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Avatars: Sameroff (photo, red status dot), Mearhoff (photo, grey x status).", "messages": [ { "n": 1, "date_separator": null, "sender": null, "time": null, "text": "I say yes!", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "No name/time header visible (cut above); continuation bubble of a sender whose header is above the top edge." }, { "n": 2, "date_separator": null, "sender": null, "time": null, "text": "That order of ops sounds good to me! I can shoot Amanda a text to let her know it's coming but I'd hazard to guess we can expect their green light tomorrow AM", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ‘", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation bubble (no header). Begins with a quoted-reply box (grey, left bar) showing the quoted message; the quote is truncated by Teams with '...'. 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Sarah launch thru networks..." } }, { "n": 3, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/20 4:46 PM", "text": "left one question! then clean to launch!", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 4, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/20 4:47 PM", "text": "Am I sending the source page to the 5th floor, too or will we be polishing that bad boy up tomorrow AM?", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 5, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/20 4:47 PM", "text": "Nah jsut say we have it to ship", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 6, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": null, "text": "did i accidentally combine 2 paragraphs? I'll make a ocmeent where Im talking about", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation under the 4:47 PM header." }, { "n": 7, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/20 4:53 PM", "text": "OK IM DONT TINKERING!", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Text fully visible; the bubble's bottom edge and the avatar are clipped by the image edge." } ] }, { "file": "image17.png", "source": "docx-media", "header": "", "owner_hint": "No right-aligned (account-owner) bubbles.", "top_cut": true, "bottom_cut": true, "notes": "This image was embedded twice in the Word file (two identical references to image17.png); transcribed once here. 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Something like that? (I felt like we had to say that that # is somewhere! Very open to improvements/alternatives!)", "edited": true, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation. 'Edited' label shown above the bubble. The words 'would have' are italicized on screen." }, { "n": 9, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": "10/20 5:15 PM", "text": "", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Only the name/time header and the top edge of the bubble are visible; the message body is below the bottom edge. 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I wanted to check in on the \"source\" page. Feldman, Jake & Co, what can I do to help get that ready for launch? Bill called me this morning very eager to get this out the door and has nudged the 5th floor for their approval ASAP.", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "'Feldman, Jake' is rendered in blue as an @mention.", "mentions": [ "Feldman, Jake" ] }, { "n": 4, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/21 9:22 AM", "text": "Hey I chatted off-line with Jake and Kate a bit about this yesterday. I think we should send the very basic top Sec. stuff along with the op Ed if appropriate. Pretty dreamy to have a media guide to advance to others but I don't think we can prioritize it with everything going on today and me being out-of-pocket.", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 5, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": null, "text": "That 57k stuff is pretty bonkers complicated so we may just have to rest on our authority as tax experts!", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation. 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The income thresholds are used to identify the groups referenced in the op-ed.\n\nThe shares of income tax paid by the top 1%, top 10%, and bottom 50% are calculated by comparing the total income tax attributable to each group with total Vermont resident income tax collections represented in the data.\nNote that Tax Year 2024 is the most recent tax year for which complete data is available. Filing for Tax Year 2025 concluded on October 15, 2026.", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ‘", "count": null } ], "attachments": [ { "type": "link", "name": "https://tax.vermont.gov/data-and-statistics/income-tax", "location": null } ], "notes": "Bold on screen: 'Source:', 'Data and methodology:', and the final two lines 'Note that Tax Year 2024 ... October 15, 2026.' The URL is a blue hyperlink. Header partly clipped at the top edge." }, { "n": 2, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": "10/21 9:28 AM", "text": "The last sentence we can drop, I think, because it makes it sound like we have 2025 (since it's 10/21 now) when in reality they are not all posted", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ‘", "count": 3 } ], "attachments": [], "notes": null } ] }, { "file": "image20.png", "source": "docx-media", "header": "", "owner_hint": "No right-aligned (account-owner) bubbles.", "top_cut": false, "bottom_cut": true, "notes": null, "messages": [ { "n": 1, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/21 9:30 AM", "text": "I also have news that will likely be unwelcome. Digger's word count limit for op-eds is indeed 850. But I was compiling a list of other outlets to whom to send this this morning and several cut it off at 800 words.