The tab police, they live inside my head …
NBC’s Tom Llamas: “After our interview, off-camera, the President called Savannah Guthrie and spoke to her — offering words of support for her and her family as they search for their mother.” ❤️ pic.twitter.com/8lA54gJ0qL
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 4, 2026
Ed: I’m glad to see this. I’ve been praying for Nancy Guthrie and her family for her safe return and health, and I hope everyone joins me in that effort.
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Daily Wire: The Washington Post cut nearly one-third of its workforce on Wednesday, terminating some 300 employees and axing several editorial sections entirely. …
“Over the last decade at the Washington Post: — A number of major corrections and journalistic scandals. —Major intra-newsroom drama with reporters threatening to sue the paper. — Declining circulation and losing lots of money. Stop acting like the layoffs are shocking,” Mark Hemingway posted.
Clay Travis added, “The Washington Post made its business contingent on far left wing subscribers who hated Trump & when Bezos became embarrassed by the far left wing product that created, he tried to fix it by moving closer to the center. But the Post’s subscribers revolted, crushing the business.”
Ed: The Protection Racket Media has the same problem as late-night TV. They shredded their credibility in an effort to curate their audiences to the Antifa bubble. Gallup has been sending up warning flares for years on the collapsing credibility of media organizations, and Will Lewis and Jeff Bezos warned Post staffers starting in June 2024 that the newspaper was no longer sustainable. It’s terrible to see people lose their jobs, but the American media industry is dying from willful and slow suicide.
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The fallacy here is that the documentary isn’t part of WaPo, which is its own going concern. It loses money every year. Bezos has owned the paper for over 12 years. Just because not every single use of his personal fortune is profitable doesn’t mean he has to tolerate… https://t.co/KouqGEnYU4
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 4, 2026
… tolerate organizational losses perennially into the future.
Ed: Lewis warned the staff in June 2024 that Bezos would not subsidize $77 million in annual losses for long. CBS is about to stop tolerating $40 million in losses for its Late Show. Same problem, same reasons.
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Ace of Spades HQ: Another factor is that the specific politics being pushed by the Washington Post’s #Resistance lefties. It’s not that #Resistance leftist politics don’t have a market. They do. One third of the country are, alas, woke communist psychopathic nihilists. You should be able to sell a paper appealing to this lunatic cohort.
The trouble is, every media outlet, pretty much, panders to this same lunatic cohort. They’re all reading from the same depraved Marxist prayer book.
Plus, what #Resistance leftists are selling is not at all a difficult product to produce. They’ve shifted from reporting on news, which does take some time and effort, and which is something people will pay for, to just ranting endlessly that Bad Orange Man Is Getting More Orange and More Bad and shrieking the same six propaganda slogans forever.
You don’t need an organization that spends $300 million on salaries and rent to do this. Any deranged leftwing imbecile with a $500 camera can do this from their basement. And they’re almost all doing it — so what does any lefty need the lefty press for?
Ed: Exactly. The Post may offer some value-added products, but not at its current costs. If they focus on Beltway issues and Beltway culture, they may add to that value, but they won’t need to carry anywhere near the overhead.
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Nope. The Washington Post deliberately lied about me in an attempt to ruin my reputation, and although the editors were forced to issue a retraction, the reporter paid no price for it. The paper is rotten and its mercenaries will get no sympathy from me. https://t.co/hbjgj5teSx
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) February 4, 2026
Ed: I’ll bet Nick Sandmann and Kyle Rittenhouse have some interesting perspectives on credibility, too.
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Fox News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) announced Tuesday that it would be laying off newsroom employees along with other staff across the company, according to the outlet.
About 50 positions will be cut as part of the layoffs and roughly half are newsroom positions, according to the AJC, which is 15% of the paper’s total staff.
“We’ve made these difficult decisions because we believe they will best position us to continue to accelerate the AJC’s growth,” President and Publisher Andrew Morse said, according to the paper. “We have invested heavily in our editorial, product and business teams over the last three years, and we’ve seen direct results from that investment.”
Ed: It’s not just the WaPo that faces structural issues that relate directly to newspapers, as opposed to other media outlets. However, a 15% reduction for the AJC is a significant reduction, and obviously related to other issues. As in revenue and readership.
