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Plus: The newsroom debate about Trump's racist repost Saturday, February 7, 2026 View in browser   Received this email from a friend? Sign up here. Hey, hope you're staying warm. We're coming to you with a Saturday edition full of the best reads of the week. Let's start with the fallout from the mass layoffs at The Washington Post ...   The 'disaster' in DC "The diminishment of the Washington Post hits hard," Peggy Noonan writes , "because it feels like another demoralizing thing in our national life. Our public life as a nation—how we are together, how we talk to each other, the sound of us—isn't what it was. It's gone down and we all feel this, all the grown-ups."   She goes on: "The Post's diminishment, which looks like its demise, isn't just a 'media story.' Reaction shouldn't break down along ideological lines, in which th...