100%. Bezos is in the destruction phase. I've lived in the DC area my whole life and after over 55 years of reading the Post i canceled my sub. Saw no reason to keep it. I can read AP stories anywhere. There are some amazing journalists who worked at WAPO all looking for a new place to land.
Everyone has to do what's best for them and their family. May not be the answer we'd like but we don't know what their situation is. Bezos really has destroyed a fantastic newspaper. It broke Nixon. It was so important and now it's basically irrelevant. They offered me a $1.00 a month offer to renew and i still cancelled..
Bezos cut Book Review, Sports, + Metro. Book Review + NYT sports - The Athletic are great. Perhaps Meidas network's DC reporter could give us a weekly Meidas Touch Metro.
Seems like it. WE saw it coming and no one really believe an obese, uneducated conman/grifter/former democrat could pull it off. So many capitulated, but in the end, there are 300m of us and one of him. I kinda like our odds. Now if we can get more people like some of the young fearless Dems, it can happen. If we're waiting for Schumer and the rest of the geriatric brigade it ain't gonna happen. It's time for the new kids to have a shot at fixing this. People like Pete and Jasmine Crockett have legit shots at upgrading. Kamala may be done but she can me a king maker i think. Is Gavin the next pres? Ultimately it might be someone we don't know yet. Whoever it ends up being it has to be a obama type with the charisma to make people WANT to vote for. We are ready for a woman, Gretchen maybe? First names we know, who could make an impact. The only think we are sure of, we have to end Trumpy and his insanely toxic self. That's the only thing that matters.
The Post used to have a world class sports page. Now it's completely gone. That was the final straw for me.. lol. There's a million options now for news.. So who cares? Maybe we can rebuild when Trumpy is dead and buried.
I've been throwing out the sports page unread since I first got a newspaper, so whatever, but padding the paper with lame self-help nutrition stories? Yeah no. Also while The NY Times may not be that blatant and is trying to maintain some gravitas, they find subtle ways to elevate Republicans and disparage Democrats, particularly women. Remember the glowing paeans to Hope Hicks and Ivanka Trump in Trump's first term? Do you think there would've been a glowing story about Chelsea Clinton if Hillary had won and appointed her a "senior advisor"? They would've done attack after attack until Hillary capitulated. And I'm still seething about the hit job they did last week on AOC, whom I'm not even gaga about like some people, but they went out of their way to make her look like a stumbling idiot by transcribing every "um" and pause, something they've never done with the totally incoherent Donald Trump.
This is alot of smoke and mirrors.............AIPAC Shakur aka Hakeem Jeffries has accepted 2.9 milllion in donations from Palantire in Jan. That is 38% for Jan.
Now you know why the DNC is a silent, complicit non-opposition party.
This is not even considering AIPAC and the other corporate Dems.
MTN needs to call them out.........the clock is running out fast.
[T]his is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings. Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million. ... The “One Big Beautiful Bill” allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.
Jeffries and Schumer need to go ASAP. They have made the DNC complicit and a silent opposition party. Bring on younger....pro-democracy and non-sellouts to lead the way and save America. Time is running out.
Amen to that. If Dems cannot keep their own house straight (not sure they can), why should the country trust them with our house (other than the fact that the GOP will continue to burn to the ground what remains of our house)?
Moreover, they now are sliding into Australian government contracts, no audited accounts pretending to be a 'small company'. They now have big contracts with UK government and are throughout the UK NHS. Who wants Palantir to surveil your health records?
Here in Australia they are now contracting with our oligopolistic supermarkets (Coles, don't know about Woolworths but they were the first photographing you at self-serve checkout) surveilling us at the checkouts. Insidious.
Our sovereign wealth fund is investing as well. We needed European GDPR type privacy laws a decade ago.
Hegseth steps in it again, though this time maybe to the good of humanity. If Palantir, needs Claude, the most moral AI LLM so far, Pete make be cutting himself shorter, still
“A dispute between AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company’s technology has now gone public. Amid tense negotiations, Anthropic has reportedly called for limits on two key applications: mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The Department of Defense, which Trump renamed the Department of War last year, wants the freedom to use the technology without those restrictions. Caught in the middle is Palantir. The defense contractor provides the secure cloud infrastructure that allows the military to use Anthropic’s Claude model, but it has stayed quiet as tensions escalate. That’s even as the Pentagon, per Axios, threatens to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” a move that could force Palantir to cut ties with one of its most important AI partners.”
