#1766 The Fragility of State Violence: The ICE Occupation, Renee Good, and the Minneapolis Uprising
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 215 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 1/21/2026
Today we look at ICE's reign of terror as a paramilitary occupation force and the communities pushing back. We'll hear about Renee Goode, an unarmed woman shot dead by federal agents, and Keith Porter, killed by an off-duty agent on New Year's Eve, in addition to historical parallels from Civil-Rights Era Selma, Alabama and the Boston Massacre. The signs of hope here are that the oppressed won those fights and the oppressors were forced to retreat - there's every reason to believe that the same pattern can repeat today.
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KEY POINTS
KP 3: ICE Is a Way to Deal With Surplus Males - Therese - Air Date 1-9-25
KP 4: How Do You Share a Country With People Who Reject Reality? - Cy Canterel - Air Date 1-12-26
KP 5: Abolish ICE - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 1-7-26
(00:46:11) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
From the Boston Massacre to Renee Good: How the State Demonizes Its Victims
DEEPER DIVES
(00:46:37) SECTION A: IT'S ALWAYS BEEN RACISM
A1: Trump Wants To 'Ethnically CLEANSE' America: Rep. Frost to Mehdi - Zeteo - Air Date 12-19-26
A2: Making Sense of This Moment | Explainer - Heather Cox Richardson - Air Date 1-8-26
A4: Black Folks Have Been Warning Us - Elliot Sang Again - Air Date 1-13-26
(01:22:43) SECTION B: ICE ABUSES PEOPLE
B2: Where ICE Has Taken The Most People | On The Grid - WIRED - Air Date 10-8-25
B3: Why the US Is Deporting so Many People - Johnny Harris - Air Date 10-31-25
(01:50:19) SECTION C: POLICE ARE A DOMESTIC MILITARY
C2: How America Turned Its Police Into an Army - New Economic Thinking - Air Date 2-28-18
C4: Why Americas Police Look Like Soldiers - Vox - Air Date 6-25-20
(02:09:52) SECTION D: REVOLUTION
D3: Can Anyone Stop ICE? - Today, Explained - Air Date 1-14-26
(02:38:44) SECTION E: ICE IS ABOUT PROJECTING POWER
E1: Will ICE Get Away With This? - Radio Atlantic - Air Date 1-15-26
E2: ICE Can Hack Your Phone Without You Knowing - Taylor Lorenz - Air Date 9-5-25
(03:10:48) SECTION F: WHAT COMES NEXT?
F3: Minnesota Is A Training Ground For Whats To Come - Leeja Miller - Air Date 1-12-26
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Description: Photo of ICE in Minneapolis neighborhood facing a group of residents.
Credit: "ICE agents in Minneapolis after shooting" by Chad Davis, Flickr | CC by 4.0
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. Today we look at ICE's |
| 0:08.1 | reign of terror as a paramilitary occupation force and the community is pushing back. We'll hear |
| 0:14.2 | about Renee Good, an unarmed woman shot dead by federal agents, and Keith Porter killed by an off-duty |
| 0:20.7 | agent on New Year's Eve, |
| 0:22.5 | in addition to historical parallels from the Civil Rights era in Selma, Alabama, and the Boston |
| 0:27.8 | Massacre. The signs of hope here are that the oppressed won those fights, and the oppressors |
| 0:33.6 | were forced to retreat. There's every reason to believe that the same pattern can repeat |
| 0:38.4 | today. For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 40 |
| 0:42.9 | minutes today includes All In with Chris Hayes, Chris Hedges, Pharisee, Sycantrell, and Takes by |
| 0:50.1 | Jamal Bowie. Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in six sections. Section A, it's always been racism. Followed by Section B, ICE abuses people, |
| 1:01.8 | Section C, police are a domestic military. Section D, Revolution, Section E, ICE is about projecting |
| 1:09.3 | power, and Section F, what comes next. |
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| 1:28.1 | That's all on the Best of Left YouTube channel linked in the show notes. And now, on to the show. |
| 1:37.1 | In Minneapolis and across the country, we are seeing a widespread organized, nonviolent resistance to the reign |
| 1:46.1 | of terror and retribution that Donald Trump's federal agents are bringing to America's neighborhoods. |
| 1:51.9 | It's been nearly one week since an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in her Honda |
| 1:57.2 | pilot on a quiet residential street as she tried to drive away. And since then, people |
| 2:02.5 | in and around Minneapolis have been out in the streets saying, we are not having it. We do not |
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