Fox News has zeroed in on the activist group that’s turning downtown Minneapolis into a war zone: roving groups of wine moms.
A week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old mother Renee Good in Minneapolis, protesters continue to face off against ICE officers conducting operations in the Twin Cities.
The worst of the bunch, apparently, are the Midwestern pinot grigio moms, who Fox says aren’t being so Minnesota nice: “Deluded wine moms are committing deadly crimes, not simply ‘protesting,’” the news org wrote in an opinion headline this week.
“What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is not civil disobedience. It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime,” columnist Davis Marcus wrote in the piece.
It’s a weird group to vilify, but it tracks. As journalist Judah Grunstein joked on Bluesky on Thursday, “The pivot from childless cat ladies to terrorist wine moms was pretty seamless, I’d say.”
While it’s true that the moms of Minneapolis are mad as hell about ICE’s continuing presence in their city, the ones we spoke to take issue with the wine-swilling terrorist charges.
STOP THE MADNESS: “What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede ICE agents is not civil disobedience. It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime,” writes David Marcus. pic.twitter.com/DQwMTRQlKi
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 11, 2026
“‘Organized wine moms’ is hilarious,” said Adriana Goblirsch, a mom of two boys living in the Twin Cities metro area.
“We’re not ‘wine moms.’ We’re parents, neighbors, community members, and citizens using our voices right now,” she told HuffPost of posting updates about what’s happening in her community on TikTok.
“Mothers should be involved in what’s happening,” she continued. “The truth is, the world doesn’t want mothers paying attention, because when we do, we notice, we act, and we demand change.”
Goblirsch lives about 25 minutes outside of Minneapolis, but ICE has spread out to her neighborhood, too. Currently, ICE officers are staying at a hotel near her home.
Life has drastically changed for her and her neighbors in the last few weeks. In a clip on TikTok ― a “Get Ready with Me”-style post, ironically enough ― Goblirsch talks about how local parents are taking shifts to watch over day care drop‑offs and school pickups because ICE has snatched parents outside of schools. (In Minneapolis proper, some schools have switched to remote learning amid all the local ICE activity.)
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Because they’re afraid of encountering ICE, Goblirsch said, some of her immigrant neighbors won’t leave their homes — they’re skipping doctor’s appointments and relying on neighbors and community members to drop off groceries.
“I know a U.S. citizen who was shoved to the ground and detained by ICE agents, and my friends have similar stories,” she said. “These aren’t situations involving violent criminals; they’re everyday families encountering federal agents in public, everyday places. It has people on edge.”
It hasn’t been easy to parent through all of this. As mom herself, Goblirsch said Renee Good’s death last week hit her hard. While protesting later in the week, Goblirsch visited the site of Good’s killing to reflect on what had happened to the mom of three and local artist.
Good and her wife, like others in their community, stopped at the scene of ICE activity near their Minneapolis home. They had just dropped off Good’s 6-year-old son at school. Good’s life looked ordinary and relatable to Goblirsch — at least based on what she saw inside the mom’s red Honda Pilot: snack wrappers scattered across the car and a glove box full of stuffed animals.
“I won’t ever forget that image of her glove compartment,” Goblirsch said. “Right then, I saw her for what she was: a mother.”
Standing on the street where the shooting had occurred, Goblirsch thought: It easily could have been me.
“I’ve put myself in her shoes and thought about how afraid I would have been in that moment when she drove away,” she said. “All I would have wanted to do is get away and out of the situation, too.”
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A poster reads “Murdered by ICE” near the site where Renee Good was killed a week ago on Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis.
Nicole, a mom of three kids under the age of 9, was also shaken by the footage of Good’s death. She lives just six minutes away from ICE’s St. Paul Field Office.
“The first thing that stood out to me was the unicorn stuffy on the passenger side door. It reminded me of my daughter,” said Nicole, who’s Latina and asked to use her first name only to protect her privacy.
On TikTok, Nicole has recounted how ICE has, on occasion, blocked off the highway outside her community, making it all but impossible to get out. Earlier this week, she had an ICE officer with a Texas license plate stare her down while she was driving the kids to McDonald’s. The only reason she thinks he didn’t stop her was because of the kids in the back.
“I have to pass [ICE] every time I leave my home. There’s protesters there every day. ICE usually has their morning meetings, and they all disperse at the same time,” she told HuffPost. “Last night, around 8:25 p.m., I heard flash bangs to clear out the protesters near the field office. It sounds like I’m living in a war zone.”
Nicole said teachers at her children’s dual-language school have taken on extra work in recent weeks, providing protection to kids outside the pickup area, since ICE is never too far away.
“One positive is that I don’t see Minnesota giving up anytime soon,” she said. “The amount of support people have received from their neighbors is incredible.”
Yelena Kibasova, a mom of one living about 40 minutes away from downtown Minneapolis, usually uses her TikTok to post about youth hockey and healthy eating habits. But this week, her platform felt big enough to spread the word about what was happening in her home state, even if it meant she lost a few followers.
“I wanted people to realize that this isn’t a hoax and we’re not being dramatic in Minnesota,” she told HuffPost. “My hope was that it would open even one person’s mind when they realize that ICE is driving masked through suburban neighborhoods where kids play and law-abiding folks live.”
Kibasova and her neighbors have seen ICE officers in their local grocery stores and restaurants, as well as at construction sites in their neighborhoods. The raids are affecting immigrants, including her town’s Ukrainian community.
“Many of them are here on United for Ukraine (U4U) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and ICE is detaining people who can’t provide proof of citizenship,” she said. “They follow the law and have legal authority to work here. They brought their families here due to the war.”
Kibasova hopes those who see her video recognize that what’s happening in Minneapolis has happened elsewhere and could easily happen in their own backyard.
“This is not a left versus right issue,” she said. “We can all acknowledge that ICE has been enforcing immigration law for over 20 years and does serve a purpose in our country. But what they are doing here in Minnesota crosses every legal boundary.”
The “deluded wine mom” label and any other criticism in comments on her posts roll off Kibasova’s back. She’s worked in journalism and sees the former as the clickbait that it is.
“If you’ve never felt the desperation that we feel at the moment, it’s easy to label mothers who are trying to protect their families and neighbors as ‘crazy,’” she said.
Minnesota has always been one of the safest states to raise children, Kibasova said, and she’s invested in keeping it that way.
“If ICE is threatening to change that for our kids, yeah, moms are going to do something about it.”
