SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
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Story here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
feb 26, 2025, 3:12 pm • 835 175 • view
Behind a paywall, oh the irony.
feb 26, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
What if you submit a piece about how "free markets" like housing are being manipulated by private equity firms and RealPage?...
feb 26, 2025, 8:54 pm • 2 0 • view
And what happens if a trans female person submits an op-ed about the "personal liberty" of playing on a male sports team? What happens if a woman submits an op ed about the "personal liberty" of repro rights? What happens if a student submits an op ed about the "personal liberty" of school safety?
feb 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 2 0 • view
feb 27, 2025, 9:29 am • 29 15 • view
The Washington toast!
feb 26, 2025, 6:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Watching Fascism grow and strengthen by the day in the most powerful country in the history of the world is a frightening and somewhat helpless feeling.
feb 26, 2025, 7:35 pm • 5 0 • view
I can't understand why there is no general strike now in the US?
feb 26, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't think people know how to protest anymore. Protests in the past had a singular purpose, whether general strikes, marches, sit-ins etc. There needs to be a message large portions of the masses can rally around.
feb 26, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Because most of us can get fired any time, for any reason. Most people can’t afford to miss a single paycheck. A general strike will only happen once large numbers of people are already unemployed and have nothing to lose.
feb 26, 2025, 9:04 pm • 8 0 • view
Sad!
feb 26, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah. Europeans forget how good they have it with basic workplace rights and protections, which have never really existed in America.
feb 26, 2025, 9:07 pm • 4 0 • view
I know very well we have more rights and protections. And stronger unions as well. Must be so hard for you all now!
feb 26, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
When I was in Europe (Spain, France) the people there told me, "In America people fear the Government, here the government fear the people." Especially in France, people will protest and strike at the drop of a hat. They understand 'people power.'
feb 26, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
The French sure understand the importance of not having their rights gradually eroded away!
feb 26, 2025, 10:04 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm from Belgium and in the french-speaking part of our country it's the same as in France. The inhabitants of the dutch speaking part are generally less combative. But what is happening in the US will come to Europe soon, I fear. The far right is getting bigger everywhere 😞
feb 27, 2025, 9:25 am • 0 0 • view
Will Eugene Robinson and Jonathan Capehart exit left and find another news outlet where they will be more comfortable? I hope so. They no longer fit the WAPO profile.
feb 27, 2025, 12:28 am • 3 0 • view
Don't they understand how utterly ludicrous they sound. Not to mention hypocritical. Singing the praises of "Freedom" whilst curtailing debate and freedom of the press. They're much more interested in controlling the narrative and manipulating the political landscape than in our freedom.
feb 26, 2025, 5:00 pm • 18 0 • view
The way to punish Bezos is to cancel your Amazon Prime Membership. Amazon makes $30 BILLION/year from Prime Membership fees and an estimated 95% ($28.5 billion) drops straight to the bottom line. These Membership fees represent a whopping 48% of 2024 net profit. PUNISH Bezos = CANCEL Amazon Prime
feb 26, 2025, 7:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Personal liberties only for oligarchs owning super yachts. Here's Jeff Bezos's 2023 $500 million 417 ft super yacht Koru.
feb 26, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Here is Jeff Bezo's super yacht "support vessel". It contains all the toys like jet skis, helicopters, zodiac tenders, extra booze and motors with the super yacht wherever it goes. The annual cost to maintain the super yacht and its support vessel is: ~$30 million
feb 26, 2025, 7:57 pm • 2 0 • view
It's completely perverse. And for me in a way a symptom of a failed society.
feb 26, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
feb 26, 2025, 5:17 pm • 3 0 • view
The new order loves hypocrisy. They don't care about ethics or morals unless it is their own, and fit whatever deranged "untouchable billionaire mood" they're in. They feel they're owed and can't be slighted. They said the Titanic couldn't sink or the tower of Babylon couldn't fall either.
feb 26, 2025, 5:09 pm • 11 1 • view
What do I do about using Amazon?????
feb 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't
feb 26, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
You have to ask?!
feb 26, 2025, 6:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes! It’s a dilemma ! Live on Island. No alternative right now. Detest FB but every other idiot is on it and only way to find out now what’s on in town! Never use Twitter. These people have us …..
feb 26, 2025, 8:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Seriously, though. Someone needs to set up a cooperative and ethical version. Happy to pay 10-20% more and wait double the time for deliveries for an ethical alternative.
feb 26, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 1 • view
Exactly
feb 26, 2025, 8:12 pm • 2 0 • view
I live in a rural area accessible only by ferry — or plane. The pop’n on this whole peninsula is +/- 35k. I have had no problem ordering stuff that I can’t get here from city retailers. Mostly arrives in a day or two. Depending on what it is it’s often no charge for shipping.
feb 26, 2025, 8:57 pm • 3 1 • view
I am going to have to expand my horizons ! It’s so dam easy to order from Amazon which is also an attraction. They bloody know how to press the right buttons to draw us in! I do order direct from some major stores but majority Amazon. Going to have to stop
feb 26, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah. I'd like to not give them my custom. Then again, a lot of brick and mortar companies are pretty bad as well.
feb 26, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I e been choose about who I give my measly money to for years.
feb 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes. I am now!
feb 27, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 0 • view
We switched over to using Costco for just about every home delivery. There are still some things we get from Amazon, and the streaming service is okay (although many movies you have to pay for now) but trying to determine if we cancel Prime altogether.
feb 26, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep, me too
feb 26, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
He kept working at the Washington Post for money, not integrity
feb 26, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Why didn’t this fool resign when the newspaper would not endorse a presidential candidate?
feb 26, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
“In new direction,”@nytimes.com? @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
feb 26, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
"Free markets" means no subsidies for fossil fuel extraction and earned and unearned income are taxed at the same rate, correct? "Personal liberties" means a woman has total control over her healthcare decisions and no books are banned, correct?
feb 26, 2025, 6:21 pm • 11 0 • view
Dictatorship is open to interpretation, obviously.
feb 26, 2025, 7:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Cancelled prime. Cancelled most deliveries. All are ending when I get to it, and avoiding anything Bezos related when possible. It is not enough, but it is something. Bezos is clearly not even trying.
feb 26, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Having worked for a mercurial billionaire media owner – Rupert Murdoch, and yes please I’m aware – I can tell you from experience that it’s the anticipatory compliance that is the most insidious. I did, however, once get a call from Murdoch, ordering my coverage to be favorable on a Fox movie
feb 26, 2025, 4:17 pm • 12 3 • view
David Shipley presided over the long slide downward into irrelevancy. It was under his watch the decision was made to not make a presidential endorsement. He’s not entirely above criticism, but I guess it got too putrid even for him…
feb 26, 2025, 6:09 pm • 3 0 • view
So, the nazis. Yes, Jeff, we knew that.
feb 26, 2025, 4:12 pm • 3 1 • view
The direction of the pages:
feb 26, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 0 • view
If I wanted the Wall Street Journal, I’d subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. I’ve cancelled my WaPo sub. Still have NYT and now casting about for another quality paper.
feb 26, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view
FT is good but pricey.
feb 26, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
You were right: FT is several hundred a year, too rich for a pensioner. So I got WSJ for a cheapo one-year rate. At least they’ve always been consistent about who they are. And they did refer to the “dumbest trade war” in history.
feb 27, 2025, 1:01 am • 0 0 • view
The Washington Pravda.
feb 26, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
“…exits as Jeff Bezos steers the page in a new direction”. Are you fucking kidding me NY Times? How about “As Bezos kills editorial autonomy to curry favor with Trump, opinion editor quits in protest”. There. I fixed it for you. You are pathetic 🤦♀️
feb 26, 2025, 9:51 pm • 10 1 • view
Wide open abortion access for all, WaPo leads the fight!
feb 26, 2025, 3:17 pm • 12 0 • view
Personal liberties and free markets — for anyone who is cisgender male. If you’re trans or queer or a woman tho …
feb 26, 2025, 3:24 pm • 21 0 • view
yeah of course, or if you're poor, goodbye, no rights at all
feb 26, 2025, 3:25 pm • 9 0 • view
Fuck you @nytimes.com YOU ALSO FAILED AMERICA! You are no better than WaPo
feb 26, 2025, 4:30 pm • 12 1 • view
Hell, the NYT set the stage for spineless journalism back in 2016 with the "but her emails" campaign. Absurd.
feb 26, 2025, 4:38 pm • 14 2 • view
No earlier than that it was the NYT & the reporting of Judith Miller & Iraq war in 2002-2003 she later claimed she was "accurately conveying wrong information" on the weapons of mass destruction. They just eventually fired her & marched on
feb 27, 2025, 1:48 am • 2 0 • view
Wish I could end my subscription but….already cancelled
feb 26, 2025, 11:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Take over by far right continues
feb 27, 2025, 10:49 am • 2 0 • view
The reality is that the far right is not going to go to WashPost regardless of the editorial changes they make. The NYT didn't see a rush of new subscribers as they moved right.
feb 27, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascist publications aren’t exactly reliable sources. This is starting to feel a lot like Russia, China or North Korea these days.
feb 26, 2025, 11:07 pm • 4 1 • view
How much US media is now right-wing & toeing the Trump line? In the UK it's all been right-wing for many years apart from a couple of newspapers (Mirror & Guardian) & the BBC which attempts to convey both sides, but attracts much criticism in the process. The media are destroying democracy, imho.
feb 26, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't you remember the Guardians full on, invented anti-Semitism assault on the Left wing when Corbyn looked to upset their gravy train?
feb 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
1 of many reasons I canceled my WaPo subscription and no longer use Amazon except to find the names of vendors that I go to directly.
feb 26, 2025, 7:45 pm • 115 8 • view
Is there any hack for me to read my 164 Kindle books without using Ama? We Kindle people need a liberator.
feb 27, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view
Smart
feb 26, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Me too, changing spending habits. Mostly shopping locally especially at co- ops & reading & listening to international news,sources.
feb 27, 2025, 12:48 am • 5 0 • view
Don’t forget Goodreads - he owns that, too. I cancelled mine after 11 years 😢
feb 26, 2025, 10:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Sigh...I didn't know this. Crushing.📚
feb 27, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
I spent last weekend writing 11 years’ worth of book titles (with authors and ratings) into a lovely journal I was given at Xmas. Then deleted my account. I loved Goodreads (and the reading challenges) but no more Bezos for me. (He bought it but didn’t create it FYI.)
feb 27, 2025, 1:56 am • 6 0 • view
That's a brilliant use of Amazon. Totally doing that from now on!
feb 26, 2025, 8:15 pm • 41 3 • view
I do the same thing with Etsy.
feb 26, 2025, 8:20 pm • 15 1 • view
That's genius! Who have you found for book sells?
feb 26, 2025, 8:22 pm • 6 2 • view
AbeBooks, ThriftBooks, and Books-A-Million all have lots of titles. AbeBooks and ThriftBooks are quite good for all sorts of used books from many independent book sellers.
feb 26, 2025, 10:02 pm • 3 1 • view
Note that AbeBooks is owned by Amazon. I like Better World Books, and have been buying both new and used books from them for almost 20 years.
feb 28, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
A local bookstore. They can usually get you anything you want. The publisher and sometimes the author can get you copies too.
feb 26, 2025, 8:41 pm • 6 0 • view
Yes. Buy from authors or indie bookstores. If you have to buy books online, use bookshop.org which gives money to indie bookstores.
feb 26, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Not just book stores! If you find a larger grocery store or pharmacy, they often have a book section, and may cheerfully order whatever you want.
feb 26, 2025, 8:55 pm • 2 0 • view
That's a great idea too! I never thought of that and should've, because I used to buy books in those stores before.
feb 26, 2025, 8:59 pm • 1 0 • view
bookshop.org - a network of locally-owned book stores. You can adopt a store as the beneficiary of the profits on your orders, or if you don't adopt one, it gets divided among all of them.
feb 26, 2025, 8:59 pm • 34 5 • view
Yo that's fucking awesome, hell yes
feb 26, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
All he doing is creating an echo chamber for billionaires
feb 26, 2025, 6:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Sad. RIP @washingtonpost.com @postopinions.bsky.social Since this is confirmed, I will cancel my online Post subscription. I was holding out, hoping, but it’s over. I subscribed for decades. I have a framed picture of me in the Washington Post hanging on my wall. Sad that it’s over.
feb 27, 2025, 4:46 am • 16 2 • view
Subscription cancelled on this news- last straw
feb 27, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
Bezos is making it very hard to order anything on Amazon in good conscience. Maybe someone else could start a similar website?
feb 26, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Argos in the UK
feb 26, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
#Darkness
feb 26, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Two pillars might support a billboard, but not a building or a society. Someone put out an APB for the other two pillars.
feb 26, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the call to action is for these highly respected, highly ethical people to form a new organization built to meet today's and tomorrow's challenges. News is not entertainment. Journalism is not opinion. Money is not speech. Time to recognize WAPO is part of the problem. @mcuban.bsky.social
feb 26, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Personal liberties my bekeister. Have you read them? One is a plagiarized rework of a Trump talking point from 2018. The others seem to be written by fruit flies.
feb 26, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Be a David Shipley, not a Jagoff Bezos.
feb 26, 2025, 3:19 pm • 22 2 • view
"I am of America and for America, and proud to be so,” Mr. Bezos said. “Our country did not get here by being typical." Is Mr. Bezos totally blind that America is falling under fascistic rule at this very moment? I suppose not, since he's one of the few people who will benefit from that happening.
feb 26, 2025, 3:45 pm • 6 1 • view
No.
