January 25, 2026

THE FINAL DAYS:

●  Washington Post Cancels On-Site Winter Olympics Coverage Ahead of Expected Layoffs.

—The Wrap, Friday.

● Washington Post sports desk reportedly could be shuttered entirely.

—Awful Announcing, today.

● Washington Post Reporters Have Sent ‘Plea’ To Jeff Bezos:

—The Spun, today, which contains this classic malapropism: “Bezos, who could probably fund the Washington Post with his couch cushion money, has been pleaded with by reporters.”

Who does he think is paying to keep the lights on there? At least for now (hence the headline, a classical reference to what the Post views as its glory days). As Ira Stoll wrote in 2024: Who Will Be the Washington Post’s Next Owner?

Now the Post staff is worked up into a panic over a British former Wall Street Journal executive’s plan to bring in editors from the Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph to run the place. The supposed trigger is the British press’s use of “stolen” documents, but that seems like a pretext coming from the staff of a newspaper that published the Pentagon Papers. The real issue isn’t stolen documents (the Post staff didn’t mind when the New York Times published President Trump’s stolen tax return) but fear that the new Post management might curb the left-wing tilt. Whatever the motive, Bezos is under fire from his own staff, which is questioning his loyalty to the institution. One Post veteran editor and reporter, the biographer David Maraniss, posted on Facebook, “Jeff Bezos owns the Post but he is not of and for the Post.”

As I wrote back then, Bezos must be thinking, “I’m not? If I’m signing your paycheck, I’m ‘of and for the f***ing Post.’”

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHO’S TO BLAME?

In contrast:

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

OLD AND BUSTED: 2020’s Summer of Love.

The New Coldness? 2025’s Winter of Love!

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

ROGER SIMON: Ice Storm! The End Is Nigh!

In 2021, something like that happened in Texas when 246 people died, not to mention a passel of chickens, because the storm engendered a national shortage.

We’ve been listening to numerous television reminders of that episode, plus advice on what to do—roll up towels and put them at the bottom of doors to conserve heat, open cupboards, turn on all faucets to a trickle to prevent pipes from freezing, and so on. (Had I had the brains to purchase a generator, most of this wouldn’t be necessary.)

And of course, we are supposed to charge all our electronic devices to the top and whatever battery backups we have. Luckily, I was smart enough to pick up some of those, and they are dutifully plugged into myriad outlets around the house. But who knows how long they will last?

All day we have had snow, harmless enough, but the serious ice action is slated to begin in the small hours of the morning. We may wake up to find ourselves without heat in single-digit weather.

If all else fails, we could go into the garage and sit in the Tesla.

Which makes much more sense than sliding across the slick southern roads this weekend in a $243,000 Maserati MC20:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

INSURRECTION:

Posted at 12:15 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PROF. BAINBRIDGE: Should Law Professors Dress for Success?

I always wear a suit and tie on the first day of the semester, and the reasons are aptly captured here:

We showed up at law school many years ago not really knowing what to expect. But our civil procedure professor — Richard Friedman at Michigan — showed up on the first day dressed in a suit. It made a helpful impression on us — an impression not so much about Friedman but law school generally. It made us sit up and say to ourselves, ‘oh, right. This ain’t undergrad. We’re being trained for a profession here.’ And that, in retrospect, wasn’t an entirely bad chord to strike early on, we thinks.

I do it out of respect. The rest of the time I generally wear nice pants, a polo shirt, and a nice sportcoat or something like that. It’s a professional environment, and students need to be reminded of that.

Posted at 12:14 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ROGER KIMBALL: The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun.

At the moment, the regime seems firmly in control. The populace is behind bars. The Ayatollahs and their minions command all the firepower.  But that situation is inherently unstable. The people cannot be held at knife or rifle point forever.  Moreover, Donald Trump will not countenance the world-historical enormity perpetrated by the Iranian mullahs and their death squads. Today, tomorrow, or possibly early next week, Khamenei and his coterie of murderous weirdos will go to meet their fate. Will they be surprised to find not 72 virgins but squadrons of B2s, F35s, and Tomahawk missiles?

Faster, please.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

FASTER, PLEASE: The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun: Peace talk aside, the ticking in Iran isn’t diplomacy—it’s a death-rattle, as a murderous regime nears judgment and a brutal people pray that liberation, at last, is real.

The suffering of the Iranian people is unspeakable. The huge protests that engulfed the country have subsided, not because the regime’s crackdown is succeeding, but because it has entered the Hitlerian scorched-earth stage. The few reports that are trickling out of the carceral state are heartrending. Back on January 8, we read, “A large group of civilians was driven into the bazaar through fear and gunfire. They were trapped inside, the entire place was set on fire, and machine-gun fire rained down on anyone who tried to escape the flames to save their lives.” Since then, the massacres have become routine and bureaucratized.

A lawyer who was contacted from Tehran reports that several thousand people have been herded into large warehouse halls in Kahrizak. They are being executed in groups and registered as “killed on previous days.” “There is no trial,” he noted. “No due process. There is no real court.” There also reports that the regime is stockpiling bodies, refusing to hand them over to their families. The goal is to wait until the US strikes and then parade images of the bodies as civilian casualties caused by the US to stir outrage among the credulous in the West.

Enemies of civilization are big on false martyrs.

Posted at 9:08 am by Glenn Reynolds

LOOKING AT THE MATH:

There’s no law enforcement agency in this country’s history that has faced the kind of organized and highly funded resistance that ICE is encountering.

UPDATE:

Posted at 9:01 am by Glenn Reynolds

ADDING THE TQ+++ WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, BUT LEFTIST LOGIC DEMANDED IT:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds