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Sources: before the layoffs, a group of wealthy DC locals asked Will Lewis whether WaPo would sell them its local and sports sections, but never got an answer (Jon Passantino/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-jeff-bezos-ownership-sell

Conflict of Disinterest
Jeff Bezos was once hailed as the ideal billionaire steward of a newspaper—but his recent actions have made clear that it’s time for him to sell The Washington Post.

Washington Post Union Calls for Jeff Bezos to Sell the Paper - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-post-union-urges-jeff-bezos-sell-paper-layoffs-ceo-2026-2

Perfect timing for the March for Billionaires tomorrow, which lists Bezos as one of the good ones.
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/116026776153656984

Jay Kuo (@jaykuo@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image Jeff Bezos could have saved this paper with pocket change from his vast wealth. Instead he’s letting it die because that makes Trump happy. Coward. Enemy of democracy.

Bezos, dem Faschismus ergebener Oligarch in Trumps Wohlwollen, macht die #WashingtonPost zum rechten Propagandamedium.
Sind von den entlassenen Journalist*innen auch welche im Fediverse?
Ist ja vielleicht auch ein Qualitätsmerkmal, wenn man für Trumps Propagandamaschine als ungeeignet erkannt wurde.

”What’s changed” is, billionaires like Jeff Bezos have realized they don’t need American news media to manufacture consent for them. Their societal role has been so diminished by other means, including other billionaire projects, that Bezos no longer needs The Post.

“Something I will be most proud of when I’m 90”: How Jeff Bezos used to talk about The Washington Post, and what’s changed
Jeff Bezos used to talk about The Washington Post with real curiosity, and the things he said were interesting and specific. Over time, that changed.

Jeff Bezos Must Sell the Washington Post (Cameron Barr/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jeff-bezos-must-sell-the-washington-post
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p108#a260205p108

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post https://rmendes.net/content/bookmarks/2026-02-04-democracy-and-foreign-correspondents-die-in-darkness

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post 4 February 2026 Bezos WaPo Journalism Democracy 🔖 https://archive.is/YRuaF - Democracy, and foreign correspondents, die in darkness. Democracy, and for...

In an interview, Washington Post top editor Matt Murray says Jeff Bezos supports "reinvention" and wants WaPo to be "a bigger, relevant, thriving institution" (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/jeff-bezos-matt-murray…

Jeff Bezos remains committed to Washington Post amid brutal layoffs, top editor says
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos remains committed to the publication, its top editor told CNN in an interview Wednesday, hours after the Post laid off hundreds of employees.

The Washington Post Is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos https://www.404media.co/the-washington-post-is-no-longer-useful-to-jeff-bezos/

Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post (Alex Kirshner/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2026/02/jeff-bezos-washington-post-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p112#a260205p112

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-new-ai-company-acquired-age…

Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.

Jeff Bezos gründet KI-Startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos steigt als CEO und Gründer in das KI-Startup Project Prometheus ein, das bereits Milliarden-Finanzierungen erhalten haben soll.
https://www.

How Jeff Bezos has forced WaPo into severe decline in Trump's second term, including today's mass layoffs that seem to transform it into a kind of Politico-lite (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-c…

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
Ruth Marcus on the latest round of layoffs at the Washington Post and what the impact has been on the newspaper and its staff since it was bought by Jeff Bezos in 2013.

The Washington Post Is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-washington-post-is-no-longer-useful-to-jeff-bezos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p51#a260205p51

Kyiv bureau among those axed by Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, hundreds of journalists laid off: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/04/kyiv-bureau-among-those-axed.html

Emails from a trove released by the Department of Justice on Friday,
show that as late as 2018,
Epstein was invited to or attended dinners alongside the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Google vice-president and later Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
Most of the events were staged by the Edge network,
a creation of literary agent John Brockman,
which offered a …

Jeff Bezos plant wohl, bei der Washington Post bis zu 300 Jobs zu streichen – vor allem in der Sport- & Auslandsredaktion. Über 60 Redakteur:innen warnen vor Bedeutungsverlust und fordern echte Dialogbereitschaft statt stummer Sparpolitik. Ein Qualitätsmedium am Scheideweg zwischen Wirtschaft und publizistischem Anspruch. #Tagesspiegel

Ex-WaPo Executive Editor Marty Baron says "this ranks among the darkest days in the history of" the paper; WaPo laid off Amazon beat reporter Caroline O'Donovan (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/

Washington Post Layoffs Cut More Than 300 Employees at Jeff Bezos Paper
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

Andy Jassy taps Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon VP of worldwide selling partner services, as technical advisor, a "shadow" role often leading to greater responsibilities (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/amazon-jassy-new-shadow-advisor-d…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy picks marketplace exec to be his new 'shadow' advisor
Jassy was Jeff Bezos' shadow in the early 2000s before going on to lead Amazon Web Services.

