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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.
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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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Sources:
https://transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/
Social Media: @thefreeradical.org, @davidforbes.bsky.social, @madycast.com
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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/image.jpg?t=1751824393&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week.
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- 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://www.instagram.com/kurdistanipeopleii
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #25
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case
https://x.com/WIRED/status/1945207066634657854
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.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.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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Sources/Links:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case
https://x.com/WIRED/status/1945207066634657854
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.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.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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array(3) { [0]=> string(184) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/d9a7ff31-1f0e-4839-a863-b31d01696075/image.jpg?t=1752789377&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }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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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/image.jpg?t=1751824393&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }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://www.instagram.com/kurdistanipeopleii
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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/image.jpg?t=1751824393&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }Andrew and Gare discuss the reasons why people justify doing bad things, from pleasing authority to narratives of necessary evil.
Sources:
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/image.jpg?t=1751824393&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }Andrew talks with Gare about humankind’s better nature, despite self-fulfilling prophecies of selfishness and cruelty.
Sources:
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
A Paradise Built In Hell by Rebecca Solnit
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