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

- Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts

- A New Threat to Public Lands

- The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide feat. Dana El Kurd

- The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41

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Sources:

Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600718/wall-street-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor

https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-react-nyc-mayor-election-race-results-zohran-mamdani-2025-11#jamie-dimon-1

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/11/elon-musk-is-having-a-post-election-meltdown-western-civilization-is-doomed.html

https://defector.com/lets-check-in-with-people-who-threatened-to-leave-zohran-mamdanis-nyc

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/democrats-republicans-reaction-mamdani-win

https://lindseyboylan4ny.medium.com/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan

https://indypendent.org/2025/07/we-will-beat-these-monsters-lindsey-boylan-reacts-to-cuomos-defeat/

https://archive.vn/3N3wu

A New Threat to Public Lands

https://www.energy.senate.gov/2025/10/lee-bill-fights-back-against-biden-s-border-chaos-destroying-america-s-parks-and-public-lands 

https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/11/sierra-club-statement-trump-s-nomination-steve-pearce-lead-blm

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kathleen-sgamma-withdraws-jan-6-criticism-came-public--rcna200699 

https://recreationroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ORR-Burgum-Nomination-Letter-of-Support-Final.pdf 

https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-lee/summary?cid=N00031696 

https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/0DED04C4-18C7-4C1F-BCE4-DD5B79FB0264 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/14646 

The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide

Ahmed Moor & Antony Loewenstein’s book - https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/after-zionism/

The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson

https://x.com/jasonahart/status/1985338713791172827 

https://x.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/1984335805192532265  

https://x.com/markgoldfeder/status/1985000264743416256?s=46 

https://x.com/McCormickProf/status/1984646330849837488

https://www.jta.org/2025/10/31/united-states/ted-cruz-to-jewish-republicans-antisemitism-is-an-existential-crisis-in-our-party  

https://jewishinsider.com/2025/11/gop-senators-tucker-carlson-left-wing-antisemitism-josh-hawley-james-lankford/

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5586731-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-controversy/ 

https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/heritage-foundation-in-revolt-over-tucker-carlson-defense-after-controversial-nick-fuentes-interview-footsie-with-literal-nazis/ 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chris-demuth-resigns-from-the-heritage-foundation/

https://x.com/AudreyFahlberg/status/1985781905976115550?s=20 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-task-force.html 

https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/heritage-president-apologizes-for-tucker-carlson-defense-video-in-heated-all-hands-meeting/ 

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/david-french-schools-matt-walsh-over-his-call-for-no-enemies-on-the-right/ 

https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1985032452432437704?s=20 

https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1985417108407124110?s=20 

https://x.com/JDVance/status/1986099131845136594 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/nick-fuentes-kirk-successor.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html 

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-interview/684792/ 

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-and-heard-in-washington?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/italian-pasta-tariffs-trump-rcna243264

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/13/pasta-italian-imports-trump-tariffs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-50-year-mortgage-loan-bill-pulte-cost/

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2025/11/13/when-will-the-2000-tariff-dividend-be-paid-new-trump-stimulus-check-2025-payment-eligibility-update/87209405007/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/business/fifty-year-mortgage

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93ddrp17zko\

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/white-house-withdraws-ej-antoni-nomination-lead-bls-00589289

https://archive.vn/sHLdh

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/11/13/white-house-will-release-octobers-jobs-report-after-saying-data-would-likely-never-publish/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-issue-2000-tariff-dividend-except-high/story?id=127356839\

https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore 

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-kept-chicago-police-records-for-months-in-violation-of-domestic-espionage-rules/ 

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/66/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/ 

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/harris-county-immigration-lawsuit/2501762887924/ 

https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/study-ny-times-wash-post-coverage-caravan-plummets-after-midterms

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The gang discuss the end of the government shutdown, the release of Epstein emails, a J6 bomber theory, and the wonders of the Trump economy.

Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/italian-pasta-tariffs-trump-rcna243264

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/13/pasta-italian-imports-trump-tariffs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-50-year-mortgage-loan-bill-pulte-cost/

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2025/11/13/when-will-the-2000-tariff-dividend-be-paid-new-trump-stimulus-check-2025-payment-eligibility-update/87209405007/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/business/fifty-year-mortgage

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93ddrp17zko\

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/white-house-withdraws-ej-antoni-nomination-lead-bls-00589289

https://archive.vn/sHLdh

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/11/13/white-house-will-release-octobers-jobs-report-after-saying-data-would-likely-never-publish/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-issue-2000-tariff-dividend-except-high/story?id=127356839\

https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore 

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-kept-chicago-police-records-for-months-in-violation-of-domestic-espionage-rules/ 

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/66/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/ 

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/harris-county-immigration-lawsuit/2501762887924/ 

https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/study-ny-times-wash-post-coverage-caravan-plummets-after-midterms

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Garrison explains how Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes sparked infighting between the Heritage Foundation and Ben Shapiro, and the growing influence of America First branded antisemitism in the Republican Party.

