The Washington Post is tanking. Independent journalism is the future.

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The Washington Post is bleeding out right now. In 2021, the Washington Post had approximately 22.5 million daily active users.

The number now: 3 million.

If you want to know why, the answer is simple: when newspapers and media companies are bought by billionaires, they lose value with everyday Americans. That’s not to say there aren’t fantastic journalists at the Washington Post. There are. But, a newspaper owned and operated by Jeff Bezos is not one that I want to read.

It’s one of the reasons I became an independent journalist. I’m 25 years old. I started college at 14 years old and always knew that one day I would want to educate others. It’s why I went to law school and graduated at the ripe age of 21, one of the youngest in the country at the time. It’s why I launched this Substack page and it’s why I provide hourly, timely news updates on TikTok and elsewhere.

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While legacy media companies like the Washington Post are dying. Independent journalism on Substack is thriving. And better yet, we don’t have billionaires telling us who to endorse, what stories to publish, or when to publish. I have full editorial control over my posts, and I encourage you to make your own pages too. With that, I’m not going anywhere. Expect Substack posts once or even twice per day with my thoughts like the ones I shared above, and also with snippets of all the news you missed from the day. Here are your snippets from today:

• Senator Ed Markey has filed legislation that could keep TikTok around by kicking the divestiture deadline another 270 days. Call your Senators. Tell them to keep TikTok.

• Speaker Mike Johnson announces that he supports placing conditions on wildfire aid to California.

• Judge Aileen Cannon has cleared the way for the release of Jack Smith's 2020 election report.

• The civil servant purge by the Trump Administration is beginning with senior Trump officials questioning National Security Civil Servants about their loyalties, including who they voted for in 2024.

• Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered all Texas flags to be flown at full-staff on inauguration day, despite the requirement that they be flown at half-staff for 30 days due to President Carter's death.

• Hamas and Israel are on the verge of a ceasefire deal that could see the release of 33 hostages in the first round.

• Special Counsel David Weiss released his final report into Hunter Biden.

• A Texas man has been charged with stalking WNBA star, Caitlin Clark.

There will be much more news coverage over the next week, and I plan on sending out posts like these once or twice per day.

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Thank you for everything,

Aaron