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Senate at an impasse over filibuster; COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg; LAPD collaterally kills 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta days before Christmas; Plus the racism of Chicago’s automated traffic enforcement

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Boarded up storefronts at Valley Plaza, North Hollywood, CA on October 21, 2011. The nearly 100 acre retail strip mall was largely abandoned after the 2008 financial crisis. | Image by Steve Devol is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

On today’s show:

0:08 – John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation joins us to discuss the Senate’s impasse over the filibuster.

0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us again for our weekly COVID science segment.

1:08 – Hamid Khan, Coordinator and Organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition (@stoplapdspying) and Andrea Ritchie (@dreanyc123), author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and co-founder of the Interrupting Criminalization initiative join us to unpack the LAPD shooting death of Valentina Orellana Peralta.

1:33 – We discuss the racism of automated traffic enforcement with Emily Hopkins (@indyemapolis), an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica who co-authored an investigation into the racial disparities of Chicago’s automated traffic enforcement system and Brian Hofer (@b_haddy), who chairs the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission, and is executive director of the advocacy group Secure Justice.