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Sep 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
For those asking “why Dennis Quaid?” – this is one reason why.
To fund the ad blitz, officials abruptly took $300 million from the CDC — mid-pandemic — with little explanation.

CDC experts were subsequently frozen out of the campaign’s development, despite the agency paying for it.
Meanwhile, HHS recommended that firms bidding to work on the campaign use a subcontractor called DD&T.

DD&T is run by the business partner of HHS’ top communications official.

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Oct 6
Forty years ago this week, an insurance salesman's debut novel began appearing on shelves around DC.

That book was THE HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER. It launched Tom Clancy's publishing empire — with a nudge from The Post.

Come with us on this deep dive…

washingtonpost.com/history/2024/1…
"RED OCTOBER" tells the story of an attempted defection in the Soviet navy. It captured the zeitgeist in '80s America.

It also was a deeply improbable success. The 37-year-old Clancy had barely any written works to his name. His publisher had never put out a novel before… Image
So where did Clancy get the idea?

Back in 1976, he’d seen a Post article about a real-life Soviet mutiny. Details were vague, so his imagination ran wild.

And as Clancy soaked up stories about the U.S. Navy — including from his insurance clients — a book began to take shape… Image
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Apr 23
Since the fall of Roe, hospitals have been turning away pregnant women who needed emergency abortions.

Now the Supreme Court will decide if the Biden admin has the power to penalize those hospitals.

Our primer on the case. With @amarimow @CAKitchener.

washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…
One example we found:

A pregnant woman arrived at a Florida hospital in Dec. 2022, five days after her water broke, pleading for treatment. She was sent home.

Federal officials concluded that the hospital put her life at risk.

Read the investigation: documentcloud.org/documents/2457…
Federal officials also warned that the Florida hospital — Memorial Regional — could be kicked out of Medicare for its failure to provide emergency treatment.

(Losing Medicare $$ would be a huge financial blow.)

Read the letter to the hospital CEO here: documentcloud.org/documents/2457…
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Mar 10
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.
I first started a couple weeks ago with (what I thought) was a simple question: could I find the room where Strauss faced his Senate panel?

I just wanted to stop by and see the real thing.

And it's clear from the hearing transcript where it really took place. But one problem... Image
“Room 5110, New Senate Office Building” is a combo that doesn’t exist anymore.

The building became Dirksen, so that was easy. But there are no four-digit room numbers.

And when I walked Dirksen’s halls and knocked on doors, folks were baffled. Then one made a suggestion… Image
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Jul 29, 2023
For two decades, PEPFAR has saved millions of lives around the world.

Now the HIV program faces a new threat: US abortion politics, mystifying and worrying global partners.

“Taking funding away… means death,” one HIV leader in Uganda told The Post.

washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07…
How did abortion ensare PEPFAR?

It started with Rep. CHRIS SMITH, a longtime PEPFAR champion who now claims its funds help support abortion abroad.

In a one-hour interview in his office yesterday, Smith said the global abortion fight took precedence over re-authorizing PEPFAR.
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The congressman’s claims have been embraced by antiabortion advocates, but denied by the Biden administration and condemned by HIV advocates and other lawmakers.

“It’s just dumbfounding,” said Children’s AIDS Fund co-founder.

“Absolute misinformation,” said @SenatorMenendez.
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Mar 13, 2023
Are you feeling groggy from “Spring Forward”?

Senators last year passed a bill that would've ended our clock changes… but it died in the House.

Now Congress is trying again.

I’ve been covering this debate for a year. Here’s what I’ve learned. (Thread)

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Americans have fought over time rules for most of our history.

First there was “sun time,” based on its position in the sky.

Then the railroads created our regional time zones. (Sparking conspiracies about “railroad time”…)

Finally Congress formalized time zones during WW1.
Congress has repeatedly adjusted U.S. time rules, including a 1973 law for permanent daylight time — which backfired and was quickly repealed

But Congress also succeeded at gradually lengthening daylight time in 1985 and 2005.

Now some lawmakers want to try permanent DST again.
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“Permanently suspended” user Matt Binder has found a loophole: he can talk (and is talking!) on this Twitter space, right now.

twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNxa…
Interesting conversation from media figures on Twitter’s sudden evolution

“Many of us on this chat have been in situations where people have posted pictures in real-time,” says @brianstelter - but unlike them, Musk has power to decide what’s a threat now

twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNxa…
Suspended colleague @drewharwell also is live (!) and chiming in “from beyond the grave.”

Drew: “This is an extremely weird experience because half of Twitter works and half of it doesn't … it's altogether not that different from a typical Twitter day.”

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