ATProto Browser

ATProto Browser

Experimental browser for the Atmosphere

Post

Good morning from the @washingtonpost.com mail dork with a scooplet on Trump and USPS. His search for a postmaster general — a position he doesn’t have the power to hire — is down to two. More on the White House + your mail in the Early Brief newsletter. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

May 6, 2025, 11:57 AM

Record data

{
  "uri": "at://did:plc:4ibal4ufwcfcg32o4x3vfdow/app.bsky.feed.post/3loitd4ee222o",
  "cid": "bafyreibl7gdgicyhx7eymwuh445l5x2aum3kjgqwml572zfb33ack4v2am",
  "value": {
    "text": "Good morning from the @washingtonpost.com mail dork with a scooplet on Trump and USPS. \n\nHis search for a postmaster general — a position he doesn’t have the power to hire — is down to two.\n\nMore on the White House + your mail in the Early Brief newsletter. \n\nwww.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...",
    "$type": "app.bsky.feed.post",
    "embed": {
      "$type": "app.bsky.embed.images",
      "images": [
        {
          "alt": "In the mail\nHi, it’s economic policy reporter Jacob Bogage here, also The Post’s resident mail dork.\nTrump has narrowed his search for postmaster general to two as the White House looks to assert more control over the nonpolitical U.S. Postal Service, I’m told by three people with direct knowledge of the matter.\nTrump is deciding between Jim Cochrane, head of the industry advocacy group Package Shippers Association, and David Steiner, a FedEx board member and former CEO of Waste Management. The only hang-up: The choice isn’t Trump’s to make.\nThe Postal Service’s bipartisan governing board is charged with hiring and overseeing the postmaster general, though Trump used his bully pulpit to force out mail chief Louis DeJoy in March.",
          "image": {
            "$type": "blob",
            "ref": {
              "$link": "bafkreidlflzauc3nomy6pwyfwie6qr7ugpqjk7hkjhtbkbxxas7h6aewke"
            },
            "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
            "size": 718967
          },
          "aspectRatio": {
            "width": 1243,
            "height": 2000
          }
        },
        {
          "alt": "The board, I’m told, is mostly supportive of either candidate to replace DeJoy. Trump met with Cochrane at his Trump International Golf Club in Florida — a meeting arranged by EasyPost CEO and GOP financier Jarrett Streebin — over the weekend and came away impressed.\n“You’re just a couple days too late,” Trump lamented to Cochrane, according to three people familiar with meeting. “We’ve got this other guy from FedEx.”\nThat would be Steiner. But Monday, it became clear the president’s mind was far from made up. (Though, again, the decision is up to the board, not Trump.)\nWhite House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reached out to some of the mail agency’s largest customers to ask for their input on a new postal leader. Many of those companies strongly favor Cochrane.",
          "image": {
            "$type": "blob",
            "ref": {
              "$link": "bafkreiefmjddqet2vfiekweeu7eoe2tg4e6fxkwdmoudv6j7dkzdk74yqi"
            },
            "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
            "size": 742090
          },
          "aspectRatio": {
            "width": 1222,
            "height": 2000
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "langs": [
      "en"
    ],
    "facets": [
      {
        "$type": "app.bsky.richtext.facet",
        "index": {
          "byteEnd": 41,
          "byteStart": 22
        },
        "features": [
          {
            "did": "did:plc:k5nskatzhyxersjilvtnz4lh",
            "$type": "app.bsky.richtext.facet#mention"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "index": {
          "byteEnd": 304,
          "byteStart": 266
        },
        "features": [
          {
            "uri": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/06/carney-comes-stare-down-trump/",
            "$type": "app.bsky.richtext.facet#link"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "createdAt": "2025-05-06T11:57:29.206Z"
  }
}