January 10, 2026
MarkBernstein.org
 

Murder

The murder of Renee Nichole Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who remains at large, has upset me deeply. It has been hard to work. Objectively, I’ve shipped a Tinderbox backstage release with some fairly ambitious new fixes, straightened out a tricky support issue on Tinderbox actions, made some progress on AI fiction and paid the mid-month bills. Still, it feels like I can do nothing but Twitter, Facebook, and Chess.com.

Half the country thinks this is just fine. The President, the Vice President, Kristi Noem, Robbie George: she had it coming. The local Dems: a collective shrug, not even a meeting.

I think that, if you believe this is OK, I do not want to break bread with you, I do not want to meet with you, I do not want to know you, and I do not want to be governed by you—not even if you have the votes.

This happened before, in 1775-1776 and again 1859-1860. I think disunion may be the only resolution.