Palantir is caught in the middle of a brewing fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon; Fast Company, 17-2-2026 https://tinyurl.com/2x3btx3k
Please provide a link to your source, or some other way to verify this information. I’d be surprised that Palantir would bother donating money to Democrats. I also think giving him a racist nickname suggests your intention isn’t simply to inform others.
The "racist name" was came from a right wing podcaster.........Don't you want to know why Trump cannot believe there is no opposition to the things he does????
Readsludge appears to be a far left hit site on Democrats. I can't find this info anywhere else and as I read the article it's one of those 'they gave this money to x who gave to y who gave to z who may have given some of that to abc, not a direct donation. I don't see what we accomplish by trying to smear and take down some of your strongest allies.
DNC did nothing to Bernie Sanders; Sanders sabotaged the Democratic Party and Hillary's campaign because he was a sore loser. Can we put this to bed already?
Followed by non-renewal or cancellation of Prime. Shop local. It may cost more but if we do not support our local businesses they will go the way of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, let alone the typewriter repair technician and instant-printed photographs
WAPO should have walked out on Bezos a long time ago. It’s like the knight in Spamalot. He has dismembered the mission of the Post and the reporters that work (ed) for the Post limb by limb. Death by a thousand cuts.
Absolutely!! Democracy VS. MAGAT Fascism. ONLY 2 Choices. PICK ONE!!! It is not Dem vs Republican anymore. IT IS OUR DEMOCRACY!!!! Trump wants authoritarian power, which is Fascism. NOOO!!!🤬🤬🤬. We as Americans will never bow, bootlick or kiss the King’s fat white hairy ass!! Sorry, a little crude🙃!! True though! Stand tall and hit the streets, let’s get rid of them all!!!
trump his kkkabinet n the rest of the treasonous administration need to be removed immediately! None of them are qualified for the position they hold. Look at nasty noem! Those planes! N bondi’s lips are attached to trumps 🍊ass! And she isn’t alone!
I'm not questioning the media outlets right now because I'm questioning Congress and Senate actions. Or should I say inaction in the face of literal treasonous actions. Why has there not been our articles of impeachment brought out on every single cabinet member and the president and vice president. They are all a part of it. Whether they are actively doing anything or they are complicit, we know who's active and we know that Trump has been called to appear for the Epstein acts he has participated in, but that's not all he's done, and I'm not minimizing how big the Epstein case is I'm merely stating that that is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else he's done, including those that we don't know about. There are people that are aware that are not blowing the whistle that need to. For our country's sake for our peoples 's sake
There is little reason to bring any articles of impeachment since the GOP will stand with trump and while it might be nice to have each and everyone on record saying they approve of his actions, we all already know that. I hope the Dems and Independents are spending time writing good legislation that would help the voters in red states that the GOP can shot down and that can then be used in future elections as reasons to not vote Republican.
Any GOP member that votes to protect Trump goes on record for what their morals are. No way can they deny or whitewash their position when the evidence is there in their voting record. So go ahead and launch impeachment for every evil act that Trump does.
The Epstein file coverup is resonating with Trump voters and Trump is hell bent on covering up portions of the Epstein files. Is it a coincidence that Trump bombed Iran a day after a very credible report emerged about the justice dept. not releasing a report in the Epstein files about an FBI investigation into a young girl's accusation that Trump sexually abused her. After Bill Clinton testified calls were growing for Trump to testify,
What Republicans do you think would cross over and vote for this? Democrats have no power to do this on their own. And suppose they convinced 3 or 4 people. Would you continue to smear Democrats because there's zero possibility of a removal vote in the Senate right now?
Impeach the orange dictator and convicted sexual predator 🤡 before he can cheat in the upcoming primary elections 🙏 he's bombed Iran in the middle of negotiations and has already taken control of Venezuelan oil revenue 🙈 the man is a corrupt fraudster who uses blackmail,corruption,extortion, fraud and ignoring the courts and constitution plus telling thousands of lies every single week 🤬 along with his brainwashed brain dead spineless maggot Republican cult members he's ruining the US and the world for generations to come. STOP THIS INSANITY AND LOCK HIM THE FUCK UP FOREVER.
Thanks. Funny that your Open Letter email arrived almost at the same time I received a CNN subscription invitation. I replied to CNN by forwarding a copy of your Open Letter.
Well said! I hope at least a few come over!!! I don't know how many viewers CNN has, but I imagine those numbers will fall rapidly now. The audience for fox news type news just isn't that large to support fox, cbs, cnn. CNN may have gained viewers as CBS lost them but now those viewers and millions of others will leave CNN also.
