It Could Happen Here

Garrison talks about how politicians and media figures weaponize public acts of violence though the lens of partisan political ideology.

Sources:

https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2025/09/michigan-church-shooter-told-burton-council-candidate-that-mormons-are-the-anti-christ.html

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/09/29/thomas-jacob-sanford-michigan-shooting-suspect-anti-lds-tirade/86415139007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/michigan-church-attack.html

https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/29/eric-swalwell-post-photoshopped-pic-x-michigan-church-attack-suspect-maga/

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1972323666705973589?s=61 

https://bsky.app/profile/aric.bsky.social/post/3lxmr4jq3qs2d 

https://x.com/jamesstout/status/1972669516384539066

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-10-06/dallas-ice-shooting-politics-and-ideology-or-notoriety-and-fame-joshua-jahns-immigration 

https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1975581768876237115 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/north-carolina-bar-shooting/ 

https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/

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Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413

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Mia talks with Unraveled’s Raven about ICE’s horrific raids in Chicago from a traffic stop murder to helicopter apartment raids.

Sources:

https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

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Kicking off spooky month with a story about demons that I don't want to spoil by telling you more about but it's so good I promise.

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

- SEIU 1000 Union Rep of the IE Reports Live from the Frontline

- Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel

- Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?

- What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36

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Sources:

Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel

https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/

https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority

https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset

Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/ 

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36

democrats-are-shutting-down-government

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ 

​​https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility 

https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 

https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ 

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 

https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ 

https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ 

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ 

https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ 

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The gang discuss the government shutdown, War Department plans to deploy troops to US cities, ICE raids in Chicago, new border wall construction, and a National Security Presidential Memo targeting political violence indicators like “anti-capitalism, anti-christianity, and extremism on migration, race, and gender.”

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ec-off-ice

Sources:

https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-run-wild-blatantly-false-claim-democrats-are-shutting-down-government

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ 

​​https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility 

https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 

https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ 

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 

https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ 

https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ 

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ 

https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ 

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James introduces a rebroadcast of Final Straw Radio in which Mo speaks with Bursts about the implications of recent Executive Orders and Memoranda for free speech and the First Amendment.

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/ 

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James is joined by Dr. Tyler Black and Dr. Kaveh Hoda to discuss the MAHA claim that the medication Tylenol is increasing the incidence of autism. 

Sources:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

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Mia talks with CAW writer and editor Vicky Osterweil about Republican unpopularity, Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney’s history of fascism

Links: 

https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/

Sources:
https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority

https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset

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Prop's friend, Tanjint Wiggy aka Tristian is the the elected Union negotiator for the health workers in the Inland Empire of California. We talk to him about the highs and lows of negotiating with the state, ICE raids, the jailing of David Huerta and how we can stand in solidarity with them.

@tanjint

Itsonlyempire.com 

@famlikley

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