Behind the Bastards

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

1. When Care Workers Organize

2. Behind Myanmar's Devastating Earthquake

3. Trump's Concentration Camps in El Salvador

4. How Strikes Build Democratic Workplaces 

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #12

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Sources/Links:

When Care Workers Organize

https://www.instagram.com/friendspdxunionnetwork/

https://friendspdx.org/donate

Behind Myanmar's Devastating Earthquake

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/up-to-700-myanmar-muslims-killed-in-quake-hit-mosques-weakened-by-neglect.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-aftershocks-airstrikes.html

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-juntas-aerial-attacks-continue-despite-post-quake-ceasefire/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/myanmar-junta-shoots-chinese-earthquake-aid-convoy-rcna199233

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-aid.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/myanmar-lashes-out-at-quotchocolate-barquot-foreign-aid-idUSSP172535/

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/lives-updates-quake-death-toll-rises-to-3600-junta-suspends-tourist-visa-after-quake-private-us-field-hospital-in-naypyitaw-and-more.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/global-response-to-myanmar-earthquake-shines-light-on-strategic-rivalries.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/live-updates-death-toll-exceeds-3500-hundreds-in-urgent-need-of-quake-aid-juntas-airstrikes-still-rage-on-and-more.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/world/live-updates-death-toll-rises-to-3471-quake-relief-teams-must-obey-junta-us-pledges-additional-7-million-in-quake-relief-and-more.html

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/resistance-forces-capture-indaw-town-after-months-of-fighting/?sfnsn=scwspmo

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-junta-airstrikes-kill-over-30.html

Trump's Concentration Camps in El Salvador

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogLw7I2BWO0

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/el-salvador-president-return-wrongly-deported-trump-00289234

https://documentedny.com/2025/04/14/ice-bukele-cecot-tren-de-aragua-el-salvador-new-york-deported/

How Strikes Build Democratic Workplaces 

https://gofund.me/9ce38160

https://www.instagram.com/urban_ore_workers/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #12

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/investing/us-stock-market/index.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-signals-readiness-for-talks-if-us-shows-respect-amid-numbers-game-191201017.html

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ensures-national-security-and-economic-resilience-through-section-232-actions-on-processed-critical-minerals-and-derivative-products/

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/temu-cuts-us-ad-spend-drops-in-app-store-rank-after-trump-tariffs-.html

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-issues-export-licensing-requirements-nvidia-amd-chips-china-2025-04-16/

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/dispatch-border-wall 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-department-transferring-federal-land-army-border-wall/story?id=65702870 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/military-mission-for-sealing-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states-and-repelling-invasions/

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy03j9vddlt?post=asset%3Aaff18753-80c9-4445-963e-03b9438ef121#post

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/dhs-issues-waiver-expedite-new-border-wall-construction-california

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/08/2025-05992/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility

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Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to continue to discuss Andrew Tate. 

Update series dropping next week!

Includes Part 3 & 4 with less ad breaks.

Better Offline & Weird Little Guys are nominated for this year’s Webby Awards! Get your votes in by April 17th! 🗳️🗳️🗳️

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/business

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/crime-justice

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108090691/chess-family-strives-to-keep-pressures/
2.  https://youtu.be/bsu-IoE8J4A
3. https://youtu.be/VIsKh-dtnQA 
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=-4j9wgEACAAJ&newbks=0

5. https://www.insidesport.in/andrew-tate-what-is-top-g-andrew-tates-religion/

6.  https://youtu.be/EpR9ucpGpWs
7. https://youtu.be/UVUcv7yyJIA 
8. https://youtu.be/IgdWYaz-6ZY
9. https://youtube.com/shorts/RirKfcVP2OM?feature=share
10. https://youtu.be/cI-Ps1NIU4w
11. https://youtu.be/M-doheMG424
12. https://youtu.be/fFky34MAeGg
13. https://youtu.be/JyNizUlYTC
14. https://thecourseplace.net/product/andrew-tate-phd-program-full/ 
15. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/who-is-andrew-tate-from-kickboxing-champ-to-accused-human-trafficker/ar-AA166CnO 
16. https://web.archive.org/web/20220811143550/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star
17. https://youtu.be/LqGmS_9zCkU
18. https://www.insider.com/andrew-tate-says-women-at-house-not-allowed-out-video-2023-1
19. https://archive.is/MEhRiOn 
20. https://www.jointherealworld.com/
21. https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/andrew-tates-hospital-visit-sparks-conflicting-reports-about-his-health/ar-AA1684ty
22. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/andrew-tate-tiktok-fame-men-2022
23. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/30/andrew-tate-explainer-arrested-greta-misogyny/
24. https://rumble.com/v1gluzu-the-worst-things-about-being-rich-.html
25. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/andrew-tate-how-make-money-arrested-romania-b2256514.html
26. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brothers-make-millions-using-webcam-26508739
27. https://archiIve.is/hAhhQ
28. https://archive.is/lwViQ
29. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/andrew-tate-hustlers-university
30. https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/1/10/23547393/andrew-tate-toxic-masculinity-qa

31. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/02/03/mens-movement-stalks-the-wild-side/83d3e85f-1384-484c-8e43-c4e30e1229f4/

32. https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2021/12/a-snowy-poem-by-robert-bly/

33. https://ew.com/article/1991/04/19/robert-blys-mens-movement/

34. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1967/12/21/protest/

35. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/andrew-tate-daria-gusa-instagram-dm?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharetwitter

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Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to discuss Andrew Tate, and the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.

Includes Part 1 & 2 with less ad breaks.

Update series dropping next week!

Better Offline & Weird Little Guys are nominated for this year’s Webby Awards! Get your votes in by April 17th! 🗳️🗳️🗳️

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/business

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/crime-justice

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108090691/chess-family-strives-to-keep-pressures/
2.  https://youtu.be/bsu-IoE8J4A
3. https://youtu.be/VIsKh-dtnQA 
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=-4j9wgEACAAJ&newbks=0

5. https://www.insidesport.in/andrew-tate-what-is-top-g-andrew-tates-religion/

6.  https://youtu.be/EpR9ucpGpWs
7. https://youtu.be/UVUcv7yyJIA 
8. https://youtu.be/IgdWYaz-6ZY
9. https://youtube.com/shorts/RirKfcVP2OM?feature=share
10. https://youtu.be/cI-Ps1NIU4w
11. https://youtu.be/M-doheMG424
12. https://youtu.be/fFky34MAeGg
13. https://youtu.be/JyNizUlYTC
14. https://thecourseplace.net/product/andrew-tate-phd-program-full/ 
15. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/who-is-andrew-tate-from-kickboxing-champ-to-accused-human-trafficker/ar-AA166CnO 
16. https://web.archive.org/web/20220811143550/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star
17. https://youtu.be/LqGmS_9zCkU
18. https://www.insider.com/andrew-tate-says-women-at-house-not-allowed-out-video-2023-1
19. https://archive.is/MEhRiOn 
20. https://www.jointherealworld.com/
21. https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/andrew-tates-hospital-visit-sparks-conflicting-reports-about-his-health/ar-AA1684ty
22. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/andrew-tate-tiktok-fame-men-2022
23. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/30/andrew-tate-explainer-arrested-greta-misogyny/
24. https://rumble.com/v1gluzu-the-worst-things-about-being-rich-.html
25. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/andrew-tate-how-make-money-arrested-romania-b2256514.html
26. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brothers-make-millions-using-webcam-26508739
27. https://archiIve.is/hAhhQ
28. https://archive.is/lwViQ
29. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/andrew-tate-hustlers-university
30. https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/1/10/23547393/andrew-tate-toxic-masculinity-qa

31. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/02/03/mens-movement-stalks-the-wild-side/83d3e85f-1384-484c-8e43-c4e30e1229f4/

32.  

    https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2021/12/a-snowy-poem-by-robert-bly/

33. https://ew.com/article/1991/04/19/robert-blys-mens-movement/

34. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1967/12/21/protest/

35. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/andrew-tate-daria-gusa-instagram-dm?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharetwitter

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

1. Behind the Scenes of That Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter

2. Why Watching Actors Get Maimed By Big Cats Gives Me Hope For The Future

3. How ICE Kidnapped A Farmworker Union Organizer

4. Esperanto with Andrew

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11

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Sources/Links:

Behind the Scenes of that Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.PL6V.gJR0OQEOJP8G&smid=url-share 

https://ucsdguardian.org/2025/04/07/5-ucsd-students-face-sudden-f-1-visa-terminations-a-6th-deported-at-the-border-no-apparent-pattern-among-students-targeted/ 

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-statement-international-students-visa-status-terminations 

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmcxoqk2ts24

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147.30.1_1.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25881144-24a949/

https://bsky.app/profile/khuddleston.bsky.social/post/3lmaiaxi7f226

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/03/18/516185/hpd-says-their-stance-on-immigration-enforcement-hasnt-changed-despite-recent-turnover-to-ice/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-chairman-steve-miran-hudson-institute-event-remarks/

https://apnews.com/article/china-response-us-tariffs-104-d40d497f6e07ee4163d88443cb75ab3f

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World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason.

