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James talks with Charles McBryde about his recent trip to the West Bank, the disastrous Gaza Humanitarian Fund, and the ongoing Gaza blockade.
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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=1749835422&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.
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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=1749835422&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19
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Sources/Links:
The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929
Tiananmen Remastered
https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/
https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/
http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html
https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/
https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4
Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/2/2155893/-Texas-Republican-channels-Stalin-and-Putin-to-glorify-motherhood
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19
https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedited-removal
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5422248/trump-steel-aluminum-50-tariffs-double-prices
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
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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=1749835422&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }To some, the Freight Train Riders of America is a vast, secretive criminal network -- deadly ghosts, haunting the country's rails. To others, the FTRA is a loose collection of outcasts doing their best to help each other survive. To still others, the FTRA is nothing more than an urban legend, and never existed at all. In tonight's episode, Ben and Matt dive deep into the hidden world of trainhopping culture, searching for answers to these conspiratorial tales. Be advised this episode may not be appropriate for all audiences.
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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/2e824128-fbd5-4c9e-9a57-ae2f0056b0c4/image.jpg?t=1749831085&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }The gang discuss the firebombing in Colorado, TACO Trump, ICE raids, and Elon Musk's messy White House breakup.
Sources:
https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedited-removal
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5422248/trump-steel-aluminum-50-tariffs-double-prices
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
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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/8a351217-7dda-4b10-b0cd-b2f3012c1c69/image.jpg?t=1749147219&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }On paper, non-governmental organizations often sound like something everyone can get behind: these institutions are often dedicated to addressing some of the most dangerous, long-running problems on the planet. It may be surprising, then, to learn that a growing number of nations are taking increasingly aggressive actions to ban NGOs, especially foreign ones. Supporters of NGOs argue these nations are attempting to fight progress in hopes of saving their own corrupt regimes -- but the opponents inside these countries claim many of those do-gooder NGOs are more sinister than they'd have you believe: instead of saving the world, critics argue, these insitutions are foreign-owned fronts for everything from illegal activities of intelligence agencies to acts of industrial espionage, forced regime change and more.
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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/2e824128-fbd5-4c9e-9a57-ae2f0056b0c4/image.jpg?t=1749831085&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }The gang talks about the pronatalist right in Trump's orbit, and historical examples of pronatalism from Japan, Spain, and Romania.
Sources:
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/2/2155893/-Texas-Republican-channels-Stalin-and-Putin-to-glorify-motherhood
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8
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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/image.jpg?t=1749835422&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }We've all heard of Bigfoot, the Swamp Ape and so on. Western science largely dismisses the existence of these cryptids. Yet: Did you know there's another associated cryptid in China? Unlike Bigfoot, or the closely-associated Yeti, the Yeren became a subject of intense scientific scrutiny out in the hinterlands of interior China. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore China's multimillion dollar endeavor to prove the existence of their own Bigfoot.
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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/2e824128-fbd5-4c9e-9a57-ae2f0056b0c4/image.jpg?t=1749831085&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }Mia revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace.
Sources:
https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/
https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/
http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html
https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/
https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4
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