Hey folks! Sorry it's been so long since I checked in. I took a couple months off of making vids to rest and recover a bit (& also to dig deep into the world of mesh radio, but that's a talk for a different day.)

Anyway, I went on A Better Way 2A podcast to talk about a handful of topics that I think It Could Happen Here listeners would find interesting. I already mentioned a few in the title but we discuss how to ETHICALLY incorporate firearms into movements for social and political change, the benefits of meeting your neighbors needs directly instead of begging politicians for change, the importance of not sounding like an activist or academic when talking with working class people, and why anti-Zionism is such an important litmus test for gauging who we can and can NOT work with.

Hope you find some value here. Happy to explore any and all of these ideas more in the comments!

Submission Statement

Forgive me if I am just getting the facts mixed up, I really hadn't been following the UAW election. But after the discussion about the accusations against Shawn Fain and how they may likely be politically motivated by what I understand is the more conservative branch of the party, I've been confused by this story referenced in the link. It seems like it was a Shawn Fain supporter who sent the death threat against another candidate who was pro-Palestine, but I thought Shawn Fain also pushed for the UAW's pro-Palestine stance. I was under the impression Fain's branch of the party was more progressive, while the branch that he had succeeded was way more conservative and had been in power for longer, and it was this branch they talked about in ED. But all the coverage of this death threat seems to be talking about Fain and his supporters like they are establishment. Im either case, posting the AI image shown in the article was a totally insane and just kind of stupid thing for that person to do. Does anyone know more about what is going on here? I keep seeing this story pop up.

https://youtu.be/YawagQ6lLrA?si=jAL1hdvvmIOpwVI_

Never has a piece of media so accurately depicted the Left as Life of Brian. The People’s Front of Judea is literally every leftist collective I’ve ever been involved with.

Phil Ochs’ song ”Love Me I’m a Liberal” was important on my journey from liberal to anarchist. In 2020, I updated the lyrics and have done so a few times since. I hope you enjoy the 2026 edition below.

I cried when they shot Alex Pretti

Tears ran down my spine

And I cried at Trump’s reelection

What’s happened to this country of mine?

But Luigi will get what’s coming

‘Cause profiting from cancer’s not crime

So love me, love me, love me

I’m a liberal

I go to pro-choice marches

And I put down the old NRA

On climate, vaccines, and fluoride

I trust what the scientists say

But we can’t protect trans teenagers

‘Cause you won’t win elections that way

So love me, love me, love me

I’m a liberal

I cheered when Harris was chosen

My faith in the system restored

I’m glad the Uncommitted were silenced

And open primaries ignored

And I love black and brown families

As long as they don’t move next door

So love me, love me, love me

I’m a liberal

The agents for ICE and the border

Should all hang their heads in shame

I can’t understand how their minds work

So we can just change how they’re trained

But if you cross without papers

I’ll detain and deport you the same

So love me, love me, love me

I’m a liberal

I listen to NPR podcasts

And repost all of their views

Read Buttegieg’s memoir in book club

I love the gays, how ‘bout you?

But if Zohran Mamdani’s your mayor

You must hate the red, white, and blue

So love me, love me, love me

I’m a liberal

I vote for the Democratic Party

‘Cause family separation is wrong

Even went to a Bad Bunny concert

He sure got me singing those songs

And I’ll send all my money to Ukraine

Just don’t ask me to come along

So love me, love me, love me

I’m a liberal

Once I was young and impulsive

I wore every button and pin

Even went to a Ralph Nader rally

Learned all the civil rights hymns

But I’ve grown older and wiser

And that’s why I’m turning you in

So love me, love me, love me

I’m a liberal

Usually I like Dana's stuff but, man, this was a tough one to listen to.

No Egypt were cheated. They went up two goals and turtled for the rest of the time and preceded to concede 3 goals in 15 minutes. The ref wasn't the best but his call to reverse the goal was correct even if Messi scored a similar one in a prior game.

They weren't punished for being pro-Palestine either and many of the biggest stars are pro-Palestine as well including one Lamine Yamal.

The Egyptian coach got a yellow card not because he was bringing awareness to racial abuse using the gesture but because he used the racial abuse gesture to get the attention of the refs to complain about the refereeing. He took something that is only to be used for very serious situations and used it to whine because he made poor tactical choices. They are sore losers just like the Moroccan team and Football Association were when they lost to Senegal in the AFCON final.

