Nicki Minaj is MAGA, ICE out, and If Celebrity Activism Can Be Successful
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As we've come to expect with a political crisis, celebrities have no idea how to act - Do you post to story even if you get labelled performative a la Billie Eilish? Do you prepare a speech in case you're stopped on the red carpet wearing an ICE OUT pin, so you're not caught out like Jack Antonoff? Do you align yourself with the worst people in the world, as Nicki Minaj as opted for in the past couple of months?
This week, hosts Ione and Gina delve into the ICE in Minneapolis, how AI is playing a factor and the different ways that celebs getting involved - to varying degrees of success and authenticity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Iione. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of polyester. And this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. |
| 0:13.6 | Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you didn't already know, members get lots of perks like one-on-one mentoring, a group |
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| 0:25.9 | in our description. Do we have any reviews, Ione? We do. Yay! Five stars from Laura Al, love the |
| 0:34.0 | gab. Look forward to these gems each week and can't wait for your newest issue to arrive kiss |
| 0:38.5 | kiss which is lovely and then on spotify this is about the brooklyn backham episode s jeffrey |
| 0:44.0 | 25 says you have me cried laughing no snorting and having to sit down to compose myself about five |
| 0:49.0 | times brilliant thank you say it. Thank you so much. |
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| 0:56.8 | And Claire Tuttle says, |
| 0:58.2 | I could have listened to another 30 minutes |
| 0:59.6 | with this beautiful dissection, Chef's Kiss. |
| 1:01.8 | I know, I could record another 30 minutes of it, to be honest, |
| 1:05.4 | and I think I've had maybe hours of it, |
| 1:07.8 | that particular discussion. |
| 1:09.4 | That particular discussion. |
| 1:10.1 | In the past weeks, did you see the video of, um, that Misha sent us of, |
| 1:13.9 | Cruz Beckham playing with the Spice Girls? |
| 1:16.4 | Oh, they do like three of them a week now. |
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| 1:24.8 | Apart of those witches. |
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