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.
Episodes
Garrison and Mia unravel whether the DHS is posting coded nazi messages, and discuss the limits of treating anti fascism as an easter egg hunt.
Sources:
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
https://files.libcom.org/files/[Mark_Fisher]_Capitalist_Realism_Is_There_no_Alte(BookZZ.org).pdf
James is joined by Bryce from No More Deaths to discuss the release of a map of border deaths that shows systemic undercounting of the lethal consequences of the USA’s deterrence policy.
https://nomoredeaths.org/migrant-death-mapping/
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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-a...
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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Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.
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- 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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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:
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:
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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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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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.
@providers4transjustice on IG
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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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- How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage
- Tracking ICE Removal Flights
- How LA Resisted ICE
- Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26
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The gang discuss Trump’s attempts to distract from Epstein, the construction of a 5,000 bed ICE detention camp at Fort Bliss, and cuts to the EPA and public broadcasting.
Sources/Links:
Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose
Robert, Gare, James and Mia discuss new revelations about Trump's relation to Jeffrey Epstein and how the Epstein Files have fractured Trump's base.
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db
Mia and James are joined by journalists Mel Buer and Sean Beckner Carmitchel to discuss two months of ICE raids in LA and how the community has come together to resist them.
@acatwithnews.bsky.social
@melbuer.bsky.social
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James is joined once again by Gillian Brockell to discuss the use of private jets to rendition migrants to Africa, safety on ICE Air flights, and commercial airlines who fly for ICE.
Sources/Links:
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ice-may-have-secretly-done-more-third-country-removals-than-previously-known/
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/new-ices-eswatini-flight-went-through-us-base-in-djibouti-americans-stationed-ther...
Mia talks with journalists David Forbes, Mady Castigan, and Mira Lazine of the new Trans News Network about how mass grassroots action driven by trans journalism defeated the GOP's ban on Medicaid covering trans healthcare and how we can do it again.
Sources:
Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week.
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- Humanity, the Good feat. Andrew
- Humanity, the Bad feat. Andrew
- What Bombing Means for Freedom In Iran
- What Does the PKK's Disarmament Mean
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #25
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