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New LA District Attorney George Gascon kicks off term with sweeping criminal justice reforms; Plus: Landmark anti-trust action against Facebook; and CA counties overrun with COVID crisis, ICUs full

LAPD officers making arrests (Photo: Chris Yarzab Wikimedia)

0:08 – Landmark antitrust action taken against Facebook

Sally Hubbard (@Sally_Hubbard) is Director of Enforcement Strategy at the Open Markets Institute, and author of Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control.

0:18 – Four California counties in the Central Valley at 0% ICU bed capacity

Rachel Becker (@RA_Becks) is a reporter for the nonprofit newsroom CalMatters. Her latest piece is California’s intensive care nightmare: Which hospitals are full?”

0:35 – Newly elected Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón promises criminal justice reforms, including eliminating the death penalty and most uses of cash bail.

Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) is chair of Pan-African Studies at Cal State-LA. She is also the co-founder of the LA chapter of Black Lives Matter.

1:08 – KPFA Fund Drive: The System by Robert Reich

Robert Reich (@RBReich) is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written fifteen books, his latest is The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It.