This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial staff to be canned. Why? Because The New York Times actually reported news that was deemed harmful to the Democrats, specifically Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The newspaper took the additional step of publishing a cringing explanation of why it reported the news that Mamdani lied on his Columbia application in claiming to be black.For liberals, it was an utter nightmare. For a party still defined by identity politics, Mamdani’s false claim over his race left many uncertain about how to react.The left has always maintained a high degree of tolerance for false claims by its own leaders, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren claiming to be a native American to Sen. Richard Blumenthal claiming to have served in the Vietnam War.
The problem is when a news eco-chamber for many readers is shattered by an errant outbreak of journalism. Many Times readers live within a hermetically sealed news silo, relying on MSNBC for cable, The New York Times for print, and BlueSky for social media. You can literally go all day without being exposed to an opposing view or fact. Then suddenly this happens.
The result is often anger. It is the same response many in higher education have to “triggering” views being expressed on campus by conservative or libertarian speakers.
The fact is that the Mamdani story was obvious news—and confirmed by the candidate himself. Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his 2009 Columbia University application, according to the New York Times.
Some accused him of being a fraud while others suggested he was trying to abuse affirmative action.
The Times reported, adding:
Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mamdani, 33, said he did not consider himself either Black or African American, but rather “an American who was born in Africa.” He said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process. (He was not accepted at Columbia.)
Other candidates, like Mayor Eric Adams, went after Mamdani, and the matter has now become an issue in the mayoral election.
The Times readers were outraged to the point that the paper published a lengthy statement from the Times’ assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, attempting to explain why it decided to publish facts that undermined a Democratic candidate. Healy sheepishly explained that “When we hear anything of news value, we try to confirm it through direct sources. Mr. Mamdani confirmed this information in an interview with The Times.”
It did not help. Much like the infamous Cotton scandal, where editors were fired for allowing a Republican senator to print an opposing view on riots, writers and pundits demanded firings or attacked the journalists.
One such response came from Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who attacked the journalists themselves. Not surprisingly, the attack appropriately came on BlueSky, a social media site designed to be a safe place for liberals who do not want to be triggered by opposing views.
Bouie slammed Times reporter, Benjamin Ryan, as stupid, claiming, “Everything I have seen about him screams a guy with little to no actual brain activity.”
After that outrageous attack, Bouie deleted the post, explaining, “I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.”
Bouie seems to view Ryan as simply stupid for publishing the truth about the leading candidate for mayor lying about his race. It is the ultimate expression of advocacy journalism. Apparently, the Times should have killed the story to keep readers from knowing about Mamdani’s prior false claim.
In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss the radical shift in American journalism that occurred with the rejection of neutrality and objectivity in favor of advocacy journalism. J-schools now teach that objectivity is a dated concept. As former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has explained, “All journalism is activism.”
After interviewing more than 75 media leaders, Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, detailed how media leaders view neutrality and objectivity as dated concepts that inhibit social and political agendas.
The problem is that once readers become accustomed to an echo chamber, exposure to opposing facts triggers rage.
That was evident among pundits and commentators like former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who declared, “Your absolute abrogation of the NYT standards would in a better era there have led the full range of you in management to resign. Utter failure. Then again, if you don’t realize NYT is perceived as actively campaigning against Mamdani, you’re all lost anyway.”
Ironically, the opposition to Mamdani by some liberals over his anti-Israeli views is being cited as the only reason that the Times would run such a story opposing a leading Democratic candidate. It raises an even more chilling prospect that, absent such a division among Times readers, this story might not have been published.
I hope that that is not true. As many on the left breathe into paper bags from the exposure to an opposing view in the Times, this could prove an important cultural moment for a newspaper that has led the industry toward advocacy journalism.
Many of us still hope that the Times and papers like the Washington Post will still reject advocacy journalism and move back toward objective journalism. However, as this latest controversy demonstrates, that revival will be difficult after years of hiring writers and editors who view neutrality as a relic of journalism.
