Episode 17: Andrew and Jerry Take Off Their Masks!

No guests this week on AJSTW - it's been far too long since Andrew and Jerry just sat town to chat with one another over the news of the day. First up is the federal district court decision on masks on public transportation - why the decision was the right one, and just what it means for not just the future of CDC power, but what it possibly means for federal regulatory power generally. They get into a discussion of deference and vagueness driven by legislative cowardace, and whether this judge was leaving breadcrumbs for the Supreme Court. And the reactions from the pro-masking community (and the medical authoritarians) has been over the top!

Then they open up a discussion of student loans, the cynical motivations behind the Biden Administration's decision to advance student loan forgiveness (and how this impacts working families), and just what this means for college and university tuitions. Plus, are Covid relief monies being misused... small businesses are still hurting, and the Mayor of Baltimore is giving money away.

Up next is a discussion of the doxxing of the person behind the LibsofTikTok twitter account... the activist "journalism" of the "reporter" behind it (and her hypocrisy). What's the goal here, and why is it so dangerous? Bound up in this is the work that LibsofTikTok was doing, exposing the dangerous agenda regarding gender and sexuality of the left.

Finally, Andrew offers some words of caution to his friends on the right who remain skeptical about the Russia - Ukraine conflict. It isn't merely a "border skirmish" as one colleague suggested.