https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/politics/fema-ice-storm-memes Homeland Security officials have urged disaster response staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to avoid using the word “ice” in public messaging about the massive winter storm barreling toward much of the United States, according to two sources familiar with the directive.The concern is that the word could spark confusion or online mockery, given the ongoing controversy surrounding US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — also known as “ICE.”The guidance, informally delivered to a group at FEMA Thursday by officials from the Department of Homeland Security – which oversees both FEMA and ICE – comes as states across the South brace for potentially devastating ice accumulations, with some areas expecting a quarter -inch or more. Officials told staff they worry that certain phrasing – like “watch out for ice” – could be misinterpreted or quickly turned into internet fodder, especially as ICE operations remain a flashpoint in cities like Minneapolis and beyond. That would take away from the purpose of the messages, meant to protect people in danger over the next few days, the officials said.“If FEMA says, ‘Keep off the roads if you see ice,’ it would be easy for the public to meme it,” a source with knowledge of the guidance told CNN. “I think it’s a dangerous precedent to set. If we can’t use clear language to help prepare Americans, then people may be left vulnerable and could suffer.” Instead, FEMA staff have been encouraged to use terms like “freezing rain” in their public messaging, the sources said.A statement to CNN Friday, attributable to a FEMA spokesperson, said: “Reporting’ like this reads like a desperate ploy for clickbait rather than real journalism that actually gives Americans disaster preparedness information that could save lives. FEMA will use correct and accurate descriptors of weather conditions to communicate clearly to the American people.”
This comes as the White House and Trump himself often employ memes in their public messaging. Earlier this week, the official White House account posted on social media a fake image of one of the people arrested in Minnesota after they interrupted a church service to protest a pastor who appears to be a top ICE official. A White House spokesperson responded to questions, saying: “Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”The looming storm, which also is expected to dump snow from the Rockies to the Northeast, threatens to snap power lines, topple trees and turn roads treacherous. FEMA is tasked with coordinating a sweeping federal disaster response, which includes issuing public warnings.FEMA appeared to follow the new guidance in a Thursday night tweet that did not mention the word “ice,” warning: “Heavy snow, freezing rain & cold temps are expected across many states this weekend, which could cause damage and widespread power outages.” Another post on X Friday did the same: “A major winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow, freezing rain and dangerous cold across much of the U.S., creating risks for travel, power and safety.” The storm is forecast to stretch more than 2,000 miles from Texas to New England, impacting nearly three dozen states, with the most severe ice expected in the South. Hundreds of thousands could lose power for days, largely from the damage that heavy ice could do to the grid.
>>1481147Good thinking. If it’s one thing ICE doesn’t need right now it’s bad optics
>>1481157Yeah now they'll know that when an ICE buildup results in the death of a child, it's not nature's fault.
>>1481147Well that's just idiotic. Rename the agency if you're so worried about getting meme'd on
and that is why Republicans are snowflakes.
>>1481148Should just invert their meaning. From now on we call ICE ICE, and we call the weather an orange pedophiles private army.
>>1481147Just refer to the frozen water as Ice.The agents can be knwn as 'ICE-IS' because thar's what they are: terrorists.Problem solved but not for the likes of Ross. Now is the winter of their discontent
>>1481203Aren't we already calling ICE ICE?
>>1481206Actually I think he's pretty happy. He's off in new York.You sound like the kind of guy who would murder his own nephews, dick lorange
>>1481147Holy fucking shit you cannot be serious.
>>1481202Next word that gets banned: Snowflakes…
>You sound like the kind of guy who would murder his own nephews, dickBut enough about >>1481211 the glazer of said ICE-IS terrorists. Accusations are Admissions.
>>1481220>anon admits to being a terrorist Paging Ice
>a terrorist who murders Renee Good>You sound like the kind of guy who would murder his own nephews>and >>1481211 >>1481223 accuses others of terrorism>supports terrorists: ICE-IS>others don't>projection>>1481211>You sound like the kind of guy who would murder his own nephews>>1481223 is a terrorist. Accusations are Admissions.The duality of the rightard hypocrite
>>1481220Don't get wooshed by Shakespeare when you introduced it, please, dickie lorange
Found the terrorist (also overstaying his h1b visa): >>1481227
>>1481211>dick>>1481229>dickie>needing to even mention that wordThe obsessed deviant >>1481211 >>1481229's homo status: Confirmed.
