It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: Three ICE Killings, UAW Investigation, Explosive Diarrhea

Episode Date: July 17, 2026

The gang discuss the death of Lindsay Graham, a DOJ investigation into UAW president Shawn Fain, the outbreak of cyclospora across multiple states, and three ICE killings from the last week. Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sen-lindsey-graham-dies-71-brief-sudden-illness-rcna552722 https://x.com/WelcomeTheGulag/status/2076874632506834992?s=20 https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2076307271873691671?s=20 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/13/nx-s1-5888586/transgender-gender-affirming-care-medicare-medicaid-hhs https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/09/rubio-tries-enlist-other-nations-antifa-fight-some-allies-recoil/ https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/2076340630091911417?s=20 https://x.com/atrupar/status/2076310780165669185?s=20 https://x.com/SecRubio/status/2076671740407652582?s=20 https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-launches-effort-isolate-international-criminal-court-2026-07-13/  https://archive.ph/kCuKC#selection-567.13-567.67 https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2077169026430628009?s=20 https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2076732825349628250  https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2076732825349628250  https://x.com/KSAMOFA/status/2074561104022233521  https://x.com/HormuzLetter/status/2077118318088008072?s=20  https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2077496765553811628 https://x.com/nathanTbernard/status/2076687428962640325?s=20  https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/13/central-maine/central-maine-police-courts/video-federal-agents-pull-man-from-car-fatal-shooting/  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/07/ice-vehicle-shooting-maine-dhs/687912/?gift=Tsjgy5hc-Y7tsZCY3EHYrTDbV3lXsGSUmzHP3VVeY4Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share  https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2076798878595342620?s=46  https://x.com/NoticiasCaracol/status/2076993772802506969  https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/26_0403_ocfo_fy27-budget-office-of-inspector-general.pdf  https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/video/breaking-ice-suspend-vehicle-stops-fatal-shootings-ip  https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dhs_fy2027.pdf  https://apnews.com/article/ice-shooting-maine-immigration-dhs-f26f8c2256aa6f0748582ea4adbb515c  https://maineimmigrantrights.org/maines-immigrant-community-responds-to-ice-shooting-in-biddeford/  https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article316506896.html  https://x.com/CBSNews/status/2077151442968641769?s=20 https://prospect.org/2026/07/14/monitor-amok-uaw-shawn-fain-investigation/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/justice-department-uaw-president-investigation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-12/doj-investigating-allegations-against-uaw-president-shawn-fain https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2076418443377623528?s=20 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-quietly-scaled-back-surveillance-program-foodborne-illnesses-rcna227089 https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/you-shouldnt-avoid-fruits-and-vegetables-due-to-cyclospora-a9570579349/ https://defector.com/why-the-explosive-diarrhea-parasite-is-way-worse-than-regular-diarrhea-parasites https://apnews.com/article/weather-forecasts-worsen-doge-trump-cuts-tornado-da573a044916c06cebcdb92b1f1452e6See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or wherever you get your podcast. Media. This is It Could Happen Here, Executive Disorder, our weekly newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, and what it means. means for you. I'm Garrison Davis. Today I'm joined by Mia Wong. This episode, we are covering the week of July 8th to July 15th. A totally different war in Iran has started. And ICE has killed two people this week. James Stout will have a segment on that later this episode. But let's

start with a few small things. Mitch McConnell has entered into to a pact with the demon metastophiles who extend his life in exchange for the death of another. In other news, four-term senator, Lindsey Graham has died following what his office calls a, quote-unquote, brief and sudden illness. I want to take two seconds to speak ill of the man. So I found this out from Sophie messaging us in the group chat, and I fully read the title of the article and clicked on it. And I fully read the words Lindsay Graham, and my brain went, well, obviously, it's Mitch McConnell. Someone made a typo or something in the headline.

It wasn't even like I thought there was a typo. It's like, fully my brain refused to process that it was Lindsay Graham instead of Mitch McConnell. What a bait and switch, though. Like, an incredible week in Senate politics. Yeah. Oh, my God. Completely wild. The second thing I want to say ill of him was there's a very funny Axios thing where he's

talking about how he's not going to go to the hospital and he can't die because he has to do tariffs, and then also specifically he has to do Israel-Saudi-Arabia normalization. He has to establish yeah, Israel-Saudi relations. And this is, I think, how he should go out being remembered, which is trying to broker an alliance between, like, the world's worst

monarchy and, like, one of the world's worst democracies. Two of the most evil countries in the world. Yeah, like, two of the top five, which is really impressive right now. Like, we're up there, too. Yeah. On Saturday night, EMS responded to a call for quote-unquote cardiac arrest at Graham's Capitol Hill home, according to police scanner audio. And on Sunday, Graham's office announced the preliminary cause of death was a rupture of his iorda due to a hardening of his arteries.

