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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.

It Could Happen Here

Dana El Kurd outlines what is happening in higher education, how and why the Trump administration is attacking universities, and the role Palestine plays in all of this.
 
Sources:
 
Clifford Ando – The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/
 
Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism - https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
 
Ken Stern on IHRA definition - https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5326047/kenneth-stern-antimsietim-executive-order-free-speech
 
2023 Pew Research Center Poll on Black Lives Matter - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/06/14/views-on-the-black-lives-matter-movement/
 
Marc Bousquet – How the University Works - https://nyupress.org/9780814799758/how-the-university-works/
 
PBS Reporting on Harvard University negotiations with Trump administration - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-nearing-settlement-with-trump-to-pay-500-million-and-regain-federal-funding
 
The Intercept’s reporting on Columbia University settlement with the Trump administration - https://theintercept.com/2025/04/16/columbia-middle-eastern-studies-trump-attacks/
 
Middle East Studies Association statement on Columbia University settlement - https://mesana.org/advocacy/letters-from-the-board/2025/03/28/joint-statement-regarding-columbia-university-and-the-department-of-education
 
Results of the Middle East Scholar Barometer - https://criticalissues.umd.edu/sites/criticalissues.umd.edu/files/November%202023%20MESB%20Results.pdf
 
Human Rights Watch statement on the IHRA definition - https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/04/human-rights-and-other-civil-society-groups-urge-united-nations-respect-human
 
Axios reporting on The Nexus Project and Trump’s use of antisemitism investigations - https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/college-campus-antisemitism-trump-nexus-project
 
American Association of University Professors – Academic Freedom - https://www.aaup.org/issues-higher-education/academic-freedom/faqs-academic-freedom
 
2024 Announcement of 40 new AAUP chapters - https://www.aaup.org/academe/issues/winter-2025/warm-welcome-new-or-reestablished-aaup-chapters
 
Executive Order on Combatting Antisemitism - https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism/

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Palestine and the American University feat. Dana El Kurd

James and Robert sit down to discuss Gavin Newsom’s tweets and what they tell us about the DNC’s inability to stand up to Trump.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/newsom-trump-social-media.html
 
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/
 
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/03/gavin-newsom-podcast-judgment-problem/ 
 
https://x.com/GovPressOffice 
 
https://bsky.app/profile/grahamformaine.bsky.social/post/3lwqwj3rdgk27
 
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNl79l0SdMb/?igsh=bXphd3E2N3Y2N20w
 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2qJw7xQfqh0
 
https://www.kpbs.org/news/racial-justice-social-equity/2025/03/11/san-diego-sheriff-says-disputed-ice-transfer-was-legal

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Newsom’s Posting Through It

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.
 
 

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CZM Book Club : Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Four

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- The Federalization of DC Police feat. Bridget Todd
 
- Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
 
- Alienation and AI feat. Andrew
 
- Objectivity in Journalism
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30
 
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Sources/Links:
 
Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
 
Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns
 
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State
 
Hardy Green, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
 
Chad Pearson, Capitalism’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
 
Objectivity in Journalism
 
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/a-widely-shared-video-shows-a-deputy-overdosing-on-fentanyl-experts-say-its-impossible/
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30
 
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/
 
https://x.com/IDF/status/1954652255199887516 
 
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-israel-at-war/august-24-pr/eliminated-ismail-al-ghoul-a-hamas-military-wing-operative-and-nukhba-terrorist/ 
 
https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/ 
 
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tQckcrui/ 
 
https://www.icrc.org/en/article/international-humanitarian-law-protect-journalists-armed-conflict 
 
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250819-DiscretionaryFactors.pdf
 
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1424&num=0&edition=prelim
 
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-alerts/08.15.2025-Restoring_a_Good_Moral_Character_Evaluation_Standard_for_Aliens_Applying_for_Naturalization-Policy_Memorandum_FINAL.pdf
 
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26054451-20-1/#document/p17/a2667744
 
https://www.wmtw.com/article/old-orchard-beach-maine-officer-voluntary-departure/65807962?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
 
https://edsource.org/updates/immigration-agents-alleged-to-have-boasted-of-1500-for-l-a-student-arrest 
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 196

The gang discuss the Israeli cybersecurity official who bailed out and went home after being charged with sex crimes against children, the IDF's murder of journalists in Gaza, changes in USCIS guidance and Federal Agents opening fire on a California family.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/
 
https://x.com/IDF/status/1954652255199887516 
 
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-israel-at-war/august-24-pr/eliminated-ismail-al-ghoul-a-hamas-military-wing-operative-and-nukhba-terrorist/ 
 
https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/ 
 
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tQckcrui/ 
 
https://www.icrc.org/en/article/international-humanitarian-law-protect-journalists-armed-conflict 
 
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250819-DiscretionaryFactors.pdf
 
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1424&num=0&edition=prelim
 
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-alerts/08.15.2025-Restoring_a_Good_Moral_Character_Evaluation_Standard_for_Aliens_Applying_for_Naturalization-Policy_Memorandum_FINAL.pdf
 
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26054451-20-1/#document/p17/a2667744
 
https://www.wmtw.com/article/old-orchard-beach-maine-officer-voluntary-departure/65807962?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
 
https://edsource.org/updates/immigration-agents-alleged-to-have-boasted-of-1500-for-l-a-student-arrest 
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30

James, Gare, and Robert discuss the concept of objectivity in legacy media and the issues it raises. 
 
Sources:
 
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/a-widely-shared-video-shows-a-deputy-overdosing-on-fentanyl-experts-say-its-impossible/
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html

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Objectivity in Journalism

Andrew and James talk about how artificial intelligence has created alienation in society

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Alienation and AI feat. Andrew

In Texas, the world’s richest man is bringing back to life one of the worst ideas of the Gilded Age, local Robber Baron-owned dictatorships called company towns. Elon Musk has already established two in Texas and other high-tech oligarchs like Peter Theil hope to create more. In this episode, journalist Steven Monacelli and historian Dr. Michael Phillips explore the history of company towns in the United States and their disturbing rebirth. 
 
Sources:
 
Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns
 
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State
 
Hardy Green, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
 
Chad Pearson, Capitalism’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

DC resident Bridget Todd talks with Garrison about Trump’s police takeover in Washington DC, the manufacturing of crime panics, and how federal police are effecting the city.

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The Federalization of DC Police feat. Bridget Todd

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. 

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Three

Garrison and Robert discuss how memes are being used in the 2024 election, from couch sex to racist bomb threats. 
 
Sources:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jd-vance-couch-sex-rumor-explained-1235068142/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jd-vance-couch-cushion-story-hoax
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tim-walz-horse-semen-story-hoax/
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tampon-tim
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fell-out-of-a-coconut-tree#fn1
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-can-be-unburdened-by-what-has-been
https://x.com/herandrews/status/1817979762570375597
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1834790387883413592
https://x.com/Esqueer_/status/1835321899116577206
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/day-by-day-how-jd-vance-tweeted-misinformation-about-springfield/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/08/09/what-to-know-about-olympics-gender-debate-as-imane-khelif-faces-off-in-womens-boxing-final/
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/7/imane-khelif-and-western-delusions-of-white-innocence
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/origins-haitians-eating-pets-claim
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-vance-springfield-ohio-haiti-cats-rcna170934

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