feb 26, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
No, he is not blind. He is actively helping and cheering it on.
feb 26, 2025, 3:49 pm • 13 0 • view
That's essentially what my comment said
feb 26, 2025, 4:10 pm • 2 0 • view
@gtconway.bsky.social standing up for journalism, constitutional government and the law
feb 26, 2025, 5:59 pm • 14 5 • view
fuck you bozo. enshittified etail, enshittified streaming. now murdering the wapo. amazon can kiss my ass.
feb 26, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
State owned media Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee are turning in their graves
feb 26, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Why would the second richest bloke in the world want to prevent criticism of the richest bloke in the world if they both “just worked bloody hard” for their money?
feb 26, 2025, 8:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Bezos turned WAPO from a great paper to a soiled, used rag. What next, will he be writing editorials à la Musk in X? Wrong way to go, Jeff! With all your billions, are you threatened by....opinions? What's wrong with you, dude?
feb 26, 2025, 7:55 pm • 7 0 • view
He's weak. With all his money, he's still a puss-puss.
feb 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
😝😝😝😝
feb 26, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Dump that rag awhile back. Wouldn’t even use it to eat crabs.
feb 26, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe if these oligarchs see a 90% tax rate of their obscene riches perhaps they'll shut the fuck up.
feb 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Well if there was any doubt...
feb 26, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Canceled my subscription this morning.
feb 26, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
If you haven’t already cancelled your subscription, you should do so now.
feb 26, 2025, 4:44 pm • 4 1 • view
Kind of weird watching the NY Times report on this as if they have not been kind of similar.
feb 26, 2025, 3:17 pm • 474 6 • view
So far, NYT opinions are a mix. This Bezos letter states WaPo will definitely not have a mix
feb 26, 2025, 3:37 pm • 8 0 • view
Just #capitalism all the way down Cool.
feb 26, 2025, 3:39 pm • 5 0 • view
David Shipley used to work for the Times on the editorial desk
feb 26, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
But don't fool yourself. They'll be next. Remember, they said Hitler was a nice guy. : www.nytimes.com/1933/01/31/a...
feb 26, 2025, 3:32 pm • 6 0 • view
They have not done anything remotely this bad. It's not just the content they are promoting, it's that the owner is now dictating editorial policy after years of being a light touch. NYT's missteps have been misdemeanors at worst.
feb 26, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re just more subtle about it.
feb 26, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
In defense of my attempt at accuracy, I used "kind of" 2x. I tried to not be too general when expressing my new deep distrust for the NYTimes.
feb 26, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Not as bad. But bad.
feb 26, 2025, 3:23 pm • 71 0 • view
They are just as bad
feb 26, 2025, 3:30 pm • 156 0 • view
It’s going to be a race to the bottom.
feb 26, 2025, 3:33 pm • 95 2 • view
"race to the bottom": fascism in a nutshell
feb 26, 2025, 3:38 pm • 97 6 • view
Skid mark vs a full blown shart.
feb 26, 2025, 4:06 pm • 3 0 • view
They're absolutely as bad. They've been printing abject copaganda for a LONG time.
feb 26, 2025, 3:34 pm • 7 0 • view
Aren't they vastly worse? What are you talking about?
feb 26, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Can you focusing your griping more on crummy stories vs good ones? I get it. The NYTimes is an imperfect institution. Mainstream media is slow to adapt and upholds the status quo too much. Let’s celebrate good work just as much as we complain about bad work. Just for balance.
feb 27, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
Bravo!
feb 26, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Bozo, I canceled my WaPo subscription and I know you don't give a shit.
feb 27, 2025, 3:05 pm • 7 0 • view
Their excuse for spiking that Telnaes cartoon over which she left was that the editorial page had already covered the subject. I guess repetitively covering the same issues there is no longer a concern. Will be interesting how they discuss "personal liberties" of transgender folks...
feb 26, 2025, 3:46 pm • 19 2 • view
And women.
feb 26, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly why I cancelled my Amazon Prime membership & WAPO subscription- I want nothing to do with Bezos.
feb 26, 2025, 7:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Without the paywall here archive.ph/TkRDc
feb 26, 2025, 3:30 pm • 7 0 • view
Bezos posted it on his Twitter page, some scoop
feb 26, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
How about his other interests like wage slavery, monopolies, stripping worker protections, dismantling of OSHA…? Surely there’s a little bit of flexibility
feb 26, 2025, 4:18 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm pretty sure he includes those things in "free market"
feb 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Preeeetty sure "freedom in the economic realm" lead to the 1929 Wall Street crash and the Great Depression... but what do I know? Obviously billionaires knows what is best for the common man.
feb 26, 2025, 3:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait... what? Free markets AND tariffs?
feb 26, 2025, 4:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Congratulations to American Pravda and their clear vision to support Dear Leader! #FuckJeffBezos
feb 26, 2025, 3:38 pm • 5 0 • view
Demonstrate that @washingtonpost.com has a financial relationship with the Trump Administration and you can sue them on 1st Amendment Grounds now and when Trump no longer has power. State AGs can sue them now on fitness for purpose grounds. @chriscillizza.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
feb 26, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s just called “Editorial”
feb 26, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Literally just got this in my inbox. Poor timing WaPo, read the room.
feb 26, 2025, 3:43 pm • 2 1 • view
So gross.
feb 27, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
You could do better than just quote his email in that headline. How about "Jeff Besos directly intervenes in paper's Opinion section". And subtitle, "Opinion manager Shipley leaves in protest". Or subtitle, "Democracy died in darkness". #WashingtonPost #BezosCuck
feb 26, 2025, 3:42 pm • 5 0 • view
How are those personal liberties for Trans people going? Drag Queens? Women?
feb 26, 2025, 3:57 pm • 18 1 • view
Submit a request for them to delete your personal information, if you've ever had an account, here helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/req...
feb 26, 2025, 4:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Post Opinion: Here's Why Lochner Gets a Bad Rap...
feb 26, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
This must mean he plans to run daily op-eds supporting the ERA, right? RIGHT?
feb 26, 2025, 3:58 pm • 7 1 • view
The Heel Turn for Bezos is almost complete.
feb 26, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
How you gonna support the two things you're trying to get taken away, Jeffy?
feb 26, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Anything to serve the Fascist Fuhrer.
feb 27, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
So the Washington Post is becoming the New York Post - who's going to establish a replacement?
feb 26, 2025, 9:04 pm • 2 0 • view
this is what you do. Near All major papers and all Cable news is in the tank
feb 26, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Ugh can someone just do it already
feb 26, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
"Free market," behind a PAYWALL..
feb 26, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
FREEDOM!!!!
feb 26, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
@karaswisher.bsky.social HELP!
feb 26, 2025, 3:11 pm • 1 0 • view
That means what? "Free Speech for Me, but not for Thee". All aboard the Trump train. Dismantling the freed press.
