Feds Block State Probe of Minnesota ICE Shooting, FEMA Gutted

In this episode of A World Gone Mad, I’m talking about what happens when accountability starts to quietly slip away and the public is told to accept official answers without real scrutiny. 

Recent developments suggest that something fundamental’s shifting, and not in a reassuring direction.

I begin with the shooting in Minnesota, where Renée Nicole Good was killed during a federal immigration enforcement action and serious questions are being raised about who’s allowed to investigate what happened. 

The response from authorities has triggered concerns about oversight, jurisdiction, and how quickly control of a deadly incident can be locked down.

This isn’t a conversation about political sides or policy slogans. It’s about process, authority, and what it means when transparency narrows instead of expands after someone’s killed.

I then turn to Washington and growing alarm over the future of FEMA, the agency tasked with responding when disasters strike. 

Behind-the-scenes decisions could significantly alter how prepared the country is when the next emergency hits.

When disaster response is treated as a budget line instead of a lifeline, the consequences don’t show up immediately, but they always show up eventually. Delays, gaps, and failures tend to surface at the worst possible moment.

This episode looks at how power, oversight, and preparedness intersect, and why it matters when systems designed to protect the public begin to weaken at the same time.

I also talked about the major financial upheaval that my girlfriend and I are going through since this last Friday.

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Chapters

• 0:00 A Personal Crisis And Apology
• 2:03 ICE Shooting In Minnesota
• 6:05 Blocked Oversight And Rushed Narratives
• 9:55 Unlawful Acting U.S. Attorney Ruling

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

It's 2026 in America, and power is still being exercised without responsibility. Not understanding the lives of everyday people, not accountable to consequences, just power protecting itself and money being siphoned upward while the rest of the country absorbs the stress. People are being crushed every day. Nobody in power gives a damn. And if this looks like stupidity running the country, it's because that's what corruption looks like when it doesn't even bother pretending anymore. And today, that reality shows up in what just happened and why it matters.

unknown: 0:46

This is a world bone mad, mad.

