Material Limits on the Postwar 'Normal'

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

- Why Fascists Have Adopted A Suicidal Penguin as a Mascot

- Normalcy feat. Andrew

- Fighting ICE’s Warehouse Prisons

- The Art of Petty with Prop & Amanda Nelson

- Executive Disorder: Turning Point Halftime Show, Pam Bondi’s Epstein Hearing & ICE Detention of Liam Conejo Ramos

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Sources/Links:

Why Fascists Have Adopted A Suicidal Penguin as a Mascot

Paul Virilio, “The Suicidal State,” in J. DerDerian, ed. The Virilio Reader

https://files.libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf 

https://contactos.tome.press/welcome-to-the-suicidal-state/ 

https://jacobin.com/2024/10/death-drive-trump-freud-liberalism 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-penguin-breaks-internet-sends-left-frenzy

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/penguin-walking-toward-mountain-nihilist-penguin

https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-nihilist-penguin-meme-why-a-video-of-a-penguin-walking-toward-a-mountain-from-a-werner-herzog-film-is-going-viral-explained 

https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2014869279850496358 

https://x.com/HHSGov/status/2014772131242877320?s=20 

https://x.com/policylaila/status/2015359679279337808 

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2015068422980182214 

https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1954555969515450790

Fighting ICE’s Warehouse Prisons

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-warehouses-deportation-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7

Executive Disorder: Turning Point Halftime Show, Pam Bondi’s Epstein Hearing & ICE Detention of Liam Conejo Ramos

https://rumble.com/v75hvqg-tpusa-presents-the-all-american-halftime-show.html?e9s=rel_v2_ep

https://www.thebiglead.com/most-watched-super-bowl-halftime-shows-bad-bunny-v/

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/television/2026/02/09/how-many-people-watched-the-halftime-show-2026-bad-bunny-super-bowl/88586255007/

https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2321.pdf?q=20260210145058 

https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Gatalog%20Complaint_FINAL.pdf 

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.116977/gov.uscourts.miwd.116977.67.0_1.pdf 

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2021292068065153476 

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/hisd/article/hisd-loses-immigrant-students-21307427.php 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-26/family-of-student-arrested-outside-arlete-high-allege-racial-profiling-trump-administration 

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/05/liam-conejo-ramos-dhs-requests-expedited-deportation-proceedings-for-family 

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26708008-us-district-judge-fred-bierys-opinion-ordering-release-of-5-year-old-liam-arias-and-father/ https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/05/liam-conejo-ramos-dhs-requests-expedited-deportation-proceedings-for-family 

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/g-s1-109413/maxwell-appeals-for-clemency 

https://x.com/domarkus/status/2020882509525893536?s=46

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/casey-wasserman-epstein-fallout-1236500784/

https://www.foxla.com/news/la28-casey-wasserman-epstein-maxwell-investigation-results

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-s-opening-statement-at-hearing-slamming-attorney-general-bondi-s-epstein-cover-up-betrayal-of-the-principle-of-justice-for-all

https://apnews.com/live/trump-bondi-epstein-updates-2-11-2026 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcEXpOSBE7I

https://x.com/calltoactivism/status/2021617879750455415?s=46

https://x.com/antunes1/status/2021625934919369208?s=46

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2021661313429082564?s=46

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2021629409606676989?s=46

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