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It Could Happen Here
It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a j...
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Zohran Mamdani's First 100 Days
Garrison goes over what Mayor Mamdani has accomplished in his first 100 days, the challenges of adapting to power, and what his administration means f...
Gaddafi with Andrew
Andrew and James discuss Muammar Gaddafi and his claims of anti imperialism.
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Libya with Andrew
Andrew and James talk about the revolution and civil war in Libya, and discuss the campist approach to world affairs.
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Iran retali...
The Age of Extremophiles
After a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Robert takes a look at the current political environment to explain why previously normal p...
CZM Book Club: Where the Phph Pebbles Go, by Miriam Allen DeFord
Margaret reads you a 1963 science fiction story of class stratification, sports, and first contact.
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- Private Credit: It's 2008's All The Way Down
- Indi...
Executive Disorder: SPLC Indictment, Denaturalization, Iran
The gang discuss fraud charges against the SPLC for paying neo-nazi informants, USCIS pursuing denaturalization, the Fed chair, Virginia redistricting...
UCSD and the Palestine Exception to Free Speech
James talks to a UCSD faculty member facing disciplinary proceedings for their participation in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment about UCSD’s history, t...
The First Anti-AI Firebombing
Garrison and Robert talk about Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20 year old charged with attempting to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. We discuss how he became an...
Indigeneity with Andrew
Andrew is joined by Mia to discuss different conceptions of indigeneity and what they mean politically.
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Private Credit: It's 2008's All The Way Down
Mia is once again joined by Molly to discuss a bank run on another type of shadow banks caused by subprime car loans!
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CZM Book Club: Against the State by James Stout
James reads Margaret the first chapter of his new book
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- The Most Extreme Trans Healthcare Ban You've Never Heard...
Executive Disorder: Hungary Election, DoorDash Stunt, Sam Altman’s Home Attacked
The gang discuss the electoral defeat of Viktor Orbán, violent abuse at Alligator Alcatraz, Tom Steyer’s plan to prosecute ICE agents and leadership,...
What Next for the People of Iran?
James brings listeners up to date with the US and Israel’s bombing campaign in Iran and recent peace negotiations.
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Are Workers Lighting Warehouses on Fire?
Garrison investigates viral claims that a spree of warehouse fires across the country have been started by underpaid workers.
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Rojava with Andrew
Andrew is joined by James to discuss Rojava and the current situation in Syria.
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The Most Extremely Trans Healthcare Ban You've Never Heard Of
Mia talks with David Forbes, editor and journalist with the Trans News Network, about her work covering the Catholic Church’s draconian trans healthca...
CZM Book Club: Selected Poems of Voltairine de Cleyre
Happy National Poetry Month! Margaret reads some poems from a "Classic Age" anarchist poet and agitator
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- How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Ass...
Executive Disorder: FEMA Teleportation, Pam Bondi Fired, Iran Ceasefire?
The gang discuss the rescue of an US airman in Iran, ceasefire negotiations, a FEMA official who say he teleported to a Waffle House, and elections in...
Nigeria with Andrew
Andrew talks to James about the USA’s military incursion into Nigeria and the reality around claims of Christian genocide in the country.
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The Jewish Bund and Political Imagination
Dana El Kurd speaks to Molly Crabapple, an award winning writer and artist. Her most recent book is Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of th...
How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Association, Pt. 2
Mia finishes her interview with Yahoo Sports writer Charles McDonald with the disturbing realization that the NFL might have paid a guy to keep the cu...
How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Association, Pt. 1
Mia talks with Yahoo Sports writer Charles McDonald about the history of the NFLPA and how it installed a corporate consultant as its Executive Direct...
CZM Book Club: All Cats Are Grey, by Andre Alice Norton
Margaret reads you some golden-age pulp sci-fi about a hypercompetant space captain and her trusty cat
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- The Trans Panic Clickbait Economy
- Talking to Vene...
Executive Disorder: Tariff Refund Disaster, DHS Citizenship List, Idaho Bathroom Bill, Two Bombing Plots
The gang discuss Trump threatening to bomb desalination plants in Iran, an executive order to create a State Citizenship List and restrict mail in vot...
Slouching Towards Gallipoli: How The U.S. Might Be Losing To Iran
Robert sits down to explain how Iran has responded to the U.S. invasion, and how the odds of a military disaster have become almost a guarantee.
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Strange People on the Hill: An Interview with Michael Edison Hayden
Molly interviews Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town. The book is an intimate...
Talking to Venezuelans about Venezuela
James talks to Marian about how the left discourse about the US kidnapping of Maduro has silenced Venezuelan leftists and how the anti Maduro Venezuel...
The Trans Panic Clickbait Economy
Garrison investigates a series of frightening claims: that ICE can detain people for ‘looking trans,’ the creation of a transgender public registry, a...
CZM Book Club: The Cloud Weaver's Song, by Saul Tanpepper
Margaret reads you a story about climate refugees, ancestors, and giant spider robots that weave webs of glass
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- Prairieland and Antifa Terrorism
- The Scariest Cou...
Executive Disorder: ICE at Airports, New DHS Secretary, Iran Negotiations
The gang discuss Trump’s deployment of ICE to more than a dozen airports, OpenAI shutting down its AI generated video app, continuing negotiations wit...
Shadow Banking: The Once and Future Economic Apocalypse
Mia teaches Molly what shadow banking is, how it caused the 2008 financial collapse, and how they’re threatening to do it all again
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Israel’s Attack on Lebanon
Dana El Kurd speaks to Elia Ayoub, UK-based Lebanese-Palestinian historian, anti-authoritarian writer, and host of The Fire These Times. They talk abo...
The Scariest Court in America feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
During the Civil Rights Era, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans was one of the most liberal courts in the United States. It became...
Prairieland and Antifa Terrorism
Garrison and Robert discuss a trial stemming from a protest and shooting outside an ICE facility in Prairieland Texas, how the government secured conv...
CZM Book Club: St. Juju, by Rivers Solomon
Margaret reads you a story about mushrooms, trash, and coming to terms with an imperfect utopia
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