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March 1, 2026

Good riddance to the Washington Post?

The Washington Post has been a DC institution for 149 years, but is it time to say goodbye? Since Jeff Bezos took over, WaPo has suspended presidential endorsements, intruded on its opinion pages, and jettisoned sports, metro, daily podcast, book coverage, and 350 reporters.

Whoops! Correction:

Jim mistakenly confused Citrini Research (the firm behind the viral 7,000-word "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" report) and Robert Citron (the treasurer who bankrupted Orange County in 1994). Both rocked Wall Street, but in different decades. It’s a case of confusing oranges with oranges. Here's the doomy, gloomy report: https://www.google.com/search?q=citriniresearch.substack.com

FInally, an intro to Percival Everett from WaPo’s now defunct book world

Everett was born in Georgia in 1956 and raised in Columbia, S.C. His background is as multifaceted as his writing, though the relationship between his biography and his fiction is slant at best. He’s a former philosophy graduate student, a fly fisher, a woodworker and a painter. He can play and repair guitars, he can castrate bulls, and he spent 12 years training horses in Moreno Valley, Calif. In fact, he connects his experience with horses to his ability to write under any circumstances: “You can’t make a 1,200-pound animal calm by being excited.”

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