Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials.  MRC analysts pored through every report about the situation in Minneapolis which aired on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News, from January 7 through January 17, 2026. We found a total of 121 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage devoted to the topic, of which a whopping 93 percent was negative toward federal immigration officials.   SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ABC, CBS, and NBC’s flagship evening newscasts all hammered ICE with more than 90% negative coverage (91% negative on ABC and NBC, 96% negative on CBS). Just 1.6% of of the Minneapolis-related coverage included any mention of the crimes committed by the illegal aliens whom ICE agents were there to apprehend to begin with. CBS never explicitly admitted that Nicole Good hit agent Jonathan Ross with her car moments before he fired at her. ABC and NBC did so only once each.    NETWORKS FOUND ICE AGENT ROSS GUILTY OF 'MURDER' To determine the skew of the coverage, analysts examined the selection of sound bites about the situation in Minneapolis that each network chose to air. On CBS, 26 of the 27 sound bites were critical of (or, more often, outright hostile toward) ICE. Both ABC and NBC aired 21 such sound bites, versus only two that were positive.  For example on January 14, ABC eagerly highlighted prolific podcaster Joe Rogan’s criticism of the federal government: “Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?” One of the few quotes that favored ICE actually came from the father of Renee Good’s ex-husband on January 13’s NBC Nightly News, when he said of her fatal encounter with officer Ross: “The car did hit him.” But not even the 93-percent hostility toward federal immigration officials tells the full story of just how stilted the coverage was on the evening newscasts. On January 12, for example, CBS correspondent Nicole Sganga accused ICE agent Jonathan Ross of murdering Nicole Good: DHS this weekend released a video showing the minutes leading up to the murder of Renee Good. She and others are heard honking car horns. Trump administration officials claim she intended to ram ICE agents before she was shot. CBS’s framing of Renee Good’s death was particularly mendacious. While the network repeatedly played the footage from officer Ross’s phone which indisputably showed Good hitting him with her car, not one journalist ever stated as fact that Good’s vehicle had indeed struck Ross. Even anchor Tony Dokoupil only ever framed it as something the Trump administration was claiming. All three networks did mention that Ross reportedly had been sent to the hospital for internal bleeding after the incident. However, each did so only once.   ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME WAS VIRTUALLY ABSENT FROM COVERAGE Despite the melee in Minneapolis having resulted from a dispute over immigration enforcement, the crimes committed by the detained illegal aliens barely ever came up in the broadcast coverage.  ABC spent a mere 12 seconds on the illegal aliens’ malfeasance, which amounted to just half a percent of their 2290 seconds of coverage.  The situation was virtually identical on CBS: just 16 seconds, or 0.6 percent of their 2633 seconds spent covering Minneapolis. NBC paid the topic the most attention by far: 89 seconds (4% of their 2363-second total), spread across seven different mentions. NBC was also the only network to actually run a graphic detailing some of the alleged crimes perpetrated by the illegal aliens ICE agents had apprehended. On January 12, correspondent Maggie Vespa reported: “DHS touting the work of federal officers in Minneapolis the last few days, saying they’ve arrested criminal suspects in the U.S. illegally, including with convictions for sexual assault of a child, rape of a child, homicide, and manslaughter.” Vespa’s report that evening also included a sound bite of White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt further detailing the rap sheets of several detainees.

Minnesota citizens and local officials outside Minneapolis say they don’t want the crime and chaos taking place in Minneapolis and that they do support the law enforcement work of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. “We don’t want to be like Minneapolis,” St. Cloud City Council Member Scott Brodeen declared last week in comments supporting ICE, The Minnesota Star-Tribune reported Sunday: “I don’t want bad stuff to happen here in St. Cloud that could be avoided.” …. “Just let [ICE] do their jobs and we’ll remain safe as a community.” “Leaders and residents from southwest Minnesota up to the Iron Range have shared similar thoughts about letting ICE complete its job,” The Star-Tribune reports, noting that the opinions expressed by Minnesotans “in small-town bars, cafes and other gathering spots across the state” reject those voiced by anti-ICE residents in metropolitan areas of the state. Indeed, the mayor of Cold Spring, Dave Heinen, says he’d welcome ICE raids of a local poultry processing plant, if they targeting violent criminals, because he wants his friends and relatives who work there to be safe. Likewise, St. Louis County Commissioner Keith Nelson says it’s important to enforce the law and maintain the nation’s borders. What’s more, he says, the people in his community “trust the system” and – unlike Minnesotans in anti-ICE areas of the state – comply with law enforcement officers. “I get the sense that, in other communities, that’s not how it’s working right now and that’s disturbing,” the commissioner observed. “When an officer of any kind, or an ICE agent, walks up to you and tells you to do something, you’re supposed to listen,” a business owner in Sturgeon Lake agreed in comments to the Star-Tribune, characterizing Minnesota’s anti-ICE protesters as “agitators” who are interfering with legitimate law enforcement efforts.

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings served as further proof of what we found earlier this month about their evening counterpart (the CBS Evening News), which is they’ve been the strongest in covering the widespread Somali fraud scandal in Minneapolis. This time, CBS News Minnesota’s Jonah Kaplan interviewed Aimee Bock, the leader of the infamous group Feeding Our Future, as she awaits possibly decades behind bars for her role in a quarter-billion dollar scheme. “Now to a CBS News exclusive interview with the woman who prosecutors say it was the mastermind of the biggest Covid-era fraud scheme. 44-year-old Aimee Bock is her name. She’s not part of the Somali community. Last year, she was convicted of orchestrating a $250 million plot to defraud government program to feed hungry kids,” declared co-host Gayle King in cuing Kaplan. Kaplan began by pointing out “there’s been so much focus on the Somali community here in Minnesota because of the widespread fraud and most of the suspects charged and convicted in the schemes, they are from the Somali community, but...the mastermind, according to prosecutors, federal prosecutors, she is not Somali.” WATCH: ‘CBS Mornings’ and @WCCO’s @JonahPKaplan scored an exclusive, jailhouse interview with Aimee Bock, the woman federal prosecutors have said was the ringleader of Feeding Our Future, one of the so-called charities at the center of the Somali fraud scheme in Minnesota… pic.twitter.com/w4ajvkdOcT — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 20, 2026 Notice how Kaplan and King did not dispute the fraud took place or sought to downplay its severity. Instead, they let the crimes speak for themselves. Kaplan stated the obvious that “it is rare for someone to speak to us in federal custody, but she expressed some regrets and defended her actions” in the one-hour he was allotted with her. “Until she was arrested in 2022, Bock led Feeding Our Future, the now-infamous nonprofit, signed up restaurants and caterers, many from Minnesota’s large Somali community, to receive taxpayer money for providing meals to children in need,” Kaplan explained, adding “prosecutors said it turned into something else, the nation’s largest Covid-era fraud with Bock as the mastermind.” Kaplan asked her if she’s “the mastermind of the scheme” to which Bock was unrepentant: “Absolutely not. I believe in accountability. If I had done this, I would have pled guilty. I wouldn’t have gone to trial. I wouldn’t have put my children and my family through what we’ve been through. I have lost everything.” Kaplan acknowledged having received from her counsel “video showing stacks of food,” but quickly countered “prosecutors say Bock and the businesses she recruited stole tens of millions of federal dollars, spending it on luxury cars, real estate ventures, and vacations.” The only time Bock expressed regret was a vague statement that she wishes she “could go back and do things differently, stop things, catch things,” but otherwise did “everything...to protect the program.” Then came the part of the tale when investigators were allegedly intimidated from investigating fraud because the race card was played. Despite documents having shown Bock threatened the state with playing the race card against Somalis, Bock told Kaplan it was “preposterous” to think they were scared off. That’s despite the fact that Kaplan found video of her being celebrated by a room of Somalis and said she had been labeled by one as their Robin Hood (click “expand”): KAPLAN: But in 2021, Bock sued the state agency that oversaw the meal program, alleging its scrutiny of Somali applicants was “discriminatory.” [TO BOCK] How do you think the state officials took that? BOCK: Nobody wants to be labeled as being racist. KAPLAN: Minnesota officials told a state watchdog “the threat of legal consequences and negative media attention” intimidated them into easing off. BOCK: The notion that a state government is paralyzed and has to allow this level of fraud because they were afraid of what I might do in a lawsuit is preposterous. SOMALI COMMUNITY LEADER [date N/A]: Welcome, Aimee Bock! KAPLAN: In Minnesota’s large Somali community, one leader called her a modern day robin hood. BOCK [date N/A]: The community deserves this, the children need this. Another remarkable exchanged ensued when Kaplan told viewers Feeding Our Future’s meal claims exploded in just two years from $3.4 million to “nearly $200 million.” When Kaplan asked her “how did you not see that as major red flags,” Bock scoffed: “We relied on the state. We told the state, this site is going to operate at this address, this day, this time, and this number of children. The state would then tell us that’s approved.” Bock also denied being “a mob boss” and downplayed accepting any bribes or gifts meant to pay for meals (click “expand”): KAPLAN: Prosecutors also accuse Bock of collecting bribes and kickbacks from meal site operators. At trial, they revealed text messages where she compared Feeding Our Future to the mob. [TO BOCK] Are you a mob boss? BOCK: Absolutely not, no. KAPLAN [TO BOCK]: Were you personally benefiting from any of it? BOCK: I