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Washington Post in 'disarray' after cartoonist quits, staff exodus
The Washington Post is in “disarray” after a long-term cartoonist at the paper quit, Axios reporter Alex Thompson said Monday on CNN.
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes left the Post following the paper’s rejection of her artwork, which features Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos groveling to President-elect Trump.
“It shows what a different place the Washington Post is in comparison to the first Trump term. The Washington Post, honestly, the first Trump administration was rocket fuel for the Washington Post. Now you’re seeing it sort of in disarray. Not only the decision not to endorse [in the 2024 presidential race] but now this. You‘ve had a lot of people leave the Post and I think this Washington institution is in a very different place,” Thompson said.
Telnaes, who has worked as a cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008, announced via Substack she was quitting after the paper killed her cartoon, which depicted Bezos and other unspecified wealthy businessmen kneeling down and holding up bags of money to the incoming president. Mickey Mouse is shown bowing down to Trump on the floor next to them.
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The Washington Post’s cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced she was quitting after they killed her cartoon. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Prior to Election Day, Bezos stopped the Washington Post’s editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, causing several staffers to quit in protest.
On Monday, CNN contributor Brad Todd said, “What would be real courage is, if she quit because she had a conservative cartoon denied publication by her bosses, that would cause real courage.”
“She’s going to be lionized by journalists everywhere, she’ll get an award from Columbia for this,” he added. “When Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, all those people were giving money to Joe Biden in the last administration, was that the subject of a cartoon? No it was not. It was not. This is an ideological problem. The Post deserves it.”
CNN host Kasie Hunt said earlier in the discussion that the others pictured in the cartoon were Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and the Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shing, who also stopped his paper from endorsing a presidential candidate this cycle.
In her Substack article, “Why I’m Quitting the Washington Post,” Telnaes said, “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.”
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A CNN panel discussed WaPo cartoonist Ann Telnaes’ cartoon that was killed by the Post, and prompted her to quit the paper. (Screenshot/CNN/AnnTelnaes)
Telnaes explained her drawing, stating, “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.”
Telnaes’ Disney reference appears to be a dig at the company being cited as a factor behind ABC News’ recent $15 million settlement with Trump earlier this month.
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In her Substack piece, Telnaes continued to proclaim her belief that the Post squashed the cartoon because of its political point. She wrote, “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.”
Fox News’ Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
Trinity Rodman signs record deal with Washington Spirit
USWNT forward Trinity Rodman signed a three-year deal with the NWSL’s Washington Spirit. The deal makes Rodman the highest-paid female footballer in the world.
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Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury has announced that she and her husband Matt are expecting a baby in July.
The couple made the announcement in a video on the Spirit’s social media channels, holding a baby goalkeeper jersey on the pitch at Audi Field.
Kingsbury becomes the most recent Spirit star to go on maternity leave, following defender Casey Krueger, midfielder Andi Sullivan and forward Ashley Hatch.
Sullivan gave birth to daughter Millie in July, while Hatch welcomed her son Leo in January.
Krueger announced she was pregnant with her second child in October.
Kingsbury has served as the Spirit’s starting goalkeeper since 2018, and has been named the NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year twice (2019 and 2021).
The 34-year-old has two caps with the U.S. women’s national team, and was named to the 2023 World Cup roster.
The club captain will leave a major void for the Spirit, who have finished as NWSL runner-up in back-to-back seasons.
Sandy MacIver and Kaylie Collins are expected to compete for the starting role while Kingsbury is on maternity leave.
The Spirit kick off their 2026 campaign on March 13 against the Portland Thorns.
YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima could soon take a major step toward redesigning Sixth Avenue after the Washington State Public Works Board awarded the city a $985,600 loan.
The loan was approved for the design engineering phase of the Sixth Avenue project. The funding can also be used along Sixth Avenue for utility replacement and updated ADA use.
The Yakima City Council must decide whether to accept the award. If the council accepts it, the city’s engineering work will move forward with the design of Sixth Avenue.
The cost of installing trolley lines is excluded from the plan. The historic trolleys would need to raise the funds required to add trolley lines.
The award is scheduled to be discussed during next week’s City Council meeting.
Microsoft will ramp up its investment in the University of Washington.
Brad Smith, the company’s president, made the announcement at a press conference with University of Washington President Robert Jones on Tuesday.
That means hiring more UW graduates as interns at Microsoft, he said.
And he said all students, faculty, and researchers should have access to free, or at least deeply-discounted, AI.
“ Some of it is compute that Microsoft is donating, and some of it is pursuant to an agreement where, believe me, we give the University of Washington probably the best pricing that anybody’s gonna find anywhere,” Smith said. He assured the small group of reporters present that it would be “many millions of dollars of additional computational resources.”
The announcement today didn’t include any specific numbers.
But Smith said Microsoft has already invested $165 million in the UW over several decades.
He pointed to Jones’ vision to spur “radical collaborations with businesses and communities to advance positive change,” and eliminate “any artificial barriers between the university and the communities it serves.”
Microsoft’s goal is for AI to help UW researchers solve some of the world’s biggest problems without introducing new ones.
At Tuesday’s announcement, several research students were present to demonstrate how AI supports their work.
Amelia Keyser-Gibson is an environmental scientist at the UW. She’s using AI to analyze photographs of vines, to find which adapt best to climate change.
It’s a paradox: AI produces carbon emissions. At the same time, it’s also a new tool to help reduce them.
So how do those things square for Keyser-Gibson?
“ That’s a great question, and honestly, I don’t know the answer to that,” she said. “I’m highly aware that there’s a lot of environmental impact of using AI, but what I can say is that this has allowed us to make research innovations that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.”
“If we had had to manually annotate every single image that would’ve been an undergrad doing that for hours,” Keyser-Gibson continued. “And we didn’t have the budget. We didn’t have the manpower to do that.”
“AI exists. If we don’t use it as researchers, we’re gonna fall behind.”
Microsoft reports on its own carbon emissions. But like most AI companies, it doesn’t reveal everything.
That’s one reason another UW student named Zhihan Zhang is using AI to estimate how much energy AI is using.
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