Absolutely! I will be interested in how fast they switch the Ideology of the Network. MAGAT Propaganda!! Hehehe 🤭!! It is a shame, but we have MSNOW . And of course Substack!!🥰. FDT👺🐷
Also, please extend your invitation to the Washington Post, if you haven't already!
100%. Bezos is in the destruction phase. I've lived in the DC area my whole life and after over 55 years of reading the Post i canceled my sub. Saw no reason to keep it. I can read AP stories anywhere. There are some amazing journalists who worked at WAPO all looking for a new place to land.
Furious at Karen Tumulty for defending her reason for staying at WaPo. Close to retirement, maybe? My annual subscription winds down in April.
Everyone has to do what's best for them and their family. May not be the answer we'd like but we don't know what their situation is. Bezos really has destroyed a fantastic newspaper. It broke Nixon. It was so important and now it's basically irrelevant. They offered me a $1.00 a month offer to renew and i still cancelled..
Bezos cut Book Review, Sports, + Metro. Book Review + NYT sports - The Athletic are great. Perhaps Meidas network's DC reporter could give us a weekly Meidas Touch Metro.
When confronted with narciissitic ass holes you must go no contact......Grey Rock......shun them 100%.
Bezos is out to destroy America. Cut him off!!!
UNSUBSCRIBE!!
Maybe more importantly, he fired or made continued employment untenable for many of the best modern op-ed columnists in journalism
Seems like it. WE saw it coming and no one really believe an obese, uneducated conman/grifter/former democrat could pull it off. So many capitulated, but in the end, there are 300m of us and one of him. I kinda like our odds. Now if we can get more people like some of the young fearless Dems, it can happen. If we're waiting for Schumer and the rest of the geriatric brigade it ain't gonna happen. It's time for the new kids to have a shot at fixing this. People like Pete and Jasmine Crockett have legit shots at upgrading. Kamala may be done but she can me a king maker i think. Is Gavin the next pres? Ultimately it might be someone we don't know yet. Whoever it ends up being it has to be a obama type with the charisma to make people WANT to vote for. We are ready for a woman, Gretchen maybe? First names we know, who could make an impact. The only think we are sure of, we have to end Trumpy and his insanely toxic self. That's the only thing that matters.
The Post used to have a world class sports page. Now it's completely gone. That was the final straw for me.. lol. There's a million options now for news.. So who cares? Maybe we can rebuild when Trumpy is dead and buried.
I've been throwing out the sports page unread since I first got a newspaper, so whatever, but padding the paper with lame self-help nutrition stories? Yeah no. Also while The NY Times may not be that blatant and is trying to maintain some gravitas, they find subtle ways to elevate Republicans and disparage Democrats, particularly women. Remember the glowing paeans to Hope Hicks and Ivanka Trump in Trump's first term? Do you think there would've been a glowing story about Chelsea Clinton if Hillary had won and appointed her a "senior advisor"? They would've done attack after attack until Hillary capitulated. And I'm still seething about the hit job they did last week on AOC, whom I'm not even gaga about like some people, but they went out of their way to make her look like a stumbling idiot by transcribing every "um" and pause, something they've never done with the totally incoherent Donald Trump.
I stopped reading it too! Won't give MAGA propaganda my hard earned money 🙄
Jim Acosta got out over a year ago, CNN had already started to become right leaning.
This is alot of smoke and mirrors.............AIPAC Shakur aka Hakeem Jeffries has accepted 2.9 milllion in donations from Palantire in Jan. That is 38% for Jan.
Now you know why the DNC is a silent, complicit non-opposition party.
This is not even considering AIPAC and the other corporate Dems.
MTN needs to call them out.........the clock is running out fast.
[T]his is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings. Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million. ... The “One Big Beautiful Bill” allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.
Palantir Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to Trump Tax Law; Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy; February 17, 2026; https://itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-tax-trump-tax-law-ice/
Jeffries and Schumer need to go ASAP. They have made the DNC complicit and a silent opposition party. Bring on younger....pro-democracy and non-sellouts to lead the way and save America. Time is running out.
Amen to that. If Dems cannot keep their own house straight (not sure they can), why should the country trust them with our house (other than the fact that the GOP will continue to burn to the ground what remains of our house)?
