@Pat Myers

He didn't immediately start ruining; he bought it in 2015 and for almost 10 years, he was amazingly supportive and unmeddling. Then came this past year's election, and this new publisher.
NOW they're ruining.

How do you know what was in the story hours before they published? Did they send you a copy or read it to you beforehand???

Today's Wordle will have purists like me up in arms!
Wordle 1,423 4/6*

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As someone who worked 40 years for The Washington Post—which I call “we” even though it cut me 2 years ago—I am, yes, heartbroken.
At the link below is the memo Bezos sent to the newsroom announcing that the opinion pages will support only his views. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/heart-brea...

In commemoration, we'll kill the penny.

Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of Musk's assault.

gizmodo.com/elon-musks-e...

“New reporting shows USAID was actually investigating one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency.”

Raise your hand if you’re not shocked 🙋🏼

Everybody!

The Invitational Week 109: The Alternaugural Address Write something funnier with the words from the latest Jan. 20 diatribe. Plus AMAZING anagrams.

The EGOMANIAC —
A MEGA-ICON —
I.E., MAGA CON —
has COME AGAIN.
More amazingly clever multiple anagrams in this week’s Invitational, plus our quadrennial Alternaugural Address contest. In today’s Gene Pool.

TrumpmenBashi The Great Hello.

Is Trump trying to outdo the wacko megalomaniac president of Turkmenistan? open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

ICE agents raid NJ seafood store, detaining U.S. military veteran NEW YORK (PIX11) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a New Jersey seafood store on Thursday. PIX11 News has learned a U.S. military veteran was among the people detained. …

Owner:“I was confused; they took three people who did not have documentation .. I asked what documentation they were looking for, and they said a license or a passport. Who walks around with a passport? ... One of the guys was a military veteran... He is Puerto Rican, the manager of our warehouse."

More Eighth Dwarfs — plus our classic “joint legislation” contest — in this week’s Invitational, at The Gene Pool with Gene Weingarten and Pat Myers. tinyurl.com/inv-week-108

Vile false equivalence: "Pardons from Biden and Trump flout the rule of law"

Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

Today's latest horror.

"The pause on communications includes scientific reports issued by the CDC, known as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; advisories about public health incidents; data updates to the CDC website ..." The CDC was about to publish 3 reports on bird flu
wapo.st/4aqfN44

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Whoa. In a handbasket.

A Dose of Heroine Hello.

@geneweingarten.bsky.social on a predecessor of Luigi, and what they had in common.

Review | ‘Brightly Shining’ is a bittersweet tale of Christmas past Ron Charles review: In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.

WaPo's lit'ry zingster @roncharles.bsky.social on the long tradition of uplifting seasonal novellas: "Charles Dickens didn’t invent Christmas, of course, but he left Tiny Tim’s crutch lying in the hallway for everybody else to trip over."

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

"Like" isn't my reaction to this, but thank you for your work in the cause of science and your standing up to antiscience.