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It Could Happen Here

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it’s evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

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Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd Aug 05, 2025

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Dana El Kurd sits down with Bushra Khalidi – policy lead at Oxfam – to discuss the aid and humanitarian crisis unfolding across Palestine. They discuss how the devastating hunger and aid restriction happening in Gaza speaks to broader strategies of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement.

Sources/Links:

Oxfam statement about Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/more-than-100-organizations-are-sounding-the-alarm-to-allow-lifesaving-aid-into-gaza/

Fogbow in Uganda and Sudan - https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/06/16/fogbow-operations-south-sudan-raise-red-flags-aid-private-sector

Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/israel-leaders-palestinian-territories-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-7-october

Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on dismantling UNRWA - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/notes/unrwa-may-be-forced-stop-saving-lives-gaza-will-world-let-happen

NPR report on famine in Gaza - https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/25/g-s1-78968/what-does-it-take-for-a-famine-to-be-declared-in-gaza

US Green Beret on what he saw at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/i-witnessed-war-crimes-in-gaza-u-s-veteran-and-former-ghf-worker-tells-bbc/00000198-47e0-d6be-a1bd-4ffd67f90000

Aljazeera op-ed by former UN official - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/21/why-is-the-un-not-declaring-famine-in-gaza

UN reporting on deaths at aid sites - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396

Dr. Nick Maynard on what he witnessed in Gaza - https://www.channel4.com/news/teenagers-being-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-british-surgeon-in-gaza

Suppressing Dissent edited volume - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Suppressing-Dissent/Zaha-Hassan/9781836430971

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Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew Aug 04, 2025

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Andrew is joined by James to discuss the history and efficacy of anti militarism and anti-war movements.

Sources:

Anarchist Encyclopedia by Sebastien Faure et al

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-herod-the-weakness-of-a-politics-of-protest

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-p-j-lilley-striking-against-the-work-war-machine

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One Aug 03, 2025

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Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 193 Aug 02, 2025

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

- The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

- Post Woke Cinema

- AI Minstrel Shows feat. Bridget Todd

- Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27

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Sources/Links:

The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

https://givebutter.com/Uj0NLs

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-upmc-to-reinstate-healthcare-for-trans-youth-and-young-adults?source=direct_link&

@providers4transjustice on IG

Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying

https://www.tangledwilderness.org/live-like-the-world-is-dying

http://www.tangledwilderness.org

http://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/ready-for-anything

https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-time-to-build-resilient-communities

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocalypse

https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/s1e1-kitty-stryker-on-anarchist-prepping/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/one-person-killed-every-12-minutes-july-now-gazas-deadliest-month-early-2024

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/27/live-israel-intercepts-gaza-bound-handala-5-palestinians-starve-to-death

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5477365/israel-gaza-aid-casualties

https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-133/en/

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-30

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.238.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.97.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.98.0.pdf

https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27 Aug 01, 2025

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The gang discuss Ghislaine Maxwell's meetings with Trump's DOJ, executive orders banning 'Woke AI' and promoting the involuntary institutionalization of homeless people, the forced starvation of Palestine, and a prisoner swap releasing 230 Venezuelans from CECOT.

Sources:

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/one-person-killed-every-12-minutes-july-now-gazas-deadliest-month-early-2024

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/27/live-israel-intercepts-gaza-bound-handala-5-palestinians-starve-to-death

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5477365/israel-gaza-aid-casualties

https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-133/en/

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-30

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.238.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.97.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.98.0.pdf

https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

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Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying Jul 31, 2025

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James talks with Inmn from the Live Like the World is Dying podcast about the basics of community and individual preparedness for disasters of all kind.

Links:

More Live Like the World is Dying:

https://www.tangledwilderness.org/live-like-the-world-is-dying

Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness:

http://www.tangledwilderness.org

http://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

“The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse” by Douglas Rushkoff:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

“Ready for Anything” by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness:

https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/ready-for-anything

“It’s Time to Build Resilient Communities” by Margaret Killjoy:

https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-time-to-build-resilient-communities

Etymology of Apocalypse:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocalypse

"Kitty Stryker on Anarchist Prepping" (LLWD Ep. 1):

https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/s1e1-kitty-stryker-on-anarchist-prepping/

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AI Minstrel Shows feat. Bridget Todd Jul 30, 2025

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Bridget Todd talks with Garrison Davis about how TikTok creators are using AI generated videos to make viral racist skits with digital blackface.

Follow Bridget:

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

https://www.instagram.com/bridgetmarieindc/

There Are No Girls on the Internet: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-there-are-no-girls-on-the-65877505/

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Post Woke Cinema Jul 29, 2025

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Garrison is joined by Bailey Newposter and Janie Danger to discuss the politics of Superman and Eddington, how each reacts to differing types of American decline, and the psychosis of online political opportunism.

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The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Jul 28, 2025

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Mia talks with UPMC therapist Salena Binnig and TransYOUniting founder Dena Staley about the fight against UPMC's capitation to the Trump administrations anti-trans policies and how the community is fighting back.

https://givebutter.com/Uj0NLs

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-upmc-to-reinstate-healthcare-for-trans-youth-and-young-adults?source=direct_link&

@providers4transjustice on IG

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CZM Book Club: How to Live Like the World is Ending by Margaret Killoy Jul 27, 2025

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Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times.

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