Conservative women saw something that made their jaws drop.
Social media feeds suddenly looked exactly like 2020.
And Billie Eilish made one move that exposed the ugly truth about female celebrities.
The Black Squares Are Back
Remember the summer of 2020 when Instagram turned into a sea of black squares after George Floyd's death?
That same performative activism just came roaring back.
Singers Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Ariana Grande, and Katy Perry flooded Instagram with anti-ICE posts after Alex Pretti got shot in Minneapolis during immigration enforcement operations.
Actress Amanda Seyfried jumped on the bandwagon.
Jennifer Aniston posted her obligatory virtue signal.
Model Bella Hadid made sure everyone knew she was one of the ‘good’ people.
Even brands piled on with Faherty, Lush Cosmetics, and the Whole30 diet posting dramatic condemnations.
A subreddit dedicated to pictures of cats playing bongos declared that ICE supporters aren't welcome on the page anymore.
You can't make this stuff up.
The Same Manipulative Playbook
Here's what makes this identical to 2020's black square hysteria.
The bandwagon-jumping celebrities are using the same manipulative, emotion-based rhetoric while excluding any counter-narrative.
They insist their view is the only morally acceptable position.
Billie Eilish called Pretti an "American hero" without mentioning he'd confronted federal agents 11 days earlier.
Video shows Pretti cursing and spitting at agents before kicking out their vehicle taillight and getting tackled to the ground.
She didn't mention Pretti showed up to another ICE operation carrying a handgun.
Those details don't fit the innocent martyr narrative Hollywood needs for its virtue signaling.
One conservative woman on X perfectly captured the moment when she wrote it felt like "Covid era 2020" with the purity tests and weaponized empathy flooding social media.
Women are more susceptible to groupthink and cult-like behavior than men according to psychological research.
The Democrat-media-higher education complex knows this and exploits it ruthlessly.
Affluent white liberal women learn the language of social justice and apply it to every hot-button political issue to prove they're part of the in-crowd.
The true believers go further and join the mobs obstructing immigration enforcement on the streets.
Conservatives question government authority
Look, Pretti wasn't just some random nurse documenting events with his phone.
He had a history of physically confronting the same federal agents.
Video shows officers shot him while he was on the ground and an agent had removed the firearm Pretti was legally carrying.
It doesn’t appear from the available videos that he ever had his hand on the weapon during the altercation or that he ever even reached for before shots rang out.
Conservatives should always question whether government agents are justified whenever they end up using force against American citizens.
They should always stand up for law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment right to carry firearms.
But pretending every person shot during enforcement operations is an innocent victim ignores reality.
One social media user captured the real issue when he wrote that "Most women simply aren't prepared for what must be done to save this country."
Psychological studies prove women have a greater aversion to viewing violent or disturbing videos than men.
Research published in behavioral neuroscience journals shows women experience stronger avoidance responses when exposed to aggression-related content.
Women literally "get the ick" when they see someone getting shot on camera even when the full context shows the person was resisting arrest.
Men watch war and action movies at far higher rates than women for exactly this biological reason.
The Reality Trump Voters Signed Up For
America has tens of millions of illegal aliens who need to be deported.
Trump won a mandate to remove them.
Angry liberals are rioting and obstructing enforcement efforts at every turn.
To be blunt, it's going to take some nasty, brutish measures to get the job done.
That doesn't mean every ICE shooting is automatically justified, that the Trump Administration shouldn't investigate when things go wrong, or that they should adjust strategy and tactics.
They could start by targeting more workplaces that have high numbers of illegal aliens where there’d be way less opportunity for anti-ICE activists to follow and harass them.
You’d think most women would be against blowing rape whistles to protect rapists.
But all the female and low testosterone celebrity-worshipping types want U.S. immigration policy decided by mob rule.
Broadly speaking, they don't have the stomach for what can very easily follow as a result.
That’s biology.
And it’s good. Society needs women to be a civilizing influence.
But these celebrities can spare everyone the moral lectures.
Especially, since most aren’t aimed at actually being civil.
Billie Eilish calling out other celebrities for not posting enough Instagram stories or Katy Perry's call scripts for senators won't stop criminal gangs from terrorizing American cities.
Celebrity virtue signaling is the same empty performance it was in 2020 when black squares accomplished absolutely nothing except making privileged liberals feel morally superior.
All the while more ordinary folks’ property, lives, and livelihoods got destroyed in so many American cities.
Sources:
- Al Jazeera, "US witnessed many ICE-related deaths in 2026. Here are their stories," January 27, 2026.
- NBC News, "List: ICE and Border Patrol shootings as Trump doubles down on immigration enforcement," January 28, 2026.
- NPR, "Internal review contradicts White House narrative of Pretti's death," January 28, 2026.
- PBS News, "Unearthed videos show Alex Pretti scuffling with federal officers in Minneapolis days before his death," January 29, 2026.
- Wikipedia, "Killing of Alex Pretti," January 29, 2026.
- Cosmopolitan, "All the Celebrities Who Have Spoken Out Against Rising ICE Raids," January 26, 2026.
- Daily Caller, "Celebs Re-Run 'Summer Of Love' Playbook On ICE Shootings," January 28, 2026.
- PMC (National Center for Biotechnology Information), "Gender Differences in Aggression-related Responses on EEG and ECG," 2018.
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, "Aggression in Women: Behavior, Brain and Hormones," April 2018.
