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ryanlcooper.com
does this look like extremely buttoned down responsible journalism to you? or does it look like something else. and not in service of cutting corners to get a massive scoop
originalist.bsky.social NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 1d
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"

(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)

Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
originalist.bsky.social NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · Sep 16
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal"
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NYT front page coverage all the time!

By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
Much more interesting than the story was its source: Jordan Lasker, who got the Columbia data from a hacker. The Times initially identified him only as “Crémieux,” his Twitter handle, describing him as “an academic and an opponent of affirmative action” and even linking to his (incredibly racist) Substack. But not only had Lasker’s name already been published by The Guardian in an article about a “natalism” conference full of racists (sensing a theme here), one of his few published articles—another piece of “scientific” racism—was also so atrocious it got his co-author, Bryan Pesta, then a tenured professor at Cleveland State University, fired. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported the story back in 2022. Pesta published the article, “Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability,” he co-wrote with Lasker in the first issue of a new journal of which he was the editor in chief. The entire issue was nothing but racist pseudoscience, but worse, it turned out that Pesta had gotten the data for his article by lying to the National Institutes of Health about what he intended to do. That got him canned, and deservedly so. There’s a reason why race “science” is on the fringes of academia: It’s complete nonsense, the province of freaks, liars, and failures. None of this was in the Times article. Either the authors and editors knew about it and chose to whitewash a racist troll, or they did no investigation whatsoever of their only source—perhaps because they were worried about being scooped by Chris Rufo. Their only concession was a stealth edit adding that Lasker “writes often about I.Q. and race.” Oh really? What, pray tell, does he write exactly?
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
graceishuman.bsky.social
:( *hugs*
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

this happened! this is a thing that happened!
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM