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Big Nick Energy

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Anubis thoroughly inspecting the new cat food delivery

#catpics #petpics

Rotund black cat sitting in cardboard box among cat food cans looking at the camera

August 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

The New York Times is the enemy and the longer we pretend they aren’t, the more of us who will die because of their shit reporting. Enjoy your crosswords and Wordles, they’re soaked in blood.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jul 4

Patrick Healy, NYT assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, wrote a thread on how the Zohran Mamdani/Columbia story came together:

First post: As the @nytimes assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, I’ve received reader feedback regarding our reporting on Zohran Mamdani’s 2009 application to Columbia University. To provide context on how the reporting came together, I wanted to share some information:

2nd post: The Times has been reporting comprehensively on Mr. Mamdani’s proposals for the city, his vision on the economy and affordability, his leadership record and his personal background, including his biography and South Asian heritage that he’s talked about during his campaign.

Third post: Times journalists for decades have done deep reporting on major party nominees for New York's mayor to provide insight, context and texture about their priorities, history and evolution. Our reporting helps readers better understand how candidates think and what they believe.

4th post: Our reporters obtained information about Mr. Mamdani’s Columbia college application and went to the Mamdani campaign with it. When we hear anything of news value, we try to confirm it through direct sources. Mr. Mamdani confirmed this information in an interview with The Times.

5th post: Mr. Mamdani shared his thinking about the limitations of identity boxes on forms like Columbia’s, and explained how he wrote in “Uganda,” the country of his birth – the kind of decision many people with overlapping identities have wrestled with when confronted with such boxes.

6th post: We believe Mr. Mamdani’s thinking and decision-making, laid out in his words, was newsworthy and in line with our mission to help readers better know and understand top candidates for major offices.

7th post: We sometimes receive information that has been hacked or from controversial sources. The Times does not solely rely on nor make a decision to publish information from such a source; we seek to confirm through direct sources, which we did with Mr. Mamdani.

8th post: Sometimes sources have their own motives or obtain information using means we wouldn't, like Trump's taxes, Wikileaks or Edward Snowden. It’s important to share what we can about sourcing, but we always independently assess newsworthiness and factual accuracy before publishing.

9th post: On sourcing, we work to give readers context, including in this case the initial source’s online alias, as a way to learn more about the person, who was effectively an intermediary. The ultimate source was Columbia admissions data and Mr. Mamdani, who confirmed our reporting.

10th post: We heard from readers who wanted more detail about this initial source. That’s fair feedback. We printed his online alias so readers could learn more about the person. The purpose of this story was to help illuminate the thinking and background of a major mayoral candidate.

July 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

theonion.com

July 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM

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Victor Ray

@victorerikray.bsky.social

In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law.

Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 21

Words fail me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

www.nytimes.com

June 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

NYT headline from last August: "Harris and Trump Embrace Tariffs, Though Their Approaches Differ"

April 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC

@mattnegrin.bsky.social

If you are still subscribing to The New York Times you are an active supporter of right-wing propaganda

New York Times propaganda of Megyn Kelly: "The Interview. Megyn Kelly Is Embracing Her Bias and Rejecting the 'Old Rules'"

March 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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McSweeney's

@mcsweeneys.net

"It’s disgusting and, frankly, counterproductive to point out that I voted for this. To imply that I had personal free will and agency when I walked into a voting booth and picked Mayor Bomberman is insulting."