I really can’t stress enough to my fellow politics reporters how important a working knowledge of Crusader Kings/HOI4/grand strategy games is to understanding some of the prevailing political winds on the right:

The Vanity Fair photographer.

SCOOP: "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi tells colleagues that CBS's decision to pull her segment tonight "is not an editorial decision, it is a political one."

The owner of PitchersDC comments on the state of the bar scene in DC. wusa9.com/article/money/…

When we're at the point that a city the size of Atlanta can't keep a newspaper in print... yikes. -OS

BREAKING: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it is shutting down on May 3.

Interesting editorial choice to write this story without mentioning that Politico’s previous head of communications was a longtime Republican operative who ran comms for the NRSC and was Eric Cantor’s deputy chief of staff. They’re not a journalist, they’re PR!

Two of the strongest parts of the The Washington Post are its international and sports coverage. They have amazing must-read writers. If they are gutted by Bezos's publisher, it would be one of the most self-destructive acts in American journalism in years. Praying it's not true.

A region of 5+ million people with major sports teams of every variety but no dedicated coverage from its hometown newspaper.

No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the The Washington Post is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

We know from Naruto the Crested Macaque v. David Slater that the dog does not hold the copyright of the footage here, but it remains an untested legal theory — as asserted by the Wikimedia Foundation — that the footage is in the public domain by virtue of animal media production

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million

Feeling for all the great reporters The Washington Post this morning. The Metro Section was the only real reason I subscribed. All the President’s Men made me love & respect news. I want to read from smart people who know things & hold power accountable, not random bot opinions on Twitter.

I am part of the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work. But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.

My take on Ken Anderson not in the Hall of Fame is that there are too many people who don’t know football and don’t know what they’re watching. Beyond his Hall-worthy statistics, Anderson literally helped redefine offensive football. The late Bill Walsh would tell you as much. He

Excited for DC to be in an old fashioned newspaper war between *checks notes* The New York Times and the Baltimore Banner

Speaking of, a few months ago I easily found a bunch of cars right outside MPD headquarters with license plate covers on them.

Mills appears to be using a fake AI recreation of Platner's voice here. At some point, if we care about our democracy, we're going to have to develop rules around this stuff.