>>1481227Winter of our discontent is from Richard the 3rd.My bad for thinking you knew more about the play than the opening line, I assumed too highly of you
>>1480892>>1480894>foreign hands typed theseFound the projecting foreigner, and supporter of ICE-IS terrorists: >>1481234
>>1481235Dick is short for Richard, my homophobic friend
>>1481237Immigration enforcement is terrorism to illegal aliens (you)
>>1481238>Dick is short for Richard>>1480883>duck>>1481211>dickMust be cold in that closet of yours in a certain river in Egypt. Wet, too, >>1481238Not beating the obsessed deviant allegations, >>1481211 >>1481229
>>1480892>>1480894>foreign hands typed theseNot beating the projecting foreigner allegations, >>1481240
>>1481243Yes. You're clearly the same person who spams the "duck l'orange" comment, so when you used a line from Richard the 3rd, I called you Dick lorange. Your active time zone is not American and you clearly don't know Shakespeare so you're not English, where are you from?
>>1481244You are the most obvious pajeet on an expired h1b that ever posted
>>1480892>>1480894>having no concept of humor and sarcasm>reduced to projectingYou're not American, ICE-IS terrorist supporter reduced to accusing others of being terrorists when they aren't & never will be. Where are you from, >>1481245?
>>1481246>You are the most obvious pajeet on an expired h1b that ever postedYou're the most obvious projectionist at a Bollywood cinema in Calcutta, you should get back to your job and stop accusing others of what they aren't in 4chan, obvious jeet.
>>1481250Whoops, meant for >>1481247
>>1481247America.
>>1481250Whoops, meant for >>1481246
>>1481252>AmericaNice fanfic, jeet
Democrats will be out violently attacking everyone
>>1481147This is the same thing as when the left insists on using PC words in order to protect their interests. For example, we have to use "allowlist" and "denylist" vs "whitelist" and "blacklist."
Republicans will be out violently attacking everyone
>>1481292>>1481299No one will be out. That's why the liberal organizers (Indisivible) moved their usual Saturday protest to Friday, they knew it won't be highly attended tomorrow. Everyone who can will be hunkered down.
>>1481302>they knew it won't be highly attended tomorrow.Well yeah no shit there's a massive blizzard.
>>1481296Surely "blocklist" is allowed still?That's less jarring than denylist
>>1481147This is more retarded than Minnesota.
>>1481189They should call their main snow plow truck"Abolish Ice'
>>1481327Plows get rid of snow, not ice. Salt trucks get rid of ice.Guess the protestors aren't salty enough yet lol
Guys why are you posting Babylon Bee and The Onion articles here Banning the word ice because of it's association with ICE during a winter storm is a funny set up for a joke but that's all it is a punchline, not government policy
>>1481347The source is CNN, not a satire rag.
>>1481304What a shame. I was hoping they'd be dumb enough to try and freeze to death.
the silliest part of this is that the Weather Service will probably comply with this insanity. Remember when Trump claimed that a hurricane would hit Alabama, even though it barely grazed Georgia, and he took out his Sharpie and circles Alabama on the hurricane forecast map, and the NWS was forced to comply with this insanity just because Trump got Alabama and Georgia mixed up on the map?Our president is senile, insane, and not smart. Sucks to be us.
>>1481203I'm not looking forward to the orange pedophile's private army getting all over my lawn, but at least I have a new shovel.
>>1481147>They will have to do this every winterlmao, ridiculous.May as well rename the entire agency if it’s supposed to be this bad. What a shitshow of a government.
>>1481147>according to two sources familiar with the directive.so we're back to CNN reporting unsourced information as news. you would think they would've learned their lesson from losing 70% of their audience after trump's first term.
