Behind the Bastards

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

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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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Robert goes through the colorful life and backstory of future Trump administration official Steven Hatfill, who went from Rhodesian military volunteer to biological weapons expert to (innocent) suspect of a major terrorist attack.

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Robert begins our series of episodes about two of the most infamous fuck ups in US law enforcement history, starting with the Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- An Inside Look at the Asylum Process

- What is Tren de Aragua and Why is Trump Obsessed With Them?

- Autism and RFK Jr.’s War on Pregnant People

- How the US attacks on Venezuela Impact Trinidad and Tobago with Andrew 

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #35

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Sources:

https://x.com/ConsulMexCho/status/1966636249910738951  

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/12/dhs-statement-ice-officer-seriously-injured-line-duty-and-shooting-chicago-during  

https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/  

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773.37.0_2.pdf  

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773.41.0.pdf  

https://calmatters.org/inside-the-newsroom/2025/04/calmatters-partners-with-evident-media-on-a-documentary-exposing-truth-behind-border-patrol-raid/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/16/us/tyler-robinson-charges.html  

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-leaked-messages-from-charlie  

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-kimmel.html 

Crossing Borders: The Evolution and Impact of Tren de Aragua | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University https://share.google/xnyZpnUILdcDrZep1

Debunking 3 Myths About Tren de Aragua https://share.google/TGwfFwu9ApWrOuU7N 

Tattoos of deported Venezuelans don't necessarily signal gang affiliation, experts say https://share.google/PD8reoZTA8yDc7mA5 

Tattoos of deported Venezuelans don't necessarily signal gang affiliation, experts say https://share.google/PD8reoZTA8yDc7mA5 

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-health-autism-white-house-september-22-2025/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/22/autism-tylenol-takeaways-trump-rfk-jr/86293921007/

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550153/trump-rfk-autism-tylenol-leucovorin-pregnancy

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-health-experts-trump-tylenol-autism-link/

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/pm-us-military-should-kill-them-all-violently-6.2.2390747.79d6204d7c  
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jel4gyezo 

https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/09-16-2025-Whistleblower-Disclosure-to-Congress-re-Guatemalan-UC-Repatriation-SN.pdf

https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MEMORANDUM-OPINION.pdf 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/the-gold-card/ 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/ 

https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1970491119831028000 

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550915/trump-immigration-judges 

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/g-s1-86691/military-lawyers-immigration-judges-jag 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-afpi-tpusa-hillsdale-college-and-over-40-national-and-state-organizations-launch-america-250-civics-coalition#:~:text=Home-,U.S 

https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/centers/america-250-civics-education-coalition?__cf_chl_tk=CX4TkwEkLHCaXlh.Fd5SU143s0.XxeWDM.gYxCgS1R4-1758115761-1.0.1.1-PtDspNboVVBLqiywS5GF3.Ns09TzWf.a9IAN86NyplM
https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism 

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people 

https://www.them.us/story/trump-admin-fbi-trans-nihilistic-violent-extremists-terrorist

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Robert discussed Buford Pusser's war on crime and the crime he committed when he murdered his wife and blamed the mafia. We also talk about how he died, which is fun.

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Robert tells the story of legendary lawman Buford Pusser, whose lies about his real life inspired the movie 'Walking Tall' and helped create Hollywood's conception of the ideal lawman.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- Charlie Kirk's Assassination: Sorting Fact from Fiction

- DC Police Takeover Update feat. Bridget Todd

- Thi'sl, The Nipsey Hussle of St. Louis, On What It Really Takes to Make Our Hoods Better feat. Prop

- Years of Lead Paint

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #34

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Sources/Links:

Years of Lead Paint

https://www.cawshinythings.com/i-was-promised-a-more-aesthetically-pleasing-cyberpunk-dystopia/

https://www.cato.org/blog/politically-motivated-violence-rare-united-states

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52960-charlie-kirk-americans-political-violence-poll

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/italian-neofascism-and-years-lead-closer-look 

https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist 

https://libcom.org/article/analysis-autonomia-interview-sergio-bologna 

https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/terrorism2ed/chpt/ordine-nuovo 

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bologna-train-station-bombing-of-1980

https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/Terrorism#ref929858

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/16/us/tyler-robinson-charges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU8.jooL.UUL_fH4KQcdy

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/ 

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #34

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Ever wondered how the SS celebrated Christmas? This, and Heinrich Himmler's war on Christmas in our conclusion to Heinrich Himmler's life from birth up to the start of WW2.

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As the Nazis take total power, Heinrich Himmler must build the SS into a power that can defeat his new enemy: other Nazis.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- It Was Never About Crime feat. Prop

- Abundance, Or How To Sell Tech Fascism To Liberals

- ICE Partners with Israeli Phone Hacking Spyware

- Recognizing Palestine as a State: Meaningful Farce feat. Dana El Kurd

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #33

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Sources/Links:

It Was Never About Crime feat. Prop

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10567-025-00534-6#Sec9 

https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/baltimore-homicides-drop-WTR3QQN7LRGFXOVCGAAMNYMUBE/ 

https://theconversation.com/data-driven-early-intervention-strategies-could-revolutionize-phillys-approach-to-crime-prevention-258756

https://genius.com/Freeway-what-we-do-lyrics

https://www.baltimorepolice.org/about/baltimore-police-crime-plan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/baltimore-violent-crime-trump

Abundance, Or How To Sell Tech Fascism To Liberals

https://thebaffler.com/latest/whats-the-matter-with-abundance-harris?ref=newintermag.com

https://newintermag.com/abundance-big-techs-bid-for-the-democratic-party/#fn16

https://archive.vn/zgPJ8

https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Abundance-Ecosystem-Report-Final.pdf

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/17/2025/with-the-argument-the-left-gets-a-new-publication

http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2022/01/washingtons-newest-think-tank-institute.html

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/who-is-behind-the-growing-abundance-movement/

