The last one is true, and a good thing. Successive Administrations have tried to undo progress on rural broadband made by the previous one, and the result is stasis. I prefer co-ops to private enterprise, and expect higher costs than with performance-based regulation, but we won't get perfection.

But really, theyre only relevant because of subscribers. Stopping subscriptions means stopping funding. Everything, and i mean everything, is about the money. As consumers we have more power than we credit ourselves for. On the other hand, we’re lazy and don’t want to be inconvenienced.

Max Boot is still there. He's still writing rationally about national security. @maxboot.bsky.social

Barf

Gee, not ONE mention of free markets...

That is bleak

transformed into.. something useless

Such a rag.

Its so sad.

Will there be a WaPo Pitchbot?

For all these bright, bushy-tailed, beady-eyed new carcass-scavengers whose names I don’t recognize, you left out one of their dimwitted, center-right standbys:

Ick! He sometimes subs for David Brooks on PBS NewsHour's Friday show segment. I didn't know who he was when I first saw him, but it took all of about 3 seconds to recognize whose lies he was supporting.

former Daily Dish alum ... won't ever get that Sully taint off

What does this even mean. Don't they have anything better to do than whine about Mamdani 🙃

JFC. 🤦‍♂️

Ramesh Ponnuru is so 2007. I thought his 15 minutes ended when Bush nearly broke the world. He is an officious little busybody who hawks a new form of conservatism no one wants. Begone!

In the right-wing-o-sphere, being a shit-eating scumsucker is a feature not a bug.

Ponnaru is an editor at the National Review. "Center" doesn't apply.

Ah, another one for the large file marked right-wing pundit "helpfully" tells Democrats how to win!

Sad and tragic.

Starving children in Africa now have incentives to develop food sources.

Tim Tugendhat is a fake name Bart Simpson used to crank call Moe and you can't convince me otherwise.

so many big names!

Katharine Graham has made her final turn in her grave. She’s got no turns left to give.

For anyone who's hesitated to cancel their @washingtonpost.com subscription, overwhelming evidence of the fact that Bezos has rendered it unworthy of your support. You'll feel much better shifting your support to an independent media voice.

I keep ignoring their pleas to re-subscribe. It might yet comes down to being free.

There are still people paying for this, somehow

Unfortunately there are so many people in this country who approve what he’s doing.

Bezos is the new Randolph Hearst.

machine generated

I hope every single damn person involved, from the masthead to the writers, are known as Nazis for the rest of their fucking lives. And their obituaries, they should be called Nazis.

These sound like made up names lmao

"Tom Tugendatdee" 🤣

Would YOU sign your real name to an editorial published in WaPo?

w-o-w

Hilarious that Tom Tugenhut is getting a slot here British Murdoch DEI courtesy Will Lewis

A red carpet rollout for an autocratic regime. Never more offensive to democracy. #WaPo complicit! A nationwide boycott of Amazon for 7 days could send a msg, don’t you think, my friends? Name a start date.

Stopped reading WAPO a while ago

Bezos, like Musk, will pay in court, taxes and image for his fealty to fascism once we bring Trump down..

Dream on.

We will.

All have bent the knee. None of these poseurs is relevant as a journalist any longer. They now serve the Turd Reich.

JFC

P

My subscription finally ran out a few days ago but I went back to their web page and this is the first thing I noticed also. Would've only clicked on them to read the comment section. It's truly sad and disheartening

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

If your point is that they’ve collectively lost their goddamned minds, then you’re spot-on.

How low it has fallen

Post ...Nasal Drip

So glad Trump is gutting solar and wind energy so badly that nuclear can compete

The WaPo is now best understood being presented directly to Trump by Bezos while speaking in toddler voice in one of those Dictator Gift Ceremonies, as Bezos asks for another multi-billion-dollar govt contract for Blue Origin or AWS or whatever

And let Bezos continue to break the law to exploit and endanger Amazon workers.

Might be time to “Tesla” Amazon. I canceled Prime months ago.

Same... and have bought only one item through them since (because, try as I may, I couldn’t find it anywhere else). Funny thing is, it still shipped free and showed up in only two days.

Yep, if you spend a certain amount it ships free anyway. Also, if you live where Amazon makes a lot of daily deliveries, it’ll ship overnight regardless because they’re coming to the neighborhood anyway. Time for Bezos to take a pay cut.

Tom Tugendhat - FFS

Wapo is garbage

Democracy Dies Under Oligarchs.

WP editorial page no longer exists. Just telling’ it like it is.

Sooo democracy HAS died? Or when are they going to change their tagline?

If you pay for this, you should [REDACTED]

More like Tugen dhat nut

Does it even matter? Nobody us reading that anymore only people reporting in the changes. Lol

A lot of people are saying that more than 50 regular viewers of Newsmax have signed up for Wapo subscriptions at $20 per year.

