#Patrick Soon-Shiong

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Rowe

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We have been warned.

October 24, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

Over the last several weeks, dozens of senior advisers to former president Trump have warned about his fascist and dictatorial tendencies in his first term. More urgently, they have warned that those tendencies will be unleashed in a second Trump term in which he will have a “get out of jail free card” from the Supreme Court. Recent revelations from Trump's chief of staff John Kelly remind us that Trump admires “Hitler and his generals.”

See The Atlantic, Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’. (“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”)

Trump surely knows that “following orders” included the genocide of Jews and a world war against the nations of Europe. His praise for “Hitler and his generals” should trouble every American regardless of party.

In a bracing admission, John Kelly described his former boss as “a fascist.” Kelly’s acknowledgment echoes the statement by former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley that “Trump is fascist to the core.”

On Wednesday, Kamala Harris took the unusual step of speaking from the steps of the Vice President's residence (the Naval Observatory) to formally condemn Trump's fascist agenda. See NYTimes: Harris seizes on former Trump aide’s warning that he fits the ‘fascist’ label.

Kamala Harris’s critique of Trump began and ended with Trump's own words, i.e., his repeated description of fellow Americans as “the enemy within”—a classic formulation of fascist ideology.

In her remarks, Vice President Harris said,

Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions. Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there, and no longer be there to rein him in. The bottom line is this: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be: What do the American people want?

Harris also responded to Kelly’s comment that Trump said that Adolf Hitler “did some good things.”

Harris said,

It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler. The man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans. All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is.

Kamala Harris is speaking for every American who values democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law. She intends to keep it up. According to reports, she plans to give a speech on the Ellipse on the National Mall—the place where Trump summoned his mob of insurrectionists to assault the Capitol. See CNN, Harris to deliver closing argument speech on Ellipse, site of Trump’s January 6 rally, as she issues warnings over his fitness for office.

We have been warned. But the warnings are merely reminders of events we witnessed firsthand. Still, the fresh warnings are good. For too long, the media treated Trump as a legitimate candidate for the presidency. He is not. The election is not a horse race. His policies are tales told by an idiot, signifying nothing--but have been treated by the major media as though they are legitimate policies worthy of analysis by pundits and surveys by pollsters.

Enough. Trump is a fascist. He sees half the American people as his enemies. He believes he has been freed of constitutional and legal restraints by the Supreme Court to pursue an agenda of vengeance, retribution, and profiteering.

We have been warned. Let’s ensure that everyone hears and heeds that warning.

Coda to “We have been warned.”

Despite the explicit warnings over the last four years (and prior), Republican politicians have consistently excused, dismissed, and amplified Trump's fascist rhetoric. On Wednesday, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu dismissed Trump's praise for Hitler’s generals as a fact that is “baked in” to the election results. See Mediate, Chris Sununu Sticking With Trump After Kelly's Hitler Reveal.

Sununu said,

So, look, we’ve heard a lot of extreme things about Donald Trump from Donald Trump. It’s kind of par for the course. It’s really unfortunately, with with a guy like that, it’s kind of baked into the vote at this point.

In other words, to Sununu, the only thing that matters is whether Trump is winning the horse race. Sununu has ignored the moral dimension of supporting a fascist—and has forever tied his reputation to a man who admires Hitler and his generals. Chris Sununu should be ashamed of himself every day for the rest of his life. He had a good gig as a nepo-baby governor based on his father’s accomplishments; he has tarnished his entire family’s reputation by being a shill for a fascist.

To similar effect are the actions of the owner of the Los Angeles Times, billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. The LA Times Editorial Board just announced that it would not be endorsing a presidential candidate. On Wednesday, the head of the LA Times Editorial Board resigned in protest, saying that the Board was prepared to endorse Kamala Harris, but Patrick Soon-Shiong ordered the Board to “compare and contrast” the accomplishments of Trump and Harris in a side-by-side format.

Soon-Shiong posted the following statement,

With this clear and non-partisan information side-by-side, our readers could decide who would be worthy of being President for the next four years.

