Posted on 02/09/2026 4:09:11 PM PST by Morgana
Two fundraisers for the hundreds of laid-off Washington Post (WP) journalists have exploded as the far-left newsroom struggles.
As of Monday morning, the GoFundMe campaigns have raised over $700,000 after the layoffs were announced on Wednesday, Business Insider reported.
Post reporter Rachel Siegel was among those in the newsroom’s union who organized one of the fundraisers.
“A separate GoFundMe page for the Post’s international employees has also raised almost $200,000 with about 2,100 donations. The fundraising push for international staff was set up by the Post’s Tokyo bureau chief, Michelle Lee. The funds will be disbursed to laid-off international employees who are not covered by the newsroom’s union,” the outlet said.
In a recent statement, Post owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, said “The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus.”
The fundraiser featuring Siegel’s name said the people who worked for the newspaper were “resourceful,” while the fundraiser for the international workers described them as a “deeply courageous team of people.”
Siegel’s page has so far raised $522,061.00 and the second fundraiser clocked in at $202,589.00.
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Doesn’t that work out to about $2500.00 per employee? Can’t buy much cocaine with that.
If that is what they are called.
“”The Washington Post has journalists?”””
You spelled PROPAGANDIST wrong.
This is really interesting - watching leftist trying to virtue signal with TH EIR OWN money. If they raise 10 times this amount, it will still show how stoopid leftist are when it comes to the real world.
They didn’t pitch in for Lakin Riley, for Ashley Babbit, or the Ukrainian young woman (whose name I can never get), each of whom has more integrity than the combined Washington Post staff.
It’ll be funny when the people who started the pages keep all the money.
The Babylon Bee could probably hire more humorous fiction writers.
That’s only enough for 2 hookers and ab 8 ball
It apparently pays to SNAFU your employer’s business and go on welfare plus start begging for “donations”
Not really a good portent for a productive society
That’s enough to buy every ex-employee a subscription to the Washington Post. What a happy day.
The crybaby ashos cry that they don’t have any money but they send millions to GoFundMe. They buy thousand dollar tickets to see Buggs Bunny at the Super Bowel and for tickets to see Tater Swuft. They’re all buying big RVs to take up to Wyoming so they can tickle the buffalo. Somebody be booschittin.
PLEEEEASE!!!
THEY MADE THEIR OWN BEDS-——LET THEM LIE IN THEM
Who donates to these kind of causes?
People giving their own money to washington post scribes?
They are free to do so, but I don't get it.
Ditto. I would have been surprised with $700 let alone $700,000. Probably our tax $$ funneled to Democrat politicians, gubmint workers etc. as payback.
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