On this show:
0:08 – We talk about the latest unemployment numbers and a congressional bailout package with Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute.
0:34 – A new study says masks could offer protective benefits to the wearer, not just surrounding that person. Dr. Monica Gandhi joins us; she is an infectious diseases doctor and professor of Medicine at UCSF, and author of a new study on universal masking to be published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
1:10 – Juan Prieto of the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance was arrested outside of Gavin Newsom’s house on Monday protesting the spread of Covid in ICE detention centers and calling for mass clemency for people in state prisons. Fátima Avellán is with Survived and Punished and did jail support for those arrested by the CHP on Monday at Newsom’s home. Both join us to give updates on the strikes underway in ICE detention centers over deadly Covid risk and horrible conditions.
1:35 – The highly visible federal agents sent to Portland to quell protests are set to leave. We speak with Tuck Woodstock, an independent journalist based in Portland who has covered the protests since May.