James Hohmann

James Hohmann @jameshohmann

The Baltimore News-Post headline over a 4-column photo of newborn Nancy at the top of A1: “It’s a Girl for the D’Alesandro’s." The Baltimore Sun's headline: “Tommy D’Alesandro Announces Another Sure Vote -- It’s a Girl.” Pearl Harbor came a year later. https://t.co/9EX0p83kkm — PolitiTweet.org

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On Nancy Pelosi's 80th birthday, it's fun to look at how her birth played in Baltimore's newspapers. The Baltimore Guide's headline was: “D’Alesandro Will Find New Boss in First Daughter." The story said: “We predict that this little lady will soon be a ‘Queen’ in her own right." — PolitiTweet.org

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Government experts warn of a second and third possible wave of coronavirus cases, as the health system struggles to cope with the first. More in the Daily 202: https://t.co/NbektUU8o6 — PolitiTweet.org

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* Cancer patients are much more at risk because our system is running low on blood. * Home health-care workers don't have supplies and training they need. * 140 nursing homes now have confirmed coronavirus cases, but the feds refuse to identify them. * Etc https://t.co/cw6UmLl53p — PolitiTweet.org

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Listen to my Big Idea podcast on the ways our health system is stretching past its breaking point: * Doctors debate DNR orders. * Some docs won't work w/o PPE. * A nurse dies at a NYC hospital w/o proper supplies. * Pentagon fails to use immigrant docs. https://t.co/cw6UmLl53p — PolitiTweet.org

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@kristin__wilson These are all fun, but Boozman is my favorite I think. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mateagold: Two Grand Princess passengers die from coronavirus, officials say Via @markberman https://t.co/EKeUjZrGYC — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mikedebonis: The disparity was NOT addressed in most recent draft I've seen. https://t.co/Rj1zv1CgFO — PolitiTweet.org

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D.C. could get screwed in the federal coronavirus stimulus bill. A draft treats the District as a U.S. territory, not a state, despite the 1,000 confirmed cases in the region. @jennaportnoy has more: https://t.co/skEzvHnWqW — PolitiTweet.org

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Some health care workers are pushing back against orders to work WITHOUT adequate safety protection. But they face peer pressure to work anyway, as well as discipline from superiors. The latest from @LennyMBernstein and @arianaeunjung: https://t.co/jdNKRxf02I — PolitiTweet.org

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So many tragedies: A 34-year-old nurse working in the intensive care unit at an Italian hospital near Milan committed suicide. The woman had contracted the coronavirus and “had been living with heavy stress out of the fear of having infected others.” https://t.co/LVlwrViDbQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@jdelreal Yum — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cjciaramella: The Senate bill would give Bureau of Prisons more discretion to move inmates into home confinement during an emergency:… — PolitiTweet.org

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@boblazaro Thanks Bob. This is a helpful visualization. Nice to hear from you. Hope you and your family are staying safe in Loudoun. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @boblazaro: @jameshohmann Our regional demographer has put together a map and dashboard tracking real time coronavirus cases in the regi… — PolitiTweet.org

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@theCara I canceled my (already overdue) haircut early last week. Feel like it's going to get much more overgrown than that when all is said and done. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @roseperson: (April 24 is... after Easter) https://t.co/vyO2ZhMy6d — PolitiTweet.org

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Politico has just posted a PDF of the 883-page text of the Senate stimulus bill here: https://t.co/2GzMKfUBZ9. Shout if anything really jumps out at you. — PolitiTweet.org

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Our tally of coronavirus cases in the Washington region climbed past 1,000 today as Maryland, Virginia & the District each reported their largest single-day increases. Maryland announced 74 new cases, bringing the total to 424. Virginia reported 101 new cases, for a total of 392. — PolitiTweet.org

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Effective at 10 pm tonight, all nonessential businesses in DC must close. Including barbershops, clothing stores and door to door solicitations. BUT the District’s grocery stores, pharmacies and home goods stores will remain open. So nothing is really changing. — PolitiTweet.org

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All mobile phones in DC just received this alert. The mayor says she’s not issuing a shelter-in-place directive and that residents can leave their homes for essential trips. Cops won’t stop people walking down the street, she says, but may disperse groups playing basketball. 🦠😷 https://t.co/mdD2IuegH5 — PolitiTweet.org

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"I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all -- Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name. — PolitiTweet.org

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"That's my middle-west -- not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. — PolitiTweet.org

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As a proud Midwesterner, this paragraph from "Gatsby" has always spoken to me. It resonates because it fits with my experience growing up in Apple Valley and then settling on the East Coast. F. Scott Fitzgerald was also a native Minnesotan who went East. Here's the paragraph: — PolitiTweet.org

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Point of personal privilege: Before Trump referred to the Midwest as "the middle west" during tonight's briefing, the last time I remember someone calling it that was Nick Carraway as he described his upbringing in "The Great Gatsby." I just found it in my hard copy of "Gatsby." — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone has a newsletter and a podcast these days... 🤔 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @brianschatz: Right. So the worst case scenario is literally what the President suggests we do. Got it. Very cool. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dr. Birx accuses some of the scientific models for coronavirus infections/deaths of being overly alarmist and needlessly frightening the American people. She says the worst-case scenarios assume no controls or containment efforts, and she notes that people are distancing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dr. Debbie Birx makes an important point: We don't just need ventilators. We need people who know how to use them, as well. And Dr. Birx notes that the national stoppage on elective surgeries frees up both ventilators and operators. — PolitiTweet.org