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Greetings, and welcome back to The Stratosphere. We’ve got a cornucopia of news nuggets in today’s edition, from the serious to the fun, including some behind-the-scenes donor wrangling between Katie Porter and Adam Schiff and new, must-credit, exclusive information on Sam Bankman-Fried’s dog.
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Greetings, and welcome back to The Stratosphere. There are a lot of new faces here—so a reminder that if you’re new to Puck, you can subscribe for one price and enjoy an all-you-can-eat-buffet of my fellow authors including Julia Ioffe, Bill Cohan and Peter Hamby.

We’ve got a cornucopia of news nuggets in today’s edition, from the serious to the fun, including some behind-the-scenes donor wrangling between Katie Porter and Adam Schiff and new, must-credit, exclusive information on Sam Bankman-Fried’s dog.

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