feb 26, 2025, 2:53 pm • 9 1 • view
feb 26, 2025, 3:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Every day more happy to have closed my A…zon account.
feb 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
When is @karaswisher.bsky.social buying the WaPo?
feb 26, 2025, 8:05 pm • 2 0 • view
begging Americans to understand our global power is more about geological and geopolitical luck than about some imagined national character.
feb 26, 2025, 2:46 pm • 108 3 • view
like seriously look at how much resource rich territory America claims sovereignty over. it would be WILD if we weren't one of the major players on the world stage. it has next to nothing to do with "American Exceptionalism"
feb 26, 2025, 5:11 pm • 15 0 • view
And an absolutely stunning level of theft 😕 (which applies generally to 'the western world', not just USA)
feb 26, 2025, 3:46 pm • 21 0 • view
🙁😞
feb 26, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
there are no special kinds of people, sorry. it's all just people and they're all fundamentally the same, within about a standard deviation, on just about any metric you should desire to measure them on
feb 26, 2025, 5:31 pm • 2 0 • view
The paper that once exposed Watergate and the endless corruption of the Nixon Whitehouse is now just a Republican rag.
feb 26, 2025, 3:08 pm • 13 1 • view
Personal liberties of LGBTQ+ people, and free markets refusing to participate with Nazi-adjacent media? 👀
feb 26, 2025, 7:14 pm • 45 1 • view
@JeffBezos is full of shit! Legacy Media is Dead We changed the mast head as soon as Bezos bought WaPo & cancelled our subscriptions I sure wish Katharine Graham was still here How terribly far the fall is since their Watergate glory days
feb 26, 2025, 3:00 pm • 48 10 • view
The 4th Estate is dead.
feb 26, 2025, 3:39 pm • 4 0 • view
"That's what the internet is for" I mean, this is basically telling readers that there's no need to subscribe to his paper but, sure, let's go with that business strategy.
feb 26, 2025, 2:51 pm • 11 1 • view
I take it the fundamental personal liberty to not be exploited will not be one of the topics of focus.
feb 26, 2025, 2:46 pm • 11 0 • view
Free markets? When every aspect of your life is dominated by a mega corp. Eat the rich.
feb 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 7 0 • view
feb 26, 2025, 3:26 pm • 6 0 • view
Now, it's eat the Reich
feb 27, 2025, 6:57 am • 1 0 • view
“The internet does that job” 🤮🤮🤮
feb 26, 2025, 2:45 pm • 50 0 • view
Support the newsroom by voting with your pocketbook, don't pretend (as Dem politicians love to do) that you can just sit it out and hope things change later). It's your money, if you want to support this it's your right. It's your choice - personal liberty and all that.
feb 26, 2025, 3:37 pm • 9 0 • view
This paper should be used for papering puppy crates! People leave this paper and Amazon Prime!
feb 26, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
What the fuck does that mean?
feb 26, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
that jeff bezos is a pro-oligarchy accelerationist and that WaPo now exists to serve that end.
feb 26, 2025, 4:26 pm • 3 0 • view
I am so glad I canceled my subscription to WaPo. Shameful - “Democracy Dies in Darkness” newspaper turns off its own lights. Next up: not renewing Amazon Prime.
feb 26, 2025, 3:01 pm • 6 0 • view
I went ahead and ended my Amazon Prime today - had a wonderful time telling them why in the post-cancellation survey. My biggest struggle will be in convincing my husband that he can survive without it. We have it through the middle of April and then it’s done.
feb 26, 2025, 3:15 pm • 3 0 • view
The survey was fun!
feb 26, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It was!!
feb 27, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
feb 26, 2025, 2:47 pm • 22 2 • view
If you haven't cancelled your WaPo subscription yet, why not? What's the hold up?
feb 26, 2025, 3:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Free markets and personal liberty… that means open borders and relaxed immigration rules, right?
feb 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 6 0 • view
Trump government oppression for us, freedom from government for rich bros.
feb 26, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Bezos wants the Washington Post to write everyday to support Trump and Republicans. 🙃
feb 26, 2025, 6:50 pm • 9 3 • view
Absolutely. It’s the broligarchs working together.
feb 27, 2025, 10:37 am • 1 0 • view
The millionaires hoping to rule the world
feb 27, 2025, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Could we tuck Bezos in as a stowaway on board when Elon heads to Mars?
feb 26, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Democracy dies in...nevermind
feb 26, 2025, 3:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Similar strategies to Musk. Buy it to make it propaganda vector.
feb 27, 2025, 11:16 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe he found out that someone was writing an opinion piece about the $600,000,000 wedding he’s about to have?
feb 26, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Not worth covering the assault of democracy in America? Too worried the king will get grumpy? Not worth subscribing to.
feb 26, 2025, 4:15 pm • 3 0 • view
I guess democracy is not a pillar idea for him
feb 26, 2025, 3:57 pm • 2 1 • view
So happy that I cancelled my subscription a couple months ago. 👍
feb 26, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
This definitely means every day something new about trans rights and against crazy tariffs, right?
feb 26, 2025, 6:37 pm • 23 0 • view
Yes! But unfortunately, only in the universe where the 2nd Amendment die-hards are prepping their guns to fend off the current tyranny… Where the evangelicals are aghast at the immorality of the Republican leaders… Where the populist are fighting -against- the billionaires…
feb 26, 2025, 8:29 pm • 1 0 • view
They’ve been begging us to believe them when they tell who they are.
feb 26, 2025, 2:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Then it's a magazine not a newspaper.
feb 27, 2025, 2:43 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s not journalism.
feb 27, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
In other words, our editorial page will be designed to serve those readers that can’t get sufficient enjoyment from the WSJ editorials.
feb 26, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
But nothing about the Constitutional crisis
feb 26, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like it’s time for malicious compliance. If Bezos were really for personal liberties and free markets, he’d be against everything Trump and Co. have done so far. So, by all means, write about ACTUAL personal liberties and free markets.
feb 26, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
So I suppose they’re renaming it to “Bezo’s Ghost Writers”
feb 26, 2025, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
If Billionaires and millionaires claim to be such big philanthropists, why don’t they all get together all the monies they steal from the working people through tax breaks and pay for universal health care for the United States of America. If they truly want to make a dent in the worlds misery
feb 26, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
So, this is the darkness where democracy dies...
feb 27, 2025, 2:16 am • 16 1 • view
Democracy dies in capitalism.
feb 27, 2025, 6:49 am • 7 0 • view
So, with Rupert Murdoch probably in his last years, Bezos is trying to turn the Post into a new Wall Street Journal?
feb 26, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
MAGA principles MAGA propaganda
feb 26, 2025, 7:47 pm • 4 0 • view
The irony of “supporting personal freedom” by telling your employees exactly what they will and will not be allowed to write.
feb 26, 2025, 4:05 pm • 432 34 • view
He knows hypocrisy is a weapon. He does not care.
