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September 13, 2025 It Could Happen Here Weekly 199

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

- It Was Never About Crime feat. Prop

- Abundance, Or How To Sell Tech Fascism To Liberals

- ICE Partners with Israeli Phone Hacking Spyware

- Recognizing Palestine as a State: Meaningful Farce feat. Dana El Kurd

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #33

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Sources/Links:

It Was Never About Crime feat. Prop

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10567-025-00534-6#Sec9

https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/baltimore-homicides-drop-WTR3QQN7LRGFXOVCGAAMNYMUBE/

https://theconversation.com/data-driven-early-intervention-strategies-could-revolutionize-phillys-approach-to-crime-prevention-258756

https://genius.com/Freeway-what-we-do-lyrics

https://www.baltimorepolice.org/about/baltimore-police-crime-plan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/baltimore-violent-crime-trump

Abundance, Or How To Sell Tech Fascism To Liberals

https://thebaffler.com/latest/whats-the-matter-with-abundance-harris?ref=newintermag.com

https://newintermag.com/abundance-big-techs-bid-for-the-democratic-party/#fn16

https://archive.vn/zgPJ8

https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Abundance-Ecosystem-Report-Final.pdf

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/17/2025/with-the-argument-the-left-gets-a-new-publication

http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2022/01/washingtons-newest-think-tank-institute.html

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/who-is-behind-the-growing-abundance-movement/

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/the-tech-fascist-axis

https://www.abundancedc.org/speakers

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/the-tech-fascist-axis

https://archive.vn/GKRmw#selection-377.0-377.19

https://www.theargumentmag.com/about

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-11-26-abundance-agenda-neoliberalisms-rebrand/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/dc-attorney-general-inks-first-settlement-realpage-price-fixing-lawsuit-2025-06-02/

https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/economic-liberties-launches-2025-end-rental-price-fixing-campaign/

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-materials/2024/12/17/the-cost-of-anticompetitive-pricing-algorithms-in-rental-housing/

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

https://techfascism.substack.com/p/the-network-state-and-infrastructure

ICE Partners with Israeli Phone Hacking Spyware

https://ssd.eff.org/

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-first-look-at-paragons-proliferating-spyware-operations/

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of-paragons-ios-mercenary-spyware-finds-journalists-targeted/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-ice-has-reactivated-its

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-paragon-solutions-contract/

https://dfrlab.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/09/Mythical-Beasts.pdf

https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/company_page/paragon

https://red-dot.capital/portfolio

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/07/29/paragon-is-an-nso-competitor-and-an-american-funded-israeli-surveillance-startup-that-hacks-encrypted-apps-like-whatsapp-and-signal/

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14093-prohibition-use-the-united-states-government-commercial-spyware-that

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware

Recognizing Palestine as a State: Meaningful Farce feat. Dana El Kurd

Noura Erekat and Shahd Hammouri in Jadaliyya - https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46838

Paul Poast in World Politics Review - https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/palestine-state-recognition-france/

NPR report - https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5485359/france-uk-palestine-state-explainer

European Society of International Law on occupation - https://esil-sedi.eu/prolonged-occupation-or-illegal-occupant/#:~:text=The%20occupying%20power%2C%20throughout%20the,consistent%20with%20its%20trustee%20responsibilities.

Daniel Kurtzer on the Oslo Accords - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/20/magazine/israel-gaza-oslo-accords.html

Hanan Ashrawi on the Oslo Accords - https://www.972mag.com/hanan-ashrawi-oslo-accords/

Polling of Palestinians May 2025 - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2095%20press%20release%206May2025%20ENGLISH.pdf

Dana El Kurd and Pablo Abufom for The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/palestinians-leader-mahmoud-abbas-president

Tanja Aalberts on sovereignty - Constructing Sovereignty between Politics and Law - 1st Edition - Tanj

Jared Kushner “Peace to Prosperity” plan - trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Peace-to-Prosperity-0120.pdf

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #33

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/422/873/

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/customs-and-border-protection-settles-federal-lawsuit-american-citizens-racially

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/l.g.m.l.-v.-noem--a-hearing-diary

ttps://qz.com/higher-investment-means-hyundai-could-get-2-1-billion-1850832920

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/hyundai-factory-ice-raid-legal-visa