#wapo — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wapo, aggregated by home.social.
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Bezos's #WaPo: we must push seniors off a cliff so we can hand more trillions to defense contractors and billionaires.
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Bezos's #WaPo: we must push seniors off a cliff so we can hand more trillions to defense contractors and billionaires.
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Bezos's #WaPo: we must push seniors off a cliff so we can hand more trillions to defense contractors and billionaires.
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Bezos's #WaPo: we must push seniors off a cliff so we can hand more trillions to defense contractors and billionaires.
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Bezos's #WaPo: we must push seniors off a cliff so we can hand more trillions to defense contractors and billionaires.
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Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (23-cv-01535) in the Middle District of Florida i.e. #TruthSocial v. #WaPo https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67596894/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
2026/08/265 Unsurprisingly, Truth Social doesn't think the motion for discovery sanctions (Doc 252) against it should be reopened as the Washington Post requested (Doc 262).
In the just-started appeal we have some future dates:
2026/08/13 Brito posts his 95 thesis ... I mean *8* questions for appeal. This is, in my limited experience as a non-lawyer, a large number of questions.
2026/09/08 Truth Social brief due
2026/10/08 Washington Post brief(s) due.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (26-12673) Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73704031/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
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Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (23-cv-01535) in the Middle District of Florida i.e. #TruthSocial v. #WaPo https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67596894/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
2026/08/265 Unsurprisingly, Truth Social doesn't think the motion for discovery sanctions (Doc 252) against it should be reopened as the Washington Post requested (Doc 262).
In the just-started appeal we have some future dates:
2026/08/13 Brito posts his 95 thesis ... I mean *8* questions for appeal. This is, in my limited experience as a non-lawyer, a large number of questions.
2026/09/08 Truth Social brief due
2026/10/08 Washington Post brief(s) due.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (26-12673) Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73704031/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
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Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (23-cv-01535) in the Middle District of Florida i.e. #TruthSocial v. #WaPo https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67596894/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
2026/08/265 Unsurprisingly, Truth Social doesn't think the motion for discovery sanctions (Doc 252) against it should be reopened as the Washington Post requested (Doc 262).
In the just-started appeal we have some future dates:
2026/08/13 Brito posts his 95 thesis ... I mean *8* questions for appeal. This is, in my limited experience as a non-lawyer, a large number of questions.
2026/09/08 Truth Social brief due
2026/10/08 Washington Post brief(s) due.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (26-12673) Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73704031/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
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Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (23-cv-01535) in the Middle District of Florida i.e. #TruthSocial v. #WaPo https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67596894/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
2026/08/265 Unsurprisingly, Truth Social doesn't think the motion for discovery sanctions (Doc 252) against it should be reopened as the Washington Post requested (Doc 262).
In the just-started appeal we have some future dates:
2026/08/13 Brito posts his 95 thesis ... I mean *8* questions for appeal. This is, in my limited experience as a non-lawyer, a large number of questions.
2026/09/08 Truth Social brief due
2026/10/08 Washington Post brief(s) due.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (26-12673) Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73704031/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
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Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (23-cv-01535) in the Middle District of Florida i.e. #TruthSocial v. #WaPo https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67596894/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
2026/08/265 Unsurprisingly, Truth Social doesn't think the motion for discovery sanctions (Doc 252) against it should be reopened as the Washington Post requested (Doc 262).
In the just-started appeal we have some future dates:
2026/08/13 Brito posts his 95 thesis ... I mean *8* questions for appeal. This is, in my limited experience as a non-lawyer, a large number of questions.
2026/09/08 Truth Social brief due
2026/10/08 Washington Post brief(s) due.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. WP Company LLC (26-12673) Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73704031/trump-media-technology-group-corp-v-wp-company-llc/
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>>>> #WaPo Exclusive: #Trump has claimed that the #WhiteHouse needs a massive new #ballroom because it would provide him and future presidents with a secure, hardened facility. But former officials say the argument fails to acknowledge that the presidential complex already has one.
>>[The security complex] ..secretly completed during the #Obama admin, can house dozens of people for up to multiple weeks..”
#Biden #billionaires #completeCapture BOTH parties
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>>>> #WaPo Exclusive: #Trump has claimed that the #WhiteHouse needs a massive new #ballroom because it would provide him and future presidents with a secure, hardened facility. But former officials say the argument fails to acknowledge that the presidential complex already has one.
