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It Could Happen Here Weekly 232

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.06.5K 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://colonelpanic.tech/

SSD.eff.org 

Rayhunter.eff.org

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://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches-and-testimony/confronting-white-supremacy-examining-the-biden-administrations-counterterrorism-strategy-langan-092921 

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

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/supreme-court-alabama-voting-sotomayor-dissent-alito.html

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/mb_ghalibaf 

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.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25A1240/408563/20260511151941216_25A%20Application%20for%20Stay.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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Transcript

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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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