It Could Happen Here
Episodes
Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Texas, the world’s richest man is bringing back to life one of the worst ideas of the Gilded Age, local Robber Baron-owned dictatorships call...
The Federalization of DC Police feat. Bridget Todd
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DC resident Bridget Todd talks with Garrison about Trump’s police takeover in Washington DC, the manufacturing of crime panics, and how federal ...
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Three
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It Could Happen Here Weekly 195
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew - Why Trump is Obse...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discuss the deployment of National Guard and federalization of police in Washington DC, a Heritage Foundation economist being appointed to th...
Tariffs and the Corruption State
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia gives an update on the recent round of tariffs and what they say about the American state under Trump. Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/eco...
How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James is joined by Karl Kasarda of InRangeTV to discuss the Project Blue data center and the coalition of people who campaigned against its constructi...
Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Garrison talks with Robert about Republican investigations into the presidential autopen as a way to rescind pardons and remove judges. Sources:...
Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew is joined by James to discuss how physical and digital infrastructure can be used as systems of control, and how communities have resisted and ...
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Two
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It Could Happen Here Weekly 194
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew - Aid as a Tool of War in ...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang talk about Texas Dems fleeing to Illinois to stop gerrymandering, RFK Jr. canceling mRNA contracts, and how ICE is spending its new big budge...
Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Garrison and Mia unravel whether the DHS is posting coded nazi messages, and discuss the limits of treating anti fascism as an easter egg hunt. Source...
Mapping Border Deaths
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James is joined by Bryce from No More Deaths to discuss the release of a map of border deaths that shows systemic undercounting of the lethal conseque...
Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dana El Kurd sits down with Bushra Khalidi – policy lead at Oxfam – to discuss the aid and humanitarian crisis unfolding across Palestine....
Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew is joined by James to discuss the history and efficacy of anti militarism and anti-war movements. Sources: Anarchist Encyclopedia by Sebastien&...
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
It Could Happen Here Weekly 193
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of ...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discuss Ghislaine Maxwell's meetings with Trump's DOJ, executive orders banning 'Woke AI' and promoting the involuntary institutionalization ...
Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James talks with Inmn from the Live Like the World is Dying podcast about the basics of community and individual preparedness for disasters of all kin...
AI Minstrel Shows feat. Bridget Todd
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget Todd talks with Garrison Davis about how TikTok creators are using AI generated videos to make viral racist skits with digital blackface. Foll...
Post Woke Cinema
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Garrison is joined by Bailey Newposter and Janie Danger to discuss the politics of Superman and Eddington, how each reacts to differing types of Ameri...
The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia talks with UPMC therapist Salena Binnig and TransYOUniting founder Dena Staley about the fight against UPMC's capitation to the Trump administrati...
CZM Book Club: How to Live Like the World is Ending by Margaret Killoy
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...
It Could Happen Here Weekly 192
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discuss Trump’s attempts to distract from Epstein, the construction of a 5,000 bed ICE detention camp at Fort Bliss, and cuts to the EP...
Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert, Gare, James and Mia discuss new revelations about Trump's relation to Jeffrey Epstein and how the Epstein Files have fractured Trump's base. S...
How LA Resisted ICE
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia and James are joined by journalists Mel Buer and Sean Beckner Carmitchel to discuss two months of ICE raids in LA and how the community has come t...
Tracking ICE Removal Flights
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James is joined once again by Gillian Brockell to discuss the use of private jets to rendition migrants to Africa, safety on ICE Air flights, and comm...
How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia talks with journalists David Forbes, Mady Castigan, and Mira Lazine of the new Trans News Network about how mass grassroots action driven by trans...
CZM Book Club: Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It Could Happen Here Weekly 191
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Humanity, the Good feat. Andrew - Humanity, the Bad feat. ...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #25
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang talks about how Trump is totally 100% NOT in the Epstein files, as well as updates on immigration, tariffs, and sadly Elon Musk’s Grok ...
What Does the PKK's Disarmament Mean
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James is joined by Wladimir Van Wilgenburg to discuss the recent disarmament ceremony conducted by the PKK, the fighting between the Syrian Government...
What Bombing Means for Freedom In Iran
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James talks to Gordyaen Benyamin Jermayi about the situation of minority groups in Iran, the issues with the monarchist opposition, and how the Irania...
