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It Could Happen Here Weekly 192

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

News, Daily News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 203 minutes

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Summary

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

- How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage

- Tracking ICE Removal Flights

- How LA Resisted ICE

- Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26

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Sources/Links:

How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage

https://transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/

https://thefreeradical.org/dont-panic-the-battle-over-the-trans-medicaid-ban-is-far-from-over-heres-how-to-fight-back/

https://ashevilleblade.com‪‪

Social Media: @thefreeradical.org‬, @davidforbes.bsky.social‬, @madycast.com

Tracking ICE Removal Flights

https://hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ice-may-have-secretly-done-more-third-country-removals-than-previously-known/

https://hardghistory.ghost.io/new-ices-eswatini-flight-went-through-us-base-in-djibouti-americans-stationed-there-are-angry/

https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-call-to-action-for-airline-workers-to-stop-ices-deportation-machine/

https://thedawn.com.ss/2025/07/10/govt-places-8-u-s-deportees-behind-bars-in-juba/

witnessattheborder.org

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

https://www.pogo.org/investigations/meet-the-ice-contractor-running-deportation-flights

https://capitalandmain.com/a-drunk-mechanic-shackled-immigrants-a-crash-landing-the-dangers-of-ice-flights

https://alexplank.substack.com/p/photos-shackled-migrant-escorted

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

How LA Resisted ICE

https://linktr.ee/mel_buer

@acatwithnews.bsky.social‬

@melbuer.bsky.social‬

Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein

https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/donald-trump-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-model-amy-dorris

https://archive.fo/J6z9J

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna218693

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/21/18701098/trump-accusers-sexual-assault-rape-e-jean-carroll

https://archive.fo/aeLYy

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26

Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose

https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?st=dg3j4m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

https://apnews.com/article/trump-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-justice-department-4634e5afceb8b1bb43f23558dfbb1d6c

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year 

https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-immigration-deport-chilean-man-living-pennsylvania-refuting-123944071

https://www.fastcheck.cl/2025/07/22/foto-atribuida-a-luis-leon-supuesto-migrante-chileno-deportado-a-guatemala-es-falsa/

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165454 

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-07-22/fort-bliss-detention-center-migrants-18520342.html

https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4250988/ 

https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/2022-02/DODIG-2022-064.pdf 

https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2024/budget_justification/pdfs/01_Operation_and_Maintenance/O_M_VOL_1_PART_2/OHDACA_OP-5.pdf 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/trump-awards-immigration-detention-center-contract-for-fort-bliss-in-texas?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy 

https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration 

https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232598p.pdf

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/afghan-refugee-fort-bliss/  

https://ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/031145354889

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/ 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/trump-announces-massive-trade-deal-with-japan-with-15percent-tariffs.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/23/eu-100bn-no-deal-plan-trump-tariffs-threat-us-imports

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-trade-deals-are-arriving-how-they-might-affect-us-economy-rcna220465

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-rico-law-ban-hormone-therapy-gender-affirming-surgery-transgender-youth/

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5407157-puerto-rico-gender-affirming-care-ban-transgender-americans/

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-congress-epstein-mike-johnson-b2793874.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-strikes-deal-with-japan-as-eu-us-reportedly-close-in-on-pact-200619932.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rumeysa-ozturk-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/npr-pbs-affiliates-worry-congress-clawbacks-00465850

https://archive.vn/zXQCw#selection-895.0-899.146

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.2

I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different.

0:08.0

What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

0:12.2

Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story.

0:18.8

Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story.

0:23.3

It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on

0:30.3

the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.3

CallZone Media. Hey everybody. Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode.

0:42.8

So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat

0:48.9

less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. If you've been listening to the

0:54.4

episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can

0:58.0

make your own decisions. Welcome to It Happened Here, a podcast that played some

1:07.0

role in the defeats of the Republicans reposed ban on using Medicaid to pay for trans

1:12.6

health care. I am your host, Mia Wong, and with me are three of the people who helped make this

1:17.4

whole thing possible. This is David Forbes, a journalist from the Asheville Blade and

1:21.9

Maddiecast News, Maddie Kastigan of the namesake MediCast News lazine of free radical and also medicast news

1:29.3

and all of you welcome to the show congratulations on on your defeat of the republican party

1:34.7

and helping to save trans health care for unbelievably large numbers of people in this country

1:39.5

yeah yeah it's kind of like a sentence that's kind of hard to accept.

1:46.4

And, you know, in a lot of ways, it is really, what we've been trying to say,

1:49.3

it's been like a collective effort of everyone involved,

1:51.9

especially to people at the grassroots.

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