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/the-tech-fascist-axis

https://www.abundancedc.org/speakers

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/the-tech-fascist-axis

https://archive.vn/GKRmw#selection-377.0-377.19

https://www.theargumentmag.com/about

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-11-26-abundance-agenda-neoliberalisms-rebrand/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/dc-attorney-general-inks-first-settlement-realpage-price-fixing-lawsuit-2025-06-02/

https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/economic-liberties-launches-2025-end-rental-price-fixing-campaign/

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-materials/2024/12/17/the-cost-of-anticompetitive-pricing-algorithms-in-rental-housing/

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

https://techfascism.substack.com/p/the-network-state-and-infrastructure

ICE Partners with Israeli Phone Hacking Spyware

https://ssd.eff.org/ 

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-first-look-at-paragons-proliferating-spyware-operations/ 

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of-paragons-ios-mercenary-spyware-finds-journalists-targeted/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-ice-has-reactivated-its 

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-paragon-solutions-contract/

https://dfrlab.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/09/Mythical-Beasts.pdf

https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/company_page/paragon

https://red-dot.capital/portfolio

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/07/29/paragon-is-an-nso-competitor-and-an-american-funded-israeli-surveillance-startup-that-hacks-encrypted-apps-like-whatsapp-and-signal/

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14093-prohibition-use-the-united-states-government-commercial-spyware-that

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware

Recognizing Palestine as a State: Meaningful Farce feat. Dana El Kurd

Noura Erekat and Shahd Hammouri in Jadaliyya - https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46838

Paul Poast in World Politics Review - https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/palestine-state-recognition-france/

NPR report - https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5485359/france-uk-palestine-state-explainer

European Society of International Law on occupation - https://esil-sedi.eu/prolonged-occupation-or-illegal-occupant/#:~:text=The%20occupying%20power%2C%20throughout%20the,consistent%20with%20its%20trustee%20responsibilities.

Daniel Kurtzer on the Oslo Accords - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/20/magazine/israel-gaza-oslo-accords.html

Hanan Ashrawi on the Oslo Accords - https://www.972mag.com/hanan-ashrawi-oslo-accords/

Polling of Palestinians May 2025 - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2095%20press%20release%206May2025%20ENGLISH.pdf

Dana El Kurd and Pablo Abufom for The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/palestinians-leader-mahmoud-abbas-president

Tanja Aalberts on sovereignty - Constructing Sovereignty between Politics and Law - 1st Edition - Tanj

Jared Kushner “Peace to Prosperity” plan - trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Peace-to-Prosperity-0120.pdf

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #33

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/422/873/

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/customs-and-border-protection-settles-federal-lawsuit-american-citizens-racially

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/l.g.m.l.-v.-noem--a-hearing-diary

ttps://qz.com/higher-investment-means-hyundai-could-get-2-1-billion-1850832920

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/hyundai-factory-ice-raid-legal-visa

https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-reactions-charlie-kirk-shooting-civil-war/

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/11/us/charlie-kirk-shooting-news

https://x.com/mkraju/status/1965108206969241953

https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1963635111112446449

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-considering-banning-trans-people-buying-guns-us-media-2025-09-04/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment 

https://archive.ph/kI2Uo

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/rfk-jr-hhs-to-link-autism-to-tylenol-use-in-pregnancy-and-folate-deficiencies-e3acbb4c 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yok1fhPICAY

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Robert and Prop continue the improbable journey of Heinrich Himmler from nerdy new age mystic kid to leader of the deadliest organization in history

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In this episode we discuss Himmler's growing belief in the German occult movement, even as he rises to command the SS.

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We are doing a new Behind the Bastards Live show! In the Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, September 25th at 8pm! All performer proceeds go to support the Portland Defense Fund.

In person tickets sold out!

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- BlueAnon: Assassination False Flag and Liberal Election Denial

- BlueAnon: Alt National Park Service

- Chicago Prepares for Occupation

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #32

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Sources/Links:

BlueAnon: Assassination False Flag and Liberal Election Denial

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/nov/07/threads-posts/no-20-million-democratic-votes-didnt-disappear-and/

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/04/harris-nsa-audit-2024-election/

https://www.wired.com/story/election-denial-conspiracy-theories-x-left-blueanon/ 

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/americans-accept-election-results-even-if-some-are-unhappy-outcome

https://www.reddit.com/r/houstonwade/comments/1gnwsv0/they_cheated/

https://theplotagainstamerica.com/

https://www.cip.uw.edu/2024/11/18/conspiracy-theory-starlink-election-results/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/nov/12/threads-posts/no-elon-musks-starlink-wasnt-used-to-rig-the-2024/

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_assassination_attempt_online_conspiracy_theories_musk.php 

https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/trump-assassination-attempt-polling 

BlueAnon: Alt National Park Service

https://jjoycelynch.substack.com/ 

https://bsky.app/profile/altwatcher.bsky.social

Chicago Prepares for Occupation

https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com

https://unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pritzker-deeply-concerned-ice-targeting-chicagos-mexican-independence-rcna228752

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #32

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Robert takes us up to Heinrich Himmler's adolescence and frustrating wait through the war years, which leads him into the world of far-right politics and eventually the welcoming arms of the Nazi party itself.

LIVE SHOW ALERT:

We are doing a new Behind the Bastards Live show! In the Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, September 25th at 8pm! All performer proceeds go to support the Portland Defense Fund.

