Let's read a WaPo columnist who hasn't quit in disgust after Jeff Bezos announced he was taking the opinion pages in a right-wing direction..

Here's Bezos's ballsy statement (on X).

Who has quit? You can read "Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit" (NPR).

I'm most interested in who is staying, and how they might be changing. In that light, I'm reading this, from Philip Bump, published this morning: "The shift in the politics of young voters isn’t quite what it seems/The idea that MAGA-enthused bros swung the young male vote doesn’t really capture what happened."

That's a free-access link and it's very heavy on poll data. I won't attempt to summarize that other than to quote Bump's bottom line: "The problem for Democrats, then, was probably fewer White dudes listening to Joe Rogan than it was Black and Hispanic voters not voting like their parents."

Bezos should hire some good word editors, because that sentence is miswritten, probably by someone bamboozled by the "less"/"fewer" distinction. I think it needs to be something more like: "The problem for Democrats, then, was probably less about White dudes listening to Joe Rogan and more about Black and Hispanic voters not voting like their parents." 

I'm not saying I've turned that into a well-written sentence, only that I've made it comprehensible (and I hope it means what Bump meant to say).

"If [Trump] also wants to have a meaningful, in-depth conversation about women's rights in this country, then he is welcome on 'Call Her Daddy' anytime."

Said Alex Cooper in the intro to her podcast with Kamala Harris, which you can stream in many places. I like Podscribe — here — because you can listen or read (and search) the transcript.

Cooper got a lot of criticism from regular listeners, because the show has not been political. It's a podcast, for women, about sex and relationships, and some listeners felt betrayed when she seemed to shed her political neutrality. But now she says Trump is welcome too. Maybe he'll take up that offer!

I listened to the entire show, by the way. Of course, it's a softball interview, a complete safe space for Harris, so we don't get to see her tested under pressure. We never do. 

Harris was able to display her concern about sexual violence. I wanted to quote this part: