Victoria McGrane
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politics editor @BostonGlobe she/her/hers gonna try to spend more time elsewhere look for me @vgmac.bsky.social. DMs open.
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Joined July 2009
There's been a lot of layoffs in recent weeks. Putting out there that the @BostonGlobe -- which is profitable and growing and also a super fun place to work -- is hiring for a number of positions.
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.@joekennedy will decide whether to challenge @EdMarkey for Senate in the coming weeks, a person close to him said, confirming @jmartNYT scoop. Heir to the most famous US political dynasty is giving it serious consideration. With @jessbidgood #mapoli .
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@NormOrnstein . @ewarren asking what feds did with 3m masks they commandeered from Mass. No answer yet, I’m told.
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Funny cause the sky-high cost of college and the debt it saddles young adults with is one reason for declining birth rates.
Declining birthrate means hard times ahead for colleges
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SHE RUNNING.SERIOUSLY.@elizabethforma just now: "After Nov. 6 I will take a hard look at runing for president," and she got a standing ovation.
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an Orwellian, and yet true, sentence.
Breaking: Stephanie Grisham is out as WH press secretary. She is leaving the job without ever having briefed the press.
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Somewhere in Fall River @joekennedy is worrying he over hydrated having misjudged how long @realDonaldTrump would talk.
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.@elizabethforma links her announcement to the #Kavanaugh hearings. "I watched powerful men helping a powerful man make it to an even more powerful position." . She said its time "for women to go to Washington fix our broken government and that includes a woman at the top.".
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“If I was a man then I’d be the Man… it’s okay that I’m mad.”. God I love Taylor Swift.
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“Kamala Harris can’t be bought – and she can’t be bossed around,” @ewarren says, a reference to Shirley Chisolm’s campaign slogan “unbought and unbossed” from her trailblazing 1972 presidential campaign. #DNC2024.
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. @ewarren and @AyannaPressley have teamed up to press Biden to cancel up to $50k in federal student loan debt per borrower. It’s an early look at how they and other progressives intend to push Biden left.
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Some personal news, as they say. After a filling in as an editor the past couple months, it turns out I like it. Starting today, I am going to be doing it full-time -- as deputy metro editor for @BostonGlobe. really excited to work with @AnicaButler and the whole team!.
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There may only be five of us in the @BostonGlobe newsroom for election night but we still got pizza #bosmayor #bospoli
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🚨 BREAKING🚨.@joekennedy campaign.has self-reported a campaign finance violation to FEC in which his campaign spent $1.5 million of general election funds in final weeks of primary #masen.
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Kennedy calls on Beacon Hill to pass vote-by-mail law - The Boston Globe
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Some personal news, as they say. I have been named the metro politics editor at @BostonGlobe! Among other things, I'll be coordinating our 2024 NH primary coverage, working with our amazing DC buro (❤️) and new NH buro. I am super excited.
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yes Jesus was famous for his gun-toting ways.
#SCOTUS gets it right!. 2A is a God-given right, not a privilege granted by the government!. The government can never take away what they could never give!
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This is not something to brag about!.
The vaccines are being delivered to the states by the Federal Government far faster than they can be administered!.
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“I plan to use that anger. And here’s how. Tick tock, tick tock. 38 days until the midterms… and I am in this fight all the way” to take back the house and senate, says @elizabethforma.
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it has come to my attention that some non-MA reporters who care about certain races in our Commonwealth have griped about @BostonGlobe paywall. We subscribe to your papers. You can subscribe to ours and support the local journalism that informs your work. #mapoli.
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That sound you hear is hundreds of reporters pitching editors on-the-ground Hawaii reaction pieces to Sessions' comment.
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I dunno man, if your CEO is personally tracking down and threatening people who criticize your brand on Instagram, your brand may have a problem. Your CHILDRENS CLOTHING BRAND in particular .
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Kraft family used Patriots team plane to shuttle protective masks from China to Boston
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One person put it plainly: “The island is being harassed for being kind?”. via @brittbowker.
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Me: I DONT CARE WHAT THE AP STYLEBOOK PEOPLE SAY, 'OVER' IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR 'MORE THAN' WHEN TALKING ABOUT QUANTITIES. My reporters:
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Twitter is still probably going down like the titanic but I’m glad we had one last election night.
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Cuomo jumps back in to talk about "fairness" re McConnell. New York state puts in $116bn more to federal coffers than it takes out whereas Kentucky takes out $148bn more than they put in. "Sen. McConnell, who's getting bailed out here?".
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American exceptionalism FTW.
NEWS: At a dinner for NATO foreign ministers Tuesday, at least four FMs aired concerns about the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to one of the only two Americans in the room, in the latest show of European doubts about U.S. reliability.
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Here is a picture of @AyannaPressley holding an adorable baby she met after getting off the No.1 bus, which she rode Wednesday to celebrate the 1 yr anniversary of her upset primary win. Here’s my story about that ride: #mapoli
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I think its official. I am joining @BostonGlobe state house bureau this week. But I reserve the right to continue tweeting about DC, fin reg and the Fed in addition to my newly required focus on Dunkin Donuts and the Red Sox.
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“It’s about an equitable economic recovery,” @AyannaPressley said, pointing to data that show Black and brown borrowers suffer a disproportionate amount of harm in the student debt crisis.
“It would open up more opportunities for more Americans than any single act the president could take,” @ewarren said.
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3 yo made up a song about working this morning. "Type, Type! call, call! Type, type. Call, call.". Honestly a pretty decent summary of journalism.