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Sources:

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

THE CAREER OF HEINRICH HIMMLER_0001.pdf

Longerich, Peter. Heinrich Himmler: A Life (p. 13). OUP Oxford. Kindle 

The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler on JSTOR

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

"In Memory of the Girl in the Red Coat:" Heinrich Himmler’s Annotated Volumes of Mein Kampf

https://ia803406.us.archive.org/29/items/docuv3/Books/The%20Third%20Reich/The%20Celebrations%20in%20the%20Life%20of%20the%20SS%20Family%20by%20Fritz%20Weitzel%20%281939%29.pdf

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/himmlers-bridal-bootcamp-school-nazi-brides.html

https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/himmler-s-secret-directive-to-all-members-of-the-ss-and-the-police-on-the-care-of-all-legitimate-and-illegitimate-children-of-good-blood-october-28-1939

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Master-Dark-Arts-Yenne-ebook/dp/B004NNUY2Y

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/26/266698688/heinrich-himmlers-private-letters-published-in-german-newspaper

https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-private-heinrich-himmler/id6505124720

https://www.amazon.com/Himmler-Evil-Genius-Third-Reich-ebook/dp/B01M2A6B3G/ref=sr_1_17?crid=E50LI9MCINFL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.z6x_l5l35NMXS2OQuWFaVyTyeQToCbFtWufYLO0Ky4L51lUaUoGgVfmp9dpb0YgMMGMBzk6Ds5M4KY8XSGQdvzs_UWlPu3KkmHJV0_w1Lis71gwuHqxL4QpDLUxg_RgLfXjB7BuAQbn7kAstKkyA7w_NZpcXTr-nDXe0RoewTewNaEu0ci8AQ1anNJXxG-Dy.nKYUB17tVmFaGgeBMu1awu8zpzoH45_FAeO3Um6YpBs&dib_tag=se&keywords=himmler+biography&qid=1756935132&sprefix=himmler+biography%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-17&xpid=KnVwOODWUvtST

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Robert sits down with Prop to discuss the early life of Heinrich Himmler, the man who built the SS into Hitler's engine of genocide.

(6 part series)

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Sources:

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

THE CAREER OF HEINRICH HIMMLER_0001.pdf

Longerich, Peter. Heinrich Himmler: A Life (p. 13). OUP Oxford. Kindle 

The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler on JSTOR

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

"In Memory of the Girl in the Red Coat:" Heinrich Himmler’s Annotated Volumes of Mein Kampf

https://ia803406.us.archive.org/29/items/docuv3/Books/The%20Third%20Reich/The%20Celebrations%20in%20the%20Life%20of%20the%20SS%20Family%20by%20Fritz%20Weitzel%20%281939%29.pdf

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/himmlers-bridal-bootcamp-school-nazi-brides.html

https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/himmler-s-secret-directive-to-all-members-of-the-ss-and-the-police-on-the-care-of-all-legitimate-and-illegitimate-children-of-good-blood-october-28-1939

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Master-Dark-Arts-Yenne-ebook/dp/B004NNUY2Y

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/26/266698688/heinrich-himmlers-private-letters-published-in-german-newspaper

https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-private-heinrich-himmler/id6505124720

https://www.amazon.com/Himmler-Evil-Genius-Third-Reich-ebook/dp/B01M2A6B3G/ref=sr_1_17?crid=E50LI9MCINFL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.z6x_l5l35NMXS2OQuWFaVyTyeQToCbFtWufYLO0Ky4L51lUaUoGgVfmp9dpb0YgMMGMBzk6Ds5M4KY8XSGQdvzs_UWlPu3KkmHJV0_w1Lis71gwuHqxL4QpDLUxg_RgLfXjB7BuAQbn7kAstKkyA7w_NZpcXTr-nDXe0RoewTewNaEu0ci8AQ1anNJXxG-Dy.nKYUB17tVmFaGgeBMu1awu8zpzoH45_FAeO3Um6YpBs&dib_tag=se&keywords=himmler+biography&qid=1756935132&sprefix=himmler+biography%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-17&xpid=KnVwOODWUvtST

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- Newsom’s Posting Through It

- Palestine and the American University feat. Dana El Kurd

- How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws, Part One

- How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws, Part Two

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #31

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Sources/Links:

Newsom’s Posting Through It

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

Palestine and the American University feat. Dana El Kurd

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/

How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws

https://transnews.network/p/nc-dems-anti-trans-betrayals

@davidforbes.bsky.social

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #31

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/india-us-lose-trump-tariffs-russia-wins-2025-08-27/

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed.htm

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/domestic-market-operations/monetary-policy-implementation/repo-reverse-repo-agreements

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/rrp_faq.html

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2022/01/how-the-feds-overnight-reverse-repo-facility-works/

https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html

https://fortune.com/2025/08/09/trump-fed-pick-stephen-miran-existential-threat-central-bank-independence/

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-12-trillion-u-s-repo-market-evidence-from-a-novel-panel-of-intermediaries-20250711.html

https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-federal-reserve-banks

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/forthcoming/1202mart.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/lisa-cook-fed-governor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.oyr3.s4yYTqcf14ZD

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/prosecuting-burning-of-the-american-flag/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/measures-to-end-cashless-bail-and-enforce-the-law-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/taking-steps-to-end-cashless-bail-to-protect-americans/ 

https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-guard-mobilizing-19-states-immigration-crime-crackdown

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/additional-measures-to-address-the-crime-emergency-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/kennedy-announces-nih-study-into-psych-drugs-after-second-trans-school-shooter

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Robert concludes the story of Lee Atwater by discussing his greatest success and then his sickness and fall from power and influence. We also talk about the Grammy nominated album he made with Isaac Hayes.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater

https://archive.is/STJGq

https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus

https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539

https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html

https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173

https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html

https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206

https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/

https://archive.is/7CjqQ

https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/

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Lee Atwater graduates high school after a brief stint in an insane fraternity then becomes a college Republican leader and starts his career as a dirty tricks expert for political campaigns.

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Robert sits down with Garrison Davis to discuss the life and times of Lee Atwater, the arch inventor of Republican dirty tricks politics.

(3 Part Series, releasing all this week)

Sources:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater

https://archive.is/STJGq

https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus

https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539

https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html

https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173

https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html

https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206

https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/

https://archive.is/7CjqQ

https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/

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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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Robert explains how Alexandre Villaplane ruined his football career committing crimes, badly, and then started a new career as a mass murderer for the SS.

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Robert sits down with Dana Schwartz to tell the dark tale of Alexandre Villaplane, the French Football star and gangster who became a member of the SS.

