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NYT Column Mocks Right's 'Wine Mom' Panic as ICE Fallout Deepens

The column highlights how alarmist framing follows the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Good.

Overview

  • Fox News and PJ Media cast “organized gangs of wine moms” as a domestic threat deploying “antifa tactics” against ICE.
  • New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg ridicules the narrative as contrived and misogynistic, contending it is being used to justify hard-line ICE operations in Minneapolis.
  • She highlights burgeoning neighborhood ICE watch efforts and civic mobilization by middle-class women in Minnesota and other cities.
  • An Economist/YouGov poll cited in her column found most Americans watched the shooting videos and only 30 percent judged the killing justified, with a plurality saying ICE makes cities less safe.
  • Goldberg reports that DOJ pressure for a criminal probe of Becca Good prompted six federal prosecutors to resign, as DHS details a separate arrest in which an agent was struck with household tools before shooting a suspect and protesters later threw fireworks, and President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act.