Also, random people in your mentions isn't a sign of anything other than soccer has a global fan base the majority who are huge morons and losers.

Essentially saying "I don't want to give in to conspiratorial thinking BUT..." is also a wild move.

Episode just felt amateurish tbh. Apologies for the rant.

IWW featured on ICHH

I would really like to know more about the differences between the IWW and other union organizations.

I've been in a couple non-IWW affiliated unions.

One was (in retrospect and my own personal opinion) was not a real union for a variety of reasons and the other one is much better but definitely limited in many ways.

Basically Newsoms family was very close to the Getty family. J paul Getty was a billionaire in the 1960s and the Gettys Basically has fuck you money. Gavin Newsom got his start in business by getting one of the gettys to invest in his businesses and that's how Newsom became a rich guy.

They didn't bring it up in the episode where they talked about Gavins shitposting. It makes Gavin Newsom destroying a homeless man's stuff a little more infuriating.

It seems to me that at the very least the posse comitatus part came true, and trying to acquire greenland seems pretty close to the approach the current administration has used (https://www.insidehook.com/internet/peter-thiel-praxis-next-great-city-greenland)

But is that grasping at straws or is there more to it in your opinion?

Why the FUCK would the Trump regime do that? Even if they were pure self interested sociopaths, you would want to take these people in to help win the narrative war. I know Stephen Miller wants a whiter country but there aren’t that many of them. Who made these decisions, fucking why?

I also wonder what the Iranian government is thinking. They have to be so damn confused.

So the accusations are extremely credible. Everyone pretty much agrees he did it, even if they are for him remaining in the race.

My question is, what is going through Graham's mind? Do you think he feels like this is a smear campaign against him, or his past catching up and getting what he deserves?

Always curious what the inner thoughts of a progressive guy with skeletons in his closet are like.

Any why tf did he think running would be a good idea?

Many of you are likely familiar with the story of the Prairieland Nine, but if you aren’t, I encourage you to take some time to learn about what happened. There is a lot of nuance, and I don’t think I can do it justice here.

The TLDR; at a noise demonstration outside of an ICE facility, a protester fired their weapon at a police officer who had drawn their weapon at some other fleeing protesters. This officer was injured when their shoulder was grazed by the bullet/bullet fragment. The rest of the defendants were guilty of being at the same protest, or for being in the same signal chat, including one for their local Emma Goldman Book Club. 30 years in prison for being in a book club and distributing zines… 50+ years in prison for being at a protest…

Now, as many of you know, this might be the weakest Leftism has ever been in the US, and it is understandable to feel helpless. To be unsure of what force could possibly wrench us from the abyss, heaving and broken as we are.

Unfortunately, I do not have that answer for you, and I do not think there is any one person out there who does.

But, we are not one person…

We do not all have to stand in lockstep, or chant in unison, but we must organize. We must build our communities, discuss our values, and rally in solidarity with the folk heroes that the regime offers to us through their daily conveyor belt of horrors.

It is in this moment that we should reflect on Emma Goldman’s legacy, and the symbolism of this moment a hundred years after her lifetime.

By many accounts, Emma Goldman was radicalized by the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, when a bomb was thrown at police officers after they had opened fire on labor protesters the day before. The person who threw the bomb was never caught, but eight of the protest organizers were put on trial and then executed purely for being anarchists.

Now, 140 years later, and the only notable difference is that the state now realizes that executing these folks would turn them into martyrs, so better to just silence them and lock them up for life…

So, let us read. Let us learn from each other and our histories. Let us come together I community, and find the strength to stand up and liberate ourselves and our communities. Let us give them the middle finger, and show them that we are not afraid.

The working class is the engine that drives capitalism, and without us, it is nothing but a lonely philosophy of greed and destruction. We are the nurses, we are the farmers, we are the contractors, we are everything that we need.

The rich are nothing to us but masters, and we do not need them. Let us organize and show them how little we care for their sick and twisted world.

Again, we are everything that we need.

So start a book club.

Hey everyone here's a pride month panel an org I'm involved with put together that Gare was nice enough to be a panelist for. Check it out if you want to listen to Gare and any of these other nice people talk on queer working class issues.

