More news on inflation; Hmong residents in Siskiyou allege racial animus in lawsuit against the county
On today’s show:
0:08 – Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13), senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research joins us again to discuss inflation.
0:33 – We explore the untold amount of toxic waste dumped in the open ocean off the Southern California coast, namely DDT in the Catalina Channel with David Valentine (@ExploringOceans) a professor of earth science and biology at UC Santa Barbara.
1:08 – Donald Trump invokes the 5th Amendment on a New York deposition and the FBI raids his Palm Beach resort. We discuss these developments with Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties and John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine.
1:33 – Ruth Conniff (@rconniff), editor and chief of the Wisconsin Examiner discusses the Wisconsin and Minnesota primaries.
1:45 – Hmong residents in Siskiyou County allege unlawful traffic stops by Sheriffs and other discriminatory practices in a lawsuit against the county. Emi Young, a staff attorney with the Criminal Justice Program at the ACLU of Northern California and True, a Hmong American community member in Siskiyou County join us to discuss.
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