Good morning, Bluesky.

I read the Washington Post sports section on my way to school every morning as a kid, then called Post Haste—the old phone service the Post used to run in the pre-internet days—to find out what the late night west coast NHL scores had been.

Friends:

I'll join NPR's Morning Edition at 7.45 PT/ 10.45 ET to talk about the profound cuts at the Washington Post:

Tune in stream kcrw.org, scpr.org or any other fine NPR west coast station

My story:
Bezos orders layoffs at 'Washington Post'

www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis, "who has already earned a reputation for showing up late to work when he showed up at all, did not join the Zoom" about the staggering cuts.

thinking once again about how many Washington Post jobs the $75 million Bezos spent on Melania could have saved

CBS is killing late night. Bezos is killing the Post. Once NBC guts SNL after Lorne Michaels dies the Boomer Age truly is over.

Scientific fact: when the sunlight hits a pitbull directly, they pass out

Countering the Pro Bowl hate… I rather enjoy seeing the players’ faces and it’s cool watching them having fun and celebrating being awesome.

You cannot compare to other sports. All others take place mid season and do not have the same risk of injury.

Also like that it is part of the Super Bowl.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests