It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

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

  1. Rendition to El Salvador: How the Trump Administration Is Sending Asylum Seekers to Labor Camps

  2. Miniature Ethnic Cleansing: Encampment Sweeps in Oakland

  3. Should You Flee the United States?

  4. Elon Musk Has Lost the Gamers
  5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #9

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Elon Musk Has Lost the Gamers

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2024/09/15/deshaun-watson-trade-details-texans-browns/75189022007/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ykCc588Zw

https://thecourier.com/news/549130/browns-need-to-start-asking-questions-about-depodesta/

https://www.georgiaentertainment.com/2024/04/georgias-got-game-why-the-gaming-industry-is-larger-than-film-television-and-music-combined/#:~:text=The%20dominant%20entertainment%20industry%20is,than%203%20billion%20active%20gamers

https://app2top.com/news/the-gaming-industry-in-2024-by-the-numbers-a-review-by-gamesindustry-276003.html

https://www.ign.com/articles/asmongolds-twitch-channel-banned-following-racist-rant-about-palestinians

https://g-mnews.com/en/global-games-market-will-generate-usd-187-7-billion-in-2024/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #9

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/the-atlantic-publishes-signal-messages-yemen-strike/index.html

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12581

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9930/

https://x.com/presssec/status/1904875629612331123?s=46

https://t.co/JYbx0FtHc9

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1904884072763044089

https://t.co/kOhUqcypOJ

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-deportation-flights-el-salvador-doubles-down/

https://t.co/eFo00blJBh

https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/1904526812434084143

https://truthout.org/articles/tufts-student-activist-rumeysa-ozturk-abducted-by-ice-on-her-way-to-iftar/

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CBS News Roundup - 03/28/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition

At least three deaths reported and hundreds of rescues in south Texas after devastating floods. Tariff and inflation fears send the markets reeling. Amid Vice President Vance's trip to Greenland, President Trump says, "We need Greenland." CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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The Gist - Trump Loves Women and Many Other Things

A Turkish student at Tufts University was detained by ICE, but the only evidence presented so far is a co-signed campus op-ed critical of Israeli policy—raising serious concerns about the bounds of political expression and immigration enforcement. Also, an interview with former FBI Agent Scott Payne, author of Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis. Plus, Trump loves women, Ireland, Tesler, and Bobby Knight—maybe even all at once.


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Planet Money - PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever?

Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we? This episode, we partner with Radiolab to take stock of the essential raw materials that enable us to live as we do here on Earth — everything from sand to copper to oil — and tally up how much we have left. Are we living with reckless abandon? And if so, is there even a way to stop? A simultaneously terrifying and delightful conversation about bird poop, daredevil drivers, and some staggering back-of-the-envelope math.

Radiolab's original episode was produced and edited by Pat Walters and Soren Wheeler. Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton. The Planet Money edition of this episode was produced by Emma Peaslee and edited by Alex Goldmark and Jess Jiang. Special thanks to Jennifer Brandel.

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Big Technology Podcast - OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave’s IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?

Brian McCullough is the host of Techmeme Ride Home. He's back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Why everyone's using ChatGPT to make Ghibli art 2) What is Ghibli 3) OpenAI's product dominance stands out 4) The Studio Ghibli copyright question 5) The AI servers are at capacity 6) The AI datacenters are still probably built out too early 7) What's CoreWeave? 8) CoreWeave's IPO disappoints 9) OpenAI eyes $40 billion fundraise 10) Is Silicon Valley about to lose its monopoly on tech?


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CrowdScience - Where in the world will I weigh least?

Host Anand Jagatia tackles gravity - a fundamental force of the universe yet also an everyday mystery that has baffled several listeners. Can you outrun it? Or at least use it to get fitter? If it varies, does that mean that you weigh less, depending on where on earth you stand? And if it’s the force of attraction between any objects with mass, are you technically more attractive after eating a massive cake?

Professor Claudia de Rham from Imperial College London explains the basics of gravity, while we discover the best place on earth to weight ourselves, with Professor Paddy Regan from Surrey University and NPL Fellow in Nuclear and Radiation Science and Metrology.

Anand takes a very fast spin on a special chair to experience extra gravity, thanks to Professor Floris Wuyts from the University of Antwerp, Kings College London and Minister of Science of Asgardia.

And finally, we talk to an expert lined up at the other end of a hypothetical hole through the earth: Professor Richard Easther from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. What would happen if we fell straight through the earth?

CrowdScience finds gravity a force to be reckoned with.

Presenter: Anand Jagatia Producer: Marnie Chesterton Editor: Cathy Edwards Production Co-ordinator: Ishmael Soriano and Jana Bennett-Holesworth Studio Manager: Jackie Margerum and Duncan Hannant Photo: Anand Jagatia experiencing extra g-force

The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: How Donald Trump is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks

With so much information—and misinformation—circulating, it's time to take a step back and assess the bigger picture of Trump’s impact in his first 7 weeks in office.

 

On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson breaks down Trump’s rapid push for fundamental, disruptive change—a counter-revolution reshaping America’s economic, energy, and foreign policy landscape. 

 

“ Trump is in a race. He's in a race to enact fundamental, disruptive change, a counterrevolution, and it's going to be rough for a while, as he pointed out. But the things that he has already done are going to have, shortly or maybe even midterm, fundamental advantages for the United States”…

 

“if he's able to solve the Ukraine war, and if he is able to have a general peace in the Middle East, that will be the most substantial presidency—if he does nothing else—that we've seen in 50 years.”

 

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1A - The News Roundup For March 28, 2025

This week the Atlantic published messages shared between national security officials on a Signal group chat laying out plans for U.S airstrikes in Yemen. It appears that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the message thread. European leaders have been cautious in their comments on the scandal.

President Trump is threatening to suspend security clearances and access to federal buildings of lawyers he does not like.

Meanwhile, Israel continues its military campaign in Gaza after breaking the ceasefire agreement with Hamas earlier this month.

And five lions rescued from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine have now been resettled in England by the Wild Animals Rescue Center.

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Motley Fool Money - Volatility, Divestitures, and IPOs

Today we talk market volatility and inflation, the struggling dollar store industry, and a new AI initial public offering.


Also, Asit and Matt have thoughts on some recent earnings reports, writer Ben Wallace joins us to talk about the history and future of Bitcoin, and, as always, we find out what stocks are on our analysts' radar.



Host: Ron Gross

Guests: Asit Sharma, Matt Argersinger, Ben Wallace

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The Journal. - Inside the Hunt for Putin’s Sleeper Agents

A family of deep-cover Russian spies hiding in the heart of Europe. A Slovenian spycatcher with a daunting mission. After months of reporting, WSJ's Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson unspool the story of the global hunt for Vladimir Putin's sleeper agents, and how it culminated in the biggest game of hostage diplomacy since the Cold War.


Further Reading:

-The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’ 

-Inside the Secret Negotiations to Free Evan Gershkovich 


Further Listening:

-The Historic U.S.-Russia Prisoner Swap 

-Inside Russia’s Spy Unit Targeting Americans 


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