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@WashingtonPost reporter who investigates policy, politics and public health. I always have time for a daylight saving story. Find me on Threads: ddiamond_dc
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I finally saw “Oppenheimer” and got so curious about Robert Downey Jr’s character — Lewis Strauss.
Who was this guy, really? I write about DC — why hadn’t I ever heard of his famous Senate hearing?
It sent me down what became a rabbit hole of Washington politics. Spoilers, obv.
Ah a history side to the multifacted
@ddiamond
. More please. (Like he has time.)
"Strauss’s rejection by the Senate... was only partly driven by his feud with Oppenheimer...shaped much more by presidential politics... journalists... vindictive senator"
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Washington Post’s weather reporters yesterday vs Donald Trump today.
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Trump, angry about LaVar Ball's comments, tweets that he "should have left" LiAngelo Ball in jail.
Stephen Colbert: “Mr Trump, I know you’re upset — but maybe now is not the time to imply that someone’s kids should go to jail for what their dad did.”
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BREAKING: Robert Redfield told staff to delete an email where Trump appointee attempted to assert control over CDC’s scientific reports, CDC official told Congress this week.
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Merrick Garland was nominated on March 16, 2016 — or 237 days before that year’s election. McConnell said that was too close to Election Day for Obama to pick and voters should decide.
Justice Kennedy announced his retirement today — 132 days before this year’s election.
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It's been four weeks since more than 500 people were shot by one man in Las Vegas. Congress has done nothing in response.
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Went to a Bat Mitzvah today, which was lovely.
But as it was starting, the rabbi took time — in a very measured voice — to point out all the exits, including the emergency exits, so people would know how to leave the synagogue if necessary.
That’s new.
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The bad optics that began Paul Ryan's town hall: Ex-Reagan campaign worker thanks Obamacare for saving his life.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump appointees interfered with CDC’s weekly reports on Covid-19 — and even tried to halt the reports altogether.
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Kimmel, crying, blasts plan to repeal ACA protections. "No parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their child's life."
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Blocked from White House media briefing
· CNN
· NY Times
· LA Times
· POLITICO
· BuzzFeed
Allowed to attend
· Breitbart
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1. Many GOP senators, home for recess, woke up today to front-page stories about the local damage their health bill would cause.
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Have seen a lot of debate already on “what will Collins and Murkowski do?”
Why is it only on two female senators to respond to sexual assault allegations?
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This is remarkable: NYU’s medical school is allowing students to graduate *now*, three months early, to become interns and join the fight against coronavirus. (Email via a tipster.)
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BREAKING:
@COVIDOversight
is issuing subpoenas to ALEX AZAR and ROBERT REDFIELD, ordering the two Trump appointees to produce “full and unredacted” documents on political interference at CDC within the next 10 days.
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Since the ACA passed
- the uninsured rate fell to 9 percent
- the Dow went up 10,000 points
- the U.S. private sector added 15.9M jobs
Pence: "Let me assure you, America’s Obamacare nightmare is about to end"
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When friends ask “how’s DC right now?”, will refer them to this totally normal announcement from the local bagel joint
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EIGHT YEARS AGO TODAY — Obama does 2-hour health care town hall in Ohio, takes questions and defends his plan.
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If Greg Gianforte is elected to Congress, I look forward to repeatedly asking him about the CBO score of the GOP health bill.
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It's been eight weeks since more than 500 people were killed or wounded by one gunman in Las Vegas. Congress has done nothing in response.
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At rowdy town hall, ex-teacher asks Chaffetz — chair of House oversight — “what’s your line in the sand” for Trump?
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The man leading "lock her up" chants in this video was being paid by a foreign govt while attending classified intelligence briefings.
After tonight's news that DOJ warned Trump that Flynn was compromised, his RNC speech plays a little differently.
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In presser, Trump says “we have a problem that a month ago nobody ever thought about.”
Trump was first briefed about coronavirus threat almost exactly two months ago today.
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What’s in Build Back Better for health care
- Capping insulin at $35/month
- Capping seniors’ out-of-pocket drug spending at $2,000/yr
- Medicare drug-price negotiations
- Expanding Medicare to cover hearing benefits
- Boosting ACA subsidies
- Closing Medicaid gap in 12 states
Final passage vote on BBB projected to be 9:30-10 pm tonight, per Dem sources. This is if everything goes right for Dems
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Oof. Jimmy Kimmel going in on conservatives who attacked him for his health care comments.
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Texas congressman — who criticized local officials for covid “fear mongering” two weeks ago — hasn’t tweeted about coronavirus in a week as Texas hospitals say they’re dangerously swamped.