WaPo squandered two precious years under Will Lewis' leadership, and his short resignation note and the lack of a succession plan suggest his exit was unplanned (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/07/2026/washington-post-…

Washington Post CEO resigns, leaving no clear strategy
Will Lewis and Jeff Bezos presided over a sharp decline at the definitive Washington newspaper.

#WaPo layoffs looming as #Olympic coverage cancelled , Natalie Korach reported for #Status that "upwards of 100 newsroom layoffs" are "expected to hit the sports, metro and foreign teams hardest"
One unnamed edit…

Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

En de Chinezen gaan daar ook nog eens overheen. Het zal moeilijk worden zonder GPS 😢
Amazon-oprichter Bezos bouwt nóg een satellietnetwerk als rivaal voor Starlink
https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/amazon-oprichter-be…

Everyone wants to steal fire from the gods, but no-one wants to have their liver pecked out by eagles.
https://www.theverge.com/news/821943/jeff-bezos-project-prometheus-co-ceo-funding-ai-startup

Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Project Prometheus, with Bezos as co-CEO, will use artificial intelligence to improve manufacturing for computers, cars, and spacecraft.

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Sources: WaPo plans to end the sports section in its "current form", restructure the metro desk, and eliminate the books section as part of a "strategic reset" (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/washingto…

The Washington Post Is Slashing Its Newsroom in ‘Strategic Reset’
The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper is making significant cuts to international, sports, metro and books

Mit der Monopolstellung ihrer Unternehmen bestimmen Menschen wie Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos oder Mark Zuckerberg weltweit, wie wir uns online informieren, wie wir diskutieren, kommunizieren oder handeln.
Am 4. Januar vor Ort wechseln, Fragen fragen und Spaß haben: #DigitalIndependenceDay

Brutal but seemingly fitting review of #Melania #film in #theatlantic :
"After a while, “Melania” starts to feel like an OnlyFans account crossed with that meme of Kim Jong Un visiting factorie…

Movie Review: “Melania,” Directed by Brett Ratner
Lauren Collins on the documentary about Donald Trump’s First Lady, which Jeff Bezos and Amazon financed in a deal that has been described as a bribe.

Jeff Bezos has appointed himself co-CEO of an AI startup called Project Prometheus.
The startup, which will focus on developing AI for engineering and manufacturing in various fields,
has already received $6.2bn in funding
– more than many companies are able to raise in their lifetimes.
Leading the company alongside Bezos is his co-founder and co-CEO Vik Bajaj,
a celebrity tech executive in his own right.
Bajaj is a physicist and chemist best known for his …

I’d bet that there’s illegal drugs on some of those boats… @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
TEAM ORCA: From Jeff Bezos to Michael Jordan, these are the billionaire superyacht owners currently anchored in St. Barts and the surrounding Caribbean islands for New Year’s Eve. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2025/12/16/inside-the-billionaire-superyacht-rush-whos-cruising-the-caribbean-this-holiday-season/

Kapitalismus made in USA — Reichtum als Kult: Geschichte
Vor 120 Jahren entstand in den USA ein kapitalistisches Eldorado, das den Weg für Persönlichkeiten wie Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos und Bill Gates ebnete. Wie festigte sich die Macht der Superreichen, vor allem in der Zeit der Wirtschaftskrise nach 1929 oder auch während Ronald Reagans Politik der Deregulierung und Steuersenkungen in den 1980er-Jahren?
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Kapitalismus made in USA - Geschichte | ARTE
Vor 120 Jahren entstand in den USA ein kapitalistisches Eldorado, das den Weg für Persönlichkeiten wie Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos und Bill Gates ebnete. Wie festigte sich die Macht der Superreichen, vor allem in der Zeit der Wirtschaftskrise nach 1929 oder auch während Ronald Reagans Politik der Deregulierung und Steuersenkungen in den 1980er-Jahren?

Marty Baron says "I firmly believe" Jeff Bezos prioritizes his other interests over WaPo; Jim VandeHei says "I have no clue what their strategy was or is" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/05/mass-layoffs-wash…

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260204/p147#a260204p147

Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

Jeff Bezos Is Backing An AI Startup Aiming To Make Proteins Programmable
Profluent has raised $106 million to scale up use of its AI models for biology in drug development and agriculture.

Boats can have duplicate names, but I understand the IMO to be a unique identifier. For example, Jeff Bezos' yacht is called KORU and has an IMO of 9857298. Sites like vesselfinder can take the IMO as an argument to the URL:
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9857298

The Washington Post Correspondents Start "Save The Post" Campaign
https://deadline.com/2026/01/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-1236697326/

So.... Rockin' in the USA (Update: Rockin' in the Free World), seemingly Cheato's favorite tune to steal, is now owned by Greenland.
Update: He is not giving the copyrights to Greenland, he is giving free access to the tunes to people in Greenland.
"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free"

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.