>>1481384CNN is strictly for entertainment. If they presented this as "news", they would have to pay a billion dollar settlement in court, like Fox News did.
>>1481389>CNN describes itself as a "24-hour news and information cable television network" on its own site and press materials.reminder that their ratings were so bad after trump that at&t had to sell the company. they've lost 50% of their audience over the past decade
>>1481389CNN lost a defamation suit just last year.
>>1481147ICE just executed a man in Minnesota.
>>1481147Land of the free indeed.LMFAO
>>1481440naah, he just couldn't breathe. They had three agents holding him down and another said, enough of this bullshit, and finally shot the fucker. That is what happens when you live in a blue city in a blue state.This was never about immigration or even race. It is about showing blue cities what happens when you cross the GOP. The cities with the most immigrants are NY, LA, SF, and Miami, and ICE isn't doing anything in NYC or Miami because that is where Trump does business. That's where he and his family live. You don't shit where you eat.
>>1481447>This was never about immigration or even race.He had a firearm on him and was resisting arrest.Whoever is spreading this misinformation should be arrested and charged under the insurrection act.
>>1481455He was already on the ground restrained when one agent shot him you retard. That's an execution.
>>1481455>has 3 people pinning him down>ICE is in so much danger that they couldn't disarm him, they had to blow his head offOkay buddy.
>>1481458Hey hey, don't spread misinformation. They DID disarm him; you can actually see them take a gun from him on the video if you look close. Right before the other agent shoots him while he's on the ground.
>>1481459He went for an agents gun
>>1481481While being fucking restrained by FIVE OTHERS? You're telling me they're so incompetent they have this guy completely pinned on the ground and disarmed, yet still feel threatened enough that one felt the need to magdump him?
>>1481489Thats what happens when you fight cops, too. Plenty of body cams on YouTube showing the exact same thing.The dead person is white again, so there probably won't be riots this time either.
>>1481501>Plenty of body cams on YouTube showing the exact same thing.Plenty of body cams show cops executing already restrained, disarmed, and ON THE GROUND suspects? I imagine the only place I'd find those were on liveleak showing why those guys mysteriously transferred departments.
>>1481489This is like saying it didn't count when Renee Good hit the gas because she was surrounded by ICE agentsIf you go for the agents gun, you are gambling your life.If you hit the gas while surrounded by Law Enforcement, and they already pointed their gun at you when you hit reverse, you are gambling with your lifePeople keep gambling with their lives during ICE encounters, and losing those gambles
>>1481515Except there's no proof he went for a gun. You can see both his hands on the video; at no point are they anywhere near their holsters. The closest he gets to an ICE agent's gun is when one of them starts fucking pistol whipping him.
>>1481515this was unfortunately inevitable once democrat politicians started stoking violent resistance against law enforcement. tim walz has been doing this since the BLM riots
>>1481505Yes. If you go for their guns they end youHere's onehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lBQt9pj1Bjg&pp=ygUjaGVyZXMgd2h5IHlvdSBkb24ndCBncmFiIGEgY29wcyBndW4%3D
>>1481564Yeah that's different circumstances. Note how he actually had his hands on a rifle and fired off shots.
Assuming this isn't made up or bullshit, it's pretty ridiculous.>SJWs and liberals get shit for trying to sanitize language >now the other side gets in a common substance is a no-no wordIt's not a horseshoe it's a circle.
>>1481573Ah so you want to wait for the violently resisting person to get a shot off. The law says they don't have to wait for that.
>>1481735Did he actually get his hands on a gun, yes or no?
>>1481147It is a pretty easy phrasing puzzle.>look out for black ice!VS>in icing conditions, drive carefully Or>bridge freezes before riad
>>1481742Did he actually fight five federal agents?If he did, they had a reasonable expectation that his violent resistance wouldn't be limited to his fists.Good shoot.
>>1481865Didn't answer the question retard. You can't shoot someone based on how HYPOTHETICALLY if they had a gun they'd be a danger to officers.Now, again. Yes or no, did he have his hands on a gun?
