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TGIF: The Pope Is With Us
TGIF: The Pope Is With Us
Papa Francis at a pitch meeting. (Vatican Pool/Getty Images).
Plus: A rough week for Biden. Trans swimmers face off. And reasons to be optimistic.
By Nellie Bowles
01.14.22 — TGIF
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TGIF: The Pope Is With Us

Let’s get right to it:

→A pretty rough week for Biden: The Supreme Court blocked his vaccine mandate effort. His approval rating dropped to 33%. Krysten Simena, the moderate Democratic senator from Arizona, said she will not support changing the filibuster rules. Without changing filibuster rules, Democrats have little chance of passing their voting righ…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a reporter for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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