278: Is ICE Melting?
#SistersInLaw
Politicon
4.9 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Joyce Vance hosts #SistersInLaw to cautiously celebrate ICE’s retreat from Minneapolis now that Congress is stepping up its oversight by demanding reforms and a judge has rebuked the administration for denying legal representation to detainees. Then, the #Sisters discuss the validity of the FBI’s Fulton County warrant in light of the lack of evidence, the continued hawking of related conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that weaken public trust, and a grand jury’s failure to indict Democratic Members of Congress for supposedly undermining the military. They also break down the merits of ongoing trials targeting social media addiction, comparing the companies involved to the tobacco industry, and explaining the implications for our 1st Amendment rights.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Barb McQuaid, Jill Wine Banks, and me, Joyce fans. |
| 0:17.0 | Don't worry, Kim will be back soon to join me on the ledge, but today I'll have to wing it on my own. |
| 0:22.8 | We've got exciting news for you, though. |
| 0:25.7 | We're doing a live show. |
| 0:27.7 | We're going to Denver, Colorado at the Servantes Masterpiece Theater on April 23rd, |
| 0:33.1 | and tickets are available at politicon.com slash tour. That's politicon.com slash tour. We cannot wait to see you there. |
| 0:44.2 | Denver. We're going to Denver? I love Denver. I mean, like, isn't it amazing? I love Denver, too. You know, |
| 0:49.6 | my youngest went to school in Boulder. And so we've been visiting Denver for the last four years on and |
| 0:55.6 | off, and I'm so excited about being back. What about you, Jill? Well, I have relatives there and a |
| 1:01.6 | sorority sister, so I'm very excited about going to Denver, and especially because we're in the |
| 1:06.2 | Olympic period now, and that makes me think of mountains, and I always think of Colorado when I think of |
| 1:11.3 | mountains. It's the first place I ever tried to ski. Well, y'all, if you get tickets for the Denver |
| 1:17.5 | show, why don't you drop us a line? You can email us at Sisters at Politicon.com. Tell us how |
| 1:23.7 | excited you are. We're pretty excited about being there, and of course, we'll look forward to answering questions, especially from our Denver listeners in advance of the show. |
| 1:33.7 | We do hope you've also been enjoying our new companion podcast. Do you know about that yet? We've got a new companion piece to hashtag sisters-in-law. It's called Sisters Sidebar, and we answer questions that we don't have time to get to during the regular show. It airs on Wednesdays, so keep sending in your questions, and remember to tune in. Today, we have got quite a show for you. There is so much going on. We'll be talking about Issa's retreat from Minneapolis. |
| 2:03.9 | There's a lot going on in the Justice Department that we plan on sharing with you. |
| 2:08.3 | And finally, we'll talk about something you may not have heard about. Lawsuits challenging the way social media platforms approach younger, younger users. So a great show. But look, |
| 2:21.1 | before we dig into the details, I've got to ask y'all, I have been consuming the Olympics |
| 2:26.1 | every chance I get. Visions of being an Olympic athlete have been dancing in my head. I like all |
| 2:32.8 | of the sports. If you guys had to pick one, |
| 2:35.8 | what kind of Olympian would you be? Barb, what would your gold medal be in? Oh, I love all of those |
| 2:41.5 | sports so much. I think they're really cool. I love all the sliding ones, you know, like the |
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