This is such an irresponsible overstatement from our County Judge. Pure and simple fear mongering. It needs to stop. People have figured out what they need to do to remain safe. We have enormous hospital capacity. We can do this.
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Jason Aldean opens SNL with brief monologue on Las Vegas, launches into cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.”
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Mark Meadows today: “Nobody outside of the Beltway really cares” about Hatch Act.
Mark Meadows in 2014: Government attorney should be investigated for tweets supporting Democrats. “She actually violated the Hatch Act… it’s troubling.”
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The weirdest thing to me about the GOP bill isn't the timing or the secrecy. It's that no major org in health care thinks it's a good idea.
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PENCE was set to evacuate infected Americans from a cruise ship. Then TRUMP stepped in — worried how “the numbers” would look if more cases were documented on the mainland.
How Trump’s approach made the coronavirus crisis worse. NEW tonight, from me.
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It's been six weeks since more than 500 people were killed or wounded by one gunman in Las Vegas. Congress has done nothing in response.
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A lot of depressing news in the world, but awed by the science that took us from trials -> emergency use -> full approval of a life-saving vaccine in 16 months.
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1. That time a novice chief executive made a foolhardy promise, his erstwhile allies rushed to get it done—and it all fell apart in the end.
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In 2020,
@SenJoniErnst
warned about the “heartbreaking” consequences of high insulin costs and called on lawmakers to “come together” to lower them.
Ernst voted against the insulin copay cap today.
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Barring a surprise, 50% of U.S. adults will have gotten at least one shot of coronavirus vaccine by tomorrow.
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It's been 50 days since more than 500 people were killed or wounded by one gunman in Las Vegas. Congress has done nothing in response.
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Since the ACA was passed in March 2010, the U.S. private sector has gained 15M jobs and set a record for consecutive months of job growth.
ObamaCare is a job killer. We'll repeal ObamaCare once and for all & eliminate its mandates, taxes & intrusion into businesses & your lives.
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Man angrily tells MacArthur: "You have been the single greatest threat to my family." Says GOP bill was dead until MacArthur resurrected it.
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Trump tweets since election
- Blasting media: 12
- Blasting 'Hamilton': 4
- Blasting people committing hate crimes in his name: 0
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The first five executive orders signed by Obama vs the first five signed by Trump.
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The one tweet Obama sent a year ago vs the one tweet Trump sent today.
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The uninsured rate fell to a historic low and health spending grew at its slowest rate in 50 years.
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It’s been 100 days since more than five hundred people were killed or wounded by one gunman in Las Vegas, who was using bump stocks.
Congress has failed to pass any bill that would ban bump stocks.
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Where Senate GOP stands on tax bill
Ron Johnson: ❌
Steve Daines: ❌
Murkowski: 🤔
Lankford: ☹️
McCain: 🤔
Collins: 😡
Corker: ☹️
Moran: ☹️
Flake: ☹️
3 GOPers saying ❌ stops bill.
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JUST POSTED: Former presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton, Carter join ad campaign to win over vaccine skeptics.
“This vaccine means hope,” Obama says in one of the new ads going up today, part of
@AdCouncil
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The WaPo homepage right now reads like one of those “if-Trump-were-elected” mock pages from 2016.
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In the 2,683 days since ACA signed into law, Senate GOP has attacked process nonstop.
They introduced their own bill 2 hours before a vote.
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“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I said I was `Jew-ish.'”
George Santos, GOP congressman-elect, admits some lies and tries to spin others.
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Bernie Sanders spent more than 2 minutes of his Fox News town hall to defend Medicare for All and attack Trump’s Medicare plans — uninterrupted. Not sure I’ve seen that happen on Fox News before.
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June 28, 2012: ACA survives*, 5-4
June 25, 2015: ACA survives, 6-3
June 17, 2021: ACA survives, 7-2
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The front page of the NYT website — on day 1,000 of the Trump administration — reads like a parody prediction from 2016 of what Trump’s presidency would look like.
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EXCLUSIVE: White House national security officials prepared a “pandemic playbook” — a step-by-step guide to ensure testing, check on workers’ equipment, even consider the Defense Production Act.
The Trump administration ignored it. with
@nahaltoosi
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Private sector job growth, final tally…
Under W Bush: ↓ 396,000
Under Obama: ↑ 11,606,000
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How many new Twitter followers each candidate’s campaign account gained during tonight’s
#DemDebate
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@AndrewYang
+4767
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@amyklobuchar
+1982
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@BernieSanders
+1392
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@ewarren
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@joebiden
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@tomsteyer
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@PeteButtigieg
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“We want them infected.”
