TGIF! Libs of TikTok, CNN+ and Much More

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles delivers us all the news from the week that was. This Friday, we bring you an Honestly special: TGIF! This time built just for your ears and brought to you by America’s favorite lesbians: Nellie and dear friend of the pod, Katie Herzog. Featuring: The end of the mask mandates, Biden and fellow aging American leaders, the end of CNN+, Libs of Tiktok, and finding some hope in unity around... balls. It's a strange world, but it's our world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Economist provides independent journalism for independent thinking and has been
0:05.1	championing progress for almost 200 years.
0:08.3	With the Economist, you gain access to fact-based, deeply researched expert analysis of world events and topics
0:14.3	ranging from business and culture to politics, science and technology.
0:18.2	Tune into the global conversation with reporting from correspondence around the world, available in-app, online, through
0:25.0	podcasts and print.
0:26.6	So for fact sake, search the economist.
0:29.0	Hello and T G. G. it's Friday.
0:45.0	Friday.
0:48.0	Thank God it's.
0:49.0	Friday.
0:50.0	Thank God it's it's.
0:53.0	My name, Friday, Friday, Friday,
0:58.0	My name is.
1:00.0	My name is Nellie Bowles.
1:02.0	I'm here again with the news of the week and to help me think it all through is the host of Blocked and reported and the funniest woman in Washington State. It's Katie Herzog. It's a very low bar, but thank you Nellie. Okay, this week was Easter, followed by Tax Day, and because my producer knows about sports he wants me to also say
1:36.0	we kicked off the NBA playoffs but the news that many were celebrating or perhaps lamenting is where we are going to start today
1:46.0	Which is that a federal judge in Florida struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate
1:51.4	We begin this morning with that ruling by a federal judge in Florida.
1:55.2	The decision overturns the Biden administration's mask mandate on planes, trains, and
2:00.4	other forms of public transportation.
2:02.3	Now the judge said the CDC exceeded its authority
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