Sources:

https://x.com/jasonahart/status/1985338713791172827 

https://x.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/1984335805192532265  

https://x.com/markgoldfeder/status/1985000264743416256?s=46 

https://x.com/McCormickProf/status/1984646330849837488

https://www.jta.org/2025/10/31/united-states/ted-cruz-to-jewish-republicans-antisemitism-is-an-existential-crisis-in-our-party  

https://jewishinsider.com/2025/11/gop-senators-tucker-carlson-left-wing-antisemitism-josh-hawley-james-lankford/

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5586731-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-controversy/ 

https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/heritage-foundation-in-revolt-over-tucker-carlson-defense-after-controversial-nick-fuentes-interview-footsie-with-literal-nazis/ 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chris-demuth-resigns-from-the-heritage-foundation/

https://x.com/AudreyFahlberg/status/1985781905976115550?s=20 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-task-force.html 

https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/heritage-president-apologizes-for-tucker-carlson-defense-video-in-heated-all-hands-meeting/ 

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/david-french-schools-matt-walsh-over-his-call-for-no-enemies-on-the-right/ 

https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1985032452432437704?s=20 

https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1985417108407124110?s=20 

https://x.com/JDVance/status/1986099131845136594 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/nick-fuentes-kirk-successor.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html 

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-interview/684792/ 

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-and-heard-in-washington?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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Dana El Kurd speaks with author, activist, and 2025 Foundation for Middle East Peace fellow Ahmed Moor on the pro-Palestine movement in the US, and what we can learn after two years of genocide.

Sources:

Ahmed Moor & Antony Loewenstein’s book - https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/after-zionism/

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James and Gare discuss Utah Senator Mike Lee’s latest attempt to erode protections on wilderness in the USA.

Sources:

https://www.energy.senate.gov/2025/10/lee-bill-fights-back-against-biden-s-border-chaos-destroying-america-s-parks-and-public-lands 

https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/11/sierra-club-statement-trump-s-nomination-steve-pearce-lead-blm

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kathleen-sgamma-withdraws-jan-6-criticism-came-public--rcna200699 

https://recreationroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ORR-Burgum-Nomination-Letter-of-Support-Final.pdf 

https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-lee/summary?cid=N00031696 

https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/0DED04C4-18C7-4C1F-BCE4-DD5B79FB0264 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/14646 

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Mia and Gare discuss the wide range of reactions to Mamdani’s victory and see some truly astonishing meltdowns.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600718/wall-street-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor

https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-react-nyc-mayor-election-race-results-zohran-mamdani-2025-11#jamie-dimon-1

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/11/elon-musk-is-having-a-post-election-meltdown-western-civilization-is-doomed.html

https://defector.com/lets-check-in-with-people-who-threatened-to-leave-zohran-mamdanis-nyc

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/democrats-republicans-reaction-mamdani-win

https://lindseyboylan4ny.medium.com/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan

https://indypendent.org/2025/07/we-will-beat-these-monsters-lindsey-boylan-reacts-to-cuomos-defeat/

https://archive.vn/3N3wu

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Can our heroes best the mighty beasts who await them in the swamps? Who will Trant throw a bomb at?

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

- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40

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Sources:

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf, The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.) 

Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.)

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.)

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy

Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/)

Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.) 

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/ 

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/ 

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/ 

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strikes-deal-on-economic-and-trade-relations-with-china/

https://archive.vn/rR8Ix

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522166327/202133199349305758/full

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html

https://archive.vn/BFLOe

https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html

https://archive.vn/BFLOe

https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

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The gang discuss the election of Zohran Mamdani and California’s redistricting. Plus updates on immigration, tariffs, and air travel issues.

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Sources:

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/ 

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/ 

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/ 

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strikes-deal-on-economic-and-trade-relations-with-china/

https://archive.vn/rR8Ix

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522166327/202133199349305758/full

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html

https://archive.vn/BFLOe

https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

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