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Garrison investigates a series of frightening claims: that ICE can detain people for ‘looking trans,’ the creation of a transgender public registry, and that an adult gender-affirming healthcare ban is imminent.
Sources:
https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/11/2026-04737/visas-enhancing-vetting-and-combatting-fraud-in-the-diversity-immigrant-visa-program
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/
https://rachelnorfolk.me/sites/default/files/2025-02/25_State_11402.pdf
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250402-RecognizingMaleAndFemaleSexes.pdf
https://iptp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/2025.2.24_DOS_Guidance_for_Visa_Adjudicators_EO_14201_22Keeping_Men_Out_of_Wom_VhPai1S.pdf
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/administrative-processing-information.html
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&f=treesort&num=0&edition=prelim
https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM030209.html
https://bsky.app/profile/progesteronipizza.bsky.social/post/3m5w6wnkyhc2u
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-kansans-challenge-state-law-invalidating-their-drivers-licenses-and-allowing-them-to-be-sued-for-using-public-restrooms
https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb244_03_0000.pdf
https://www.tiktok.com/@transitics/video/7616520936925285662
https://bsky.app/profile/firestorm.coop/post/3mgwxdih3x222
https://www.tiktok.com/@e_c_lider/video/7616688370462231830
https://www.vera.org/news/ice-is-excluding-data-on-transgender-people-in-detention
https://www.them.us/story/alice-correia-barbosa-ice-arrest-brazil-trans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-mexico-deportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration#
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250430-SD003.pdf
https://19thnews.org/2025/12/trump-administration-plans-to-end-prison-rape-protections-for-trans-and-intersex-people-memo-says/
https://theneedlenews.com/2026/03/anti-trans-hate-groups-petitioning-fda-for-registry-of-trans-women-crackdown-on-transition-newly-revealed-document-shows/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27871234-fda-2025-p-7321-0001-attachment-public-fda/?ref=theneedlenews.com
https://bsky.app/profile/angelic.style/post/3mgv3hjepvs2p
https://bsky.app/profile/tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/post/3mgvbihtidu2m
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4865109/#:~:text=Only%20346%20(18%25)%20of,Risk%20Evaluation%20and%20Mitigation%20Strategy
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/19/tennessee-gop-advances-bill-that-would-create-public-list-of-trans-residents/?utm_content=1773928472&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
https://trackbill.com/bill/tennessee-house-bill-754-an-act-to-amend-tennessee-code-annotated-title-1-title-4-title-33-title-56-title-63-title-68-and-title-71-relative-to-health-care/2644177/
https://x.com/popbase/status/2034737772792041622?s=46
https://transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-republicans-advance-bill
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/movaokabwva/USA_HEALTH_TRANSGENDER_WESTVIRGINIA.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-rules-that-states-can
https://bsky.app/profile/davidforbes.bsky.social/post/3mgv5httwss26
https://glaad.org/new-york-times-sign-on-letter-from-lgtbq-allied-leaders-and-organizations
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people
https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/18/meaning-through-its-opposite-significance-quest-theory-and-nihilistic-violent-extremism/
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists
https://x.com/ItsYourGov/status/1968802472111083949?s=20
https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOykLZJDS2h/
https://www.tiktok.com/@genericartdad/video/7554381061128473886
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Margaret reads you a story about climate refugees, ancestors, and giant spider robots that weave webs of glass
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Prairieland and Antifa Terrorism
- The Scariest Court in America feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
- Israel’s Attack on Lebanon
- Shadow Banking: The Once and Future Economic Apocalypse
- Executive Disorder: ICE at Airports, New DHS Secretary, Iran Negotiations
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Sources/Links:
Prairieland and Antifa Terrorism
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.410488/gov.uscourts.txnd.410488.367.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.410488/gov.uscourts.txnd.410488.366.0.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/antifa-cell-members-convicted-prairieland-ice-detention-center-shooting

https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/f536e696-072c-4982-bc47-d2dc7f42f766/gov-uscourts-txnd-411041-89-0_1.pdf

https://prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Superseding-Indictment-2.pdf

https://www.keranews.org/criminal-justice/2026-03-03/prairieland-ice-detention-center-shooting-trial-defendants-self-defense-third-party-defense-theory-judge-mark-pittman

https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/march-3rd-federal-trial-day-7/

https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/march-6th-federal-trial-day-10/

https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/march-10-federal-trial-day-12/

https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/march-10-federal-trial-day-12/#kyle-shideler-prosecutions-antifa-expert-redirect

https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/february-26-federal-trial-day-5/
https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/february-27th-federal-trial-day-6/

https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/march-9th-federal-trial-day-11/

