@petersagal.bsky.social - I appreciate the more subtle nuances you are highlighting in the WaPo Bezos situation and take the writer’s point to heart. I already reflexively cancelled Amazon Prime (not being a Post subscriber) … but maybe that isn’t so bad since Alexa+ was never much of a journalist.

Donate to your local public radio (like mprnews.org) and public television stations (like prairiepublic.org) or folks like ProPublica and the Guardian, so that your news isn’t muzzled or otherwise subject to unseemly influence! #byebyebezos #democracydiesindarkness #publicmedia

One and the same.

As transparent deflections go, I give that a 2 out of 10 (the Obama callback earned you an extra 0.25, mein Herr). See the new camps: www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...

Oh but they are. What do you call a new gov’t department? What do you call deportation camps? BTW … this you?

And neither are Herrs Drumpf und Musk, in spite of what they say. The cuts they’ve made are 1) socially impactful but financially insignificant compared to the enormity of gov’t spending (less than 1%) or 2) don’t represent any net reduction in expenses. Oh!—and they’re spending mo’ money elsewhere.

Proud to be a Minnesotan: for news *and* elected officials like the above.