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Jeff Bezos could have spun off the Washington Post into an independent nonprofit with a few billion dollars for an endowment and been a hero by spending what, for him, is pocket change.
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Jeff Bezos could have spun off the Washington Post into an independent nonprofit with a few billion dollars for an endowment and been a hero by spending what, for him, is pocket change.
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Maybe I can't define corporate power but I know it when I see it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Maybe I can't define corporate power but I know it when I see it.
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This cannot be accepted. This is a bullshit move to try and keep the status of the occupation basically unchanged but try and play it off as a compromise
With the immediate removal of 700 federal agents from Minnesota, border czar Tom Homan put the total number of agents remaining in the state at approximately 2,000.
That’s still a dramatic increase from the normal immigration and enforcement staffing in Minnesota of around 150 agents.
That’s still a dramatic increase from the normal immigration and enforcement staffing in Minnesota of around 150 agents.
Live: Border official Tom Homan announces hundreds of agents will leave Minnesota
White House border czar is negotiating with local officials on a deal for county jails to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
This cannot be accepted. This is a bullshit move to try and keep the status of the occupation basically unchanged but try and play it off as a compromise
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Remember when the Washington Post decided they were going to lean into right wing appeasement at a time when their readership was mad as hell at Trump and thousands upon thousands of subscribers cancelled
February 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Remember when the Washington Post decided they were going to lean into right wing appeasement at a time when their readership was mad as hell at Trump and thousands upon thousands of subscribers cancelled
This is where culture needs to step in/up. Bezos, petty bourgeois property owners, all of them, need to not want to be part of this.
This gets at something deeper: The role of shame and social stigma for those who participate in Trump-Miller's sadistic ethnonationalist project. As I argue in the piece this is clearly showing up now as warehouse buyers are shamed into nixing any sale to ICE:
February 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is where culture needs to step in/up. Bezos, petty bourgeois property owners, all of them, need to not want to be part of this.
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A brief, recent history of the Washington Post:
1- Trump wins in 2024.
2- Bezos and minions make series of Trump-friendly changes to paper.
3-Readership tanks.
4- Bezos and minions fire tons of employees while telling them the audience just doesn't like what they're doing.
1- Trump wins in 2024.
2- Bezos and minions make series of Trump-friendly changes to paper.
3-Readership tanks.
4- Bezos and minions fire tons of employees while telling them the audience just doesn't like what they're doing.
Suspect Guilty GIF
Alt: Suspect Guilty GIF w hot dog suit trying to find the guy
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
A brief, recent history of the Washington Post:
1- Trump wins in 2024.
2- Bezos and minions make series of Trump-friendly changes to paper.
3-Readership tanks.
4- Bezos and minions fire tons of employees while telling them the audience just doesn't like what they're doing.
1- Trump wins in 2024.
2- Bezos and minions make series of Trump-friendly changes to paper.
3-Readership tanks.
4- Bezos and minions fire tons of employees while telling them the audience just doesn't like what they're doing.
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Nate Silver hardest hit
Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Nate Silver hardest hit
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the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
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Steve Cook—and Apple—certainly could afford to stand up to Trump (or at least not bend the knee so deeply), he simply just chooses not to.
Et Tu, Tim Cook?
Why it's so disappointing to see the Apple executive sucking up to Trump
contrarian.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Steve Cook—and Apple—certainly could afford to stand up to Trump (or at least not bend the knee so deeply), he simply just chooses not to.
You killed off your audience, motherfucker.
Notable bits from this email:
- WaPo search has declined by half in three years
- Daily story output has "substantially fallen" in the last five years
- Murray argues: "we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience."
- WaPo search has declined by half in three years
- Daily story output has "substantially fallen" in the last five years
- Murray argues: "we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience."
Matt Murray's full email to staff about today's cuts at the Washington Post
February 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
You killed off your audience, motherfucker.
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Notable bits from this email:
- WaPo search has declined by half in three years
- Daily story output has "substantially fallen" in the last five years
- Murray argues: "we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience."
- WaPo search has declined by half in three years
- Daily story output has "substantially fallen" in the last five years
- Murray argues: "we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience."
Matt Murray's full email to staff about today's cuts at the Washington Post
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Notable bits from this email:
- WaPo search has declined by half in three years
- Daily story output has "substantially fallen" in the last five years
- Murray argues: "we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience."
- WaPo search has declined by half in three years
- Daily story output has "substantially fallen" in the last five years
- Murray argues: "we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience."
