The WaPo Defenestration and ICE Flight Brutality (with Gillian Brockell)

Trent and Caitlin check in with journalist Gillian Brockell after the release of her article on ICE air. They discuss the recent mass layoffs at the Washington Post, the abhorrent treatment of deportees, the justifications used to mistreat humans, and the importance of empathy and being a human.

Resources:

https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/

https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social

https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-richer-and-stingier-than-ever-forbes-400-list-2021-10

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/08/26/emmett-till-william-bradford-huie-carolyn-bryant-civil-rights/

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis

https://51st.news/

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/17/court-hearings-lawsuit-alleging-ice-agents-racially-profiled-us-citizens-minnesota

Ginsburg on Firing Line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBpoZBhvBa4

https://discourses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Teun-A.-van-Dijk-2008-News-discourse-and-ideology.pdf

http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-faith-how-the-christian-right-is-taking-over-america-talia-lavin/1cf72a0d0396cdce?ean=9780306829192&next=t

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-trap-fascism-masquerading-as-care/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/omni-ice-deportations-charter-flight-stonepeak-private-equity/

https://newrepublic.com/article/206058/transcript-trump-ice-threats-take-darker-turn-maga-calls-blood

https://www.baloproject.org/