Soon-Shiong’s proposed format of “comparing and contrasting” the “accomplishments” of Trump and Harris is not an endorsement, as the head of the editorial board noted in her resignation statement. See NYTimes, L.A. Times Editorial Chief Quits After Owner Blocks Harris Endorsement. (Behind a paywall.)

Soon-Shiong is using his wealth and ownership of the LA Times to run cover for the fascist policies of Donald Trump. Soon-Shiong has had a brilliant and wildly successful career that he created from scratch as a first-generation immigrant. His legacy may be facilitating a second Trump term that will attack the very immigration policies that welcomed him with open arms.

If Donald Trump wins, it will be in large part because wealthy business leaders (like Soon-Shiong) and spineless politicians like Chris Sununu put their political and monetary fortunes ahead of the democracy that allowed them to succeed. Shame, shame, shame!

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[lenbryant]

Shame on these suck-up billionaire newspaper owners who are obeying the tyrant in advance. Just say no to the oligarchy and vote Blue up and down your ballot in November.

[randyite]

[talksthesuccess]

The Best Doctor in the World

The Best Doctor in the World 

Doctors are the elemental keystone for any country’s healthcare system. It is proved that an established education system in a country is always directly proportional to having qualified doctors. The profession of doctor is one of the noblest occupations in the world. Doctors are respected and considered as they have divine qualities.

The world is pleased to have the wonderful and best doctors. Now, who is the best doctor in the world? So here is the answer Patrick Soon-Shiong is reflected as one of the best doctors in the world. Let’s explore the life journey of the best doctor. 

Who is Patrick Soon-Shiong?

Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., a physician, surgeon, scientist, inventor, technologist, and philanthropist, has dedicated his career to the fundamental biology driving life-threatening diseases and transforming these discernments into medical innovations with global impact. 

Along with his devotion towards his career as a doctor, he also performs his duties as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NantWorks, a network of businesses with extensive knowledge of many complicated industries, including physics, data, AI, medical science, communications, and mobility.

Soon-Shiong’s Journey: From South Africa to Medical Innovation

Patrick Soon-Shiong was born on July 29, 1952, in Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa to Chinese immigrant parents who migrated from China during the Japanese occupation in World War II. His parents were Hakka originally from Mexican District in Guangdong province. 

Eventually, Soon-Shiong received a bachelor’s degree in medicine (MBBCh) at the University of Witwatersrand and graduated with flying colors, the fourth in a group of 200 students. After that, he continued his education at the University of British Columbia, graduating with a master’s degree in 1979.

The American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the American Association of Academic Surgery all gave him research grants.

Patrick Soon-Shiong: A trailblazing Surgeon 

A total of 30 years of Dr. Soon-Shiong’s working experience belongs to medical revolutions. All over Dr. Soon-Shiong’s career, he has introduced therapies for diabetes and cancer, recognized himself as the publisher of over 100 scientific papers, and has taken over 675 patients worldwide for innovative advancements passing over a multitude of fields of medicine, technology, and artificial intelligence. 

He was the one who performed UCLA’s first whole-organ pancreas transplant and the world’s first enclosed islet cell transplant in Type 1 diabetic patients he performed this transplant as an Assistant Professor at UCLA in 1993. 

He worked at NASA to further his studies in stem cells and nanotechnology during the early 1990s, conducting projects related to the space shuttle program. He was in charge of the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) while he was at UCLA.

To incorporate supercomputing data centers and to devise an augmented intelligence for genomic sequencing, NantOmics’ boss, Dr Soon-Shiong, bought the National LambdaRail (NLR) in 2011. This Layer 1 network was further developed by Dr. Soon-Shiong as MOX Networks in 2013. 

Patrick Soon-Shiong: Developer of Abraxane 

Dr. Soon-Shiong was also the developer of Abraxane, a very pioneered drug, in 1995. Abraxane was the first human protein (albumin) nanoparticle invented to activate a specific receptor on the blood vessels that supply the tumor and this drug was purposed to transform the tumor’s microenvironment and activate the immune system.

