All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

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

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters

Behind the Bastards

It Could Happen Here Weekly 77

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Garrison outlines various proposals for a regulatory “slowdown” of frontier AI models, Trump’s push against regulation, the risk of regulatory capture, legislation for public ownership of AI companies and control of this technology, and the organizing limits of AI-denialism.

Sources:
https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843

https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910?s=20
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/frontier-models/

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybersecurity-101/artificial-intelligence/frontier-ai/
https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
https://www.anthropic.com/constitution

https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3mvg527c3k22n

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117269745153543631

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2099597928142688610?s=20
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2099648450069512426?s=20
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2099132465612828964?s=20
https://x.com/cspan/status/2099878657174941991?s=20
https://x.com/benitoz/status/2099572926865715548?s=20

https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460?s=20

https://x.com/Jason/status/2098817101628600383?s=20

https://x.com/daniel_koss/status/2099751931400847840?s=20

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/12/anthropics-amodei-proposes-plan-to-slow-the-pace-of-advancing-ai-capabilities.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/anthropic-walks-tightrope-to-nasdaq-pushing-slowdown-and-pursuing-ipo.html 
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-casar-introduce-legislation-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-and-temporarily-pause-advanced-ai-development/ 
https://abdulforsenate.com/2026/06/first-do-no-harm-ai-under-democracy/
https://geesemag.com/articles/stop-the-ai-arms-race
https://x.com/linamkhan/status/2099204390548639960?s=20

https://www.kirosforco.com/priorities-2 
https://reports.verasight.io/r/june-2026-ai-survey#key-takeaways
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-introduces-legislation-to-create-7-trillion-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund/
https://council.nyc.gov/press/2026/09/16/3240/ 

Garrison outlines various proposals for a regulatory &ldquo;slowdown&rdquo; of frontier AI models, Trump&rsquo;s push against regulation, the risk of regulatory capture, legislation for public ownership of AI companies and control of this technology, and the organizing limits of AI-denialism. Sources:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843">https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910?s=20">https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910?s=20</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/frontier-models/">https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/frontier-models/ </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybersecurity-101/artificial-intelligence/frontier-ai/">https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybersecurity-101/artificial-intelligence/frontier-ai/</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier">https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/constitution">https://www.anthropic.com/constitution </a></li>
<li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3mvg527c3k22n">https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3mvg527c3k22n </a></li>
<li><a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117269745153543631">https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117269745153543631 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2099597928142688610?s=20">https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2099597928142688610?s=20</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2099648450069512426?s=20">https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2099648450069512426?s=20</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/2099132465612828964?s=20">https://x.com/atrupar/status/2099132465612828964?s=20</a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2099878657174941991?s=20">https://x.com/cspan/status/2099878657174941991?s=20</a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/benitoz/status/2099572926865715548?s=20">https://x.com/benitoz/status/2099572926865715548?s=20 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460?s=20">https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460?s=20 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/Jason/status/2098817101628600383?s=20">https://x.com/Jason/status/2098817101628600383?s=20 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/daniel_koss/status/2099751931400847840?s=20">https://x.com/daniel_koss/status/2099751931400847840?s=20 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/12/anthropics-amodei-proposes-plan-to-slow-the-pace-of-advancing-ai-capabilities.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/12/anthropics-amodei-proposes-plan-to-slow-the-pace-of-advancing-ai-capabilities.html </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/anthropic-walks-tightrope-to-nasdaq-pushing-slowdown-and-pursuing-ipo.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/anthropic-walks-tightrope-to-nasdaq-pushing-slowdown-and-pursuing-ipo.html</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-casar-introduce-legislation-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-and-temporarily-pause-advanced-ai-development/">https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-casar-introduce-legislation-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-and-temporarily-pause-advanced-ai-development/</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://abdulforsenate.com/2026/06/first-do-no-harm-ai-under-democracy/">https://abdulforsenate.com/2026/06/first-do-no-harm-ai-under-democracy/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://geesemag.com/articles/stop-the-ai-arms-race">https://geesemag.com/articles/stop-the-ai-arms-race</a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/linamkhan/status/2099204390548639960?s=20">https://x.com/linamkhan/status/2099204390548639960?s=20 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.kirosforco.com/priorities-2">https://www.kirosforco.com/priorities-2</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://reports.verasight.io/r/june-2026-ai-survey#key-takeaways">https://reports.verasight.io/r/june-2026-ai-survey#key-takeaways</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-introduces-legislation-to-create-7-trillion-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund/">https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-introduces-legislation-to-create-7-trillion-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund/</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://council.nyc.gov/press/2026/09/16/3240/">https://council.nyc.gov/press/2026/09/16/3240/</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

The AI Regulation Debate 

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In this episode Dana El Kurd talks about how the settlers and the Israeli state are working hand in hand to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank, and how we should understand the relationship between the two actors.   

 

Sources:

https://jewishcurrents.org/it-feels-like-a-death-sentence

https://www.972mag.com/armed-settler-hikes-west-bank/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/opinion/israel-west-bank-settlers-violence.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/israeli-settlers-surround-palestinian-home-in-occupied-west-banks-qusra

https://www.972mag.com/bilin-israeli-land-seizure-settler-road/

In this episode Dana El Kurd talks about how the settlers and the Israeli state are working hand in hand to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank, and how we should understand the relationship between the two actors.&nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp;
Sources:
<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/it-feels-like-a-death-sentence">https://jewishcurrents.org/it-feels-like-a-death-sentence</a>
<a href="https://www.972mag.com/armed-settler-hikes-west-bank/">https://www.972mag.com/armed-settler-hikes-west-bank/</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/opinion/israel-west-bank-settlers-violence.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/opinion/israel-west-bank-settlers-violence.html</a>
<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/israeli-settlers-surround-palestinian-home-in-occupied-west-banks-qusra">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/israeli-settlers-surround-palestinian-home-in-occupied-west-banks-qusra</a>
<a href="https://www.972mag.com/bilin-israeli-land-seizure-settler-road/">https://www.972mag.com/bilin-israeli-land-seizure-settler-road/</a>

West Bank Takeover

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Margaret reads you a surreal story about the surreal Southwest, written by one of her favorite authors

Margaret reads you a surreal story about the surreal Southwest, written by one of her favorite authors

CZM Book Club: Ocotillo, by Madeline ffitch

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