Humanity, the Bad feat. Andrew
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew and Gare discuss the reasons why people justify doing bad things, from pleasing authority to narratives of necessary evil. Sources: Humankind b...
Humanity, the Good feat. Andrew
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew talks with Gare about humankind’s better nature, despite self-fulfilling prophecies of selfishness and cruelty. Sources: Humankind by Rut...
CZM Book Club: Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about mental health, panic disorders, and anticapitalism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It Could Happen Here Weekly 190
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Palestine’s Stolen Future - The Genocide Budget (And...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #24
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discuss two shootings outside ICE/Border Patrol facilities in Texas, how Elon Musk’s AI chatbot went full nazi, plus updates on immigra...
The Minnesota Assassination & Evangelical Terrorism
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James and Gare discuss the targeted assassination of a Minnesota Democrat by an anti-abortion evangelical missionary. Sources: https://mblsportal.sos....
Protest, Immigration Enforcement, and the Unhoused Community
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James talks to Theo Henderson, host of We The Unhoused, about the impact of protests in LA on the unhoused community, and how people at the intersecti...
The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It)
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia and Gare discuss the contents of the recently passed budget bill and how its worst provisions can be defeated. Sources: Trans Income Project: ...
Palestine’s Stolen Future
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest host Dana El Kurd, Palestinian researcher and writer, provides an overview of Palestinian politics, explains the legitimacy crisis within Palest...
CZM Book Club Presents: The Evolution of an Agitator, by Lizzie M. Holmes
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about the endless quest to find the roots of inequality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It Could Happen Here Weekly 189
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1 - How to ...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #23
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discuss the DOJ‘s attempts to denaturalize American citizens, how the Big Beautiful Bill funds genocide, and Islamophobic attacks on Zo...
The Fall of the House of Liver King
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert walks the gang through the Liver King's recent arrest for terroristic threats and his rapid decline towards what will probably be an early grav...
How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 2
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia continues her conversation with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a dem...
How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia talks with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a democratic society. http...
CZM Book Club: Assembly Line, by B. Traven
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It Could Happen Here Weekly 188
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - A Medical Perspective On Protest Safety - Dividing the Wor...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #22
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discusses the war with Iran, the Supreme Court’s decisions on rendition and trans people, and the New York mayoral primary election. So...
Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Dem. Primary
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gare and Mia discuss the New York City mayoral primary and what it means for the Big Apple and the future of the Democratic Party. Sources/Links: http...
Dividing the World, Pt. 2: Externalization feat. Andrew
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James and Andrew continue their discussion on different ways of splitting up the world, and what they tell us about the way their proponents see the w...
Dividing the World, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James and Andrew discuss different ways of splitting up the world, and what they tell us about the way their proponents see the world. Sources/Links: ...
A Medical Perspective On Protest Safety
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a rare ICHH and House of Pod Joint Episode, James is joined by Miriam, Kaveh, and Dr. Richard Ferro to discuss street medicine, police use of irrit...
CZM Book Club: Two More Stories by Leo Tolstoy
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you two more stories about anticapitalism and religion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Anti-Vax America: The Complete Series
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This special edition of ICHH Weekly compiles the complete Anti-Vax America series by guest host Steven Monacelli. - Viral Texas - Anti-Vax Genealogy -...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #21
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discuss Israeli attacks on Iran, tragedies at Trump’s military parade and the No Kings Protests, the sale of public lands, and the Supr...
Anti-Vax America: Could It Happen Here?
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As anti-vax beliefs become increasingly widespread, and vaccination rates drop, the greater the risk of some sort of massive viral outbreak or the ret...
Anti-Vax America: Soft Eugenics
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anti-vaccination rhetoric is often framed by proponents as a sort of medical freedom, the ability to decide what one wants to do with their own body. ...
Anti-Vax America: God’s Will
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For Peter, the father of the deceased child and a member of a Mennonite community in West Texas, the death of his child was God’s will. Many in ...
Anti-Vax America: Anti-Vax Genealogy
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many years, the threat of measles, a deadly disease that spreads more rapidly than COVID and regularly took thousands of lives a year, had been ef...
Anti-Vax America: Viral Texas
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The viral measles outbreak that began in West Texas has taken the lives of two children and one adult, and has reached over eight hundred cases, with ...