Abraxane has been used in different types of cancers inclusive of metastatic breast cancer since 2005, cell lung cancer since 2012, and pancreatic cancer since, 2013 as approved by the FDA.

Patrick Soon-Shong: Business Career 

Further on to his medical and scientific career, Soon-Shiong also emerged as an active businessman during the late 1990s, and since the early 2010s, he has grown as an investor. 

Already in the period from 1997 up to 2010, Dr. Soon-Shiong was identified as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of two public pharmaceutical companies namely Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABII) and American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: APPX) Vista, the parent company of APPX, have inked a biologic supply agreement.

In addition, Dr. Soon-Shiong is the creator of NantWorks, LLC, a business firm whose primary objective is to establish a next-generation pharmaceutical development network and transformative global health information for the safe communication of genetic and medical data, tackling issues of climate change, and changing the characteristics of new media.

The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times were purchased by Dr. Soon-Shiong in 2018. The process was put into law through the 21st Century Cures Act, and the committee carrying out this policy is the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee, which has a primary duty to provide the government and President with advice on relevant health IT policies.

He was nominated to this committee too. Before this, Dr. Soon-Shiong was a member of Bank of America’s Global Advisory Board and co-chair of the CEO Council for Health and Innovation at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Patrick Soon-Shiong: Awards and Achievements

Many reputable, prestigious, and honorable awards have been achieved by Soon-Shiong throughout his career. Some noticeable awards include the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the Horatio Alger Award, and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has also been acknowledged as one of the world’s billionaires and one of the most influential people in healthcare.  

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

The choice for president has seldom been starker. On one side is Donald Trump, a felonious and twice-impeached conman, raring to finish off the job of dismantling American democracy. On the other is Kamala Harris, a capable and experienced leader who stands for traditional democratic principles. Nevertheless – and shockingly – the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have decided to sit this one out. Both major news organizations, each owned by a billionaire, announced this week that their editorial boards would not make a presidential endorsement, despite their decades-long traditions of doing so. There’s no other way to see this other than as an appalling display of cowardice and a dereliction of their public duty. At the Los Angeles Times, the decision rests clearly with Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the ailing paper in 2018, raising great hopes of a resurgence there. At the Post (where I was the media columnist from 2016 to 2022), the editorial page editor David Shipley said he owned the decision, but it clearly came from above – specifically from the publisher, Will Lewis, the veteran of Rupert Murdoch’s media properties, hand-picked last year by the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos. Was Bezos himself the author of this abhorrent decision? Maybe not, but it could not have come as a surprise. All of this may look like nonpartisan neutrality, or be intended to, but it’s far from that. For one thing, it’s a shameful smackdown of both papers’ reporting and opinion-writing staffs who have done important work exposing Trump’s dangers for many years. It’s also a strong statement of preference. The papers’ leaders have made it clear that they either want Trump (who is, after all, a boon to large personal fortunes) or that they don’t wish to risk the ex-president’s wrath and retribution if he wins. If the latter was a factor, it’s based on a shortsighted judgment, since Trump has been a hazard to press rights and would only be emboldened in a second term. [...] Some news organizations upheld their duty and remained true to their mission. The New York Times endorsed Harris last month, calling her “the only patriotic choice for president”, and writing that Trump “has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest”. The Guardian, too, strongly endorsed Harris, saying she would “unlock democracy’s potential, not give in to its flaws”, and calling Trump a “transactional and corrupting politician”.

Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian on the cowardly abdication of the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times by refusing to endorse a Presidential candidate (10.25.2024).

The egregious and cowardly actions done by both the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times deciding to sit out the Presidential endorsements process this election is craven and cowardly, as both papers were set to endorse Kamala Harris (D). Even the New York Times, for all their faults, got it right by endorsing Kamala Harris.

[originalleftist]

Please do not blame the editors or writers at the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times for the failure to endorse Harris.

In both cases, the editors planned to endorse Harris.

In both cases, the billionaire owner prevented them from doing so.

In both cases, the head editor resigned in protest.

