record,

12) the real intent of his Voter ID legislation which is to disenfranchise women [because of marriage name changes] and the poor [no car = no driver's license] nor that voting fraud by illegals is essentially ZERO even according the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation,

13) he lied a blue streak about how 'great' things are in the American economy since he took office,

14) his Administration is [possible to very likely?] becoming the most corrupt in American history, which includes insider trading, personal use of government property by numerous cabinet members, accepting bribes for U.S. taxpayer funded military technology secrets or equipment, real estate deals done with the possibly bribing nations, crypto corruption, suing the IRS for $10 billion,

15) he's been pardoning numerous criminals, not unlike himself and

16) why he seems to be planning to start a war with Iran.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our report about all of the important issues Donald J. Trump's State of the Union Speech 2026 didn't address.

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ICE Shoots & Kills a Second U.S. Citizen in Minneapolis

Is Trump's ICE, Recruiting Deviants who Commit Violent Crimes Against the American Public, in Order to Make All Americans Submit to Trump's Will?

January 24, 2026 / U.S. National Issues / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

Does Donald Trump really expect us to believe that ICE is protecting us, when they are shooting and killing U.S. citizens?

Editor's Note. Please note that ICE agents do not appear to be as well trained, or as disciplined as other law enforcement personnel in the U.S. Furthermore, since Trump took office, it has been reported that ICE recruiting practices are failing to properly screen and background check their applicants, some or even many of whose backgrounds should raise red flags such as affiliations with white supremacist groups such as the KKK and Nazis. ICE reportedly puts these new recruits on the streets without full training by historical norms. And under Trump, ICE leadership appears to employ legally questionable practices in dealing with the public using questionable home search entry practices as well as spraying chemical agents in peaceful protesters faces. For details see this 6 minute video on CBC.

You're not likely to find this on TV News, whose news teams read the billionaires' teleprompter-fed narratives, while modeling the news distractions, instead of doing the hard work of investigatining, analyzing and presenting the real news.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7059189?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

LINK

All state and municipal governments should protect their citizens from ICE, who frequently resemble thugs in viral videos, by requiring no masks for any law enforcement without a court order, body cameras worn at all times, and must be turned on for any interactions with the public or targets, and published guidelines, on when beating, spraying and shooting to kill American citizens is permitted, as we saw ICE agents do to Alex Pretti in the video - click on graphic below or at right.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/minute-minute-timeline-fatal-shooting-alex-pretti-federal/story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&id=129547199

• CLICK here to read our report about Alex Pretti Shooting in Minneapolis & Donald Trump's Psychological Tendencies Toward Violence.

* Was ICE Justifiably Enforcing the Law when it Committed a Very Public Killing?

See and Judge for Yourself, Whether Trump is Using ICE to Desensitize the American Public to the Government Use of Violence Against Any Human, Regardless of Citizenship

January 8, 2026 / National News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

Here's a link to an video by the Minneapolis Star & Tribune [on 1/11/26 added a second video link to the NYT coverage of the shooting which provides even more context] where they provide video of the incident and context. The videos allow you can see and judge for yourself whether the ICE agent's firing of two shots, killing the driver of the car, Renee Macklin Good, who was an American citizen and mother of three, was the use necessary lethal force. Or, whether it was an unjustified, cold blooded murder by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a member of the Trump Administration, which they now appear to be covering up with the help of Fox and the other billionaire owned TV News outlets.

This was the first link we posted on Thursday, January 8, 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G-s0AFakl0o

This link is an update posted on Saturday, January 11, 2026, providing a more complete picture with multiple video angles by the NYT showing quite clearly that 'the president' and 'the vice president' and the ICE lady, Kristi Noem, mischaracterized or even lied about what happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=url-share

CLICK ON FOTO LINK to see shooting video.

Uptick in Violent and Fatal Events in Which Trump's ICE is Involved

It's worth mentioning that ICE agents have killed at least 9 people within the past year, including two American citizens. Additionally about 32 people died in ICE Detention Centers this past year. Since Trump took office Americans support of ICE has fallen from a favorability of +16% to -14% today, with 52% of Americans now disapproving of how the Trump / Noem ICE agency is doing its job. Some detractors are compariing ICE and their detention centers to the Nazis.

