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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago
- The Riyadh Comedy Festival
- The Weaponization of Mass Shootings
- Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37
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Sources:
ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago
The Riyadh Comedy Festival
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
The Weaponization of Mass Shootings
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/michigan-church-attack.html
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1972323666705973589?s=61
https://bsky.app/profile/aric.bsky.social/post/3lxmr4jq3qs2d
https://x.com/jamesstout/status/1972669516384539066
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive
https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1975581768876237115
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/north-carolina-bar-shooting/
https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/
Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.56.0_1.pdf
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1974086514796896515
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1974200050206322960
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1974112113326239852
https://katu.com/news/local/court-docs-woman-charged-in-ice-protest-chased-nick-sortor-while-wearing-bird-outfit
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/03/trump-portland-oregon-ice-immigration-police-protest/
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1974861544812105853
https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1975643776161841649
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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In the Tara Moses play, “Haunted,” two Native ghosts are caught in a seemingly endless cycle of haunting the prospective owners of a house, while also being haunted in return by racist stereotypes. The Millennial siblings have a penchant for the soundtrack of their youth that leans heavily on Britney Spears. Along the way they find themselves on a journey to a higher calling. We’ll hear from Moses about her work that comes to the stage in Los Angeles.
We’ll also hear from artists recognized with a $100,000 prize for the 2025 SHIFT – Transformative Change + Indigenous Arts Awards by the Native Arts + Culture Foundation for works that address social change through a Native lens.
GUESTS
Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and Mvskoke), playwright and director
Merna Wharton (Yup’ik), artist
Demian DinéYazhi’ (Diné), transdisciplinary artist, poet, and curator
Brooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet Nation and Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), filmmaker
Break 1 Music: I Saw the Witch Cry (song) Anasazi (artist)
Break 2 Music: Gumshoe (song) Samantha Crain (artist) Gumshoe (album)
The gang discuss out of state National Guard deployment to Oregon and Illinois, ICE shooting a woman in Chicago, and updates on immigration and tariffs.
Sources:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.56.0_1.pdf
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1974086514796896515
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1974200050206322960
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1974112113326239852
https://katu.com/news/local/court-docs-woman-charged-in-ice-protest-chased-nick-sortor-while-wearing-bird-outfit
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/03/trump-portland-oregon-ice-immigration-police-protest/
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1974861544812105853
https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1975643776161841649
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
array(3) { [0]=> string(184) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/95de9b0c-bb43-4398-98b7-b3710127fefd/image.jpg?t=1760032736&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }The Chef calls in with a fascinating theory on the Kaikōura lights. Nemesis shares an inside look at Big Tobacco, answering Ben's earlier question about smoking inside (and much more). In the wake of the infamous Snuff episode, multiple Conspiracy Realists reach out with jokes, puns, well-wishes, kind words and pet pics. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.
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An Indigenous anthropologist is embarking on a years-long process to document how Alaska Native hunters are changing their hunting patterns in the face of climate change. To complicate things, the war in Ukraine is preventing Native researchers from sharing information with their counterparts in Russia, which plays a role in the overall health of walrus herds. In addition to food and other uses, walrus ivory is a significant part of a traditional Native artform. We’ll talk with Indigenous people who have a stake in Pacific walruses and are working to protect them.
GUESTS
Vera Metcalf (Yu’pik), director of the Eskimo Walrus Commission
Eduard Kergytagyn Zdor (Chukchi), cultural anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alaska’s Arctic Leadership Initiative
Leon Misak Kinneeveauk (Iñupiaq), artist and director of the Alaska Art Alliance
Break 1 Music: Kaukuarjuk (song) Silla (artist) Inua (album)
Break 2 Music: Gumshoe (song) Samantha Crain (artist) Gumshoe (album)
Mia talks with Dr. Kaveh Hoda about Trump’s efforts to stop giving children the Hepatitis vaccine.
Sources:
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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