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This is the podcast for the week of January 9th,

2026. It's not safe for work.

Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,

where, amid all the madness,

we're going to spend a little time later on in the podcast,

marking the Professional Left's 16th birthday.

Thank you. marking the Professional Left's 16th birthday. It's the Professional Left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.

Well, we want to start off with the story that is headlines everywhere, both for the story itself and the really grotesque, unforgivable backlash from the Trump regime.

This is, of course, about the murder of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ice thug, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune as Jonathan Ross. Video was taken from

several angles of Ms. Good, who was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in

Minneapolis, Minnesota, when she was murdered by ICE. Now, video from another eyewitness shows

ICE agents refusing to allow a self-identified physician to tend to the victim

and telling him to back up. Although there is no one tending the clearly wounded woman in the car,

an agent says, we have medics on the scene. We have our own medics. When another bystander screams,

where are they? Where are they? An agent tells her, relax. How can I relax? She shouts. You just

killed my fucking neighbor. Now, later that day, the Trump administration's lies were flying

thick and fast because that's how they operate.

DHS posted its lies on social media.

They posted that she was a violent rioter who weaponized her vehicle, and that was a lie.

That she attempted to run over law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.

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