SPEAKER_00: 0:51

Hello, I'm Jeff Allen Wolf, and this is a World Gone Mad. Before I begin the show, I want to apologize to the listeners. There was no Friday episode. And some of you probably already know this. A lot of you may not, but due to a major family emergency on Friday morning, I didn't have the mindset or the energy to record a show. Put simply, my better half unexpectedly was terminated from a job she had for 12 years. So we find ourselves in a position of scrambling. A lot of you may have or are going through this. I know that, so I'm not saying woe is me. But we are in a heavily stressful situation and both of us are trying to figure things out. There's a link in the description of where you find my podcast that explains fully what happened. I'll leave it at that. And again, apologize to the listeners for No Friday Show. Here we go, what's happened in the last few days? Let's talk about Minnesota and an ice shooting that should be setting off sirens everywhere. Because this isn't some bureaucratic mishap or a foggy situation that needs time to breathe. A civilian is dead, the government closed ranks immediately, and the people asking questions are being told to step aside. A woman named Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent during an immigration enforcement action in Minnesota. She was 37 years old. She's not a statistic, she's not collateral damage, and she's definitely not a talking point. She was alive, and now she's not, because a federal agent used lethal force. And here's where the story stops being disturbing and starts being enraging. Minnesota officials say they were blocked from investigating what happened. Let me repeat that. Minnesota officials say they were blocked from investigating what happened to her. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says the FBI stepped in, took control of the case, and forced state investigators to withdraw. The state where this happened was told it doesn't get to fully investigate a death that occurred inside its own borders. Governor Tim Walls says Minnesota must be part of the investigation. That shouldn't even need to be said. That's not politics. That's basic accountability. When someone is killed by law enforcement, oversight is supposed to widen, not shrink. Instead, it narrowed immediately. Now comes the part where the mask slips completely. Instead of waiting for facts, instead of letting investigators do their jobs, Vice President J.D. Vance went in front of cameras and blamed the far left, saying the killing was a tragedy of this woman's own making. How low can we sink? No investigation finished, no public evidence, just a verdict delivered from a podium, like it was already settled. That's not leadership, that's damage control. This is the sequence every time. Take control of the investigation, push out independent oversight, then rush out a narrative so fast that by the time the facts come out, nobody's listening anymore. And if you question any of it, congratulations, you're now the problem. If this were a local police department, there'd be body camera footage, civilian review boards, and endless press conferences. But because this is federal immigration enforcement, suddenly transparency is inconvenient and accountability is negotiable. This isn't about left versus right. It isn't about immigration policy slogans. It's about whether federal law enforcement gets to operate above state oversight when someone ends up dead. Because once that becomes normal, once states can be sidelined and conclusions can be announced before facts are known, accountability isn't just weakened, it's gone. And when accountability disappears, the next case gets easier to bury, the next death gets easier to justify. And the public's left staring at a wall of official statements that all say the same thing. Trust us, we investigated ourselves. Okay, let's slow this next story down for one second, because this story matters more than it sounds at first blush. And the implications are ugly as hell if you actually follow them through. A federal judge just ruled that the so-called acting U.S. attorney investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James was never lawfully in the job in the first place. Sound familiar, everyone? Think James Comey. His name is John A. Sarconi III, and the court found that his appointment blew straight past the legal time limit allowed for acting U.S. attorneys. Not bent the rules, not stretched them, violated the rules. Which means every single subpoena this man issued in that investigation just got tossed in the trash. Gone. Void. As if they never existed. That's not a technical hiccup, everyone. That's a full procedural faceplant. When a judge throws out your subpoenas, the court is saying you didn't just screw up the paperwork. You didn't have the authority to be doing any of this at all. And now the Department of Justice would have to start completely over with a properly appointed prosecutor if they want to keep digging against Letitia James. New paperwork, new signatures, new clock, new scrutiny, everything reset. Now let's talk about why this smells, because it absolutely does. This investigation wasn't happening in a vacuum. Letitia James is the same attorney general who has spent years going after Donald Trump and his business empire. So when an investigation targeting her turns out to be run by someone who legally shouldn't have been in the chair, that's not just embarrassing. That's corrosive. It feeds exactly the kind of distrust people already have about political weaponization of the justice system. And here's the part that should make your blood pressure spike. The rules for acting U.S. attorneys exist for a reason. They're there to prevent exactly this kind of end run around accountability where someone sits in an acting role indefinitely without Senate confirmation, without proper oversight, and without democratic legitimacy. The law puts a clock on it. The clock ran out, and they kept going anyway. So every time you hear someone shrug this off as a paperwork issue, understand what they're really saying. They're saying it's fine for prosecutors to operate without lawful authority as long as they're aiming at the right political target. That's not law and order. That's banana republic logic with a better suit. This also puts the DOJ in an impossible position. If they restart the investigation, it looks political all over again, which it is. If they walk away, it looks like the whole thing was a fishing expedition that blew up under judicial scrutiny. Either way, the damage is already done because a federal judge just told the country that the government didn't follow its own rules when it mattered. This isn't about defending Letitia James. This is about defending the idea that if the state is going to investigate someone, it damn well has to do it legally. Authority matters, process matters, and when the government cuts corners, it doesn't just weaken a case, it weakens trust in the entire system. That's the story. Clean, sharp, and way more serious than the people involved would like to admit. Alright, let's talk about FEMA. Yes, FEMA, the agency that shows up when your house is underwater, when your town is on fire, when the roof is gone, the power's out, and the government suddenly remembers you exist. FEMA, because leaked emails now show the Department of Homeland Security is planning deep cuts to FEMA's disaster response workforce. Not trimming fat, not restructuring paper pushers. We're talking thousands of real people whose literal job is showing up when everything's gone to hell. More than 4,000 core emergency responders could be cut. Thousands more surge staff, too. And here's the part that should make your stomach drop. Some of these cuts have already started quietly. No announcement, no press conference, supervisors finding out after the fact that people are just gone. That's not reform. That's sabotage with a spreadsheet. Let's be clear about what FEMA does because politicians love pretending it's abstract. FEMA isn't a theory. FEMA is hurricanes ripping roofs off houses. FEMA is wildfires turning neighborhoods into ash. FEMA is floods, tornadoes, heat disasters, ice storms, climate chaos that's not slowing down for anyone's ideology. When FEMA shows up late or understaffed, people die. That's not dramatic. That's math. And what makes this even more insane is that disasters are getting worse, not better. Bigger storms, hotter fires, more frequent flooding, entire regions being hit over and over again. So what's the response from Washington? Cut the people who respond to these disasters. That's like watching a building catch fire and saying, you know what we really don't need right now? Firefighters. Critics are already warning this could cripple FEMA's ability to respond when the next disaster hits. Not if, when. And the next one won't politely wait until Congress figures its shit out. This isn't about efficiency, this is about priorities. We always find money for the Pentagon. We always find money for surveillance. We always find money for tax cuts and contractors and consultants who never step foot in a disaster zone. But the people who show up when your kid is sleeping in a car because your house is gone, those people are apparently expendable. So these cuts are being planned behind closed doors slowly, bureaucratically, by the time the public notices, the people are already gone, and the next disaster is already unfolding. This isn't politics. This is basic competence. If your government can't respond to emergencies, then what the hell is it even for? Because when the sirens go off and the water starts rising, nobody's asking what party FEMA belongs to. They're asking one thing. Is anyone coming? And right now, Washington's answer looks like maybe not. Alright, I'm not going to give you my email or voicemail because you have it. And I switched from live TikTok shows to live YouTube. But because of the family emergency I'm going through that I mentioned at the start of the podcast, I don't know if I'm starting back up on YouTube Live again. Everything, including this podcast, is on a tenuous hold. To the handful of you that asked, I did post a link in my description where you find my podcast on how you can help. And a shout out to one listener, Linda. Thank you for looking at the link and helping. I'm Jeff Fallon Wolf. This is a world gone mad. I'm taking names and I'm holding these people accountable. Everyone, lock in. Keep alert, remain skeptical, but most of all, stay hopeful.

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There is chaos in the world.

SPEAKER_01: 14:26

Can't you see? And we need to stand up and preserve our democracy. This is a land. This is a land of