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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

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew
 
- Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd
 
- Mapping Border Deaths
 
- Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28
 
You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today!
 
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Sources/Links:
 
Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew
 
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
 
Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd
 
Oxfam statement about Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/more-than-100-organizations-are-sounding-the-alarm-to-allow-lifesaving-aid-into-gaza/
 
Fogbow in Uganda and Sudan - https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/06/16/fogbow-operations-south-sudan-raise-red-flags-aid-private-sector
 
Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/israel-leaders-palestinian-territories-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-7-october
 
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on dismantling UNRWA - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/notes/unrwa-may-be-forced-stop-saving-lives-gaza-will-world-let-happen
 
NPR report on famine in Gaza - https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/25/g-s1-78968/what-does-it-take-for-a-famine-to-be-declared-in-gaza
 
US Green Beret on what he saw at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/i-witnessed-war-crimes-in-gaza-u-s-veteran-and-former-ghf-worker-tells-bbc/00000198-47e0-d6be-a1bd-4ffd67f90000
 
Aljazeera op-ed by former UN official - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/21/why-is-the-un-not-declaring-famine-in-gaza
 
UN reporting on deaths at aid sites - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396
 
Dr. Nick Maynard on what he witnessed in Gaza - https://www.channel4.com/news/teenagers-being-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-british-surgeon-in-gaza
 
Suppressing Dissent edited volume - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Suppressing-Dissent/Zaha-Hassan/9781836430971
 
Mapping Border Deaths
 
https://nomoredeaths.org/migrant-death-mapping/
 
Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
 
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
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trumps-immigration-record-far-high-arrests-low-deportations-rcna217752
 
https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/ 
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-refuses-us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-sources-say-2025-01-25/
 
https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3luq3qktltc2n
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/
 
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/aug/05/yvette-cooper-small-boats-migrants-uk-france-home-office-uk-politics-live
 
https://bsky.app/profile/yougov.co.uk/post/3lvnr5fixc22l
 
https://www.facebook.com/EpiscopalNY/
 
https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-alligator-alcatraz-27fbae217427be730f589323df7cf656
 
https://sam.gov/opp/53dc2fa997954c1d8acf8888fd8f0b56/view
 
https://bi2technologies.com/service/iris/
 
https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250519NE91508/bi2-technologies-and-support-our-sheriffs-foundation-partner-with-singlecare-to-create-sheriff-rx/ 
 
https://www.secureidnews.com/news-item/el-paso-sheriff-to-use-iris-scanners/?ref=404media.co
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSW25P00000040_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD025FR0000036_7012_NNG15SC82B_8000
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSD25P00000047_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSW25P00000042_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
 
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/02/capsule-review-ford-svt-raptor-united-states-border-patrol-edition/
 
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senator-cornyn-says-fbi-will-help-track-down-texas-democrats-who-fled-over-2025-08-07/
 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/texas-quorum-breaks-history/
 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-house-warrants-arrest-quorum-break/
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493544/rfk-defunding-mrna-vaccine-research
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 194

The gang talk about Texas Dems fleeing to Illinois to stop gerrymandering, RFK Jr. canceling mRNA contracts, and how ICE is spending its new big budget. Plus, the return of Tariff Talk.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/
 
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/aug/05/yvette-cooper-small-boats-migrants-uk-france-home-office-uk-politics-live
 
https://bsky.app/profile/yougov.co.uk/post/3lvnr5fixc22l 
 
https://www.facebook.com/EpiscopalNY/ 
 
https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-alligator-alcatraz-27fbae217427be730f589323df7cf656 
 
https://sam.gov/opp/53dc2fa997954c1d8acf8888fd8f0b56/view 
 
https://bi2technologies.com/service/iris/ 
 
https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250519NE91508/bi2-technologies-and-support-our-sheriffs-foundation-partner-with-singlecare-to-create-sheriff-rx/ 
 
https://www.secureidnews.com/news-item/el-paso-sheriff-to-use-iris-scanners/?ref=404media.co 
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSW25P00000040_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD025FR0000036_7012_NNG15SC82B_8000 
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSD25P00000047_7012_-NONE-_-NONE- 
 
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/02/capsule-review-ford-svt-raptor-united-states-border-patrol-edition/ 
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSW25P00000042_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
 
