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Sky York Journal In the days before the Trump Justice Department asked Minnesota federal prosecutors to investigate Renee Good’s wife over her death, right-wing media pushed to blame the widow for the killing. Right-wing news outlets and conservative influencers have focused on Rebecca Good, who was in the passenger seat as their car careened out of control after ICE officer Jonathan Ross fired three bullets at her wife, who was behind the wheel. Of particular interest to these influencers and outlets has been a video showing the widow moments after her wife was killed. In the video, Rebecca Good appears…

Sky York Journal The Supreme Court majority’s radicalization on trans issues has become apparent not just in its unusual willingness to take up so many cases on the topic, but in its eagerness to shoehorn anti-trans refrains into unrelated cases. Justice Samuel Alito, dissatisfied with the double header cases on trans women in sports before him, pivoted to an anti-trans monologue Tuesday that had nothing to do with the facts at hand.  “This does present a particular factual situation and we have to decide that case, but looking to the broader issue that a lot of people are interested in,”…

Sky York Journal On the heels of its landmark 2025 decision allowing red states to deny trans youth medical care, the Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on another right-wing fixation: state laws that block trans girls and women from playing on women’s sports teams. The Court heard two similar cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. — one brought by a trans woman in college, and one by a trans girl in middle school. They both involve constitutional challenges, and the middle schooler’s also brings a claim under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in…

Sky York Journal The midterm elections are often treated by voters as a referendum on the current presidential administration’s performance. In recent history, that has translated to the party in the White House almost always losing — and losing big — in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. But the second Trump administration has been far from typical, and, as we head into 2026, several factors make it considerably harder than usual to get a read on what to expect this November. The administration’s months-long, Trump-pushed state redistricting crusade — an overt attempt to predetermine the outcome of the…

Sky York Journal Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) sued Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Monday for directing the U.S. Navy to “reconsider” his rank and pay grade. Hegseth’s retribution followed Kelly’s participation in a video reminding members of the military that they cannot follow illegal orders. While other lawmakers also participated, Kelly — with his possible presidential ambitions and military pension — became the administration’s target. Kelly is suing Hegseth for both constitutional and statutory violations, including infringement on his freedom of speech.  “It appears that never in our nation’s history has the Executive Branch imposed military sanctions on a Member…

Sky York Journal National outrage continues to escalate over the Trump administration’s violent immigration crackdown. Over the past two days, protesters urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol to leave their cities took to the streets from Minneapolis and Chicago to Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; New York; Oakland and San Diego, California. Many of the demonstrators’ signs memorialized Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mom and poet who was shot in the face by an ICE officer on Wednesday while attempting to drive away from several ICE agents parked on her block. Top Trump officials have smeared Good…

Sky York Journal More than 2,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are on the ground in Minnesota in what President Donald Trump’s administration officials have called the “largest immigration operation ever.” Deployed just days ago by Trump, one agent has already shot and killed a person and federal law enforcement has deployed tear gas and pepper spray against protesters. The massive operation and subsequent violence in Minneapolis comes against the backdrop of Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he’s freezing $10 billion in federal funds approved by Congress for child welfare programs, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, foster care, and…

Sky York Journal This story was originally reported by Mariel Padilla of The 19th. Meet Mariel and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. The social media platform X has been flooded with AI-generated sexualized images of women and children in recent weeks — months before a new law aiming to ban the spread of nonconsensual intimate imagery goes into effect. Elon Musk, the owner of X, announced a new feature with a post on Christmas Eve encouraging users to try editing images and videos with Grok, the app’s chatbot. Then, a few weeks later, as the…

Sky York Journal After a masked federal ICE agent shot and killed a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday, Trump administration officials began to blame her for her own death. At least three videos have appeared online that purport to document the shooting. In the videos, a maroon SUV reverses and then turns as three men appear to surround the car. One of them approaches and says, “get out of the fucking car,” as the car begins to reverse; another moves towards the front of the car. The car then appears to try to drive away from the scene. The agent who…

Sky York Journal The White House marked the fifth anniversary of the Capitol attack by posting a stunning display of alternate history on its official website.  A new page entitled “January 6: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy” appeared on WhiteHouse.gov on Tuesday. It was filled with many of the blatantly false narratives President Trump and his allies have promoted in the years since thousands of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building in an effort to prevent the certification of his loss in the 2020 election. But along with the more standard, now-familiar January 6 denialism, the White…