feb 26, 2025, 5:46 pm • 36 2 • view
This sounds like the National Review
feb 26, 2025, 3:01 pm • 3 1 • view
Welp. Not even pretending it’s about informing the public anymore. Straight ideology. Democracy does in darkness, indeed
feb 26, 2025, 3:03 pm • 23 1 • view
Democracy dies in late stage capitalism.
feb 27, 2025, 6:54 am • 1 0 • view
At this point I think the Washington Post would have done better under private equity than Bezos.
feb 26, 2025, 2:57 pm • 11 1 • view
I’m not so sure. If private equity had bought it instead of Bezos, it would have been pushed into bankruptcy by now. Bezo owning it just makes me wish it was bankrupt and gone instead 😑
feb 26, 2025, 3:07 pm • 16 0 • view
It's cool how no one understands the meaning of the word "Freedom"
feb 26, 2025, 4:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Cue malicious compliance opinion submissions: personal liberty to identify outside of gender binary; rigorous enforcement of antitrust laws to promote a robust free market; etc.
feb 27, 2025, 7:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Shocking.
feb 26, 2025, 5:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Whose personal liberties? The government fired workers who allegedly had rainbow flags flying in their homes. Come on, @washingtonpost.com!
feb 26, 2025, 3:46 pm • 6 0 • view
Jeff Bezos is a whore who sold America out. If he was so “free market” then he wouldn’t have tried his hardest to stamp out every bit of competition to monopolize industry. That dickhead can be thrown to the woodchipper with the rest of them.
feb 26, 2025, 2:44 pm • 342 10 • view
Hey don’t insult the whores
feb 26, 2025, 2:51 pm • 22 0 • view
Honestly came back to say that. Sex workers are hardworking and provide a unique service and they deserve safety and respect. Jeff Bezos is none of those things.
feb 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 21 0 • view
It's a great point. Free markets means competition (or should do), not using your clout to eliminate it. Fuck that hypocrite.
feb 26, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
In a true free market system, capitalism isn’t all that evil tbh. If you have many options, you’ll go work for the company that isn’t exploiting you, you’ll buy items not arbitrarily marked up, and in today’s society, personal conduct would matter. Jeff Bezos wants none of these things.
feb 26, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
This sounds like an idealized utopian vision. Has it ever actually existed? Because I am unaware of any such system and it seems to go against how the incentives in capitalism work in reality.
feb 26, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Where did you get “not all that evil” to mean “idealized utopia”? The failure is that people assume there’s some kind of perfect system that exists and can’t be gamed and works for everyone…it doesn’t exist though.
feb 26, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Throughout history, it should be noted that different systems fit best for what they do economically and holding onto those systems have led to end stage failure. We need to become a more facile society willing to change as needs depend on it. Right now, socialism would clearly be best.
feb 26, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
The blackness in me would like to point out that it is erroneous that racism is attributed to capitalism, because racism is pervasive in all systems regardless of structure. I’ve heard too many socialists argue this and it’s wrong minded. We’d will get the shit end of the stick.
feb 26, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I was speaking more to the "true free market system" part. Appreciate the responses and I do agree with many of your points.
feb 26, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, tbf, has a “true free market system” ever existed? I would say absolutely not. And yes, thank you for asking the question. It’s not unfair to ask and I certainly wouldn’t expect anyone to take the words of a person who believes capitalism is the only way seriously.
feb 26, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed. Amazon started out to give ordinary people an opportunity to save money. Now it’s just another huge monopoly that squeezes out any pretense of competition… I’ve watched it turn into this, so sad.
feb 26, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
To sell out you have to first have principles. He never did.
feb 26, 2025, 2:50 pm • 108 0 • view
Greed and ruthlessness aren't values? Colour me shocked!
feb 26, 2025, 3:44 pm • 15 0 • view
Accumulating capital is his only principle
feb 26, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Capital is the means to the real goal: power
feb 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
He (and others) are not “benign” rich people who just want to enjoy material comfort. They seek power and control over others.
feb 26, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
And we gave him all our Pandemic money so he could do this to us.
feb 26, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
whore is not a derogatory term. whores actually do something that is beneficial to society, actually take risks, have way higher standards and look out for each other.
feb 26, 2025, 3:35 pm • 11 0 • view
I completely agree with you that whore is the wrong term. I rightfully deserve some flack for that. 😅
feb 26, 2025, 3:39 pm • 6 0 • view
ty kindly 🫶
feb 26, 2025, 3:41 pm • 3 0 • view
No kindness needs to be offered here. Sex work is more than valid and sex workers deserve our respect as members of society. I’m in the wrong and should’ve worded it differently. You’re right to check me on it.
feb 26, 2025, 4:16 pm • 6 0 • view
i just appreciate u being open and receptive. 99x out of 100 i get MASSIVE blowback so it's very welcome. myself and my partner are both former SWers so it means a lot when ppl are open to changing attitudes and language and stuff.
feb 26, 2025, 4:19 pm • 5 0 • view
I think guys like Jeff view the entirety of the economy as "the market"; that is, he sort of has the right to buy anything he wants - including competitors. I don't think they believe in a regulatory framework that might inhibit their soulless, unending greed.
feb 26, 2025, 2:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Everyone should block the WaPo Bluesky account. #BLOCKWAPO Merely bitching about them is not going to send a message. And anyone who hasn't unsubscribed to everything Bezos is doing it wrong. NYT = FASCIST COLLABORATOR TRASH AND NOT FAR BEHIND.
feb 26, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t regret canceling my WaPo subscription last year. Bezos keeps making one bad decision after another.
feb 26, 2025, 2:57 pm • 6 0 • view
What a joke! Just cuz bozos says it doesn't make it true.
feb 26, 2025, 4:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Free markets and personal liberties are underserved topics? In the US? No one talks about water in the ocean I guess.
feb 26, 2025, 2:58 pm • 32 0 • view
You mean Bezo’s “personal liberties” and “HIS markets”, to rip off or steal from consumers.
feb 26, 2025, 7:51 pm • 5 0 • view
Gross
feb 26, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
that sounds like going from bad to worse....
feb 26, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
So on other words, personal liberty for the oligarchs to freely take advantage of the working class with no interference from unions or pesky regulations.
feb 26, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
And they wonder why subscriptions are down.
feb 26, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
"I believe these viewpoints are underserved" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
feb 26, 2025, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
i.e. Bezos can make more money by skewing the news the way Trump wants.
feb 26, 2025, 3:26 pm • 2 1 • view
Tremendously short sighted move
feb 26, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Said the non journalist.
feb 26, 2025, 11:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Jeff Bezos is a tool for Trump and a despicable person.
feb 26, 2025, 6:59 pm • 4 0 • view
A once great publication wrecked by a digital shopkeeper.
feb 26, 2025, 2:53 pm • 11 1 • view
So, we should see a WaPo defense of free markets, free speech and no interference from the government with the personal sphere—full rights to abortion, reproductive care and all LGBTQ protections; freedom from religion, book bans and censorship. Right?
