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Laid‑off Washington Post staff rally outside DC headquarters after massive cuts
WTOP ^ | February 5, 2026 | Mike Murillo

Posted on 02/06/2026 4:50:40 AM PST by KevinB

One day after the Washington Post laid off roughly a third of its newsroom, former staff and supporters gathered outside the paper’s Downtown D.C. headquarters to protest the cuts.

Former transportation reporter Rachel Weiner, who spent 15 years at the Post, told the large crowd she was struggling with the loss of her job and what it meant for the community.

“Yeah, I’m sad about it obviously,” she said. “It is really disappointing having worked to cover as much as possible in this region because it’s also important. The Post has just decided it doesn’t matter to them.”

Weiner said this round of cuts was handled differently from past layoffs.

“They did something they haven’t done in previous layoffs and buyouts, which is you lock us out of the building and the systems immediately and not let us finish anything we were working on,” Weiner said.

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TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: washingtonpost

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This made me laugh. The self-important jerks finally found out what it's like to live in the real world.
1 posted on 02/06/2026 4:50:40 AM PST by KevinB
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To: KevinB

LOL! Thanks for posting.


2 posted on 02/06/2026 4:52:09 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: KevinB

It’s not like they have a job to go to. (snicker). Learn to code, deadbeats.


3 posted on 02/06/2026 4:54:49 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: PGalt

If you have a business be careful. Do not hire any of these often-dishonest “news” people. Their professional integrity is questionable.


4 posted on 02/06/2026 4:55:54 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: KevinB

Go start a podcast like every other media loser who gets shitcanned. What normal person protests against the company that fired them? I should go picket the landscaper who fired me during a drought when I was 17.


5 posted on 02/06/2026 4:56:33 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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she was struggling with the loss of her job and what it meant for the community.

Uhhhm, the community wasn't buying your paper. Ergo you lose, you get nothing, good day....Sir(?)!

6 posted on 02/06/2026 4:59:21 AM PST by Kudsman (47 is making things right again. )
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To: KevinB

They better get going with their Dips**t Court skank judgette hunting to save their jobs. There’s a new Non-native American Injun Indira judgette who is sticking it to Americans and another frigging subhuman judgey name Mustafa. Solid Americans taking America down the pathway to a third world crap hole. It’s time to defund the entire weaponized judiciary. Those far left SOBs have handcuffed an entire administration elected by us, the American people. It’s time that Americans are given some kind of recourse to get back at these godless “judges”. Impeach or sue them. Something. They all need to go. They are criminals.


7 posted on 02/06/2026 5:01:51 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Only a hand operated dildo would write a song that needed words that rhymed with Minneapolis.)
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To: KevinB

They may be hiring at WorldNetDaily.


8 posted on 02/06/2026 5:05:54 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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“I don’t think we know yet the impact of losing 300 journalists who hold power to account.”

Of course, they all, or almost all, liberal Democrats. They were cheerleaders when Democrat politicians abused their power.


9 posted on 02/06/2026 5:12:10 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: KevinB

They have very self awareness of the fact that decades of bias contributed to their own situation.


10 posted on 02/06/2026 5:12:23 AM PST by rbg81 (=)
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To: KevinB

Learn to code, buttercups.


11 posted on 02/06/2026 5:12:41 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: rbg81

Oops:

They have ZERO self awareness of the fact that decades of bias contributed to their own situation.


12 posted on 02/06/2026 5:12:56 AM PST by rbg81 (=)
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Article:

“lock us out of the building and the systems immediately and not let us finish anything we were working on”

Good move.

Never trust Marxists near your property.


13 posted on 02/06/2026 5:13:32 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: KevinB

Maybe had they not been hopelessly biased they would still have their jobs.
Maybe they can get jobs at Starbucks.


14 posted on 02/06/2026 5:23:30 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: KevinB

Learn to code.


15 posted on 02/06/2026 5:23:41 AM PST by McGruff
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To: hal ogen

They should follow the self sufficient lead of Don Lemon

They should create a newspaper start up /s


16 posted on 02/06/2026 5:27:43 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: KevinB

Bezos got tired of the constant leftest lies from these “employees”.
So he fired a big chunk of them.


17 posted on 02/06/2026 5:31:20 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: KevinB

Yes, exactly. Rachel just marked herself as a chronic whiner. Good luck finding new employment, you toxic harridan.

The very fact that people feel they can air such complaints in public marks them as losers.


18 posted on 02/06/2026 5:31:47 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: KevinB

Never love your company, because it will never love you back.


19 posted on 02/06/2026 5:32:37 AM PST by rexthecat
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To: KevinB

Three years of college - right out the window.


20 posted on 02/06/2026 5:35:45 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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