It Could Happen Here Weekly 207

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

- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40

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Sources:

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf, The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.)

Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.)

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.)

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy

Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/)

Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.)

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

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