You just cannot make this shit up.

For those not based in the backwater colony of Australia here is some background info.

The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) is the national/public broadcaster in the same way that the BBC is in England. SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) is Australia's multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster.

The ABC has been utterly atrocious in their reporting on the genocide in Palestine and sacked a Lebanese Australian journalist for sharing a Human Rights Watch post about Israel using starvation as a weapon of war on her social media account. She successfully took them to the industrial relations cour for unfair dismissal and won after a long fight.

The ABC has been silent on the deliberate targeting of journalists by the Israeli military with some of those journalists having even worked for and adjacent to the ABC in the past. The ABC have been overtly operationalised to engage in COIN against dissenting positions on Israel's genocide of Palestinians and carpet bombing and invasion of Lebanon.

SBS hasn't been much better to be fair.

According to govt website:

"A royal commission is an independent public inquiry. In Australia, royal commissions are the highest form of inquiry on matters of public importance. They are only established in rare and exceptional circumstances.

A royal commission can, find out why specific events happened, work out who is accountable, make findings and recommend changes to policies and laws.

A royal commission has broad powers to gather information to help with its inquiry. This includes the power to summon witnesses to appear before it and the power to request individuals or organisations to produce documents as evidence.

Commonwealth royal commissions can only inquire into matters that relate to the Commonwealth’s responsibilities."

There is currently the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, which is what this article is in relation to. This particular one was established on January 9th 2026 in the wake of the Bondi shooting, but has been very much built up towards by various Zionist organisations in Australia and not to long after the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog, that was widely protested.

Looking for recommendations of worthwhile, realistic and honest accounts of LGBTQIA+ struggles from the 1950s through the 1990s. If this has been covered before I'd appreciate an episode number or show notes link. Thanks!

Nothing celebrates the US like marching through DC on the 4th of July with flags from a treasonous rebellion and upside down American flags chanting 'reclaim America.'

How these traitorous fucks ever got branded as 'patriots' is beyond me.

I know democracy now has a Spanish broadcast but I personally don't know of any others. I'm also aware of the Pie de Nota pod but I haven't watched enough of their YouTube channels w captions to even tell really what kinda views they hold lol. Seems maybe leftist tho, or mainly Mexican political news, with a progressive leaning... maybe not even, idk 😅

I’m listening to TrueAnon’s episodes 1-4 on “Bush did 9/11” and trying to remember what episode(s) Robert or James said something dismissive about inside-job conspiracies about 9/11. I’d guess Gare has said something, too.

I listen to CZM way more and have trust in them thanks to what I think is strong reporting, and TA is newer to me, and at least Liz describes herself as a tinfoil hat kinda person. So, just want to compare what these podcasters (lol) all think. The TrueAnon episodes do cover a lot of convincing evidence. And the tactic of “fund/help/encourage an extremist group, get an attack, use it as an excuse to be more powerful/controlling/violent” is familiar from several colonial governments…

feel free to share what you think too but I am specifically looking for what our more-informed-than-me journalists think

edit to say: my bad, the provocative title is misleading the convo toward "a conspiracy of actors directly executed a thing" rather than "a conspiracy of actors wanted an outcome and helped create the situation that would enable that outcome"
also, TrueAnon is talking to Ben Howard on the episodes, his writing is here https://www.housetrotter.com/writing

San Francisco Pride weekend always starts with Trans March, which is actually a resource fair and chill march. But last weekend (6/26), a radical contingent paintballed some Flock cameras at the end of the march. SFPD responded violently (you can see partially in the link).

The next night (Saturday 6/27) there was a queer and trans block party that SFPD also violently disrupted.

The DA has now brought felony charges against some participants including felony vandalism and battery on an officer against someone who spit on a cop.

I need folks to understand that San Francisco is in our Giuliani era, and these incidents are just the latest in a string against protesters. Please keep an eye on our DA.

From the article:

Last month, the Department of Education announced it would shift oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose comments on the limits of disabilities such as autism have drawn sharp rebukes from advocates and lawmakers.

Meanwhile, after a White House push to police homelessness, the Department of Justice released guidance that lowered the barrier to institutionalizing any person with a disability.

Taken together, the actions signal a worrying return to a reality where people with disabilities are pushed to the margins of society