(2 part series)

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew

- Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen

- How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center

- Tariffs and the Corruption State

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29

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Sources/Links:

Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen

https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lead-investigator-james-comer-biden-autopen-digital-signature-rcna216719

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html

How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center

http://nodesertdatacenter.com

https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a

https://vermaland.com

Tariffs and the Corruption State

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.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-amd-chip-sales-china-15-percent-h20-mi308/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-switzerland-trump.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-come-into-effect-hitting-dozens-of-us-trading-partners.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/12/trump-extends-china-tariff-deadline-for-the-second-time-what-does-it-mean

https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/08/12/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/business/trade-exemptions-tariffs-trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7jjkvzmkxo

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.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-tells-foreign-military-junta-wants-hear-raising-e-rcna221569

https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/

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/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29

https://www.cvesd.org/parents/family-and-community-resources
lausd.org

https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/577/Parent%20Resources/ComResourceGuideEng.pdf

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2024/11/21/with-trump-back-in-power-advocates-criticize-gloria-for-shuttering-immigrant-affairs-office

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html

https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169

https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-democrats-return-after-governor-ends-special-session/story?id=124592449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-gunman-cdc-shooting-fired-500-rounds-officials/story?id=124577732

https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-jr-in-interview-with-scripps-news-trusting-the-experts-is-not-science 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

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In Part 2 Frank Fay finds love and creates the most toxic Hollywood romance of all time. Then he breaks Nazi and holds a fascist rally in New York City less than a year after the end of WW2.

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Robert sits down with Andrew Ti to discuss the ground breaking performer who created modern stand up comedy and also palled around with the KKK.

(2 Part Series)

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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

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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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Robert and Jamie learn how Pete Hegseth thinks Islam works, and discuss his plan to purge the U.S. of undesirables.

Sources:

Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, timeline of sexual assault allegation : NPR

Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault | CNN Politics

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker

Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong : NPR

Historian: Crusader motto "Deus vult" is a myth - english.katholisch.de

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

"Five Ways Christian Families Are Under Attack" Pastor Chris Durkin

The Crusades, the first holy war | Submission.org - Your best source for Submission (Islam)

These brave Afghans helped the U.S. after 9/11. Now the U.S. wants to deport them.

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

An Appointment in Samarra | National Review

Republican Hegseth is out of U.S. Senate race. For good.

Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade - The New York Times                                                                                                                                                       

Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric | Trump administration | The Guardian

Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine

What the firestorm over Rep. Omar’s remarks says about anti-Semitism in America | PBS News

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Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about Pete Hegseth's life, times and horrible 2020 book.

Sources:

Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, timeline of sexual assault allegation : NPR

Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault | CNN Politics

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker

Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong : NPR

Historian: Crusader motto "Deus vult" is a myth - english.katholisch.de

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

"Five Ways Christian Families Are Under Attack" Pastor Chris Durkin

The Crusades, the first holy war | Submission.org - Your best source for Submission (Islam)

These brave Afghans helped the U.S. after 9/11. Now the U.S. wants to deport them.

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

An Appointment in Samarra | National Review

Republican Hegseth is out of U.S. Senate race. For good.

Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade - The New York Times                                                                                                                                                       

Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric | Trump administration | The Guardian

Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine

What the firestorm over Rep. Omar’s remarks says about anti-Semitism in America | PBS News

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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

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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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We conclude the story and life of "Dr. Death", which culminates in, predictably, a lot of dead people.

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Robert sits down with Steven Monacelli to tell the grisly tale of a Texas psychiatrist who invented an industry based on convincing juries to kill people.

(2 Part series)

sources:

TRAVELS WITH Dr. DEATH | Vanity Fair | May 1990

Death’s Conviction

James Grigson Testimony Linked to Miscarriages of Justice

Effect of "Dr. Death" and his testimony lingers

Flawed Trials Lead to Death Chamber | Death Penalty Information Center

Texas halts execution of accomplice tainted by 'Dr Death' testimony - BBC News

James Grigson Obituary (2004) - Dallas, TX - Dallas Morning News

The Law; Expert Witness Is Unfazed by 'Dr. Death' Label - The New York Times

Law: They Call Him Dr. Death | TIME

Texas 'Dr. Death' retires after 167 capital case trials - Washington Times

82-6080.PDF

Implicit bias | ASU News

On Texas' Death Row, Ramiro Gonzales Gets Help From Doctor Who Condemned Him | The Marshall Project

Dr. Death, This Side of the Twilight Zone: Estelle v. Smith (1981) — MAX WACHTEL, PHD

Texas Study Challenges 'Violent Behavior' Predictions - Los Angeles Times

The origins of forensic psychiatry in the United States and the great nineteenth-century crisis over the adjudication of wills - PubMed

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- 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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Sources/Links:

How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage

https://transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/

https://thefreeradical.org/dont-panic-the-battle-over-the-trans-medicaid-ban-is-far-from-over-heres-how-to-fight-back/

https://ashevilleblade.com‪‪

Social Media: @thefreeradical.org‬, @davidforbes.bsky.social‬, @madycast.com

Tracking ICE Removal Flights

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-there-are-angry/

https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-call-to-action-for-airline-workers-to-stop-ices-deportation-machine/

https://thedawn.com.ss/2025/07/10/govt-places-8-u-s-deportees-behind-bars-in-juba/

witnessattheborder.org

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

https://www.pogo.org/investigations/meet-the-ice-contractor-running-deportation-flights

https://capitalandmain.com/a-drunk-mechanic-shackled-immigrants-a-crash-landing-the-dangers-of-ice-flights

https://alexplank.substack.com/p/photos-shackled-migrant-escorted

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

How LA Resisted ICE

https://linktr.ee/mel_buer‪

@acatwithnews.bsky.social‬

@melbuer.bsky.social‬

Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/donald-trump-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-model-amy-dorris

https://archive.fo/J6z9J

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna218693

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/21/18701098/trump-accusers-sexual-assault-rape-e-jean-carroll

https://archive.fo/aeLYy

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26

Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose

https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?st=dg3j4m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

https://apnews.com/article/trump-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-justice-department-4634e5afceb8b1bb43f23558dfbb1d6c

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year 

https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-immigration-deport-chilean-man-living-pennsylvania-refuting-123944071

https://www.fastcheck.cl/2025/07/22/foto-atribuida-a-luis-leon-supuesto-migrante-chileno-deportado-a-guatemala-es-falsa/