Sources:

1. The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch
2. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/
3. The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck
4. https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/ 
5. https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html 
6. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1 
7. https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html 
8. https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up 

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Robert sits down with Amanda Montell to talk about Alfred Hugenberg, a German industrialist who made Hitler's rise to power possible for some very familiar reasons.

Sources:

1. The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch
2. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/
3. The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck
4. https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/ 
5. https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-was-hitler%E2%80%99s-idea.html 
6. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75512-5_1 
7. https://www.topfundsoehne.de/ts/en/site/history/index.html 
8. https://archive.org/details/alfredhugenbergr0000leop/page/11/mode/1up 

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

1. The Library Funding Cliff

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

3. RFK Jr. Breaks the Medical System

4. How ICE Is Targeting Students for Deportation

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #10

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Sources/Links:

RFK Jr. Breaks the Medical System

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/114853

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/health/fda-vaccine-peter-marks-resigns/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-to-gut-vaccine-promotion-and-hiv-prevention-office-sources-say/

https://archive.ph/z2Fyx

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1839225/

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/29/rfk-jr-body-shames-west-virginia-governor

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hhs-taps-anti-vaccine-activist-look-debunked-links-autism-vaccines-sou-rcna198214

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/health/vaccine-grants-cancelled-pediatricians/index.html

https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf

https://archive.ph/48Ua1

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-wants-to-let-bird-flu-spread-on-poultry-farms-why-experts-are/

How ICE Is Targeting Students for Deportation

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

https://archive.ph/20250316111414/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregion/columbia-student-kristi-noem-video.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/columbia-gaza-protester-yunseo-chung-lawsuit 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/cornell-student-momodou-taal.html 

https://apnews.com/article/social-media-immigration-applicants-handles-dhs-f67b480abebff7e451056be17572593d 

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-trump-admin-spies-on-social?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7677&post_id=160081190&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1aiy5i&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

https://apnews.com/article/georgetown-trump-deportation-immigration-homeland-security-21fc205cebbbbba2ed260050df04702a 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-detained.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/israel-gaza-student-protests-canary-mission.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/israel-betar-deportation-list-trump 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346 

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detainees-students-ozturk-khalil-78f544fb2c8b593c88a0c1f0e0ad9c5f 

https://x.com/janashortal/status/1905759411248734353 

 https://dailyegyptian.com/120974/news/international-siu-student-has-visa-revoked-confirms-university-admin/ 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SGz224raVR8mHMzC6q-6EUiNcBKD6BSK/view 

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #10

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-stokes-trade-war-world-reels-tariff-shock-2025-04-03/

https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok

https://www.reuters.com/markets/frances-macron-calls-suspension-investment-us-after-tariffs-2025-04-03/

https://x.com/USBPChief/status/1907398210064437404

https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1907488012239302953 

https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1907411257927311619

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.11.0.pdf

https://x.com/JDVance/status/1906934067607556440

https://t.co/dFXNSbOyiy

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/01/us/elections/results-wisconsin-supreme-court.html 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/business/tesla-sales/index.html

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Garrison and James discuss how a doxing campaign is targeting student visa and green card holders for alleged ties to pro-Palestine protests.

Sources: 

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

https://archive.ph/20250316111414/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregion/columbia-student-kristi-noem-video.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/columbia-gaza-protester-yunseo-chung-lawsuit 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/cornell-student-momodou-taal.html 

https://apnews.com/article/social-media-immigration-applicants-handles-dhs-f67b480abebff7e451056be17572593d 

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-trump-admin-spies-on-social?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7677&post_id=160081190&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1aiy5i&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

https://apnews.com/article/georgetown-trump-deportation-immigration-homeland-security-21fc205cebbbbba2ed260050df04702a 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-detained.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/israel-gaza-student-protests-canary-mission.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/israel-betar-deportation-list-trump 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346 

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detainees-students-ozturk-khalil-78f544fb2c8b593c88a0c1f0e0ad9c5f 

https://x.com/janashortal/status/1905759411248734353 

 https://dailyegyptian.com/120974/news/international-siu-student-has-visa-revoked-confirms-university-admin/ 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SGz224raVR8mHMzC6q-6EUiNcBKD6BSK/view 

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Robert concludes the story of the Fake Autism Cure Industrial Complex and tells Mangesh about a doctor who tried to get rich selling spoiled blood to deranged parents.

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Robert and Mangesh Hattikudur explore the birth of the "unorthodox biomedical movement", which is a fancy way of saying "fake doctors who poison children to cure Autism".

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