>>[The security complex] ..secretly completed during the #Obama admin, can house dozens of people for up to multiple weeks..”
#Biden #billionaires #completeCapture BOTH parties
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>>>> #WaPo Exclusive: #Trump has claimed that the #WhiteHouse needs a massive new #ballroom because it would provide him and future presidents with a secure, hardened facility. But former officials say the argument fails to acknowledge that the presidential complex already has one.
>>[The security complex] ..secretly completed during the #Obama admin, can house dozens of people for up to multiple weeks..”
#Biden #billionaires #completeCapture BOTH parties
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David Rothkopf and Jennifer Welch discuss the waning MAGA movement as the midterm elections draw closer.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kFJAtoXEV68 #Trump #NatalieHarp #NationalSecurity #JonOssoff #MAGA #PeteHegseth #StephenMiller #fascist #fascism #media #CBS #CNN #WaPo #NYT #academia
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David Rothkopf and Jennifer Welch discuss the waning MAGA movement as the midterm elections draw closer.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kFJAtoXEV68 #Trump #NatalieHarp #NationalSecurity #JonOssoff #MAGA #PeteHegseth #StephenMiller #fascist #fascism #media #CBS #CNN #WaPo #NYT #academia
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David Rothkopf and Jennifer Welch discuss the waning MAGA movement as the midterm elections draw closer.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kFJAtoXEV68 #Trump #NatalieHarp #NationalSecurity #JonOssoff #MAGA #PeteHegseth #StephenMiller #fascist #fascism #media #CBS #CNN #WaPo #NYT #academia
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David Rothkopf and Jennifer Welch discuss the waning MAGA movement as the midterm elections draw closer.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kFJAtoXEV68 #Trump #NatalieHarp #NationalSecurity #JonOssoff #MAGA #PeteHegseth #StephenMiller #fascist #fascism #media #CBS #CNN #WaPo #NYT #academia
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David Rothkopf and Jennifer Welch discuss the waning MAGA movement as the midterm elections draw closer.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kFJAtoXEV68 #Trump #NatalieHarp #NationalSecurity #JonOssoff #MAGA #PeteHegseth #StephenMiller #fascist #fascism #media #CBS #CNN #WaPo #NYT #academia
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#CIA said to be behind Covert #DroneAttacks on boats in waters of Galápagos Marine Reserve off #Ecuador #SouthAmerica .
#FlightData shows a surveillance plane flew from #ElSalvador towards fishing boats before a remote operated drone attack. -
#CIA said to be behind Covert #DroneAttacks on boats in waters of Galápagos Marine Reserve off #Ecuador #SouthAmerica .
#FlightData shows a surveillance plane flew from #ElSalvador towards fishing boats before a remote operated drone attack. -
#CIA said to be behind Covert #DroneAttacks on boats in waters of Galápagos Marine Reserve off #Ecuador #SouthAmerica .
#FlightData shows a surveillance plane flew from #ElSalvador towards fishing boats before a remote operated drone attack. -
#CIA said to be behind Covert #DroneAttacks on boats in waters of Galápagos Marine Reserve off #Ecuador #SouthAmerica .
#FlightData shows a surveillance plane flew from #ElSalvador towards fishing boats before a remote operated drone attack. -
#CIA said to be behind Covert #DroneAttacks on boats in waters of Galápagos Marine Reserve off #Ecuador #SouthAmerica .
#FlightData shows a surveillance plane flew from #ElSalvador towards fishing boats before a remote operated drone attack. -
Once again, all indicators point to Fuck Amazon.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Once again, all indicators point to Fuck Amazon.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Once again, all indicators point to Fuck Amazon.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Once again, all indicators point to Fuck Amazon.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Once again, all indicators point to Fuck Amazon.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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It’s time to end Amazon before Amazon ends us.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country!
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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It’s time to end Amazon before Amazon ends us.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country!
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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It’s time to end Amazon before Amazon ends us.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country!
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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It’s time to end Amazon before Amazon ends us.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country!
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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It’s time to end Amazon before Amazon ends us.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country!
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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It's not a "free marketplace place of ideas" #WaPo when access to attention is biased by the amount of money you are able to spend. When a president can complain about CBS and 60 Minutes cause of how it influences so many, and then have the network bought by his billionaire buddy. Same with Elon biasing the Xitter algos. And of course advertising is the most obvious example.
