Saying 2026 has gotten off to a rough start would be an understatement.

Every day brings a new level of chaos and uncertainty. Thought 2025 was bad? Strap in. Then you realize it’s only day 11.

The events that took place on January 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota — where Renee Nichole Good was murdered (let’s call it what it is) — shook most of the country to its core. I say most, because I do not understand what happened to the rest.

You know… the same people who the day before were posting, “Remember Ashli Babbitt?”

Ashli Babbitt, who on January 6, 2021, stormed the Capitol under the pretense that the 2020 election was stolen. That day, she refused to comply with orders from the Capitol Police and was shot while crawling through a window where, just feet away, elected members of Congress were being evacuated.

They called her shooting a senseless tragedy.

Fast forward five years, and the very same people are saying Renee should have complied — to a group of masked thugs with no badges and guns who tried to remove her from her vehicle.

These same thugs work for an agency whose job it is to round up undocumented immigrants.

(We’ll save the immigration issue for another time.)

How can you memorialize Ashli but demonize Renee?

Isn’t your whole personality “Don’t Tread on Me”?

And you have your gun fetish for fear that a tyrannical government is coming for you?

Explain this to me.

I started this Substack today because I went on Instagram and saw something I couldn’t ignore. Someone I should have blocked years ago posted a meme of Wilson — the volleyball from Cast Away — with Tom Hanks’ bloody handprint face. You can picture it. The meme read:

“Leaked photo from inside Renee’s car.”

I couldn’t believe I once called this person a friend.

I didn’t write anything back. I just clicked unfollow.

Good riddance — and I wish you the life you deserve.

Strangely enough, our fallout was not that he voted for Trump.

The fallout was when Epstein died and he posted the typical “Clinton was behind it” meme, and I joked, “What if Clinton and Trump were in on it together?”

He promptly told me to F off, and that was the end of a 14-year friendship.

The moral to this story is: look at what one man has done to this country — and how he’s held a mirror up to all of us. The reflection is either good or bad. It brought out the best and the worst of us.

There is no talking anymore.

There is no common ground.

And we live in two separate realities. We really do.

I do not think there is a point of return at this point.

January 7 validated that.

— MJ