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senator-cornyn-says-fbi-will-help-track-down-texas-democrats-who-fled-over-2025-08-07/
 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/texas-quorum-breaks-history/
 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-house-warrants-arrest-quorum-break/
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493544/rfk-defunding-mrna-vaccine-research
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28

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
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trumps-immigration-record-far-high-arrests-low-deportations-rcna217752
 
https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/ 
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-refuses-us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-sources-say-2025-01-25/
 
https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3luq3qktltc2n

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Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting

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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Mapping Border Deaths

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-are-sounding-the-alarm-to-allow-lifesaving-aid-into-gaza/
 
Fogbow in Uganda and Sudan - https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/06/16/fogbow-operations-south-sudan-raise-red-flags-aid-private-sector
 
Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/israel-leaders-palestinian-territories-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-7-october
 
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on dismantling UNRWA - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/notes/unrwa-may-be-forced-stop-saving-lives-gaza-will-world-let-happen
 
NPR report on famine in Gaza - https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/25/g-s1-78968/what-does-it-take-for-a-famine-to-be-declared-in-gaza
 
US Green Beret on what he saw at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/i-witnessed-war-crimes-in-gaza-u-s-veteran-and-former-ghf-worker-tells-bbc/00000198-47e0-d6be-a1bd-4ffd67f90000
 
Aljazeera op-ed by former UN official - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/21/why-is-the-un-not-declaring-famine-in-gaza
 
UN reporting on deaths at aid sites - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396
 
Dr. Nick Maynard on what he witnessed in Gaza - https://www.channel4.com/news/teenagers-being-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-british-surgeon-in-gaza
 
Suppressing Dissent edited volume - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Suppressing-Dissent/Zaha-Hassan/9781836430971

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Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd

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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Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew

Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.

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

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- 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
 
You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today!
 
http://apple.co/coolerzone 
 
Sources/Links:
 
The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 
https://givebutter.com/Uj0NLs
 
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-upmc-to-reinstate-healthcare-for-trans-youth-and-young-adults?source=direct_link&
 
@providers4transjustice on IG
 
Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying
 
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/live-like-the-world-is-dying
 
http://www.tangledwilderness.org
 
http://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness
 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
 
Douglas Rushkoff
 
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/ready-for-anything
 
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-time-to-build-resilient-communities
 
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocalypse
 
https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/s1e1-kitty-stryker-on-anarchist-prepping/
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27
 
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/one-person-killed-every-12-minutes-july-now-gazas-deadliest-month-early-2024
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/27/live-israel-intercepts-gaza-bound-handala-5-palestinians-starve-to-death
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5477365/israel-gaza-aid-casualties
 
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-133/en/ 
 
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-30 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.238.0.pdf 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.97.0.pdf 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.98.0.pdf 
 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/ 

 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 193

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:
 
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/one-person-killed-every-12-minutes-july-now-gazas-deadliest-month-early-2024
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/27/live-israel-intercepts-gaza-bound-handala-5-palestinians-starve-to-death
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5477365/israel-gaza-aid-casualties
 
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-133/en/ 
 
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-30 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.238.0.pdf 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.97.0.pdf 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.98.0.pdf 
 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062 
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/ 

 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27

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:
 
http://www.tangledwilderness.org
 
http://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness
 
“The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse” by Douglas Rushkoff:
 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
 
Douglas Rushkoff
 
“Ready for Anything” by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness:
 
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/ready-for-anything
 
“It’s Time to Build Resilient Communities” by Margaret Killjoy:
 
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-time-to-build-resilient-communities

 
Etymology of Apocalypse:
 
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocalypse
 
"Kitty Stryker on Anarchist Prepping" (LLWD Ep. 1):
 
https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/s1e1-kitty-stryker-on-anarchist-prepping/

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Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying

In the final episode of the series James looks at how Marshallese women's group Kora In Okrane have ensured access to clean water for every single resident of the country, and how the Marshallese community has come together to overcome the challenges of climate change, the nuclear legacy, and a safe home environment.
 
 
 
Donate to Kora In Okrane (KIO) Directly - Email them directly to donate: kiomarshallislands@gmail.com
 
** Donate to the Sawyer Foundation: https://www.sawyerfoundation.org/donate
 
** Learn more about Sawyer's clean water projects: https://www.sawyer.com/

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The Marshall Islands, Part Four: Water Is Life

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