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Corker is one of the Republicans who has said he wishes trump would stop tweeting
Just informed Senate Foreign Relations Chair Corker of what Trump tweeted about Qatar and was met with about 8 seconds of stunned silence.
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I'm old enough to remember when they arrested and charged a Code Pink protestor for LAUGHING during Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing.
Exclusive: Justice Department, FBI debate not charging some of the roughly 800 Capitol rioters in cases where no link seen to violence
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These have got to be the dumbest arguments against Netflix's new policy. Not fair to babies?!?. http://t.co/vAHvRpRGgy
http://t.co/qH1MO5r2In.
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This story was broken by and continues to be owned by @lauracrimaldi of @BostonGlobe. I recommend you read her coverage to get a full sense of the horror.
This is an unusually depraved crime that goes far beyond a single perpetrator and this one story doesn’t really cover it, but the linked and related stories that show up on the page start to.
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Collins says it’s time for GOP, Democrats to work together on health bill,. rejects Cruz amendment. .
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"It rocks my confidence in the court right now.".
Sen Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) doesn’t like where this court is headed ===>
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"We will out-legislate their hate," @AyannaPressley says of Republican abortion foes.
"Roe will be on the ballot in 2024," says Elizabeth Warren. She tells Mass. voters to "get mad, stay mad, channel your anger" into helping elect democrats in 2024. #mapoli.
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@chrislhayes I was writing about what would become Dodd-Frank on the house side and no one cared because health care!.
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Elizabeth Warren’s oldest brother dies of coronavirus in Oklahoma
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women, we get the job done.
Just saw a woman outside a coffee shop appear to take off her bra and fashion it as a makeshift mask.
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Given the nightmare this year has been can we just cancel daylight savings, just this once?.
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My 92 yo grandmother is scheduled to get the Moderna vaccine at her assisted living home this week and I could cry from joy. What a blessing at the end of this horrible year.
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I'm running for mayor on a platform of timely election results.
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"Not in America," @LindseyGrahamSC says of @PressSec saying it is inappropriate for press to question a 4-start general, WH COS Kelly.
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Update: Top aide resigns amid criticism over Seth Moulton’s comments on trans athletes
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@maggieNYT didn’t he say trump said it’s be good to know if some of his people did bad stuff but hey tell the world I’m not under scrutiny.
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"We are not going away. There's going to be more power in the hands of women in this country," says @RepJayapal to Yoho and GOP following up on @AOC.
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Florida prosecutors say they will release spa video in Robert Kraft case, despite challenges
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No, and I mean no, mbta experience has been smoother than the Taylor Swift train loading .Put women in sequins in charge of everything.
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“I’m so mad at the Republican Party. I’m so mad,” said one once-loyal GOP woman. She's now a registered independent.
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Rob Portman came as close as a person can get to running without running away from reporters just now.
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Periodic reminder, apropos of nothing in particular, that the Mass. home rule petition practice is an outlier nationally and no other major city has to beg its legislature to sign off on big and small policy decisions like Boston does.
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Whatever the outcome in various races, the fact that Massachusetts holds its primary in Sept. -- and the day after Labor Day this year?! -- is bonkers.
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So now cbo def has time to score the Cruz amendment right?
McConnell: Senate to 'defer' on Obamacare repeal vote
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And now @BeccaRauschMA has introduced legislation to make mail-in voting permanent AND establish election day as a holiday AND move the MA primary to June -- which again sounds like a sensible idea unless you want to do everything you can to protect incumbents . .
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Female questioner says to @BernieSanders "nobody here believes you told Elizabeth warren that a woman couldn't be president.".
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This RT is an endorsement.
PUT AN EM DASH KEY ON NORMAL KEYBOARDS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
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"Fiscal irresponsibility run amok"
In 2009, Tom Price posted this clip of himself railing against govt private jet $ in name of fiscal responsibility
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Reading @BostonGlobe at this scary fast-moving time is a reminder of how vital local and regional reporting is. The New York Times, god bless em, isn’t going to give Massachusetts residents the information about their own communities we all need and want right now.
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I'll be honest, I preferred re-litigate the Civil War twitter to re-litigate 2016 twitter.
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Not everyone thinks it’s a great idea, including Barney Frank.
.@joekennedy will decide whether to challenge @EdMarkey for Senate in the coming weeks, a person close to him said, confirming @jmartNYT scoop. Heir to the most famous US political dynasty is giving it serious consideration. With @jessbidgood #mapoli .
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Today I learned that the worst part of having kids is that you not only get sh*t from your OWN dentist about not flossing enough, now you get it from your kids' dentist too. YOU try getting a 3 year old to floss, dentist lady.
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I'm so old my first job as reporter in New Hampshire I routinely used a ROAD ATLAS to get to all the random towns I covered.
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Amazing.
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We are asking @BostonGlobe management for fairness, respect, and basic protections. We make the Boston Globe strong.
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Cause we wear our masks. Mass. now has the lowest coronavirus transmission rate in the country, website reports via @BostonGlobe.
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Daughter (5) said it was pirate day at school. I drew a (really bad) skull and cross bones on her cheek with brown eyeliner in a desperate attempt to give her something pirate-themed. Dear Reader, Pirate Day is Thursday, not today.
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Secy of Commonwealth Galvin proposing legislation to make vote-by-mail permanent and offer same day registration (!). I would *think* this would be popular, but also will be curious to see how received by Legislature, which is above all else focused on getting itself re-elected.
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