This Week: Disassembled

July 21, 2020 - Honoring John Lewis & C.T. Vivian, Covid-19's Looming Housing Crisis, and Fascism in Portland


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This week's episode is a good one and an emotional one. Jim and Aaron discuss: 

2:30 - Moment of Disassembly, "Herd-immunity" with Covid-19 

6:11 - Honoring John Lewis and C.T. Vivian

17:00 - Covid-19's housing crisis 

30:00 - Trump's infrastructure problem 

39:00 - What is happening in Portland? 

50:00 - The aspirations of the Declaration 

1:10:00 - Is this redeemable?  

1:21:00 - Shoutouts 


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Resources from this episode:

Declaration of Independence - https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript 

Covid-19 housing crisis: 

CNBC - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/32-percent-of-us-households-missed-their-july-housing-payments.html

NY Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/business/economy/coronavirus-commercial-real-estate.html

Vox - https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-economy-recession-stock-market/2020/5/29/21273520/housing-market-coronavirus-impact-home-prices-mortgages-crash  

New York Magazine - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/coronavirus-recession-evictions-crisis-congress.html

DHS in Portland 

NPR - https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/20/893082598/they-just-started-whaling-violence-tension-as-u-s-agents-clamp-down-in-portland 

BBC (UK) - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53473732 


Songs: 

Intro - Summer Walker Feat. Usher - Come thru 

Outro - Easy Star All-Stars - Let Down (Feat. Toots & The Maytals) 

***We own no rights to this music*** 

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