Remember Malinda Cook? The nurse anesthetist we told you about who posted instructions for murdering patients with succinylcholine?
She wasn’t done.
Turns out she recorded an entire series of “sabotage tactics” and “resistance tips” aimed at incapacitating federal agents. This isn’t dark humor or venting anymore.
This is a how-to guide for assault.
The Videos
Libs of TikTok compiled the footage. It’s worse than you imagined.
Video one: Cook suggests medical providers grab syringes filled with “saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever” and use them as a “deterrent” against ICE agents.
Let’s be clear about what she’s proposing. Succinylcholine is a paralytic agent used in anesthesia. It stops your muscles from working — including the ones you use to breathe. Given outside a medical setting without ventilation support, it kills you. You suffocate while fully conscious, unable to move or scream.
Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026
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She said “whatever” like she was suggesting coffee or tea.
Video two: Cook — wearing scrubs — explains how to harvest poison ivy or poison oak, steep it in water, and load it into a water gun.
“Aim for faces, hands,” she instructs.
Poison ivy to the eyes can cause severe damage. It’s assault. She’s teaching assault while dressed for work at a hospital.
Video three: The dating app trap.
“Get on Tinder, get on Hinge. Find these guys. They’re around. Bring some Ex-Lax and put it in their drinks. Get them sick.”
She’s instructing women to match with federal agents on dating apps, then drug them.
“Nobody’s going to die. Just enough to incapacitate them and get them off the street for the next day.”
That’s poisoning. That’s a felony. And she posted it publicly like she was sharing a recipe for banana bread.
The Consequences (Finally)
VCU Health initially placed Cook on administrative leave while investigating.
Then they fired her.
“Following an investigation, the individual involved in the social media videos is no longer employed by VCU Health. In addition, VCU Health has fulfilled its reporting requirements under Virginia state law,” the hospital said.
Good. But firing isn’t enough.
This woman posted detailed instructions for drugging federal agents. She suggested using a substance that can kill people. She encouraged strangers to assault law enforcement officers with poison ivy and contaminated drinks.
That’s not a workplace conduct issue. That’s criminal incitement.
The Legal Question
Why isn’t Malinda Cook in handcuffs?
She posted public videos instructing people to:
— Inject federal agents with a potentially lethal paralytic drug
— Spray them in the face with poison ivy extract
— Drug their drinks on dates to “incapacitate” them
Each of these is a crime. Conspiracy to commit assault. Incitement to violence. Potentially attempted murder if anyone follows her succinylcholine advice.
The DOJ just charged a 21-year-old Ohio man named Justin Novoa for threatening to kill ICE agents in social media posts. Good. Threats deserve prosecution.
But Cook didn’t just threaten. She provided instructions. She taught methods. She offered specific tactics for harming federal officers.
If Novoa deserves federal charges for threats, Cook deserves them for publishing an assault manual.
The Healthcare Pattern
Cook isn’t an isolated case.
We covered this yesterday. Healthcare workers across the country are posting about denying care to conservatives, refusing to treat ICE agents, and — in Cook’s case — actively encouraging violence against patients and law enforcement.
An anesthesia nurse in Florida posted about hating MAGA patients while responsible for keeping them alive during surgery.
Doctors are tracking where ICE agents stay and sharing locations with protesters.
Nurses are joking about telling patients to “f**k off” based on their employer.
The profession that’s supposed to heal is becoming a vector for politically-motivated harm.
The Trust Problem
How do you trust healthcare after this?
Cook was a certified registered nurse anesthetist at VCU Health in Richmond. She had access to controlled substances. She had access to unconscious patients. She had the knowledge and opportunity to do exactly what she was encouraging others to do.
How many patients did she treat before these videos surfaced? How many conservatives were under her care while she harbored these views? How many people were vulnerable and unconscious while someone who fantasizes about drugging political enemies controlled their oxygen?
We’ll never know. And that’s terrifying.
The Radicalization Pipeline
Cook didn’t wake up one day and decide to post assault instructions.
This is the endpoint of a pipeline. Years of rhetoric calling ICE agents Nazis. Months of Tim Walz comparing them to the Gestapo. Weeks of Eric Swalwell saying the agency should be “crushed.” Days of Larry Krasner promising to “hunt them down.”
When authority figures say federal agents are Nazi war criminals who deserve to be hunted, some people take it literally.
Cook took it literally. She decided to help with the hunting. She made instructional videos.
The politicians who radicalized her face no consequences. She lost her job. They keep their offices.
What Needs to Happen
Fire her? Done.
Report her to licensing boards? Presumably happening.
Arrest her? That needs to happen next.
Every video Malinda Cook posted is evidence of criminal intent. She detailed methods for assaulting federal officers. She distributed that information to the public. She encouraged others to act on it.
That’s not protected speech. That’s incitement. That’s conspiracy. That’s criminal.
The DOJ needs to make an example. Not because revenge feels good, but because deterrence matters. Every healthcare worker considering similar posts needs to understand that there are consequences.
Otherwise, this spreads. The next Malinda Cook sees that the first one just got fired and decides the risk is worth it. The one after that actually does something.
Stop it now. Stop it hard. Stop it publicly.
The Bottom Line
Malinda Cook posted videos teaching people to drug ICE agents with paralytics, spray them with poison ivy, and slip laxatives in their drinks.
She did this while working as a nurse anesthetist with access to the exact drugs she was recommending.
She’s been fired. She hasn’t been arrested.
That needs to change.
When healthcare workers start publishing assault manuals targeting federal law enforcement, we’ve crossed a line that can’t be ignored.
Fire her? Yes. Prosecute her? Absolutely. Make sure every radicalized nurse with a TikTok account understands that “resistance tips” have consequences?
Essential.
Malinda Cook showed us who she is.
Now show her who we are.