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1/17
🆔 pgourevitch.bsky.social
Here’s the true reported scandal of NYT’s scandalously bogus hit job on Mamdani spoon fed to the paper by a white supremacist shill. As thread says NYT should now cover *this* story with far greater fervor & outrage than it covered Claudine Gray - but don’t hold yr breath waiting for it to do that.

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🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
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2/17
🆔 pgourevitch.bsky.social
Gah - Gay, of course, not Gray

3/17
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
Honored to have this re-posted by the author of "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families", an amazing and depressingly relevant book that everyone in the U.S. should read, now, today, because now it is our turn and we must learn how to make it not happen here.

4/17
🆔 pgourevitch.bsky.social
🙏

5/17
🆔 wilterweight.bsky.social
Such a phenomenal book, I need to read it again.

6/17
🆔 justingundlach.bsky.social
Amen
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7/17
🆔 atypica.bsky.social
When they go low NYT goes lower

8/17
🆔 amhoward.bsky.social
The NYT is a deep disappointment these days. See The Times in the UK for something similar

9/17
🆔 mannahattamamma.bsky.social
This article was depressing not just b/c it's the beginning of the NYT hatchet jobs on Mamdani, whose campaign is such a much-needed sign of hope & help, but also b/c once again the newspaper I thought I could depend on...failed. Bigly. Deliberately. #dobetterNYT
Bluesky

10/17
🆔 weavewoman.bsky.social
Still no regrets about unsubscribing the NYT two years ago.....

11/17
🆔 trruhnke.bsky.social
Haley’s Comet only shows up once every 8 decades. Maybe NYT cancellation regret is like that.

12/17
🆔 schizodelusion.bsky.social
Can we please cancel everyone who writes about IQ as if that's a real measure of intelligence

13/17
🆔 alexpetrovnia.bsky.social
Claudine Gay is her name, not Gray, fyi

14/17
🆔 pgourevitch.bsky.social
Ay - yes, of course, dunno if it was my typo or autocorrect, but grrrr I hate mistakes like that, sorry

15/17
🆔 cadetpanama.bsky.social
Agreed! The “Project Veritas” style pipeline from right wing “sources “ to prestige news outlets , setting the news agenda

16/17
🆔 booksfedoras.bsky.social
😡😡

17/17
🆔 alexzucker.bsky.social
📌

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1/35
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
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2/35
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
Background: the "academic" Lasker is or was a PhD student at Texas Tech (2021-2024), but his only decently-cited paper is from earlier, from 2019. That paper, "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability", was so bad it led to an investigation, the firing of a co-author, and articles about the scandal. 2/
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3/35
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote about the scandal. It wasn't just that thearticle was "racist pseudoscience". It was that the authors misused data from NIH and lied on their data application - filed by Bryan Pesta, a professor at Cleveland State. Pesta was then fired. 3/ archive.is/KwbGy
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https://archive.is/kwbgy

4/35
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
The investigation focused on Bryan Pesta, a faculty member and the apparent driver of the research. But the first author, Jordan Lasker, was mysterious. The Chronicle spent some time trying to figure out who he even was. An undergraduate? They could see Lasker started a PhD program only later. 3/
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5/35
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
Why didn't reviewers catch the ethical issues with Lasker & Pesta's paper before publication? Because it appeared in a new journal edited by... Bryan Pesta. Its inaugural issue was devoted to 'race science', many articles by the same set of co-authors, claiming Black people are less intelligent. 4/
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6/35
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/
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7/35
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
Let's be clear: Jordan Lasker's scandal is MUCH worse than that of Harvard's Claudine Gay, which the NYT covered for days. Gay wasn't fired. Bryan Pesta was. Jordan Lasker could never be hired. If the NYT cares about academic misconduct, they must now cover Lasker's sins. They made him the story. 6/

8/35
🆔 aloejoe.bsky.social
People should really not refer to NYT as the paper of record, I'm not sure we have one

9/35
🆔 realt-man.bsky.social
They happily reported part of the facts to make it look like he tried to pretend to be black. It is reptilian in a very Republican way.

10/35
🆔 biscuitdrives.bsky.social
Wow, fired from a tenured position. Do you know the kind of shyt one has to pull for that to happen? Not good.

11/35
🆔 capitolhunters.bsky.social
Lying to a federal agency and misusing data is one of those things that gets a tenured prof fired, though it also helps if he is widely loathed for publishing garbage 'race science'. But the unambiguous thing, and the reason they fired him, was the data fraud.

12/35
🆔 biscuitdrives.bsky.social
Exactly. 👍

13/35
🆔 keyboardhero.bsky.social
The New York Times is a corporation that protects its bottom line - it stopped being an independent news source long ago.

14/35
🆔 mikal-el.com
Even allowing his pseudonym instead of his actual name is a part of the grif.

15/35
🆔 crdenny.bsky.social
@skyview.social unroll

16/35
🆔 madamgeoffrin.bsky.social
And note the hypocrisy of NOT reporting on Trump’s Shylock comment.