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165454 

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-07-22/fort-bliss-detention-center-migrants-18520342.html

https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4250988/ 

https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/2022-02/DODIG-2022-064.pdf 

https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2024/budget_justification/pdfs/01_Operation_and_Maintenance/O_M_VOL_1_PART_2/OHDACA_OP-5.pdf 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/trump-awards-immigration-detention-center-contract-for-fort-bliss-in-texas?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy 

https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration 

https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232598p.pdf

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/afghan-refugee-fort-bliss/  

https://ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/031145354889

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/ 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/trump-announces-massive-trade-deal-with-japan-with-15percent-tariffs.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/23/eu-100bn-no-deal-plan-trump-tariffs-threat-us-imports

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-trade-deals-are-arriving-how-they-might-affect-us-economy-rcna220465

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-rico-law-ban-hormone-therapy-gender-affirming-surgery-transgender-youth/

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5407157-puerto-rico-gender-affirming-care-ban-transgender-americans/

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-congress-epstein-mike-johnson-b2793874.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-strikes-deal-with-japan-as-eu-us-reportedly-close-in-on-pact-200619932.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rumeysa-ozturk-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/npr-pbs-affiliates-worry-congress-clawbacks-00465850

https://archive.vn/zXQCw#selection-895.0-899.146

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Robert and Miles discuss the second phase of Laetrile's history, where it becomes a culture war issue for the right wing John Birch Society.

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Robert sits down with Miles Gray to talk about Laetrile, a fraudulent cancer "cure" embraced by the John Birch society as a way to tie right wing politics to alternative medicine.

(2 Part Series)

Sources:

Sci-Hub | Laetrile: A Lesson in Cancer Quackery. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 31(2), 91–95 | 10.3322/canjclin.31.2.91

The Controversy Surrounding Chad Green

Nation: A Battle over Cancer Care - TIME

Dr. Ernesto Contreras, Sr. / Oasis of Hope Hospital | Big Statues

first-page-pdf

Natural Cancer Cures Pioneer Dr. Ernesto Contreras, Founder of Oasis of Hope Cancer Hospital

Medicine: Debate over Laetrile | TIME

Ernesto Contreras' TJ laetrile clinic | San Diego Reader

Laetrile in Historical Perspective | Quackwatch

Dr Ernst T. Krebs - ENCOGNITIVE.COM.pdf

OBITUARY -- Ernst T. Krebs Jr.

The Story of Ernest Krebs, Jr., and Bunk Cancer Cure “Vitamin B17” – Patient Worthy

Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. (1912-1996)

The Rise and Fall of Laetrile | Quackwatch

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- 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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Sources/Links:

Humanity, the Good & the Bad, feat. Andrew

Humankind by Rutger Bregman

A Paradise Built In Hell by Rebecca Solnit

What Bombing Means for Freedom In Iran

https://hengaw.net/en

https://www.iranhr.net/en/

https://www.instagram.com/kurdistanipeopleii

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #25

https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case

https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/trump-uncle-unabomber-pennsylvania-speech-b2789762.html 

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-im-done-talking-about-epstein-time-being-im-gonna-trust-my-friends 

https://x.com/WIRED/status/1945207066634657854 

https://cw39.com/crime/former-us-marine-corps-reservist-charged-in-texas-immigration-detention-center-shooting/

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-order-certifies-nationwide-class-protecting-all-impacted-babies 

https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1943444549696917714

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628d9mre3go 

https://strangematters.coop/supply-chain-theory-of-inflation/

https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1945274627976200206 

https://www.facebook.com/TimesofEswatini/ 

https://thedawn.com.ss/2025/07/10/govt-places-8-u-s-deportees-behind-bars-in-juba/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/homan-says-white-house-hopes-to-forge-more-third-country-deals-in-wake-of-south-sudan-deportations-00448137

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/legislators-immigration-reform-reintroduced-dignidad-act/ 

https://archive.ph/DdUIR 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/politics/department-of-education-trump-dismantle-explainer 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/politics/supreme-court-firings-education 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/trump-tariffs-small-countries-00456401 

https://www.ft.com/content/65b1fb44-6391-4f74-82db-2d7eb6aaafa9 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/16/trump-brazil-tariffs-ultimatum-backfires-bolsonaro-lula 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/economy/trump-says-trade-deal-with-indonesia 

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jul/15/spokane-ice-protesters-including-stuckart-arrested/

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Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray!

Sources:
Antonio Salazar de Oliveira of Portugal and his Estado Novo

Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held Power in Portugal for 40 Years - The New York Times

Did Salazar have a love life? Part 2 – Portugal Resident

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html

50 years ago, the Carnation Revolution ended Portugal's dictatorship in one night

Portugal: End of the Salazar Era | TIME

Portugal’s secret police – Portugal Resident

The PIDE and Portuguese Society under the Salazar Dictatorship 1945-1974: Fear, SelfPolicing, Accommodation. | ICS

Portugal’s Dictatorship: Salazar’s Estado Novo - Portugal.com

Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547

The war that tears Estado Novo down | NewsMuseum

friedheim_pub - salazar - leaders of europe 1995.ashx

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Colonialism and Genocide in Portuguese Africa

Three graphics that explain Portuguese colonialism · Global Voices

118979704.pdf

Portugal, declassified – POLITICO

Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957

SalazarandBritish.pdf

Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957

Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Françafrique: A brief history of a scandalous word                     

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

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Robert sits down with with  Jeff May to talk about Antonio Salazar, the economics professor who became a brutal fascist dictator and was, sadly, really damn good at it.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- Palestine’s Stolen Future

- The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It)

- Protest, Immigration Enforcement, and the Unhoused Community

- The Minnesota Assassination & Evangelical Terrorism

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #24

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Sources/Links:

Palestine's Stolen Future

Raz Segal on genocide - https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

Omer Bartov on genocide – https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/omer_bartov_israel_gaza_genocide

Amos Goldberg on genocide - https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/05/25/intent-holocaust-studies-and-the-gaza-genocide-w-amos-goldberg/

Khaled Elgindy on Biden’s “bear hug” - https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/10/biden-israel-hamas-war-gaza-us-policy/

