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.