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ITT Sound Off: Vaccine Chaos

ITT Sound Off: Vaccine Chaos

FromIn The Thick


ITT Sound Off: Vaccine Chaos

FromIn The Thick

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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Jan 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this week's Sound Off, Julio and guest co-host Jamilah King, reporter and host of the Mother Jones podcast, talk about the latest in impeachment news following the Capitol Hill attack. They also dig into the complications of vaccine rollout, and hear from Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, about the Biden administration's immigration policy.  ITT Staff Picks: - "They are no longer private citizens — they are government officials now, and their words carry even more weight." ITT All-Star Andrea González-Ramírez writes about the "anti-Squad" that found its way to Congress, via GEN by Medium. - "Unless Washington and its allies quickly do more to address what’s happening in the planet’s poorest places, however, virtually everyone everywhere will soon face a lot more pain," writes Jonathan Tepperman about the failing global vaccine rollout, for Foreign Policy. - In this op-ed for The New York Times, Jean Guerrero looks at the millions of deportations carried out during the Obama administration that left immigrant communities fractured. Photo credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer  



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Released:
Jan 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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Journalists tell you what you’re missing from the mainstream news. Co-hosted by award-winning journalists Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela, IN THE THICK has the conversations about race, identity and politics few people are discussing or want to discuss.