Why the fuck would anybody read that fascist rag?

National Review 2.0

Wow

are those real names?

Unless you pointed this out, I'd never have known.....since I cancelled them.....twice.

Do not even think of buy something off Amazon.

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Ernst Stavro Bezos

Haven't read a single article in over a yar.

Once I saw that Carol Leonnig left that was it. Cancelled my subscription and it made me sad.

Their loss, MSNBC's gain.

Indeed. She’s so good. They let all their best journalists leave, save for Karen Tumulty. I wonder why she stayed when everyone else is gone.

👅 🍆

Yep

Ugh.

Jesus Christ. It’s Fox for people who can read.

The problem with rural America is it’s filled with rural Americans who vote for nincompoops.

What a disgrace

Put a fork in both the WaPo and NYT Until and unless they do a clear about-face, own up to their deliberate white-washing of this administration, and start meeting their remit to be adversarial and hold power to account, They are nothing more than full-on MAGA propaganda outfits

I canceled them ages ago but my sub had just renewed, so I've had access for nearly a year since then. They make it easier and easier to quit them.

Did we need another Wall Street Journal, with first-rate reportage b/w a predictably right-wing editorial page?

🤮 Somewhere, Katherine Graham is weeping.

bleak AF

WaPo literally has become the “Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Ministry” with Will Lewis as Joseph Goebbels.

At some point it will click for them that the left reads more than the right. But they’re choosing to learn the hard way.

I'm soooooo glad I canceled my subscription to the WP last fall.

💩💩💩

If this bullshit doesn’t make your heart ache so much it bleeds - I don’t know where truth crawled away to, to die … WOW!!!

Damn. You didn’t even have to use Marc A. Thiessen or Hugh Hewitt.

I regret that you can only unsubscribe once.

Any advice on how I can reply to their increasingly desperate resub offers with "No, f--k the f---k off and then f--k off some more, thank you very much."

Report spam?

Not sure that would get the message across with sufficient vehemence.

Goody, you included names.

taking away funding for education does not help anyone

NYT is more Vichy than the French Paper Le Temps even went.

The NYT is hardly better. 🤮

That's quite dispiriting.

I’m glad I left

The Dearborn Independent

Idk if rest in peace or rest in piss is more appropriate, at this point. Can’t even keep track of which one is a Bezos puppet on strings anymore.

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JHC

Jeezuz

Faith and flag park tugenhat used to be one of the saner ones

It’s wild how so many of us fell for that “Democracy Dies in Darkness” shit.

Marty Baron was a real one.

I pay $30 a year just to read Carolyn Hax. This morning, for the fun of it, I looked at the opinion headlines. And just about every headline except life style. I felt pure disgust. Going to finally, finally totally unsubscribe and get my $30 back. It’s just not worth it. Sorry Carolyn!

I hope she tries syndicating her column again. I'll miss her when my subscription runs out.

Missed this gem. Love it when republican talking heads want to opine on how dems win or lose

Oligarch Owned

This prompted me to finally cancel my subscription. I've had a digital subscription since digital subscriptions existed, following on our family's paper subscription forever and ever. I cried! It's pretty upsetting. I support journalists wherever/whenever I can & almost never cancel subscriptions.

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Now we need to see much more of this from our media. Need better stronger voices besides gasbags like Kevin Kruse, Elie Mystal, Will Bunch and that phony Jamelle Bouie. They ain't helping one bit. Individually they are all Team Captain Obvious

"The National Guard -- welcomed as liberators"

😂😂😏

The Epoch Post.

Remember when they and the NYT were newspapers?

Needs more Thiessen and Hewitt

With writers no one has ever heard of who might just possibly be AI

Tom Tugendhat? Everyone knows him. Good old Tugendhat.

I read it as Tim Turgidhat

Ol' Tugger is regrettably real. He is an active politician in the UK. Fortunately not in any position to cause damage.

Ol’ Tugger! lol!😂

And surprisingly he was once called one of the better ones, however he was always talking nonsense.

Rub ‘n Tug they used to call him at CATO

Shockingly he was the British minister of State Security under Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. So instead of Ai, conservative British politicians.

And no one can tell the difference

A buddy of Will Lewis', no doubt.

That's way worse than AI.

she tug on my end til i hat

Somebody over there was tuggin' dat.

His cousin is Hugh Jass🤡

Guest international contributor....

The hat tugger is a downwardly mobile mid tier British twerp. He tried to become leader of the Tory party and failed without trace. This is the first I've heard of him since. This is not a positive development.

Mad Butcher is probably a real name. Probably. But props to her parents.

The "writers no one has ever heard of" occurred to me, too.

