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200,000

The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

Hillary

Saw Hillary Clinton and author John Grisham speak last night. She's doing a book tour, presented as a discussion. So, Grisham asked questions - mostly about the book - and she gave answers, mostly from the book.

It was ... bracing. She told some good stories about her time as Sec State and about some interesting things she's done since (ex. getting women out of Afghanistan). But because we're so close to the election, a lot of what she talked about was the dangers of Trump. Not that the audience of mostly middle-aged women who paid to see Hillary Clinton were likely to disagree, but she did hammer the point home with everything she had.

Grisham was a gentle and supportive interviewer. He's apparently a family friend of the Clinton family, so it was a friendly chat.

I don't go to political rallies, and this wasn't one - not exactly. But, I do see the appeal now. The energy of thousands of like-minded people who are invested enough to pay to be preached to. Yeah, that's pretty invigorating.

No encore. And she didn't play any songs off her first album.