Ironically you can see this very dynamic in the Epstein emails themselves, where the power elite all email each other absurd rumors and semi-literate political scuttlebutt and theorizing. The boys’ club exposed in those messages is the same one that controls the brains of the top Times editors.

I, personally, would like to see dramatic consequences for senior leadership’s reprehensible and vicious crusade against trans people, so I will take what I can get

but fundamentally they have a deep disdain for their main consumer base of normie libs and that base has finally taken notice

multiple offline resist libs I know have moved away from or even canceled the paper out of frustration - people are desperate for some sort of institutional counterweight to Trump and the Times has very obviously fallen short

games and recipes are holding it together

The reason why Trump and Republicans are so gung-ho about cutting SNAP (and Medicaid, etc.) is because starvation is a tools to get poor Americans to take the jobs left empty by the deportation of immigrants