FYI "Thomas Georg John Tugendhat was born on 27 June 1973 in Westminster, son of Sir Michael Tugendhat, a High Court judge and his French-born wife Blandine de Loisne. He is a nephew of Lord Tugendhat, a businessman, former Vice President of the European Commission and Conservative Party politician.

OMG! The picture that comes up!

This one? See Alt Text.

So I have to put up with Rand Paul as my Senator, but his family apparently has a few more generations of inbreeding until they can achieve their destiny.

youtu.be/zGxSM5y7Pfs?...

I honestly can't tell if this is real (I mean, w/out searching it myself). Well done! 🧐

Alas, we had to put up with him in the UK as he tried and failed a number of times to become leader of the Conservatives. As much talent as a not very talented person.

Tom Tugonthat is a massive dick slap. Just saying

All the easier for that personal control. bsky.app/profile/will...

I hate that I know who Paul H Tice is. He's a hedge fund guy who is anti-renewable energy. He teaches at NYU Business School because of course.

Sorry, anti non-nuclear renewables.

It's like Newsmax for people who won't read at the dentist's office.

Tell me more about this Mad Butcher, though

Or those freshly chosen for their loyalty to the WP leadership and ultimately the Trump regime over others with expertise and an understanding of the media having a control function relative to those in power.

I’m only sorry that I am already unsubscribed.

The view from Canada: you guys are truly living 1984. There might not be a US Ministry of Truth, history is not being rewritten to satisfy a bogus present because the journalism of today is complicit in the bogus present. And it’s universal. All legacy media are failing. Fucking horrifying.

It also looks like 1984 from here. I mean, if you haven’t been on the receiving end of the full Fox News “two minutes hate” lobotomy, that is.

Its eight readers will be satisfied.

FFS

How is "Tom Tugendhat" not a name showing up in @theonion.com?

That's totally not @kenwhite.bsky.social's alter ego

Thanks, Dawn. All the grief I've given him on social media and *this* is what's going to get me blocked.

“Tom Tugendhat?” Was Randy Pinkwood taken?

Sorry, English person here who can confirm TT is real person: "Thomas Georg John Tugendhat born on 27 June 1973, son of Sir Michael Tugendhat, a High Court judge and his French-born wife Blandine de Loisne. Nephew of Lord Tugendhat, a businessman, former Vice President of the European Commission"

I did not have this exchange on my bingo card for the day.

I just thought it might be helpful to pop by with a light dusting of Englishness.

I see: 1. Some clown from Third way. 2. A UK Conservative MP. 3. A horsey podcaster. 4. A Wall Street bro. 5. A law school professor who writes for Forbes. Oy.

Horsey, lol

That’s her jam. Horses. It’s not an insult.

I was just laughing at the word Horsey. 😂

author of the book " “Horse Head: Brain Science & Other Insights”

well thx for confirming their identities AND aurhenticity

Well, it just confirmed my suspicions.

You can hear the heels on the jackboots clicking.

"Democracy has been Killed in Darkness" - The new motto for The Bezos Post.

Sure, Tom Tugendhat is a real person and not a purely fictional vessel of even-mild-for-white-christian-standards culture war skirmishes

Sickening.

@alt-text.bsky.social

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The Pennysaver is doing better than this.

Time to boycot Amazon. Seriously. Bezos needs to be more afraid of what his customers will do, than that lying orange turd.

Is not a transformation it's a sellout. Plain and simple the New York times needs to go in the bathroom get ripped into shreds and used for toilet paper. It's all is good for now.

Not to brag, but I thought the same exact thing this morning

And here I am, without a WP subscription.

They know where their bread is buttered

I’m done with the Washington Pest!

Oof

They sent me a survey asking what it would take to get me to subscribe. I clicked the “concerned about editorial choices” option for why I quit, but many Qs later I had to quit when a Q had no “there is no price drop that would lure me back, money wasn’t the issue” option.

*resubscribe

My sub to WaPo ended this month. I don't recognize any of these people writing for this once great paper. It saddens me to see it go done like this.

Why I don't give about Bezos's rag. Anyone who still believes WaPo and the NY Times aren't anything other than American Pravdas needs to keep up.

Should be "why I don't give a shit"

I just canceled my subscription, @washingtonpost.com

As a journalism major graduating in 1974, we all aspired to work for WaPo. They were at the top after breaking Watergate. My but how the mighty have fallen. Katherine Graham must be spinning in her grave. 😭

Amerika under oligarch rule. This is actually it. Don’t look away.

Congratulations WaPo. You deserve this.

To quote Seinfeld "Who are these people"

Indeed. All the good ones have left.

Ugh one of these ghouls is a British MP

Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee must be looking down from heaven in disgust! Eternal shame to Jeff Bezos.

📌

Worse than when I cancelled my subscription years ago... total fail

@alt-text.bsky.social

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Thank you.

