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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

Hello, It Could Happen Here Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2!
 
About the show: Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole families. Several fell out of high windows. Most of the deaths are suspicious. Russia says they're coincidental suicides—that the deceased were simply depressed. We don't think so...
 
Sad Oligarch is an investigative podcast series that looks into the strange deaths of the Russian elite, unravelling a dark tale of Kremlin corruption and Putin's political dictatorship across the world. This is season two—Russian oligarchs are still dying and things have gotten even weirder...
 
Listen here and subscribe to SAD OLIGARCH Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH Season 2

Garrison talks about how politicians and media figures weaponize public acts of violence though the lens of partisan political ideology.

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The Weaponization of Mass Shootings

Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
 
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413

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The Riyadh Comedy Festival

Mia talks with Unraveled’s Raven about ICE’s horrific raids in Chicago from a traffic stop murder to helicopter apartment raids.
 
Sources:
 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/
 
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

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ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago

Kicking off spooky month with a story about demons that I don't want to spoil by telling you more about but it's so good I promise.

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CZM Book Club: Kushtaka, by Mathilda Zeller

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- SEIU 1000 Union Rep of the IE Reports Live from the Frontline
 
- Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel
 
- Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?
 
- What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36
 
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:
 
Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel
 
https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/
 
https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf
 
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/
 
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075
 
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority
 
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset
 
Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?
 
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406
 
What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?
 
https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/ 
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36
 
democrats-are-shutting-down-government

 
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ 
 
​​https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/ 

 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/
 
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility 
 
https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 
 
https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california 
 
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ 
 
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 
 
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 
 
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ 
 
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ 
 
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ 
 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ 

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 202

The gang discuss the government shutdown, War Department plans to deploy troops to US cities, ICE raids in Chicago, new border wall construction, and a National Security Presidential Memo targeting political violence indicators like “anti-capitalism, anti-christianity, and extremism on migration, race, and gender.”
 
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ec-off-ice
 
Sources:
 
https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-run-wild-blatantly-false-claim-democrats-are-shutting-down-government

 
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ 
 
​​https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/ 

 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/
 
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility 
 
https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 
 
https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california 
 
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ 
 
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 
 
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 
 
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ 
 
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ 
 
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ 
 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ 

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36

James introduces a rebroadcast of Final Straw Radio in which Mo speaks with Bursts about the implications of recent Executive Orders and Memoranda for free speech and the First Amendment.
 
https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/ 

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What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?

James is joined by Dr. Tyler Black and Dr. Kaveh Hoda to discuss the MAHA claim that the medication Tylenol is increasing the incidence of autism. 
 
Sources: 
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

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Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?

Mia talks with CAW writer and editor Vicky Osterweil about Republican unpopularity, Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney’s history of fascism
 
Links: 
 
https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/
 
Sources: 
https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf
 
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/
 
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075
 
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority
 
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset

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Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel

The gang talks about the pronatalist right in Trump's orbit, and historical examples of pronatalism from Japan, Spain, and Romania.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119
 
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203059913-9/pronatalism-motherhood-franco-spain-mary-nash
 
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899
 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237296749_Marriage_squeeze_and_changes_in_family_formation_historical_comparative_evidence_in_Spain_France_and_the_United_States_in_the_twentieth_century 
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine 
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/2/2155893/-Texas-Republican-channels-Stalin-and-Putin-to-glorify-motherhood 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8

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Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill

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