The @claremalone.bsky.social deep dive on The Washington Post is out: “Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/is-jeff-bezos-selling-out-the-washington-post
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/is-jeff-bezos-selling-out-the-washington-post
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5,017 pages to report Jeff Bezos had a mid-life crisis, discovered a raging id, plus all his interests lusted after less regulation, lower taxes, *and* he could get laid by more women than Mackenzie Scott.
OK. Got it.
Basically, nerd got rich and decided to buy a place at the cool kids table
Also interesting how his swole transition left behind a sophisticated literary wife for a popular MAGA one w/ jet social circle
“intellectual journey” & “a mind at work”
ha!
*checks calendar*
That's a polite way to say he doesn't know what he's doing.
“Afflict the comfortable & comfort the afflicted”
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Comfort the comfortable & Affront the afflicted