>>1481870If he was reaching for an officers gun, that would mean he is threatening lethal force.
>>1481874I'm not hearing an answer, so I ask again.Did have hands on a gun, yes or no?
>>1481884If you are reaching for a gun you do not have it in your possession yet, but you are attempting to get it into your possessionIf you are in a grocery store and put something in your cart, you do not have it in your hands, you do not own it, but you are attempting to buy it and take it home with you
>>1481891Did he have his hand on one of their guns, yes or no? A very simple question, and we have enough angles of the incident to show an objective answer. So go ahead. Answer.
>>1481896I can't tell from the angles I have seen.Let's say no. No, the dead man never touched his own gun, never took it out of his holster, and never succeeded in grabbing one of the agent's guns. It's still a good shoot.Don't fight the cops. Especially don't fight them on the ground. Especially don't fight them on the ground if you are currently concealed carrying. What you do is: Am I being detained?Yes. Alright (hands up above head), I want to make you aware there is a gun in my waistband. What should I doThey will respect you and disarm you peacefully.If you do force them to take you to the ground, and they only find out about your gun after your waistband is exposed during the scuffle, you rolled those dice and you'll take the outcome.This is reality. You seem to be raging against this reality, and I get it, you feel like your side is losing. It is.
>>1481951>It's still a good shoot.What threat did a man restrained on the ground by five officers after having been peppersprayed pose to make it a good shoot? The fucking hypothetical that if he had a gun he would've shot them?>If you do force them to take you to the ground, and they only find out about your gun after your waistband is exposed during the scuffle, you rolled those dice and you'll take the outcome.he didn't do shit to them. they actually attacked him first.
>>1481976His shirt got pulled up. We can clearly see that much in the videos, at least. As soon as his waistband was exposed, they executed him.Logic would say that they saw his concealed carry, realized that the person who was resisting with violence was armed, and they shot. This will happen every. single. time. Regardless of why you were put on the ground, if you're fighting and they suddenly find out you're armed, they will put you down. Don't be the next one. Don't let your kids be the next one. Teach them how to interact with armed authorities, or start saving for a funeral.
>>1481988So basically cops can execute you for legally carrying, even if you don't touch the fucking gun?Don't forget; we have on video ICE disarming him BEFORE he was shot. So clearly the gun wasn't the reason.
>>1481343>His plow truck doesn't both plow and iceFound phoney
>>1482010>So basically cops can execute you for legally carrying, even if you don't touch the fucking gun?Well it depends. Are you a bystander? Are you violently resisting arrest?
>>1482087Did he even take out his gun, yes or no? He was legally carrying.
>>1482012Some states use plows that have brine attachments, some send a salt brine truck to follow the plows. Nothing phoney about me
>>1482096>brine attachments,Brine and salt are not effective below 14 °F and have no effect below 0°F. Sand doesn't even work below 0°F because the ice is too hard for the sand grit to press into the ice.
>>1482110Thanks, I learned something!
>>1482092So you admit he was carrying a firearmWas he complying with their arrest or was he resisting arrest, yes or no?
>>1482152He had a license for it. I never disputed this.Now did he unholster it? Yes or no? Just having a gun on you doesn't give police permission to execute you.
>>1482153He didn't have his concealed carry licence on him. He had no ID on him. It took his parents hours to find out he was for sure the dead man because of this.
>>1481147bunch of snowflakes
>>1482152arrest for what? what were they arresting him for? he is a US citizen with a CC permit. Hell, he's probably a MAGA
>>1482157Did they even check in the brief moment between taking his gun and killing him?
>>1482166Nope. They determined that he had no id after he was dead. The point stands, he was improperly carrying. Just like he was improperly acting
>>1482171Oh wow, so basically they executed a man just for daring to have a firearm he didn't even touch. AFTER having started the confrontation in the first place.I didn't know all you had to do to kill someone legally was start shit with them as a cop and then getting the briefest glance of a gun.
>>1482174>wowww how was I supposed to know that starting a fight with the police could end with my deathYou're an idiot.
