It Could Happen Here

DC resident Bridget Todd talks with Garrison about Trump’s police takeover in Washington DC, the manufacturing of crime panics, and how federal police are effecting the city.

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Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. 

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

- Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew

- Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen

- How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center

- Tariffs and the Corruption State

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29

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Sources/Links:

Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen

https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lead-investigator-james-comer-biden-autopen-digital-signature-rcna216719

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html

How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center

http://nodesertdatacenter.com

https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a

https://vermaland.com

Tariffs and the Corruption State

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-amd-chip-sales-china-15-percent-h20-mi308/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-switzerland-trump.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-come-into-effect-hitting-dozens-of-us-trading-partners.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/12/trump-extends-china-tariff-deadline-for-the-second-time-what-does-it-mean

https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/08/12/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/business/trade-exemptions-tariffs-trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7jjkvzmkxo

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-tells-foreign-military-junta-wants-hear-raising-e-rcna221569

https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29

https://www.cvesd.org/parents/family-and-community-resources
lausd.org

https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/577/Parent%20Resources/ComResourceGuideEng.pdf

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2024/11/21/with-trump-back-in-power-advocates-criticize-gloria-for-shuttering-immigrant-affairs-office

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html

https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169

https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-democrats-return-after-governor-ends-special-session/story?id=124592449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-gunman-cdc-shooting-fired-500-rounds-officials/story?id=124577732

https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-jr-in-interview-with-scripps-news-trusting-the-experts-is-not-science 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

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The gang discuss the deployment of National Guard and federalization of police in Washington DC, a Heritage Foundation economist being appointed to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a shooting targeting the CDC headquarters.

Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case

Sources:

https://www.cvesd.org/parents/family-and-community-resources
lausd.org

https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/577/Parent%20Resources/ComResourceGuideEng.pdf

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2024/11/21/with-trump-back-in-power-advocates-criticize-gloria-for-shuttering-immigrant-affairs-office

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html

https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169

https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-democrats-return-after-governor-ends-special-session/story?id=124592449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-gunman-cdc-shooting-fired-500-rounds-officials/story?id=124577732

https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-jr-in-interview-with-scripps-news-trusting-the-experts-is-not-science 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

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Mia gives an update on the recent round of tariffs and what they say about the American state under Trump.

Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-amd-chip-sales-china-15-percent-h20-mi308/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-switzerland-trump.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-come-into-effect-hitting-dozens-of-us-trading-partners.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/12/trump-extends-china-tariff-deadline-for-the-second-time-what-does-it-mean

https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/08/12/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/business/trade-exemptions-tariffs-trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7jjkvzmkxo

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-tells-foreign-military-junta-wants-hear-raising-e-rcna221569

https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/

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James is joined by Karl Kasarda of InRangeTV to discuss the Project Blue data center and the coalition of people who campaigned against its construction in Tucson.

Sources:

http://nodesertdatacenter.com

https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a

https://vermaland.com

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Garrison talks with Robert about Republican investigations into the  presidential autopen as a way to rescind pardons and remove judges.

Sources:

https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lead-investigator-james-comer-biden-autopen-digital-signature-rcna216719

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html

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Andrew is joined by James to discuss how physical and digital infrastructure can be used as systems of control, and how communities have resisted and built their own infrastructure.

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Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!

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

- Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew

- Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd

- Mapping Border Deaths

- Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28

You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today!

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Sources/Links:

Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew

Anarchist Encyclopedia by Sebastien Faure et al

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-herod-the-weakness-of-a-politics-of-protest

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-p-j-lilley-striking-against-the-work-war-machine

Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd

Oxfam statement about Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/more-than-100-organizations-are-sounding-the-alarm-to-allow-lifesaving-aid-into-gaza/

Fogbow in Uganda and Sudan - https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/06/16/fogbow-operations-south-sudan-raise-red-flags-aid-private-sector

Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/israel-leaders-palestinian-territories-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-7-october

Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on dismantling UNRWA - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/notes/unrwa-may-be-forced-stop-saving-lives-gaza-will-world-let-happen

NPR report on famine in Gaza - https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/25/g-s1-78968/what-does-it-take-for-a-famine-to-be-declared-in-gaza

US Green Beret on what he saw at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/i-witnessed-war-crimes-in-gaza-u-s-veteran-and-former-ghf-worker-tells-bbc/00000198-47e0-d6be-a1bd-4ffd67f90000

Aljazeera op-ed by former UN official - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/21/why-is-the-un-not-declaring-famine-in-gaza

UN reporting on deaths at aid sites - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396

Dr. Nick Maynard on what he witnessed in Gaza - https://www.channel4.com/news/teenagers-being-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-british-surgeon-in-gaza

Suppressing Dissent edited volume - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Suppressing-Dissent/Zaha-Hassan/9781836430971

Mapping Border Deaths

https://nomoredeaths.org/migrant-death-mapping/

Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting

https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/

https://files.libcom.org/files/[Mark_Fisher]_Capitalist_Realism_Is_There_no_Alte(BookZZ.org).pdf

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trumps-immigration-record-far-high-arrests-low-deportations-rcna217752

https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-refuses-us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-sources-say-2025-01-25/

https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3luq3qktltc2n

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/aug/05/yvette-cooper-small-boats-migrants-uk-france-home-office-uk-politics-live

https://bsky.app/profile/yougov.co.uk/post/3lvnr5fixc22l

https://www.facebook.com/EpiscopalNY/

https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-alligator-alcatraz-27fbae217427be730f589323df7cf656

https://sam.gov/opp/53dc2fa997954c1d8acf8888fd8f0b56/view

https://bi2technologies.com/service/iris/

https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250519NE91508/bi2-technologies-and-support-our-sheriffs-foundation-partner-with-singlecare-to-create-sheriff-rx/ 

https://www.secureidnews.com/news-item/el-paso-sheriff-to-use-iris-scanners/?ref=404media.co

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https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/02/capsule-review-ford-svt-raptor-united-states-border-patrol-edition/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senator-cornyn-says-fbi-will-help-track-down-texas-democrats-who-fled-over-2025-08-07/

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/texas-quorum-breaks-history/

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-house-warrants-arrest-quorum-break/

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493544/rfk-defunding-mrna-vaccine-research

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172

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