0:08 – San Francisco Mayor London Breed has appointed Matt Dorsey, a political moderate who was the city’s Police Department’s Director of Communications to replace progressive Matt Haney’s District 6 seat, after Haney won the recent special election for the California State Assembly. Joining us to explore the upset is Joe Eskenazi (@EskSF), managing editor and columnist at Mission Local.

0:33 – Sri Lanka’s political crisis continues, as the Prime Minister has resigned, protesters have burned down scores of homes, and there is a nationwide curfew asfood and fuel shortages continue to strain livelihoods. Sharika Thiranagama (@thirana1), anthropology professor at Stanford, Sri Lankan refugee, and author of In My Mothers’ House: Civil War in Sri Lanka, joins us to discuss latest updates and background of the situation.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Elie Mystal’s Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution.

1:08 – We spend our second hour with a fund drive special, Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC), legal analyst and justice correspondent for The Nation, and now author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution.

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