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4 dead in Siskiyou County McKinney fire; Plus details on the new Senate reconciliation bill

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On today’s show:

0:08 – We discuss the McKinney fire with Lenya Quinn-Davidson (@lenyaqd), Fire Adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension and Director of the Northern California Prescribed Fire Council.

0:33 – Johana Bhuiyan (@jmbooyah) senior tech reporter and editor at The Guardian joins us to discuss the Uber Files.

0:40 – Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood), economic journalist and host of KPFA’s Behind the News, discusses his latest for The Nation entitled, The Best Economists Uber Could Buy.

1:08 – We discuss the new Senate reconciliation bill with Michael Wara (@MichaelWWara), a lawyer and Senior Research Scholar at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment, as well as the Director of their Climate and Energy Program.

1:20 – Kassie Siegel (@kassiesiegel), Climate Law Institute Director and Senior Counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity joins us to continue discussing the climate bill.

1:33 – George Ciccariello-Maher, Visiting Associate Professor of Global Political Thought at Vassar College discusses his latest book Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance.