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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Hours after a federal judge in Florida overturned the CDC’s mask mandate for public transportation, airlines like Delta and United made masks optional. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, host of Crooked’s “America Dissected,” gives some advice to help you make your own decision on whether to stay masked.
In headlines: President Biden announced actions toward federal student loan debt forgiveness, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis escalated his war with Disney, and Blac Chyna's $100 million lawsuit against the Kardashian family started.
And an interview about the effort to decriminalize marijuana, and the disproportionate rate at which Black Americans are convicted of marijuana possession. Linn Washington Jr, a long-time investigative reporter, joins us to discuss how far we have and haven’t come on the issue
Show Notes:
Linn Washington Jr: “Equity in marijuana legalization must prioritize inclusion, expungement, and diverting revenues from police” – https://bit.ly/3uVNOG5
ACLU: “A Tale of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform” – https://bit.ly/3JYQ3wA
The Marshall Project: “Will Drug Legalization Leave Black People Behind?” – https://bit.ly/3L65sgk
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 20th. I'm Trevelle Anderson. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is what a day where we celebrated for 20 by writing |
| 0:12.8 | the script for today's episode on a black light poster. |
| 0:16.1 | Yeah, it's a felt poster and we're reading it from here on the ground. We're relying |
| 0:21.4 | flat on our backs, on bean bag chairs. It's super com-scopal. |
| 0:25.6 | Promise, this will not affect our read of today's news. |
| 0:31.4 | On today's show, President Biden clears away the student debt of more than 40,000 borrowers, |
| 0:37.0 | plus the effort to expunge the records of people with past marijuana convictions. |
| 0:41.1 | But first, the masks are off and to some, that is great news. |
| 0:45.7 | Mask will be optional to see things for more crew and to be asked to do that as well. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, so those are some chairs from one Delta flight yesterday. However, even though you |
| 0:56.0 | can take your mask off, does that mean that you should? |
| 0:59.8 | No, it does not. |
| 1:01.4 | So to remind people of the news on Monday, a federal judge in Florida overturned the CDC's |
| 1:06.3 | mask mandate for public transportation that covered planes, airports, buses, subways, |
| 1:11.8 | and more. That mandate was originally set to expire in a couple weeks on May 3rd. |
| 1:16.8 | A few hours after the ruling was announced, airlines like Delta and United made masks optional, |
| 1:22.7 | so did transit authorities, including those in DC and California's Bay Area, their optional |
| 1:27.6 | for Amtrak riders, too, as well as Uber and Lyft passengers. Here's some commuters that |
| 1:32.8 | the AP talked to who were happy to quote unquote, free their faces. |
| 1:36.3 | It's about time. |
| 1:37.3 | I just don't like wearing a mask and I'm happy about it. |
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