They’re bleeding out.

100% Jeff. One right-wing hack after another. (I mean, bringing on half the staff of The National Review wasn't enough, so now for every liberal writer that's quit, you have to hire another right-wing idiot?)

I've never heard of any of those people

Not the point, but who the hell are any of these people?

It’s shocking how fast the 4th estate capitulated.

Good grief. Rivaling some of the greatest hits from The New York Times.

It’s horrible.

Not exactly a murderer's row of opinion writers. I have heard of, I think, exactly one of these people previously.

bobson dugnutt ass bylines

Never underestimate the power of the dark side.

Wonder what % of the Washington Post trumpstein will want?

Stop buying cheap plastic shit on Amazon and cancel your prime subscription

Sadly, NPR too. Watched a bit about inflation and never even mentioned Trump's immigrantion policies and his trump tax.

you watched a radio program?

Maybe PBS. Same thing.

YouTube

Tim Cook ------------- Trump does not have a small penis!

I had the same reaction this morning

Absolutely pathetic

Post like it's 2016?

Did you read any of them? The NPR one was about how the lack of funding might make it more left wing in red states. That's called an effective pro-funding message.

I cannot like this.

Fuck WaPo. At least NYT still has Connections and Wordle to distract us from the editorial

Wapo is utter garbage.

What the fuck is a flag and faith theme park? Fuck the fuck off. Christ.

I don't recognize any of those names.

There is absolutely no reason to subscribe to Jeff Bezos' newspaper anymore.

Fuck the WaPo and the NYT

The Wall Street Journal editorial board called. They say you went full fash and "you never go full fash."

So is their subscriber base.

bsky.app/profile/bird...

"Who are these fuckin' guys?"

It’s just so fucking sad to see. There’s no coming back from something like this. They will be irrelevant in another few months. Like USA Today, but without the substance.

Pumped for Amazon’s pending release of the Melania biopic. Should be out soon.

I have never heard any of those names in my life...

RIP Washington Post

Thank you Jeff Bezos.

It seems like a century ago that people on the right were fulminating against the Post (and the Times) as left-wing liberal media strongholds. But in fact it was only 40-something years ago, and I read the Post regularly in those days.

The Bezos MAGA Ass-Kissing Post

A bunch of unknown hacks replacing the likes of Ruth Marcus, Philip Bump, Jennifer Rubin et al

Well,another news format to completely ignore because they lie!!!!!

And yet, for some inexplicable reason, the punishment from us here is they have nearly 800k followers here in the "good place" they can leverage for even more ad revenue.

In Nazi Germany there was the term "Gleichschaltung" for making the media obedient (among other things). It can be loosely translated as "synchronization". You could also say "nazification". I think it is not too far fetched to warn about this kind of process here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichs...

So happy I ditched @washingtonpost.com Their refusal to publish the agreed upon endorsement of @kamalaharris.com was the prelude to this BS. Democracy dies in the darkness of 'the post' (lower case intentional).

The Postal Service has problems - here’s how Amazon can help the Postal Service and help its valuations too.

Glad....sort of...that I wasn't alone in noticing this today :(

Are those real people or someone using fake names to write insane coulmns

"Thomas Georg John Tugendhat born on 27 June 1973, son of Sir Michael Tugendhat, a High Court judge and his French-born wife Blandine de Loisne. He is a nephew of Lord Tugendhat, former Vice President of the European Commission." As an English person I can confirm he is, unfortunately, all too real.

Hope he is not at least royalty or something

Oh I am sure he wishes he was. (He's now older than this pic.) www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Thanks for sharing this very informative. Seems he is neither meat not fish

AI generated personae, maybe?

That is the only thing that makes sense actually

Wah Poo

Holy shit. Why are liberals still paying for this trash paper?

Well on its way to becoming TASS-lite. (Fox otoh is full-on TASS.)

It’s gone. Completely and totally gone. #AnotherOneBitesTheDust

Who the fuck are any of these people?

Three chatGPTs in a trench coat?

That's why I cancelled my subscription.

You forgot: How Zohran Mamdani is teaching Democrats to lose

I cannot believe I used to trust this paper

I've been staring at this post for 10 minutes, flabbergasted. It's astonishing how far and how fast the Washington Post has fallen.

Holy shit.

I can assure you the private sector has not fixed anything in rural America

Crazymaking.

Those names look made up.

quality that low, and somehow Megan McArdle isn't among them. That's impressive.

As hilarious as it is McArdle is probably one of their two or three best remaining writers.

What is she going to do in a sea of contrarians?

What the fuck is a faith and flag theme park ?

And shouldn’t it be in Mississippi?

Branson?

A supremely shitty one.

Where homeschoolers will go on our dime via school vouchers.