Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Today's Friday Dig or Diglet is really not that

diminutive at all. I have two interviews with two separate

guests because too much has happened over the past few weeks and there are too many smart people

to analyze it all.

First up is Marisole LeBron, a professor of American studies

at Dickinson College.

She is currently working on her first book,

Policing life and death, Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico,

which examines the growth of punitive governance in contemporary Puerto Rico.

Marisal is also one of the founders of the Puerto Rico syllabus, a digital project about the

Puerto Rican debt crisis.

We're going to talk about how Hurricane Maria was, for Puerto Rico, a doubly man-made disaster. Not only has climate change

supercharged storms, but the long history of US colonialism and more recently

the brutal imposition of austerity has also made

those storms more dangerous to Puerto Rico because Puerto Rico's

infrastructure has been decimated. Then I've got Brandy Jensen who you might know from the

internet. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog and treats too much but the

Baffler pays her to do so. We're going to discuss the past

week of Republican grotesquerie including Trump's attack on black NFL players and

right-wing Christian supremacist Roy Moore's Senate primary

victory in Alabama. Oh I almost forgot We have at least 114 new supporters on Patreon.com this month.

Our goal is to get to 125 before October happens.

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