Ann Telnaes, a Washington Post editorial cartoonist who has been with the newspaper for sixteen years, just quit her job after the cartoon below—which depicts Post owner Jeff Bezos and other CEOs bowing to Donald Trump—was spiked.
It's another huge blow to the credibility of a once-great newspaper.
It's another huge blow to the credibility of a once-great newspaper.
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@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Both populist,one from the left,the other from the right,both Putin’s friend.Forget about fair elections.
Democracy dies in dorkiness.
Twitter (X): A billion-dollar toy for a narcissist. He has been openly flirting with far-right ideologies for years. From anti-Semitic conspiracy myths to anti-trans statements. ....
https://steadyhq.com/de/mimikama-direkt/posts/eef1ed60-7452-4930-89d8-2fa8676bfdc1
Cartoon below by Daniel Murphy https://cartoonmovement.com
I support editorial cartoonists by posting long daily🧵s of their work—pinned to my profile, with previous 🧵s under my Feeds tab.
Subscribe to Ann's Substack, y'all! Link above.
One of the easiest ways out of this mess is to make voting mandatory, which would render almost all republikkan efforts to quash Democratic votes irrelevant. The only remaining issue would be district boundaries.
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Time to MOVE OUT of Washington Post. Get rid of WaPo! Now!
https://www.thewrap.com/washington-post-cartoonist-quits-after-bezos-trump-satire-killed/
Once again, banning something in the U.S. tends to make it more popular & get it noticed.
Long ago in the time of our grandparents new shows from Broadway were thrilled if they were "Banned in Boston!" It meant they had a hit!
2017 - "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan adopted
2024 - "We Are the Darkness" slogan actualized
And I still want to know what was Musk and Trump's "little secret" that made them so absolutely certain they would win the election.
I write a news digest on a contract basis for a company that often sends me links to WaPo stories. I canceled the NYTimes and LATimes but thought I needed to keep one of the legacy papers. Changed my mind. Asked them to just start sending me PDFs...
Jeff Bezos is one of the worst on the planet.
Was Trump mentored by Putin, or just copied ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism
(with notable emphasis on 'self')
Ann Telnaes
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/michael-de-adder-dropped-from-halifax-newspaper-1.7180012
Subscribe, follow a local rival.
They'd better hope that all the magats so eager to exercise what they think is their 2nd Amendment right to worship and wield insane amounts of firepower won't figure out who the *real* domestic enemies have been all along.
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https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
Shame on Bezos.