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R41333

https://www.keranews.org/criminal-justice/2026-03-10/dario-sanchez-prairieland-ice-shooting
The Scariest Court in America feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
Jack Bass, “John Minor Wisdom, Appeals Court Judge Who Helped to End Segregation, Dies at 93,” New York Times, May 16, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/16/us/john-minor-wisdom-appeals-court-judge-who-helped-to-end-segregation-dies.html
Jonathan Entin, “The Surprising History of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals,” Governing, January 23, 2024, https://www.governing.com/policy/the-surprising-history-of-the-5th-circuit-court-of-appeals.
Eleanor Klibanoff, “Again and again, U.S. Supreme Court slaps down 5th Circuit,” The Texas Tribune, July 3, 2024, https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/supreme-court-5th-circuit-court-rulings-texas-overturned/
Mattathias Schwartz, “This Federal Judge Is the ‘Tip of the Spear’ of Trump-Era Conservatism,” New York Times, August 9, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/judge-ho-trump-border.html
Israel’s Attack on Lebanon
Lebanese news source Megaphone news – https://megaphone.news
Elia at +972mag - https://www.972mag.com/israels-renewed-war-on-lebanon-is-about-more-than-just-hezbollah/
Death toll and displacement numbers in Lebanon - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/22/hezbollah-attack-kills-one-in-north-israel-as-assault-on-lebanon-continues
Nathan Brown on “Israel’s Forever Wars” - https://carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/diwan/2026/03/dominance-degradation-and-debilitation
Land for peace concept - https://archive.unescwa.org/land-peace-principle
Foundation for Defense of Democracy on “Peace for Land” - https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/01/23/peace-for-land-not-land-for-peace/
The book Beware of Small States - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-hirst/beware-of-small-states/9780786744411/?lens=bold-type-books
The Fire These Times podcast - https://thefirethesetimes.com/
Shadow Banking: The Once and Future Economic Apocalypse
https://www.fsb.org/work-of-the-fsb/financial-innovation-and-structural-change/non-bank-financial-intermediation/
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/shadow-banking-is-now-a-52-trillion-industry-and-posing-risks.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7992100/
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2013/06/basics.htm
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/inside-the-cdo-market-that-catalyzed-the-financial-crisis
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48512#ifn146
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26153238
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/economists/adrian/1306adri_map.pdf
https://tellerwindow.newyorkfed.org/2025/10/17/nbfis-in-focus-the-basics-of-private-credit/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/bank-lending-to-private-credit-size-characteristics-and-financial-stability-implications-20250523.html
https://libcom.org/article/debt-first-5000-years-david-graeber
Executive Disorder: ICE at Airports, New DHS Secretary, Iran Negotiations
https://x.com/Holden_Culotta/status/2034419794099777620?s=20
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/18/2026/fbi-investigates-national-security-aide-who-resigned-over-war
https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagon-plans-national-guard-dc-2029-2-us/story?id=131234530

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/

https://x.com/cspan/status/2036514340896121179?s=20
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2036105325326016658?s=20
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2036083777164775452
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2036253584090685709?s=20
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5799345-ice-deployment-tsa-criticism/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html
https://punchbowl.news/archive/32326-am/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116275668825285445
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2036511652275703864?s=20
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol.html
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2031414203920077123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Fh_K2gxDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fW9E2zneDg
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/politics/mullin-confirmation-hearing-senate-paul-dhs
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2036510924173963558?s=20
https://archive.ph/SmBos
https://archive.vn/Xg3zP#selection-717.162-717.174
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/iran-war-us-trump.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/trump-iran-war-power-plants-energy-infrastructure-middle-east.html
https://time.com/article/2026/03/25/trump-peace-proposal-us-iran-war-israel-pakistan/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-reliance-buys-5-million-barrels-iranian-oil-after-us-waiver-sources-say-2026-03-24/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1450zj6n48o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrzr9ynpn1o
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/oil-prices-trump-iran-strait-of-hormuz-wti-crude-middle-east-lng-gas.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-gets-daily-video-montage-briefing-iran-war-rcna263912
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thai-tanker-strait-hormuz-iran-6015671
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The gang discuss Trump’s deployment of ICE to more than a dozen airports, OpenAI shutting down its AI generated video app, continuing negotiations with Iran to end the war, and DHS Sec Mullin’s comments during confirmation hearings.
Sources:
https://x.com/Holden_Culotta/status/2034419794099777620?s=20
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/18/2026/fbi-investigates-national-security-aide-who-resigned-over-war
https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagon-plans-national-guard-dc-2029-2-us/story?id=131234530

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/

https://x.com/cspan/status/2036514340896121179?s=20
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2036105325326016658?s=20
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2036083777164775452
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2036253584090685709?s=20
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5799345-ice-deployment-tsa-criticism/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html
https://punchbowl.news/archive/32326-am/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116275668825285445
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2036511652275703864?s=20
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol.html
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2031414203920077123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Fh_K2gxDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fW9E2zneDg
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/politics/mullin-confirmation-hearing-senate-paul-dhs
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2036510924173963558?s=20
https://archive.ph/SmBos
https://archive.vn/Xg3zP#selection-717.162-717.174
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/iran-war-us-trump.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/trump-iran-war-power-plants-energy-infrastructure-middle-east.html
https://time.com/article/2026/03/25/trump-peace-proposal-us-iran-war-israel-pakistan/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-reliance-buys-5-million-barrels-iranian-oil-after-us-waiver-sources-say-2026-03-24/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1450zj6n48o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrzr9ynpn1o
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/oil-prices-trump-iran-strait-of-hormuz-wti-crude-middle-east-lng-gas.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-gets-daily-video-montage-briefing-iran-war-rcna263912
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thai-tanker-strait-hormuz-iran-6015671
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Mia teaches Molly what shadow banking is, how it caused the 2008 financial collapse, and how they’re threatening to do it all again
Sources:
https://www.fsb.org/work-of-the-fsb/financial-innovation-and-structural-change/non-bank-financial-intermediation/
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/shadow-banking-is-now-a-52-trillion-industry-and-posing-risks.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7992100/
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2013/06/basics.htm
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/inside-the-cdo-market-that-catalyzed-the-financial-crisis
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48512#ifn146
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26153238
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/economists/adrian/1306adri_map.pdf
https://tellerwindow.newyorkfed.org/2025/10/17/nbfis-in-focus-the-basics-of-private-credit/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/bank-lending-to-private-credit-size-characteristics-and-financial-stability-implications-20250523.html
https://libcom.org/article/debt-first-5000-years-david-graeber
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