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Jessica
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I sell fruits and vegetables in Portland. I miss the fail whale. Lurker.
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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
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
That dog that doesn't bark sure has a nasty bite...
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
"Want a photo?" is not nebulous.
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
I don't know, getting an offer of a photo of a guy running for president with underage women seems publishable in its own right.
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
Typo Correction: 2015.
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
There are children whose lives were ruined, let’s talk about the polling!
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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cethanleahy.com
Oh man, I've haven't been able to do a "Wow, this really blew up!" in years. Anyway you may enjoy my book.
www.etsy.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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pbump.com
No [drawn-in comma] new wars!
jortscity.bsky.social mayor of jorts city @jortscity.bsky.social · 13h
I was told "no new wars"
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h
Per @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social, DOD presented Trump with plans for strikes in Venezuela yesterday, including on the ground. Astonishing to see the U.S. on the brink of another regime-change invasion with essentially none of the pre-2003 effort to rationalize it domestically and internationally.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
Because, as we’ve now seen with the Epstein story, they see their job as providing as much cover for the right wing as possible while maintaining their educated/moderately liberal reader base.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
And the NYT will publish your obvious lie as if it was news.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
Still doing cleanup work for the far right, huh? How many editors saw those emails with Epstein?
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social
Long after he got an email in 2025 asking if he wanted incriminating pics of Donald - and never published a thing about it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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merovingians.bsky.social
unless proven otherwise i'm getting ready to live with the fact that the leadership of the new york times being scum of the earth has a steadily growing body count
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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originalist.bsky.social
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 12:18 AM