collected my salary and that is all that was collected. KAPLAN [TO BOCK]: Didn’t federal agents find gold jewelry, cash in your closet? BOCK: They found minimal jewelry. I believe it was, like, two pair of earrings, a bracelet, a watch. There was some cash there. KAPLAN: At trial, Bock took the stand, but the jury didn’t buy her story. Within hours, they convicted her on all counts. Last month, a judge ordered her to forfeit $5 million from the fraud. Minnesota officials have defended their actions, noting that it was state employees who first contacted the FBI about implications in the fraud scheme. Kaplan wrapped by noting how, just among those connected to Feeding Our Future, “78 defendants...have been charged, and more than 60 pleaded guilty or convicted at trial” with Bock “awaiting sentencing and she faces decades in prison.” Explanatory, substantive, straight-forward, and not produced anywhere else in network TV news. These are the kinds of stories that, if Bari Weiss is to turn CBS News around and appeal to all Americans, she’s going to need more of in the future. To see the relevant CBS transcript from January 20, click here.

On Monday’s edition of The View, to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, actress Pam Grier was teed up by co-host Sunny Hostin to recall the racism she experienced while growing up in Columbus, Ohio in the 1950s. According to her, her mom would often have to get her and her siblings to avert their eyes lest they see a body hanging from a tree. But according to the Ohio Lynching Victims Memorial, the last lynching was in 1911. Other details about the story were questionable as well. Fresh from defending discrimination against white people earlier in the show, Hostin teed up Grier to share her experiences with racism, specifically during her time in Columbus, Ohio: But let me ask you this: because you've been the first so many times, but you were the first black woman on the cover of Ms. magazine in 1975. You paved the way for black female representation in the stunt industry as well. But before breaking all of those barriers in Hollywood and other places, you faced a lot of racism growing up in Columbus, Ohio. How did that shape you? Grier responded by initially recalling how, in her early life, her dad was in the military and would have to walk to the base because of segregation. Her story quickly shifted to seemingly recounting how her mother would try to protect her and her siblings from seeing people hanging in trees: And sometimes we would go from, you know, tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment, my brother and I, my mom, with bags. And my mom would go, “don't look, don't look, don't look.” She’d pull us away because there's someone hanging from a tree. And they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left. And it triggers me today to see that a voice can be silenced. And if a white family supported a black, they're going to get burned down or killed or lynched as well.   Pam Grier recalls her mom trying to protect her from seeing lynched bodies hanging to trees in Columbus, Ohio. She noted that white families would also be lynched for supporting black families: "My mom would go, 'don't look, don't look, don't look,' and she would pull us away… pic.twitter.com/UG6AaZfy1q — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 19, 2026   But something wasn’t right with her story. Grier was born on May 26, 1949. The Ohio Lynching Victims Memorial documented the last lynching as June 27, 1911 (the victim’s name was not reported). The kicker? It occurred in Cleveland. Despite the facts, Grier’s dubious claims were met with approval from Hostin and moderator Whoopi Goldberg. Faux conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin didn’t offer any push back, just a quick pivot to another topic: GOLDBERG: Yeah. HOSITN: Yeah. FARAH GRIFFIN: Pam, you’ve done too many extraordinary things to highlight. Curiously, Hostin’s tee up may have been wrong too. According to Grier’s Wikipedia page, she wasn’t born in Columbus, Ohio, but rather Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The North Carolina Lynching Victims Memorial listed the last lynching in her town as December 24, 1890. In both instance, Grier would have to be over 100 years old. Her Wiki page also noted that a few years after she was born, Grier’s family moved to England with her father’s Air Force reassignment, then to California, and then Denver. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View January 19, 2026 11:37:33 a.m. Eastern (…) SUNNY HOSTIN: But let me ask you this: because you've been the first so many times, but you were the first black woman on the cover of Ms. magazine in 1975. You paved the way for black female representation in the stunt industry as well. But before breaking all of those barriers in Hollywood and other places, you faced a lot of racism growing up in Columbus, Ohio. How did that shape you? PAM GRIER: Whoo. Well, the military wouldn't allow black families to live on the base so you had to live in an apartment and you couldn't take a bus, you couldn't afford a car, you walked. Your dads walked to the base. Whoo. And sometimes we would go from, you know, tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment, my brother and I, my mom, with bags. And my mom would go, “don't look, don't look, don't look.” She’d pull us away because there's someone hanging from a tree. And they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left. And it triggers me today to see that a voice can be silenced. And if a white family supported a black, they're going to get burned down or killed or lynched as well. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah. HOSITN: Yeah. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Pam, you’ve done too many extraordinary things to highlight. (…)

"There's more to life than being really, really, really ridiculously good looking." ---Derek Zoolander So how far has the quality of writing at Atlantic magazine declined due to their TDS having become so overwhelming that they will stoop to any low in a pathetic attempt to smear those who support President Donald Trump? Well, the standards  at that periodical have plunged so far that they are now even trying to link a fringe wacko group  with MAGA. Very  few people have ever heard of something called "Looksmaxxing" yet it is now being presented as a major movement of our era according to the latest smear campaign posing as an article on Monday by Thomas Chatterton Williams in "‘Looksmaxxing’ in the Age of Trump." What exactly is "Looksmaxxing?" You probably don't want to know but for the morbidly curious, the first paragraph of the story provides a rather cringey answer of sorts: The so-called looksmaxxing movement is narcissistic, cruel, racist, shot through with social Darwinism, and proudly anti-compassion. As the name suggests, looksmaxxers share a monomaniacal commitment to improving their physical appearance. They trade stories of breaking their legs in order to gain extra inches, “bonesmashing” their faces with hammers to heighten their cheekbones, injecting steroids and testosterone to inflate their muscles, and even smoking crystal meth to suppress their appetite. If you had to pick a single corner of the internet that best captures the vices of the Trump era, you couldn’t beat the looksmaxxers. Although Williams implies that Looksmaxxing is somehow connected to Trump supporters, he admits that its "newest star" supports Gavin Newsom over JD Vance for president in 2028 not for any political reasons but simply because he thinks Newsom looks better: Although many looksmaxxers support Donald Trump, they defy neat political classification. The community is simply too nihilistic. Its newest star, Braden Peters, made this clear during a recent podcast interview with the conservative commentator Michael Knowles, in which the two discussed a potential 2028 presidential contest between California Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President J. D. Vance. Peters said he disagrees with Newsom’s politics, but would vote for the governor anyway because he’s more handsome—or, in the group’s parlance, he “mogs” Vance. The governor is a “Chad” and the vice president is “subhuman,” Peters explained to Knowles, who was gobsmacked. And anybody who thinks this Braden Peters character is incredibly shallow, his beyond bizarre emphasis on looks has been echoed by another fringe character whom many in the media have also attempted to link to Trump supporters, namely Nick Fuentes. That self described "incel" who has openly admitted to having fantasies about raping men, is every bit as critical of Vance's looks as Peters: The looksmaxxing movement—ideologically incoherent but rife with juvenile racism—echoes the ongoing Groyperization of the American right. This is particularly evident in the growing antagonism that certain factions express toward Vance. Fuentes, for example, sounded like a looksmaxxer himself when he criticized the vice president last year. “He’s visibly obese and very ugly. He’s got a fat face, no jawline, no chin,” Fuentes said, before shifting to a more familiar topic for him: “His wife and kids are not white!” As Willams provides more stomach-churning details about Looksmaxxing, the readers will have to keep reminding themselves that this information is being published in the once vaunted Atlantic magazine which has now managed to turn itself into a laughingstock with writing such as this: Looksmaxxing grew out of the online culture of “incels,” or involuntary celibates, a term that emerged in the 2010s. United by their resentment of women, incels tend to see attractiveness as a straightforward function of genetics—millimeters, symmetry, skin color—and therefore out of their control. Looksmaxxers hold a similarly superficial view of beauty as a kind of rigid mathematics with a single, knowable solution. But they believe that this makes it malleable: One can “ascend” to a higher plane of attractiveness with enough money, effort, and perhaps the willingness to dabble with crystal meth. And remember, Williams really really wants you to believe that young Trump supporters are supposedly attracted to this level of sick. Please strive for at least a minimal amount of credibility in your future smear stories.