It Could Happen Here23 Aug 2025

It Could Happen Here Weekly 196

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

- The Federalization of DC Police feat. Bridget Todd

- Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

- Alienation and AI feat. Andrew

- Objectivity in Journalism

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30

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Sources/Links:

Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns

Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State

Hardy Green, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

Chad Pearson, Capitalism’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

Objectivity in Journalism

https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/a-widely-shared-video-shows-a-deputy-overdosing-on-fentanyl-experts-say-its-impossible/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30

https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/

https://x.com/IDF/status/1954652255199887516

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-israel-at-war/august-24-pr/eliminated-ismail-al-ghoul-a-hamas-military-wing-operative-and-nukhba-terrorist/

https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tQckcrui/

https://www.icrc.org/en/article/international-humanitarian-law-protect-journalists-armed-conflict

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250819-DiscretionaryFactors.pdf

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1424&num=0&edition=prelim

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-alerts/08.15.2025-Restoring_a_Good_Moral_Character_Evaluation_Standard_for_Aliens_Applying_for_Naturalization-Policy_Memorandum_FINAL.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26054451-20-1/#document/p17/a2667744

https://www.wmtw.com/article/old-orchard-beach-maine-officer-voluntary-departure/65807962?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

https://edsource.org/updates/immigration-agents-alleged-to-have-boasted-of-1500-for-l-a-student-arrest

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html

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