"The Post will now serve as #Bezos' shield against regulatory threats, tax reform, and labor organizing. Every column championing 'free markets' will conveniently omit how #Amazon crushes competition. Every defense of 'personal liberty' will ignore Amazon workers pissing in bottles to meet algorithm demands."
https://www.theindex.media/jeff-bezos-just-humiliated-jeff-bezos/
#fascism #JeffBezos #oligarchy #CurrentEvents #WashingtonPost #capitalism #censorship
#jeffbezos
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Cameron Barr, former Senior Managing Editor at The Washington Post, has resigned over Bezos's squelching of free speech.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
And the the destruction of a once-great newspaper is complete: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jeff-bezos-announces-significant-shift-coming-to-the-washington-post-a-key-editor-is-leaving-because-of-it/ar-AA1zQmXp
Bezos decide que se acabaron los diferentes puntos de vista en las páginas de opinión del 'Washington Post', que para eso es suyo. A partir de ahora, solo artículos que defiendan [redoble de tambor] "libertades personales" y "mercados libres". David Shipley, el responsable de la sección, ha dimitido, claro.
![Publicación de Jeff Bezos en X:
"I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.
I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.
I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are unders [...]"](https://bookwyrm-social.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/status/9e2ada94-e54c-4fa2-842c-11062d5266f5.png "Publicación de Jeff Bezos en X:
\"I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.
I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.
I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are unders [...]\"")
🎙️ ■ Jesús Calleja viaja al espacio con Blue Origin: quién le acompaña en la nave de Jeff Bezos ■ El aventurero y presentador español Jesús Calleja cumple uno de sus sueños más grandes al viajar al espacio
https://los40.com/2025/02/25/jesus-calleja-viaja-al-espacio-con-blue-origin-quien-le-acompana-en-la-nave-de-jeff-bezos/?int=MASTODON_WORLD
The ad that the Washington Post refused to run.
If you don't have the balls to be a newspaper owner, don't.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
#resisttrump #elonmusk #markzuckerberg #jeffbezos #sundarpichai #resistvance #nazi #neveragain #NoToFascism #notesla #nostarlink #nometa #noamazon #nogoogle #uspol #uspolitics #worldpol #abpol #abpolitics #canpol #canpolitics #deportations #ice #lgbtq #2slgbtqi #transrights #womensrights #humanrights #disabledrights #gunviolence #mentalhealth #mybodymychoice #abortion #firetheucp #enoughisenough #daniellesmith #NoDetentionCamps #Guantanamo #tariffs #buycanadian #BIPOClivesMatter #BlackHistoryMonth #idic #InfiniteDiversityInfiniteCombinations #antihate #antiracism #antifascism
"The strength of solidarity": A Whole Foods in Philadelphia is the first in the country to unionize
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/28/the-strength-of-solidarity-whole-foods-workers-in-philadelphia-are-the-first-to-join-a-union/
“What sets the Laval case apart from unionization drives in other parts of the world is a unique provision in Quebec’s labour code: employers are legally required to reach a first collective agreement with a union, once it exists.”
Amazon is leaving Quebec to avoid a collective agreement.
https://breachmedia.ca/amazon-quitting-quebec-shock-and-awe-workers-worldwide/
What if everyone working for Amazon/whole foods/meta/X quit?
What if we all refused to buy into their products?
What if we all denied them access to our funds and skills?
#democracy #amazon #oligarch #oligarchy #oligarchs #x #twitter #facebook #meta #kindle #goodreads #tesla #wholefoods #donaldtrump #bezos #elonmusk #markzuckerberg #jeffbezos #elon #musk #zuckerberg #2025 #revolution #wethepeople #BillionairesShouldNotExist #billionaires #union #harvarduniversity
🎙️ ■ Ramoncín se lleva un buen rapapolvo por sus palabras sobre Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk y Sundar Pichai ■ Los grandes tecnológicos se dan cita en la investidura de Donald Trump
https://los40.com/2025/01/22/ramoncin-se-lleva-un-buen-rapapolvo-por-sus-palabras-sobre-mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos-elon-musk-y-sundar-pichai/?int=MASTODON_WORLD
"I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers."
#elonmusk #SpaceX #tesla #meta #zuckerberg #amazon #jeffbezos #microsoft #fediverse #mastodon
Noting that "much of the political and business world is prostrating itself at the feet of the least-qualified man, morally and intellectually, ever to occupy the White House," Paul Krugman asks why.
As he points out, great wealth gives people extraordinary power, so the billionaires now willingly in thrall to Trump can't be buying power or self-respect from him.
#Trump #billionaires #EconomicElites #oligarchy #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerman #JeffBezos
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-pathetic-billionaires-club
Brian Stelter reports that noted journalist Jennifer Rubin is leaving Washington Post:
"Rubin tells me she is partnering with former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen and launching a startup publication called The Contrarian. Its tagline, 'Not owned by anybody,' is a pointed reference to billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and other moguls who, in Rubin's view, have 'bent the knee' to President-elect Donald Trump."
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #Trump
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1736776626381d44e4f6c825b/raw
Kommentar - Demokratie stirbt durch Monopole
Für Trump verzichten Facebook und Instagram auf Faktenchecks, Elon Musk macht auf X Wahlwerbung für die AfD. Das zeigt: Die Macht der Tech-Konzerne ist zu groß.#Facebook #Instagram #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #JeffBezos #X
Tech-Milliardäre: Wie sie die Demokratie gefährden