pour toujours

Benjamin Biolay - Little Darlin' (2003)

Because there are also good souls in America

Renée Nicole Good was a fatal victim of ICE brutality*. Minutes earlier, she had dropped her 6-year-old son off at school.
John Fogerty is helping Renée's son in multiple ways.

Here's John Fogerty on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2025 playing his first great hit, Proud Mary, in Tiny Desk Concert - NPR session, and explaining how he wrote it in 1968.


*ICE illegal and abusive actions include:
- Illegal actions or misconduct by officers violating citizens' rights and public trust, such as excessive force, false arrest, and corruption. It includes, but is not limited to, coercion, sexual misconduct, racial profiling, and unlawful searches. These acts often breach constitutional protections.
- Excessive Force/Brutality: Unwarranted violence, including physical beatings, improper takedowns, and use of deadly force.
- False Arrest/Imprisonment: Detaining individuals without probable cause or legal justification.
- Unlawful Search and Seizure: Conducting searches, entering homes, or seizing property without a warrant or legal justification.
- Psychological/Verbal Abuse: Intimidation, harassment, mockery, or excessive stops.

Because there are also nice people in America

Deerhunter, "Cover Me /Agoraphobia" (2008) live 2009 and "Desire Lines" (2010) live 2018.

Because there are also heroes in America

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis


Through the winter’s ice and cold . Down Nicollet Avenue . A city aflame fought fire and ice ‘Neath an occupier’s boots . King Trump’s private army from the DHS Guns belted to their coats . Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law . Or so their story goes . Against smoke and rubber bullets . By the dawn’s early light . Citizens stood for justice . Their voices ringing through the night . And there were bloody footprints . Where mercy should have stood . And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets . Alex Pretti and Renee Good .
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice . Singing through the bloody mist . We’ll take our stand for this land . And the stranger in our midst . Here in our home they killed and roamed . In the winter of ’26 . We’ll remember the names of those who died . On the streets of Minneapolis .
Trump’s federal thugs beat up on . His face and his chest . Then we heard the gunshots . And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead . Their claim was self defense, sir . Just don’t believe your eyes . It’s our blood and bones . And these whistles and phones . Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies .
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice . Crying through the bloody mist . We’ll remember the names of those who died . On the streets of Minneapolis .
Now they say they’re here to uphold the law . But they trample on our rights . If your skin is black or brown my friend . You can be questioned or deported on sight .
In chants of ICE out now . Our city’s heart and soul persists . Through broken glass and bloody tears . On the streets of Minneapolis .
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice . Singing through the bloody mist . Here in our home they killed and roamed . In the winter of ’26 . We’ll take our stand for this land . And the stranger in our midst . We’ll remember the names of those who died . On the streets of Minneapolis . We’ll remember the names of those who died . On the streets of Minneapolis .

Because there are also some good monsters in America

Joseph Donald Mascis Jr and Dinosaur Jr, "Out There". 1992 recording and 2013 live performance.