Moreover, they now are sliding into Australian government contracts, no audited accounts pretending to be a 'small company'. They now have big contracts with UK government and are throughout the UK NHS. Who wants Palantir to surveil your health records?
https://michaelwest.com.au/palantir-surveils-everybody-but-its-own-misleading-accounts/
Here in Australia they are now contracting with our oligopolistic supermarkets (Coles, don't know about Woolworths but they were the first photographing you at self-serve checkout) surveilling us at the checkouts. Insidious.
Our sovereign wealth fund is investing as well. We needed European GDPR type privacy laws a decade ago.
https://honisoit.com/2026/02/australias-100-million-investment-in-palantir-technology-giant-and-partner-of-us-and-israeli-defence-forces/
Palantir's support of the IDF and using its surveillance tech has enabled the genocide in Gaza.
The Swiss have realised the risk of Palantir.
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/palantir-cheats-exposed-by-swiss-using-laws-against-their-own-purpose/
Nothing good can come of this.
Hegseth steps in it again, though this time maybe to the good of humanity. If Palantir, needs Claude, the most moral AI LLM so far, Pete make be cutting himself shorter, still
“A dispute between AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company’s technology has now gone public. Amid tense negotiations, Anthropic has reportedly called for limits on two key applications: mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The Department of Defense, which Trump renamed the Department of War last year, wants the freedom to use the technology without those restrictions. Caught in the middle is Palantir. The defense contractor provides the secure cloud infrastructure that allows the military to use Anthropic’s Claude model, but it has stayed quiet as tensions escalate. That’s even as the Pentagon, per Axios, threatens to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” a move that could force Palantir to cut ties with one of its most important AI partners.”
Palantir is caught in the middle of a brewing fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon; Fast Company, 17-2-2026 https://tinyurl.com/2x3btx3k
Please provide a link to your source, or some other way to verify this information. I’d be surprised that Palantir would bother donating money to Democrats. I also think giving him a racist nickname suggests your intention isn’t simply to inform others.
A link to an article about the $2.9 million donation. It was not made to Hakeem Jeffries, but to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Money was from more than a dozen lobbyists with firms representing Palantir bundled a combined $2.9 million for the DCCC. The lobbyists took donations from their other clients as well. https://readsludge.com/2026/02/25/dccc-rakes-in-millions-from-palantir-lobbyists-as-protests-target-the-companys-ice-surveillance-tools/
The "racist name" was came from a right wing podcaster.........Don't you want to know why Trump cannot believe there is no opposition to the things he does????
So why are you using the abusive language of a trumpy influencer without irony?
Sludge online listed..........Feb 25 2026.........IHIPNEWS also........ Donald Shaw....New Republic......""Trump stockpiling Weapons in Texas"
Readsludge appears to be a far left hit site on Democrats. I can't find this info anywhere else and as I read the article it's one of those 'they gave this money to x who gave to y who gave to z who may have given some of that to abc, not a direct donation. I don't see what we accomplish by trying to smear and take down some of your strongest allies.
Yes, it was for WJB Motown, who realized he was the person I meant to address. I see he has no real sources.
Stopped donations to the DNC after what happened to Bernie Sanders in 2016
DNC did nothing to Bernie Sanders; Sanders sabotaged the Democratic Party and Hillary's campaign because he was a sore loser. Can we put this to bed already?
Me too.
I think it’s a done deal.
Still think he ain’t dead? This is simply the Prologue. 🦅
FLASH: “Regime Decapitation Has Occurred” ~ IDF 🇮🇱 … “High Altitude Electromatic Pulse” expected.
Reference: “https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-us-launched-strikes-as-iranian-supreme-leader-met-with-inner-circle-sources/“ #Regime-Decapitation-Has-Occurred #HEMP
Followed by non-renewal or cancellation of Prime. Shop local. It may cost more but if we do not support our local businesses they will go the way of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, let alone the typewriter repair technician and instant-printed photographs
WAPO should have walked out on Bezos a long time ago. It’s like the knight in Spamalot. He has dismembered the mission of the Post and the reporters that work (ed) for the Post limb by limb. Death by a thousand cuts.
Extend the invitation to all media to counteract the onslaught.
No middle ground to occupy. You are either pro democracy or facist.
Absolutely!! Democracy VS. MAGAT Fascism. ONLY 2 Choices. PICK ONE!!! It is not Dem vs Republican anymore. IT IS OUR DEMOCRACY!!!! Trump wants authoritarian power, which is Fascism. NOOO!!!🤬🤬🤬. We as Americans will never bow, bootlick or kiss the King’s fat white hairy ass!! Sorry, a little crude🙃!! True though! Stand tall and hit the streets, let’s get rid of them all!!!
trump his kkkabinet n the rest of the treasonous administration need to be removed immediately! None of them are qualified for the position they hold. Look at nasty noem! Those planes! N bondi’s lips are attached to trumps 🍊ass! And she isn’t alone!
