It Could Happen Here

Dana El Kurd speaks to Negar Razavi, a political anthropologist at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Dana and Negar discuss conditions in Iran today, the impact the war has had on the regime and on regional dynamics, and how the “experts” in DC are implicated in this disaster.
Sources:
Mohammad Ali Kadivar on the Iranian regime’s popular mobilization - https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/why-the-iranian-regime-owns-the-streets/
Moustafa Bayoumi on the anti-Palestinian roots of Islamophobia - https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/23/islamophobia-us-palestine-history
Negar Razavi’s website - https://negarsrazavi.com/
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Garrison and Sophie talk about the long awaited DNC 2024 election autopsy, its many factual errors, contradictory analysis, and the glaring omissions from Palestine to inflation and Biden’s age.
Sources:
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May-20-2026.pdf
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/01/ken-martin-elected-dnc-party-chair-00201938
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/dnc-autopsy-inside-story
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/heres-what-i-told-the-dnc-autopsy-biden-harris-2024-lessons-democrats-2028
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/dnc-autopsy-takeaways-vis
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Mia talks with Morgan and Rene of Muji Workers United about their struggle for a union and how ordinary people out-organized their bosses.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/MujiWorkersUnited
https://www.instagram.com/mujiworkersunited.pdx/
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James is joined by Molly to talk about bears, and the campaign to remove them from the Endangered Species Act.
Sources:
https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/news/missing-hiker-and-bear-encounter-victim-identified.htm
https://www.hcn.org/issues/49-9/zinke-went-to-bears-ears-to-listen-but-supporters-felt-unheard/
https://x.com/RepRyanZinke/status/2054303113549381650?s=20
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/10/25/16-30033.pdf
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/Endangered-Species-Act-at-50/
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5829a2.htm
https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/16/dying-wolf-struck-by-snowmobile-shown-off-in-wyoming-bar/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261982557_Efficacy_of_Firearms_for_Bear_Deterrence_in_Alaska
https://www.bearwise.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/efficacy-of-bear-spray-smith-et-al.-2010.pdf
https://alaskapublic.org/news/environment/2026-05-07/after-legal-challenge-alaska-judge-approves-states-revised-bear-cull-in-southwest-alaska
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28097859-250506-mulchatna/
https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0364A
https://propakistani.pk/2026/05/28/mma-fighter-killed-in-bear-attack-in-canada/
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Margaret reads you a story about how to set up mutual aid societies in the wake of social collapse, and how to fight against cannibal nazis from the suburbs
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