Bezalel Smotrich on population transfer - https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-gaza-to-be-totally-destroyed-population-concentrated-in-small-area/

Nissim Vaturi on population transfer - https://www.timesofisrael.com/occupy-expel-settle-minister-mks-at-far-right-rally-call-to-empty-gaza-of-gazans/

Arab Peace Initiative - https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=a5dab26d-a2fe-dc66-8910-a13730828279&groupId=268421

Arab Center Washington – “The Biden Administration and the Middle East in 2023” - https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/the-biden-administration-and-the-middle-east-in-2023/

Mike Huckabee on Palestinians - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/mike-huckabee-palestinian-comments-trump-israel-ambassador

Steve Witkoff making deals with Hamas - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-says-witkoffs-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-must-lead-end-war-2025-05-31/

Adam Boehler “we are not an agent of Israel” - https://www.axios.com/2025/03/09/adam-boehler-hamas-israel-talks

Philippe Lazzarini on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-gaza-aid-distribution-has-become-death-trap

Doctors without Borders on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation -  https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/siege-gaza-msf-denounces-new-aid-mechanism-proposed-us-and-israel

Jake Woods, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, resigns - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-aid-group-jake-wood-resigns

Saudi Minister on Two-State Solution - https://www.mofa.gov.sa/en/ministry/news/Pages/His-Highness-the-Foreign-Minister-A-Two-State-Solution-is-the-Only-Path-to-Achieving-a-Just-and-Lasting-Peace-in-the-Regio.aspx

France & Saudi sponsor peace conference - https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-855969

Qatari foreign minister on Saudi sponsored peace conference - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250613-qatar-france-fms-underscore-importance-of-upcoming-un-two-state-solution-conference-as-real-opportunity-for-peace/

The Oslo Accords and the Palestinian Authority background - https://www.palquest.org/en/highlight/31121/x-oslo-process-and-establishment-palestinian-authority

Yitzhak Rabin’s final address to the Knesset - https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/24965/yitzhaq-rabin%E2%80%99s-address-knesset-after-israeli-palestinian-agreement

Mapping Palestinian Politics – European Council on Foreign Relations - https://ecfr.eu/special/mapping_palestinian_politics/plo/

“Abbas is America’s Man” - https://jewishcurrents.org/abbas-is-americas-man

Tariq Dana – “Lost in Transition: The Palestinian National Movement After Oslo” - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/from-the-river-to-the-sea-9781978752658/

Wendy Pearlman – “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement” - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/violence-nonviolence-and-the-palestinian-national-movement/0F8D188C7D514D49F68D827066E0FABD

BDS call - https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi/pacbi-call

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research – September 2023 poll - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2089%20English%20Full%20Text%20September%202023.pdf

Interview with Ukrainian outlet “Commons” - https://commons.com.ua/en/intervyu-z-danoyu-el-kurd/

Protests against Hamas – July 2023 - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/07/30/thousands-of-marchers-in-gaza-in-rare-public-display-of-discontent-with-hamas_6073136_4.html

Protests against Hamas - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/middleeast/anti-hamas-protests-gaza-intl-latam

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research – May 2025 poll - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2095%20press%20release%206May2025%20ENGLISH.pdf

Changes in PLO structure and new Vice President role - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/palestinians-leader-mahmoud-abbas-president

Polling on Hussein Al-Sheikh - https://pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2092%20English%20full%20text%20July2024.pdf

Palestinian National Conference - https://ncpalestine.org/

A Land for All - https://www.2s1h.org/en

Israeli backed gangs in Gaza - https://zeteo.com/p/who-is-abu-shabab-meet-the-gaza-gangster

The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It)

Trans Income Project: https://www.transincomeproject.org/donate

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/planned-parenthood-trump-lawsuit

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/one-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-work-requirements-affordable-care-act-immigrants/#:~:text=The%20bill%20would%20require%20states%20that%20have,individual)%20and%20138%25%20of%20that%20amount%20($21%2C597).&text=The%20Senate%20bill%20would%20allow%20states%20to,who%20seek%20emergency%20room%20care%20for%20nonemergencies.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/05/16/school-choice-expansion-in-budget-bill-puts-federal-stamp-on-gop-priority/

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/trumps-budget-bill-attack-public-schools-working-families-and-immigrants

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/10-egregious-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act/

https://time.com/7299514/bill-will-devastate-public-schools

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/the-senate-passed-a-federal-voucher-program-whats-in-it/2025/07

https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/not-beautiful-trumps-budget-forces-a-national-voucher-plan-on-america/

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5397175/trump-federal-voucher-private-school

https://itep.org/trump-megabill-expensive-private-school-vouchers/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/how-trump-s-big-spending-bill-will-overhaul-repayment-for-millions-of-student-loan-borrowers/ar-AA1HXbVa?cvid=7271B17CDE424D63B5C23D6A3D1E71B7&ocid=msnHomepage

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-signs-big-tax-cut-spending-bill-law-july-fourth-ceremony-rcna216753

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/05/trump-budget-bill-states-border-security/84463777007/

https://newrepublic.com/post/197412/donald-trump-big-beautiful-budget-bill-devastating-poll

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/allocating-cbos-estimates-of-federal-medicaid-spending-reductions-across-the-states-senate-reconciliation-bill/

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/how-might-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-the-senate-passed-reconciliation-bill-affect-rural-areas/

https://www.cbpp.org/research/medicaid-and-chip/senate-reconciliation-amendment-would-cut-hundreds-of-billions-more-from

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-trump-big-beautiful-bill-senate-version/

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/house-reconciliation-bill-immigration-border-security/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heres-whats-in-the-big-bill-that-just-passed-the-senate

The Minnesota Assassination & Evangelical Terrorism

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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25976535-boelter-federal-affidavit/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250614161224/https://www.pguards.net/leadership-team

https://youtu.be/Sh01z1t2l3w?si=vSme9mqCPmeDROqp

https://www.startribune.com/timeline-how-an-early-morning-assault-against-minnesota-lawmakers-unfolded/601373039

https://www.startribune.com/melissa-hortman-shooting-vance-boelter-suspect/601373342

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/vance-boelter-due-back-in-federal-court-thursday-afternoon/

https://www.wired.com/story/shooting-minnesota-melissa-hortman-vance-boelter/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/us/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting-invs

https://web.archive.org/web/20230723010430/https://www.redliongroupdrc.com/#

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #24

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World War 2 is coming to an end, and Eichmann cooks up an escape scheme that allows him to flee justice- for a while. Robert and Joe talk about what comes next and conclude the Eichmann story.

