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To borrow from Billy Joel, it’s just a matter of (anti)trust: |
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© Giphy --> https://bit.ly/3d7EQMH ;) The House Judiciary Committee is marking up bipartisan antitrust legislation today to rein in big tech companies. The big tech companies this legislation targets: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — GAFA, if you will. Hearing livestream: https://bit.ly/3qkXYMB Read the opening statements: Via CNBC: https://cnb.cx/3zOCfkH Tech groups — Hold up, hold up: Tech industry groups, major tech companies and centrist Democrats pushed for the bill markup to be postponed. Why: For more time to look into the proposals. https://bit.ly/3xMmR6o |
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| ‘TECH GIANTS, FEARFUL OF PROPOSALS TO CURB THEM, BLITZ WASHINGTON WITH LOBBYING’: |
| Via The New York Times’s Cecilia King, David McCabe and Kenneth P. Vogel: https://nyti.ms/3j5FrlX |
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| It’s Wednesday. I’m Cate Martel with a quick recap of the morning and what’s coming up. Send comments, story ideas and events for our radar to cmartel@thehill.com — and follow along on Twitter @CateMartel and Facebook. Did someone forward this to you? Want your own copy? Sign up here to receive The Hill's 12:30 Report in your inbox daily: http://bit.ly/2kjMNnn REST IN PEACE TO OUR COLLEAGUE: We have some very sad news to report. The Hill’s media reporter, Thomas Moore, died suddenly earlier this week. He was a very hard worker, and we will really miss him. From The Hill’s Steve Clemons: “Very sad news that @thehill and I lost an excellent and hardworking colleague @thdomo Thomas Moore. I will miss him. Life is fragile. Hug your loved ones. Will miss you Thomas. RIP.” https://bit.ly/3zOhhSR From @fontbandit: “Thomas Moore loved music and reporting, and we talked guitars as much as we talked business. He was one of the best.” From The Hill’s Zack Budryk: “Our media reporter @thdomo died suddenly yesterday. He was hired during [work from home] so we just met in person on Thursday, but he was always friendly and helpful and loved what he did.” https://bit.ly/2T1YV02 |
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The internet has changed a lot since 1996 — internet regulations should too |
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It's been 25 years since comprehensive internet regulations passed. See why we support updated regulations on key issues, including: - Protecting people's privacy
- Enabling safe and easy data portability between platforms
- Preventing election interference
- Reforming Section 230 
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This court case sounds like a Goosebumps book title: ‘The Case of the Cursing Cheerleader’
I’m gonna need a dark room, a flashlight under my chin and a creepy voice. Oh, and I may need a bonfire! Oh, and a group of easily frightened preteens: |
| “The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with a teen student who claimed her school district violated the First Amendment by punishing her for a profanity-laced social media post she sent while away from school grounds.” https://bit.ly/3d7ntf8 I know, I know — you’re going to want to hear more to the story?: Basically, a girl tried out for her high school’s varsity cheerleading squad. She instead made junior varsity and posted an angry Snapchat with the caption, “f*** school f*** softball f*** cheer f*** everything.” Her school removed her from the cheerleading team, and her dad then filed a lawsuit, arguing that her post was protected by First Amendment rights. The full story from Vox: https://bit.ly/2SR7JWQ |
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| REACTIONS THAT MADE ME LAUGH: |
| From Bloomberg’s Ryan Teague Beckwith: “Cheerleaders everywhere today: ‘F*** yeah!’” https://bit.ly/3d6NsDf If you’ve seen Bring It On, you will appreciate this line: “So I guess it *is* a democracy, not a cheerocracy.” (Via CBS News’s Grace Segers) https://bit.ly/3gWKaDZ |
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Police, you may not enter: |
| Via The Hill’s John Kruzel, “The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to grant police more authority to enter the home of a fleeing suspect following a minor offense.” https://bit.ly/3j6bnH1 Details: “The unanimous ruling preserves a legal test that involves weighing the circumstances of a warrantless search to determine its lawfulness under the Fourth Amendment.” |
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^ Speaking of F-words, you may want to bleep out the word ‘filibuster’ if you’re talking to any Washington Democrats today: |
| Via The Hill’s Jordain Carney, “Democrats are confronting the reality that absent any seismic shifts, their top agenda items face long, if not impossible, odds in the Senate amid growing frustration with the legislative filibuster.” https://bit.ly/3xNQq7U Why now?: “After achieving a unified government for the first time since 2010, Democrats pledged to go ‘big’ and ‘bold’ after four years of the Trump administration. But they are watching as their wish list of bills runs straight into a familiar buzzsaw: the Senate’s own rulebook.” How the fight over the f***b***** isn’t over: https://bit.ly/3xNQq7U |
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| MEANWHILE — HERE’S WHERE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TALKS STAND: |
