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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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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19 Jun 06, 2025

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The gang discuss the firebombing in Colorado, TACO Trump, ICE raids, and Elon Musk's messy White House breakup.

Sources:

https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/19/san-diegos-highest-paid-city-employees-cops-racking-up-overtime-and-earning-over-400-000

https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedited-removal

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5422248/trump-steel-aluminum-50-tariffs-double-prices

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-and-chinas-xi-jinping-speak-at-last-agree-to-more-talks-191201181.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/06/02/immigration-restrictions-pile-up-on-international-students/

https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minneapolis-lake-street-law-enforcement-ice-homeland-security/

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musk-privately-expresses-frustration-range-recent-moves/story?id=122485920

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

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Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill Jun 05, 2025

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The gang talks about the pronatalist right in Trump's orbit, and historical examples of pronatalism from Japan, Spain, and Romania.

Sources:

https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203059913-9/pronatalism-motherhood-franco-spain-mary-nash

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237296749_Marriage_squeeze_and_changes_in_family_formation_historical_comparative_evidence_in_Spain_France_and_the_United_States_in_the_twentieth_century

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/2/2155893/-Texas-Republican-channels-Stalin-and-Putin-to-glorify-motherhood
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8

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Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2 Jun 04, 2025

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Mia revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace.

Sources:
https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/

https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/

http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html

https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/

https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/

https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4

https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber

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Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1 Jun 03, 2025

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Mia revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace.

Sources:
https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/

https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/

http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html

https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/

https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/

https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4

https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber

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The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda Jun 02, 2025

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Garrison talks with Kaveh about the FDA's new covid vaccine recommendation and how vaccine access is under threat.

Sources:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-covid-vaccines-can-stay-fall-access-concerns-rcna208492

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CZM Book Club: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón Jun 01, 2025

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Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 184 May 31, 2025

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

16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story
Rendition By Private Jet
What's Happening in Immigration Court
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

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Sources/Links:

16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story

https://thefreeradical.org/

Rendition By Private Jet

https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-private-jet-to-hell/

What's Happening in Immigration Court

Donate to Primrose's legal fees: venmo.com/u/kirsten-zittla

https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/22/live-israel-kills-87-in-gaza-shots-fired-near-diplomats-in-west-bank

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats?r=1aiy5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ajc-access-young-diplomats-reception-tickets-1312062246499

https://www.ajc.org/events/washington

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/22/us/israel-embassy-shooting-dc

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjyxay1zxg

https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1925468225665446272

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1925650699414646909

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Spectrum-Security-Services/Job/Detention-Officer/-in-Los-Angeles,CA?jid=2a4b6034cef9977e

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25954386-24a1153/

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-nationals-deported-by-us-being-held-in-notorious-junta-detention-centre/?tztc=1

https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18 May 30, 2025

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The gang discusses the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers, how the new budget bill targets trans healthcare, ICE arrests inside immigration courts, and deportations to Myanmar.

Sources:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/22/live-israel-kills-87-in-gaza-shots-fired-near-diplomats-in-west-bank

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats?r=1aiy5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ajc-access-young-diplomats-reception-tickets-1312062246499

https://www.ajc.org/events/washington

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/22/us/israel-embassy-shooting-dc

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjyxay1zxg

https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1925468225665446272

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1925650699414646909

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Spectrum-Security-Services/Job/Detention-Officer/-in-Los-Angeles,CA?jid=2a4b6034cef9977e

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25954386-24a1153/

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-nationals-deported-by-us-being-held-in-notorious-junta-detention-centre/?tztc=1

https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965

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What's Happening in Immigration Court May 29, 2025

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James talks to immigration lawyer Kirsten Zittlau about the end of the asylum system as we knew it, detentions in courthouses, and the case of Primrose from the Darién Gap series.
Donate to Primrose's legal fees: venmo.com/u/kirsten-zittla

https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose

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Rendition By Private Jet May 28, 2025

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James talks to Gillian Brockell about how she identified the Gulfstream jet that carried migrants to Djibouti and the attempt to stop the flight in Ireland.

https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-private-jet-to-hell/

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