It Could Happen Here

Andrew and Garrison talk about the politics of assassination as a symbolic act from Luigi Mangione and United Healthcare to Gaetano Bresci and the king of Italy.

Sources:
https://abcnews.com/US/luigi-mangione-charged-murder
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/10/luigi-mangione-life-school-family-back/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/14/luigi-mangione-guilty-plea-brian-thompson-killing
America's Forgotten Terrorists: The Rise and Fall of the Galleanists by Jeffrey D. Simon
Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siecle Europe by Nunzio Pernicone, Fraser Ottanelli
The Anarchist Assassin and Italian History, 1870s to 1930s by Carl Levy
The Monza Tragedy by Errico Malatesta - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-the-monza-tragedy
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Kevin Foster dives into the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger and the consequences for labor, press freedom, and history.

Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/warner-bros-signs-110-billion-deal-with-paramount-its-executive-discloses-2026-02-27/
https://www.skydance.com/news/press/paramount-completes-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery-creating-a-new-global-entertainment-leader-skydance
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/12-states-challenge-paramounts-takeover-of-warner-say-merger-would-extinguish-competition
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/paramount-pledges-release-30-films-year-how-will-that-add-up-2026-09-23/
https://fortune.com/2026/10/15/skydance-warner-media-consolidation-trust-gallup/
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/paramount-bonta-in-talks-to-settle-antitrust-litigation-01085072
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/trump-praises-paramount-warner-bros-skydance-merger-terrific-people-1236903643/
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/free-press-founder-bari-weiss-named-editor-cbs-news-after-deal-with-paramount-2025-10-06/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-cbs-news-chief-draws-backlash-by-pulling-60-minutes-story-on-el-salvador-prison
https://www.nilc.org/resources/tracking-the-cecot-disappearances/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/new-cnn-cbs-news-editorial-indepedence-board-who-what-why-1236707168/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/oracle-tiktok-us-stake-outages.html
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-d5d8a1d56b5185778536874d7fc1ee62
https://csmapnyu.org/impact/news/was-there-censorship-on-tiktok-after-the-u-s-takeover
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James is joined by Natali Geovia of the Water Protector Legal Collective to discuss the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) and the tremendous damage it could do to protections for the land, Indigenous people, and public health.
https://www.waterprotectorlegal.org/
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Mia talks with David Forbes of the Asheville Blade about how Asheville's government has used Helene to exploit its people and push neoliberal economics.
Sources:
https://ashevilleblade.com/?p=5399

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James talks with Dane Brinkley about Mount Shasta, why it's not a good idea to outsource your planning to the internet, and why we go to the mountains ​.
https://www.facebook.com/SiskiyouCountySheriff/posts/pfbid09S8teHAogsxqUS66ManmS8kqBRkTzJtqhBPfL4vH6sKUktKHqsN99Sb7WQ1z5RA6l
https://krcrtv.com/news/local/three-mount-shasta-climbers-rescued-after-relying-on-ai-to-plan-climb
https://www.shastaavalanche.org/climbing-advisory
https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/solo-teen-hiker-hoisted-from-mountain-cliff-after-using-ai-to-plan-route-north-shore-rescue-says-12855671
https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/two-hikers-rescued-one-hiker-missing-and-a-rescuer-dead-in-separate-incidents-on-mt-baldy/
https://www.casavalpt.com/

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