IF ALL GOES AS PLANNED, by Thursday early morning, the HOME will be voting on the half-trillion-dollar coronavirus relief bill that just passed the Senate, readying it for a journey to the White Home for President DONALD TRUMP’S signature. Toplines … Crosstabs
SILVER LINING … AP: “As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner,” by Seth Borenstein: “An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth.
TAKING PLACE TODAY: ANNA and JAKE will talk with previous Secretary of State JOHN KERRY about his push on climate change, the 2020 project and the U.S. reaction to the coronavirus at 4 p.m. Register
— NEW: Maryland Gov. LARRY HOGAN will join us Thursday at 9 a.m. for a virtual Playbook Interview about the behind-the-scenes efforts that protected 500,000 coronavirus screening kits for Maryland, what it will take to resume the state economy and how guvs are attempting to team up with the White House on the pandemic action.
ICYMI– “Trump’s immigration time out falls well short of complete restriction,” by Anita Kumar
FOR THE RECORD– “Coronavirus Death in California Came Weeks Prior To First Understood U.S. Death,” by NYT’s Thomas Fuller and Mike Baker: “Authorities in Santa Clara County, Calif., revealed late Tuesday that two locals there died of the coronavirus in early and mid-February, making them the earliest recognized victims of the pandemic in the United States. Stat
VALLEY TALK– ANNA spoke with Facebook VP FIDJI SIMO in the latest Females Guideline podcast about the business’s choice to obstruct anti-quarantine activists from preparing in-person demonstrations, how Facebook has actually changed its game plan and much more. Listen and subscribe
MEDIAWATCH– “Netflix Adds 16 Million New Customers as Homebound Consumers Stream Away,” by WSJ’s Joe Flint and Micah Maidenberg
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… Nick Corasaniti, Reid Epstein and Kate Goodloe, Ali Vitali and Jeremy Diamond, Ali Watkins, Kevin Draper, DJ Judd, Dorey Scheimer, Erin Lee Carr, Priyanka Aribindi, Rachael Klarman, Kaye Foley, Sean Gallitz, Megan McKinley, Priya Desai, Sattik and Erica Deb, Ron Deborah, and Atish and Sima Sarkar. … Comms firm Portland has actually worked with Meghan Powers as VP and Jamie Enright as supervisor. (h/t Brooke Starr) … The New Yorker’s Erica Hinsley … Patrick Rucker … Larry Brady … Dahlia Lithwick … Ozy’s Daniel Malloy …
… Bob Reid, senior managing editor at Stars and Stripes … Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Blend GPS, is 56 (h/t Tim Burger) … Krista Jenusaitis Zuzenak … Marisa (Medrano) Perez … Accuracy Techniques’ Allie Peck (h/t Miranda Margowsky) … McKinsey’s Elizabeth Anderson Ledet … Allegra Kirkland … Isabella Gomez Torres … Allison Ehrich Bernstein (h/t Jon Haber) … Seth Samuels, co-founder and CEO of the Material Lab … Brian Forde is 4-0 … Rick Dykema … Anastasia Dellaccio … Josh Dorner, managing director at SKDKnickerbocker … WaPo’s Eugene Scott … Nicole Bamber … Allie Medack … Maureen Mooney … Christopher Jennison … Evan Quinnell … Mark Braden … Doug Lowenstein … NYT’s Elisabeth Goodridge … Adele M. Stan … Walter Fields is 6-0 … Evan Dobelle … Lisa Allison … Kyle Osborne … Yasmina Vinci … Andrea Clarke … Britt Cocanour … Andrea LaRue … Chung Seto (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
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