Following WaPo's surprise decision not to endorse either candidate for president — reportedly because its billionaire owner vetoed staff's decision to name Kamala Harris as its pick — New Yorker journalist Sarah Larson recounted her own Bezos lore.

"Once again I’m reflecting on the time I interviewed a powerful guy who knows Jeff Bezos," she wrote on X, "and who offhandedly told me, 'Jeff has personal reasons for wanting to get to Mars... I’m not comfortable sharing what they are.'"