You hate to see it. www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...

Looks like Will Lewis was too busy taking in the festivities ahead of the Super Bowl to address his staff after gutting the newsroom.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Once again, this would be a Defcon 1 level scandal for any other president and spark weeks of intense media coverage and calls for impeachment. For Trump, it is merely a Thursday.

‘Do You Speak Billionaire?’ and Other Stories From the Fall of the Washington Post talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/do-yo...

"Lizzie's a terrific reporter who's done great work in a very difficult situation for us, and I'm incredibly grateful to her and in awe of her courage and her talent. I don't blame her for being upset. That's a natural reaction, and it's understandable," Matt Murray on firing a reporter in Ukraine.

Apparently, according to CBS News staff, Bari Weiss didn't show up for today's editorial meeting and there continues to be radio slience on the whole Peter Attia situation.

I'm being told that CBS Evening News producer Nicole Cutrona, who is trans and recently pressed Bari Weiss about changing editorial guidelines around "biological sex," is leaving the network. CBS Evening News staffers were offered buyouts last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

On top of Michael Wilbon -- a former WaPo sportswriter-- savaging Jeff Bezos as a "lightweight," he also said during this interview that he's canceling his Washington Post subscription.

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

NEW: I spent hours combing through the references to #MeToo in the latest tranche of Epstein files. I found Epstein closely tracked the fallout of #MeToo, joked about being in a "pariahs club," and advised men accused of misconduct behind the scenes 19thnews.org/2026/02/jeff...

Patch, maybe? I googled it and it confirmed it's hard to get an exact number, but reporting the time said they had 450 pre-layoffs and the 2014 layoff was 80-90% (so around 360-405 people). Of course, Patch was a startup without the legacy of the Post, nor did it ever have a sustainable biz model.

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

Yeah, I can't really think of a larger one off the top of my head. The Messenger was similar in raw numbers, though it was a complete closure rather than the gutting of a newsroom like the Washington Post yesterday. Even the massive CBS News layoffs this past fall are small in comparison...

Anyway, congrats to Will Lewis bumping the UK tabloid scandal to the second sentence of his obit.

Trump on the media: "You know, you can‘t be sarcastic with them because they write your words."

OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

So there was just a very loud and sustained "Fuck ICE" chant during a pro wrestling show on live primetime television, if you wanna get a sense of the vibe shift. (One of the wrestlers, Brody King, is an outspoken prigressive and wore an "Abolish ICE" shirt at a Mexico show in June.)

The year is 2026. The American president has kidnapped you to a Black Site unless you confess that Sleepy Joe stole Georgia

It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency www.reuters.com/world/americ...

🚨 Munitions inventory leaked to me shows Border Patrol is stockpiling over 35,000 weapons in Minneapolis for crowd control. Full inventory here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-wa...

There's blank empty looks, and then there's this:

"Every once in a while, you have to smile. Roger Ailes used to tell us that." Remember when Megyn Kelly helped bring Ailes down at Fox News for sexually harassing her? Now here she is referencing him approvingly to the vice president to defend Trump's misogyny. www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...

It's the smirk he tries to hide after saying "for what" that takes this over the edge.

The Washpost's editor said today that, amid the layoffs, one of the Post's top priorities will be "national security, in DC and abroad." And at the same time, the Post is laying off every journalist in the Middle East. And Ukraine.

I don’t like this

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Quinnipiac's latest poll shows that only 34% of voters approve of ICE, 61% don't believe the Trump administration is being honest about the Alex Pretti shooting, and just 37% of the way Trump is handling his job as president. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

life comes at you fast

After Trump tells NBC News he could maybe use a "softer touch" on immigration, we immediately get the "different tone" narrative from CNN. Brianna Keilar: "A change of tone for the president. Softer touch." David Chalian: "He acknowledged learning something that this requires a softer touch."

And there it is

Bezos is executing a catch and kill on one of the world’s most important and storied news organizations

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Let's pour one out for the real victim of the Washington Post layoffs -- Dylan Byers' feelings.

dude

The Washington Post Guild's GoFundMe to raise money for Post staffers laid off has already passed $100,000 and is quickly climbing. Kara Swisher, a former Post employee who was rumored to be looking at heading a group to buy the paper, just tossed in $10,000. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Here is Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray's note to the newsroom today explaining the bloodbath that resulted in one-third of the paper getting laid off today:

i suppose it’s fitting that the model the billionaires have in mind when they want to destroy a journalistic institution and make it a reactionary slop machine is The Free Press

yup

It's a "bloodbath" at the Washington Post today, as roughly one-third of the paper's journalists were laid off from the newsroom. “We’re witnessing a murder," former Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker wrote today about the layoffs. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Employees were told Wednesday that the paper’s sports desk would close among other cuts and restructurings

So this pro-ICE television ad just ran during today's broadcast of MS NOW's Morning Joe.

... and naturally, the guy they gave it to is a straight-up Nazi (2/2)

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

Trump to Kaitlan Collins after she pressed him on getting justice for Epstein survivors: "No wonder CNN has no ratings because of people like you. You know, she‘s a young woman. I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen you smile. I‘ve known you for 10 years. I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen a smile in your face."

Just asking questions, folks