Governor Gavin Newsom’s focus on protecting everybody may have cost lives, a Trump-backed House candidate flips a Dem seat in SoCal, Kamala’s VP stock is dropping, and the New York Times’s problem with capitalism is now epidemic. Bonus track: Will talks with Williamson Evers about the dangers of AB5. Music by Metalachi. Listen here!

SHOW NOTES:
 

• Harris to headline Biden fundraiser 
• CNN: Harris, Klobuchar — and everybody else
• How Democrats lost a House seat in California
• Coronavirus: Trump’s tweet on $700 million for BART, Muni, SFO surprises local officials
• New agreement signed by LAUSD and Los Angeles teachers union
• Health officials expect more COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes
• State offers assisted-care homes $1,000 per day to take in infected patients
• Private equity didn’t make Neiman Marcus or J. Crew go bankrupt
• Blame governors for the coronavirus deaths in nursing homes: Goodwin