Jenny Hunter
Labor lawyer (formerly @seiu), into courts & judicial nominations, writer, consultant, person with kids, watcher of TV, she/her
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- This debate or discourse or discussion about why Bezos is dismantling WaPo or whether or not more subscriptions or boycotts could change things or how he could fund it easily is pointless. It’s moot. Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.
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- My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
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- 🧵 1/ We’re devastated about the layoffs at The Washington Post, which are gutting D.C. reporting. These journalists are an incalculable loss for our city. The 51st’s mission has always felt urgent, but now we know it needs to kick into high gear.
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View full thread6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
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- 1/ READY TO STRIKE: More than 80% of our members signed a pledge saying we are prepared to strike unless @propublica.org agrees to a fair contract. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...
- I can’t believe this is even happening. I support the staff and I am a subscriber!
- 4/ Going on strike means we will likely lose pay — a sacrifice we’re willing to make to win a fair contract. To support our members who cannot afford to miss a day’s pay, we’ve launched a strike fund.
- 5/ Stand with us, donate if you’re able and help us remind management that WE are ProPublica. www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...
- 2/ Investigative journalism with a moral force is a public service that we take seriously, and we need a strong contract to do our jobs effectively. We’re fighting for job security, a fair disciplinary process, wages that reflect the value of our work and clear guardrails around AI.
- 3/ After more than two years of bargaining, our pledge makes clear that we are committed to doing what it takes to win the contract we deserve.
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- Working theory: If one had a chance to improve society by injecting just one piece of knowledge into every human — so that they truly UNDERSTOOD it, not just knew it on a surface level — "the difference between a million and a billion" would be pretty high in terms of return on investment
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- My brother in Christ, I know you know what the thinking is.
- WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
- this whole thing is on Bezos, a perfect example of why billionaires will not save us for years he supported the Post and then he decided destroying it utterly at the altar of a wannabe dictator better served his personal ambitions, so he did institutions shouldn’t live or did at one man’s whim
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- i suppose it’s fitting that the model the billionaires have in mind when they want to destroy a journalistic institution and make it a reactionary slop machine is The Free Press
- We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
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- Canceled my Post subscription, not so much in “protest” as just like… it doesn’t make financial sense for me to pay the same subscription price for like 1/3 of what I used to enjoy reading. Like Mr. Bezos I am a businessman
- again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
- RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype
- Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.
- says in here that Matt Lauer is trying to make a comeback at CBS. wouldn't that be just the perfect capstone of the Bari Weiss Era www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
- As I report in this piece, a trend is developing: Some warehouse owners have decided against selling to ICE, plainly because the backlash has persuaded them that it would make them pariahs
- “Social signaling is generating opposition to Trump’s worst policies, as more and more ordinary people see them as shameful and heinous in the most basic moral and human terms.” - @gregsargent.bsky.social Yes! Persuasion doesn’t only work the way message testers assume.
- this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
- Starting to think @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social might be right www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
- worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
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