Trump appointee repeatedly urged top health officials to let millions of Americans contract Covid-19. His plan? “Herd immunity,” per a
@COVIDOversight
probe.
EXCLUSIVE:
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Cancer survivor — who relies on Planned Parenthood for care — asks Chaffetz: “Why are you trying to take [it] away?”
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Eight years ago today, right now: Obama was wrapping another town hall where he took questions on his health plan.
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SCOOP: Biden preparing to ask for Surgeon General JEROME ADAMS’ resignation, and may pick acting replacement as soon as today.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s $300M-plus ad blitz to “defeat despair” on coronavirus involves celebrities like Dennis Quaid — and contractors who are business associates of a top political appointee.
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With today’s exits, here’s an updated list of members of Trump’s manufacturing council.
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Sen. Susan Collins says she was thanked over and over again for opposing GOP health bill at today's parade.
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Mayo Clinic required universal masks, but let Pence meet patients without one.
Cleveland Clinic was supposed to enforce mask rules, but let the Trump family flout them.
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Italy reported 113 new coronavirus cases yesterday — total.
The United States reported nearly 35,000.
“Italy’s outbreak has dramatically ebbed from its mid-March peak, while America’s new per capita cases remain on par with Italy's worst day — and show signs of rising further.” Meaning Italy’s worst day is now a normal US day.
via
@politico
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As president, Trump has attacked Schwarzenegger's ratings twice — but said nothing about attack on Canadian mosque that left six dead.
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Kirsten Gillibrand's fierce defense of contraception coverage and other women's health protections under Obamacare.
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Senate confirms RACHEL LEVINE as assistant secretary for health in historic vote.
Levine is the first openly transgender official ever confirmed by the Senate.
All Democrats voted yes with GOP’s Collins, Murkowski joining them.
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8. There's been a lot of focus on what the media is, and isn't, covering. Credit to local press for using platform to spotlight real issues.
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VIDEO: In January, Pence scoffs at question about whether anyone in Trump campaign dealt with Russians. "Of course not." Blames questions in part on media bias.
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PENCE flouts Mayo Clinic policy that everyone on campus wear a mask, even as he meets with staff and a patient.
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Ran into a stone-faced
@RepCummings
, contemplating the day. "They take away coverage from 24 million…and they cheer," he said. "They cheer."
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Trump campaign managers since 2016
Corey Lewandowksi: arrested on misdemeanor battery charges (later dropped)
Paul Manafort: sentenced to prison
Steve Bannon: arrested on fraud charges
Kellyanne Conway: has covid
Brad Parscale: it’s complicated
Bill Stepien: has covid
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A new analysis found that 11% of veterans with Covid-19 died when they received standard care — but the death rate rose to 28% when they were also given hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug touted by Trump.
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Lead story on homepage
MSNBC: Health bill delayed
CNN: Time not on GOP's side
Fox News: Obamas take vacations
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GUS PERNA, the general running logistics for Operation Warp Speed, takes sole responsibility for a big problem with Pfizer vaccine rollout: states report they’re getting less than they were promised.
“It was my fault,” Perna says. “It was a planning error, and I am responsible.”
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This piece on Mark Zuckerberg’s flailing metaverse is filled with so many lines and scenes that made me laugh out loud. Just delightful writing.
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What Obama tweeted about a year ago versus what Trump tweets about now.
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It’s almost like — despite the best-laid plans — medical emergencies can be terrifying and unpredictable.
.
@RepPoliquin
(R-Maine) had to fly home 2day due to a family medical emergency. He is doing everything he can to get back for health vote
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BREAKING: The HHS inspector general says “thousands” more migrant children were likely separated by the Trump administration than previously known.
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Reminder that as US struggles to get sufficient coronavirus testing online, South Korea set up drive-thru testing clinics days ago.
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Macron to U.S. engineers and scientists: “Come and work here, with us.” Trump’s decision = France’s recruiting pitch
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Fascinating to discover so many new HIPAA experts, including those who don’t know how to spell it.
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SNL’s Colin Jost: “Let me say, it’s a thrill to be alive at a time when ‘PORN STAR BLACKMAILS PRESIDENT’ is the fourth biggest story of the week.”
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SCOOP: Biden will name prominent doctors like RICK BRIGHT, ATUL GAWANDE, LUCIANA BORIO and MICHAEL OSTERHOLM among his newest Covid-19 advisers on Monday, two people with knowledge of the announcement told POLITICO.
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