• Anti-Vax America: Anti-Vax Genealogy
    Jun 17 2025

    For many years, the threat of measles, a deadly disease that spreads more rapidly than COVID and regularly took thousands of lives a year, had been effectively eradicated in the United States due to the widespread acceptance of vaccination. The death of a child from measles in West Texas was the first in over a decade and it came as a shock to the American medical establishment that is now grappling with a disturbing reality: the chief public health bureaucrat is a bonafide anti-vaxxer. This episode will explore the genealogy of anti-vaccination beliefs in the United States and how they spread into mainstream politics.

    Sources:

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1200696/

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8802588/

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1123944/

    https://time.com/7205900/anti-vaccination-movement-history/

    https://historyofvaccines.org/getting-vaccinated/vaccine-faq/vaccination-exemptions

    https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/timeline-of-vaccination-mandates

    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68106-1_2

    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/

    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-02/rand-paul-on-vaccines-most-of-them-ought-to-be-voluntary-

    https://time.com/5175704/andrew-wakefield-vaccine-autism/

    https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-vaccines-and-autism

    https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bombastic-19th-century-anti-vaxxer-who-fueled-montreals-smallpox-epidemic/

    https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature

    https://www.cascadepbs.org/2020/05/seattle-always-had-anti-vaxxers-even-during-smallpox

    https://www.cascadepbs.org/mossback/2025/02/history-vaccine-skepticism-1920s-seattle-rfk-jr

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    32 mins
  • Anti-Vax America: Viral Texas
    Jun 16 2025

    The viral measles outbreak that began in West Texas has taken the lives of two children and one adult, and has reached over eight hundred cases, with thousands potentially exposed to the disease. This episode serves as a deep dive into the outbreak, when it started, how it spread, and will set the stage for the remaining four episodes.

    Sources:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/05/20/measles-updates-texas-cases-pass-700-as-illness-reported-in-30-states/

    https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-and-beyond

    https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2025/03/24/data-these-charts-show-how-measles-vaccination-rates-declined-in-texas-public-schools/

    https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/

    https://www.verywellhealth.com/measles-outbreak-texas-11682808

    https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8828106/

    https://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-me-ln-essential-california-20190507-story.html

    https://slate.com/technology/2025/04/measles-cases-epidemic-worst-case-vaccine.html

    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/

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    34 mins
  • CZM Book Club: After the Dance by Leo Tolstoy
    Jun 15 2025

    Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust.

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    28 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 186
    Jun 14 2025

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

    1. Reportback from the West Bank

    2. The LA Anti-ICE Protests

    3. Migrant Detention in Libya
    4. On The Ground In LA
    5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20

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    Sources/Links:

    The LA Anti-ICE Protests

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/democrats-california-new-york-detention-facilities

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-at-ice-check-ins-detained-and-held-in-basement-of-federal-building-in-los-angeles/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=828415694

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump/

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/paramount-california-home-depot-protest-rcna211650

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kv1lgdpkjo

    Migrant Detention in Libya

    https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/61570/libyas-coast-guard-has-intercepted-and-returned-nearly-21000-migrants-in-2024

    https://apnews.com/article/italy-libya-ossama-almasri-icc-arrest-hague-305b5eed193ef7774e6591d4f0a256fc 



    European Commission Financial Transparency System
Andrea Beck, 2024

    Italian and EU Funding of the Libyan Coast Guard: How Italian External Border Immigration Policies Have Created Crimes Against Humanity, Public Ignorance, and Legal Accountability Issues

    Ronald Bruce. Libya: From Colony to Revolution

    Ship of Humanity: Witness to Rescue in the Mediterranean by Judith Sunderland

    Capitivity, Migration and Power in Libya. Nadia Al-Dayel, Aaron Anfinson & Graeme Anfinson 2021.

    Tilley: War Making and State Making as organized crime

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20

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    3 hrs and 28 mins
  • Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20
    Jun 13 2025

    The gang get together to discuss state violence in Los Angeles, tariffs, the Trump-Musk breakup and more ICE raids across the country.

    Sources:

    https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/19/san-diegos-highest-paid-city-employees-cops-racking-up-overtime-and-earning-over-400-000

    https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees

    https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedited-removal

    https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5422248/trump-steel-aluminum-50-tariffs-double-prices

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-he-will-set-unilateral-tariff-rates-within-weeks-200619527.html

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/06/02/immigration-restrictions-pile-up-on-international-students/

    https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

    https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

    https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minneapolis-lake-street-law-enforcement-ice-homeland-security/

    https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musk-privately-expresses-frustration-range-recent-moves/story?id=122485920

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/30/2025-02009/protecting-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety

    https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5427998/trump-travel-ban-countries-immigration-enforcement

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    47 mins
  • On The Ground In LA
    Jun 12 2025

    James talks to Robert about the LA protests after spending Monday night on the ground in DTLA covering the protests and police response.

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    35 mins
  • Migrant Detention in Libya
    Jun 11 2025

    James is joined by Mick to talk about the horrific conditions migrants face in Libya and the EU’s funding of detention camps.

    Sources:

    https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/61570/libyas-coast-guard-has-intercepted-and-returned-nearly-21000-migrants-in-2024

    https://apnews.com/article/italy-libya-ossama-almasri-icc-arrest-hague-305b5eed193ef7774e6591d4f0a256fc 



    European Commission Financial Transparency System
Andrea Beck, 2024

    Italian and EU Funding of the Libyan Coast Guard: How Italian External Border Immigration Policies Have Created Crimes Against Humanity, Public Ignorance, and Legal Accountability Issues

    Ronald Bruce. Libya: From Colony to Revolution

    Ship of Humanity: Witness to Rescue in the Mediterranean by Judith Sunderland

    Capitivity, Migration and Power in Libya. Nadia Al-Dayel, Aaron Anfinson & Graeme Anfinson 2021.

    Tilley: War Making and State Making as organized crime

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    47 mins
  • The LA Anti-ICE Protests
    Jun 10 2025

    Robert and Mia discuss the recent protests in LA against ICE atrocities and the terrifying response of Trump and the LAPD.

    Sources:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/democrats-california-new-york-detention-facilities

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-at-ice-check-ins-detained-and-held-in-basement-of-federal-building-in-los-angeles/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=828415694

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump/

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/paramount-california-home-depot-protest-rcna211650

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kv1lgdpkjo

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    38 mins
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