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>

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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Fighting ICE’s Warehouse Prisons

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James talks to Marian about how the left discourse about the US kidnapping of Maduro has silenced Venezuelan leftists and how the anti Maduro Venezuelan left is navigating the US intervention.

https://www.instagram.com/e.m.arian 

James talks to Marian about how the left discourse about the US kidnapping of Maduro has silenced Venezuelan leftists and how the anti Maduro Venezuelan left is navigating the US intervention.
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/e.m.arian">https://www.instagram.com/e.m.arian</a>&nbsp;

Talking to Venezuelans About Venezuela

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/179ac731-eca2-4f58-abee-b41d015a4852/transcript

Garrison investigates a series of frightening claims: that ICE can detain people for ‘looking trans,’ the creation of a transgender public registry, and that an adult gender-affirming healthcare ban is imminent.

Sources:

https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door 

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/11/2026-04737/visas-enhancing-vetting-and-combatting-fraud-in-the-diversity-immigrant-visa-program 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ 

https://rachelnorfolk.me/sites/default/files/2025-02/25_State_11402.pdf
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250402-RecognizingMaleAndFemaleSexes.pdf

https://iptp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/2025.2.24_DOS_Guidance_for_Visa_Adjudicators_EO_14201_22Keeping_Men_Out_of_Wom_VhPai1S.pdf

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/administrative-processing-information.html 

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&f=treesort&num=0&edition=prelim 

https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM030209.html 

https://bsky.app/profile/progesteronipizza.bsky.social/post/3m5w6wnkyhc2u 

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-kansans-challenge-state-law-invalidating-their-drivers-licenses-and-allowing-them-to-be-sued-for-using-public-restrooms 

https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb244_03_0000.pdf 

https://www.tiktok.com/@transitics/video/7616520936925285662

https://bsky.app/profile/firestorm.coop/post/3mgwxdih3x222 

https://www.tiktok.com/@e_c_lider/video/7616688370462231830 

https://www.vera.org/news/ice-is-excluding-data-on-transgender-people-in-detention

https://www.them.us/story/alice-correia-barbosa-ice-arrest-brazil-trans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-mexico-deportation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration#

https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250430-SD003.pdf

https://19thnews.org/2025/12/trump-administration-plans-to-end-prison-rape-protections-for-trans-and-intersex-people-memo-says/

https://theneedlenews.com/2026/03/anti-trans-hate-groups-petitioning-fda-for-registry-of-trans-women-crackdown-on-transition-newly-revealed-document-shows/

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27871234-fda-2025-p-7321-0001-attachment-public-fda/?ref=theneedlenews.com

https://bsky.app/profile/angelic.style/post/3mgv3hjepvs2p

https://bsky.app/profile/tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/post/3mgvbihtidu2m

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4865109/#:~:text=Only%20346%20(18%25)%20of,Risk%20Evaluation%20and%20Mitigation%20Strategy

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/19/tennessee-gop-advances-bill-that-would-create-public-list-of-trans-residents/?utm_content=1773928472&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

https://trackbill.com/bill/tennessee-house-bill-754-an-act-to-amend-tennessee-code-annotated-title-1-title-4-title-33-title-56-title-63-title-68-and-title-71-relative-to-health-care/2644177/

https://x.com/popbase/status/2034737772792041622?s=46

https://transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-republicans-advance-bill

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/movaokabwva/USA_HEALTH_TRANSGENDER_WESTVIRGINIA.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-rules-that-states-can

https://bsky.app/profile/davidforbes.bsky.social/post/3mgv5httwss26

https://glaad.org/new-york-times-sign-on-letter-from-lgtbq-allied-leaders-and-organizations

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people

https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/18/meaning-through-its-opposite-significance-quest-theory-and-nihilistic-violent-extremism/

