Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 256
3 tim 23 min•31 oktober 2026
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file:
- Israeli Elections and the Palestinians
- 2026 Elections (The Union Ones)
- ¡El Chupacabras!
- Kim Kelly's Morbid Labor Tales
- Executive Disorder: Lula’s Victory, AI Election Ads, Voter Fraud, Revolt in Albania
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Sources/Links:
Israeli Elections and the Palestinians
- Israel's Elections: What's at Stake?, International Crisis Group (Max Rodenbeck, Mairav Zonszein, Amjad Iraqi), 15 October 2026
- A Jewish Currents Guide to the Israeli Elections, Josh Nathan-Kazis, Jewish Currents, 20 October 2026
- Occupied Thoughts interview with Sami Abu Shehadeh https://fmep.org/resource/barred-from-knesset-elections-sami-abu-shehadeh-on-the-state-of-israeli-democracy/
- Prospect magazine op-ed on the settlers and the state - https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle-east/75279/settler-rioters-are-israeli-state-policythrough-deniable-means
2026 Elections (The Union Ones)
¡El Chupacabras!
- Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore by Benjamin
Radford - Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacle in Cuba and Puerto Rico,
1898-1956 by Reinaldo L. Román - En Qué Quedó Ep. 6 “El Chupacabras”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2r9ISXwgY7zTpWj2EJWcF1 - Radio Ambulante “El vampiro entre nosotros”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hvdSD4aXHwoOWoMYAdN9x - Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post-Cold War Years by
William A Calvo-Quirós - https://web.archive.org/web/20230814111741/http://www.barriology.com/uploads/2/3/2/7/
23276452/calvo-quiros_sucking_vulnerability_rev.pdf - El Chupacabra: Icon of Resistance to US Imperialism
- Species (1995) dir. Roger Donaldson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGZnLsPSRc
- La Operación (1982) dir. Ana María García https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJoWMbRxvM&t=36s
- La Operación -Background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6XEuu_auR8&t=8s
- https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/se-registran-dos-ataques-del-chupac
abras/ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/vieques-puerto-rico-us-navy-base-traini
ng - https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Portals/68/Documents/Business-Lines/Environmental/Enviro
nmental-Restoration/NAVFAC-Atlantic/Vieques/Vieques_Fact_Sheet_03_Depleted_Uran
ium_in_LIA_Eng.pdf - https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/elyunque/recreation/discover-history/us-military-and-el-yunq
ue-national-forest - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24816374-the-history-of-the-us-department-
of-defense-programs-for-the-testing-evaluation-and-storage-of-tactical-herbicides-agent-
orange-in-pr/?q=puerto+rico&mode=document#document/p5 - https://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/otros/las-grandes-sequ-as-que-marcaron-a-puerto-
rico-durante-el-siglo-xx/article_e6a37bce-5269-4040-836d-799a04358fc2.html - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/12/26/mystery-creature-ravages-p
uerto-rican-livestock/b7704250-dae0-4fa3-a886-561db637b463/ - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-03-mn-9730-story.html
- “Monsters and Messiahs by Mike Davis”
- “Beast of Borikén" by Julio Anta, Daniel IriZarri, Patricio Delpeche, and Lucas Gattoni
Kim Kelly's Morbid Labor Tales
- https://proteanmag.com/2021/10/31/picket-lines-in-the-graveyard-a-history-of-cemetery-workers-strikes/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67168074
- https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/dc33-strike-philadelphia-medical-examiners-injunction-20250703.html
- https://6abc.com/post/retrieval-dead-bodies-is-being-delayed-due-blue-collar-union-dc33-strike-philadelphia-officials-say/16936166/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/sacrilegious-bodies-piling-up-at-cook-county-morgue/
- https://6abc.com/archive/8511845/
- https://abc7.com/archive/8719820/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/02/archives/workers-strike-funeral-homes-100-establishments-hit-in-the.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/04/archives/state-fails-to-end-embalmers-strike.html
- https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2024/08/28/the-coffin-makers-strike-1872/
- https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=pilot18720622-01.2.22&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-----------------------
Executive Disorder: Lula’s Victory, AI Election Ads, Voter Fraud, Revolt in Albania
- https://x.com/aricnesbitt/status/2066923547964928106?a=kc7nT6MWbZZrCG5F3ho&s=20
- https://x.com/reaganreese_/status/2064370476449669139?a=o_23wNhd8KJXG1_3jd8&s=20
- https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2097325814689743049?a=-BXTLNGkR3wjP9lkgeE&s=20
- https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/2083629219980960030?a=U6bD8EFjG4McMm-xQCM&s=20
- https://x.com/NassauExec/status/2096705749774631131?a=9MzOBMvGxcqDqhpGhgA&s=20
- https://x.com/BlueprintFNDN/status/2078957886403670411?a=2Q_B5IADKyInPq5JQKE&s=20
- https://x.com/PollTracker2024/status/2076099238363005194?a=GAD-fsC8RATzjNcbr5s&s=20
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrw_hLs4O_0
- https://x.com/JacobRubashkin/status/2113454492872045007?a=jb16JdrbsG8yhaW1ljI&s=20
- https://x.com/NassauExec/status/2094800565452611646?a=wRx4Pm2YJdKDtLMz7Eo&s=20
- https://x.com/NassauExec/status/2091865610233786666?a=q7ts8IGOQNOt_zkiCGE&s=20
- https://x.com/AdImpact_Pol/status/2051314128468197851?lang=en
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0093650226142143
- https://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/releases-101526/
- https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/artificial-intelligence-ai-in-elections-and-campaigns
- https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatures-news/details/when-ai-campaign-ads-fake-reality
- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/politics/midterm-elections-ai-generated-ads.html
- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/deciding-fake-images-candidates-are-using-ai-political-ads-get-vote-rcna605243
- https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-10.hjc-dems-staff-report-epstein-and-trump.pdf
- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly097zw1xwo
- https://www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-detainee-dies-at-otay-mesa-detention-center-in-san-diego/
- https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/10/27/iraqi-court-sentences-seven-french-isis-members-to-prison/
- https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/2113552255576092815
- https://sana.sy/en/syria/2353795/
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/10/27/flavio-bolsonaro-flees-brazil-us/92462116007/
- https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3moy4zcl3b52a
- https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2114740388514697527
- https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/netherlands-citizen-arrested-illegally-voting-2024-election
- https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2113703040444145701
- https://apnews.com/article/california-voter-data-justice-department-lawsuit-0305190ba958051bb86741ac00da36a7
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-state-california-over-voter-list
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1466286/
- https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/2113794933236871180
- https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-10-26-Order-.pdf
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-28-foreign-nationals-california-election-crimes
- https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-noncitizen-voting-court/
- https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2087950683831931327a=2VozR5e62ZW8NoNmfl8&s=20
- https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2087950683831931327
- https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2115228635326242842
- https://www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/2026/October/election-charges
- https://citizens.al/en/2026/09/07/100-days-of-the-flamingo-revolution-the-new-culture-of-civic-protest/
- https://www.balkanweb.com/en/On-the-14th-day-of-student-protests--citizens-and-young-people-gather-en-masse-in-front-of-the-Ministry-of-Education./#gsc.tab=0
- https://www.tiranatimes.com/albanian-government-tightens-protest-laws-as-crisis-deepens/
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