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Advancement at the American Council on Education. Del Ray dad and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, higher ed, and all things Alexandria. Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/

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A screen shot of an article that talks about Pizza Hut closures and the “Hut Forward” strategy.

A screen shot of an article that talks about Pizza Hut closures and the “Hut Forward” strategy.

“Yum! Chief Financial Officer Ranjith Roy said the move was part of “Hut Forward” a strategy which includes…”

I may never stop thinking about this sentence.

05.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is *so* liberating to like a sports team or a politician and still be able to criticize them when they fuck up rather than twist myself into a pretzel and abandon all my principles to defend the indefensible.

Everyone should free themselves in this way! ❤️🌈🇺🇸

05.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 185    🔁 19    💬 7    📌 2

Brands The Ellisons Control:

Oracle
TikTok (US)
Paramount Studios
Skydance Media
CBS/CBS News
FuboTV
PlutoTV
MTV
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Showtime
BET
The CW

05.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows” - Gang of Youths

05.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 — 👍 19965    🔁 8931    💬 572    📌 1574

notice how none of the annoying leftist posters this crew CONSTANTLY complains about are not in the files of the world's most notorious pedophile?

05.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 170    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
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Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

05.02.2026 03:31 — 👍 26054    🔁 6211    💬 682    📌 1097

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

05.02.2026 02:48 — 👍 13525    🔁 4204    💬 411    📌 235
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DC is actually being treated thoroughly as occupied territory. Tearing down monuments/media institutions, hostile takeover of its core economic engine and industry, suppression of its local municipal government and security forces

04.02.2026 21:53 — 👍 1115    🔁 345    💬 15    📌 7

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

04.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 2865    🔁 491    💬 9    📌 48
The front page of the WaPo sports section from the morning after Strasburg debut, with two ticket stubs framed underneath it.

The front page of the WaPo sports section from the morning after Strasburg debut, with two ticket stubs framed underneath it.

I’ve had this on my office wall for over a decade. Local sports coverage means something, it matters:

04.02.2026 15:26 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ah to possess the business acumen of Jeff Bezos

04.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 212    🔁 8    💬 11    📌 0
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The Adults in the Room Megan Greenwell's 2019 article about G/O Media and Jim Spanfeller's mismanagement of Deadspin

Tapping the @greenwell.bsky.social sign www.megangreenwell.com/the-adults-i...

04.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 64    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 1

The Post layoffs are brutal. And the sports cuts especially make no sense. A town with teams from the NBA, WNBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, NWSL, UFL, and NFL really can’t support a sports section? I’m a Spirit season ticket holder! I want to read about my team.

04.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost.com is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society

04.02.2026 14:19 — 👍 1628    🔁 424    💬 77    📌 22

I am sorry to sound lethally earnest. He also looks like the third child of Destro and a fingerling potato. There you go

04.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 523    🔁 42    💬 7    📌 0

Yeah that’s right.

04.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Already killed Metro, mostly killed Style, now they’re killing Sports and Book World what the fuck did these jackals think people were reading the paper for in the first place. It’s like they thought the whole bundle was just shit you can write SCOOP or BREAKING in front of on a fucking twitter post

04.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

It’s actually a struggle to correctly describe how I’ve felt the last couple years, given we lack a word for rage + heartbreak.

04.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

04.02.2026 11:13 — 👍 4276    🔁 1191    💬 139    📌 55

Who called these things Cupid Coupons when Boning Bargains was right there.

02.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hell yeah!

02.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So the rules are you can’t take down a statue of Robert E Lee but you can tear down the Kennedy center if Philip glass makes your dick feel small

02.02.2026 00:49 — 👍 447    🔁 74    💬 5    📌 0

Anyone bothered that APS is out again oughta investigate what % of teachers live in Fairfax and why that happens - (housing housing housing)

01.02.2026 23:46 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

I love this so much.

02.02.2026 00:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you watch the reaction of everyone else in the room, it seems very unlikely that this “sound effect” has been added for comedic purposes.

The fact that everyone sprints away like there’s a Sarin leak… I’ve seen enough, our president shit himself in the oval office on live TV.

01.02.2026 20:26 — 👍 306    🔁 57    💬 17    📌 3

Man City v Spurs is so good right now, holy shit.

01.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s really good! I have had many a solo drink and snack there while waiting for little league practice at Adams to end haha

31.01.2026 23:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

His monks make quads, is mostly the issue.

31.01.2026 18:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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