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MS NOW’s @jonathancapehart.bsky.social, who spent 18 years as an opinion writer at The Washington Post, on why the latest round of layoffs and turmoil is a threat to democracy. #news #washingtonpost

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We all must step up (don’t be down or angry show your displeasure on November 4, 2026. We must fight the power every day in anyway we can boycotts, protest, are our starting points.

The Broligarths have banded together to take out the legitimate media. They are creating a propaganda machine for Fascist. Where's Woody Guthrie's guitar when we need it? At least we have Bruce Springsteen.

Oligarchs are one of the greatest and gravest threats to democracy. As Louis Brandeis said so eloquently a century ago, “We can have democracy, or we can have the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.”

How soon before we’re watching this or another liberal news show and it suddenly goes dark? You think they don’t have the ability to do this? If the military can jam radio and TV signals in other countries, believe it is possible.

MSNOW has no idea how feeble their messaging is. They emply predominantly gay men to give grad school lectures ignoring Carville's dictum to avoid usisngt faculty lounge language. Thus, a nation seeking men who act like men, tune out. Masculinity is not a crime

Bezos probably knew what he was going to do right from the beginning. Accept that maybe he just thought it was cool because every other rich guy was buying a newspaper. He sold books from his parents' garage if that tells you anything.