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    The Dangers of Silica ft. Kim Kelly

    18/08/2026 | 18 mins.
    Labor journalist and author Kim Kelly discusses the impact of deadly silica dust in the workplace, from coal mines to coffee shops
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    Who Is Behind America's Cyclospora Summer?

    17/08/2026 | 25 mins.
    James looks into the recent Cyclospora outbreak and what it can tell us about solidarity, food safety, and where our food comes from.
    Sources:
    https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/magazine/spring-2026/taylor-farms/
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/23/billion-dollar-california-salad-company-exploits-undocumented-migrants-say-workers-and-teamsters
    https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-economist-interview-2000790016
    https://www.thefp.com/p/cyclosporiasis-outbreak-lettuce-media?utm_source=publication-search
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-report-e-coli-outbreak-onions-taylor-farms/
    https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2026-07-27garciatotaylorfarmsrecyclosporacontaminatedlettuce.pdf
    https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Bruce+Taylor&contributor_employer=Taylor+Farms+
    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/07/2025-14967/requirements-for-additional-traceability-records-for-certain-foods-compliance-date-extension
    https://bsky.app/profile/ufw.bsky.social/post/3msj3j7ordt2w
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    No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends

    17/08/2026 | 29 mins.
    James talks with Molly Conger about the javelina and their installable appetite for golf courses.
    Sources:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65x0RvhJNa8
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov/05/conservation.sciencenews
    https://zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/Volume_56_1_2/049_054_BzB56_1_2_Moraves_Jiri_and_B%C3%B6hme_Wolfgang.pdf
    https://www.azgfd.com/wildlife-conservation/living-with-wildlife/living-with-javelina/
    https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/8e8abbf4-6775-4575-9a10-fedacb7cb2c1
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    How the United States Built its Colonial Empire, Pt. 1

    17/08/2026 | 41 mins.
    Journalist Carlos Berríos Polanco talks with James, outlining the United States' overseas colonial empire and how it was started by a quest for bird poop.
    Sources:
    How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
    Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231241274187
    https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/hormuz-fertilizer-guano-islands-act-fertilizer-empire/
    https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/navassa-island-the-uss-160-year-forgotten-tragedy
    https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-09-26/almost-half-of-americans-dont-know-puerto-ricans-are-us-citizens-poll
    https://www.doi.gov/oia/islands/politicatypes
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/puerto-rico-independence-movement
    https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CARIBBEAN/MILITARY-BUILDUP/egpbbnzyrpq/
    https://www.nminewsservice.com/cnmi-covenant-united-states-50th-anniversary-explainer-timeline/
    https://apnews.com/article/american-samoa-voting-citizenship-alaska-trump-eda6c32ce0fcdca6edb22efac26e403d
    https://www.nminewsservice.com/cnmi-covenant-united-states-50th-anniversary-explainer-timeline/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-us-controls-iraqs-oil-revenues-2026-01-23/
    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/magazine/venezuela-empires-colony.html
    https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-state-trump-rodriguez-chavismo-silence-634203c885803b018ecd8ac012bb249d
    https://time.com/article/2026/06/02/trump-annex-canada-51st-state-rhetoric-carney-us-partnership-message/
    https://theconversation.com/us-territories-have-a-voice-in-congress-but-no-vote-heres-why-283547
    https://www.usace.army.mil/Media/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheets-View/Article/4463352/154-the-longe
    st-blackout-in-us-history-hurricane-maria/

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-was-serious-about-trading-hurricane-stricken-puert
    o-rico-greenland-n1237336

    https://www.democracynow.org/2001/8/3/as_navy_pounds_vieques_with_largest
    “Nationals” but not “Citizens”
    https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/nationals-but-not-citizens-how-the-u-s-denies-citizenship
    -to-american-samoans
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    CZM Book Club: The Storming of the Bastille, by Alexandre Dumas

    16/08/2026 | 44 mins.
    Margaret reads you a story about the French Revolution and the destruction of a prison
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It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.
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