I was surprised to learn that these were Bezos’s two favorite things.

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America today is living through a hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires.

It is rampaging unopposed because leading Democrats don't know how to fight.

Step up, own the failing, and change -- or make way for the fighters in your ranks.

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We are learning that, at the commanding heights of American life, there is little courage. But courage is rising from below. And it is only that that will save us.

I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored.

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What he proposed was an illegal scheme of ethnic cleansing.

This is a hilariously out-of-touch analysis from someone whose publication is literally called Inside Philanthropy. Maybe it would help to pull out a little.

On the contrary, I find people much more alive to this threat now than I did six years ago.

I struggle to think of a more tone-deaf email I have seen in real life.

This is a great journalistic use of the word “purge.” Clear and true.

I will say this for the last time, but also probably not for last time: It is not ageism to be against gerontocracy.

Also, it is not ageism to be against gerontocracy.

My message to members of the sclerotic Democratic old guard is:

Follow your dreams. Write that book. Start that sheep farm. Spend more time with your great-grandkids.

There is no shame in not being adequate to this moment. Now make room for people who are.

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Oh, I don’t know, could it be that the owner of this very newspaper spent his ungrateful immigrant life making the conditions such that young people would struggle like this and he would then able to profit from reporting on the phenomenon he fostered?

What we are seeing today is a billionaire war on Christmas.

Let’s call it what it is.

I tried to unpack it all in this live.

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Seemingly disparate phenomena today are part of a common story.

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This Trump presidency will be a boon for self-help books, as all other forms of help disappear.

The Ink has some title ideas.

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Everyone, please unplug your take machines and plug them back in to reset. Time for new takes: Why Donald Trump failed to win a majority of voters.

How about we do this after you open up a public process to allow a new chair to be chosen by the people and truly show a commitment to changing the party?