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So much for abolishing the Department of Education
Search for: Big Government So Much for Abolishing the Department of Education The Department of Education is getting a bigger budget, less than a year after President Donald Trump ordered the department’s closure. Eric Boehm | 2.5.2026 3:30 PM On the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to close the Department of Education…
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DrWeb’s Domain: A Washington Post Investigation: I’m Opening My Research Vault – NotebookLLM
I have been pondering the Washington Post recent changes, major changes, 1/3 of entire newsroom laid off (fired). February 4, 2026. I consider my further work as an open-source investigation. This isn’t raw AI speculation; it is a curated environment where the AI is constrained strictly to the high-integrity sources I have selected, specifically to…
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Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight – The New Yorker
The Daily Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight By David Remnick, February 8, 2026 You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. It’s truly impossible to keep up, isn’t it? Last week—after the Wall Street…
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The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights – Literary Hub
The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Gioia Woods Reflects on the Life of a Literary Icon, Via The University of Nevada Press By Gioia Woods, February 6, 2026 I discovered City Lights Bookstore in 1983. I was a high school sophomore in east Los Angeles on a campus so…
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Letters from an American – February 7, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame Letters from an American, February 7, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 07, 2026 Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be arrested and held in detention centers without the right to release until…
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The Washington Post is gutting its books coverage – Literary Hub
The Washington Post is gutting its books coverage. By Brittany Allen, February 4, 2026 Earlier today, Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post laid off hundreds of its employees, in what one staffer called “an absolute bloodbath.” As The Guardian reported this morning, editor-in-chief Matt Murray told his masthead that the paper was due for a “strategic reset.”…
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The real reason why Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post. – Slate
The Media Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post The billionaire wanted the Post to die, because a vigorous, well-resourced newspaper does not help his bottom line. By Alex Kirshner, Feb 05, 202611:07 AM Copy Link Share Comment Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to…
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We are not Nazis. – Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance We are not Nazis. Also: No Kings, No Dictators. By Joyce Vance, Feb 05, 2026 I wrote this piece, titled “Are We The Nazis Now?” back in October last year. There were so many awful things happening, mostly to immigrants, but by then, some Americans had started to protest their…
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How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post – The New Yorker
Editor’s Note: My apologies to The New Yorker for publishing the entire article, which is under their copyright. I believe this is very important reporting for people to read, and consider. –DrWeb Annals of Communications How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a…
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Marty Baron Warns That Jeff Bezos Is Shredding ‘The Washington Post’ to “Ingratiate Himself With Donald Trump” – Vanity Fair
Politics Marty Baron Warns That Jeff Bezos Is Shredding The Washington Post to “Ingratiate Himself With Donald Trump” The former editor of the paper tells Vanity Fair that the “tremendous” newsroom brings in readers, but Trump has driven the owner and his publisher, Will Lewis, to decisions that have sent those readers out “the back door.”…
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Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece – BBC
Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece 1 February 2022. By Colm Kelpie, BBC News, NI In the spring of 1921, Paris bookseller Sylvia Beach boasted about her plans to publish a novel she deemed a masterpiece that would be “ranked among the classics in English literature”. “Ulysses is going to make my place…
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Bezos Guts The Washington Post – The New York Times
Editor’s Note: I no longer subscribe to Bezos’ chopped down cherry tree. I deleted all newsletters from my sources. I have a free email account there still, but I pay them for nothing. He has more money than God, and he fires 1/3 of his reporters, journalists, staff, and he gets more “federal support” from…
