try it bitch

god. i wish i knew what jelly roll's politics were! i guess i will simply have to wait several days to find out.

I can only hope to see a resurgence in alt weekly interest, but the Chicago Reader for example has been struggling for a while now and continues to struggle. Really want the best for them. Announced last week that they're going monthly Gift 🔗

Reading Rainbow: Tar Beach (1992) VHS (R-U #26) : 1225s

I do not make this comparison lightly.

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

In case anyone thinks OP is exaggerating the point

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

interesting

democrats raised $57 MILLION so jaime harrison could lose to lindsey graham by 10. imagine if they had launched 5 media ventures instead, including one focused on south carolina with the goal of turning the state blue. www.politico.com/news/2020/10...

Wait so the solution is…

Grown-ass 45-year-old adult man arrested on assault charges after picking fight with students who had been protesting ICE. “‘After further thorough investigation, it was determined that Watts was the primary aggressor,’ police said.” people.com/texas-man-ar...

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Yeah, part of what's weird here is as recently as fall 2021 Bezos was funding the expansion of the Post by *40* editors, which is nearly unheard-of for a mature news org. Read this memo -- and note that every single person who signed it was gone by end of 2025 www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2021/09/2...

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

If Minnesota doesn't do shit about this, we're gonna have DHS and ICE at polling places pointing guns at people in blue cities 2026 while they walk in and out

Guys like Bezos think that because they made a lot of money doing one specific thing, that makes them brilliant at everything. And then when it turns out they don't know the first thing about, say, newspaper publishing, they get bored and task an underling with stripping the place for parts.

"Instead of waiting months for an interview or a diploma and tens of thousands of dollars of debt, those interested in our line of work can get started in less than a month as a registered apprentice with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters." www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

They’re essentially making mini CECOTs in suburbs and exurbs.

Do not love how this industry has been shredded and remade into a teetering heap of gig work Freelancers fighting each other for a dwindling number of scraps, generational talent falling out of the ecosystem entirely, former staffers struggling while billionaires stuff their pockets A fucking mess

I'm piecing evidence together

During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops regularly adorned Vietnamese corpses with “death cards” — either an ace of spades or a custom-printed business card claiming credit for their kills. Now, ICE is using them. theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...

It is like an extra level of depressing that our country isn’t even making concentration camps, where folk can at least go outside from time to time, rather they’re just big warehouses where folks are locked in cages and sleep on concrete floors, and no one can see the cruelty inside.

Skook County getting a concentration camp too

That market doesn't actually exist, they just have convinced themselves that's what's happening because that's who they pay attention to online

People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience

In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.

New analysis shows that Jeff Bezos could absorb the Washington Post's annual losses for 5 years with the amount he makes in a single week. His net worth has increased by $224 billion since buying the paper.

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

CINEMA.

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

Interesting...

It's actually easy: • marry someone with health insurance • get bosses who fired you to link your newsletter in a farewell • get virally lucky or have no bills for a year while you rebuild your audience • convince that audience to pay $60/year for one part of much bigger newspaper that was $140.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

people who don't exchange most or nearly all of the money they have for goods and services just live in a totally different reality than the rest of us. they make insane decisions because of it.

put it in the Louvre

Homan is smarter than Bovino (no real feat, there). He understands that if he does stuff that signals that we’re in the denouement of the crisis, media will move on. But brutality with observers is escalating, ICE is still omnipresent. Little sign on the ground that it’s over

Jeff Bezos destroyed the Washington Post because he couldn't admit that he didn't know how to run a newspaper, and also because he felt entitled to turn it into his personal plaything. Both are functions of his ego, his greed, his heedlessness, and his insecurity. What a dark day.

Devastation of alt-weeklies by VC capital has only made this problem more apparent but the news should employ more barely functional alcoholic townies and fewer striving nerds.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

Did we ever get any satisfying answers on this one?

People generally don’t like the idea of being concentration camp supporters even if it’s what they voted for and the second trump admin is not giving ordinary people a lot of cover to claim otherwise these days!

They have achieved 10 to 1 force superority over ICE

Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.