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.@ScottJenningsKY says a major narrative just collapsed. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the AMA now admit there’s insufficient evidence to justify irreversible gender transition surgeries for minors and that they should generally be deferred to adulthood.
Jennings… pic.twitter.com/0pO0EDriag
— Salem News Channel (@WatchSalemNews) February 4, 2026
Jennings argues this isn’t new science—it’s the medical establishment finally speaking freely after years of political pressure, adding that this shift only happened after Trump’s 2024 win ended what he calls a “reign of fear” inside medicine.
Ed: Not just within medicine, either, but also within the Protection Racket Media. News outlets have warped their style guides under pressure from queer and trans activists, and have pushed back against challenges to the medical establishment by depicting them as rooted in bigotry. The Washington Post is one of the big examples of this kind of narrative-propaganda enforcement, but they are hardly alone in it.
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CBS News: Children’s Minnesota announced Tuesday it plans to pause some gender-affirming care for children amid “threats” from the federal government.
The hospital will “plan to temporarily pause prescribing puberty-suppressing medications and pubertal hormones (estrogen and testosterone) for patients under age 18 in our Gender Health program, effective Friday, Feb. 27, 2026” because of “an increase in federal actions directed at pediatric health systems like ours that provide this care.”
The move comes after a December proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would prohibit hospitals from providing “pharmaceutical or surgical interventions” as gender-affirming care or risk losing Medicare and Medicaid funding.
Ed: It also came after both the AMA and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons broke ranks with the trans movement and their fixation on pediatric sex changes. It also comes after a jury awarded $2 million to a detransitioner for medical malpractice. The spell is breaking, with no thanks to the mainstream media, which kept simping for the radicals rather than report the facts.
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We were told these surgeries weren’t happening. And they accused us of misinformation, hate speech, and incitement for saying they shouldn’t be happening. https://t.co/3PNI5g7fIH
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) February 4, 2026
Ed: We were told … by whom? The Protection Racket Media, including the Washington Post. The whole Legacy Media establishment is corrupt.
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Newsbusters: A NewsBusters investigation of the Epstein Files discovered that cast members of ABC’s The View were mentioned nearly four dozen times. Despite the files being a major topic of discussion on the show, as they tried to tie President Trump to criminal activity, none of the cast members addressed their names appearing in the same files. One cast member was seemingly interested in borrowing one of Epstein’s infamous private jets.
A search of the cast members’ names on the Department of Justice website returned nearly four dozen (46) references. …
The e-mail was requesting possible use of one of Epstein’s private jets to help Goldberg attend a White Feather Foundation charity event in Monaco.
“Whoopi Goldberg needs a plane to get to Monaco. John Lennon’s Charity is paying for it. They don’t want to charter so they are looking for private owners,” the e-mail began.
Ed: Gotta admit – didn’t see that one coming. The request was made in 2013, several years after Epstein’s plea deal for importuning prostitution in Florida and while he was listed as a Level 1 sex offender. I wonder what the Epstein Files discussion will look like from this point forward on The View. I suspect it will go missing entirely.
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BRAKING: Man arrested for THREATENING and DOXING an FBI agent and his family after using info stolen from federal vehicles.
Messages include threats to the agent’s children and threats to FIREBOMB the agent’s home.pic.twitter.com/BOoXIM0Jp9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 4, 2026
Ed: Time for the Department of Justice to follow the money fueling these networks. Don Surber agrees …
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Don Surber: But Bernie bashes billionaires and that is OK by me.
And I am pleased that he is honest enough to admit that he supports those who obstruct law enforcement officers from enforcing federal law.
On January 26, he said, “I want to thank our courageous friends in Minnesota who—in below freezing temperatures—are standing up to ICE. The American people want democracy and justice, not authoritarianism. When we stand together we win.”
I am delighted that Bernie said that because his words show what a phony baloney, hypocritical, dishonest, two-faced, lying chiseler Bernie Sanders is.
Ed: Click through to read more about Bernie’s favorite billionaire, Neville Singham, who is funding the groups conducting obstruction and violence in the streets of Minneapolis. And find out what Singham and Tim Walz have in common … although you can find a pretty strong hint in our own archives, like this post from last May.
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I do not delight in the dispatch of dutiful defenders of Democracy at the @washingtonpost but its downfall was destined the day they deemed this daft dictum didactic. ?? pic.twitter.com/dU4lSC8gXu
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) February 4, 2026
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