Reflexively blaming the editors and playing into sweeping, generalized attacks on "the media" or "the Mainstream Media", etc, is defamatory, bolsters fascist attacks on the press as (to quote Trump) "the enemy of the people", and provides cover and scapegoats for the billionaires actually to blame.

It isn't only misguided and useless, it is actively counterproductive to solving the problem you are addressing.

[planetofsnarfs]

A Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist revealed that she quit her job at The Washington Post after management axed her drawing of billionaires—including Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner—bending the knee to Donald Trump.

Last month, Bezos, the immensely wealthy founder of Amazon, dined at Mar-a-Lago and his company donated $1 million to Trump’s upcoming inauguration. But ahead of the election, Bezos drew fire after the Post‘s management shut down the editorial board’s plan to endorse Kamala Harris. 

In a post on her Substack, Ann Telnaes said that she drew a cartoon that criticized corporate titans—including Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Patrick Soon-Shiong, in addition to Bezos—for their efforts to curry favor with the president-elect. (Like Amazon, tech giants Apple and Facebook also ponied up $1 million for Trump’s inauguration, reported Axios.)

She wrote, “I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now."

According to Telnaes, the decision represented a failure of the newspaper’s obligation “to nurture a free press in a democracy.”

“Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press— and trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press,” she added.

[davidaugust]

Mariel Garza, editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the paper's billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, blocked the endorsement of Harris for president. I'm shocked another South African billionaire doesn't support a black woman for president, shocked I say.

- written by me for tonight's This Week This Week in LA

[ourquietman]

These are not normal times. Look around. We are in the political, cultural, and legal fight of our lifetimes. Trump’s conduct since winning the election only reinforces his determination to replace constitutional rule with some form of authoritarian rule. That needn’t be 1933 Germany, an analogy that typically draws counter-charges of excessive drama (though the existence of certain overlapping features is inescapable). There are other models of democratic demise, ones that Trump obviously wants to emulate, such as Hungary’s slide toward authoritarianism over the last 20 years. So the neutral posture that Soon-Shiong uses to justify his violence to the paper is exactly, fundamentally wrong. This is no time for neutrality and disinterest. It’s rather a time for choosing. And a choice for true facts and American values is necessarily a vigorous choice against Donald Trump.

Harry Litman on Substack explaining his resignation from LOS ANGELES TIMES

[saywhat-politics]

I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.

The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump. There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago. The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.

[wilwheaton]

Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president. “I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Garza told me in a phone conversation. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.” On October 11, Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the newspaper for $500 million in 2018, informed the paper’s editorial board that the Times would not be making an endorsement for president. The message was conveyed to Garza by Terry Tang, the paper’s editor. The board had intended to endorse Harris, Garza told me, and she had drafted the outline of a proposed editorial. She had hoped to get feedback on the outline and was taken aback upon being told that the newspaper would not take a position.

Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement - Columbia Journalism Review

I have been a subscriber since the 80s. I believe in supporting local journalism, especially local papers.

If the only way I can express to the Times’ billionaire owner that his interference in the paper’s editorial independence is by canceling my subscription, so be it.

[lenbryant]

Another billionaire a-hole trying to get another obscene tax cut.

[odinsblog]

I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.

The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump.

There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago. The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.

While it isn’t uncommon for editorial page editors to object to visual metaphors within a cartoon if it strikes that editor as unclear or isn’t correctly conveying the message intended by the cartoonist, such editorial criticism was not the case regarding this cartoon. To be clear, there have been instances where sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, but never because of the point of view inherent in the cartoon’s commentary. That’s a game changer…and dangerous for a free press.

Over the years I have watched my overseas colleagues risk their livelihoods and sometimes even their lives to expose injustices and hold their countries’ leaders accountable. As a member of the Advisory board for the Geneva based Freedom Cartoonists Foundation and a former board member of Cartoonists Rights, I believe that editorial cartoonists are vital for civic debate and have an essential role in journalism.

