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  1. No, I’m talking about the new guy who totally isn’t Rex who said he had a friend who helped rescue the girls today who confirmed it to him. I think it’s a lot more likely that he’s lying to us than that he’s got a real life friend who lied to him about something this serious.
  2. “Aw jeez, sure I lied and said a buddy rescued two girls today but that was just a little oopsie. It’s really unfair and mean to hold that against me!”
  3. So your buddy told you he had helped rescue two girls today? And he’s still your buddy?
  4. What the fuck else do they do? I don't expect a literal door to door alert throughout the county, but the riverside camps with shitty cell coverage and lots of kids in them seem like it'd be worth sending someone to make sure they're aware of the danger.
  5. That was just dumb internet speculation. This was an outright lie.
  6. So what the fuck was this?
  7. The only thing they’re never offended by is Republican officials’ criminal negligence that gets kids killed.
  8. Lol, the sister of the Times’ Nazi source posts on Blue Sky and is dropping family lore: These are the types of people Times political editors and reporters think are sophisticated intellectuals. That’s the type of people the Times, WaPo, and other mainstream media institutions hire now to cover politics because their executives think the left went insane in 2020 with the BLM marches.
  9. Man, if after everything that has happened here the past ten years you're still not concerned about the most prestigious newspapers in our country lending mainstream legitimacy to fascist propaganda, I don't know what to tell you.
  10. I'd guess there's like an 80%+ chance Mandani's parents and/or school counselor encouraged him to check the box for African American. But I think the much bigger deal is how this story got to the New York Times in the first place, how they reported it, and what that reveals about how they operate. It's not that long ago that the Times refused to published hacked and leaked materials that were much more newsworthy: the Trump campaign's oppo research file on Vance. But here, a freelance medical reporter (whose main beat appears to be anti-trans shit) was given hacked college student application records by Jordan Lasker, who is friends with Richard Hanania, is a fairly well known white supremacist, eugenicist, and peddler of racist pseudoscience, and is grad school dropout who committed academic misconduct so severe he got a tenured co-author of a paper he worked on fired. In short, he's a fucking nazi. Also, this isn't as big of a deal, but his twitter handle "cremieux" is a cum joke and his reddit handle is trannyporn0. Now, depending on the information and the story, maybe the fact that the source is a nazi doesn't keep you from reporting it. But a real journalistic outfit would be pretty fucking careful. They'd want to make sure they weren't being used to advance the nazi's agenda and they would want to be honest with their audience about who their source was. Did the Times do any of that? No. They were happy to tell exactly the story the nazi wanted them to tell, they gave the nazi anonymity, and even described him as an "academic" so their audience would think the source was something other than a dipshit, gutter racist little nazi freak. And published this on the same day SCOTUS just gave the OK for Trump to illegally render people to third-world torture prisons and the GOP passed their bill destroying Medicaid and giving ICE a bigger budget than all but two militaries on the planet get. The Times' ownership has reduced it to a shitty nazi propaganda rag. And the real cherry on top of this story? They did all this so their source could try to make some money gambling on the effect he thought the story would have on the prediction markets, but it had none.
  11. Mamdani is both Asian and was literally born in Uganda. Checking two accurate boxes on a college application isn’t doing anything wrong and it’s not fucking newsworthy. The fact that the Times is taking assignments from Nazis and giving the Nazis anonymity should be a much bigger story.
  12. Jamelle Bouie posted on Blue Sky that he thought a reporter should reveal when their source is a Nazi and was made to delete it by the Times brass.
  13. Oh no, SCOTUS won’t let Obama run.
  14. Maybe he can't help himself, but he doesn't need the army now that ICE has more funding than any military outside of us and China. They're his own private army.
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