Robert and Ben Bowlin sit-down to talk about controversial blood plasma donation program in the Arkansas Prison system under Governor Clinton that killed more than 2 9/11s worth of Canadians.

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1. Understanding Rojava’s Tishrin Dam Resistance

2. Anarchism In Uruguay feat. Andrew, Pt. 1

3. Chuck Schumer and the Collaborators

4. Behind the Tesla Attacks

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #8

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Sources/Links:

Chuck Schumer and the Collaborators

https://apnews.com/article/dc-budget-trump-congress-gop-29738c7281955d77075c8b98009f860e

https://archive.ph/35bXs

https://apnews.com/article/house-gop-budget-trump-tax-cuts-agenda-7d29a6840fa474b841228d20e5e96b55

https://time.com/7268499/senate-democrats-budget-vote/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-spending-bill

https://nlihc.org/resource/congress-passes-and-president-trump-signs-law-year-long-stopgap-funding-bill-underfunding

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/schumer-trump-budget-senate-dems-aoc/

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/250308_johnsons_yearlong_crpdf.pdf

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/democrats-gop-government-funding-bill/index.html

Behind the Tesla Attacks

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-buy-new-tesla-show-support-musk-2025-03-11/

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-showroom-buys-car-rcna195905 

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114141854575248527 
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/01/business/tesla-takedown-musk-doge/index.html
https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tesla-vehicles-destroyed-vandalized-musk-began-role-white/story?id=119677836
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/03/14/tesla-boycotts-turn-violent-reports-of-vandalism-and-worse-timeline/
https://www.jalopnik.com/1804358/thieves-steel-44-wheels-tesla-storage-lot/
https://southtahoenow.com/03/13/2025/tesla-superchargers-vandalized-again-in-meyers#:~:text=Damaged%20Tesla%20supercharger%20in%20Meyers,6600

https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/man-accused-of-burning-tesla-chargers-in-north-charleston-granted-bond/

https://www.salemreporter.com/2025/03/05/salem-man-accused-of-shooting-window-throwing-molotov-cocktail-at-tesla-dealership/ 
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2025/03/05/tesla-dealership-shooting-molotov-cocktails-salem-oregon/81666562007/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/lyons-resident-charged-connection-series-incidents-loveland-tesla-dealership
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2025/03/14/vandalism-at-loveland-colorado-tesla-dealership-leads-to-another-arrest/82415599007/
https://komonews.com/news/local/four-tesla-cybertrucks-destroyed-in-fire-in-seattles-sodo-neighborhood-elon-musk-doge-federal-jobs-cut-protests-seattle-fire-department-investigation
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/several-vehicle-set-on-fire-at-tesla-in-las-vegas-police-say-3322726/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250303-dozen-teslas-torched-outside-french-dealership-authorities
https://apnews.com/article/germany-tesla-factory-berlin-arson-9d66c3efa104d03244bd2c4d920c35a0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/08/elon-musk-tesla-protest-violence-vandalism/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/03/18/tesla-stock-slides-another-6-as-more-firms-warn-of-musk-led-companys-sales-woes/
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-stock-decline-jp-morgan-analyst-guidance-2025-3 
https://insideevs.com/news/746064/byd-beats-tesla-ev-production/ 

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311609/tesla-sales-europe
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325321/elon-musk-tesla-politics-republican-buyers-sales
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328626/elon-musk-protests-tesla-takedown
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899106551270375660

https://x.com/MrPitbull07/status/1899107163232190950

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1899129877972013112

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898369343399899218

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #8

https://www.laprensagrafica.com/internacional/Venezuela-dice-que-no-descansara-hasta-rescatar-a-migrantes-secuestrados-en-El-Salvador-20250317-0046.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/politics/deportation-flights-judge-timeline/index.html

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/doj-alien-enemies-act-deportation-flights-rcna196907

https://x.com/PressSec/status/1901584664906682833

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114183576937425149

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tom-homan-calls-out-federal-judge-defying-logic-ruling-stall-trump-deportations

https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1902394620748657019

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.38.0_1.pdf

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-university-signals-will-comply-trump-administrations-demands-rcna197110

https://archive.ph/SjG4h

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41845/gov.uscourts.cadc.41845.01208721711.0.pdf

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-is-nearing-agreement-to-give-trump-what-he-wants-14315bb3

https://insideevs.com/news/753730/tesla-insurance-vandalism-elon-musk/

https://archive.ph/TwgRG

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/18/donald-trump-tariffs-recession-trade-war-updates/82495189007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/trump-tariffs.html

https://archive.ph/3erM8

https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/diplomatic-row-french-trumpr-researcher-expelled-from-terrorism-us/

https://thehoya.com/news/developing-gu-researcher-detained-by-immigration-agents/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-deportation-georgetown-graduate-student-00239754

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-no-steel-aluminum-tariff-exemptions-coming-trump-says-191201285.html

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Robert concludes the story of the Zizians with a spree of horrific violent crimes and deaths, culminating in a shoot out with the Border Patrol in Vermont of all places.

