It Could Happen Here Weekly 232
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 207 minutes
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Summary
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Fighting Back Against the Surveillance State
- Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy and the Spectre of Left-Wing Violence
- Parasitism with Andrew
- The Return of Jim Crow
- Executive Disorder: Virginia Redistricting, Renaming the Iran War, TPUSA Event Cancelled by ANTIFA
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Sources/Links:
Fighting Back Against the Surveillance State
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf
https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/
https://www.open-archive.org/save
Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy and the Spectre of Left-Wing Violence
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/NSCT.pdf
https://icct.nl/sites/default/files/import/publication/NSC-1v2.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20210615130908/https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/National-Strategy-for-Countering-Domestic-Terrorism.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20210615101231/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/15/fact-sheet-national-strategy-for-countering-domestic-terrorism/
https://www.gao.gov/blog/rising-threat-domestic-terrorism-u.s.-and-federal-efforts-combat-it
https://uncoverdc.com/2023/02/08/the-fbi-doubles-down-on-christians-and-white-supremacy-in-2023/
https://angelusnews.com/news/nation/fbi-memo-investigation-update/
https://defendinged.org/press-releases/full-nsba-letter-to-biden-administration-and-department-of-justice-memo/
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/us-house-judiciary-republicans-doj-labeled-dozens-of-parents-as-terrorist
https://www.justice.gov/archives/ag/file/1170061-0/dl?inline=
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
Parasitism with Andrew
Progress by Samuel Miller McDonald
Worshiping Power by Peter Gelderloos
The Return of Jim Crow
https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/louisiana-v-callais/
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-4/
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/court-gives-immediate-effect-to-voting-rights-act-decision/
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/after-major-voting-rights-ruling-parties-dispute-whether-the-court-should-finalize-decision-imme/
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/court-clears-way-for-alabama-to-use-congressional-map-blocked-by-lower-court-as-racially-discrim/
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/supreme-court/5872963-supreme-court-voting-rights/
https://www.ms.now/opinion/supreme-court-louisiana-callais-black-vote-warning
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/12/voting_rights_scotus
Executive Disorder: Virginia Redistricting, Renaming the Iran War, TPUSA Event Cancelled by ANTIFA
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON600
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzv77ldpdo
https://www.calbee.co.jp/en/news/pdf/174-29160.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/051126zr_apl1.pdf
https://x.com/joekent16jan19/status/2052477681036583183?s=20
https://x.com/pastormarkburns/status/2052227145921892710?s=20
ttps://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/30-percent-of-americans-think-at-least-one-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged
https://x.com/i/status/2053865929633661046
https://x.com/diyarkurda/status/2054268681362804860?s=20
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-895828
https://x.com/Reuters/status/2053897929174188187?s=20
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistan-iran-military-aircraft-on-its-airfields-us-mediator-role/
https://www.c6f.navy.mil/Press-Room/News/Article/4482914/a-us-navy-ballistic-missile-submarine-arrived-in-gibraltar-may-10-2026/
https://www.them.us/story/uw-students-protest-turning-point-usa-after-trans-student-homicide
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2054289485303525720
https://x.com/ChloeCole/status/2054365092054286605?s=20
https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/politics/virginia-redistricting-us-supreme-court
https://newrepublic.com/article/210250/trump-virginia-dems-redistricting-war
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Call Zone Media. |
| 0:07.7 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:08.4 | Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. |
| 0:12.8 | 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 |
| 0:22.1 | if you want. |
| 0:23.2 | If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing |
| 0:26.1 | new here for you, but you can make your own decisions. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, welcome to It Could Happen here. |
| 0:36.1 | It's me today, James, and I'm very lucky to be joined by Cooper Quentin, who is a senior staff |
| 0:41.1 | technologist at the EFF, and Colonel Panic, who is a hacker. |
| 0:44.9 | And we are going to be talking today about the privacy apocalypse that is coming our way, I guess, |
| 0:50.6 | the end of privacy, and what you can do to stop it being the end of privacy. So thanks for |
| 0:55.4 | joining me, both you. Absolutely. Yeah. Hey, James, happy to be on the show again. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah, thanks for making the time. So I guess, like, in the cases somebody lives under a rock, |
| 1:07.5 | we should start breaking down some of the different like surveillance mechanisms that the |
| 1:12.9 | state is building. And maybe, Cattle Panic, you can kick us off with with flock, because that is |
| 1:19.3 | a one that has probably got the most attention recently. And then Cooper, we can pick up on some |
| 1:23.5 | of the many other privacy violation tools. |
| 1:28.6 | Certainly, you may notice all these cameras popping up around your town. |
| 1:32.8 | They're on a black pole. |
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