Glenn Kessler

Opinion | I worked at The Washington Post for 28 years. Jeff Bezos just destroyed it. Glenn Kessler: The staff cuts and strategy Post leadership announced are a recipe for journalistic irrelevance.

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A Billionaire’s Surrender Bezos is not trying to save The Washington Post. He’s trying to survive Donald Trump.

NEW --> A Billionaire’s Surrender. glennkessler.substack.com/p/a-billiona...

The hard-working tech team at sourcebase.ai is rapidly uploading the just-released 3 million #EpsteinFiles so you can delve deep into them and discover their secrets. glennkessler.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...

Indeed, thousands still under the rubble. But the Gaza Health Ministry only records verified deaths through death certificates. The number will grow.

Undoubtedly. Uncounted so far are an estimated 10,000 still under rubble

When I looked into how the Gaza Health Ministry collected data, it had a good record for accuracy in previous conflicts. Now, after more than two years of dismissing the data, Israel accepts it as accurate.

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Trump Never Cared About Iranian Protesters He used their suffering as rhetoric. Then he moved on.

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Lie After Lie After Lie The rush to frame Alex Pretti is a case study in Trump’s manufactured reality

Lie After Lie After Lie glennkessler.substack.com/p/lie-after-...

A lot of Second Amendment advocates about to explain that carrying a gun is an executable offense in America if you oppose the Trump administration. Expect deafening silence from the NRA.

Your call whether to watch. What I saw: Victim directs traffic. ICE rushes him & two women, violently knocking a woman down. Victim tries to shield her, *hands in air,* gets blasted with spray. As he tries to help her up, ICE pulls him off. One agent *holsters* a weapon right before another shoots.

The incompetence is astounding

A different ICE observer says her TSA-Pre-check was revoked. bsky.app/profile/juli...

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.

Read it and weep. None of this is normal www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

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Greenland Is What Happens When Trump Believes His Lies A text message shows how delusion turns into foreign policy.

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HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark

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When the U.S. First Tried to Buy Greenland A newly surfaced 1946 document shows how old — and how fraught — the idea really is.

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Video: Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provides a millisecond-by-millisecond look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapo...

New from the @nytimes.com Visual Investigations team: Detailed, second-by-second video analysis of all of the video footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

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Trump’s Long Campaign Against an Independent Fed Low rates when it helps him politically — and loyalty when it doesn’t.

Trump’s Long Campaign Against an Independent Fed. glennkessler.substack.com/p/trumps-lon...

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.

A new outrage — and an assault on the media. Hannah Natanson has broken scoop after scoop on Trump’s destruction of the US government —> FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.

Gift link to an important report in how Trump is trying to steal the midterm elections: wapo.st/4syrYUW

Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.

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Important report (gift link) —> Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted

The release also suggests that they were worried the video analysis had undercut the original narrative. This doesn’t help.