Though it won’t make a big dent, those of you who are not the left-wing socialists who get triggered by opposing news, stop paying NY Times and WAPO their subscription costs……even if all you’re interested in is their Cultural Sections etc. — stop feeding the Old Gray Lady, who has been dead and gone for years and years.
“The problem is that once readers become accustomed to an echo chamber, exposure to opposing facts triggers rage.”
Oh the irony!
I fully understand Turley doesn’t read comments on his blog. He’s critical of something that happnes on his own blog every day is amusing. This blog is literally a MAGA echo chamber. When I post something, an opposing view, they lose their minds and go into fits of rage and animosity.
As usual Turley leaves out a LOT in this story. First of all the information about Mamdani’s Columbia application came to the NYT as a result of a hacking of Columbia’s data base on students. It clearly raises issues on using the information gained illegally by possibly a politically motivated hacker. That’s why there is criticism towards NYT. Turley conveniently, as always, left that particular bit of information out.
Naturally, MAGA nutties and our usual cohort of gullibles and ignorants are making wild assumptions and claims.
The claim Mamdany lied in his application is really stupid. Turley left out, again, that the question in his application he checked off was “Black or African-American”. Since he was born in Uganda which IS in Africa he was correct. He didn’t lie.
The real issue is the NYT’s use of stolen data to ‘report’ Mamdani’s supposed lie. That’s what is causing the uproar. Of course Turley will use anything he can twist or omit to incite MAGA rage to keep them glued to his blog. It seems Turley is using this like a sophisticated form of click bait.
Plenty of people “lie” on their college applications. Especially when it comes to the optional race and ethnicity section. Since colleges and Universities are no longer allowed to use race and ethnicity in their admissions decisions this issue is really useless. Turley is using it to create an issue that is literally pointless except to his MAGA base. Because it serves as a conduit for more…rage. Crazy Turley is sure getting his rage rhetoric going on this one.
Your reply is exactly what Mr. Turley is describing in his piece, you want to gatekeep the info from the public simply because you don’t think it’s important. Given the amount of discussion around it, you are absolutely wrong.
Gatekeep? Amusing.
As I expected you completely missed the point of the irony of Turley’s column. This blog a conservative/MAGA echo chamber. When I post an opposing view or any view contrary to most here and Turley Ya’ll lose your minds and go into fits of rage or insutls or are triggered. I even get calls to get kicked off because I posted an opposing view or criticism.
Go away and get your own blog, loser.
“As I expected you completely missed the point of the irony of Turley’s column. “
Everyone in the world misses the point. You believe that because you are ignorant, a liar, and a fool.
S. Meyer, it’s funny how often you deflect to cover your ignorance and insults instead of using substance.
You can’t argue using facts.
“S. Meyer, it’s funny how often you deflect to cover your ignorance and insults instead of using substance.
You can’t argue using facts.”
You fail to realize your foolishness. I am always here with facts, while all you produce is error, ignorance and lies. The proof is in black and white all over the blog.
“When I post something, an opposing view, they lose their minds and go into fits of rage and animosity.”
@George-Svelaz: You post lies, error and stupidity. All that needs to be done by you to counter those opposing your voice is for you to post proof along with logical thinking and consistency. Failing that you are seen as a liar, a joke and a fool.
S. Meyer, so what you’re saying is that you have no argument against the fact that Turley’s columm is in direct contradiction to what happens on his blog which is an echo chamber of conservative nutties and MAGA die hards that get triggered or upset when an opposing view is expressed. Just like you’re demonstrating.
I’ve posted proof, citations, court cases etc. and all that gets me is it’s either fake, unreliable, not credible, or more proof. It becomes a game of moving the goal posts and deflecting which you constantly when confronted with facts and proof. And as usual, when you cannot produce a good argument you resort to ad hominem attacks and insults.
You’re exactly what Turley is critical of in this column. Because you’re so dense and oblivious it is with certainty that you will never get it. That’s what is so amusing.
Go away and get your own blog, loser.
Only a stupid person would make such an assumption. Are you stupid George-Svelaz? All too many believe so. Let me repeat what I said.