\n\nI say we send the full kit n kaboodle to Digger because they're the gold standard. I also know that they are the pickiest -- and often longest -- to get op eds published. Bill has been adamant that he wants me to blast this thing out to as many outlets as possible. I can take a spin through our latest version and try to identify trims that we can make for a shorter, 800-word version to send to those other outlets.", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 2, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/21 9:37 AM", "text": "Oof", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 3, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/21 9:46 AM", "text": "Shouldice 'wealth tax' op ed TRUNCATED Oct 2026", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [ { "type": "file_card", "name": "Shouldice 'wealth tax' op ed...", "location": "TAX-POLA > General", "link_text": "Shouldice 'wealth tax' op ed TRUNCATED Oct 2026", "icon": "Word (W)", "preview_text": "Before the state of Vermont claims the 1%'s \"$57,000 tax cut,\" let's make sure it exists\nBy Bill Shouldice, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Taxes\nWith election season here, taxes are all over the news and social media and sometimes it's hard to know what's accurate. Recently, I've gotten into work in the morning all fired up about something I saw online โ€” so I ask the experts on my staff at the Department of Taxes what they make of it. Most of the time, their answer is a polite version of, \"That's total garbage, Bill, and you really need to stop looking at Facebook so much.\" But when a claim shows up often enough, in enough places, it starts to feel true. That's exactly when it's worth slowing down and fact-checking.\nSince Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA, in 2025, I've seen lots of posts [cut at card bottom]" } ], "notes": "Message body is a blue underlined file link followed by a Word file card (share and '...' icons) with a document preview; the preview is cut at the image bottom. 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I'm not happy about having to trim anything but as the saying goes in the news biz, sometimes you have to kill your darlings", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ˜†", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation (no header). Reaction: grinning squinting face." }, { "n": 3, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": "10/21 9:50 AM", "text": "You get rid of my darling $10M factoid!", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ’ฏ", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 4, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/21 9:50 AM", "text": "It's such a darling factoid!!!!!!", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 5, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": null, "text": "๐Ÿ”ช", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation rendered as a single large emoji with no bubble (kitchen knife)." }, { "n": 6, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": null, "text": "โœ‚๏ธ", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation rendered as a single large emoji with no bubble (scissors)." }, { "n": 7, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": null, "text": "๐Ÿ’ฃ", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ˜†", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation rendered as a single large emoji with no bubble (bomb). The three stacked emojis (5-7) may be one multi-line message or three messages; the screenshot does not settle it. The reaction chip sits under the bomb only." } ] }, { "file": "image22.png", "source": "docx-media", "header": "", "owner_hint": "No right-aligned (account-owner) bubbles.", "top_cut": false, "bottom_cut": true, "notes": null, "messages": [ { "n": 1, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": "10/21 9:56 AM", "text": "I think we could actually jettison that next little sentence that starts, \"But, unlike Mass...\"", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 2, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": null, "text": "But of course I'm biased towards the empirical stuff", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation." }, { "n": 3, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/21 9:57 AM", "text": "Oh no you're so right, Jake. I like that cut better", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ‘", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 4, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": null, "text": "Reincarnating your darling now", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ˜†", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation." }, { "n": 5, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": null, "text": "๐Ÿ‘ผ", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation rendered as a single large emoji with no bubble (baby angel)." }, { "n": 6, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": null, "text": "783 WORDS!!! ๐Ÿ”ช๐Ÿ”ช๐Ÿ”ช๐Ÿ”ช", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐ŸŽ‰", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation. Four kitchen-knife emojis follow the text; reaction is a party popper." }, { "n": 7, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/21 11:11 AM", "text": "I haven't heard from the 5th floor but Bill just called and said he wants me to send this puppy out. He is reaching out to them one more time and if they don't answer, he said to just let it rip. Last call: Any final red flags on the 850-word version for Digger, or the 800-word version for other outlets?", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Text fully visible; the bubble's bottom edge coincides with the image edge." } ] }, { "file": "image23.png", "source": "docx-media", "header": "", "owner_hint": "No right-aligned (account-owner) bubbles; no name header visible at all in this image.", "top_cut": true, "bottom_cut": true, "notes": "This image shows file cards rather than ordinary chat text: two consecutive continuation bubbles, each a labelled file link plus a Word file card with a document preview. Narrower capture (743 x 633 px). No sender header is visible; the preceding image in document order (image22) ends with Mearhoff, Sarah 10/21 11:11 AM and the following one (image24) opens with another header-less bubble. Preview text is small print read at 4x magnification; dash glyphs in the previews (en vs em dash) could not be distinguished