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Joshua Green
National Correspondent @BW + @bpolitics, infrequent columnist @BostonGlobe
On 1/6, Goldman estimated final size of the Covid plan would be $750b, once GOP whittled it down. But GOP never seriously engaged. No pressure on Manchin, etc. So Goldman upped its bet to $1.1 trillion. Then on Monday, they upped it again to $1.5 trillion:
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Striking that GOP is more aggressively challenging Big Tech than Dems. In AZ yesterday, a bill to let app developers bypass Google/Apple payment system passed committee 7-6 -- all but one R voted yes, all but one D voted no:
Follows a similar North Dakota bill last week, also sponsored by a GOP rep, that failed but seems like sign of what's to come:
Nice @teddyschleifer scoop on the budding-but-controversial $65m plan tech-backed Dem strategist @taraemcg has for countering right-wing misinformation:
I wrote about @taraemcg + @anotheracronym 's earlier efforts to build a FB-focused partisan-backed news network in @BW -- the blurring of politics and journalism rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way:
Great lede: "The Boss met the Man in Newark on Wednesday" -- @ChrisDolmetsch on Springsteen's arraignment
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Just got off the phone w/ Bannon: "If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war" 1/2
"Donald told me on New Year's Day 2013, when I called to wish him Happy New Year, that he'd just trademarked the phrase 'Make America Great Again' and was definitely going to run," Roger Stone (source: )
For skeptics of @elizabethforma ’s claim she was from her teaching job in 1971 for being pregnant, the practice was actually widespread. How do I know? Because my mom was fired from HER teaching job in 1971…for being pregnant, with me. A brief thread-->
Just met Thomas Begay who was "puzzled" but not offended by Trump's Pocahontas quip: "The Marines made us yell 'Geronimo' when we jumped out of planes + that didn't offend me either."
TRUMP TO REPORTER: "You know the way it was asked -- I was looking at you!" REPORTER: "Sir, I wasn't here yesterday"
Trump labored for months to focus the race on Joe Biden's health. Now Trump, sick with coronavirus, is being airlifted to the hospital on live TV:
" and many other Republicans have become the president’s poodles, not because James Madison’s system has failed but because today’s abject careerists have failed to be worthy of it." -- George Will
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