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It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

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As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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Your storytime podcast for a troubled world and for those who dream of better tomorrows, Cool Zone Media Book Club brings you fiction that is one part provocative and one part cozy. Read to you by host Margaret Killjoy, this is the only book club where you don’t have to do the reading, because we do it for you.

Your storytime podcast for a troubled world and for those who dream of better tomorrows, Cool Zone Media Book Club brings you fiction that is one part provocative and one part cozy. Read to you by host Margaret Killjoy, this is the only book club where you don&rsquo;t have to do the reading, because we do it for you.

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One

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James is joined by Sam Hamilton to discuss how people in Social Circle, GA are organizing against an 8,000 person detention facility that ICE is planning to build in a warehouse in their community.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-warehouses-deportation-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7

James is joined by Sam Hamilton to discuss how people in Social Circle, GA are organizing against an 8,000 person detention facility that ICE is planning to build in a warehouse in their community.
Sources:
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-warehouses-deportation-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-warehouses-deportation-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7</a>

Fighting ICE’s Warehouse Prisons

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Andrew and James talk about the idea of “normalcy” and the bias towards it.

 

 

Andrew and James talk about the idea of &ldquo;normalcy&rdquo; and the bias towards it.
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Normalcy feat. Andrew

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Garrison explains why the online right are memeing about a penguin who fled its colony to march to its own death, and how this deranged penguin reflects fascism as a suicidal state.

Sources:

Paul Virilio, “The Suicidal State,” in J. DerDerian, ed. The Virilio Reader

https://files.libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf 

https://contactos.tome.press/welcome-to-the-suicidal-state/ 

https://jacobin.com/2024/10/death-drive-trump-freud-liberalism 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-penguin-breaks-internet-sends-left-frenzy

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/penguin-walking-toward-mountain-nihilist-penguin

https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-nihilist-penguin-meme-why-a-video-of-a-penguin-walking-toward-a-mountain-from-a-werner-herzog-film-is-going-viral-explained 

https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2014869279850496358 

https://x.com/HHSGov/status/2014772131242877320?s=20 

https://x.com/policylaila/status/2015359679279337808 

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2015068422980182214 

https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1954555969515450790 

Garrison explains why the online right are memeing about a penguin who fled its colony to march to its own death, and how this deranged penguin reflects fascism as a suicidal state.
Sources:
Paul Virilio, &ldquo;The Suicidal State,&rdquo; in J. DerDerian, ed. The Virilio Reader
<a href="https://files.libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf">https://files.libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://contactos.tome.press/welcome-to-the-suicidal-state/">https://contactos.tome.press/welcome-to-the-suicidal-state/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/10/death-drive-trump-freud-liberalism">https://jacobin.com/2024/10/death-drive-trump-freud-liberalism</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-penguin-breaks-internet-sends-left-frenzy">https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-penguin-breaks-internet-sends-left-frenzy</a> 
<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/penguin-walking-toward-mountain-nihilist-penguin">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/penguin-walking-toward-mountain-nihilist-penguin</a> 
<a href="https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-nihilist-penguin-meme-why-a-video-of-a-penguin-walking-toward-a-mountain-from-a-werner-herzog-film-is-going-viral-explained">https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-nihilist-penguin-meme-why-a-video-of-a-penguin-walking-toward-a-mountain-from-a-werner-herzog-film-is-going-viral-explained</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2014869279850496358">https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2014869279850496358</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://x.com/HHSGov/status/2014772131242877320?s=20">https://x.com/HHSGov/status/2014772131242877320?s=20</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://x.com/policylaila/status/2015359679279337808">https://x.com/policylaila/status/2015359679279337808</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2015068422980182214">https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2015068422980182214</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1954555969515450790">https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1954555969515450790</a>&nbsp;

Why Fascists Have Adopted A Suicidal Penguin as a Mascot

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One

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