Sources: WaPo is losing about $100M per year but aiming to break even by the end of 2026, which could unlock fresh funding from Jeff Bezos (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f430690e-0ec3-4dbc-b677-e0e6882c5588

Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/bezos-project-prometheus.html

Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548
Steve Jobs: "Computers are a bicycle for the mind.
Jeff Bezos: "My computers are a hamster wheel for my bank account."

Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/bezos-blue-origin-satellite-internet-sp…

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches satellite internet service to rival SpaceX, Amazon
Blue Origin is looking to send the first of TeraWave's 5,408 satellites into space in the fourth quarter of 2027.

Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos

Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

Tax the billionaires. https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/115718518283533635

Greenpeace International (@greenpeace@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image A picture is worth a thousand words... or in this case, it's worth 139 billion 😒 Here's a visualisation of Jeff Bezos' wealth by scale: https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay

The #Washington #Post has consistently produced high-quality, news cycle-leading reporting over the first year of Donald Trump’s chaotic and unpredictable second administration.
But that work has been produced under a cloud of uncertainty and rumors of widespread

Post Parting Depression (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p88#a260125p88

Sources: The Washington Post has laid off a third of its staff; major cuts are also being made on the business side of the Post's beleaguered operations (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff
The Washington Post laid off about one in three employees across the company Wednesday morning, dealing another big blow to a newsroom that has reached a breaking point.

To avert layoffs, WaPo's White House correspondents, not considered at risk, write a letter to Jeff Bezos highlighting collaborations among the paper's sections (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/29/2026

Exclusive: Washington Post’s White House team tries to avert layoffs in letter to Bezos
The effort from the Post’s White House reporters comes as staffers are scrambling to preserve their jobs ahead of impending layoffs.

Appealing to Jeff Bezos (CNN)
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17696998673984b7445142958/raw
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p70#a260129p70

[Thread] Staff of WaPo's local section sent a letter to owner Jeff Bezos, pleading, "Don't eliminate our jobs", and listing accomplishments in breaking news (@erikwemple)
https://x.com/erikwemple/status/2016221043409498222

ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) on X
Staffers at the Washington Post’s local section have sent the letter below to owner Jeff Bezos. The request: “Don’t eliminate our jobs.”

Plot for future movie:
Erin Brokovich goes to Oregon, does battle with Jeff Bezos?
#amazon #datacentre #AI #water #contamination #environment #safety #movie #cancer
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-oregon

Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Lux, Thrive, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Foreign correspondents at WaPo send a letter to Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending layoffs, which are expected to "land hard" on international coverage (@erikwemple)
https://x.com/erikwemple/status/2015432558851301380

ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) on X
Update on turmoil at the Washington Post that I’ve been following w @BenMullin: Foreign correspondents at WaPo have sent a letter, a “collective plea,” to owner Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending staff reductions, which are expected to land hard on international coverage.

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build interactive AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/technology/humans-ai-anthropic-xai.html<…

An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them
Founded by researchers from Anthropic, Google and xAI, the new company, Humans&, is already valued at $4.48 billion.

The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
announced on Tuesday that she had made donations in the past year
totaling nearly $7.2 billion,
vaulting the total value of her gifts to over $26 billion.
Since divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
Ms. Scott has come to embody a new brand of philanthropy.
She has made large gifts to nonprofits that were distinguished
not just by their dollar value
but by the fact that she gave without dictating how the money s…

Mackenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Giving This Year
The philanthropist known for donating to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/now-tech-moguls-w

As Pam Bondi sics #DOJ agents to pry into #WaPo #press reporter's belongings, notes and devices looking for #Gov leakers , boss

Bezos Abandons His Post
The FBI’s disturbing raid on a Washington Post reporter ignited widespread outrage across journalism, but Jeff Bezos stayed conspicuously silent—angering some inside the newsroom, Status has learned.

WaPo CEO Will Lewis has floated a bunch of plans to make the company profitable again; several efforts failed to pan out, part of a pattern of fits and starts (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-…

Inside the Washington Post’s Existential Meltdown
As the Washington Post braces for a round of layoffs, staffers bemoan the lack of vision from owner Jeff Bezos and CEO Will Lewis.

Memeorandum data: WaPo's presence on the news aggregator plunged since a peak in Trump's first term, while the NYT recovered from a drop to grow in his second (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-sad-and-self-inflicted-decline

The sad and self-inflicted decline of the Washington Post, in one chart
Under Jeff Bezos, the paper retreated from the adversarial, anti-Trump posture that helped fuel its growth. And now its influence has fallen sharply.

Former WaPo opinion editor David Shipley joins the NYT as editor at large; he left WaPo in February 2025, when Jeff Bezos made opinion section changes (The New York Times Company)
https://www.nytco.com/press/david-shipley-to-return-to-the-times/

David Shipley to Return to The Times | The New York Times Company