No one with a shred of conscience of basic decency will forget the ICE execution of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 7, 2026 or the subsequent act against Alex Pretti in the same city on January 24. Nor the demented and uncreative words of Good’s “alleged” killer, “Fuckin’ bitch” and its gross dehumanization of a person who was simply trying to leave an area where the President’s de facto private army was present in force while occupying a city on the pretext of a manufactured crisis and operating outside even the loosest interpretations of the operational mandate of ICE and CBP. Washington DC-based songwriter Erin Frisby, clearly deeply affected by the incident, wrote a song taking those words tossed at Good after her extrajudicial murder as a title. Frisby’s voice is sensitive and vulnerable yet strong in its conviction as she sings her words and reclaims the concept as a symbol of everything feared by fascists and misogynists (a lot of overlap there) who project their insecurity everywhere in acts of violence of various kinds and lately finding a state-sanctioned vehicle for that with joining ICE with little training or qualifications. Frisby’s guitar work is spare but keeps the rhythm and defiant tenor of the song going and helps render the impassioned words immediately accessible. Folk music after the 60s can often be simply a creative exercise and fine on its own, Frisby with this song imbues the style with the fiery and pointed yet emotionally nuanced power of something from back when folk music was the format of a lot of protest music. Watch the video for “F*cking Bitch” on YouTube and follow Erin Frisby at the links below.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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