Feb 27, 2025
Dad’s home. Yesterday morning, Amazon founder, part-time rocket man, and fellow billionaire media mogul Jeff Bezos announced The Washington Post’s opinion page was adopting a new philosophy. Henceforth, he published to X, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
From here, he provided quite a bit of context on his thinking:
despite anthropic frustrating the admin with its blogging and very slow 'politburo' of ethicists, emil michael, the pentagon’s head of ai, says he’s still ‘open’ to a deal
an exercise in investigative journalism™, volunteer activism, and getting ghosted outside trader joe’s
pro-palestine protesters illegally blocked traffic for hours in san francisco, philadelphia, and chicago. they faced almost zero consequences because most americans just can't stand up to the mob.