Mia talks with Jess and Jesus from Friends PDX Union Network about their work mentoring underprivileged youth at Friends of the Children and their unionization efforts.

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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

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Margaret reads another chapter from the second book in her Danielle Cain series.

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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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The gang discuss tariff chaos, the IRS handing over data to ICE, student visa cancellations, “lethality” in the military, and the Supreme Court.

Sources:

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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Andrew is joined by James to discuss the history and practice of Esperanto, the global language.

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Mia talks with Coalition of Independent Unions organizer Mark Medina about ICE's kidnapping of Familias Unidas por la Justicia organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, Lelo's work, and the April 12th rally at Portland City Hall to free him.

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Robert explains why he repeatedly returns to Roar, a movie where the cast and crew are repeatedly for-real maimed by giant cats, when he needs to feel optimistic about the future of the human race.

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Ella Yurman and Teen Vogue news and politics editor Lex McMenamin talk about interviewing Elon Musk’s trans daughter and how news outlets cover trans issues. 

Sources:

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

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Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.

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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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