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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 192

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

- How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage

- Tracking ICE Removal Flights

- How LA Resisted ICE

- Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26

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Sources/Links:

How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage

https://transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/

https://thefreeradical.org/dont-panic-the-battle-over-the-trans-medicaid-ban-is-far-from-over-heres-how-to-fight-back/

https://ashevilleblade.com‪‪

Social Media: @thefreeradical.org‬, @davidforbes.bsky.social‬, @madycast.com

Tracking ICE Removal Flights

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/

How LA Resisted ICE

https://linktr.ee/mel_buer‪

@acatwithnews.bsky.social‬

@melbuer.bsky.social‬

Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein

https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/donald-trump-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-model-amy-dorris

https://archive.fo/J6z9J

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna218693

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/21/18701098/trump-accusers-sexual-assault-rape-e-jean-carroll

https://archive.fo/aeLYy

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26

Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose

https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?st=dg3j4m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

https://apnews.com/article/trump-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-justice-department-4634e5afceb8b1bb43f23558dfbb1d6c

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year 

https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-immigration-deport-chilean-man-living-pennsylvania-refuting-123944071

https://www.fastcheck.cl/2025/07/22/foto-atribuida-a-luis-leon-supuesto-migrante-chileno-deportado-a-guatemala-es-falsa/

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165454 

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-07-22/fort-bliss-detention-center-migrants-18520342.html

https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4250988/ 

https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/2022-02/DODIG-2022-064.pdf 

https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2024/budget_justification/pdfs/01_Operation_and_Maintenance/O_M_VOL_1_PART_2/OHDACA_OP-5.pdf 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/trump-awards-immigration-detention-center-contract-for-fort-bliss-in-texas?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy 

https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration 

https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232598p.pdf

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/afghan-refugee-fort-bliss/  

https://ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/031145354889

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/ 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/trump-announces-massive-trade-deal-with-japan-with-15percent-tariffs.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/23/eu-100bn-no-deal-plan-trump-tariffs-threat-us-imports

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-trade-deals-are-arriving-how-they-might-affect-us-economy-rcna220465

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-rico-law-ban-hormone-therapy-gender-affirming-surgery-transgender-youth/

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5407157-puerto-rico-gender-affirming-care-ban-transgender-americans/

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-congress-epstein-mike-johnson-b2793874.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-strikes-deal-with-japan-as-eu-us-reportedly-close-in-on-pact-200619932.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rumeysa-ozturk-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/npr-pbs-affiliates-worry-congress-clawbacks-00465850

https://archive.vn/zXQCw#selection-895.0-899.146

 

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1A - The News Roundup For July 25, 2025

New reporting in The Wall Street Journal indicates that the FBI told President Donald Trump in May that his name was mentioned in the Epstein Files. Congressional Republicans have mostly shrugged off the news. Speaker Mike Johnson shuts down the House for the summer.

Meanwhile, the European Union and at least 28 governments are criticizing Israel for "drip feeding" Palestinians in Gaza, as starvation grows worse in the Strip. More than 110 people have now died from hunger.

Reports indicate that Russian officials have involved teenagers as they test and deploy drones into Ukraine. Daily drone warfare has increased, as Russian president Putin inches towards a deadline imposed by President Trump to end the fighting.

The Trump administration withdraws the U.S. from UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, just two years after rejoining.

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the memory palace - Episode 234: Looking for Parking, Late Winter, 1996

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Notes

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Music

  • Herbert's Story from Mark Orton's score to Nebraska.
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State of the World from NPR - Extreme Hunger In Gaza. France To Recognize Palestinian State

A deepening hunger crisis is gripping Gaza, with more than 120 deaths from starvation reported — most of them children. As Gaza's humanitarian crisis deepens and ceasefire talks stall, French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will formally recognize a Palestinian state— becoming the first G7 nation to do so.

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PBS News Hour - World - News Wrap: Israel considering ‘alternative options’ to ceasefire with Hamas

In our news wrap Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he's considering "alternative options" to ceasefire talks with Hamas, European diplomats attempted to restart negotiations over limiting Iran's nuclear program and Ghislaine Maxwell wrapped up questioning as the Justice Department pushes back on criticism it's concealing aspects of Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with President Trump. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
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Consider This from NPR - How have RFK Jr.’s vaccine policies impacted America’s public health?

Before he entered politics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a career out of stoking doubt about vaccines, promoting theories contradicted by mountains of scientific evidence on common vaccines which have been studied for decades and safely administered to hundreds of millions of people.

Now, six months in as head of Health and Human Services, he has instituted a number of policy changes on access to vaccines for both children and adults.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and health correspondents Rob Stein and Pien Huang talk through how these changes could impact public health and the public's wallets.

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The Gist - Phil Gramm Hearts Capitalism, From Dickens To The New Deal

Former Senator Phil Gramm joins to defend capitalism’s record, arguing that the Industrial Revolution improved lives, the New Deal prolonged the Depression, and modern welfare undermines work. He supports Keynesian stimulus in theory—but only if governments also run surpluses, which he says they never do. Plus, Gaza aid failures, Macron’s recognition of Palestine, and why peace requires clear-eyed power dynamics, not symbolic gestures. And in The Spiel: Benjamin Crump returns to the spotlight in a viral police beating case, and renewed concern over noose reports reveals our reflex to dramatize the ambiguous. Produced by Corey Wara

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