Free markets, personal liberties, things of that nature

The question for the people remaining in the Washington Post op-ed department is whether they’re in a constant state of humiliation or whether they’re simply incapable of embarassment:

Hard to put into words (I might) my anger at this Washington Post Editorial Board piece, which I share in its brief totality here.

[image or embed]— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 7:20 PM · Aug 5, 2026

There are options, so it’s not a big deal (he says, knowing only a tiny handful of people will be able to take advantage of those options, and the lives of everyone will be thrown into chaos, and they can’t even work legally to put food on the table anymore).— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 7:42 PM · Aug 5, 2026

The largest insult to the intelligence is the idea that any non-trivial number of people whose status was revoked are going to be able to continue to work here. But there are plenty of others, such as citing the temporary nature of TPS status as if conditions in Haiti have improved over the past five years. It’s all a silly web of lies, and the persons responsible for this know this as well as anyone. I guess the arguments against free markets and personal liberties will no longer have to be left to be published by others.