It Could Happen Here Weekly 171

It Could Happen Here

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Society & Culture, Politics, News

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 224 minutes

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Summary

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

The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal
How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare
Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5

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Sources/Links:

The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/

https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina

Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020.

Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.)

James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.)

Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.)

Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.)

Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries

https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/

https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/

https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf

https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/

https://mutualaidsudan.org/

https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/

https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886

https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief

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0:00.0	Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here?
0:03.4	Owl goes lower.
0:04.9	From Blumhouse TV, IHeart Podcasts, and Ember 20 comes an all-new fictional comedy podcast series.
0:10.6	Join the flighty Damien Hearst as he unravels the mystery of his vanished boyfriend.
0:14.6	I've been spending all my time looking for answers about what happened to Santi.
0:18.7	And what's the way to find a missing person?
0:20.6	Sleep with everyone he knew, obviously.
0:23.0	Listen to the hookup on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
0:33.3	This is John Cameron Mitchell, and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation Island,
0:39.7	stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled.
0:46.4	In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes.
0:49.8	But don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back.
0:54.9	Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies like bad touch football,
1:00.3	anti-racism spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies
1:04.3	are designed to force the cancel to confront their worst impulses.
1:08.3	But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.
1:12.9	Karen, where have you brought us?
1:16.3	Cancellation Island, where a second chance might just be your last.
1:21.8	Listen to Cancellation Island on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:30.1	I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told.
1:35.9	This season explores women from the 19th century to now, women who were murderers and scammers,
1:42.4	but also women who were photojournalists, lawyers,
	...

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