The ICE Officer did not Appear to Follow Correct Procedures ... Again

The ICE Officer, Jonathan Ross, who reportedly shot the Minneapolis mother, Renee Macklin Good, appears to have a history of not following proper law enforcement procedure when apprehending suspects or detainees, as Ross had an incident in June 2025, where he was significantly injured because he did not follow proper procedures when approaching a suspects vehicle.

Per law enforcement training, an officer is never supposed to reach inside of a vehicle, because it puts them at risk of injury. Furthermore an officer is not supposed to position themselves in front of a vehicle to block it, for the same reason. In June of 2025 Ross broke the window of the car of a suspect, and stuck his arm inside the window. The suspect, Juan Munoz-Guatemala, drove off, dragging Ross about 100 yards, which put Ross in the hospital.

In the Minneapolis incident, just a few days ago, the victim driver, Renee Macklin Good, is video recorded greeting the officer in a friendly manner. She's an American citizen with no police record, so she was not a suspect. She did not have any weapon and that was clear from the videos taken. Macklin Good was part of a neighborhood watch team peaceful protesting ICE agents trying to apprehend their neighbors. Her vehicle was partially - but not fully - obstructing the roadway, which was shown on the video, as one ICE vehicles in the caravan drove around Mackin Good's vehicle, literally a minute before the shooting. So it seems the use of lethal force, on an American citizen and mother of three, by Ross was completely unwarranted. But use the link above to click into the video so you can judge for yourself.

Did Murdoch's Fox News Fake the News Again?

I believe in the axiom innocent until proven guilty. But I also believe that seeing is believing. And thus far nothing has come out to controvert what I've described above, except false narratives of what happened by the Trump Administration which - like Trump's lies about 'Stop the Steal' and January 6th Insurrection - appear to be aided, abetted and amplified by billionaire Rupert Muroch's Fox News' dishonest, deceitful, manipulative reporting.

Macklin Good's relatives may want to lawyer up and send Fox News and Rupert Murdoch cease and desist letters for what could be their defamatory and misleading coverage. Fox News seems to have a penchant for repeating lies, particularly when the falsehoods serve their owner's private agenda.

What has happened in Minneapolis and the Trump Administration and Fox News response to it, is nothing short of disgusting. Do these people - Murdoch, Trump and associates - have no humanity or decency?

Trump, Fox & ICE Depiction of the Incident Appears to Contradict Reality

Did Trump & Fox Publicize False or Misleading Narratives to Manipulate?

According to a January 8, 2026 report by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the leading local newspaper in Minneapolis, this is how Trump / Noem ICE described what happened which is contradicted by the video posted via the link above.

"... Federal officials described Ross [the ICE agent who shot Good the victim] as an “experienced” officer. Ross was injured in a dragging incident during a June operation in the Twin Cities ... The woman killed was identified by her mother as Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good, 37 ... Minnesota leaders are calling on the federal government to allow state investigators to probe the fatal shooting, after the FBI took sole ownership of the probe ... “The FBI informed the [Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI,” said the state’s top investigative agency ...".

If what the Trump Administration said was true, then why have they forced local law enforcement out of 'the investigation'? Or is the Trump / Noem 'investigation' really a a Trump / Noem / ICE cover up like Trump / Bondi / DOJ did with the Epstein Files?

Trump is easily the most famous liar on planet Earth [look it up]. That's a fact. What he says is pretty close to meaningless and he talks a lot. And Billionaire TV News seems to try to not miss repeating even a word of it. The Washington Post said that Trump told over 30,000 lies, made misleading statements or spoke falsehoods in his first term as president. But in the second Trump Administration, Trump isn't the only liar. In fact I'm hard pressed to think of anyone in the Trump cabinet who is not a liar.

In 2025 alone, Kristi [shot her dog] Noem and ICE have reportedly made numerous false and misleading statements including: 1) lied to Congress [Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune & Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson have utterly failed the American people by not asserting the powers of the coequal branch of government over which they preside], 2) misrepresented arrest data, 3) per a court ruling lied and distorted facts, 4) defied at least one court order, and 5) allegedly smeared detainee(s).

The Orwellian World of 1984 is Here

How Many Americans Will Ignore their Own Sense of Reality?