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Robert tells David about Ziz's glorious plan to take to the sea and sever the right and left brains of her followers in order to make them psychopaths god that sentence was weird to write trust us the episode is weirder.

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

1. How the State Created Elon Musk

2. Candace Owens' Hollywood Tabloid Pivot feat. Bridget Todd

3. Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next

4. Nate Silver: The Smoothest Brain On The Internet

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #7

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Sources/Links:

How the State Created Elon Musk

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/tesla-clean-credits-trump

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/tesla-racked-up-greenhouse-emissions-credits-2023-other-automakers-lagged-2024-11-25/

https://www.aol.com/report-says-elon-musks-businesses-170042735.html?

https://archive.is/QyXuK

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/wealthy-americans-fuel-half-of-us-economy-consumer-spending

Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/

https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388516/dl?inline

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-takes-forceful-and-unprecedented-steps-to-combat-anti-semitism/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-education-accessible-and-ending-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-in-schools/

https://forward.com/fast-forward/689866/biden-team-resolves-its-final-title-vi-antisemitism-and-anti-arab-cases/

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/15/columbia-alumni-israel-whatsapp-deport-gaza-protesters/

https://x.com/dhsgov/status/1898908955675357314?s=46&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg

https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1897776709778211044

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/can-trump-deport-a-green-card-holding-pro-hamas-columbia-grad/

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/10/11/cornell-international-grad-student-says-he-wont-be-deported

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #7

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum-levies-imports-europe-china-uk-japan-rcna195810

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/business/china-tariffs-us.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-beijing-trump-npc-xi-trade-growth-defense-nato-communist-tariffs-rcna195271

https://fortune.com/2025/03/11/goldman-sachs-chief-economist-downgrades-entire-us-economy-trump-tariffs-markets/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trade-tensions-china-canada-retaliate-us-tariffs-rcna194645

https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/1067709/us-stocks-downgraded-by-investment-banks-amid-pause-on-us-exceptionalism-1067709.html

https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-tariffs-stock-musk-business-8a5f28d9bb16e0b8a924d99ead0907fa

https://apnews.com/article/trump-eu-tariffs-countermeasures-806a3b9bcc9cd4e45817e672d95f0070

https://fortune.com/asia/2025/03/11/citi-downgrades-us-upgrades-china-trump-recession/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-tariffs-house-gop-vote.html

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Robert tells David Gborie about the early life of Ziz LaSota, a bright young girl from Alaska who came to the Bay Area with dreams of saving the cosmos or destroying it, all based on her obsession with Rationalist blogs and fanfic.

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Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.

(4 Part series)

Sources: 

1. https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/
3. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazard
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/
5. Wayback Machine
6. The Zizians
7. Spectral Sight
8. True Hero Contract
9. Schelling Orders – Sinceriously
10. Glossary – Sinceriously
11.  https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/
12. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidon
13. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/
14. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/
15. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/
16. https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg
17. https://zizians.info/
18. according to The Boston Globe
19. Inside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The Independent
20. Silicon Valley ‘Rationalists’ Linked to 6 Deaths
21. The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIRED
22. Good Group and Pasek’s Doom – Sinceriously
23. Glossary – Sinceriously
24. Mana – Sinceriously
25. Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg
26. The Zizian Facts - Google Docs
27. Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewer
28. This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | Vox
29. Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
30. Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer                                                                                                   
31. Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg
32. SquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a Chore
33. PLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not...
34. Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – Sinceriously
35. Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously
36. Infohazardous Glossary – Sinceriously
37. SquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google Drive
38. The Matrix is a System – Sinceriously
39. A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium
40. Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously
41. A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium
42. PLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse)
43. Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shooting

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

1. The Future of Peacekeeping In Africa

2. The Last Trial of the Fight Against Mountain Valley Pipeline

3. The USA's Impending Telemedicine Cliff

4. King Trump Yells at Congress

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

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Sources/Links:

King Trump Yells at Congress

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318104/trump-joint-address-congress-takeaways
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5318102/trump-joint-session-al-green-protest
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/05/january-littlejohn-donald-trump/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-social-security-fraud-claims/81508815007/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4086787/pentagon-deploys-stryker-brigade-aviation-battalion-to-southern-border/

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4086539/dod-statement-on-deployment-of-stryker-brigade-combat-team-to-help-secure-our-s/

https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4086531/additional-troops-to-enhance-border-security-operations/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-trump-zelenskyy/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-643086a6dc7ff716d876b3c83e3255b0

https://apnews.com/article/trudeau-trump-canada-tariffs-us-5d5ef8bd41c4567926d543a9526b2e84

https://www.mining.com/web/copper-prices-surge-as-trump-signals-25-tariff-on-imports/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-says-its-ready-to-fight-any-type-of-war-us-wants-till-the-end.html

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-lutnick-2b269614084027a4894aa14f3dc16227

https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/wipp-in-carlsbad-under-doge-cuts/

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Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics.

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In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon that broke the brains of every subsequent generation of French nobles.

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