That same day, Mitch McConnell posted a photo holding today's newspaper. On Monday, Trump went on newsmax to say that Graham's death actually wasn't related to his, artery problems, and instead he died of heart complications. Quote, a certain part of his body literally blew up. Let's play the clip. You have any suspicions or worries? Do you think we know the whole story about his death? Well, I think we do.

We've had great doctors, and they talked about, you know, a certain part of his body literally blew up, and that's a condition. I believe his father had also. His father also had the... Part of body blows up condition. God. Part of me hopes that there is a hell and that Lindsey Graham is looking up, like, in hell

and seeing that this is what Donald Trump, the man who he just, like, turned his entire career into backing, saying about him. On Tuesday, Trump addressed some whirling conspiracy theories around Graham's death, whether or not he was poisoned by the Russians or other nefarious acts may have taken place. And Trump just said, quote,

I know there's all sorts of conspiracy theories going around, and I think the FBI is wasting their time if they are doing that, unquote. Now, that's in reference to a post made by Cash Fettel following Graham's death, which was mostly like an ordinary, like memorial statement. But curiously, it ended with this sentence, quote,

authorities and it's made every necessary resource available, unquote. I think this is Patel just being a kind of like a moron. Yeah, I was talking with Molly Conger about this earlier this week. And she said that Patel often makes kind of posts like this following like big national news. Just because he like is still caught in like the content creator mindset. It just you have to like comment on everything and like relate it back to yourself in someone. way. Now, the FBI did, like, go through, like, Graham's home and, like, that's, that's pretty ordinary. But, but I think a post like this is, I don't think indicating a larger conspiracy or

foul play at work and is kind of just a, an oversight made by Patel not really thinking about the consequences of his actions. Yeah. And, like, part of the consequences is that, like, a huge portion of the right is convinced that he was killed by some nebulous force. There's, like, 5,000 different unhinged theories as to who killed him or whatever, but like, no, he's just old. No, his body just literally blew up. Now, following Lindsay Graham's death, his sister, Darlene Graham Norton, was appointed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster to serve the remainder of Graham's term, which ends in January. I didn't know you could just do that. You can just call if...

Oh, yeah. Well, I know you... I know the governor appoints. But just calling up the dead senator's sister to be like, hey, do you want to fill in? There was some election where Alan Ashcroft lost an election to a dead guy, and I think they put his spouse in office or something afterwards. So, like, I guess there is precedent for this extremely baffling shit. It's pretty remarkable. Lindsay Graham had actually just won the Republican nomination for his fifth term. But now South Carolina will hold a special election next month to select a new nominee. Nancy Mace has thrown her hat into the ring.

We'll see if anything comes to that. So, week was off to a kind of an okay start, I guess. In other news, in a 308 to 117 vote, the House passed legislation to make daylight savings time permanent nationwide. The bill supported by Trump, and if passed by the Senate, it would end the twice a year clock changes. Pack it up, folks. Hunter Biden sat down with a lot.

Nick Fuentes on Andrew Callahan's Channel 5 podcast this week. Oh, God. Legitimate Nightmare Blunt rotation. Yeah. I've never been on the pro-Hunter Biden train. No. Because he has, obviously, his interests are in no way related to mine or that of, you know, regular people.

But hopefully this will, we'll stop the whole Hunter Biden stand community online. Yeah. I also just want to mention because I think people don't. don't know who this guy is or remember it. But yeah, there have been a series of sexual assault allegations against Andrew Callahan and also, yeah, part of the nightmare blunt rotation. Andrew Callahan is 100% part of nightmare blunt rotation. Oh yeah. Yeah. I just, I just, I just, I just want to make it clear that he is. Yes. This is absolutely his crowd. In some better news, the Trump administration is abandoning a proposed rule change to block

Medicare and Medicaid funding to hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth. Over 30,000 comments were submitted following the proposal last December, medical groups like the American Medical Association and the Children's Hospital Association pushed back on the proposal. The vast majority of those 30,000 comments were against this proposed rule change. This is good. This is a good thing. This was a big threat that prompted hospitals to comply in advance, and they should not have done that and that is bad and we still don't know if those hospitals will reinstate care.

