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October 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

It's bad enough to publish the hit piece but this whole dishonest "who, me? We were just trying to enlighten readers about his fascinating background!" shit is so dishonest and insulting to our intelligence.

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 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM

Rohit Gupta (He/Him)

@rohitkgupta.bsky.social

Normal rules go away when you are animated by racism.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Jul 4

Even setting aside substance, “a freelance healthcare journalist reporting in the NYT on a mayoral candidate’s old college application obtained in a hack and flagged by a prominent racist who is granted anonymity even though everyone knows who he is” is one of the strangest stories I’ve ever read

July 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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one dozen rats in a pear tree

@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM

Rohit Gupta (He/Him)

@rohitkgupta.bsky.social

Insanely racist story against Mamdani. To be clear, he was born in Uganda and his father belongs to a community that is rooted in Africa and considers itself African. #boycott #nytimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application

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July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Gianmarco Soresi

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May 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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MIT Technology Review

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AlphaEvolve finds new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design and more.

Google DeepMind’s new AI uses large language models to crack real-world problems

AlphaEvolve finds new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design and more.

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May 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Rohit Gupta (He/Him)

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I completed day 5 of the Poetry Challenge!

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn this one together!

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May 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM

Rohit Gupta (He/Him)

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April 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Rohit Gupta (He/Him)

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Minute Cryptic - 19 March 2025
"Cool block house of Lego is now reassembled without directions" (5)
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March 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Rohit Gupta (He/Him)

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Minute Cryptic - 18 March 2025
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March 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Rohit Gupta (He/Him)

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Minute Cryptic - 17 March 2025
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Minute Cryptic

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March 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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jamelle

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“This is one reason why conservatives (and fellow travelers like Arnade) hate liberalism so much: free choice disproves their biological essentialism.”

Most Men Don't Want To Be Heroes (And That's Okay)

Despite the self-pity of some, there has never been a better time to be a man.

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March 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight

January 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

All of the folks who said that you have to listen to what people say about the economy and not what statistics show, does that also hold for crime? I'm genuinely curious if people hold the same view across these two spheres.

December 20, 2024 at 12:55 AM

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Ash Parrish

@adashtra.bsky.social

Did Jor-El put a puppy in that capsule?
What's the lifespan of Kryptonian dogs?
Is it comparable to Earth dogs?
Does Earth's Yellow Sun extend the life of Kryptonian dogs?
How did Ma and Pa Kent train that dog without getting whole limbs bitten off?
How do you neuter a Kryptonian dog?

December 19, 2024 at 2:59 PM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

In 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill.

They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us.

Capitulation didn't work.

National Dems, take note.

December 19, 2024 at 5:05 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

is there any place to bet money on how fast trump’s approval is going to fall next year? i’m betting he’s in the 30s by march and hitting the 20s by the summer.

December 19, 2024 at 4:47 AM

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The New York Times

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From @theathletic.bsky.social: India’s 18-year-old prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju capped his meteoric rise by becoming the youngest world chess champion in history. nyti.ms/4fhwjnQ