"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness and let other people clean up the mess they had made" is what comes to mind here.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Dear New York Times and Athletic. Thank you very much.

Who's the Nationals' No. 1 catcher entering spring training? They're purposely keeping the answer to that question open-ended for now. natsjournal.com/p/catching-q...

From new technology both sophisticated and rudimentary to new warm-up routines to the rookie manager throwing BP, the Nationals' first pitchers and catchers workout today had some notable differences from previous springs. natsjournal.com/p/difference...

BREAKING: The number of appearances of Obama and Biden in the Epstein files is STAGGERING. That staggering number is ZERO. From U.S. Democratic Socialists

Brilliant piece.

Damn right!

In which @sallyjenx.bsky.social so beautifully captures want makes a great newsroom truly great. Here’s to all of the wildly dedicated people who—no matter the hour, the destination, or the danger—grab a notebook and run toward the action no matter what. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

NEW: A eulogy for The Post's sports department, which transformed the press box forever and created some of the best sportswriters in America www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Important reporting here from @charliesavage.bsky.social ⬇️

The layoffs at the Washington Post really suck. I don't know how else to put it. That newspaper is great. The sports section is awesome and I have enjoyed reading so many of the people who work and worked there. WaPo does essential work. All the journalists there deserve better.

Good opportunity for MacKenzie Scott to get a lot of great press for a reasonable price…

… Povich, Solomon, Shapiro, Denlinger, Remnick, Wilbon, Kornheiser, Clarke, Reid, Goff, Rosenberg, Hamilton, Berko, Nichols, Friend, Bos, Sally, Babb, Brew, Maese, Frey, Maske, Buckner, Culpepper, Wise, Les, Sheinin, Feinstein and so many others that made it so unique and essential.

"We’re witnessing a murder," writes @ashleyrparker.bsky.social. "Jeff Bezos ... and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Bezos has been tearing down what was once one of the most reputable papers in the world for years now, but I chose to keep my sub to read and support the people providing great sports coverage. Welp.

I am so angry on behalf of everyone axed by the cretinous turds running the Washington Post today. The best sports section in America. A glittering international crew. It's the ruination of a precious thing by a principle-free rich man, and it makes me sick to my stomach.

I used to be sad about what was happening to the newspaper I took great pride in for the 48 years I worked there. Now I'm just furious. Bezos did to The Washington Post what Trump did to America.

The Post sports department was a jewel for decades -- producing much of the paper's best writing. And the only recently expanded Sunday Books erction was terrific, often better even than the Times and Journal. Both killed by Bezos.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

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It takes all of us to make The Washington Post. Every section works together to create this authoritative, entertaining, worldwide news report. So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.

U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home The Justice Dept. did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Excellent analysis and context here, @charliesavage.bsky.social

NYT Editorial from before the 2024 election. Trump at least did not hide his intentions And The NYT in news pages and opinion pieces (separate teams) extensively documented this well before the election

As chair of the North American Committee of the International Press Institute, I speak for myself and for my colleagues in voicing outrage at the unjustified arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for the crime of covering a demonstration. This has been an outrageous abuse of media freedoms.

Don Lemon’s arrest highlights the urgent need for robust press protections, both in statute and via the Press Clause. At the end of 2024, I co-authored a report with Floyd Abrams, @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social, and others on empowering the Press Clause. Read it here: law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

This is my daily reminder to tell @washingtonpost.com to keep their hands off one of the best sports reporting and writing teams in the country.

The Holocaust Museum should be worrying about how what’s happening now could very well cause the next one. Instead they are spending their time getting offended at the very historical comparisons that might prevent it.

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, California mourns the six million Jewish lives brutally taken and the millions of others horrifically murdered by the Nazis. We must tell the truth about this atrocity and fight antisemitism and all hatred — without exception.

Finally. apnews.com/article/hoot...

Bill Clinton: “Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.”

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

I've covered federal and state courts for more than a decade, and even I have been shocked by the North Carolina Supreme Court's conduct since Trump-aligned extremists took it over. This article gives you a taste of the corruption. Justice Earls must keep her seat. www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Saving the North Carolina Supreme Court from the current MAGA majority—which is dead-set on ending free and fair elections in the state—starts with Justice Earls holding onto her seat in November. Very glad @billycorriher.bsky.social is getting her incredible story out there now.

This is a really important project. The voters of North Carolina deserve to learn Justice Earls' extraordinary story in advance of her reelection contest this fall. Her victory in November will be key to saving the NC Supreme Court from the grips of a corrupt and ultra-partisan MAGA majority.

Judge William Young ends his order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism or speech with this quotation. It’s by Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench four decades ago.

Floyd Abrams: “The Enduring Legacy of Buckley v. Valeo” electionlawblog.org?p=153927

I truly don't see how ICE's continued existence is compatible with law and order. Even if one cares only about law and order and the rule of law and nothing else, abolishing ICE should be a no brainer.

While it made it as far as dress rehearsal, Tommy Brennan's Weekend Update desk bit on Trump's ICE deployments in his home state of Minnesota did not make it to SNL broadcast. But they've made it available anyway. And you should watch it.

Last week "abolish ice" was the moderate position I'd say the moderate position today is probably Nuremberg

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The FBI raid on the home of a Washington Post reporter on Wednesday took the Trump administration’s attacks on press freedoms to a troubling new level,” writes the lawyer David Schulz.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o... This is a must read by the great Dave Schulz!

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.