Mia talks with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a democratic society.

https://libcom.org/article/how-hold-good-meeting-rustys-rules-order

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Mia talks with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a democratic society.
<a href="https://libcom.org/article/how-hold-good-meeting-rustys-rules-order">https://libcom.org/article/how-hold-good-meeting-rustys-rules-order</a>
Help Primrose &amp; Kim: <a href="gofund.me/dda02cc7">gofund.me/dda02cc7</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.

It Could Happen Here

 How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/43074a50-0646-4bf5-886e-b309017b1268/transcript

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

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/964d1589-9e3d-4956-abeb-b3ee0007bab6/transcript

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

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/84a28e88-9092-420b-85f3-b3ed000ba908/transcript

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

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/630e3dff-2b64-43a9-81d3-b3eb013631e5/transcript

How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1

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