The Matt McNeil Show

We’re joined by our COVID-19 infectious disease expert Dr. Joe Eastman. They talk about some new COVID variants, avian flu and more.

Hunter Biden convicted; school vouchers; Little Falls woman thrown from truck; Minneapolis is happiest North American city; Max Nesterak visits in place of Patrick Coolican today; funeral for MPD officer Jamal Mitchell; Star Tribune/KARE 11 Minnesota poll releases.

Max Nesterak is the deputy editor of the Reformer and reports on labor and housing. Previously, he was an associate producer for Minnesota Public Radio after a stint at NPR. He also co-founded the Behavioral Scientist and was a Fulbright Scholar to Berlin, Germany.

Weekend recap; Trump rally in Las Vegas; Greene appears in Vegas and Republican corruption of Christianity; Thomas and Alito taking millions of dollars in gifts; 4-year old from Hopkins tragically lost; the MN GOP’s extremism problem; more Royce White problems; mining.

Matt talks about some optimistic things 18 months after his accident; Clarence Thomas unethical benefits; Alex Jones files for bankruptcy; author Anne Kim discusses her book Poverty for Profit; Republican senators block contraception; Deena Winter joins to discuss the first verdicts havded out in Feeding our Future; MNGOP issues statement in support of January 6 prisoners; Kelly Morrison steps down to run for Congress.

Deena Winter has covered local and state government in four states over the past three decades, with stints at the Bismarck Tribune in North Dakota, as a correspondent for the Denver Post, city hall reporter in Lincoln, Nebraska, and regional editor for Southwest News in the western Minneapolis suburbs.

Anne Kim is a writer, lawyer, and public policy expert with a long career in Washington, DC–based think tanks working in and around Capitol Hill. She is also a contributing editor at Washington Monthly, where she was a senior writer. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Governing, TheAtlantic.com, the Wall Street Journal, Democracy, and numerous other publications. The author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection and Poverty for Profit (both from The New Press), she lives in northern Virginia.

80th commemoration of D-Day; Steve Bannon ordered to jail; Trump vets VP candidates; Nevada election official recalled by MAGAs; people putting unwanted items out to claim; Hopkins transgender teen assault; avian flu case found in Minnesota cattle; Feeding our Future deliberations continue; charges unlikely in Rochester racial slur case.

On today’s show:

– The mistake people make of tolerating the intolerable.

– Republican Congressman Byron Donalds says black people experienced some benefits from the Jim Crow era.

– Our weekly Wednesday visit with Jeff Stein.

– MN’s new e-bike program has such high demand the website crashes.

– Bring Me the News reports that police are investigating an alleged assault on a transgender student inside Hopkins High School.

– The Star Tribune reports a white farmer is suing Minnesota’s Ag grant program, alleging discrimination. Matt explains how this perpetuates reverse welfare for corporate farming operations.

It’s our weekly visit with national political expert Jeff Stein. They talk about Trump’s conviction last week, how Trump will be sentenced, and more.