It Could Happen Here Weekly 230
It Could Happen Here
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4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 210 minutes
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Summary
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- The Age of Extremophiles
- Libya with Andrew
- Gaddafi with Andrew
- Zohran Mamdani's First 100 Days
- Executive Disorder: White House Correspondents Shooting, Voting Rights Act
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Sources/Links:
Libya with Andrew
Iran retaliation: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrqqd8lw2wo
Timeline of Libyan History: https://www.britannica.com/place/Libya/History
Timeline of Libyan revolt: https://www.britannica.com/event/Libya-Revolt-of-2011
Behind the NTC: http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1062/2/who-drove-the-libyan-uprising
Consequences and Motivations of Libya intervention: https://jacobin.com/2015/02/libya-intervention-nato-imperialism
https://jacobin.com/2021/03/nato-libya-war-uk-us-france-regime-change
https://jacobin.com/2011/09/libya-and-the-left
Rebel abuses: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14891913
Targeting of Black Libyans and Migrants: https://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141549384/blacks-and-migrants-targets-of-attack-in-libya
Displacement numbers in 2012: https://www.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/legacy-pdf/4ec23100b.pdf
Consequences of first civil war: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/24/libya-capital-under-islamist-control-tripoli-airport-seized-operation-dawn
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/2/16/libya-anniversary-the-situation-is-just-terrible
An attempt at unification: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/17/libyan-politicians-sign-un-peace-deal-unify-rival-governments
El Sharara oilfield situation: https://middle-east-online.com/node/708060
The status quo as of 2020: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-libyan-conflict-explained/
Another attempt at unification: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/15/libya-interim-government-sworn-in-replacing-rival-administration
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/21/libya-parliament-withdraws-confidence-from-unity-government
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/3/un-voices-concern-over-vote-on-new-libyan-prime-minister
Morality police: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fears-religious-freedom-libya-proposes-new-morality-police
Slave auction: https://africasacountry.com/2017/11/the-slave-auction-in-libya
Libya’s arms in regional instability: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-arms-un-idUSBRE93814Y20130409/
Natural disaster: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/09/year-rebuilding-libyas-flood-hit-derna-plagued-politics
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-floods-derna-turkish-firm-said-repaired-dam-did-it
Gaddafi with Andrew
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muammar-al-Qaddafi
https://www.britannica.com/place/Libya/
Libya: The History of Gaddafi's Pariah State By John Oakes
Qaddafi and the Libyan revolution By David Blundy, Andrew Lycett
https://africasacountry.com/2017/12/the-return-of-muammar-gaddafi
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2013/10/03/gaddafis-harem-book
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-16289543
https://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2016/02/17/what-happened-to-the-other-libyans
https://marxist.com/nature-of-gaddafi-regime.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/business/23views.html
Gaddafi’s relations with the West: https://libcom.org/article/lies-slaughter-capital-2011-nato-intervention-libya-part-two
https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/05/us-torture-and-rendition-gaddafis-libya
https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/09/secret-intelligence-documents-discovered-libya
Zohran Mamdani's First 100 Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZGdfQ-kPTI
https://www.nyc.gov/content/100days/pages/
https://www.nyc.gov/content/tenantprotection/pages/pinnacle-tenants
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/sustainability.page
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/mamdani-budget-parks-libraries/
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/10/homeless-deaths-cold-hearing-wasow-park/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/nyregion/mamdani-nypd-tisch-police.html
https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-mamdani-signals-openness-to-nypd-gang-database-citing-reforms
Executive Disorder: White House Correspondents Shooting, Voting Rights Act
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28083136/allen.pdf
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/29/congress/section-702-passes-house-00899071
https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/atf-launches-new-era-reform
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/media/fcc-kimmel-disney-abc-trump-licenses
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/business/media/david-ellison-trump-cbs-news.html
https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-announces-decision-ld-307-2026-04-24
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp846668401o
https://www.ukmto.org/recent-incidents#fae0af84-bd4a-4a4d-86d0-cb7166ef4691
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116474434041424846
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-109_21o3.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-allen-003804b7/
https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/2048180791356821988?s=20
https://www.timemachine.eu/study-on-quality-in-3d-digitisation-of-tangible-cultural-heritage/
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150004067
https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2048222643237601457?s=20
https://x.com/aishahhasnie/status/2048274579043336397
https://x.com/TheRealJChubby/status/2048513664286924938?s=20
https://x.com/BonkDaCarnivore/status/2048220342678597688?s=20
https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OPN/25-3141_complete_opn.pdf
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| 0:34.9 | 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, |
| 0:54.3 | there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can make your own decisions. |
| 1:01.8 | Hey, everybody, this is It Could Happen here, and I am Robert Evans, and initially, this |
| 1:06.8 | was supposed to be a slightly different episode. I have been pondering over the fact recently that I feel weirdly optimistic, particularly in the last couple of weeks, especially compared to a lot of the people that I know and spend time around. And I think it's because I've been interpreting some of the same pieces of news differently than they have and because I've been coming across some different pieces of |
| 1:27.9 | information than they have. And I wanted to kind of walk people through why I've been feeling so |
| 1:34.3 | optimistic. And so I wrote something, and I recorded it around Thursday of last week. And then over |
| 1:40.5 | the weekend, a gunman attacked the White House correspondent's dinner. And actually, this hasn't really changed any of my overall feelings. |
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