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Wait, so the Post didn't reject it outright? Common Cause rejected their conditions?

The WP (and others) deserves whatever shit is thrown its way for Blowzos bending the knees and maybe a triple dose of shit.

But they still can have terms or conditions on anything that goes on, around or in the paper or on the site.

 

It was a really bad weekend. Next up in the mass-firing line were health-care workers.

MSN

Roughly 3,600 federal employees across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other agencies were out of a job Monday after receiving emails over the weekend claiming that their "performance has not been adequate to justify further employment" in the federal government.

The terminations targeted probationary employees—those who have been working in their positions for less than a year—and came amid the spread of bird flu, or H5N1, among wild bird flocks and commercial poultry across the country.

The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which works to prevent and prepare for public health emergencies and oversees pandemic stockpiles, was among the offices hit.

In a separate action, 25% of staffers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's program office for its network of animal research laboratories were fired. The National Animal Health Laboratory Network program office manages data related to the protocols followed by federal labs across the country, ensuring that scientists can accurately track animal diseases like bird flu...

One policy analyst at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Arielle Kane, toldPolitico that before she received a termination email on Saturday she was working on a pilot program for Medicaid in 15 states aimed at improving maternal health outcomes. Other fired employees had been working to implement a ban on surprise medical bills which was passed during Trump's first term.

" Donald Trump fired the people who make sure you and your parents get the healthcare you need," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). "The people who make sure medical devices are safe for you to use. The people who approve the lifesaving drugs you rely on. How does this help working people?"

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said the mass firings underscored the "multiple ways" in which the Trump administration's "incompetence and arson is about to hit Americans."

The mass firings came days after anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as Trump's secretary of health and human services after confirmation hearings in which he appeared to confuse Medicaid and Medicare and refused to affirm that vaccines do not cause autism—a debunked claim he has amplified in the past.

 

Whiny little pr*ck

After triumphant return to White House, Trump is still fixated on Biden: ‘It’s his fault’

 

Maybe Advertising jumped at the business deal (DOLLARS!), and then the newsroom execs protested (MADNESS!) and won?

Again, it could set a precedent. And big corporate papers have rigid, detailed rules about what types of ads can be prohibited, and their right to turn away ads that don't meet their rules. But those rules have to apply fairly and consistently for everyone, or the legal battles begin.

 

You remember the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene? Welp, 17 Forest Service employees who were working on recovery efforts have been shitcanned because they had "probationary" designations - even though many of them were longterm employees who'd just moved to new districts or been promoted.

 

I was unable to read the NYT link with the original post, so I didn’t realize the ad in question was a wrap. You make some valid points about keeping those limited to next weekend’s RV expo, say, rather than political groups.

And as a copy editor/page designer, those A1 ad wraps and stickers can die in a fire, regardless of their content. What a pain in the ass those were! Not worth the money IMHO.

 

Because you're a useless troll?

 

They had another song?

 

The most diverse nation on earth has two unfathomably racist babies running its government

 

The rejected ad should still be remade and reformatted as an inside ad, though. See if the Post puts it through, then. If not, we'll know the decision was all about Bezos and bowing to Trump, again.

 

“We submitted the artwork back on Tuesday of last week. I’m assuming it went through a legal department or other kind of review. They said, ‘You can have something inside the paper but you can’t do the wrap.’ We said thanks, no thanks because we had a lot of questions,” Common Cause President Virginia Kase Solomón said to The Hill on Sunday.

 

Trump did parade laps at Daytona in the Behemoth. Biden would have done a couple of hot laps, if possible.