#washpo

[editorsusan]

"The fixation with both-sideism when one side is lying makes a mockery of journalism." Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post

[suzannesreadingrecs]

Opinion | Where’s the sympathy and outrage for Megan Thee Stallion?

As Black women celebrate historic firsts, Megan Thee Stallion reminds us of the mistreatment we still face.

[currentclimate]

Opinion | Why I’m (slightly) less pessimistic about global warming

It may be possible to slow the increase in greenhouse gases, perhaps through a proposed “carbon dividend” plan.

It’s too late for a carbon tax . . . . A carbon tax looks great if you’re looking at climate change through an economic lens, but the physics of the issue, the 413 ppm and increasing concentrations of carbon; methane, and water vapor, in the air trump (no pun intended) the economics of the climate change issue, which will be moot anyways when the world’s GDP is cut in half because of natural disasters and cascading consequences from climate change.

[yessoupy]

E. coli outbreak warning expands to all romaine lettuce

The latest E. coli warning comes after Alaska inmates became sick after eating lettuce from whole heads of romaine.

BREAKING: CDC warns to avoid ALL romaine lettuce

4/20/18 5:07pm EDT

[thexxphiles]

How the biggest ‘X-Files’ conspiracy became whether Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are dating

On a show devoted to mysteries, it drives some fans crazy that they can't crack this case.

Remember when this shit happened? When the fucking Washington Post wrote this piece around the time Season 10 premiered? And their sources consisted almost entirely of tumblr blogs? Good times.

[vileiguana]

Fuck you Washington Post with your "democracy dies in darkness" website header. As if you aren't owned by Bezos who made certain Trump got elected.

[jomiddlemarch]

Top 'Washington Post' columnist resigns, accusing publisher of killing piece

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned today, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of i

[sharketypes]

My favorite satirist, Alexandra Petri, hits it out of the park again today.

“There are so many people to know about on this planet. Some of them are pleasant and others are wise and many of them are kind and a few of them are funny and polite to waiters. Some of them possess remarkable skills and others are tremendous listeners and still others know what to do if you spill certain kinds of things on certain types of surfaces. Lots and lots of them own cats, and when they go online, all they do is post pictures of those cats doing cute and interesting things. There are so many people who are interesting. And instead we have to follow Elon Musk and Donald Trump. We have to watch them host SNL, and read their inane tweets, and know precisely what they are going through at all times, because their whims can cost people jobs and ruin lives.

“There is something desperately boring about despots and plutocrats. And one of the frustrating consequences of an unequal society is that the rest of us have to care what is going on with them. Now Trump might be gone, but we still have a main character we don’t want. Not that this is a new phenomenon. The ancient historian Suetonius may not have been the most accurate source, but seeing people like Musk and Trump in action, I feel more sympathetic to his accounts of what boring people, given power answerable to their whims, wind up doing. I thought it was ridiculous when he said Nero, literally the emperor of Rome, decided that, actually, what he wanted to be was an actor — but here is Musk, one of the richest men on the planet, who has decided for no reason whatsoever that what he wants to be is a Twitter troll! And not even a funny one; just as transphobic and anti-vax and awful as the bog standard. I’m sorry I doubted you, Suetonius! Maybe if we are lucky Musk will start doing more of the fun caesar things, such as trying to get a horse into the Senate, and will stop his mission to turn Twitter into a hateful cesspool! But somehow I doubt it.”

Gift link:

https://wapo.st/3HIbMLR

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/17/elon-musk-twitter-overkill/