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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Team America, FTX Crash, and the Mystery of the X-37B in Space

A former DEA ageny sentenced to 12 years for a string of corruption-related crimes shares his story with the press. Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX crashes, leading to some interesting -- and unproven -- conspiracy theories. After more than 900 days in space, the unmanned X-37B returns to Earth... but no one's saying much about what it was doing up there in the dark for almost two and a half years. All this and more in this week's Strange News. They don’t want you to read our book.

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It Could Happen Here - Inside Twitter’s Soul

Robert and the gang discuss the comments to a single Elon Musk tweet, which is more revealing and culturally important than you might guess.

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 60

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

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - How Secure are Security Clearances?

How does a government decide who can know what? In the modern day, it comes down to something called security clearances. In today's episode the guys explore how the US decides who's trustworthy enough to get the scoop on stuff the public can't know -- and what happens when things go wrong. They don’t want you to read our book.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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It Could Happen Here - The Socialists Who Want 500,000 More Cops Part 2: Don’t Talk About Race

We look at the broader intellectual project behind nominally leftist calls for more cops and the course of the so-called race-class debate

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Nicholas Rossi’s “Hospital Tattoos,” Tennessee Spirits, and Mysteries of the Moon

Fiona hips the gang to the bizarre, disturbing tale of a man called -- occasionally -- "Nicholas Rossi." Plaquetos calls for more information about the ongoing Appalachian belief in a certain type of haunting spirit. RC prompts a conversation about the effects the moon may have on your body and mind. All this and more in this week's listener mail. They don’t want you to read our book.

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It Could Happen Here - The Socialists Who Want 500,000 More Cops Part 1: Lying With Statistics

We look at a recent call by two Harvard academics, one of whom is on the editorial board of Jacobin, for 500,000 more cops to end mass incarceration

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - How Federal Classification Works (and why it’s a problem)

You've seen it in countless works of film and fiction -- a shady operative hands someone a folder, marked 'classified,' or 'top secret.' But what is classification in real life? What makes one piece of information fit for the public, and another piece the kind of thing that has to be buried for generations? In today's episode, the guys explore the fact, fiction and controversy surrounding how the government chooses the stuff it doesn't want you to know. They don’t want you to read our book.

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It Could Happen Here - The UC Student Worker Strike

James and Mia talk to Alex and Tyler from UC San Diego about this week’s strike, what’s at stake, and how you can support 48,000 striking student workers.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Did the CIA invent counterculture?

In the US, the 1960s were a crucible of culture -- college students, veterans, the disadvantaged and activists across the country sought to overthrow the status quo and build their own vision of a better world. This period in time produced some of the most influential art, music and prose in recent history, and introduced LSD to the mainstream. So why do so many people think it was ultimately a CIA operation? They don’t want you to read our book.

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