Because I'm sure the NYT has never made a publication decision based on whether readers will want to read the story. This is what conservative leadership of a news org looks like. It's not MAGA, Q*non, or white Christian supremacist, but it is conservative. (btw not dragging @zhugeex.com)

Daniel Ahmad@zhugeex.com · 2d ago

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

Trump admits he’s building monuments to himself because no one else will do it after he’s gone: “Nobody will do it once I'm gone. When I leave here, nobody will.” (nymag.com/intelligence...)

For whatever reason, the Hawaiian shirt nearly made me lose it

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ohio lawyer: “When we challenged the constitutionality of ankle monitors being placed on our clients…we were told, ‘We’re following our orders.’" “…It was also said by a man representing ICE while wearing a Hawaiian shirt with AK-47’s and grenades printed on it.” Wow, from @swin24.bsky.social:

i love that he even steals from them and they still lick his boots for it

The NYT lost the Pulitzer for their transphobic podcast series with Azeen Ghorayshi to Pablo Torre and his reporting on the Clippers. They're salty about it so of course they're not going to properly credit him.

Works perfectly for academic publishing too

Elle Cordova@ellecordova.bsky.social · 3d ago

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s what the Sermon on the Mount gets wrong.

The thing that Disney and other corporations have recently done where they say spouses are ineligible for benefits if they are offered any benefits at their own job seems like its pulling out a load bearing element from the system's popular support.

Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler@tbone.malware-virus.biz · 6d ago

I believe the employer-sponsored insurance system will face catastrophe by 2032. I might be wrong -- by the "nothing ever happens" inertia of trillions of $, if anything -- but OBBBA cuts x cost growth x consolidation x nonmedical inflation make this whole thing fatally vulnerable

this is the "opposition" that "sanctions on illegal settlements" might undermine

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

The newest darling of the Western center-left and frontrunner to replace Netanyahu says today on Twitter:

One of the most crucial skills for a manager at any business is being able to make any excuse for needing time off, no matter how true and legitimate it is, sound like the biggest bullshit lie of all time

this might be the most Trump thing he's ever done. a fuckin aircraft carrier doing a point-for-point recreation of the Battleship Potemkin mutiny because of his insane war, and he's going to prosecute the sailors for hurling themselves into the sea

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

The sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier who jumped overboard in an attempt to die by suicide has been charged with violations and could have his pay docked. www.ms.now/news/navy-sa...

Again, the constantly unreported news here is that all of this is wildly illegal & violates both the USMCA that Trump himself negotiated & our WTO obligations. Als, the Section 338 rationale, like all the others, is total BS, & everyone knows this, but the media doesn't even mention it anymore 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

George Pearkes@peark.es · last wk.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL this is amazing, no notes, good luck buddy.

Even if you grant the absurd premise about Jews and Italians, this only makes sense if you know *nothing* about India or its politics. Mamdani is criticizing a leader of the RSS. It's a violent Hindu nationalist group, one of whose devotees literally killed Gandhi.

White House official Peter Navarro agrees with Steve Bannon that Canada is now a "wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party" "Vancouver is now big Hong Kong," Navarro says

Get rid of the government-granted patent monopolies and drugs and medical equipment are cheap, then there's no room for the middlemen. Let's hear it for the free market!

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.

in the next round of healthcare reform it will be critical to cut out as many of the bloated, self-dealing middlemen as possible. good piece from @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/2026/08/27/h...

"I have invented a term, 'wokeism,' and then I have imagined that wokeism was disavowed. So what do the people who my friends in the newsroom (and absolutely no one else) call 'wokesters' have to say for themselves, now that I have imagined them into capitulation?" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...

Opinion | My Question for the Formerly Woke

Before a Woke 2 takes over, let the proponents of its predecessor explain how and why they’re moving on.

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People are always making all kinds of assumptions about me just because I have webbed fingers and scaly fins and I'm constantly saying stuff like "I must return now to the ocean, where I live". That doesn't mean anything. I'm just making conversation

Don't cite the deep magic to me, witch. I straight-up don't remember writing that shit. I don't know how it runs when it calls on a non-existent .txt called deepmmagic. Yeah two Ms I missed it. And yes I know it always crashes to desktop on exit. No I won't help you mod it for "deeper magic"

let's start doing it the other way. my latest for the atlantic: "baby boomers are dying at higher rates than younger generations — what are they doing wrong?"

It also feels like a very on-point demonstration of the fact that all kinds of things are expected of - and inflicted upon - left wing politics that even their *very* harshest critics wouldn’t dream of applying to anyone from the centre to the far right.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last wk.

AOC just mildly disavowed "woke 1" and it sparked a weeks-long, ongoing discourse cycle about radicalism on the left. The idea that prominent Dems "disavowing" far-left figures will stop the right from talking about them is laughable.

also if you go back and read what she actually said, she doesn't really even "disavow woke 1" it was completely a manufactured newscycle created by the brunchlord press

Thanks to @wyden.senate.gov for getting these lies on the record. Evidence of lying, malfeasance, and corruption just keep piling up on Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party.

Stephanie Kirchgaessner@skirchy.bsky.social · last wk.

Exclusive: RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate. Stellar reporting by @bymichellersmith.com based on documents obtained by @theguardian.com and @apnews.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

like, this is Shari Redstone speaking directly to the New York Times about her motivations: she wanted to fire everyone who criticized Israel and explicitly make its news coverage Trumpist. she did not want this for commercial reasons. she wanted this because she wanted CBS to be a propaganda outlet

no you see because this is somewhat similar to an antisemitic trope, you're not allowed to point out that she did that

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2w ago

like, this is Shari Redstone speaking directly to the New York Times about her motivations: she wanted to fire everyone who criticized Israel and explicitly make its news coverage Trumpist. she did not want this for commercial reasons. she wanted this because she wanted CBS to be a propaganda outlet

i think billionaires should be allowed to publish ai-generated op-eds if they also publish the exact prompts they used to generate them www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post...

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Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

Scoop (from ysd that I forgot to post here): Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller told me his op-ed attacking Bessent was written by AI “There’s a reason I moved from an English major to being an economics major ... I'm not embarrassed," he says WSJ standing behind it www.notus.org/media/stanle...

UW-Madison Poli Sci has THREE searches for TT assistant professors: Environmental politics: go.wisc.edu/1gk366 Chinese politics: go.wisc.edu/847082 American political thought: go.wisc.edu/lfwg6o I am not on any of the search committees, but happy to chat about the dept/UW/Madison/etc at APSA!

calling this batch of caliper guys "race realists" is in a very loose sense accurate, in the way that supporting a genocidal war could be described as a permissive attitude towards defense spending, but the level of obsfuscation involved there is difficult to distinguish from outright lying

CITED DOLLY PARTON IN HIS RULING

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’

I know he's finally resting, but GD it, man.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports

"Mild criticism on twitter from powerless people with names like Fartman69 is like facing the guillotine" being an animating principle of the political-media class explains much of the past 15 years

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remarkably, given what we have seen, he is *still* at it.