feb 26, 2025, 9:00 pm • 30 3 • view
More like “taxation is theft” and “giving someone welfare is the same as putting them in chains”.
feb 26, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Looking forward to it! Adding anti-monopoly to the list! Glad to see Jeff is part of the resistance.
feb 26, 2025, 10:36 pm • 5 0 • view
Whose personal liberties, Jeff? Just checking. Like trans people and people needing reproductive care? Or are you talking about *specific* personal liberties, in which case please clarify.
feb 26, 2025, 3:52 pm • 119 5 • view
Personal liberties like bodily autonomy and the right to choose 👍
feb 26, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This was exactly my thought. I don't think we'll have to hold our collective breath to find out.
feb 26, 2025, 4:48 pm • 3 0 • view
It's very easy to talk about personal liberties when you're a billionaire and at liberty to buy anything (or anyone) you want.
feb 26, 2025, 4:30 pm • 57 3 • view
Like that fiancee with all her plastic bought-and-paid-for parts? it becomes clearer every day why MacKenzie left him in the dust
feb 26, 2025, 5:56 pm • 8 1 • view
Damn. Just unabashed servility. I don’t believe for a second he gives f*ck about anyone’s personal liberty but his own, so he can remain free to exploit workers & tax loopholes while gorging himself on wealth others create for him. And it still won’t be enough. It will never, ever be enough.
feb 26, 2025, 3:32 pm • 9 2 • view
Ah yes, if it's one thing the USA doesn't have enough of, it's powerful people from respectable perches defending free markets.
feb 26, 2025, 2:56 pm • 462 19 • view
Or, at least, the American version of "free markets": let rich people do whatever they want and, when they invariably fuck up, insisting that the government bail them out.
feb 26, 2025, 3:08 pm • 327 18 • view
Privitized wealth, socialized failures.
feb 26, 2025, 4:43 pm • 2 0 • view
They also get upset when it’s pointed out that the influence of the rich and powerful is as much a hinderance on “free markets” as government regulation.
feb 26, 2025, 3:44 pm • 19 0 • view
"what you're advocating for is actually cronyism and corruption, but you're calling it 'free markets'" :::volcanic eruption of anger:::
feb 26, 2025, 4:18 pm • 12 0 • view
*is rich enough to buy a country or influence governments* “Anyone can compete with me on this completely level playing field”
feb 26, 2025, 6:05 pm • 5 0 • view
And don't forget the total lack of consumer protections. Or do states have something like that? As I understood it CFPB was doing it on federal level.
feb 26, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Too big to fail . Ugh. And that tech bank that failed. Should have limited coverage to FDIC limits like everyone else gets.
feb 26, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly
feb 26, 2025, 3:38 pm • 1 0 • view
You meant “formerly respectable perches”, right?
feb 26, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
lol, because doing shit like paying $40 million to FLOTUS for a documentary that helps you get favorable government treatment—that’s free market activity. Bezos is such a fucking joke. No, this is the oligarchic owner telling his reporters “You write pro-oligarchy pieces now”. Plain and simple.
feb 26, 2025, 3:25 pm • 18 1 • view
The personal liberty to monopolize the free market!
feb 26, 2025, 2:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Just like the bad old days of the yellow press: The paper exists to push the pet causes of the owner. "Every day, we will support my making even more obscene amounts of money."
feb 26, 2025, 3:55 pm • 5 0 • view
"So here's why tariffs are great"
feb 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Up to now, I have continued to subscribe out of loyalty to the actual journalists who have kept the memory of the Post alive. But enough: F*ck you, Bezos, for destroying a great American newspaper.
feb 26, 2025, 2:56 pm • 58 4 • view
Boycott Amazon #BoycottAmazon
feb 26, 2025, 4:47 pm • 6 1 • view
List is growing John Deere Harley Davidson Jack Daniel’s Ford Motor Lowe’s Molson Coors Boeing Walmart McDonald’s Meta Amazon Target The Smithsonian Institution Google Amtrak Accenture Pepsi GM Disney GE Intel PayPal Chipotle Comcast PBS Deloitte Goldman Sachs Coca Cola Citigroup JP Morgan Chase
feb 26, 2025, 4:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Basically, boycott America. As a European, I'm doing my part.
feb 27, 2025, 6:56 am • 0 0 • view
John Deere m: shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI plank.
feb 26, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait: The Smithsonian? PBS?
feb 26, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Reduced or eliminated DEI policies or programs
feb 26, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The Smithsonian is almost 100% dependent on federal grants. To thumb their nose at Danger Yam's EO would invite destruction of the entire thing. As it is, I expect the African-American and Native American museums to shutter before EOY.
feb 26, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
My guess is that it is because both gave in to demands to remove diversity initiatives and positions.
feb 26, 2025, 5:35 pm • 2 0 • view
But did they?
feb 26, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
They didn't have much of a choice. The % of government funding both of those would lose is a massive hit to ask donors to pick up.
feb 26, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Bezos talking about the wonders of free markets is chef's kiss
feb 26, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Yah, who needs democracy when you can have an oligarchy of unbridled crony capitalism with coo-coos and morons running the country? New masthead: “My darkness is your reality”
feb 26, 2025, 3:29 pm • 2 1 • view
I guess that depends on how you define personal liberties. I don't happen to think trashing other people's beliefs because they are uncomfortable for a person to encounter is an infringement on their liberty, but on the liberty of the targeted person or group.
feb 26, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s going to find out shortly what a free market for newspapers means.
feb 26, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Poorly educated, white, working-class citizens are so gullible. They've been convinced to hand over cash to the Christian Church and convinced to hand over cash to Trump. They literally purchase their own brainwashing. Donald Trump is the Joel Olstein of government.
feb 26, 2025, 3:31 pm • 3 3 • view
Monopolists see "free market" a little differently than you might assume.
feb 26, 2025, 3:32 pm • 4 0 • view
As defined by dear leader.
feb 26, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
No way to honestly post about personal liberties a try and free markets without being anti Trump, but I'm guessing that's not the direction.
feb 26, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Libertarians don't talk about -or maybe don't even realize- is how you can have "Personal liberties/Free markets", along with a court system that allows the Wealthy and Big Business to completely quash small speech, like NDAs and lawsuits, protecting their products/interests Libertarianism is a Lie
feb 26, 2025, 3:09 pm • 5 0 • view
Bullshit! We will be boycotting you soon.
feb 26, 2025, 2:47 pm • 5 0 • view
"Personal liberties" huh? So it won't be a transphobic shithole or is that liberties for the straight whites only?
feb 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 5 1 • view
I know that dropping Meta and Amazon is hard and definitely inconvenient. But try and look at where this is heading. There will be nothing to control prices and wages once our country becomes a corporation and every bit of our money is squeezed out.
