I think that is just probably because the Republican party is getting dumber and more MAGA. My subscription ran out last August and I didn’t renew, but my impression just looking at the OP-ed titles is while it used to be probably 70% left of center with 20% center right and 10% far right, its now something like 50% left of center with 40% center right and 10% far right.
That’s what’s weird. I still get news alerts from both WaPo and the NYT, and WaPo is much blunter about how bad Trump is, how bad his policies are, etc.
I don’t generally read opinion pieces in newspapers, so I’ve been ignoring the descent into evil of the WaPo editorial board. Despite all the cuts, their news is still fairly good.
This is what I’ve noticed. I believe that these are shown to Trump as evidence that the Post is becoming more “moderate”.
The Post last year:
The Post tonight:
When the legislature does it without checking with voters (in a Republican state), no big deal for democracy. When the voters actually vote for it, it’s a disaster for democracy!..in a Democratic state.
Don’t they remember what they wrote less than a year ago?
Remember? Yes. Care? No.
Both editorials are condemning gerrymandering. The Texas headline is commenting against the notion that the Texas gerrymander meant the end of democracy. Recall that Democrat legislators fled the state for a while to block it.
The news summary i got from the post this morning:
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President Trump extended the Iran ceasefire. He got no concessions, and he’s doing exactly what he criticized Obama for
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Virginia passed a crucial redistricting Referendum. This gives Democrats an edge in the midterm
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Post reveals what’s in the secret fundraising contract for the new ballroom. People who had business before the govt were able to give a lot of money anonymously. Trump fought to keep this secret.
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the CDC won’t publish a study it did finding the covid vaccine was very effective last winter. This alarms some CDC officials. In related news, Bill Cassidy, who cast the swing vote to confirm Secretary Kennedy, is pissed.
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150 million Americans live in places with dangerously high levels of pollution. Wildfires are a major risk factor.
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there’s a huge warm patch in the Pacific, 6-8 degrees warmer than average. Climate scientists say this will mess with weather in the western US, which will be hotter, more humid, and at more risk of tropical storms.
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there’s a new experimental therapy that might cure pancreatic cancer
That’s in an email. Each item has links to one or more articles. I expect the articles to also be traditional news and to be neutral or negative on Trump. The WaPo news reporting has been surprisingly unchanged by the editorial craziness. I am worried about the cuts to staff, of course.
The Democrats tried to do what they could to prevent gerrymandering, even defying those threatening to arrest them.
When they couldn’t, they retaliated by implementing it themselves, much more successfully than Republicans, because the right opened that door.
Of course the WaPo editorial board casts Democrats as the villains in all this.
Frustrating the Right’s fascist turn to one-party rule is the very definition of villainy.
I can’t believe I’m wasting a gift link on this drivel from resident gadfly Marc Thiessen:
I opened the article just read the comments. Tellingly, the editors disabled them. What a bunch of cowards.
Here’s the a link to the article without the gift link just to (hopefully) see preview:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/30/trump-decisive-iran-war-victory-is-14-days-away/
In case you can’t see that either, the headline is:
There aren’t enough roll eyes for this shit. 
In two weeks!
More than a Scaramucci, or a Liz Truss head of lettuce, but less than a Friedman Unit. I’m sure the war with Eastasia, I mean Eurasia, will be over any time now. :rolleyes:
Maybe once they clear the War on Iran off their plate, they can finally put their full focus on Infrastructure Week!
Yeah he can build the ballroom and repair all the damage in Iran.