PROSECUTE AND ABOLISH ICE
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
OA1224 - In this episode recorded only hours after an ICE officer killed U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis with extreme impunity, we contrast mirror-universe opposite views of immunity and impunity: the Trump administration’s response to this tragedy as opposed to everything that they have done to rewrite the history of January 6, 2021 for this week’s fifth anniversary of the insurrection. And in today’s footnote: will Lindsay Halligan be the first lawyer in US history to have a bar complaint filed against her for lying to a federal court about being a US Attorney?
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“How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?” The Trace, 12/8/2025
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“At least 33 pardoned insurrectionists face other criminal charges—but many are now going free,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (12/18/2025)
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Order re: Lindsay Halligan in USA v. Jefferson, EDVA Judge David J. Novak (1/6/2026)
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| 0:00.0 | You killed my f*** neighbor! |
| 0:06.0 | How do you show up to work every day? |
| 0:08.0 | How the f*** do you do this every day? |
| 0:10.0 | Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing |
| 0:22.5 | exactly the opposite. |
| 0:24.0 | People are being hurt and I have a message for us. |
| 0:27.3 | Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. |
| 0:35.3 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:36.9 | This is episode 1224. I'm Thomas. That over there is Matt Cameron, real life immigration attorney. How you doing? It's a tough day, Thomas. This one's hitting hard. I got to tell you the thing we're talking about today. Yeah, this is, you know, this is, it's not, it's just not good. This is just, this is just bad. It's very bad. We've got, I'm sure most people know an ICE officer, just murdering a woman. |
| 0:57.0 | There's not any bright stuff. Not good. This is just, this is just bad. It's very bad. We've got, I'm sure most people know an ICE |
| 0:55.2 | officer, just murdering a woman. There's not, there's not any bright side to that. There's not any funny spin. There's not any fun, anything. That's just murder. And it's awful. As we'll talk about, it's not the only person they've killed, certainly, since Trump took on. This one's really bad, though. This is very bad. |
| 1:10.5 | That is a murder. |
| 1:11.3 | Hopefully this will break through in terms of people realizing how... certainly since Trump took on. This one's really bad, though. This is very bad. This is a murder. |
| 1:11.2 | Hopefully this will break through in terms of people realizing how horrible this is. I hope we'll |
| 1:16.5 | do our part here. But not only that, January 6th, five-year anniversary the other day, that's a bummer. |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah. That is just a real bummer. Not every anniversary is a good time. Yeah. It just really hit me. |
| 1:29.8 | You know, I saw an article, I think I posted a screenshot. |
| 1:33.3 | It was just an article that I'm like, this headline shouldn't exist. |
| 1:37.0 | Like it just, I can't, the idea. |
| 1:39.8 | And this is CBS News, five years after January 6th attack, Senate Democrats seek to ban taxpayer-funded payouts to capital rioters. |
| 1:48.5 | Because we have to do that now. |
| 1:51.4 | I mean, we had a few years. |
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