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By Ann Rostow—
And So Begins Another Year at SCOTUS
On Tuesday morning, January 13, 2026, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging laws against transgender athletes. One case involved a woman named Lindsay Hecox, who was barred from the Boise State University track team in 2019 after the state of Idaho passed a b...
Local activists Brad Newsham and Travis Van Brasch on January 10 organized a massive human banner at Ocean Beach in San Francisco that read, in all caps, “IT WAS MURDER – ICE OUT!” and included an American flag that rotated upside down, signifying distress and danger. The words were etched into the sand in 100-foot letters before many of the participants arrived by 11:30 ...
PHOTO BY JERRY PARMER
Demonstrators gathered at Splash Pad Park in Oakland on January 11, 2026, as part of the ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action following the shooting of Renée Nicole Good by an ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent in Minneapolis. San Francisco Bay Times contributing photographer Jerome Parmer, who previously documented the injury...
Renée Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent on January 7, 2026, sparking nationwide protests, was an award-winning poet, musician, and writer. In recent years, she was dedicated to being a stay-at-home parent to her 6-year-old son with her wife Rebecca “Becca” Good. From a previous marriage she also had two older children, ages 12 and 14, who now live with ...
Data on the number of people who have died in recent years as a result of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions widely varies, depending on the source, questions over how the individuals died, and more. For example, some people in ICE custody have died as a result of heart failure and stroke, which were preceded by earlier reported conditions. ICE maintai...
