Rob Pitingolo

I can't believe nobody wanted to buy Ford's electric "cars".

[Checks available models]

Oh.

Why it’s becoming so expensive to buy a car in America Prices are at new highs. Buyers are older. More loans are going bad. It’s not an easy time to afford a car in America.

American car makers straight up stopped making sedans, claimed Americans only want SUVs and trucks, and now it's a mystery why no one can afford a vehicle. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I feel exactly this way every single time I hear some economics talking head on NPR (or wherever) respond to new official data with "numbers look solid to me!"

ESPN totally botched up the Australian Open coverage barely a month ago and NBC/Peacock couldn't resist doing a "hold my beer".

Coming out of Covid the US had less severe inflation than the rest of the world. Guess who got blamed anyway?

Now the stock market is up but lagging behind the rest of the world. Guess who gets credit anyway?

LOL it would be WILD if Bondi called the top. 🤡

@barrons.com
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Assuming this goes to court next, who sues who in this scenario? Does DC proceed as if the law is the law and the Senate (?) has to sue DC? Or the other way around?

I assumed by including a photo of Rodman they were but the article makes no mention. Odd.

The U.S. dollar is the weakest that it's been in years. In normal times this would be a boon for international inbound tourism.

Donald Trump’s policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector Foreign visitors to the US fell 4.2% in 2025, while international travel worldwide rose 4%

I continue to scream into the void that inbound international tourism is a trade surplus - a thing I've heard is very important and we should care very much about. www.ft.com/content/8f6d...

Kennedy Center president warns of ‘skeletal teams’ during ‘total renovation’ Staff at the arts organization brace for layoffs tied to President Donald Trump’s plan for a two-year closure of the building.

Cannot emphasize that there is zero long-term plan here. You could put up the swankiest physical building in the world but if the same people are running the place none of the artists you lost are coming back. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

The hypocrisy argument doesn't work. These guys have stated implicitly and explicitly for years that they want to make Washington DC a worse city. Over the past year they have taken every opportunity to do so.

The hits just keep coming.

National Guard troops were quietly withdrawn from some U.S. cities The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks that stymied President Donald Trump’s show of force in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

The irony here is troops remain in DC and my guess is will be a major part of the 4th of July, because he thinks it looks tough a macho, when in reality just draws attention to exactly what the Declaration of Independence is all about. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I know I should have cancelled after a bunch of past transgressions but every single time I tried they would throw me an offer to stay for like 12 dollars per year and I shamefully took it.

When I cancelled this week they didn't even give me a text box to tell them why. Whatever "data" they have is not a qualitative understanding of their readers.

Same point as the former Twitter CEO.

This is the correct analysis.

It seems they have given up any pretense of even trying to look useful. Big groups of 10-20 standing around in a giant group outside of a Metro station appears the new SOP.

When you cancel your Washington Post subscription there is no ability to type anything along with "Other" for reason for cancelling.

There is zero reason to believe B*zos or anyone else over there cares about the needs of their subscribers or readers.

Which raises the follow-up question: what is the point of this place?

Good luck. I am still waiting for someone to answer the basic question of what percentage of their customers pay with boring old dollar money.

RIP Justin's Cafe

Guys like Bezos think that because they made a lot of money doing one specific thing, that makes them brilliant at everything. And then when it turns out they don't know the first thing about, say, newspaper publishing, they get bored and task an underling with stripping the place for parts.

The greatest con of the modern era is that a bunch of super rich men who got ridiculously lucky once and then convinced people that they are "good at business" despite a mountain of evidence showing otherwise.

Worst part is that they are not even personal liberties chuds with any consistent belief system. They just blow with the wind.

One year ago I was planning on getting tickets to see Hamilton for the 250th. Now the whole place is shuttering.

One year.

I really need someone in the media to tie these two stories together: the guard deployment in DC and the Kennedy Center shutdown.

In both cases what DC had was FINE a year ago and now we are going to flush money down the toilet and harm a lot of people to 'solve' invented crises.

Not to be alarmist but why do we think the Kennedy Center is getting the west wing treatment rather than the east wing treatment? 🚨

Beyond the obvious rage inducing reaction to this, did a whole lot of people just learn they are losing their jobs? Yet another mass layoff event in DC? Ugh.