Executive Disorder: Tariff Refund Disaster, DHS Citizenship List, Idaho Bathroom Bill, Two Bombing Plots

It Could Happen Here

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The gang discuss Trump threatening to bomb desalination plants in Iran, an executive order to create a State Citizenship List and restrict mail in voting, misinformation about an anti-trans bill in Kentucky, and a bombing plot targeting a pro-Palestinian activist. Plus, updates on tariffs and immigration.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:06.0	Call Zone Media.
0:12.2	This is It Could Happen here, executive disorder, our weekly newscast covering what's
0:16.9	happening in the White House, the crumbling world and what it means for you.
0:19.9	I'm Garrison Davis.
0:20.8	Today I'm joined by Mia Wong and James Stout. This episode, we are covering the week of March 25th to April 1st. Yep, so we're all going to do silly things that aren't really news. No, we're not going to do us. We're not. I love it when an outlet to do that. This comes out Friday. This comes
0:37.9	out Friday. It's over. It's done. No more fish of April day for all those French people out there.
0:43.8	Now, with the midterm elections rapidly approaching, I know everyone's going to get tired of election
0:48.7	news, but there is some very important voting that needs to happen in these next few weeks because it could happen
0:57.6	here, another show called Behind the Bastards, and James' excellent series, migrating to America,
1:04.6	have been nominated for Webby Awards.
1:08.6	You know the Emmys?
1:09.8	Yeah.
1:10.1	They're like those, except they're for the internet, but they're just as serious.
1:15.2	More serious, some people are saying.
1:17.0	The internet is obviously is more real than television.
1:19.3	No one watches TV anymore.
1:20.6	Yeah, it's like the Emmys, people who aren't boomers, people are saying.
1:25.6	So this is obviously very exciting.
1:28.5	And voting lasts until April 16th.
1:33.2	There will be links in the show notes to vote for the three nominations that we have here at Cool Zone Media.
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