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The gang discuss Trump’s attempts to distract from Epstein, the construction of a 5,000 bed ICE detention camp at Fort Bliss, and cuts to the EPA and public broadcasting.

Sources/Links:

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, Gare, James and Mia discuss new revelations about Trump's relation to Jeffrey Epstein and how the Epstein Files have fractured Trump's base.

Sources:

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/

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Mia and James are joined by journalists Mel Buer and Sean Beckner Carmitchel to discuss two months of ICE raids in LA and how the community has come together to resist them.

https://linktr.ee/mel_buer‪

@acatwithnews.bsky.social‬

@melbuer.bsky.social‬

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James is joined once again by Gillian Brockell to discuss the use of private jets to rendition migrants to Africa, safety on ICE Air flights, and commercial airlines who fly for ICE.

Sources/Links:

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/

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Mia talks with journalists David Forbes, Mady Castigan, and Mira Lazine of the new Trans News Network about how mass grassroots action driven by trans journalism defeated the GOP's ban on Medicaid covering trans healthcare and how we can do it again.

Sources:

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

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Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week. 

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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

You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today!

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Sources/Links:

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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The gang talks about how Trump is totally 100% NOT in the Epstein files, as well as updates on immigration, tariffs, and sadly Elon Musk’s Grok AI :(

Sources/Links: 

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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James is joined by Wladimir Van Wilgenberg to discuss the recent disarmament ceremony conducted by the PKK, the fighting between the Syrian Government and Druze people, and the future of the Kurdish freedom movement in Rojava.

Follow Wladimir: https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg

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James talks to Gordyaen Benyamin Jermayi about the situation of minority groups in Iran, the issues with the monarchist opposition, and how the Iranian regime has used US and Israeli bombing as an excuse for more violence against its own people. 

Links:

https://hengaw.net/en

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

https://www.instagram.com/kurdistanipeopleii

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