George Orwell was an early 20th century journalist, who covered and wrote extensively about dictators and totalitarian regimes, describing how they grab power from the people who don't pay attention [aka not woke], and who don't assert their power and rights - before they lose them. Regarding situations such as the matter of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, and the Trump / Murdoch Fox News response to it, he said this.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

What did he mean by this statement. He means that when Rupert Murdoch's [a modern day Joseph Goebbels] Fox News team of propagandists, and the Trump Administration team of mythomaniacs, are all lying in concert; and use the power of the federal government and mass media to manipulate the people's perceptions of something the people can witness with their own eyes - the American public has to make a choice.

The choice is whether to a) believe your own eyes and ears and do your own thinking, or b) ignore what you see, hear and think, and accept whatever Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and Donald Trump's Administration tell you. As Orwell says, it will be their final, most essential command, because if you quit relying on your own senses and mental faculties to make your own decisions, you will have completely given up your freedom and own self determination.

I Think, Therefore I Am v. I Don't Think, Therefore I Am Not

The 17th century, French philosopher, Renee Descartes, famously said, "I think, therefore I am." In the 21st century, I wouid like to add an Orwellian corollary to that, which is, "I don't think, therefore I am not.". The essence of this corollary is that if you let the state do your thinking for you, you no longer exist mentally, emotionally or spiritually. The most important part of your existence will have died. Up until she was shot by an ICE agent earlier this week, Renee Macklin Good, was very much alive, according to my Orwellian corollary. You can honor her, by not acceding to the lies and falsehoods spread by the Trump Administration and Murdoch's Fox News, while encouraging others to do the same by showing them the video noted above.

I watched following TV News programs in the wake of the ICE shooting, and here's my grading of each of them. Fox News gets a F- for trying to create their own false interpretation of what happened; NDTV gets an F for being one-sided and asking no insightful questions, NBC & CBS get solid grades like a B or B+ on their first day news shows. I missed watching ABC and the CW. Democracy Now also gets a solid B or B+. And the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper website gets an A to an A+ for great local coverage of the many facets of this important story, as does the NYT for their video coverage to which we provided a link above. Both are free as of this writing.

January 11, 2026 Update. In the half week following the killing, many subsequent broadcasts by the corporate TV networks generally failed to maintain a sense of balance and truth, because of their incessant repetition of the 'official lies' put out by the Trump Administration, without correcting them when they run short clips. Specifically Noem statements, where she claims the ICE agent was protecting himself and the people around him - which is clearly not the case if you watch the NYT video report [see link in first graphic at the beginning of this story]. And the billionaire TV News showed short, edited video clips which failed to show the whole truth - as the NYT report, to which we linked to above.

Pay attention to this TV News degradation of accuracy and resort to superficiality; and help properly inform your family and friends by refering them to the NYT video report. This will clearly illustrate why Americans MUST shift their news consumption from billionaire controlled TV News to the web, where real journalism still lives.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our report about how Trump's & Noem's ICE agent appears to have committed manslaughter and they appear to be trying to cover it up.

Epstein File Vote: TV News Misses the Point .. Again

Billionaire TV News Reports What They are Told (for ratings) with Scant Comprehension

November 18, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion.

Billionaire TV News Reports the Headlines but Misses the Meaning

Billionaire TV News is waiting at the Capitol to cover the House vote to open the Epstein files.

Like it actually matters.

If you have absolutely nothing else going on in your life, then stay glued to the TV News screen to find out how the House and Senate will vote on the issue.

But it doesn't matter and it won't make a difference, as Donald Trump is doing what he does best. Making fools on the American people and the rule of law, by deceiving them and finding loopholes in the law to exploit. Both skills that Donald J. Trump has been practicing all of his life.

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Stay Tuned. Updates coming soon.

Queens Neighborhoods & News Shorts

September 2025 / Queens Neighborhoods & History / Queens Arts & Culture NYC / Queens News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz NYC.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, September 11, 12, 13 & 14, 2025 from 6 - 10 pm Thursday & Friday, 5 - 11 pm on Saturday and 1 - 9 pm on Sunday - Hellenic Orthodox Traditionalist Church of America [St Markella] - celebrates patron feast day with traditional Greek food, arts and crafts and music. Along 22-68 26th Street between 22nd & 23rd Avenues in Astoria. For details see - https://www.saintmarkellagoc.org or FB - https://www.facebook.com/saintmarkella

In the photo above or at right, you can see the Greek festival at St. Markella in Astoria. The festival returns this weekend. Details coming soon / above.

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