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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| The Eternal Sunshine of S.B.F. |
| Is Bankman-Fried’s unusual P.R. strategy a battle for marginal news consumers and a from-the-gut attempt at rehab, or a form of attention-hungry psychobabble? Some observations from our time together. Plus, news and notes on the political-big money business. |
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| Sam Bankman-Fried, ensconced and a little stir-crazy in his home on the Stanford University campus, has been doing a lot of writing recently, in part for his mental health. “You find it helpful to write things out,” he told me when I spent a few hours with him for my piece, The Only Living Boy in Palo Alto. But it was clear that he was also thinking about the meta-structure of his defense. One of my big takeaways from my time with Sam was just how... |
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| FOUR STORIES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT |
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| Feinstein Succession Dish |
| A conversation encircling the Feinstein question, D.N.C. convention ’Survivor,’ and more. |
| TARA PALMERI & PETER HAMBY |
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| Bejaria’s World Tour |
| The New Yorker’s Rachel Syme joins Matt to discuss her latest profile of the Netflix executive. |
| MATTHEW BELLONI |
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| Feeling the Vern |
| What does Vern Buchanan’s uncharacterstic explosion reveal about Kevin McCarthy? |
| TARA PALMERI |
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| McMahon’s Legal Stunner |
| Could a long-shot shareholder suit unwind his bid to reclaim the WWE chairmanship? |
| ERIQ GARDNER |
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