Mamdani's Budget Strategy and Political Tradeoffs

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

- What’s Happened to the Israeli Left

- Tax the Rich Takes the New York Capitol 

- What's Next for Iran? 

- Paramount, Warner Bros. and How Monopolies Ruin Everything

- Executive Disorder: Iran, US Munitions Shortage, Texas Primary Election

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Sources/Links:

What’s Happened to the Israeli Left

Gisha - https://gisha.org/en/ 

Breaking the Silence - https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/ 

Zochrot - https://www.zochrot.org/welcome/index/en 

Culture for Solidarity - https://www.instagram.com/culture_of_solidarity/ 

Dignity for Palestinians - https://dignity4palestine.org/ 

Physicians for Human Rights Israel - https://www.phr.org.il/en/ 

Rabbis for Human Rights - https://www.rhr.org.il/en/ 

Remembering Awda Hathaleen - https://jewishcurrents.org/remembering-awdah-hathaleen 

Beith El-Meem - https://www.beitelmeem.org.il/aboutus-eng 

“No Other Land” documentary - https://releasing.dogwoof.com/no-other-land 

“Coexistance my ass!” documentary - https://www.coexistencemyass.com/ 

Dahlia Scheindlin's book "The Crooked Timber" on Israeli democracy and the occupation - https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110796582/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqr8ur0KCgqZAYrxz5fZYX7QZpUlt6vN0b7zWTl-lJzNZDV-mgs 

Tax the Rich Takes the New York Capitol

https://taxtherichny.com/action/

https://ourtime.nyc/  

https://www.capitolconfidential.com/p/new-york-gained-thousands-of-new 

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/mamdani-budget-parks-libraries/

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/mayor-mamdani---governor-hochul-to-launch-free-child-care-for-tw 

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-12

Executive Disorder: Iran, US Munitions Shortage, Texas Primary Election

https://apnews.com/article/bovino-minnesota-immigration-minneapolis-good-pretti-0ace82ca68846109fbf6d30439e6f0f1 

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-10th-circuit/1431469.html 

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/trump-iran-war-kurds-iraq 

https://x.com/KurdistanWatch/status/2028447001508012501?s=20

https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2026/03/mrff-inundated-with-complaints-of-gleeful-commanders-telling-troops-iran-war-is-part-of-gods-divine-plan-to-usher-in-the-return-of-jesus-christ/ 

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/cia-arming-kurds-iran

https://presidency.gov.krd/sarok-nechervan-barzani-o-oazeri-daraoai-aeran-peshhathkani-naochhkh-taotoe-dhkhn/ 

https://x.com/qubadjt/status/2029199935917187252?s=20 

https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2029219939102401017?s=20 

https://www.centcom.mil/

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/pam-bondi-subpoena-epstien-00812960

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-wbd-paramount-merger-deal-netflix.html

https://x.com/KellieMeyerNews/status/2027181141162111461 

https://president.columbia.edu/news/message-acting-president-claire-shipman-0

https://x.com/NoahHurowitz/status/2027124257394774140?s=20

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_enrolled.pdf

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/kansas-revokes-license-no-gender-change

https://x.com/admcrlsn/status/2029041869074604256?s=20

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/elections/results-texas-us-senate-primary.html

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/03/jasmine-crockett-dallas-williamson-county-voting-changes/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/elections/dallas-county-vote-tally-court-ruling.html

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/on-the-issues-a-qa-with-the-texas-democrats-running-for-u-s-senate/

https://jamestalarico.com/issues/

https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/talarico-pitch/

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