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In Part 3, the Reich has invaded Russia and Eichmann is on a fact finding mission that will determine the course of the Holocaust.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1

- How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 2

- The Fall of the House of Liver King

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #23

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Sources/Links:

How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane)

https://libcom.org/article/how-hold-good-meeting-rustys-rules-order

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #23

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/27/us/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes 

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/mother-and-young-kids-inside-during-explosive-huntington-park-raid-suspect-not-home/  

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-vylan-visa-revoked-state-department-1235375566/

https://bsky.app/profile/mclem.org/post/3lstr4lfyns2w

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-denaturalization-convicted-distributor-child-sexual-abuse 

https://bsky.app/profile/immdef.bsky.social

https://laopinion.com/2025/06/30/hija-de-inmigrante-secuestrada-por-encapuchados-no-encuentra-a-su-madre-enferma/

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0306-71

https://x.com/RepOgles/status/1938301392416084150

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/kirsten-gillibrand-zohran-mamdani-00436031

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8dU-K1qZ4 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article309792865.html

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/tesla-sedan-hit-by-train-after-self-driving-error-in-berks-county-stops-train-traffic/article_aa1cbbf4-7918-4379-b557-da80f9596103.html 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heres-whats-in-the-big-bill-that-just-passed-the-senate

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/how-might-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-the-senate-passed-reconciliation-bill-affect-rural-areas/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/trump-trade-vietnam-deal.html

https://newrepublic.com/post/197412/donald-trump-big-beautiful-budget-bill-devastating-poll

https://www.cbpp.org/research/medicaid-and-chip/senate-reconciliation-amendment-would-cut-hundreds-of-billions-more-from

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-trump-big-beautiful-bill-senate-version/

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Robert tells Joe about Eichmann's entrance to the Nazi Party and his time as a concentration camp intern during the start of the Third Reich.

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Robert sits down with Joe Kassabian to discuss one of the worst Nazis: Adolf Eichmann, a major architect of the Holocaust.

(4 Part Series)

Sources:

Adolf Eichmann (1906 -1962) | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

The Complete Story of the Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann

 Eichmann in Jerusalem—I | The New Yorker

BBC - History - World Wars: Adolf Eichmann: The Mind of a War Criminal

The CIA and Adolf Eichmann | National Archives

Organizing Genocide: Theodor Dannecker, Eichmann's Deportation Specialist | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Organizing Genocide: Theodor Dannecker, Eichmann's Deportation Specialist | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Eichmann : his life and crimes : Cesarani, David : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

THE PAN-GERMANS’ PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE
Hungary's Wartime Leader Struck a Faustian Deal With Hitler

Budapest and Heroism – Wallenberg Legacy, University of Michigan

Depth of French police collaboration with Nazis revealed - France 24

RemovePaywalls.com - https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/excavating-one-of-the-nazis-first-concentration-camps/278877/

KZ Columbiahaus

We Will Never Speak of It: Evidence of Hitler's Direct Responsibility for the Premeditation and Implementation of the Nazi Final Solution

10-02-01_Student-Handout_Adolf-Eichmann.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Eichmann-Before-Jerusalem-Unexamined-Murderer/dp/0307950166

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- A Medical Perspective On Protest Safety

- Dividing the World, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew

- Dividing the World, Pt. 2: Externalization feat. Andrew

- Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Dem. Primary

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #22

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Sources/Links:

A Medical Perspective On Protest Safety

https://lapdonlinestrgeacc.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/lapdonlinemedia/2021/12/Directive_17.1_40mm_Less_Lethal_Launcher_Oct-.pdf

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1310-live-like-the-world-is-dy-85677729/

Dividing the World, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew

Rome: https://europe.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-1087.html

China: Rome, China, and the Barbarians Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires by Randolph B. Ford

European Colonialism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mf71b8.7?seq=1

Edward Said - Orientalism

Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities

John Lewis Gaddis - The Cold War: A New History Samuel Huntington - Clash of Civilisations

Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World System

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elia-j-ayoub-the-periphery-has-no-time-for-binaries

Dividing the World, Pt. 2: Externalization feat. Andrew

David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years

Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation

Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World System

Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Dem. Primary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyXXVoi514


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/us/elections/nyc-mayor-primary-results-precinct-map.html

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKvdChiOFLv/

https://gothamist.com/news/nearly-a-quarter-of-nycs-early-voters-hadnt-voted-in-a-democratic-primary-since-2012

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #22

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David Berg starts the 1970s as a wildly popular cult leader and immediately goes insane. Robert walks Ed Helms through the invention of "flirty fishing" AKA prostitution for Jesus and a bunch of other nightmare fuel.

Sources;

Children of God

Children of God cult was 'hell on earth'

'Children of God': Life and Death of the Messiah

The Children of God: Joaquin Phoenix, Rose McGowan Among Former Members of This Notorious Cult

Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult - The New York Times

Life With Grandpa (1985) - more perverse puppetry from The Family International

"Everybody can be happy" - The Luvvets 1980s - The Family International Puppet Show

Treasure Attic: Let's Have Fun

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(PDF) Lustful prophet: A psychosexual historical study of the children of God's leader, David Berg.

The Children of God \\ History \ Revolution for Jesus

https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Main_Page

https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Flirty_Fishing

https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Love_bombing0

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Robert sits down with Ed Helms to discuss one of our worst monsters: David Berg, founder of the Children of God cult.

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This special edition of ICHH Weekly compiles the complete Anti-Vax America series by guest host Steven Monacelli.

- Viral Texas

- Anti-Vax Genealogy

- God's Will

- Soft Eugenics

- Could It Happen Here?

