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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick


Stand Up is a full length show featuring a comprehensive news recap and 2 guests almost everyday. We will talk about issues that matter to you, your health, the health of your family, community, country and planet. And we will try to laugh while we do it. The show posts Mon-Fri usually by 2am EST. Go to StandUpWithPete.com for more

Apr 24, 2020

Rebecca Vallas is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a former legal aid lawyer. She joined me to talk about Anti Poverty measures  and re imagining public assistance during the Pandemic. 

Read her phenomenal and comprehensive piece at The Washington Post "Republicans wrapped the safety net in red tape. Now we’re all suffering."

Listen to her Podcast "Off Kilter"

Jeff Jarvis is a professor the the Craig Newmark School of Journalism. Check out BuzzMachine.com

We talked about why journalism about science is bad and what needs to be done and much more.

Wendell Potter is the corporate insurance industry whistleblower. He is the author of several excellent books on how they try to fuck us over. We talked about how they are making billions off of the pandemic

Christian Finnegan joined me to wrap us the week in news and issues and was thoughtful, funny and original as always. 

Barry Ritholtz joined me live on twitter and we discussed lots of things. Oil markets, bond markets, happy hour, Amazon delivery, bailout histories, coginitive bias and more. His Podcast 

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