feb 26, 2025, 3:36 pm • 7 1 • view
Not That hard, actually. Lotsa other choices, if you think about it. Takes a bit more time & thought but feels great!
feb 26, 2025, 5:37 pm • 3 1 • view
Eat the rich.
feb 26, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Yuck. But, okay.
feb 26, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
We all have to do our part.
feb 26, 2025, 3:46 pm • 1 0 • view
🫡 (Heel clicks are ineffective as I'm wearing slippers.)
feb 26, 2025, 4:21 pm • 2 0 • view
feb 26, 2025, 3:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Democracy dies in darkness. Jeff Bezos just flipped the switch to the off position.
feb 26, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Libertarian “free thinkers” are in a cult. It’s a straight up cult.
feb 26, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 1 • view
Why didn’t this fool resign when the newspaper would not endorse a presidential candidate?
feb 26, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember when he said he would not interfere with the professionals at the paper?
feb 26, 2025, 8:26 pm • 4 0 • view
Hey, @washingtonpost.com journalists, what about mass resignations and founding your own journal ?
feb 27, 2025, 6:58 am • 7 0 • view
Democracy dies in capitalism. @washingtonpost.com @postopinions.bsky.social
feb 27, 2025, 6:48 am • 1 0 • view
The US, as usual, with their own conception of "freedom" and "freedom of press". It's freedom as long as everyone thinks the same. We had the WSJ for inane opinion pieces, now the WaPo will join the choir of billionnaire worshipers.
feb 27, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view
We're all about "two pillars: personal liberties and free markets" Now do as I say! And praise my predatory monopoly!
feb 26, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
All the while, the Trump administration works to eliminate our personal freedoms.
feb 26, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Wish I could cancel my subscription again
feb 26, 2025, 3:20 pm • 4 0 • view
This is why we need to do what we can… Unsubscribe from and stop reading or watching @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com @nytimes.com @theyoungturks.bsky.social @msnbc.com And so on… we can hurt them all by ignoring them. They chose money over journalism… they bent the knee… walk away
feb 26, 2025, 3:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Canceled
feb 26, 2025, 3:32 pm • 2 0 • view
“Hell yes or no” is such juvenile thinking. All these billionaires seem to have the worldview and politics of a 14 year old libertarian.
feb 26, 2025, 3:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Shorter Bezos, we will be writing everyday about the genius of Trump and Musk.
feb 26, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow, so he’s trying to drive it into the ground for a bigger tax write-off?
feb 26, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Personal liberties? PERSONAL LIBERTIES? If that’s the case, then they need to publish an “opinion” about Tulsi Gabbard‘s move to eliminate all LGBTQ staff.
feb 26, 2025, 3:21 pm • 7 2 • view
Round of applause for David Shipley.
feb 26, 2025, 10:19 pm • 7 0 • view
"free market" says the guy who gave the presidents wife $40M for a crappy bio movie.
feb 26, 2025, 3:07 pm • 10 0 • view
feb 26, 2025, 3:30 pm • 93 3 • view
I've canceled several times, yet they won't. stop. delivering the Sunday paper. I don't want it, don't read it, don't pay for it. Assuming they are propping up subscriber numbers by continuing delivery. Anyone else have this issue?
feb 26, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I put it in my description, but if for some reason you have to have a subscription (work, etc.) if you cancel they offer you a half price yearly rate to sign back up. So worth doing so.
feb 26, 2025, 4:50 pm • 7 0 • view
I cancelled a couple of years ago, after decades of beign a subscriber. When they started turning to the Dark Side.
feb 26, 2025, 8:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Dear Jeff Bezos: Please feel free to go fuck yourself. I wish I could cancel my subscription AGAIN, and I’ve already quit Amazon Prime.
feb 26, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Looks like the Post is helping it along.
feb 26, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Free - completely unregulated - markets are exactly what's been taking liberties with our freedoms, our rights and our income ever since Thatcher and Regan consigned themselves to an eternity in Hell.
feb 26, 2025, 4:28 pm • 9 2 • view
Whucking fite.
feb 26, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
This sounds terrible for Musk, Trump, and Republicans. They support curtailing personal liberties, such as the freedom to not be pregnant, and support corrupt crony capitalism, in which you have to bribe Trump/Musk to do business ... the antithesis of free markets. bsky.app/profile/maxt...
feb 26, 2025, 5:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Jeff Bezos only means free markets and personal liberties for Jeff Bezos. The rest of us do not exist in any real sense to the billionaire class.
feb 26, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 1 • view
When someone like Jeff Bezos spouts "personal liberty" he means "billionaires should be above the law."
feb 26, 2025, 5:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Which personal liberties? A woman’s bodily autonomy, the right to criticize government, or the right to call people “ retards”? The MAGA crowd is very selective on personal liberties
feb 26, 2025, 3:20 pm • 36 1 • view
feb 26, 2025, 3:24 pm • 8 0 • view
Personal liberties for WHOM and free markets for WHOM? I wonder .....
feb 26, 2025, 4:31 pm • 4 0 • view
🤯 I unsubscribed when he wouldn’t let them endorse Harris, then resubscribed to support their excellent journalists, but have to unsubscribe completely now. What, besides currying favor with the self-proclaimed God-King, does he hope to accomplish with this?
feb 26, 2025, 4:19 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s easy to see: more $$$$$ because “more is never enough”! (Sorry, Miss Piggy😏)
feb 26, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
cc @katie-drummond.bsky.social and @reckless.bsky.social this feels in the zone
feb 26, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
"We're going full propaganda, folks. Get on board or get out."
feb 26, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Personal liberties. Hmmmm…. So respecting pronouns and leaving abortion decisions to women and their doctors, right?
feb 26, 2025, 11:06 pm • 2 0 • view
congrats to jeff
feb 26, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Looking forward to reading pieces about the freedom to call Elon Musk a dick without receiving threatening letters from the corrupted MoJ or for people to object at town halls without getting hog- tied by brownshirts.
feb 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Since I assume Bezos knows that "Free Markets" don't like personal liberties, because liberties are expensive whereas slavery isn't, I assume he's being incredibly sarcastic here. Or he's a moron. Possibly both!
feb 26, 2025, 3:22 pm • 13 0 • view
I talked to God*. He says He has been everywhere for the past zillion earth-years, and that we who want to live by a book should quit being hypocrites about butting in on His behalf in the USA. He's not our fucking concierge and we don't know what's going to happen. *props to thegodpod
feb 26, 2025, 11:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh my god this makes me fucking sick
feb 26, 2025, 2:50 pm • 2 0 • view
The @washingtonpost.com is dead, kaput, gone, crossed the Rainbow Bridge when Bezos pulled the Harris endorsement. Anyone who still subscribes should examine their life choices. Stop giving news about the dead former Wapo oxygen and stop driving traffic to their zombie site. It's not helping us.
