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Julio is joined by guest co-host Jamilah King. They talk with ITT All-Stars Andrea Gonz\\xe1lez-Ram\\xedrez, senior writer at GEN by Medium, and Dr. Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University and co-host of the podcast FAQ NYC, on the Biden-Harris transition, their upcoming administration\'s policies, and Puerto Rico\\u2019s election results. They also discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.\\xa0 ITT Staff Picks: - \\u201cBy pushing for Puerto Rican statehood to benefit themselves, mainland liberals are making Puerto Rico a political pawn once again.\\u201d In his latest for NBC News, Julio Ricardo-Varela explains why white liberals must let the people of Puerto Rico decide on statehood.\\xa0 - \\u201cThe most precious resource the U.S. health-care system has in the struggle against COVID-19 isn\\u2019t some miracle drug. It\\u2019s the expertise of its health-care workers\\u2014and they are exhausted.\\u201d Ed Yong writes about how the third pandemic surge is pushing health-care workers to the limit for The Atlantic. - \\u201cOrganizations that have worked relentlessly for months to turn out the vote for Biden did not even take a weekend off to celebrate. Instead, they immediately unveiled detailed plans outlining all the executive actions a Biden-Harris administration could take within its first 100 days: from immediate student debt relief, to generous \\u201cpeople\\u2019s bailouts\\u201d as part of its Covid-19 response, to the highly detailed \\u201cFrontlines Climate Justice Executive Action Platform,\\u201d backed by a coalition of powerful groups and published by the think tank Demos.\\u201d\\xa0writes Naomi Klein for The Intercept. Photo credit:\\xa0AP Photo/Andrew Harnik \\xa0

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