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Incredibly generous support from everyone for the people @washingtonpost.com laid off this week www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
This started late at 4 at Lamont Park plaza and the peaceful sounds of opener Wayta are happening. The drummer is sitting on and hitting w/ his hands a Peruvian cajon box drum which nicely adds some rhythm. 3 DC cop cars circled the plaza earlier but didn’t stop & moved on .
Congratulations to @wapotechguild.bsky.social! 🥳
"This wasn’t the triumph of hope over experience; it was the elevation of willful self-delusion over all available evidence."
The column @ruthmarcus.bsky.social didn't get to publish: www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
What is going to happen with DC home rule?
SCOOP: Jeff Bezos’s rightward shift has been long in the making. In January, Will Lewis sent a memo to David Shipley summarizing Jeff’s vision for a WSJ-style opinions section. Shipley expressed doubts, suggested compromises and finally said he couldn't do it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
“What Bezos is doing today runs counter to what he said, and actually practiced, during my tenure at The Post,” Baron added. “I have always been grateful for how he stood up for The Post and an independent press... Now I couldn’t be more sad and disgusted.” www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wapo-edit...
Lots of leaders of colleges and other key institutions are staying silent, either out of fear or a misguided view of "neutrality." But not Michael Roth. wapo.st/4k1ueQt
Reminder number 56,239 of how gobsmackingly good my colleagues are at exposing the truth.
Even in the midst of tough times for the paper, Post journalists like @davidnakamura.bsky.social, Lisa Rein and Matt Viser are relentless and essential.
wapo.st/4azdaNb
Depends on what books
At a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, roughly 300 workers are set to vote on Monday on whether to form the first union in Amazon’s grocery business.
‘The Vegetarian’ author’s latest, ‘We Do Not Part,’ is the very best kind of storytelling, poetic and ambiguous without ever shying away from horrible historic truths.
President Trump has pardoned or ordered the release of virtually all who were federally prosecuted for Jan. 6, including those convicted of seditious conspiracy or assaulting police officers.
Here's free access to my colleagues' extraordinary coverage of that day:
www.pulitzer.org/winners/wash...