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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Sources/Links:
How to Rob a City: NBA Billionaire Edition
https://www.forbes.com/profile/thomas-dundon/
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-nbas-newest-cheapest-owner-shows-how-billionaires-ruin-sports
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/03/tom-dundon-blazers-subprime-loan/
https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/investment-riches-built-on-auto-loans-to-poor/#:~:text=Ms.,the%20loan%20with%20her%20daughter
https://www.youtube.com/live/UD8erzI72Fg
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/shadow-bank-blue-owl-caps-021700097.html
https://wealth.blueowl.com/solutions/investment-strategy-real-assets-digital-infrastructure
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/blue-owl-fund-sells-warehouse-to-dhs-for-ice-mega-jail
https://youtu.be/3BqOjrFFNK0
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.14.3.95
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.12572
https://belkcollegeofbusiness.charlotte.edu/economic-working-papers/wp-content/uploads/sites/850/2012/10/wp2016-014.pdf
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/economics-hosting-olympic-games
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24131508_Mega-Events_The_effect_of_the_world's_biggest_sporting_events_on_local_regional_and_national_economies
https://econjwatch.org/file_download/222/2008-09-coateshumphreys-com.pdf
https://econjwatch.org/file_download/222/2008-09-coateshumphreys-com.pdf
https://media.clemson.edu/economics/data/sports/Stadiums%20and%20Econ%20Impact/Matheson-2019-Journal_of_Policy_Analysis_and_Management.pdf
https://www.blazersedge.com/trail-blazers-analysis/114957/portland-moda-center-portland-trail-blazers-arena-revenue-debate-sports-teams-city-revenue-taxes-deal
https://www.kjzz.org/business/2026-05-10/diversification-matters-glendale-says-desert-diamond-arena-is-thriving-post-hockey
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-arena-coliseum-record-best-fiscal-year-of-all-time-after-sold-out-bad-bunny-k-pop-concerts/
https://oaklandside.org/2026/06/16/how-hot-is-the-oakland-arena-a-second-bidder-has-emerged-to-buy-it/
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/keyarena-turns-a-bigger-profit-than-it-ever-did-with-the-sonics/
https://journalistsresource.org/economics/sports-stadium-public-financing/
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/07/03/smith-entertainment-group-estimates-spending-525-million-remodeling-delta-center/
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/20/trail-blazers-moda-center-portland-basketball-sports/
https://www.ripcitynotripoff.com
https://weareripcity.org/#supporters
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/16/portland-councilors-release-draft-term-sheet-as-business-coalition-presses-for-public-moda-center-funding/
https://multnomah.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7145153/2026/03/25/nba-expansion-seattle-las-vegas/
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
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/244/
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/1/
https://theconversation.com/why-russia-gave-up-alaska-americas-gateway-to-the-arctic-74675?xid=PS_smithsonian
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CARIBBEAN/...