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TPM Reader MG remembers the frenzied and chaotic day San Franciscans descended on area grocery stores in historic panic …
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From TPM Reader KK …
My wife has Alzheimer’s disease, and is fairly far along in her journey with it. She’s lived in a memory care home for more than four years. My covid moment came almost exactly a year ago, when the evening of March 9 the director of her facility sent a note that included the following:
From TPM Reader FS …
Our COVID moment happened early Saturday morning with my mother-in-law’s passing. Her smoking, diabetes, obesity, age and chronic emphysema made her as high a risk of severe infection as you’d calculate. But her test was negative.
Where Things Stand: The GOP’s Alternate Universe
The House is set to vote on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill tomorrow, sending it to the President’s desk. The bill is stuffed with a litany of underreported positives for the progressive agenda — putting more than $7,000 into the pockets of the average family of four, reducing health care costs, and at least temporarily addressing child poverty.
Yet the Republican rhetoric surrounding the bill has become increasingly bizarre — perhaps that’s how you know it’s good.
Here’s part two of ex-President Trump’s cease and desist letter to GOP campaign committees, demanding they stop using his name and likeness in their fundraising appeals.
He didn’t start his own party, which is complicated to do and be competitive, but Trump is trying to set himself up as the place where money for Republicans should go as opposed to GOP committees pic.twitter.com/IPaiXTaIEy
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 9, 2021
Where Things Stand: America’s Rivals See A Weapon In Vaccine Hesitancy
Russian intelligence, it appears, are attempting to sow distrust in the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine in order to bolster the sale of its own supply.
According to a new Wall Street Journal report, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center has identified at least four publications that have been used as Russian intel fronts in the past that are publishing articles questioning the safety of the Pfizer vaccine and other Western vaccine companies. Read More
Leaving off the Trump Era we are now headlong into the Joe Manchin Tea Leaf Reading Era. But here from Manchin this morning we have yet more evidence that we’re not in Fiscal Policy Kansas anymore.
In addition to his tour of the Sunday shows yesterday, Manchin sat for an interview with Axios/HBO and Mike Allen. In it Manchin says he’s ready to back a big infrastructure bill – in the neighborhood of $2 to $4 trillion. But he’s got a big demand first.
His demand? He wants a higher corporate tax rate and a rollback of most of Trump’s tax cut. From Axios …
I feel sheepish admitting this. But after seeing Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) comments on the Sunday shows yesterday I felt pretty optimistic that this year might be significantly different than I’d anticipated and that the legislative possibilities are more expansive than I’d imagined. More than optimistic – I felt a hint of excitement. Yes, yes, there might as well be a bible verse that says ‘Put not your faith in Joe Manchin!’
But it’s not quite like that.