It Could Happen Here

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


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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
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Margaret continues to read you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- CZM Rewind: Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
- Panama 1989 to Venezuela 2026: What History Can Teach Us feat. Andrew
- Panama 1989 to Venezuela 2026: What History Can Teach Us, Pt. 2
- What Must Be Done? The Battle Against Fascism
- Executive Disorder: ICE Body Cams, Fulton Election Raid, Portland Protest
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Sources/Links:
CZM Rewind: Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
https://files.libcom.org/files/[Mark_Fisher]_Capitalist_Realism_Is_There_no_Alte(BookZZ.org).pdf
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trumps-immigration-record-far-high-arrests-low-deportations-rcna217752
https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-refuses-us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-sources-say-2025-01-25/
https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3luq3qktltc2n
Panama 1989 to Venezuela 2026: What History Can Teach Us feat. Andrew
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-interior-minister-says-100-people-died-us-attack-2026-01-08/
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/omar-torrijos-ousts-arias-panama
Emperors In the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama by John Lindsay-Poland
Executive Disorder: ICE Body Cams, Fulton Election Raid, Portland Protest
https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-announces-the-clintons-caved-will-appear-for-depositions/
https://sortor.us/release/lemon.pdf
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_DDIQ8jz.pdf
https://www.wtnh.com/news/politics/ap-judge-rules-us-justice-department-filed-a-lawsuit-over-georgia-voter-data-in-the-wrong-city/#:~:text=Judge%20rules%20US%20Justice%20Department%20filed%20a,government%20had%20sued%20in%20the%20wrong%20city.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e815ed47-fce4-4797-8dc7-bcbc9efa968d.pdf
https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/2018504435769520156?s=20
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/georgia-fulton-county-fbi-election-raid
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.315.0_1.pdf
https://www.state.gov/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-and-guyanese-president-irfaan-ali-at-a-joint-press-availability
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-resume-teaching-visa
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/politics/court-documents-student-israel-op-ed
https://www.patreon.com/posts/whats-next-for-146454395?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283200/gov.uscourts.dcd.283200.52.0.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2z7eb5efGlHrb2AYBtfqMVDJSUfIu/view
https://www.startribune.com/another-wave-of-departures-in-minnesotas-us-attorneys-office/601575569
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/24_0307_priv_pia-ice-066a-pia-update.pdf
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/bovino-frustrated-directive-conduct-targeted-operations-chicago-rcna257069
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/31/2022-11810/advancing-effective-accountable-policing-and-criminal-justice-practices-to-enhance-public-trust-and
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/25/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-historic-executive-order-to-advance-effective-accountable-policing-and-strengthen-public-safety/
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/31/2022-11810/advancing-effective-accountable-policing-and-criminal-justice-practices-to-enhance-public-trust-and
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez
https://sdf-press.com/archives/47816
https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/2017320999629254878?s=20
https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/2019098549640917124?s=20
https://t.co/aMIp9uMx04
https://wladimirvanwilgenburg.substack.com/p/kurdish-regions-will-be-organized
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