Yeah, yeah. And they should still be pressured. Yep. And obviously, the administration is still going after trans youth care specifically. They're still trying to go after patient records and are targeting specific hospitals with criminal subpoenas. Not all of those subpoenas have been successful. But this is good news about this proposed rule change.

Yeah. On Friday, Fergie Chambers, self-styled, quote-unquote, anti-imperialist communist and multi-million dollar heir to the Cox family fortune, was detained in Ibiza Spain under requests from the U.S. Justice Department, who is attempting to extradite Chambers back to the states and is being charged with international money laundering, with intent to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations. likely Hamas. The past few years, Chambers has donated millions to pro-Palestinian causes and has been globetrotting the past few months. This is a political prosecution, whether or not you like Chambers or disagree with parts of his politics. This is probably a bad thing and a bad sign for pro-Palestinian politics across the

United States. Oh, yeah. Spain has like 40 days to decide if they're going to comply with the ex-examines. Tradition Request, and Chambers has a bail hearing on Thursday to see if he will remain in detention. Speaking of international far-left terrorism, on Thursday, July 16th, Marco Rubia will be holding an international meeting at the State Department focused on the threat of Antifa and the, quote, resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism. According to the Washington Post, senior ministers from more than 60 countries were invited, though many will be unlikely to attend

due to the meeting's vague aims and short notice. One European diplomat told the Washington Post they were confused as to why they were invited, quote, we don't have Antifa. Another said, quote, our law enforcement authorities have not focused on left-wing terrorism because that is not considered a high priority threat in our country, unquote. Oh, Washington Post also reported that some U.S. officials will not be attending this meeting.

Out of growing fear that the increased targeting of far-left activists may backfire on conservatives once Trump is out of office. Living fear, motherfuckers. So we are recording this before this summit is going to take place. If something comes of it, we may report on it later on. Yeah. In more Mark Rubio,

news, Secretary of State Mark Rubio announced on Monday that the United States is launching a campaign to dismantle the international criminal court, which Rubio says threatens American sovereignty. We're not even in it. We're not even in the ICC. What are we doing here? Now, the ICC has attracted the IR of conservatives ever since its inception. Yeah. But this week, Rubio announced the launch of a whole of government effort that will use, quote, all the tools at our government's disposal to take on the court. Reuters reported that options being considered include, quote, travel bans, visa restrictions, increased sanctions against the ICC and affiliated organizations, and diplomatic pressure on other nations to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, unquote. Rubio penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, which is behind a paywall. Incredible.

Explaining, quote, why we're dismantling the International Criminal Court. And I'll quote from the piece here, quote, last year major activist groups urged high-ranking international officials, quote, to take immediate and meaningful action against the Trump administration's deportation of violent criminals to El Salvador. months later, a former ICC chief prosecutor declared President Trump's strikes against narco-terrorists amounted to a quote-unquote crime against humanity and should be treated as such under international law, a line that was echoed by United Nations leaders and major leftist non-governmental organizations, Democratic Party officials and politicians. In March,

the Washington-based democracy for the Arab world now urged the Iranian regime to request an ICC investigation of quote-unquote apparent war crimes committed by American personnel, unquote. War crimes and Joyer hates the people who every once in a blue moon sort of do something about war crimes, guys, huh? Yeah, so, I mean, this shows that there is at least some level of fear in the Trump administration or the State Department that strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela, disappearing immigrants into an El Salvadorian prison, and strikes on civilian infrastructure and civilians in Iran could result in at least some sort of pressure being applied on the U.S.

from the ICC. Rubio wants to get ahead of that in some way. Yeah. I don't think this will be very successful. The U.S. doesn't really hold much diplomatic power right now. This is kind of posturing. This is posturing that we've seen from Republican administrations before, especially in the 2010s. But I think this is interesting and worth noting.

Lastly, one more small news item. Jake Tapper is a sniveling, weasel, coward, and fraud. On Sunday, Jake Taffer interviewed President Trump, and let's take a look at his hard-hitting questions. Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. Is that true, Mr. President? It's open as far as we're concerned. Don't talk about it.

Talk about the reason that you ask me to speak. Okay. We appreciate your time, sir. Okay. Oh, boy. Incredible journalism on display at CNN. Tapper finished this quote-unquote interview by sucking off the president just a little bit more. Well, I know you don't want to talk about any other issues out of respect for Lindsey Graham, but we would love to have you back sometime because I do have a lot of other questions for you, sir. Sure. We'll do that. We'll do that. Thank you for calling in. We're trying to have CNN go on a normal path, and we'll do that. Well, I'm on a normal path right

here, sir, and I appreciate your time, and thank you for calling in. Okay. Thanks so much. I'm a good little boy, Mr. President. Please, please, please like me. I've been good. I won't challenge you on anything, I swear. The most astonishing part of this is like all of this like sniveling, like bootlicking, didn't even get him an in-person interview. This is a phone call. Like, come on. I'm no fan of the man, but recently he has been appealing to Trump a lot more. And to me it kind of seems like he's frying out for David Ellison in case the Paramount W.B. deal goes through and that results in Barry Weiss or someone of that ilk being put in charge of CNN. So I think that in part Tapper is trying to demonstrate to those people that he will play ball.

Whereas Cooper, Anderson Cooper has said if that happens, he will not work for someone like Barry Weiss, as he has left 60 minutes, which has been put under Barry Weiss's control. he remains at CNN. That's all for our first segment. We will come back with a special report from James Stout on two ice killings and the new-ish

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I want to start out with Iran, and then we're going to talk about ice. Hostilities between the USA and Iran have resumed in a new and of course totally different war that in no way requires congressional authorization. The USA carried out four consecutive nights of strikes on the day of recording, which is Wednesday. They carried those out inside Iran, while Iran once again attempted to close the Strait of Hormuz, firing on ships in the strait. In addition, the Iranians have struck Carter, which has been a mediator in talks between them and the United States, as well as other countries in the region and what it perceives to be U.S. allies and assets. At the time of recording on Wednesday night, we have gone from sporadic strikes to the full-on beating of the drums of war again.

The United States has returned to its previous blockade of Iran, according to saying, Senton. Centcom Central Command is the military command that covers that region. Sentcom also used one-way surface drones to strike Iranian port facilities. This is the first documented use of these Corsair drones in this capacity. If you're thinking about how to picture this in your mind, think about a remote control boat much bigger than your average toy boat, but much smaller than a warship size with jet ski maybe. And these are laden with explosives piloted to a target and then they detonate, right? that's why they're called one way.

I don't prefer the term suicide drone. It's not the drone that's dying. It's people. I don't like to try to muddy the waters with that. The St.com and the United States are still insisting that the Strait of Hormuz is open, and they've claimed that they've shot down Iranian drones. But in the past week, Iran has hit Saudi-flagged tankers in a Singaporean ship, hitting at least four vessels in the strait since last week.

Iran has also claimed to have sunk a St. Kits and Nebus flagged vessel on Tuesday, and they have once again returned with full ferocity to their campaign of attacks against southern Kurdistan. And I just heard from friends in southern Kurdistan today. I've got dozens of messages of pictures of drones going overhead, drones being shot down, drones being intercepted, fires, etc. The United States, for its part, has also begun firing on ships. Today it hit the motor tank of Belma with a hellfire missile.

They claimed that they warned the vessel, and it was heading in the direction of Khaeg Island. It didn't comply, so they disabled it by firing a missile into the smokestack. And for his part, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has returned to making threats of war crimes. Here's a clip. And then next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges. We're going to knock out all their power plants. All right, and now we're going to move on to another really heartbreaking story.

Ice has killed three Americans this week, and I'm going to start and go most in depth with the story of a 26-year-old Maynor named Juan Sebastian Durran Guerrero. He was killed by ICE on Monday. Durang Guerrero was a Colombian citizen. He was in his car when agents seemed to have tried to stop him. A video released by the Portland Press Herald and shot on the sea. shows Duranguerreiro's car slowly circling with agents standing on either side of the vehicle and not in its path.

It appears that later, ICE agents rammed the vehicle with the SUV and then shot Duranguerreiro. Further video, which, I know I say this a lot, but you don't have to watch this to care. It's not a mark of how much you care or you don't care how much you traumatize yourself. You don't have to watch this to care with your whole heart.

But videos shows him pulling his body from the vehicle throwing it on the floor and handcuffing him. There was not in the video what I perceived to be evidence of any immediate attempt to render aid. One witness has said she heard the agent yell weapon, according to Banga Daily News. The Daily News reported that, quote, the witness said that one officer had walked away

after the shooting and started to cry, but returned to the man and started administering CPR when the other officers said he has a pulse. Another witness related where I was saying, I tried to stop. And then the SUV hit him again. And then that's when he stopped. Ice agent got out, tried to open the door and had a difficult time.