CZM Book Club: After the Dance by Leo Tolstoy
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It Could Happen Here Weekly 186
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Reportback from the West Bank The LA Anti-ICE Protests Migr...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang get together to discuss state violence in Los Angeles, tariffs, the Trump-Musk breakup and more ICE raids across the country. Sources: https:...
On The Ground In LA
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James talks to Robert about the LA protests after spending Monday night on the ground in DTLA covering the protests and police response.See omnystudio...
Migrant Detention in Libya
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James is joined by Mick to talk about the horrific conditions migrants face in Libya and the EU’s funding of detention camps. Sources: https://m...
The LA Anti-ICE Protests
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert and Mia discuss the recent protests in LA against ICE atrocities and the terrifying response of Trump and the LAPD. Sources: https://www.thegua...
Reportback from the West Bank
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James talks with Charles McBryde about his recent trip to the West Bank, the disastrous Gaza Humanitarian Fund, and the ongoing Gaza blockade. Se...
CZM Book Club : The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón, Part Two
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
It Could Happen Here Weekly 185
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. Kav...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discuss the firebombing in Colorado, TACO Trump, ICE raids, and Elon Musk's messy White House breakup. Sources: https://www.kpbs.org/news/pub...
Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang talks about the pronatalist right in Trump's orbit, and historical examples of pronatalism from Japan, Spain, and Romania. Sources: https://w...
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace. Sources:h...
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace. Sources:h...
The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Garrison talks with Kaveh about the FDA's new covid vaccine recommendation and how vaccine access is under threat. Sources: https://www.nejm.org/doi/f...
CZM Book Club: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story Rend...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discusses the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers, how the new budget bill targets trans healthcare, ICE arrests inside immigration cour...
What's Happening in Immigration Court
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James talks to immigration lawyer Kirsten Zittlau about the end of the asylum system as we knew it, detentions in courthouses, and the case of Primros...
Rendition By Private Jet
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James talks to Gillian Brockell about how she identified the Gulfstream jet that carried migrants to Djibouti and the attempt to stop the flight in Ir...
16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia talks with journalist Mira Lazine of the Free Radical about how the UK government and media covered up the deaths of trans people. https://thefree...
Introducing: Away Days Podcast - A Cold Day for Violence
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, ICHH fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series f...
CZM Book Club: The Abbot of Druimenach
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It Could Happen Here Weekly 183
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 1 Anarchism In Mex...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang gives a rundown on antinatalist terrorism, deportations to South Sudan, a potential DHS reality TV show, and Biden's pro-state cancer. Plus, ...
The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 10-12
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert, Mia, and Garrison discuss the final arc of Andor Season 2, covering how empires cannibalize their own, revolution as an infectious disease, an...
War Update
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert, Mia, and James Discuss developments in conflicts in Kashmir, Yemen, and Kurdistan. Sources: https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pkk-final-d...
Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 2
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew concludes his series on Latin American anarchism with the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and its aftermath. Sources: https://theanarchistlibrary.or...
Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 1
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew is joined by Garrison to conclude his series on Latin American anarchism by talking about the spread of radical ideas in Mexico throughout the ...
CZM Book Club: Soria Moria Castle
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a classic norse fairy tale and then makes a thin and likely incorrect argument for why it's a queer parable. See omnystudio.co...
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The Irish Far Right/Neo-Nazi Movement Trans Fiction, Tra...
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #16
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang talks about White House efforts to suspend habeas corpus and expand deportation efforts, while DeSantis builds new detention centers in Flori...
The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 7-9
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert, Mia, and Garrison discuss the third arc of Andor Season 2, covering the Ghorman Massacre. Terrorist cells are uniting under the boot of the Em...
The Refugees Fleeing South Africa's "White Genocide"
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James is joined by Molly to discuss the Trump administration admitting 59 Afrikaner "refugees" and the myth of a "white genocide" in South Africa. Sou...
Trans Fiction, Trans Sports
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia talks with writer and author Victoria Zeller about her new book One of the Boys and the politics of masculinity, being trans, and football. https:...
The Irish Far Right/Neo-Nazi Movement
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert sits down with Irish author Padraig O Ruairc to discuss the growth of Ireland's far right anti-immigrant movement since COVID, and what can be ...