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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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Latest Episodes:

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 Feb 28, 2025

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The gang talks about Germany's election, USAID, the new podcast driven FBI, and how gay the Navy may or may not be.

Sources:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/

https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/

https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf

https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/

https://mutualaidsudan.org/

https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/

https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886

https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief

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Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries Feb 27, 2025

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Robert walks the audience through a document being shared by DNC employees and think tank workers about the threat Curtis Yarvin and Elon Musk pose to democracy.

Read Robert's full piece on Substack: https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a

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Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Feb 26, 2025

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American school children receive two distinct versions of United States history depending on what state they live in: one version of the American past aimed to meet the curricular demands of the largest market, California, and an often strikingly different version to meet the increasingly rightwing expectations of the Texas legislature. Most of the other states in the union pick between the two. This episode will examine how this situation developed, the increasing national influence of one Texas evangelical author David Barton, how Americans perceive the relationship of church and state, the continuing war on the theory of evolution, and the strange story of how efforts to post the Ten Commandments in American classrooms can be traced to Hollywood marketing of the 1950s Cecile B. D. Mille epic, The Ten Commandments.

Sources:

Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020.

Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.)

James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.)

Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.)

Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.)

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How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare Feb 25, 2025

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Two healthcare providers at federally qualified healthcare centers join James and Gare to discuss how providers can organize to take care of their trans patients under the Trump administration.

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The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal Feb 24, 2025

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Mia and crypto journalist Molly White take a vacation from the horror of American politics to discuss Argentina's president Javier Milei promoting a pump and dump meme coin as Mia attempts to explain Peronism.

https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki

Sources:

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/

https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina

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CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Last Report from Mx. Murder Feb 23, 2025

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Margaret from the future relays the last message from Mx. Bunny Face Murder.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 170 Feb 22, 2025

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

Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's
Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew
Mutuality feat. Andrew
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4

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Sources/Links:

Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's

https://linktr.ee/peetslaborunion

https://peetslaborunion.org

@peetslaborunion

https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLR6ZV4VZRBPT/checkout/2KLSQDHYHY7D3GNP7YUX62CD

Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew

https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/

Mutuality feat. Andrew

Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/

Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675

https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration

https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716

https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage

https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5

https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agencies

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4 Feb 21, 2025

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The gang get together to discuss White House plans to make Donald Trump king, house migrants in a prison James visited in Panama, and Make America Healthy Again by making it harder to access medicine. We also catch up with Elon Musk, as apartheid's favorite son continues his rampage through the federal government.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675

https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration

https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716

https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage

https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5

https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agencies

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Mutuality feat. Andrew Feb 20, 2025

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Andrew and Mia discuss how an anarchist society functions, how people can relate to each other, and how our current society conspires to keep us from being free.

Links:

Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/

Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/

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Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew Feb 19, 2025

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Andrew and Mia discuss what anarchism actually is as an ethic and a practice.

Links:
https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/

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