Branded Abundance dipshits had this creep keynote their circle jerk.
Republican politicians have condemned Supreme Court expansion as a fringe idea tantamount to cheating. When it comes to state supreme courts, though, Republicans are happy to add (or subtract) justices as they see fit.
Republicans Love Supreme Court Expansion When It Gets Them What They Want
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Branded Abundance dipshits had this creep keynote their circle jerk.
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the owner just spent 75 million on a film that opened with a 7 million take
WaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
the owner just spent 75 million on a film that opened with a 7 million take
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A Justice Department review found that Ed Martin improperly handled grand jury materials that were part of an investigation targeting Donald Trump's political enemies, at least two sources familiar with the review told CNN. https://cnn.it/4auafXQ
February 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM
A Justice Department review found that Ed Martin improperly handled grand jury materials that were part of an investigation targeting Donald Trump's political enemies, at least two sources familiar with the review told CNN. https://cnn.it/4auafXQ
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Former WashPost boss: Paper's woes are substantially driven by bad management decisions.
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Former WashPost boss: Paper's woes are substantially driven by bad management decisions.
This isn’t true. Post was break even and even had a profitable spell during Trump 1.0. They had an easy way to help goose national subs and Bezos just decided to let it die instead.
This is the essential problem in media now: the economics are absolutely brutal, and there's only room for one New York Times.
Other great publications shrink, specialize, or source their funding to a billionaire — and we're getting a brutal object lesson in the dangers of that last option today.
Other great publications shrink, specialize, or source their funding to a billionaire — and we're getting a brutal object lesson in the dangers of that last option today.
So what’s the business model now if you want to run a top-flight national newspaper doing hard journalism? The NYT is making it work by selling games, but that doesn’t seem like it’d scale to multiple prestige papers doing it.
February 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM
This isn’t true. Post was break even and even had a profitable spell during Trump 1.0. They had an easy way to help goose national subs and Bezos just decided to let it die instead.
Bezos, yesterday, tugging Pete Hegseth’s dick.
February 4, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Bezos, yesterday, tugging Pete Hegseth’s dick.
He needed to be sounding the alarm, appealing to Bezos, by name, for weeks.
He knew this was coming and didn’t get off his ass. Fuck him, too.
He knew this was coming and didn’t get off his ass. Fuck him, too.
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM
He needed to be sounding the alarm, appealing to Bezos, by name, for weeks.
He knew this was coming and didn’t get off his ass. Fuck him, too.
He knew this was coming and didn’t get off his ass. Fuck him, too.
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Remember last year when the absolute incompetents that run the Washington Post set a completely unrealistic goal of 200 million paid subscribers? Who wants to wager on whether they lost their jobs today? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Remember last year when the absolute incompetents that run the Washington Post set a completely unrealistic goal of 200 million paid subscribers? Who wants to wager on whether they lost their jobs today? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
Ugh. You don’t have to read Ross Barkan. Have some dignity.
These assholes are going to make me actually read the Metropolitan Review that Ross Barkan and friends started.
February 4, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Ugh. You don’t have to read Ross Barkan. Have some dignity.
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Guy who doesn’t understand how money works: What if we cut the sports page?
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Guy who doesn’t understand how money works: What if we cut the sports page?
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If I had limitless money I would buy things and then make them noticeably better, mainly so people would praise me for it. I think it would be really easy to avoid making things noticeably worse, if I had limitless money
February 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
If I had limitless money I would buy things and then make them noticeably better, mainly so people would praise me for it. I think it would be really easy to avoid making things noticeably worse, if I had limitless money
Why?
Homan says that 2,000+ DHS immigration enforcement agents will be left in Minnesota even after the drawdown he announced this morning
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Why?
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“it takes 10 emails from me for a release condition to be corrected. It takes me threatening to walk out for something else to be corrected.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Government attorney who told judge in ICE case, 'This job sucks,' removed from detail
Julie Le made the remark while she was representing the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, where federal officers are conducting a massive immigration crackdown.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM
“it takes 10 emails from me for a release condition to be corrected. It takes me threatening to walk out for something else to be corrected.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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I read the Post Books section more than the Times because it's actually the perfect size to manage. This is really depressing. Fuck Will Lewis.
The Washington Post today is eliminating its sports and books sections and downsizing international coverage.
February 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I read the Post Books section more than the Times because it's actually the perfect size to manage. This is really depressing. Fuck Will Lewis.