feb 26, 2025, 8:06 pm • 58 7 • view
As an old Postie, I'm with you. ICYMI. www.facebook.com/rosenfeldm/p...
feb 27, 2025, 3:28 am • 1 0 • view
This says content no available -- and I'm note on FB either. Won't give one penny to Zuck.
feb 27, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It's about a supplement that came with a D.C. home delivered paper copy of WaPo, describing 50 new employees. It had this cover on it, which made those of us who risked our careers to win a '70s WaPo class action suit for sex discrim feel like we were back in the ladies' room secretly crying again.
feb 27, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Ugh, what a comedown. What would Katherine Graham say to this bullshit. Bet she would have some words. Thank you for your activism.
feb 27, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately it was her ladyship we sued. Thank you for yours, and your librarianship.
feb 27, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Ha!! How could I have forgotten: womensmediacenter.com/news-feature...
feb 27, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for this, I love a good link.
feb 27, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
A great lady. alled to step up to bat 3 times, n 3 times, she did. Husband's suicide, she takes over paper. Pentagon Papers. Watergate. A courageous grrrl story. (Thinking about her. Couldn't get a date. Like Janis Joplin. Silver foxy Brit journo credibly told me she flashed her panties at him.)
feb 27, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Time to make your money do the talking…that’s all they care about, hit them there. I would rather do without a few bits, than fund Nazi hatred
feb 27, 2025, 12:47 pm • 2 0 • view
WaPo did not cross the rainbow bridge but went to hell 🔥
feb 26, 2025, 10:21 pm • 11 2 • view
Fair.
feb 26, 2025, 10:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Code for "rapacious capitalism." Caveat emptor, baby.
feb 26, 2025, 3:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Personal liberty to oppress trans people and rob the poor to pay the rich? What an ethical colossus
feb 26, 2025, 5:38 pm • 10 0 • view
He left out his third pillar: how to be a douche.
feb 26, 2025, 7:45 pm • 1 0 • view
So the WaPo is going the way of the WSJ -- an opinion page that is pure propaganda. Somehow, the WSJ has managed to survive. Maybe the WaPo will, also.
feb 26, 2025, 5:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Pitch: what is the actual value of a dead bezos from the perspective of the free market? These experts argue....
feb 26, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Personal liberties? Does that mean they're going to talk about the GoP constantly trying to put the government in peoples pants?
feb 26, 2025, 2:46 pm • 156 3 • view
Not THOSE kind of personal liberties, silly. Just the kind of personal liberties that allow the wealthy to do whatever they want without consequences.
feb 26, 2025, 3:37 pm • 6 0 • view
More like: "If you don't wanna write our Propaganda shit you have the personal liberty to fuck off and look for another job on the free market."
feb 26, 2025, 3:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Well that paper is absolutely cooked
feb 26, 2025, 3:15 pm • 2 0 • view
And that's why you can't ban trans folks from the cafeteria, right?
feb 27, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
It’s become a newspaper for oligarchs, to moan and bitch about why they’re not universally loved and just misunderstood.
feb 26, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Is anyone still reading the Washington Post? No one I know even mentions it. It's as if it doesn't exist anymore.
feb 26, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
"There was a time when a newspaper ... might have seen it as a service to [publish] a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job." The internet has trolls attacking people they don't like, not just disagreeing via "counterspeech". 1/
feb 26, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It has disinformation and algorithm hacking to control what you see. It includes billionaire owners supporting nazis and suppressing opinions they don't like, just like, ah, the Washington Post. 2/2
feb 26, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
feb 26, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
What is “free market opinion”? I think it means opinion will be sold to the highest bidder. Amirite? Jeff “the Enshittifier” Bezos
feb 26, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Jeff sounds kind of dopey. A lot of these guys turn out to be a little dopey.
feb 26, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 0 • view
It's dead
feb 26, 2025, 3:56 pm • 2 0 • view
So forget the first amendment
feb 26, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
BEZOS: From now on, the Washington Post's opinion page will be dedicated to personal liberties and free markets. PADME: And constitutional integrity, right? BEZOS: ... PADME: And constitutional integrity, right?!
feb 26, 2025, 3:32 pm • 7 0 • view
📌
feb 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
what are "personal liberties"?
feb 26, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
This may be the final straw that convinces me to finally break my dependence on Amazon.
feb 26, 2025, 2:53 pm • 2 0 • view
“Freedom is ethical - it minimizes coercion” Proceeds to tell you about how He coerced the resignation of the editor
feb 26, 2025, 4:31 pm • 6 1 • view
Ah. Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool Fuck.
feb 26, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Bezos will tell you what your opinion is
feb 26, 2025, 3:22 pm • 5 0 • view
Entirely in keeping with the current direction of USA
feb 26, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
State Media
feb 26, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Real journalists will not remain. Let’s see who has balls these days.
feb 26, 2025, 4:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Bezos wants "free markets"? He wants every industry, including his own, to have so much competition that no one company can control the market? For there to be "perfect information" on every product sold, so consumers know when they're being cheated? Those are both vital to a "free market."
feb 26, 2025, 2:51 pm • 8 0 • view
Yeah, he really doesn't actually want people discussing the ways that Amazon distorts the free market and the importance of antitrust legislation and regulation to keep it free for the consumers.
feb 26, 2025, 3:39 pm • 8 0 • view
Let’s make sure the free market crashes his business as more people abandon Amazon every day. Stop enriching people destroying the fabric of our society.
feb 26, 2025, 3:07 pm • 26 5 • view
Yep, canceling Prime now.
feb 26, 2025, 11:30 pm • 5 0 • view
I need to take my own advice and quit whole foods market. Had no idea until recently that Bezos owned it. 😕
feb 27, 2025, 11:46 am • 1 0 • view
Totally. We’re people, humans, in a society, before we’re consumers that enrich them
feb 27, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
Going to go out on a limb and guess "personal liberties" aren't gonna include being gay or trans
feb 26, 2025, 9:38 pm • 48 2 • view
Or getting an abortion.
feb 27, 2025, 12:03 am • 23 1 • view
🎯🏆 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
feb 27, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
Bingo!
feb 27, 2025, 12:29 am • 3 0 • view
🎯💯 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
feb 27, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
Oh no, I'm sure he thinks you're perfectly free to be gay or trans and doctors are perfectly free to leave you dying on the operating table.
feb 27, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ll be Jeff’s personal liberties.
feb 27, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
There’s no ethical journalistic option now at the @washingtonpost.com except mass resignation. As step by step we slide toward #Germany1933. #resist #AmericanFascism
feb 26, 2025, 10:59 pm • 2 0 • view
"Will Lewis, The Post’s chief executive, said in a memo to staff that changes to the opinion section were “not about siding with any political party.”
feb 26, 2025, 4:06 pm • 40 3 • view
Welcome Post readers to the Philadelphia Inquirer
feb 26, 2025, 2:50 pm • 21 2 • view
Really minimizing coercion here!
feb 26, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view