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Farah Stockman of the New York Times looks at Suffolk County, where cops call the shots, and Jake Pearson of ProPublica digs into the little known contract clause that means New York City taxpayers are on the hook to defend police officers even when the city won't.

Weather, reviewed, and much more of all the goodness you'll find at the Brickhouse in 5 minutes flat.

The Empire Center's Bill Hammonds talks about the coverup we know about now, and all the things we still don't know.

A weather review from Tom Scocca as the last cold day approaches in New York City and a rundown of everything you'll find everything right now at thebrick.house, all in under 5 minutes.

A conversation about blackmail, politics and human beings with the Assemblyman who started the avalanche that just might bury Andrew Cuomo.

Charles Rangel takes Chrissy and Harry on a long, fascinating stroll through his life and career and explains why he thinks a a second Reconstruction is now beginning in America.

A tasty mini-pod — 5 minutes flat!—with a rundown from Brickhouse managing editor Emma Roller of what you'll find right now at our little cooperative of creators making ad-free, wolf-proof journalism and art by humans for humans PLUS a NYC weather review from Hmm Weekly's Tom Scocca.

Josefa Velasquez of The City talks with Chrissy and Harry about how, after a decade, the governor finally painted himself into a corner he might not be able to walk out of.

Albert Fox Cahn of The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, S.T.O.P., and the podcast Surveillance and the City talks to Alex Brook Lynn about Cuomo's Vaccine Passports for sports arenas and Shotspotter the technology used to detect gunshots. For more information on the topics disscussed in theis episode see: Cuomo's Vaccine Passports https://statescoop.com/new-york-pilot-mobile-covid-19-vaccine-passport-ibm/ Shotspotter lawsuit and law enforcment scandal in Rodchester, NY https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-rochester-trial/