It Could Happen Here Weekly 247

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
• How to Rob a City: NBA Billionaire Edition

• How the United States Built its Colonial Empire, Pt. 2
• Sophie Cunningham's Transphobic WNBA Panic

• DHS Surveillance and Infiltration of ICE Protests in Minnesota

• Executive Disorder: Mail-In Voting Restrictions, Canadian Trade War, Record High ICE Detentions

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How to Rob a City: NBA Billionaire Edition
• forbes.com/profile/thomas-dundon
• currentaffairs.org/news/the-nbas-newest-cheape…
• opb.org/article/2025/10/03/tom-dundon-blazers-…
• archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/…
• youtube.com/live/UD8erzI72Fg?si=o3NMpXcG38_qWU…
• finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/shad…
• wealth.blueowl.com/solutions/investment-strate…
• bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/blue-ow…
• youtu.be/3BqOjrFFNK0
• pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.14.3.95
• onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.12572
• belkcollegeofbusiness.charlotte.edu/economic-w…
• cfr.org/backgrounders/economics-hosting-olympi…
• researchgate.net/publication/24131508_Mega-Eve… (researchgate.net/publication/24131508_Mega-Eve…)
• econjwatch.org/file_download/222/2008-09-coate…
• econjwatch.org/file_download/222/2008-09-coate…
• media.clemson.edu/economics/data/sports/Stadiu…
• blazersedge.com/trail-blazers-analysis/114957/…
• kjzz.org/business/2026-05-10/diversification-m…
• kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-arena-coliseum…
• oaklandside.org/2026/06/16/how-hot-is-the-oakl…
• seattletimes.com/seattle-news/keyarena-turns-a…
• journalistsresource.org/economics/sports-stadi…
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• nytimes.com/athletic/7145153/2026/03/25/nba-ex…
How the United States Built its Colonial Empire, Pt. 2
• How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

• Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano

• The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture by Amy Kaplan

• supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/244

• supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/1

• theconversation.com/why-russia-gave-up-alaska-…

• reuters.com/graphics/USA-CARIBBEAN/MILITARY-BU…

• nytimes.com/2026/07/17/magazine/venezuela-empi…

• apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-state-trump-ro…

• time.com/article/2026/06/02/trump-annex-canada…

• nytimes.com/2003/11/28/nyregion/new-light-on-o…

• marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/1685.ht…

• theconversation.com/us-territories-have-a-voic…

• nminewsservice.com/cnmi-covenant-united-states…

• apnews.com/article/american-samoa-voting-citiz…

• elecciones2024.ceepur.org/Escrutinio_General_1…

• documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documen…

• doi.gov/oia/compacts-of-free-association

• theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/puerto-ric…

• time.com/7024574/puerto-rico-status-vote

• uog.edu/_resources/files/schools-and-colleges/…

• juntasupervision.pr.gov/abril-y-mayo-2025
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• Las carpetas: persecución política y derechos civiles en Puerto Rico by Ramón Bosque Pérez y Javier Colón Morera

• Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952 by Harry Franqui-Rivera

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