17/35
🆔 rochaa.bsky.social
Thank you for this thread 🧵

I knew only some superficial details, & it was horrifying. With this much unethical problems, this paper needs to be withdrawn completely & removed or flagged on Google scholar searches.

18/35
🆔 rholmes99.bsky.social
Not to be contrary, but the story of the application is true. It was a modest story, played modestly, and it doesn’t make me think less of Mamdani. But it’s true. Discrediting the source seems pointless and defensive.

19/35
🆔 azevedoaudio.bsky.social
What is newsworthy about a guy with an Indian mom and an Ugandan dad who was born in Uganda checking off both "Asian" and "Black/African American" and writing "Ugandan" next to Black when he was 18? There is no reason to publish the article at all unless you are trying to frame him as a liar.

20/35
🆔 msarielknox.bsky.social
Thank you for this

21/35
🆔 nosuperhero.bsky.social
The leaders at NYT have sided with the fascists.
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22/35
🆔 chromacatxyz.bsky.social
You would enjoy this if you haven't already heard it
NYT owner Sulzberger's grandpa did the same exact propping up for Hitler and fascism 100 years ago. Listen to the history included in this two parter
youtu.be/URABscYOjRE?...
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23/35
🆔 jdkahler.bsky.social
📌

24/35
🆔 leemarvinoswald.bsky.social
I know it's not nearly as important or pressing as Mamdani's college application, but there are masked federal agents kidnapping hundreds of people off LA streets everyday with no ID, warrant, or due process.

Who at the @nytimes.com can I contact about this scoop? Do I need a signal account?

25/35
🆔 kerricoombs.bsky.social
I mean even if we're sticking with Mamdani stories instead of literally anything else, isn't the most significant Mamdani story that Trump has threatened to take away his citizenship and throw him into a concentration camp?

26/35
🆔 leemarvinoswald.bsky.social
@nytimes.com any comments?

You can't dismiss all criticism as complaining.

There are valid points questioning your journalistic process and integrity.

And it deserves transparency.

27/35
🆔 femsocphd.bsky.social
Whoever wrote this should be fired.

"He writes about IQ and race?"

What is there to write about this debunked sociobiological bullshyt?

I guess NYT didn't elaborate on this eugenicist garbage. They promoted it to denigrate Mamdani, whose multifacetrd identity didn't fit in race boxes.

28/35
🆔 rebuthered.bsky.social
Writes often about IQ and race.......................holly shyt @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com what a wild way to talk about someones racist beliefs.

29/35
🆔 jeremybuchman.bsky.social
It's like describing Jeffrey Dahmer as an unconventional epicurean.

30/35
🆔 ledredman.bsky.social
If the NYT collaborates with Nazis it's time to stop following them.

31/35
🆔 paddyj1325.bsky.social
I'm sooo done with the with the NYT that I don't even play Wordle anymore

32/35
🆔 iangrant25.bsky.social
Great story. #NYT listen up: credibility is like virginity - you have it, then it's gone, just because of one little prick.
Bluesky

33/35
🆔 altnih4science.bsky.social
Thank you. Some info here from scientists and policy people on what this says about scientific institutions, and the “Merchants of Doubt” strategy.

Pesta was fired because #NIH worked.

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🆔 altnih4science.bsky.social
The controversy about the pseudoscientist hacking Mamdani’s application has a lot to say about science.

Specifically, about scientific consensus and the value of strong scientific institutions.
A thread: 1/

www.chronicle.com/ar...
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Bluesky

34/35
🆔 indybhoffman.bsky.social
The @nytimes.com has apparently given up on any semblance of journalistic ethics. It has no business giving credence to bullshyt findings no matter who they come from. Right or left.

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🆔 onewordlong.bsky.social
Rod and Todd had stricter fact checking
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🆔 thetnholler.bsky.social
WATCH: “The @nytimes.com was exposed for trying to manufacture a scandal about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social — while in the process revealing a scandal about The NYT.”

This is the correct take. Sadly it will likely only be folks on TikTok who point it out😕

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DLuj917...
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🆔 redheadbmf.bsky.social
NYT needs to be sued for defamation.

3/50
🆔 georgejohnston.bsky.social
TikTok is quickly becoming the most trusted name in news. No wonder Rapepublicans want to ban it.

4/50
🆔 democracyisaverb.bsky.social
The NY Times did NOT endorse Cuomo for Mayor.

The NY Times Editorial Board did not endorse any 2025 mayoral candidate.

The Editorial Board did, however, advise AGAINST voting for EITHER Mamdani (due to his lack of experience) OR Cuomo (due to his ethics & conduct).

5/50
🆔 actuallevi.bsky.social
The fact that this white supremacist felt like he could go to the Times with this information says a lot, too.

6/50
🆔 jclaudia1.bsky.social
No-pushback Times

7/50
🆔 kvseton.bsky.social
Lol I know this is a terribly serious subject but “the go fukk yourself bill” chefs kiss :-)

8/50
🆔 penbird42.bsky.social
Pure Islamophobia from The New York Times.
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🆔 tequila0341.bsky.social
Cremieux's real name is Jordan Lasker; this is public information. The racist has a Substack. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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10/50
🆔 cneal290.bsky.social
Good that TikTok is a more important outlet than the NYT

11/50
🆔 cajunjoe.bsky.social
NYT is nothing but a trash rag

12/50
🆔 conjuay.bsky.social
" All the news that fits, we print" I remember that comment from back in Viet Nam war days...