But eventually opened it and pulled the guy out. His face was bloody. His head was bloody. And I clearly heard the victim say, I tried to stop. Clearly heard him say that. The ice agent that shot him walked right in front of him. walked right in front of me. And, of course, I was emotional, and I just let him have it.

And he looked at me and he said, you tried to run me over or something to that effect. I don't remember his exact words. There was another ice agent with him that was trying to comfort him, and they walked away. It appears during Guerrero's family witness a shooting, which is heartbreaking. Reporting in the Portland Press Herald,

said a woman and a young girl were holding hands and crying at the scene. she couldn't have been older than three said witness Portland Press Herald spoke to this person who spoke to them has a two-year-old son and I'm going to quote here from the press herald

she was still in her bluey pajamas just minutes after a man was shot and killed reportedly by federal immigration officials who missed him that's the name of their source saw who she believed was the victim's daughter she said the older of the two women yelled to law enforcement you took her dad you took her dad

you took her dad. Durang Guerrero's father talking to a Noticius caracol in Colombia said, El Tenia Much Sueños for Compliour. No see why they did so many dreams to chase. I don't know why they did this. The main immigrants rights commission and presenti, migrant advocacy organization, issued a statement confirming that Durang Guerrero was authorized to work in the United States and had been issued a social security number. I want to be clear about this, and I want to be clear about why I'm being clear about this, I guess.

One status or lack thereof does not matter. The agents did not know Duranuero's status, it seems. Main Senator Angus King, who's an independent senator, told the Associated Press that Duranuilero was not the target of an enforcement operation, which was a revision to a statement. To the contrary, he'd made earlier that day, one status or lack of status should not determine if they can survive, driving their car around should not determine if a little girl grows up with or without a father but if we're going to make claims about that status

as I have seen many people do on their monetized Twitter accounts then we should try and make them correct so let's be clear about this he was authorized to work in the United States and he was issued a social security number according to the main immigrants rights commission and presente that does not mean

he was a resident of the United States necessarily it does not mean he was a citizen this can happen during the asylum process, right? We've spoken about the work permit clock. We've spoken about how problematic the work permit clock is. We've spoken about how hard it is for people to get work permits. There are other processes too, which you can get a work permit in the process. But I want to be clear about this because it's important that we tell the truth and all of the truth, right?

But I also want to be clear that anybody making the claim that he was a resident is going about this wrong because his legal status is not what you're protecting, being a human being. what should protect it. No three-year-old girl should see her father shot in the street, much less by people who your tax is paid to shoot him. And so I want to be clear about that, and I guess I hope I've been clear about why I'm being clear about that. King also confirmed the agents were not wearing body cameras at the time of the shooting with this and the killing in Houston, which I'll get to it a little bit. CNN is reporting the ICE is largely stopping vehicle stops for now. The Atlantic reporting on this added, quote,

involved in a fatal shooting in Maine was hired by ISIS year from the Department of Veterans Affairs Police, according to the senior official. The officer has worked in federal law enforcement since 2017, the official said. DHS issued the following statement. It's using the sort of like

bullshit equivocal language that I would straight up fail somewhat in a hundred level writing course for, but I'll read it out so you can hear where they said. On July 13, 2026 at approximately 7 a.m. Eastern Time, ICE was conducting a targeted surveillance on the last an address of an illegal alien with a final order of removal. An illegal alien departed the

residence in a vehicle. Aislaw enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop. The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and fearing public safety and officer discharged his weapon. The driver of the vehicle was struck and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries. The benefit of the police department FBI responded to a scene. DHS-O-I-G has been notified and like all discharge of firearms this will be investigated. This is a developing situation. and we will update the public when more information is available. A couple of things I want to note. They didn't say that the officer feared for his life.

They did say he feared for public safety. I think we should be wary of reading too much into these statements. They're always so vague, witty-washy and equivocal, and it's just, like, copspeakers become almost its own language, and especially in a statement, so cops make after they kill someone. I do want to note that the Office of the Inspector General, right, DHS OIG that's referred to there, is one of very few DHS assets that is not getting a huge budget bump. And as the agency grows, the OIG will very much struggle to keep up, especially if ICE continues killing Americans at this rate.

