Ned Resnikoff
Newsletter: publiccomment.blog
Urban policy consultant: resnikoffconsulting.com
Roosevelt Institute Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
- If the plan was just to put WaPo to work for Bezos's other business interests, I'm pretty sure they could have done that in a less shambolic fashion. So while Bezos's attempts to cozy up to the regime are for sure part of the problem, don't discount his hubris, myopia, and petulance.
- Tragic, that's 30,000 people who could have been trained to set dumpsters on fire instead
- We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!