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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 04:29:51 JST Laffy

   “This is cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty. Donald #Trump will celebrate this as an invitation to further intimidate The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos (and other media owners),” former Post executive editor Martin Baron, who led the paper while Trump was president, said. “History will mark a disturbing chapter of spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement-president/

   • Paul Cantrell and Warner Crocker repeated this.
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     Xenotar (xenotar@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 06:27:44 JST Xenotar

     in reply to

     @GottaLaff "will not endorse a candidate"==endorses trump

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     Roger Moore (vatvslpr@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 08:25:51 JST Roger Moore

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     @GottaLaff
     It's gutless, but not the way people are presenting it. The owners are too gutless to deal with the fallout from forcing their editorial staff to endorse Trump, so they tried the weak compromise of blocking any endorsement. It failed, and it probably brought more attention to the topic of editorial endorsements than if they had just ignored it and let their papers endorse Harris. It also shows what turds the owners are.

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 08:45:13 JST Nicole Parsons

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     @GottaLaff

     Reminder: Saudi Arabia hacked Bezos's phone.

     https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking_incident

     And guess who funds Trump, Musk, Thiel, Ellison, Adeldon, and Kushner?

     Saudi Arabia.
     https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/05/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-invests-elon-musks-24b-ai-startup

     https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-post-white-house-business-moves-saudis-wealth-fund-mohammed-bin-salman-jamal-khashoggi/

     https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/24/trump-harris-election-saudi-arabia-uae-mbs-mbz-iran-yemen-sudan/

     https://forkast.news/bankman-fried-saudi-crown-prince-ellison-testifies/

     https://www.oracle.com/sa/cloud/multicloud/larry-ellison-cloudworld-multicloud-strategy/

     https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-11/thiel-backed-ai-startup-draws-more-funding-from-aramco-vc-arm

     https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/20/saudi-arabia-in-talks-with-andreessen-horowitz-to-create-ai-fund.html

     https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-26/the-kushners-the-saudis-and-blackstone-behind-the-recent-deals

     https://www.edgemiddleeast.com/innovation/emergent-tech/exclusive-saudi-arabias-strategic-shift-into-the-gaming-industry