with certainty.", "messages": [ { "n": 1, "date_separator": null, "sender": null, "time": null, "text": "Digger version: Wealth Tax - Op Ed_draft ....agh reorg.docx", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [ { "type": "file_card", "name": "Wealth Tax - Op Ed_draft .......", "location": "TAX-POLA > General", "link_text": "Wealth Tax - Op Ed_draft ....agh reorg.docx", "icon": "Word (W)", "preview_text": "Before the state of Vermont claims the 1%'s \"$57,000 tax cut,\" let's make sure it exists\nBy Bill Shouldice, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Taxes\nWith election season here, taxes are all over the news and social media and sometimes it's hard to know what's accurate. Recently, I've gotten into work in the morning all fired up about something I saw online โ€” so I ask the experts on my staff at the Department of Taxes what they make of it. Most of the time, their answer is a polite version of, \"That's total garbage, Bill, and you really need to stop looking at Facebook so much.\" But when a claim shows up often enough, in enough places, it starts to feel true. That's exactly when it's worth slowing down and fact-checking.\nSince Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA, in 2025, I've seen lots of posts about how Vermonters could be impacted on their federal taxes. One hot take that keeps coming up โ€” and seems to have gotten even more momentum recently โ€” is the idea that OBBBA gives the top 1% of Vermonters an average tax cut of $57,000.\nThis federal tax cut figure is usually paired with a call to make Vermont's wealthiest pay more state income taxes toward funding new initiatives. After all, they just saw a massive federal tax cut, right? Well, as my staff and the Legislature's nonpartisan fiscal staff explained this past session, that's not what actually happened.\nHigh-income taxpayers did see a federal tax cut from the first Trump Administration's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, back in 2017. During the 2018 legislative session that followed, Vermont legislators responded โ€“ raising state income taxes on those top earners to \"recoup\" or \"claw back\" some of those federal tax cuts. [half-clipped last line, read as:] What the OBBBA did last year was extend those existing tax cuts rather than let them expire. That popular $57,000 figure actually relates to the [cut at card bottom]" } ], "notes": "No header visible (bubble top at the image edge). 'Digger version:' is plain text; the file name after it is a blue underlined link, itself truncated by Teams with '....'. Card has share and '...' icons. Preview shows five paragraphs; the last line is half-clipped by the card's bottom edge." }, { "n": 2, "date_separator": null, "sender": null, "time": null, "text": "Short-ish and sweet version: Shouldice 'wealth tax' op ed TRUNCATED Oct 2026", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [ { "type": "file_card", "name": "Shouldice 'wealth tax' op ed...", "location": "TAX-POLA > General", "link_text": "Shouldice 'wealth tax' op ed TRUNCATED Oct 2026", "icon": "Word (W)", "preview_text": "Before the state of Vermont claims the 1%'s \"$57,000 tax cut,\" let's make sure it exists\nBy Bill Shouldice, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Taxes\nWith election season here, taxes are all over the news and social media and sometimes it's hard to know what's accurate. Recently, I've gotten into work in the morning all fired up about something I saw online โ€” so I ask the experts on my staff at the Department of Taxes what they make of it. Most of the time, their answer is a polite version of, \"That's total garbage, Bill, and you really need to stop looking at Facebook so much.\" But when a claim shows up often enough, in enough places, it [cut at image bottom]" } ], "notes": "Separate bubble below message 1 (continuation, no header). 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Sending", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 3, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/21 11:56 AM", "text": "Okay I'm gonna stop copying you all on every single one of these emails to newspapers because I imagine that's getting really old really fast. Just know I'm disseminating this widely", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "โค๏ธ", "count": 2 } ], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 4, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/21 12:15 PM", "text": "And already: the Waterbury Roundabout is running with it ๐Ÿซก", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ˜ฎ", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": "Trailing emoji read as ๐Ÿซก (saluting face). Reaction read as ๐Ÿ˜ฎ (face with open mouth)." }, { "n": 5, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": "10/21 1:32 PM", "text": "Should we have capitalized the s in state in the title?", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 6, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/21 1:39 PM", "text": "I am going to choose to believe that it's fine the way we sent it", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ˜†", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": "Text fully visible; the reaction chip is clipped by the image bottom edge." } ] }, { "file": "image25.png", "source": "docx-media", "header": "", "owner_hint": "No right-aligned (account-owner) bubbles.", "top_cut": false, "bottom_cut": true, "notes": "Opens with the centered date separator 'October 22'.", "messages": [ { "n": 1, "date_separator": "October 22", "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/22 8:36 AM", "text": "Alive! and just cathcing up on Cutler's WCAX piece before the debate. Great work seeding that one! And even Austin D did a great job. Kinda like that \"taxing oligarchs vs taxing oncologists\" line.", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ‘", "count": 2 } ], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 2, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": "10/22 8:45 AM", "text": "Do we have any sense of where the op-ed might get published and when? I though Calvin's thing was decent (for