Epstein Epstein Epstein
Whose Side Are You On? ( old Labor Union 🎵 song)
Agree with you whole heartedly.
Thanks for opening doors to those caught in the fall out. I hope they will walk through them.
Grab the best and help the rest. But don’t give an inch when you do.
GO Meidas!!
I'm not questioning the media outlets right now because I'm questioning Congress and Senate actions. Or should I say inaction in the face of literal treasonous actions. Why has there not been our articles of impeachment brought out on every single cabinet member and the president and vice president. They are all a part of it. Whether they are actively doing anything or they are complicit, we know who's active and we know that Trump has been called to appear for the Epstein acts he has participated in, but that's not all he's done, and I'm not minimizing how big the Epstein case is I'm merely stating that that is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else he's done, including those that we don't know about. There are people that are aware that are not blowing the whistle that need to. For our country's sake for our peoples 's sake
Pedophilia is not a drop in the bucket
There is little reason to bring any articles of impeachment since the GOP will stand with trump and while it might be nice to have each and everyone on record saying they approve of his actions, we all already know that. I hope the Dems and Independents are spending time writing good legislation that would help the voters in red states that the GOP can shot down and that can then be used in future elections as reasons to not vote Republican.
Any GOP member that votes to protect Trump goes on record for what their morals are. No way can they deny or whitewash their position when the evidence is there in their voting record. So go ahead and launch impeachment for every evil act that Trump does.
Same with a War Powers resolution. Make them commit themselves by voting (abstaining). Their votes will not be forgotten in November or in 2028
The Epstein file coverup is resonating with Trump voters and Trump is hell bent on covering up portions of the Epstein files. Is it a coincidence that Trump bombed Iran a day after a very credible report emerged about the justice dept. not releasing a report in the Epstein files about an FBI investigation into a young girl's accusation that Trump sexually abused her. After Bill Clinton testified calls were growing for Trump to testify,
Power, greed and fear for personal and family safety. The best thing they could do is resign.
All of them (Massie can stay; Rand Paul is a voice of reason in the wilderness, so he can stay)
All of them belong behind bars.
What Republicans do you think would cross over and vote for this? Democrats have no power to do this on their own. And suppose they convinced 3 or 4 people. Would you continue to smear Democrats because there's zero possibility of a removal vote in the Senate right now?
Impeach the orange dictator and convicted sexual predator 🤡 before he can cheat in the upcoming primary elections 🙏 he's bombed Iran in the middle of negotiations and has already taken control of Venezuelan oil revenue 🙈 the man is a corrupt fraudster who uses blackmail,corruption,extortion, fraud and ignoring the courts and constitution plus telling thousands of lies every single week 🤬 along with his brainwashed brain dead spineless maggot Republican cult members he's ruining the US and the world for generations to come. STOP THIS INSANITY AND LOCK HIM THE FUCK UP FOREVER.
Thanks Ben, for your honesty and integrity and in giving others a platform to speak truth to power.
We need truth tellers who aren’t afraid to speak out.
Have you thought of moving to Greenland?
Thanks. Funny that your Open Letter email arrived almost at the same time I received a CNN subscription invitation. I replied to CNN by forwarding a copy of your Open Letter.
Quit watching CNN years ago but discovery is a loss. No more science based nature shows. Just Heritage Foundation fiction and BS.
PBS Nature.
Life is very frightening now, we are so proud to have Meidas to relay on.
Hey Ben, great letter! So many of us support everything you’re doing. We appreciate you!
I always love your “invitation” posts! Way to recruit top talent!
Well said! I hope at least a few come over!!! I don't know how many viewers CNN has, but I imagine those numbers will fall rapidly now. The audience for fox news type news just isn't that large to support fox, cbs, cnn. CNN may have gained viewers as CBS lost them but now those viewers and millions of others will leave CNN also.
Absolutely! I will be interested in how fast they switch the Ideology of the Network. MAGAT Propaganda!! Hehehe 🤭!! It is a shame, but we have MSNOW . And of course Substack!!🥰. FDT👺🐷
I'm curious about whether they actually plan to put Bari Weiss in charge, after she destroyed CBS. Failure begets more failure?