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Sources/Links:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/05/20/measles-updates-texas-cases-pass-700-as-illness-reported-in-30-states/

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-and-beyond

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2025/03/24/data-these-charts-show-how-measles-vaccination-rates-declined-in-texas-public-schools/ 

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/

https://www.verywellhealth.com/measles-outbreak-texas-11682808 

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8828106/

https://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-me-ln-essential-california-20190507-story.html 

https://slate.com/technology/2025/04/measles-cases-epidemic-worst-case-vaccine.html 

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1200696/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8802588/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1123944/

https://time.com/7205900/anti-vaccination-movement-history/ 

https://historyofvaccines.org/getting-vaccinated/vaccine-faq/vaccination-exemptions

https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/timeline-of-vaccination-mandates

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68106-1_2 

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/ 

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-02/rand-paul-on-vaccines-most-of-them-ought-to-be-voluntary- 

https://time.com/5175704/andrew-wakefield-vaccine-autism/ 

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-vaccines-and-autism 

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bombastic-19th-century-anti-vaxxer-who-fueled-montreals-smallpox-epidemic/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature

https://www.cascadepbs.org/2020/05/seattle-always-had-anti-vaxxers-even-during-smallpox

https://www.cascadepbs.org/mossback/2025/02/history-vaccine-skepticism-1920s-seattle-rfk-jr

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/texas-measles-outbreak-death-family/681985/

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/ 

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2013/09/measles-outbreak-megachurch-kenneth-copeland-vaccines/ 

https://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/217746942/texas-megachurch-at-center-of-measles-outbreak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUGuJkVgXNA 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kenneth-copeland-blow-coronavirus-pray-sermon-trump-televangelist-a9448561.html 

https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2025/03/04/west-texans-mennonites-at-center-of-measles-outbreak-choose-medical-freedom-over-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/12/measles-vaccinations-texas-pastor-revels-in-schools-state-low-rates/81975293007/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19602363/ 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11700278/

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/educational-resources/timelines/eugenics

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/politics/abbott-migrant-transport-order-covid

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha-and-soft-eugenics/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-and-soft-eugenics-revisited-the-autism-tsunami-dr-oz-and-your-patriotic-duty-to-stay-healthy/

https://www.nsdoku.de/en/groups/educational-program/the-nazi-society-of-exclusion

http://www.worldofinclusion.com/res/qca/Lest_We_Forget.pdf 

https://web.archive.org/web/20250213085155/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/19/anti-vaxxers-try-rewrite-history-truth-nazis-vaccination-not/ 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/health/hhs-cdc-vaccines-autism 

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5383172/rfk-jr-placebo-vaccine-testing-studies

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/10/1168141163/the-dream-of-wiping-out-polio-might-need-a-rethink

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250427/Measles-could-return-to-endemic-status-if-US-vaccination-rates-fall-further.aspx

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/health/polio-vaccine-outbreaks.html

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Originally aired June 2022

Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Harlon Carter and NRA. 

SOURCES:

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/04/27/meet-the-2-texans-who-took-over-the-nra-and-made-the-gun-rights-group-a-feared-and-powerful-force/%3foutputType=amp 
2. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/22/us/harlon-b-carter-longtime-head-of-rifle-association-dies-at-78.html 
3. https://www.linktv.org/the-legacy-of-the-texas-rangers-a-look-at-the-long-history-of-violence-at-the-border 
4. https://timeline.com/harlon-carter-nra-murder-2f8227f2434f 
5. https://bostonreview.net/articles/america-as-a-tactical-gun-culture/
6. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/04/us/hard-line-opponent-of-gun-laws-wins-new-term-at-helm-of-rifle.html 
7. https://nraontherecord.org/harlon-carter/
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Originally aired August 2020

Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss the U.S. Border Patrol.

SOURCES:

1. https://timeline.com/harlon-carter-nra-murder-2f8227f2434f 
2. https://theintercept.com/2019/01/12/border-patrol-history/ 
3. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-civil-rights-project-harrington-retire/ 
4. https://www.amazon.com/Migra-History-Border-American-Crossroads/dp/0520266412
5. https://www.salon.com/2012/07/20/cruelty_on_the_border/ 
6. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/border-patrol-the-green-monster-112220
7. https://www.propublica.org/article/a-group-of-agents-rose-through-the-ranks-to-lead-the-border-patrol-theyre-leaving-it-in-crisis 
8. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/us/border-patrol-culture.html
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=mFQor2oScm0C&pg=PA29&dq=kicking+a+Mexican+male+who+was+handcuffed+and+lying+facedown+on+the+ground&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinlJqK0r3fAhUSnFkKHdzJDD4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=kicking%20a%20Mexican%20male%20who%20was%20handcuffed%20and%20lying%20facedown%20on%20the%20ground&f=false 

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• Reportback from the West Bank
• The LA Anti-ICE Protests
• Migrant Detention in Libya
• On The Ground In LA
• Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20

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Sources/Links:

The LA Anti-ICE Protests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/democrats-california-new-york-detention-facilities

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-at-ice-check-ins-detained-and-held-in-basement-of-federal-building-in-los-angeles/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=828415694

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/paramount-california-home-depot-protest-rcna211650

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kv1lgdpkjo

Migrant Detention in Libya

https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/61570/libyas-coast-guard-has-intercepted-and-returned-nearly-21000-migrants-in-2024

https://apnews.com/article/italy-libya-ossama-almasri-icc-arrest-hague-305b5eed193ef7774e6591d4f0a256fc 



European Commission Financial Transparency System
Andrea Beck, 2024

Italian and EU Funding of the Libyan Coast Guard: How Italian External Border Immigration Policies Have Created Crimes Against Humanity, Public Ignorance, and Legal Accountability Issues

Ronald Bruce. Libya: From Colony to Revolution

Ship of Humanity: Witness to Rescue in the Mediterranean by Judith Sunderland

Capitivity, Migration and Power in Libya. Nadia Al-Dayel, Aaron Anfinson & Graeme Anfinson 2021.

Tilley: War Making and State Making as organized crime

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20

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