The closest we had to the ideal above was before mass media. Word of mouth. Fedi is that but faster.
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It's not a "free marketplace place of ideas" #WaPo when access to attention is biased by the amount of money you are able to spend. When a president can complain about CBS and 60 Minutes cause of how it influences so many, and then have the network bought by his billionaire buddy. Same with Elon biasing the Xitter algos. And of course advertising is the most obvious example.
The closest we had to the ideal above was before mass media. Word of mouth. Fedi is that but faster.
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It's not a "free marketplace place of ideas" #WaPo when access to attention is biased by the amount of money you are able to spend. When a president can complain about CBS and 60 Minutes cause of how it influences so many, and then have the network bought by his billionaire buddy. Same with Elon biasing the Xitter algos. And of course advertising is the most obvious example.
The closest we had to the ideal above was before mass media. Word of mouth. Fedi is that but faster.
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Nearly half of a million immigration #asylum application cases transferred under new #Drumpf rule could send subjects directly to #deportation hearings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/28/asylum-seekers-could-be-sent-directly-deportation-under-new-federal-rule/ #WaPo #USA -
Nearly half of a million immigration #asylum application cases transferred under new #Drumpf rule could send subjects directly to #deportation hearings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/28/asylum-seekers-could-be-sent-directly-deportation-under-new-federal-rule/ #WaPo #USA -
How to Know If You’re Eligible for a Piece of the $2.5 Billion Amazon Prime Settlement, and How to File a Claim
https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/amazon-prime-settlement-eligibility-how-to-file-claim/#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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How to Know If You’re Eligible for a Piece of the $2.5 Billion Amazon Prime Settlement, and How to File a Claim
https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/amazon-prime-settlement-eligibility-how-to-file-claim/#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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How to Know If You’re Eligible for a Piece of the $2.5 Billion Amazon Prime Settlement, and How to File a Claim
https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/amazon-prime-settlement-eligibility-how-to-file-claim/#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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How to Know If You’re Eligible for a Piece of the $2.5 Billion Amazon Prime Settlement, and How to File a Claim
https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/amazon-prime-settlement-eligibility-how-to-file-claim/#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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How to Know If You’re Eligible for a Piece of the $2.5 Billion Amazon Prime Settlement, and How to File a Claim
https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/amazon-prime-settlement-eligibility-how-to-file-claim/#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Don’t miss your chance to stick it to Jeff Bezos.
Here's how to claim the Amazon Prime FTC lawsuit payout before the deadline https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-ftc-settlement-check-eligibility-file-claim-compensation-2026-7
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Don’t miss your chance to stick it to Jeff Bezos.
Here's how to claim the Amazon Prime FTC lawsuit payout before the deadline https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-ftc-settlement-check-eligibility-file-claim-compensation-2026-7
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Don’t miss your chance to stick it to Jeff Bezos.
Here's how to claim the Amazon Prime FTC lawsuit payout before the deadline https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-ftc-settlement-check-eligibility-file-claim-compensation-2026-7
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Don’t miss your chance to stick it to Jeff Bezos.
Here's how to claim the Amazon Prime FTC lawsuit payout before the deadline https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-ftc-settlement-check-eligibility-file-claim-compensation-2026-7
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Don’t miss your chance to stick it to Jeff Bezos.
Here's how to claim the Amazon Prime FTC lawsuit payout before the deadline https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-ftc-settlement-check-eligibility-file-claim-compensation-2026-7
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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#Drumpf approval rating floating wel below 40%, as his corrupt cabal strangle economic growth, waging dopey #Iran war that drags on all sectors by dramatically raising global #energy cost$.
Overall A Vast 63% Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of President's Job Performance.
#GOP fear big backlash in upcoming Congressional #midterm elections as political pessimism about US economy rankles party support across all 50 states.
Much maligned Prez Biden's avg poll approval rating at this point in his term was 46.3%
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#Drumpf approval rating floating wel below 40%, as his corrupt cabal strangle economic growth, waging dopey #Iran war that drags on all sectors by dramatically raising global #energy cost$.
Overall A Vast 63% Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of President's Job Performance.
#GOP fear big backlash in upcoming Congressional #midterm elections as political pessimism about US economy rankles party support across all 50 states.
