People's Republic

We begin this episode with Union News with Ken Zarifis. We discuss the mass resignations of special education professionals within Austin ISD, while the district spends $53 million on a new headquarters.Then, we continue with Environmental Justice with Marissa Rodriguez. Marissa talks about the January explosion in Houston that left several people dead, the effects of environmental deregulation, and the Pentagon as a weapon of ecological destruction.Finally, we have Tech for the People with Chris Garaffa. We cover tech ground including the botched Iowa caucus app, the prosecution of Joshua Shulte around Vault 7, Clearview AI's legal troubles for scraping billions of pictures for law enforcement, and newly revealed information that the CIA had secretly owned an encryption company that it used to listen in on world affairs for decades.