Bonus SchadenFriday: How a Lefty Journalist Stumbled Into an ICE Job
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
She just wanted to report on an ICE recruiting session. She didn’t expect to get a job offer.
Guest: Laura Jedeed, journalist who wrote “You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof” for Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday Slatersters. Welcome back to another edition of Shoutin Friday. These are our Slate Plus |
| 0:08.5 | conversations where you want to like laugh at the news, not just cry. And I got to tell you this week, |
| 0:15.5 | I needed some Shoutin Freud. Like, okay, I'm just going to list off. We started doing this at the top of |
| 0:21.3 | this segment, and I got to say I love this and also hate it. We list off the things that have |
| 0:25.7 | happened that we haven't even gotten to on the show that are not so great. Like in the midst of the |
| 0:33.0 | absolute mess that is going down in Minneapolis, half a dozen federal prosecutors quit their jobs this week, |
| 0:41.7 | reportedly because they have been told to investigate the widow of the 37-year-old mother of three |
| 0:48.3 | that was killed by an ICE officer last week. That is a thing that happened. Then you've got Jerome Powell, |
| 0:56.3 | the chairman of the Federal Reserve, releasing what kind of felt like a hostage video. He's basically |
| 1:01.3 | saying in this video, the president is investigating me as retaliation because the Fed hasn't lowered |
| 1:06.8 | interest rates, according to Trump's preferences. That is another thing that happened this |
| 1:11.6 | week that we did not even get to. And you can't even forget about the Pulitzer Prize winning |
| 1:16.0 | Washington Post journalist who had her home rated this week by the FBI for classified documents, |
| 1:22.4 | even though it seems like mainly her beat has been reporting on fired federal workers. |
| 1:27.6 | Okay. Deep breath. Those things did happen. beat has been reporting on fired federal workers. Okay. |
| 1:28.8 | Deep breath. |
| 1:29.9 | Those things did happen. |
| 1:31.2 | It has been hard. |
| 1:32.4 | But it's not why we're here today. |
| 1:34.1 | We're here because in the midst of all of these things, Slate published an article this week that got all of my like shout in Friday spidey senses going. |
| 1:48.5 | It was written by Laura Jadid. Laura. Hello. |
| 1:55.3 | Hi there. How are you? Welcome. Did I pronounce your name right? You did. Yes. You nailed it. |
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