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Good reminder: It was Jared Kushner and the Trump administration who gave
The Washington Post
writer Jamal Khashoggi to the Saudis, dismembered with a bone saw and liquefied in sulfuric acid.

But in a contest between Harris and Trump, Jeff Bezos can't make an endorsement.

Propublica found in 2021 that Billionaire L.A. Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who decided the paper would not publish its endorsement in the presidential election, paid no federal income tax for 5 consecutive years
propublica.org/article/when-yo

@Fellixe Taking the most mercenary view, there was no down side for him to skip endorsement.

According to the Daily Beast,
“Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,” he said on Saturday. “Which tells us that there was an actual deal made."

Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’

@HopeSeeker I am torn on this. I find their failure to endorse cowardly and only speeds us toward fascism. However, the reporting is solid. It is their owner who sucks and no amount of cancellations will hurt him. Electing Harris to impose taxes on billionaires will.

"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.”
-Ernest Hemingway

“ When economists studied the effects of 400,000 deportations of unauthorized immigrants between 2008 and 2013, they found that for every 100 people removed from the labor market because of deportations, there were nine fewer jobs for U.S.-born workers.”
nytimes.com/interactive/2024/1

wapo.st/3Umu0rK (Gift article) 5th circuit appeals court bans a law that allowed Mississippi to count mailed in ballots received after Election Day. This ruling on the appeals court comes from three Trump-appointed judges.

Even the L.A. Public Library is evoking the memory of Kurt Gibson in 1988 (see pic) in celebrating Freddie Freeman’s grand slam hit.

A walk off grand slam is the kind of extravagant welcome New Yorkers should get in Los Angeles ✨ 💙

Freddie Freeman just hammered that ball. Wow.

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