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
Margaret continues the story of the last punk show played at Locust House
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- How the Supreme Court Changed Digital Privacy Rights
- Free Football from FIFA
- How to Fire Your Boss
- The DSA Red Scare
- Executive Disorder: Three ICE Killings, UAW Investigation, Explosive Diarrhea
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The gang discuss the death of Lindsay Graham, a DOJ investigation into UAW president Shawn Fain, the outbreak of cyclospora across multiple states, and three ICE killings from the last week.
Sources:
https://x.com/WelcomeTheGulag/status/2076874632506834992?s=20
https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2076307271873691671?s=20
Garrison talks about President Trump’s new campaign against COMMUNISM following a series of electoral victories by DSA candidates across the country, and how establishment democrats are teaming up with the GOP to take down the Democratic Socialists of America.
Sources:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rKpagMuXmG9L9Djy7ZKLqTOLiQxCilS5cr8-UxIcUhI/edit?usp=sharing
Mia talks with Raisa, Tabby, and Daniel from the IWW about industrial and solidarity unionism, the history of the IWW, and the IWW's upcoming Fire Your Boss Tour.
https://industrialworker.carrd.co
Sources:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/need-for-solidarity-unionism
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Dana El Kurd explains the political implications of the Egyptian team competing at the World Cup, how their loss is being viewed by Arab audiences, and why we should free football from FIFA.
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Garrison talks with Cooper Quintin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about a new ruling on geofence warrants extending 4th amendment protections to location data and how it may impact police surveillance and digital privacy.
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Margaret continues reading to you from a novella about a punk house in 2002 San Diego
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- Palestine in the World Cup
- What's Wrong with Human Rights
- What's Wrong with Human Rights, Pt. 2
- A Report from the Great American State Fair
- Executive Disorder: Platner Allegations, Return of the Tariffs, ICE Shootings
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The gang discuss the sexual assault allegations made against Graham Platner and the suspension of his senate campaign, how Trump is trying to bring back tariffs, a lawsuit alleging the US has given info on asylum seekers to Iran, ICE killing a man in Houston, and Trump’s 4th of July speech attacking communism.
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Robert talks to Laura Jedeed for her account of the July 4th festivities at the Great American State Fair which was totally all those things.
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Mick and James pick up their discussion of Human Rights where they left off yesterday and discuss how we can all ensure people are treated properly.
Sources:
Human Rights as Moral Progress? A Critique by Jarett Zigon
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 716–736. ISSN 0886-7356, online ISSN 1548-1360. C 2013 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/cuan.12034
Agamben, Aren...
Mick and James discuss the concept of Human Rights and how they sometimes fail to ensure people around the world are treated with dignity.
Sources:
Human Rights as Moral Progress? A Critique by Jarett Zigon
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 716–736. ISSN 0886-7356, online ISSN 1548-1360. C 2013 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/cuan.12034
Agamben, Arendt and Human Rig...
Dana El Kurd talks about the significance of Palestine at the 2026 World Cup, comparing it to the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Sources:
https://jewishcurrents.org/de-normalizing-israeli-normalization-at-the-world-cup
https://agsi.org/analysis/palestine-activism-in-the-world-cup/
For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium
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- The Media Context for the Belfast Pogrom
- The Fakest Economy of All Time
- The London Dockworkers Strike
- Executive Disorder: Supreme Court Edition
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The gang discuss the batch of recent Supreme Court rulings from birthright citizenship and mail in voting, the president's ability to end Temporary Protected Status and fire independent agency heads, and the strengthening of gun rights and digital privacy rights.
Andrew and James discuss the strike of London dockworkers in 1889 and the solidarity and support it received.
Sources:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-about-a-strike
https://libcom.org/article/great-london-dock-strike-1889
https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/the-1889-london-dockers-and-tailors-strikes/&...
Mia is joined by writer Vicky Osterweil to discuss the rollercoaster of the Korean stock market and how it’s gambling all the way down
Sources:
https://bsky.app/profile/assignedmale.bsky.social/post/3mp7473bzrs2e
https://www.investopedia.com/single-stock-etf-5667162
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-kospi-plunges-nearly-10-after-regulator-cautions-leveraged-etfs-2026-06-23/
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James is joined by Elia Ayoub to talk about how British media framing paved the way to a Pogrom in Northern Ireland.
Sources:
https://chuffed.org/project/185445-support-people-and-groups-impacted-by-racist-attacks
https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/the-belfast-pogrom-was-predictable/
https://eliaayoub.com/
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