Indeed, the White House last month in its proposed budget proposed cutting the OIG budget. So it wouldn't hold your breath for a thorough investigation. If you want to learn more about the DHS OIG and how we came to have it and the long history that the DHS has of preventing meaningful investigations into shootings by DHS officers, I did an episode with Jen Bud, probably three years ago, and I would suggest going back listening to that. You can buy Jen's book, too. I think she covers it there. The day after this, another young man was killed by Ice.

The man was 28 years old. He was killed after Ice agents attempted to detain him. He fled and he was struck by a vehicle. This week, Ice also killed Lorenzo Salgado Arroho, a father of three who had been in the United States for 35 years. one of his sons in a press conference said that he was aware that this was his dad when he saw a video on Facebook

which is heartbreaking claiming in this shooting as they have falsely in almost every shooting that he tried to weaponise his vehicle the agent shot him in Texas this week CBS reported from the Harris County Attorney that he is filing for visas

for witnesses in the case unless they'd be deported before they can give evidence in the case I don't want to go into a great deal more depth about this, I guess. I've seen a lot of speculation in all of these, and I might do a whole episode on it soon. I just want to take some time at the moment, I guess, for Russell to process more grief. I did a book talk yesterday in Oakland, and we just read their names out loud and had a little moment with Edis Moranty. It was Edith's a wonderful idea.

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Sean Fane is currently facing a challenge from UAW vice president, Rich Boyer, who years ago told the court-appointed independent monitor that Fane, quote, acted improperly to obtain financial benefits for his fiancé, unquote. Fain said in a statement, quote, let's be clear about what's going on here. Rich Boyer has fed the monitor false allegations about me and is now trying to weaponize these bogus allegations to steal the upcoming UAW election. He knows he can't win a fair fight because he has no real platform to run on, unquote. The court-appointed monitor for UAW Neil Borowski has clashed with Fane the past few years, ever since Fain pushed for the OAW to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza,

which they then did way back in 2023. At the time, the OIW was the largest union to do so, and in December of 2023, Fain gave a speech in D.C. alongside Congresswoman Corey Bush and Rashida Talib, calling for a ceasefire and for aid to enter Gaza. Barowski called Fain to express dissatisfaction with this resolution, and Fain claims that Barowski called him an anti-Semite. Borowski also forwarded a letter to the union from the ADL,

claiming that a UAW local was anti-Semitic for supporting the ceasefire. Detroit News reported that Barowski, quote, acknowledged the matter was outside the monitor's jurisdiction, but said he was forwarding it, quote, given the serious concerns raised here, unquote. To quote, an article in the American prospect, quote, at the UAW executive. Board's February 24 meeting, members asked why Barowski was involving himself in the union's

politics. While Barovsky protested, he was not really seeking a policy change from them. Infuriated by both Barovsky's charges and his denials, Fain said, quote, For anyone to ever fucking say a anti-Semitic, brother, I'll fight your ass in front of this building in a heartbeat, unquote. Within weeks of that meeting, Barovsky initiated an investigation of Fane's interactions with several UAW leaders. Unquote. In Sean Fain's recent statement regarding the DOJ's investigation, he claimed, quote, Neil Barovsky has a political grudge against me because the UAW took an anti-war stance

about what was happening in Gaza. Under Sean Fane, the UAW has moved in a much more militant direction and has backed DSA candidates running on working class platforms in multiple states. going against some other union coalitions who were backing progressive or establishment Dems, like in New York with Claire Valdez, where the UAW backed Claire and a coalition of other unions backed Antonio Renoso. Fain has been a very effective union president who has won a lot of big contract victories. And in his statement addressing the investigation, he wrote, quote, We've accomplished more in the past three years and three months than in the previous.

previous decades. This is what happens when you go against corporate America and their allies, and I'm not going to be intimidated or harassed out of serving our membership. Our election is in six weeks. Neil Barovsky will not run our union, no matter how hard he tries, and no company sellout, like Boyer, is going to dictate our elections, unquote. I think it's worth going over here sort of the general dynamics of union elections, which is that for basically every major union, largely what elections come down to, this is how the UAW was run for decades. There is usually something that's called

like the administrative caucus or the admin caucus, which tends to be the long-term sort of ruling click, I guess, of the union that usually has held power continuously. They're kind of as it felt power for decades. The Teamsters were like this. The UAW was like this until Sean Fain won.

