It Could Happen Here Weekly 227
Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 17K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 209 minutes
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Summary
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Association, Pt. 1
- How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Association, Pt. 2
- The Jewish Bund and Political Imagination
- Nigeria with Andrew
- Executive Disorder: FEMA Teleportation, Pam Bondi Fired, Iran Ceasefire?
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Sources/Links:
How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Association
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P42Wq3fmTYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjOpA-N24Cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-dN5xO7r
The Jewish Bund and Political Imagination
Here Where We Live is Our Country - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
We Need New Jewish Institutions by Arielle Angel - https://jewishcurrents.org/we-need-new-jewish-institutions
Jewish Federations of North America polling - https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/jfna-survey-finds-just-37-of-jewish-americans-identify-as-zionists/
Executive Disorder: FEMA Teleportation, Pam Bondi Fired, Iran Ceasefire?
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/trump-threatens-50-percent-tariffs-on-iran-arms-supplies-
Sources:
https://www.wisn.com/article/author-of-banned-book-calls-out-menomonee-falls-district/45840156
https://aomeara.com/section-338-and-the-ghost-of-smoot-hawley/
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13006
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11346
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-polls.html
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-scores-f-accurate-pollster-11797710
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5819659-trump-approval-rating-democrats/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5810850-trump-approval-hits-new-low/
https://x.com/Kalshi/status/2041503849991516661?s=20
https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/polls/tx-primary
https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/impd-shots-fired-into-indianapolis-city-county-councilors-home/
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2041938354858582151?s=20
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/world/middleeast/shelly-kittleson-journalist-iraq.html
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=456810#text=Dignidad
https://truthsocial.com/@greggphillips/posts/116329963429212640
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house-teleportation.html
https://x.com/ElizLanders/status/2041878299454955640/photo/1
https://x.com/jonkarl/status/2041839012097229086?s=20
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-news-conference-iran/
https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/us-military-rescue-iran/
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2041422908166127898?s=20
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2041429864335446102?s=20
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2041073575273156670?s=20
https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s-rescues-downed-f-15e-wso-deep-inside-iran/
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-threatens-jail-time-over-f-15-story-leak-260769349590
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116351998782539414
https://abcnews.com/US/fbi-scene-ice-involved-shooting-patterson-california/story?id=131812411
https://x.com/DaniellaMicaela/status/2041886308964913229
https://x.com/OversightDems/status/2041900181977718843
https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/lee-m-zeldin/about
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/pam-bondi-attorney-general-trump.html
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/politics/todd-blanche-nobody-knows-why-bondi-was-fired
https://x.com/RepNancyMace/status/2041906771074138402
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| 0:09.1 | Spoken without fear. |
| 0:10.9 | Person who is not generous can not be an artist. |
| 0:13.8 | The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. |
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| 0:29.2 | Stay for the fire. |
| 0:34.9 | Callsor Media. |
| 0:36.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:37.4 | Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. |
| 0:41.7 | 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. |
| 0:52.1 | If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can make your own decisions. |
| 1:01.5 | Welcome to Aikadap and hear a podcast about unions falling apart, and in this case, how they're |
| 1:06.7 | not being put back together again. I am your host, Bia Wong, and today we are telling a somewhat unusual story for this show. |
| 1:14.6 | It's usual in the sense that it's a story about, you know, the replacement of democracy with bureaucracy, |
| 1:19.3 | like the death spiral of business union of unionism. |
| 1:22.9 | It's a story that's also as much about the defeat of the workers movement as it is like |
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