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The Oligarch Giveth, and The Oligarch Taketh Away

The Guardian: ‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers—Former Post executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos’s ‘sickening efforts to curry favor’ with Trump

This Pew study says 25% of US adults get news regularly from the Washington Post. (Disclosure: I subscribe, and I’m not stopping. Yet.) Ahead of it are:
FOX News: 75%
ABC News: 73%
CBS News: 61%
BBC News: 43%
NY Times: 39%
PBS News: 43%
AP: 42%
MSNow: 44%
NBC News: 71%
NPR: 41%
CNN: 68%

The main purpose of that piece is to break out the left/right constituencies of each. (See above.)

Redraw your own conclusions.

That it’s bad

Reason says Trump’s wanting to nationalize elections (while he and the GOP are still in full power) is not only unconstitutional and wrong on other grounds, but similar to something the Democrats wanted to do five years ago. Looks different to me, but I kinda get their point.

One of the unlucky three zillion

I appear once in the Epstein Library, because I am connected (too strong a word) to somebody on Linkedin who accepted an invite to connect with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013.