It Could Happen Here Weekly 207
Behind the Bastards
Twin Peaks, Kenneth Grant, and Cultural Magic
Garrison and Ryan debate Mark Frost's use of occult ideas (Kenneth Grant) as cultural magic versus solitary practice.
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
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Sources:
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf, The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.)
Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.)
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.)
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/)
Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.)
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/
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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript
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