There will be people who say, “Hey, you work for a company and that company has the right to expect employees to adhere to what’s good for the company”. That’s true except we’re talking about news organizations that have public obligations and who are obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy. Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press— and trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press.

As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I’m just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”.

Thank you for reading this.

—Ann Telnaes

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ramon Antonio Vargas at The Guardian:

The Washington Post’s Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the newspaper after its refusal to publish a satirical cartoon depicting the outlet’s owner, Jeff Bezos – along with other media and technology barons – kneeling before Donald Trump as he gears up for his second US presidency. “I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations – and some differences – about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at,” Telnaes wrote on Friday in an online post on the Substack platform detailing her decision to quit. “Until now.”

In a statement reported by the New York Times, the Post’s opinions editor, David Shipley, defended the newspaper’s decision against publishing Telnaes’s cartoon, saying he disagreed with her “interpretation of events” and that “the only bias was against repetition”.

“Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force,” said Shipley, whose statement added that he had spoken with Telnaes and asked her to reconsider leaving. “My decision was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column – this one a satire – for publication.” Telnaes’s Substack post from Friday contained a rough draft of her cartoon. Beside Bezos, who founded Amazon before buying the Post, the cartoon portrayed caricatures of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong and Walt Disney Co mascot Mickey Mouse.

“The cartoon … criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with … Trump,” Telnaes said. “While it isn’t uncommon for editorial page editors to object to visual metaphors within a cartoon if it strikes that editor as unclear or isn’t correctly conveying the message intended by the cartoonist, such editorial criticism was not the case regarding this cartoon.

“To be clear, there have been instances where sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, but never because of the point of view inherent in the cartoon’s commentary. That’s a gamechanger … and dangerous for a free press.” Telnaes announced her resignation less than three months after the Post and Bezos faced withering backlash over the outlet’s decision to prevent its editorial team from publishing an endorsement of Kamala Harris in the presidential election of 5 November. Soon-Shiong had also similarly refused to allow the LA Times’ editorial board to publish an endorsement of Harris.

[...] Telnaes won the prestigious Pulitzer for illustrated reporting and commentary in 2001 – coincidentally, while working for the LA Times Syndicate – and was a finalist in the same category for the Post in 2022. She also received the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben award in 2017, becoming the first woman to win both that prize as well as a Pulitzer.

Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post over the paper spiking her cartoon that was very critical of its owner Jeff Bezos in that the cartoon depicting Bezos and other tech and media moguls kneeling in front of a Donald Trump statue. The Post’s refusal to publish this cartoon is more proof that many outlets are obeying in advance to Trump’s attacks on the freedom of the press.

See Also:

The Left Hook: Drawing The Ire of Trump and the Broligarchy: A Cartoonist Resigns to Defend The Free Press

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

More “obeying in advance” by the Washington Post

I haven’t referred or cited to the Washington Post since Jeff Bezos ordered the editorial board not to endorse Kamala Harris for president. I sometimes wonder whether that was the right decision. Today, it became clear it was.

Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes just published an article on Substack entitled, Why I'm quitting the Washington Post. Telnaes explains that she prepared an editorial cartoon that showed billionaires bowing in supplication to Trump. The cartoon is in the linked article. As explained by Telnaes,

The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.

Telnaes explains,

For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job [publishing the cartoon]. So I have decided to leave the Post. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I’m just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”.

Ann Telnaes deserves our respect and admiration for her courage. And the ongoing disgrace at WaPo should cause all self-respecting journalists and columnists to follow Ann Telnaes’s example.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[allthegeopolitics]

Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced her resignation from The Washington Post, citing an editorial decision to scrap a cartoon that included Post owner Jeff Bezos bowing to President-elect Donald Trump. Telnaes, in a statement posted to Substack Friday night, said that the Post’s decision to kill her cartoon was a “game changer” and warned that “trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting” threatens the function of the free press. The cartoon in question depicts a group of billionaire tech and media executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, bowing and offering sacks of cash to an imposing statue of Trump. Pictured among the genuflecting crowd is Post owner Jeff Bezos.

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