| Not many developments. “A busy afternoon of meetings between senior White House officials and Senate moderates failed to achieve a breakthrough Tuesday after senior Biden advisers made it clear they do not support several of the senators’ strategies for paying for new infrastructure investment.” https://bit.ly/3zTAWke |
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| LATEST WITH THE CORONAVIRUS | |
What, having small children didn’t sound appealing in the past year??: |
| Via The Hill’s Reid Wilson, “The number of American women who gave birth last year fell precipitously over 2019, as provisional government data shows a national baby bust getting worse during the coronavirus pandemic.” https://bit.ly/3xMHT52 How steeply did the birth rate drop: It dropped 4 percent from 2019 to 2020. That’s the steepest drop in 50 years. Read the full report from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): https://bit.ly/3d9dG8q |
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| CASE NUMBERS: |
| Coronavirus cases in the U.S.: 33,566,472 U.S. death toll: 602,476 Breakdown of the numbers: https://cnn.it/2UAgW3y |
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| VACCINATION NUMBERS: |
| Total number of vaccinations administered in the U.S.: 319 million shots have been given. Seven-day average of doses administered: An average of 1.05 million doses For context: The U.S. population is roughly 331 million. Breakdown of the numbers: https://bloom.bg/3iVTPLH |
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Why Facebook supports updated internet regulations |
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2021 is the 25th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the last major update to internet regulation. It's time for an update to set clear rules for addressing today's toughest challenges. See how we're taking action on key issues and why we support updated internet regulations. |
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Hey, remember that time that everyone overhyped Andrew Yang and then he came in fourth?: |
| Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is leading in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, with 82 percent precincts reporting. You mean the race that we only really heard about Andrew Yang?: Yup, that one! Former presidential candidate Yang came in a distant fourth place and was the first to drop out last night. The current primary results: https://nyti.ms/3gWnNhJ 1) Eric Adams with 31.7 percent 2) Maya Wiley with 22.3 percent 3) Kathryn Garcia with 19.5 percent 4) Andrew Yang with 11.7 percent Full breakdown of the race from The New York Times’s Katie Glueck: https://nyti.ms/3j60AfZ |
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If you’ve seen the Britney Spears documentary: |
| Via NBC’s Doha Madani and Diana Dasrath, “Britney Spears is expected to make a rare statement to the court Wednesday in her yearslong conservatorship case, with fans standing by with rapt attention in hopes to more clearly understand the singer's feelings about her father's control over her life.” What to know: https://nbcnews.to/3zNJc5s |
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Wow, great work everyone. A+: |
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Getting traction: |
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© Twitter If you’re a little confused about the caption: It’s quoting a viral video of a man getting heated over whether Glinda The Good Witch is a princess. Watch: https://bit.ly/3zM8vFb |
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Also getting traction: |
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| The House and Senate are in. President Biden and Vice President Harris are in Washington, D.C. 9:50 a.m. EDT: President Biden and Vice President Harris received the President’s Daily Brief. Noon: Vice President Harris holds a listening session on voting rights. 12:45 p.m. EDT: President Biden has lunch with Vice President Harris. 1:15 p.m. EDT: First votes in the House. The House’s full agenda today: https://bit.ly/3vQl2nu 2 p.m. EDT: The Senate meets. 2:15 p.m. EDT: President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland hold a meeting keeping cities and neighborhoods safe. 4 p.m. EDT: Vice President Harris holds a roundtable marking LGBTQ Pride Month. 4:30 p.m. EDT: Last votes in the House. |
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| 11 a.m. EDT: President Biden spoke at the funeral of the late Sen. John Warner (R-Va.). Livestream: https://bit.ly/2SWTrnr 12:45 p.m. EDT: White House press secretary Jen Psaki hold a press briefing. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3xIgYXW 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday: The Hill is hosting a virtual event, “America's Unfinished Business: An LGBTQ+ Summit.” Speakers and how to RSVP: https://bit.ly/3jbmJJV 3:30 p.m. EDT: President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland deliver remarks on preventing gun-related crimes. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3gUGGSl |
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| Today is National Pecan Sandies Day. |
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Well, hello there, Mr. Toast. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance.: |
| This tweet has nearly 60k likes since yesterday. 
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| And because you made it this far, here’s a rather interesting complication with trying to fill the kiddie pool: https://bit.ly/2SY9EJ4 |
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