WCAX) but it would be great if the full picture of the $57K got out there", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 3, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Connizzo, Katelyn", "time": "10/22 8:46 AM", "text": "Sarah said that the Waterbury Roundabout is running it!", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Avatar: photo with grey x status." }, { "n": 4, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Connizzo, Katelyn", "time": null, "text": "It usually takes a couple of days for VTDigger to decide, I think", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation." }, { "n": 5, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/22 8:47 AM", "text": "The trump tax cut was front and center early in the debate so I'm thinking he'll get pinged (if op-ed staff and reporter staff talk, at least)", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Text fully visible; the bubble's bottom edge coincides with the image edge. 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Please don't overextend", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Begins with a quoted-reply box of message 2 (truncated by Teams with '...'). The quote box stamps that message 10/22/2026 8:49 AM, whereas in the thread it sits under an 8:47 AM header as a continuation.", "quoted_reply": { "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/22/2026 8:49 AM", "text": "(Kate/Sarah - let me know if we think its worth me spending time today trying to package up our references in case we get post-debat..." } }, { "n": 4, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": null, "text": "BTW if I'm taking a while to respond today... you know why. Text me on my personal if you need me ASAP: [personal phone redacted]", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation. Contains a personal phone number as displayed." }, { "n": 5, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Magnus, Abigail", "time": "10/22 11:07 AM", "text": "I'm not in the symposium chat, but Feldman, Jake did you have a slide you presented to ways and means on what the shift from the property tax credit to the homestead exemption would look like? We thought that might be helpful to add to the symposium materials based on the questions Abby got", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "'Feldman, Jake' is a blue @mention (followed by a wider gap before 'did'). Avatar is the initials 'AM' on a green circle with a red status dot. 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I think the two key things to know is that it's sensitive to current year rates and values (so no lag) and more beneficial to people in lower value homes (and towns where homes are worth less) than the current system", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 2, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Magnus, Abigail", "time": "10/22 11:18 AM", "text": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/House%20Ways%20and%20Means/Tax%20Department/Property%20Tax%20Credit/W~Jake%20Feldman~Property%20Tax%20Credit%20Proposal~1-29-2025.pdf", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [ { "type": "link", "name": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/House%20Ways%20and%20Means/Tax%20Department/Property%20Tax%20Credit/W~Jake%20Feldman~Property%20Tax%20Credit%20Proposal~1-29-2025.pdf", "location": null } ], "notes": "Bare blue underlined URL, wrapped on screen onto three lines (breaks after 'Tax%2' and after 'Proposal~'). Avatar: initials 'AM'." }, { "n": 3, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Magnus, Abigail", "time": null, "text": "This is what I was thinking of, but I guess that's the proposal not the actual legislation", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation." }, { "n": 4, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": "10/22 11:19 AM", "text": "Right. as passed was way different.", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 5, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": "10/22 11:19 AM", "text": "I think we hit this question well!", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ‘", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 6, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Sameroff, Rebecca", "time": null, "text": "I'll edit my in-chat response to include the \"no lag\" benefit too! I talked about cliffs and fairness for low-value homesowenrs", "edited": false, "cut": "bottom", "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Continuation. 'low-value' breaks across lines at the hyphen on screen. Text fully visible; bubble bottom edge coincides with the image edge." } ] }, { "file": "image28.png", "source": "docx-media", "header": "", "owner_hint": "No right-aligned (account-owner) bubbles.", "top_cut": false, "bottom_cut": true, "notes": null, "messages": [ { "n": 1, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Feldman, Jake", "time": "10/22 11:21 AM", "text": "Oh good call. The no cliffs will be good for this group", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 2, "date_separator": null, "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/22 11:32 AM", "text": "Just popping in to say THANK YOU to this crew for being so helpful in real time", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "โค๏ธ", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": null }, { "n": 3, "date_separator": "October 23", "sender": "Mearhoff, Sarah", "time": "10/23 2:10 PM", "text": "Stowe Reporter is considering running the op ed, too ๐Ÿ˜„", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [ { "emoji": "๐Ÿ˜†", "count": null } ], "attachments": [], "notes": "Centered date separator 'October 23' precedes this message. 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I'll def keep you posted if/when I hear more follow-ups from outlets -- either looking to publish the op-ed itself, or use the advance copy as background -- and if they ask for more data/documentation", "edited": false, "cut": null, "reactions": [], "attachments": [], "notes": "Right-aligned, time stamp only. Bubble complete; image ends just below it." } ] } ] }