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🆔 easy65.bsky.social
Brilliant commentary on the forces trying to destroy Mamdani

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14/50
🆔 ladyindrak.bsky.social
These people, the far right MAGA-lovers, are so ridiculous with the shyt they manufacture. Good thing New Yorkers are educated people✌🏼

15/50
🆔 neverseemecoming.bsky.social
another dumbass making NYT relevant when it stopped long ago. The Times has had its pants down around it's ankles for quite awhile now

16/50
🆔 sugarstone100.bsky.social
Independent journalism matters.

17/50
🆔 galenblankie.bsky.social
Thank you for explaining this so clearly.

18/50
🆔 iampilgrim.bsky.social
New York Times has been a GOP Trump fascist enabler since 2016,

19/50
🆔 charles-198.bsky.social
My solution: Blocked their account on here…👋👋 NYT…

20/50
🆔 husky-du.bsky.social
As Ben Franklin once (probably) said, "The Dildo of Consequence rarely arrives lubed."

21/50
🆔 photobyjw.bsky.social
Ok Holler, you REALLY need to watch your ass when it comes to publishing and disseminating META products.

You’re infecting all of us.

22/50
🆔 ecppdx.bsky.social
Tons and tons of people are pointing it out in Bluesky right now. what are you talking about

23/50
🆔 philip-mach.bsky.social
Working on an op-ed about NYT’s antisemitism.

Yes, you heard that right. They aren’t only Islamophobes.

I hope to place it here: mg.co.za/author/phili...
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🆔 penbird42.bsky.social

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🆔 bw-karolina.bsky.social
Shame @nytimes.com you scum bags

26/50
🆔 emmadmiller.bsky.social
That's why I blocked @nytimeses.nytimes.com already 😡

27/50
🆔 theoutlier1.bsky.social
Headline: "NYT Editors Expose Themselves."

28/50
🆔 grammy1947.bsky.social
Why are Americans reading the NYTimes?

29/50
🆔 bobcatsizzle.bsky.social
Citizens need to take matters into their own hands.

30/50
🆔 elshane-o.bsky.social
You know that guy sells his hair to local salons.

31/50
🆔 arloue.fellas.army
Can you blame him?
Look at them luscious locs
I was so memorized by it I had to listen to the video with my phone faced down

32/50
🆔 ironprincessm.bsky.social
I watched it just to look at his hair 🤣

33/50
🆔 arloue.fellas.army
Lol

34/50
🆔 toddlowe.bsky.social
Can I proactively cancel my subscription again? Like, carry a balance of negative two or three subscriptions, just in case there's some kind of accident and someone gives me a gift article or something?

35/50
🆔 heppyday.bsky.social
I LOVE IT!! Cancelling my NYT subscrip. F 'em !! LOSERS!

36/50
🆔 demlatino.bsky.social
NYT collaboration with white nationalist racists. Glad they were exposed.

37/50
🆔 pennymize.bsky.social
The old gray lady used to be a contender. Now she is just a bum.

38/50
🆔 korbelrenokia.bsky.social
Geez. Charlize Theron and Elon are also African.

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🆔 yvonnelope.bsky.social
@midastouchmedia.bsky.social

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🆔 progressivefred.bsky.social
NYTimes is an unreliable source now

41/50
🆔 dberl.bsky.social
Obviously biased toward MAGA, the @nytimes.com cowardly refused to publish the racist “source’s” name.

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
how can you work for this now manipulating trashy rag?
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🆔 humanity1st.bsky.social
The NYT sold out!

43/50
🆔 ignognitotx.bsky.social
Anybody else DISTINCTLY UNSURPRISED that toilet paper got some shyt on it?

44/50
🆔 dodgeintercept1.bsky.social
at the end of the day they're trying to sink
ZM because he supports Palestinian right to exist.

45/50
🆔 witchiewolf.bsky.social
You fukking can't trust anyone these days ! They are all fukkers !😡😡😡😡

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🆔 jimbrowm.bsky.social
Please help us share, we the people have the power and only us can remove this administration generalstrikeus.com
US.COM | The Premium Global Domain for the U.S. Market

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🆔 felbert.bsky.social
Thank you for this post. Well done. 👏👏👏👏👏

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🆔 taarnaa1.bsky.social
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49/50
🆔 tiredinaz.bsky.social
I canceled my subscription with them.

50/50
🆔 glendabau.bsky.social
What the hell.

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Crashing out over Zohran. It makes you wonder how significant his W is.
 

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Man shut up.

Listen bıtch you choose to quote my post instead of keeping it moving.

It’s not my fault that Zohran is getting exposed on a daily basis at this point.

It’s on him for claiming African

It’s on him for acting like all he has is $2000 in the bank

It’s on him for acting like he didn’t come from money

It’s on him for being a failed rapper like Joe Budden

And it’s on him if Adams wins again.
 
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