Not to tell anyone what to do, but if you don't support the authoritarian BS that Parker is writing about in this post, hit all these complicit companies and owners in the wallet as much as you can. Cancel your WaPo subscription, cancel Amazon Prime, and boycott both companies. It may not seem much coming from one person, but if more and more people do this, it will become a groundswell that will get noticed and need to be addressed. Unfortunately, money and profits are all these oligarchs understand.
(And please support companies who are holding fast to DEI and other similarly good values.)
Bezos has turned WaPo into the Amazon corporate newsletter. He should rename it — which of course he won’t do because that would show some minimal respect to the institution he broke.
This hallowed saying applies to Ruth Marcus "thank you for your service". To Jeff and Will I say, if you expect kowtowing to Trump and Musk will get you favors - don't.
I have unsubscibed and am in the process of untagling my contributions to Jeff's total empire.
You said, "They're showing us that the Post's new "free markets and personal liberties" focus isn't about expanding the range of permissible opinion—it's about restricting it to views that align with Jeff Bezos's worldview." Equally bad, they are giving the impression to the less-informed (e.g. those who don't know this latest resignation) that the owner's views are the views of the columnists. Bezos is sucking credibility built by decades of hard work by others at the Post, just as Musk has profited by the hard work of others, and Trump by the gullibility and hope of others. Slime buckets all (with apologies to buckets of slime which at least serve a useful function in nature).
Just like the Trump administration, the Bezos administration doesn't care who leaves over its anti-democratic behavior. The post will replace Ruth with a Bezos free markets and personal liberties loyalist.
I’m sure Jen Rubin will welcome her old colleague Ruth over at The Contrarian if Ruth wants to go there - or she can start her own Substack, as Ann Telnaes has.
Hey, look at this, a handful of gigantic egg companies that now control most of the market are using their market dominance and the bird flu pandemic to jack up their profits! I'm sure the Post, with its new commitment to "free markets" must condemn such a thing, right?
Not to tell anyone what to do, but if you don't support the authoritarian BS that Parker is writing about in this post, hit all these complicit companies and owners in the wallet as much as you can. Cancel your WaPo subscription, cancel Amazon Prime, and boycott both companies. It may not seem much coming from one person, but if more and more people do this, it will become a groundswell that will get noticed and need to be addressed. Unfortunately, money and profits are all these oligarchs understand.
(And please support companies who are holding fast to DEI and other similarly good values.)
Will do.
Bezos has turned WaPo into the Amazon corporate newsletter. He should rename it — which of course he won’t do because that would show some minimal respect to the institution he broke.
Call it ‘The Daily Bezos’
This hallowed saying applies to Ruth Marcus "thank you for your service". To Jeff and Will I say, if you expect kowtowing to Trump and Musk will get you favors - don't.
I have unsubscibed and am in the process of untagling my contributions to Jeff's total empire.
You said, "They're showing us that the Post's new "free markets and personal liberties" focus isn't about expanding the range of permissible opinion—it's about restricting it to views that align with Jeff Bezos's worldview." Equally bad, they are giving the impression to the less-informed (e.g. those who don't know this latest resignation) that the owner's views are the views of the columnists. Bezos is sucking credibility built by decades of hard work by others at the Post, just as Musk has profited by the hard work of others, and Trump by the gullibility and hope of others. Slime buckets all (with apologies to buckets of slime which at least serve a useful function in nature).
From now on, the response to any Post opinion column will be "Bezos says what?"
Democracy dies in darkness, and The Washington Post crumbles right before our eyes.
Just like the Trump administration, the Bezos administration doesn't care who leaves over its anti-democratic behavior. The post will replace Ruth with a Bezos free markets and personal liberties loyalist.
So they're going to come out against tariffs and for legal abortion?
Don't forget the personal liberty to criticize the governments of the United States and Israel. Opinion piece in support of that comin' REAL SOON.
I’m sure Jen Rubin will welcome her old colleague Ruth over at The Contrarian if Ruth wants to go there - or she can start her own Substack, as Ann Telnaes has.
Hey, look at this, a handful of gigantic egg companies that now control most of the market are using their market dominance and the bird flu pandemic to jack up their profits! I'm sure the Post, with its new commitment to "free markets" must condemn such a thing, right?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/04/egg-prices-bird-flu-corporate-profits
So that statement by Eugene Meyer is still hanging on the wall? I guess Bezos has never seen it.
Too soon to comment. At least for the moment. To me, losing Ruth is something never expectedly. In dead a loss
Indeed a loss for us all.
Just a slight name-change: The Washington Bezos-bots
Damn! His world view must be pretty yikes, and his plan must be to put a very heavy hand. One can see they’re trying over there.