All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Newsom’s Posting Through It
- Palestine and the American University feat. Dana El Kurd
- How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws, Part One
- How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws, Part Two
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #31
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Sources/Links:
Newsom’s Posting Through It
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/newsom-trump-social-media.html
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/03/gavin-newsom-podcast-judgment-problem/
https://bsky.app/profile/grahamformaine.bsky.social/post/3lwqwj3rdgk27
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNl79l0SdMb/?igsh=bXphd3E2N3Y2N20w
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2qJw7xQfqh0
Palestine and the American University feat. Dana El Kurd
Clifford Ando – The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/
Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism - https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
Ken Stern on IHRA definition - https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5326047/kenneth-stern-antimsietim-executive-order-free-speech
2023 Pew Research Center Poll on Black Lives Matter - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/06/14/views-on-the-black-lives-matter-movement/
Marc Bousquet – How the University Works - https://nyupress.org/9780814799758/how-the-university-works/
PBS Reporting on Harvard University negotiations with Trump administration - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-nearing-settlement-with-trump-to-pay-500-million-and-regain-federal-funding
The Intercept’s reporting on Columbia University settlement with the Trump administration - https://theintercept.com/2025/04/16/columbia-middle-eastern-studies-trump-attacks/
Middle East Studies Association statement on Columbia University settlement - https://mesana.org/advocacy/letters-from-the-board/2025/03/28/joint-statement-regarding-columbia-university-and-the-department-of-education
Results of the Middle East Scholar Barometer - https://criticalissues.umd.edu/sites/criticalissues.umd.edu/files/November%202023%20MESB%20Results.pdf
Human Rights Watch statement on the IHRA definition - https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/04/human-rights-and-other-civil-society-groups-urge-united-nations-respect-human
Axios reporting on The Nexus Project and Trump’s use of antisemitism investigations - https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/college-campus-antisemitism-trump-nexus-project
American Association of University Professors – Academic Freedom - https://www.aaup.org/issues-higher-education/academic-freedom/faqs-academic-freedom
2024 Announcement of 40 new AAUP chapters - https://www.aaup.org/academe/issues/winter-2025/warm-welcome-new-or-reestablished-aaup-chapters
Executive Order on Combatting Antisemitism - https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism/
How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws
https://transnews.network/p/nc-dems-anti-trans-betrayals
@davidforbes.bsky.social
@avlblade.bsky.social
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #31
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/india-us-lose-trump-tariffs-russia-wins-2025-08-27/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed.htm
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/rrp_faq.html
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD
https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html
https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-federal-reserve-banks
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/forthcoming/1202mart.pdf
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/prosecuting-burning-of-the-american-flag/
https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-guard-mobilizing-19-states-immigration-crime-crackdown
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