Billionaire Newspaper Owners Crush Editorial Endorsements

[Splinter]( Oct 25, 2024 [Billionaire Newspaper Owners Crush Editorial Endorsements]( [Billionaire Newspaper Owners Crush Editorial Endorsements]( Just days after Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong caused a stir by quashing his newspaper's endorsement of Kamala Harris, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has followed suit. On Friday, Post CEO and publisher William Lewis published a note explaining that the paper is "returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates." [Why Polls Won’t Tell You Who Is Favored to Win the Election and Why That’s Good for Kamala Harris]( [Why Polls Won’t Tell You Who Is Favored to Win the Election and Why That’s Good for Kamala Harris]( A poll may tell you that Trump has a lot of support, but if a big chunk of that support is unreliable, and Trump’s get-out-the-vote operation is unable to get them to the polls, then the polling is not going to properly identify the number of votes for Trump. [The U.N. Environment Programme Is Sick of This Shit]( [The U.N. Environment Programme Is Sick of This Shit]( Which brings us to Thursday's release of the 2024 version, which may have well been titled "Give Us a Fucking Break." Instead, we got "No More Hot Air... Please!" Again, the decisions on punctuation — that ellipsis, that exclamation point — are nearly as fascinating as the report's findings, which, if we're being honest, are at this point largely unsurprising. [American Empire: The U.S. Has Wanted War in Iran for a Long Time]( [American Empire: The U.S. Has Wanted War in Iran for a Long Time]( There is a giddy hubris in the air today, with U.S. leaders and liberal commentators blinded by imperial arrogance. The hawks are soaring, and, should they get their wish, the Middle East, and maybe the world, will burn. [Stephen A. Smith Showed Sean Hannity What a Real TV Man Looks Like]( [Stephen A. Smith Showed Sean Hannity What a Real TV Man Looks Like]( This interview is like watching me trying to tackle Derrick Henry. It almost makes you feel bad for Sean Hannity before the long-term memory center in your brain kicks in to remind you of how much he deserves this kind of public flogging. [Why I Am Begrudgingly Voting for Kamala Harris]( [Why I Am Begrudgingly Voting for Kamala Harris]( The decision is between people who have done a genocide and a man who openly aspires to do more. This is the United States of America with its mask off. The Democrats are forever branded as the party of war criminals, and they are also the best that this sclerotic, decaying 18th century system built as a compromise between slave owners and slavery financiers has to offer its people. [Iran Doesn’t Have Nuclear Weapons Yet. Israel Might Push Them Closer.]( [Iran Doesn’t Have Nuclear Weapons Yet. Israel Might Push Them Closer.]( Despite the colossal risks, with unpredictable outcomes, some hawks are cheering such an operation in Jerusalem and Washington. But even if it doesn’t happen this time, the prospect of a direct strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities looms as long as Israel is expanding its regional war. That may be enough to back Iran into going all-in on the bomb. [Big Oil is Bursting With Excitement for a Trump Victory]( [Big Oil is Bursting With Excitement for a Trump Victory]( I don't think fear or anxiety about Harris is the primary emotion seeping through the executive ranks of our rankest industry. No, they aren't scared of Harris — they're just giddily, frothingly, over-the-moon thrilled at the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House. [View this email in your browser]( Copyright © 2024 Splinter/Paste Media (7525 Colbert Drive, Suite 106, Reno NV 89511) [unsubscribe](