Would you pay $7/month or $70 a year--quite the discount!--to bask in the wisdom that only Jennifer Rubin can provide?

If so, you have the chance to do so, without having to deal with all the baggage that subscribing to the Washington Post entails, like having to see Philip Bump's name as well as Jen's. 

BIG NEWS. I have left the Post. Corporate and billionaire media are failing to meet the moment. With @normeisen.bsky.social I'm launching @contrariannews.bsky.social. We'll have politics but also cooking, humor, film and even pets. Please subscribe and join the fight.…

— Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 13, 2025

Even better, if you sign up to Jennifer's Substack you will be treated to the special wisdom of Norm Eisen. 

Not knowing a thing about him, I looked him up. Apparently, he was U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic under Obama, and a lawyer for the first impeachment of Trump. 

Of course, he was. Can't wait to read his great insights on the second Trump administration. Maybe he can work in some Ukraine gossip from the first impeachment and give us stories about Alexander Vindman. 

We told you last week that Jen Rubin was fired! Ding dong the witch is dead!!! https://t.co/1iDepPPzzc pic.twitter.com/JNAgsfcqey

— Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) January 13, 2025

Rubin is leaving only a few months after she should have resigned--she complained that writers at the L.A. Times were gutless for not resigning after the paper didn't endorse in the presidential campaign, but failed to resign herself when the Washington Post chose to do the same. 

It was hilarious. Perfect virtue signaling until virtue has a cost. 

Jen is saying that she has left of her own accord--her manifesto announcing The Contrarian is all bravado about fighting the billionaires who are ruining the media. But a lot of people rightly suspect she was just one of the many "journalists" the WaPo is shedding in order to save itself from going under. 

Corporate and billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy. The Washington Post’s billionaire owner and enlisted management are among the offenders. They have undercut the values central to The Post’s mission and that of all journalism: integrity, courage, and independence. I cannot justify remaining at The Post. Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive.

I therefore have resigned from The Post, effective today. In doing so, I join a throng of veteran journalists so distressed over The Post’s management they felt compelled to resign.

The decay and compromised principles of corporate and billionaire-owned media underscore the urgent need for alternatives. Americans are eager for innovative and independent journalism that offers lively, unflinching coverage free from cant, conflicts of interest and moral equivocation.

Which is why I am so thrilled to simultaneously announce this new outlet, The Contrarian: Not Owned by Anybody. 

It may even be true that she "resigned" in some technical sense. For instance, the paper may have informed her that he contract would not be renewed, or that they would give her some reasonable amount of time to prepare, or something similar. But it seems implausible that she would leave on her own accord, simply because she refused to when she made such a fuss about how others should resign over failures to endorse Kamala Harris. 

Watch Norm Eisen and Jennifer Rubin painfully describe their new cringeworthy media venture to oppose President Trump:

"We do politics, we're going to do law. But we know that any successful pro-democracy movement also has to be very vocal about culture. We'll have a humor… pic.twitter.com/IVEEwDbmSe

— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) January 13, 2025

if you think I am unfair to doubt Jen's explanation for what happened, remember she has a history of doing complete 180s all the time. For instance, on Biden's need to get out of the presidential race. One day, she was 100% against; the next, she was delighted that he stepped aside for Harris. She changes positions with the alacrity of a Cheetah chasing its prey. 

A great example comes in her manifesto. For years, she has defended Pravda Media fact-checkers and attacked the unreliability of independent journalists. Now she says this:

The need for upstart outlets has never been more acute. The contradiction between, on the one hand, the journalistic obligation to hold the powerful accountable and, on the other, the financial interests of billionaire moguls and corporate conglomerates could not be starker. 

She goes on to attack the Pravda Media with the passion that you might find from Alex Jones, only from a different angle. Quite the U-turn, that. 

Rubin was always a hack. She was when she gave Bush tongue-baths over his wars of choice, and has been as a reincarnated leftist doing the same for Joe Biden. The difference is that Jen also let Biden sniff her hair, I suppose.

Still, it's good to see that I won't have to see her byline when I head over to a Post story. I need to keep up with what the Pravda Media says, and I always threw up a bit in my mouth when I stupidly clicked on something she wrote. 

Whether she resigned or was ushered out the door, she is gone. Good riddance.