Sean Fane is from, there's usually something called a reform faction. Yeah, yeah. who are a further left faction. And then there's also usually like a Trotskyite one that gets seven votes. But yeah, and, you know, the sort of important thing as Gare was talking about was that, this is the first time that a reform caucus had put like straight up one of their guys in charge of a major union. You can look at the teamsters too, but like teamssters for a Democratic Union always kind of had a tenuous relationship-ish with their new president.

and he kind of sucks in a way that Sean Fain doesn't. Yeah, largely does not. Yeah, he has been the most militant of the major union leaders in the U.S. You know, like there was the strike a few years ago that we covered on the show. I mean, and this is another example of DOJ weaponization. Yeah, yeah.

The Trump administration is going after someone who is not only securing big wins for the union, but is also involving himself in these other elections, these other social causes like Palestine. Yeah, and also, has been a really outspoken voice in favor of immigration. Yeah. And against the oppression of migrant workers.

So, I mean, this is absolutely, in part, targeting Thane because of his opposition to a lot of the things the Trump administration is doing. And that opposition and support of the UIW has been helping working class candidates get into office to then oppose these things in Congress. I don't know how to segue. Okay, I got this. I got this garrison. Don't worry, I'm a professional. Speaking, speaking of bowel movements in Michigan. Oh, God.

Let's talk explosive diarrhea. Oh, yeah. The UIW is also supporting Al-Said. You're right, you're right. That is a good segue. Speaking of Michigan. Oh, God. Okay, so there has been a large outbreak centered in Michigan

of a parasite called Silaspora that appears to be spreading through something like fresh salad greens, although the CDC is still not sure. Yes. And we'll get to, we'll get to more on why they're not sure. My four-year-old diet continues to reign supreme. God. So I think it's worth noting that, you know, this is something that a lot of writers have pointed out.

There's always, like, small outbreaks of silo-sporated during the summer. So you'll see documents of, you know, like cases in other states that are not in the sort of group we're going to talk about in a second, and that's fairly normal. That's just sort of the, you know, that's just sort of the disease cycle. However, comma, there's been over 2,000 cases in Michigan, and that is not normal at all. Now, the specific outbreak, from what we know so far from the CDC, it seems like there is an outbreak in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and these ones seem to actually be connected to each other, unlike the sort of disparate cases elsewhere.

around the country, which are just seemed to kind of right now look like a little bit higher than the normal background noise of what you would expect in a very large country. If you're like in Michigan, it's maybe worth not buying like bag salads. And if you're going to buy lettuce, buy like a head of lettuce and like throw away the outside of it. If you're not in Michigan, like don't really worry about this. Like you're probably going to be okay. But the reason I want to talk about this outbreak is that specifically it's been exacerbated.

at least in part by RFK Jr.'s firing of 10,000 Health and Human Services workers. Now, as a result of these cuts, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network went from tracking six pathogens to only tracking two. And lo and behold, okay, so this timing is genuinely a coincidence, but they cut the surveillance tracking on July 1st, and one of the pathogens they were tracking was cyclospora. So this is going great. And obviously, this outbreak would have happened anyways. It's not responsible to draw a direct causal link from these cuts to, oh, there's this outbreak now.

But what it has done is slow the response to it, because what was one of the world's best surveillance systems has been absolutely gutted because they fired 10,000 people. Or, well, okay, it's a combination of fired and forced out and people taking, like, you know, people taking some of the packages that they've been offered. Yeah, yeah, those deferred resignation Doge offers. Yeah, this is a very explosive example of this. But what's happening here is one manifestation of the slow crumbling of general state capacity, right? There are a lot of regulatory agencies and a lot of scientific agencies whose, you know, budgets and staffs have been cut massively. And the systems that they run are well-debted.

designed enough and the people who actually do them care about them enough that they tend not to collapse immediately, right? That's not the sort of model of state collapse that we're sort of dealing with here, right? It's not that everything just suddenly stopped working. What happens is slowly over time, things that we used to have, we simply don't have anymore, you know, along these sort of lines. One of the other like slow acting symptoms of this sort of carving out of the American scientific state and its regulatory capacity is that weather predictions have gotten less accurate. And the reason they've gotten less accurate is because

there is a large number of weather balloons that used to be deployed every single day to collect weather information that you can't get any other way that have been shut down because they just don't have the staff to run them. And so this is a thing we're going to be seeing more and more of over the next, honestly, probably the rest of our lives is that the pieces of the state that were torn apart by Doge and were torn apart by RFK Jr. going through,

there's just going to be things that we don't think about that suddenly get worse, right? And it's also worth noting, right? Like, you know, something that I think you can, to some extent, point to for this specific outbreak is that there's been damage done to food testing that dates back to, like, the first Trump administration, right? And when we're talking about something like food safety standards, right?