Much maligned Prez Biden's avg poll approval rating at this point in his term was 46.3%
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#Drumpf approval rating floating wel below 40%, as his corrupt cabal strangle economic growth, waging dopey #Iran war that drags on all sectors by dramatically raising global #energy cost$.
Overall A Vast 63% Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of President's Job Performance.
#GOP fear big backlash in upcoming Congressional #midterm elections as political pessimism about US economy rankles party support across all 50 states.
Much maligned Prez Biden's avg poll approval rating at this point in his term was 46.3%
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#Drumpf approval rating floating wel below 40%, as his corrupt cabal strangle economic growth, waging dopey #Iran war that drags on all sectors by dramatically raising global #energy cost$.
Overall A Vast 63% Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of President's Job Performance.
#GOP fear big backlash in upcoming Congressional #midterm elections as political pessimism about US economy rankles party support across all 50 states.
Much maligned Prez Biden's avg poll approval rating at this point in his term was 46.3%
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#Drumpf approval rating floating wel below 40%, as his corrupt cabal strangle economic growth, waging dopey #Iran war that drags on all sectors by dramatically raising global #energy cost$.
Overall A Vast 63% Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of President's Job Performance.
#GOP fear big backlash in upcoming Congressional #midterm elections as political pessimism about US economy rankles party support across all 50 states.
Much maligned Prez Biden's avg poll approval rating at this point in his term was 46.3%
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Remember That Since This #WaPo Story In February #RWNJ #DJT Acolytes Seeking To Declare #NationalEmergency USA #Election #PowerGrab Plot In Plain Sight Has Not Gone Away
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Remember That Since This #WaPo Story In February #RWNJ #DJT Acolytes Seeking To Declare #NationalEmergency USA #Election #PowerGrab Plot In Plain Sight Has Not Gone Away
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Remember That Since This #WaPo Story In February #RWNJ #DJT Acolytes Seeking To Declare #NationalEmergency USA #Election #PowerGrab Plot In Plain Sight Has Not Gone Away
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Remember That Since This #WaPo Story In February #RWNJ #DJT Acolytes Seeking To Declare #NationalEmergency USA #Election #PowerGrab Plot In Plain Sight Has Not Gone Away
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Remember That Since This #WaPo Story In February #RWNJ #DJT Acolytes Seeking To Declare #NationalEmergency USA #Election #PowerGrab Plot In Plain Sight Has Not Gone Away
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Among the latest data-breach villains: the Washington Post
Members of the Washington Post’s extended diaspora, meaning both former employees as well as past freelancers, have begun getting an unwelcome reminder of that chapter in their professional lives: a letter from the Post, sent from an address not in the District but in West Sacramento, Calif., informing them of a “Data Security Incident.”
That inefficient phrase is defensive legalese for “data breach,” which the letter says, in comparably defensive passive voice, happened between July 10 and Aug. 22, 2025, when “certain data was accessed and acquired without authorization” from unspecified Oracle E-Business Suite applications.
In my case and others, to judge from reports from fellow recipients of this joyless notice, the “certain data” included names and Social Security numbers.
The letter may not spark any more joy at Oracle, since it describes the vulnerability exploited as a “previously unknown and widespread” flaw. Oracle’s own warning red-flags it as “remotely exploitable without authentication.” But the paper’s disclosure does not address another cause of the data breach: how the Post chose to retain this sort of sensitive data long after it should have stopped being regularly business-relevant.
Consider my example: The last time I had any ongoing transactions with the Post that should have involved my SSN was 15 years ago. I rolled over my 401(K) after leaving the paper, and Jeff Bezos buying the Post in 2013 resulted in the company transferring my pension and those of other ex-Posties to former publisher Don Graham’s firm Graham Holdings.
For the handful of freelance pieces I’ve sold to my old shop since then (such as the Jan. 28, 2019 opinion piece headlined “Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy”), I’ve used the Employer Identification Number I obtained shortly after I started freelancing.
Yet apparently my SSN was still sitting unencrypted in a network-accessible database last summer, contrary to basic security advice, along with the digits of thousands of other current and former Post employees and contractors. Some had banking details compromised too.
That’s “thousands” as in 9,720 people, per a filing the Post made with Maine’s Attorney General in November that a few security publications covered at the time. A month later, a former Post employee named Jun Hee Kim filed a class-action lawsuit against the Post on behalf of those nearly 10,000 individuals.
