It Could Happen Here Weekly 196

Behind the Bastards

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News, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

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

- The Federalization of DC Police feat. Bridget Todd

- Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

- Alienation and AI feat. Andrew

- Objectivity in Journalism

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30

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Sources/Links:

Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns

Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State

Hardy Green, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

Chad Pearson, Capitalism’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

Objectivity in Journalism

https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/a-widely-shared-video-shows-a-deputy-overdosing-on-fentanyl-experts-say-its-impossible/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30

https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/

https://x.com/IDF/status/1954652255199887516

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-israel-at-war/august-24-pr/eliminated-ismail-al-ghoul-a-hamas-military-wing-operative-and-nukhba-terrorist/

https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tQckcrui/

https://www.icrc.org/en/article/international-humanitarian-law-protect-journalists-armed-conflict

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250819-DiscretionaryFactors.pdf

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1424&num=0&edition=prelim

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-alerts/08.15.2025-Restoring_a_Good_Moral_Character_Evaluation_Standard_for_Aliens_Applying_for_Naturalization-Policy_Memorandum_FINAL.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26054451-20-1/#document/p17/a2667744

https://www.wmtw.com/article/old-orchard-beach-maine-officer-voluntary-departure/65807962?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

https://edsource.org/updates/immigration-agents-alleged-to-have-boasted-of-1500-for-l-a-student-arrest

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html

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0:42.7	Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode.
0:48.8	So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. If you've been listening
0:54.0	to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can make your own decisions. Hey, It Could Happen Your listeners. I wanted to flag that we have launched individual feeds for some of your favorite shows that currently run within the It Could Happen Here feed. We wanted to make these shows more accessible and easier to share.
1:11.5	You can still listen to these shows in the It Could Happen Here feed, but can also subscribe
1:15.1	on an individual level. So check out, Executive Disorder White House Weekly, Myanmar
1:20.9	printing the revolution, Marshall Islands after the bomb dropped, migrating to America, a dream
1:27.1	worth dying for, stop Cop City to defend a
1:30.2	forest, and Margaret Kilroy's Cool Zone Media Book Club. Listen now on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
1:38.0	or wherever you get your podcast. This is It Could Happen here. I'm Garrison Davis. One place that it is happening right now is Washington, D.C., where Trump has undergone a quasi-military takeover of the city. And to discuss this, I'm joined by Bridget Todd, D.C. resident.
2:02.0	Gare, so I was on the podcast a few months ago talking about Trump's history of threats to D.C.
2:08.8	And that is really all come to a head.
2:11.2	So I'm really happy to be sitting down with you to talk about it.
2:14.5	It has been a rough few days here in D.C.
2:20.1	I mean, if I am coming off like I sound tired or weird or stressed, it's because I do feel those things. It's been a lot of feelings.
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