Or we're talking about workplace safety standards. It's important to understand that there are two kinds of regulations in this world. There are regulations that are written in the ink of lobbyists, and there are regulations that are written in the blood of workers. And the ones that are being cut right now are the ones that are written in blood. And so, you know, right now we have a story that sucks, but is at least kind of silly in a bunch of explosive diarrhea. But as the state capacity continues to degrade,

it's going to get more and more grim. Yeah. As, you know, basic scientific and regulatory functions that we all have just come to rely on to not eat poison every day, crumble and start the fall apart. Your point about there being two different types of regulations, I think is really important

because people often just think of regulation is just this singular kind of mechanism that the state can deploy. And no, yeah. It is not. There's regulations that will protect workers that are achieved by workers and there's regulations that only serve corporate interests

or make things more difficult or cumbersome for workers to go about their daily lives and enjoy the public services and like the public goods and the infrastructure that we have. And this sort of like, hacking away at state capacity that you're talking about, which is like very obviously on display in Trump's second administration through stuff like Doge, right? This is kind of the main project

of conservatism since like the 70s and 80s. Yeah, well, I think what I would also say about that though, that there is, I think there is an important distinction between what's happening here and what's what, you know, if you look at like Reagan, for example. Yeah. Which is like a lot of what those states were doing was, you know, in an attempt to transition from the state sort of having a welfare capacity. to a state just being a purely military entity, right? But those people also weren't doing this kind of stuff in the sense that they weren't just like shutting down the weather balloons

because, you know, like even like George W. Bush isn't just like shutting down every weather balloon he can find because there used to be an understanding that there was supposed to be state capacity in place or expanded that would help the ruling class stay in power, right? This is why you see like the expansion of the police. through this period, this massive increase in police and military budgets. And also why you would see, in a lot of cases, you would see expansions of scientific budgets and why you wouldn't, for example, just start doing this. The Reagan administration did a lot of replacing regulations written in blood with regulations

written in ink, but they didn't just got basic scientific capacity that was useful to capital in the way that's happening here. Like another part of this, right, is like it was, it was strategically important to someone like Bush and someone like Reagan that the U.S. would maintain like a large-scale scientific advantage, right? So if you want to do that, you don't go through and just start annihilating the grant process by which all American science is done, right? Sure, sure, sure.

Stuff that, like, those people didn't do because they had a better understanding of how the American Empire works. And these people are doing it because they have bought the propaganda line about what their ideology is supposed to be instead of actually executing their ideology. and having the sort of scientific state capacity to fuel the corporations that their power relies on. Yeah, the contradictions of their project are more clearly manifest in something like this.

Yeah. Whereas the sort of privatization and the removal of social services under Reagan still allowed government funds and involvement towards things that would help infuse the economy in some ways. You know, trickle down way. Yeah.

Something that really did not help a lot of workers in the moment. Well, they help the economy. meeting corporation make more money every year. Yes. Versus the sort of expansion of this privatization towards things like, yeah, we should not have the government be funding weather balloons that can be privatized instead. All these things that the private sector cannot do as well as a central government body,

cannot do without the backing with central government body. And scientific funding is another example of this. You know, sometimes the RFK forces or whatever will realize that what they're doing is actually going to hurt their core driving factor, which is serving capital, and they won't backtrack on some things. But it follows the sort of Silicon Valley mindset as like move fast and break things.

Then you'll learn that maybe you broke something you shouldn't have broken. But the consequence of that is that in the meantime, you have thousands of people shooting themselves. Yeah. Or worse. Or worse. Yeah.

Amazing country that we've designed here. It's going great. And no bad things are going to happen. and are happening now. Before we go, there's two pieces of news that have dropped since recording. Oh, boy. Pete Hankseth is recommending, quote, unquote, testosterone replacement therapy. Oh, God.

For soldiers age 30 and older in a video titled, the High T Department of War. So prepare for an onslaught of really bad, like, liberal jokes about how the Department of War is doing gender-affirming therapy now. Jesus Christ. And about 30 minutes ago, 103 Democrats voted to eliminate aid to Israel. 96 voted against this.

10 voted present. This is a pretty big change from what a vote like this would have been a few years ago. This is still like a performative vote ultimately. Like there's no way this is going to pass. Yeah. But those 93 Democrats who voted against them, that is a primary list.

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