This morning, first reported by Fortune, CoinDesk fired three newsroom leaders who have defined its success, and all three of whom I worked with very directly. They include Nick Baker, who sheperded the reporting by Ian Allison that brought down FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. Also fired were Marc Hochstein, who oversaw the opinion and magazine section where I did most of my work; and Kevin Reynolds, Editor in Chief, who made the newsroom as a whole into the machine of loving grace that it was, for all-too brief a moment. These are real men - the real-world version of the fantasy Chads that right-wing morons fetishize - who struggled and fought and stood up for what they believed was right, not just for them, but for other people, and for the world.