**Previous Episode: [[BDE289]]** **Next Episode: [[BDE291]]** %%Post image thumbnail below.%%  > [!abstract|no-i] **Episode Overview** > - **Date Aired:** [[02-15-2024]] > - **Title:** Don't Stop Belize-ing > - **Episode:** 290 > - **Description:** I'm going to rant about the state of the modern internet, censorship, Fani Willis, and how much I hate journalists. Gonna be a good one. I can feel it in my bones. > - **Link:** https://rumble.com/v4do7pl-big-dig-energy-290-dont-stop-belize-ing.html %%<https://historydraft.com/happened/what-happened/1-January/world>%% ## Replay %% Get embed URL then highlight and hit ALT + I%% <iframe src="https://rumble.com/embed/v4b2xo0/?pub=6eeyh" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; "></iframe> <br> ## Greetings & Announcements 1. Hi! ## Segments ### Happy Valentine's Day Huma Abedin Reveals Relationship with George Soros’ Son Alex — [Archive](https://archive.ph/BZJoH)   ### WSJ Layoffs [Link](https://twitter.com/dlippman/status/1753380536108687773)  From [Politico](https://archive.ph/MTuhE): > LAYOFFS DECIMATE WSJ IN WASHINGTON — Major layoffs at the [[The Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]]’s D.C. bureau yesterday left the newsroom reeling, our Daniel Lippman reports. WSJ editor EMMA TUCKER said in a memo to staff that the bureau’s business and U.S.-China teams are closing. Affected employees were notified throughout the day and will be on the payroll until March 2, and then get severance according to the union contract that expired last year, two people said. A union official said the group was “furious that these layoffs happened in the midst of contract negotiations.” > > “This is like dropping a neutron bomb on the newsroom,” said one of the reporters affected. > > In the memo, Tucker said that the paper is creating a Washington-based enterprise team and offered laid-off employees the chance to reapply to join the paper. But several of those affected by the layoffs said that the new team will offer fewer positions — although there are also some open roles in a newly-created New York-based economics team. An editor who was laid off tells Playbook: “If some of the best people in the business can’t keep a job at Emma Tucker’s Wall Street Journal, I don’t know if I would have wanted to stay there anyway.” > > Among the journalists laid off, according to several of the employees and departure emails, were Brody Mullins, Jeanne Cummings, Ted Mann, Julie Bykowicz, Ryan Tracy, John McKinnon, Yuka Hayashi, Gabe Rubin, Nell Henderson, Amara Omeokwe, David Harrison, Daniel Nasaw, Emily Stephenson, Eric Morath, Mark Anderson, Miguel Gonzalez, Andrew Ackerman, Peter Wonacott, Austen Hufford, Kate O’Keeffe, Josh Zumbrun, Kristina Peterson, Harriet Torry, Jeffrey Sparshott, James Graff, Gwynn Guilford, Charles Hutzler and Troy McCullough. The [Memo](https://archive.ph/IVldF):  Gave Rubin [Response](https://archive.ph/zqGsS):  Response:  Article Archive: https://archive.ph/AejJr > "Breakfast lovers might be better off just having a cup of coffee—but go with roasted, not instant. Prices for roasted coffee declined by 0.1% last month, but instant coffee rose by a 3.6% monthly increase for instant coffee." ### Google Web Cache Dying  ``` https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache: ``` Article Link: https://archive.ph/VCmBW Google [Tweet](https://archive.ph/1x247):  %%Footer Starts Here%% --- <center><img src="https://archive.is/do5ay/df25cfff93575f174c387ac9f4c64744da0fadb9.png" alt="Keep digging!" height="100px"></center> --- ## Tags ### Linked Pages & Footnotes