Omar Wasow

Fair point. Agree it can be annoying but the counterfactual (borne out, it seems, by almost every other paper) is declining revenues and therefore fewer reporters and less news.

Really excellent point. A lot of political/influencer grift stems from blocked ambition. They couldn’t make it via the normie route, but feel they deserve more.

So they grift.

NYT successful initiatives over last decade: games, cooking, the athletic, the daily, wirecutter

WaPo successful initiatives under Will Lewis:

”What turns people into radical jihadist clerics? A new book suggests thwarted career ambitions. A subset of Muslim clerics who advocate for jihad started out as mainstream clerics looking for state-sponsored jobs…only to become unemployed, disenchanted, and radicalized” news.mit.edu/2017/why-som...

Fantastic music-making. Thelonious Monk's quartet, recorded live in the studios of Radio France, February 1964.

“Don't play what the audience wants, play what you want and let the audience embrace what you do, even if it takes them fifteen or twenty years.”

—Thelonius Monk

Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

Surprised it took this long www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

This analysis from @parkermolloy.com helps clarify how, for Bezos, the Post opinion section is now like the Melania doc: a media platform to advance his many interests.

See first and last post in thread

In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens On Sunday, Trump declined to disavow the support of white supremacists.

“On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” By @pbump.com With gift link: wapo.st/4r4mujT

Opinion | Is Donald Trump a Racist? (Published 2016)

“To prove discrimination, blacks were repeatedly dispatched as testers to Trump apartment buildings to inquire about vacancies, and white testers were sent soon after. Repeatedly, the black person was told nothing was available, while the white tester was shown apartments for immediate rental.” Gift

In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens On Sunday, Trump declined to disavow the support of white supremacists.

See if this works: wapo.st/4r4mujT

Trump's Racist 'Birther' Attacks On Harris Are A Return To Familiar Territory The president's amplification of a false conspiracy theory against Joe Biden's running mate is part of a pattern of attacks directed at rivals from President Barack Obama to Sen. Ted Cruz.

“Twenty-four hours after entertaining and amplifying a false and racist birther conspiracy aimed at Sen. Kamala Harris, Trump had an opportunity to correct the record. He didn't.

For Trump, this is a return to familiar territory.” www.npr.org/2020/08/15/9...

Tweet from Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Sadly, it looks like Mexico's Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must change laws! 5:37 AM · Oct 22, 2018 · Twitter for iPhone 31K Retweets 9.8K Quote Tweets 124K Likes

“Trump regularly demonized dark-skinned immigrants before the 2018 midterm elections, and his campaign produced an ad — about a caravan of migrants traveling through Mexico — that was so racist even Fox News declined to air it.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda (Published 2017)

“Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never ‘go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.” www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/u...

Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda (Published 2017)

“According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Trump began reading aloud from a document listing how many immigrants had received visas to enter the US in 2017. Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They ‘all have AIDS,’ he grumbled.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/u...

Black-and-white newspaper-style full-page advertisement with large bold headline reading, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” Below the headline are several dense paragraphs of text arguing that crime and disorder have increased in New York City, calling for harsher punishment, expanded police power, and execution for violent offenders. A printed name and handwritten-style signature appear at the bottom. Beneath the ad, a caption explains that the 1989 ad called for the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers accused in a Central Park rape case and notes they were later exonerated by DNA evidence.

“In 1989, Trump took out ads in newspapers urging the death penalty for 5 black & Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he argued they were guilty as late as June 2019, more than 15 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List, Updated (Published 2018) The media uses euphemisms. Here’s the truth: President Trump is a racist.

“Trump treated black employees differently. A former hotel exec said Trump criticized a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.” nyti.ms/3qriGio

Here's the disgusting way black employees were treated at Donald Trump's casino "They put us all in the back."

“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” he said. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.” www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias (Published 2016)

“She seemed like the model tenant: 33, a nurse.

There was just one hitch: Maxine Brown was black.

The rental agent talked to his boss, Fred Trump.

‘I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...

In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens On Sunday, Trump declined to disavow the support of white supremacists.

In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history:

“On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

Good related essay: “I suggested that comparison is an essential component of all moral deliberation. Analogies are helpful, I argued, not only because they assist us in discerning similarities but also because they can alert us to differences we might have otherwise missed” bsky.app/profile/marc...

I think the grok stuff might be after this was written but yes, larger point stands.

Source: bsky.app/profile/koos...

Excerpt from NYTimes article: Although Musk casts his defense of highly skilled immigrants as racially inclusive, he has repeatedly flirted with racial prejudice on X and has vocally supported a German far-right party with ties to neo-Nazis.

Oldie but goodie: “flirted with racial prejudice”

My heart goes out to yours.

My thanks to everyone for advice and kind words. Following suggestions, called around, found an eye doc having an ”unusually slow day” and was able to see me. Looks like I have something that sounds like a mash-up of Penguins x Dracula: “Pinguecula is a harmless, raised growth on your eyeball.”

Opinion | If You Hate Bad Bunny, I Have Bad News for You

“The US is different. It’s really multiple markets in one, each developing and growing side by side. Spanish speakers might be watching musica mexicana videos while Caribbean immigrants are listening to dancehall. ‘When you’re that big and culturally diverse, it can all happen within your borders.’”

Opinion | If You Hate Bad Bunny, I Have Bad News for You

“It’d be tempting to label the rise of BTS and Bad Bunny as signs of globalization. Tempting—and wrong. Brazilians are in love with Brazilian music. Italians, Italian music. In a world of endless choice Mr Page adds, a ‘claustrophobia of abundance’ can take hold, driving people back to the familiar”

I’m a specialist that just opened a new practice. I’m trying to be in-network for all commercial insurances and Medicaid. Medicaid was easy; they want their customers to get care.

Commercial insurance is being very difficult, because they don’t want to have tons of docs in network. I’ll explain…

Good advice. Reason urgent care doc recommended eye institute was for slit lamp exam (their facility didn't have one). Am trying to find another urgent cares site or eye doc with a slit lamp and availability today. Thank you!