This week’s Newsish didn’t unfold the way I expected. I sat down with a full list of stories to cover, but one story — an ICE agent killing a woman in Minnesota — refused to be just another headline. This episode stays with that story and the questions it raises: about repeated patterns of force, about official narratives that contradict what we can see for ourselves, and about what it does to us when we’re asked to accept those contradictions as normal.

This is not a comprehensive news roundup. It’s a deliberate pause to examine how power is exercised, how it’s justified, and why moments like this leave so many of us feeling exhausted, frustrated, and unsure how to respond.