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists 

https://x.com/ItsYourGov/status/1968802472111083949?s=20

https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOykLZJDS2h/

https://www.tiktok.com/@genericartdad/video/7554381061128473886

Garrison investigates a series of frightening claims: that ICE can detain people for &lsquo;looking trans,&rsquo; the creation of a transgender public registry, and that an adult gender-affirming healthcare ban is imminent.
Sources:
<a href="https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door">https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/11/2026-04737/visas-enhancing-vetting-and-combatting-fraud-in-the-diversity-immigrant-visa-program">https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/11/2026-04737/visas-enhancing-vetting-and-combatting-fraud-in-the-diversity-immigrant-visa-program</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://rachelnorfolk.me/sites/default/files/2025-02/25_State_11402.pdf">https://rachelnorfolk.me/sites/default/files/2025-02/25_State_11402.pdf</a> <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250402-RecognizingMaleAndFemaleSexes.pdf">https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250402-RecognizingMaleAndFemaleSexes.pdf</a>
<a href="https://iptp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/2025.2.24_DOS_Guidance_for_Visa_Adjudicators_EO_14201_22Keeping_Men_Out_of_Wom_VhPai1S.pdf">https://iptp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/2025.2.24_DOS_Guidance_for_Visa_Adjudicators_EO_14201_22Keeping_Men_Out_of_Wom_VhPai1S.pdf</a>
<a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/administrative-processing-information.html">https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/administrative-processing-information.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&amp;f=treesort&amp;num=0&amp;edition=prelim">https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&amp;f=treesort&amp;num=0&amp;edition=prelim</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM030209.html">https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM030209.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/progesteronipizza.bsky.social/post/3m5w6wnkyhc2u">https://bsky.app/profile/progesteronipizza.bsky.social/post/3m5w6wnkyhc2u</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf">https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf</a> 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-kansans-challenge-state-law-invalidating-their-drivers-licenses-and-allowing-them-to-be-sued-for-using-public-restrooms">https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-kansans-challenge-state-law-invalidating-their-drivers-licenses-and-allowing-them-to-be-sued-for-using-public-restrooms</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb244_03_0000.pdf">https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb244_03_0000.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@transitics/video/7616520936925285662">https://www.tiktok.com/@transitics/video/7616520936925285662</a>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/firestorm.coop/post/3mgwxdih3x222">https://bsky.app/profile/firestorm.coop/post/3mgwxdih3x222</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@e_c_lider/video/7616688370462231830">https://www.tiktok.com/@e_c_lider/video/7616688370462231830</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.vera.org/news/ice-is-excluding-data-on-transgender-people-in-detention">https://www.vera.org/news/ice-is-excluding-data-on-transgender-people-in-detention</a>
<a href="https://www.them.us/story/alice-correia-barbosa-ice-arrest-brazil-trans">https://www.them.us/story/alice-correia-barbosa-ice-arrest-brazil-trans</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-mexico-deportation">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-mexico-deportation</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration#">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration#</a>
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250430-SD003.pdf">https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250430-SD003.pdf</a>
<a href="https://19thnews.org/2025/12/trump-administration-plans-to-end-prison-rape-protections-for-trans-and-intersex-people-memo-says/">https://19thnews.org/2025/12/trump-administration-plans-to-end-prison-rape-protections-for-trans-and-intersex-people-memo-says/</a>
<a href="https://theneedlenews.com/2026/03/anti-trans-hate-groups-petitioning-fda-for-registry-of-trans-women-crackdown-on-transition-newly-revealed-document-shows/">https://theneedlenews.com/2026/03/anti-trans-hate-groups-petitioning-fda-for-registry-of-trans-women-crackdown-on-transition-newly-revealed-document-shows/</a>
<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27871234-fda-2025-p-7321-0001-attachment-public-fda/?ref=theneedlenews.com">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27871234-fda-2025-p-7321-0001-attachment-public-fda/?ref=theneedlenews.com</a>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/angelic.style/post/3mgv3hjepvs2p">https://bsky.app/profile/angelic.style/post/3mgv3hjepvs2p</a>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/post/3mgvbihtidu2m">https://bsky.app/profile/tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/post/3mgvbihtidu2m</a>
<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4865109/#:~:text=Only%20346%20(18%25)%20of,Risk%20Evaluation%20and%20Mitigation%20Strategy">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4865109/#:~:text=Only%20346%20(18%25)%20of,Risk%20Evaluation%20and%20Mitigation%20Strategy</a>
<a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/19/tennessee-gop-advances-bill-that-would-create-public-list-of-trans-residents/?utm_content=1773928472&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/19/tennessee-gop-advances-bill-that-would-create-public-list-of-trans-residents/?utm_content=1773928472&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter</a>
<a href="https://trackbill.com/bill/tennessee-house-bill-754-an-act-to-amend-tennessee-code-annotated-title-1-title-4-title-33-title-56-title-63-title-68-and-title-71-relative-to-health-care/2644177/">https://trackbill.com/bill/tennessee-house-bill-754-an-act-to-amend-tennessee-code-annotated-title-1-title-4-title-33-title-56-title-63-title-68-and-title-71-relative-to-health-care/2644177/</a>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html</a>
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<a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people">https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people</a>
<a href="https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/18/meaning-through-its-opposite-significance-quest-theory-and-nihilistic-violent-extremism/">https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/18/meaning-through-its-opposite-significance-quest-theory-and-nihilistic-violent-extremism/</a>
<a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists">https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists</a>&nbsp;
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<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/</a>
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/</a>
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The Trans Panic Clickbait Economy

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Margaret reads you a story about climate refugees, ancestors, and giant spider robots that weave webs of glass

Margaret reads you a story about climate refugees, ancestors, and giant spider robots that weave webs of glass

CZM Book Club: The Cloud Weaver's Song, by Saul Tanpepper

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