Mia Wong

Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about bad things. Usually, I don't know, this is mostly a bad things episode. I am your host, Mia Wong, and one of the kind of things we've emphasized in the show a lot is that a lot of the structure of the kind of open fascism that we're seeing now is stuff that was put in place under...

Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about bad things. Usually, I don't know, this is mostly a bad things episode. I am your host, Mia Wong, and one of the kind of things we've emphasized in the show a lot is that a lot of the structure of the kind of open fascism that we're seeing now is stuff that was put in place under...

Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about bad things. Usually, I don't know, this is mostly a bad things episode. I am your host, Mia Wong, and one of the kind of things we've emphasized in the show a lot is that a lot of the structure of the kind of open fascism that we're seeing now is stuff that was put in place under...

liberal administrations and its practices that are carried out by Democrats. And one of the biggest ones of those, and this is something that I think you can trace the violence here and you can trace the politics that inspired directly to how we got to Trump being in power is the just continuous crisis in the U.S. of governments doing sweeps of encampments of unhoused people.

liberal administrations and its practices that are carried out by Democrats. And one of the biggest ones of those, and this is something that I think you can trace the violence here and you can trace the politics that inspired directly to how we got to Trump being in power is the just continuous crisis in the U.S. of governments doing sweeps of encampments of unhoused people.

liberal administrations and its practices that are carried out by Democrats. And one of the biggest ones of those, and this is something that I think you can trace the violence here and you can trace the politics that inspired directly to how we got to Trump being in power is the just continuous crisis in the U.S. of governments doing sweeps of encampments of unhoused people.

And to talk about really one of the most horrifying things that happens regularly in a country of just unhinged and hideous horror is Emma, who does advocacy work for unhoused and disabled people in Alameda County, and Satya, who does support drink sweeps in Oakland when, yeah, this fucking unhinged shit happens. So both of you two, welcome to the show.

And to talk about really one of the most horrifying things that happens regularly in a country of just unhinged and hideous horror is Emma, who does advocacy work for unhoused and disabled people in Alameda County, and Satya, who does support drink sweeps in Oakland when, yeah, this fucking unhinged shit happens. So both of you two, welcome to the show.

And to talk about really one of the most horrifying things that happens regularly in a country of just unhinged and hideous horror is Emma, who does advocacy work for unhoused and disabled people in Alameda County, and Satya, who does support drink sweeps in Oakland when, yeah, this fucking unhinged shit happens. So both of you two, welcome to the show.

Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

Yeah. I always want to say that I'm excited and like it is true. However, I wish I read a podcast that was about like good things so that I could talk to people. It wasn't like it wasn't me being like, yeah, I'm excited to talk about like the worst thing that's happened.

Yeah. I always want to say that I'm excited and like it is true. However, I wish I read a podcast that was about like good things so that I could talk to people. It wasn't like it wasn't me being like, yeah, I'm excited to talk about like the worst thing that's happened.

Yeah. I always want to say that I'm excited and like it is true. However, I wish I read a podcast that was about like good things so that I could talk to people. It wasn't like it wasn't me being like, yeah, I'm excited to talk about like the worst thing that's happened.

So I think a place to start on this is when we talk about what a sweep actually is on a physical level of what happens, because I think people really don't have a sense of that.

So I think a place to start on this is when we talk about what a sweep actually is on a physical level of what happens, because I think people really don't have a sense of that.

So I think a place to start on this is when we talk about what a sweep actually is on a physical level of what happens, because I think people really don't have a sense of that.

Yeah, so to just make this clear, the thing that they're doing is they show up and they fucking destroy all your property.

Yeah, so to just make this clear, the thing that they're doing is they show up and they fucking destroy all your property.