I have yet to get a notice inviting me to join that class, and the Post’s letter does not mention the litigation. Instead, it offers the usual paltry remedy of a year of identity-theft monitoring, in this case from a firm called IDX.
I know that’s the standard act of apology not only from covering data breaches but from having my data exposed in them, over and over. I know the drill well enough to have turned “Equifax” into the verb “Equifaxed” and to have frozen my credit more than once.
So at some level, I’m not surprised at the news of the Post’s data breach so much as I’m surprised that it took this long. Throughout my time working at 15th and L, I saw the Post treat SSNs as carelessly as anybody else did decades ago–even using them as employee IDs, as seen in some of my own admin paperwork from early in this century showing the full nine digits. But it’s still stupid and sloppy that this particular data breach happened not in 2005 or 2015 but in 2025, well past the point when management at the Post should have known better.
#Cl0p #CVE202561882 #dataBreach #dataMinimization #DataSecurityIncident #EIN #EmployerIdentificationNumber #Equifax #Equifaxed #IDX #Oracle #OracleEBusinessSuite #personallyIdentifiableInformation #PII #SocialSecurityNumber #SSN #TaxIDNumber #wapo #washingtonPost -
Among the latest data-breach villains: the Washington Post
Members of the Washington Post’s extended diaspora, meaning both former employees as well as past freelancers, have begun getting an unwelcome reminder of that chapter in their professional lives: a letter from the Post, sent from an address not in the District but in West Sacramento, Calif., informing them of a “Data Security Incident.”
That inefficient phrase is defensive legalese for “data breach,” which the letter says, in comparably defensive passive voice, happened between July 10 and Aug. 22, 2025, when “certain data was accessed and acquired without authorization” from unspecified Oracle E-Business Suite applications.
In my case and others, to judge from reports from fellow recipients of this joyless notice, the “certain data” included names and Social Security numbers.
The letter may not spark any more joy at Oracle, since it describes the vulnerability exploited as a “previously unknown and widespread” flaw. Oracle’s own warning red-flags it as “remotely exploitable without authentication.” But the paper’s disclosure does not address another cause of the data breach: how the Post chose to retain this sort of sensitive data long after it should have stopped being regularly business-relevant.
Consider my example: The last time I had any ongoing transactions with the Post that should have involved my SSN was 15 years ago. I rolled over my 401(K) after leaving the paper, and Jeff Bezos buying the Post in 2013 resulted in the company transferring my pension and those of other ex-Posties to former publisher Don Graham’s firm Graham Holdings.
For the handful of freelance pieces I’ve sold to my old shop since then (such as the Jan. 28, 2019 opinion piece headlined “Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy”), I’ve used the Employer Identification Number I obtained shortly after I started freelancing.
Yet apparently my SSN was still sitting unencrypted in a network-accessible database last summer, contrary to basic security advice, along with the digits of thousands of other current and former Post employees and contractors. Some had banking details compromised too.
That’s “thousands” as in 9,720 people, per a filing the Post made with Maine’s Attorney General in November that a few security publications covered at the time. A month later, a former Post employee named Jun Hee Kim filed a class-action lawsuit against the Post on behalf of those nearly 10,000 individuals.
I have yet to get a notice inviting me to join that class, and the Post’s letter does not mention the litigation. Instead, it offers the usual paltry remedy of a year of identity-theft monitoring, in this case from a firm called IDX.
I know that’s the standard act of apology not only from covering data breaches but from having my data exposed in them, over and over. I know the drill well enough to have turned “Equifax” into the verb “Equifaxed” and to have frozen my credit more than once.
So at some level, I’m not surprised at the news of the Post’s data breach so much as I’m surprised that it took this long. Throughout my time working at 15th and L, I saw the Post treat SSNs as carelessly as anybody else did decades ago–even using them as employee IDs, as seen in some of my own admin paperwork from early in this century showing the full nine digits. But it’s still stupid and sloppy that this particular data breach happened not in 2005 or 2015 but in 2025, well past the point when management at the Post should have known better.
#Cl0p #CVE202561882 #dataBreach #dataMinimization #DataSecurityIncident #EIN #EmployerIdentificationNumber #Equifax #Equifaxed #IDX #Oracle #OracleEBusinessSuite #personallyIdentifiableInformation #PII #SocialSecurityNumber #SSN #TaxIDNumber #wapo #washingtonPost