@George-Svelaz: You post lies, error and stupidity. All that needs to be done by you to counter those opposing your voice is for you to post proof along with logical thinking and consistency. Failing that you are seen as a liar, a joke and a fool.
An asumption? Repeating things that are not in evidence is making an assumption.
You can’t make any arguments based on fact. All you have left is insults and put-downs.
Did Mamdani lie? No. He was born in Uganda. Does that make him an African-American? Yes.
The NYT’s posted the information on Mamdani’s college application from hacked data. True. So it is a legitimate argument to question the NYT’s using it.
Your problem, George-svelaz is that where integrity is concerned, I hold the high ground. You barely qualify as a fool. Anytime you want a real debate based on fact, go ahead. I’ll be here.
Where you are born is irrelevant when it comes to what your race is. That is why it’s sarcasm claiming that Elon Musk is African-American
if you’re black, you’re race is black got us to where you were born. African-American doesn’t have anything to do with people that were born in Africa that become American citizens
African-Americans are Americans who trace their lineage back to the slave trade in order to keep their ties to Africa . If your ancestors came to the US through slavery and you were black, then you Are considered African-American.
And Obama was not African-American Since he didn’t trace his roots back through slavery. Even worse, he completely ignored The fact that he was half white, obviously for political reasons
It is not illegal to publish stolen information as long as you did not participate in the theft you are simply trying to make an excuse and deflect away from the fact that it’s a negative story.
All of the tax information for Bezos and others was stolen from the IRS and the mainstream media couldn’t stop posting all the data and I didn’t hear one person complained that it should’ve been printed because it was stolen
“so what you’re saying”
I am saying that you are ignorant and a fool. Opinions are not facts and almost always your opinions are moronic. Learn the difference between fact and opinion. Then provide your facts so we can deal with them.
Turley is an expert in his field, something you do not appreciate. He provides you free space to act like a fool, and you do not disappoint.
Go away and get your own blog, loser.
Or maddami simply doesn’t understand the American denotation of black or African American. He’s not too bright.
There are stranded Americans on that island.
He was born in Africa. Uganda IS in Africa. Since he is a naturalized citizen and therefore an American, he is literally an African American. Elon Musk is an African American. People born in Egypt and are U.S. citiizens ARE African-Americans. Because Egypt IS part of Africa.
The term “African-American” literally applies to anyone who was born within the continent. Even Arabs from Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, etc.
Because the application offerd the option of “Black OR African-American” he obviouly and correclty checked that box. Therefore it’s not a lie.
Go away and get your own blog, loser.
What it proves is Mandami didn’t understand the question or he was trying to play the race card.
And worse…bunk
Nobody, legitimately calls, Elon Musk anAfrican-American. It’s done simply to show how ridiculous it is
The question wias check your race. His parents were Asian. He’s Asian. Also, this was on a college application, so I’m not sure he was actually an American citizen at the time.
And Why is there a difference between black and African-American. The term African-American is supposed to be restricted to blacks Who traced their lineage back to African slavery?
It’s not illegal to publish stolen or hacked information as long as the paper was not involved. They certainly have no problem writing stories if it involves stolen Or leaked information if it’s negative against Trump or any Republicans
And yes, you are missing the big picture which is that you’re Objecting to a legitimate new story in finding reasons why the times should not have published it. The fact that they had to write a letter justifying why they publish the article is a insult to journalism
It’s amazing how often the left is not aware of a legitimate news story because they don’t read anything outside their Bubble.
Their response is usually that must be a Fox News lie when confronted with actual facts that they are simply not aware of
He’s an African American like Musk is an African America.
*. So madamny is a citizen of Uganda and a naturalized citizen of the United States? That isn’t the common usage of African American. Perhaps madamny doesn’t know that.
Most people don’t fill out that section. It’s just publicity. It doesn’t matter what kind of publicity. Madamny identifies as Ugandan? He was playing the race card? His ethnicity is Ugandan and not east Indian by culture, And a jihadist by religion.
Hacked computers? By an investigative journalist. Maybe a PI got the info. Are his medical records hacked? Always pay cash and use a false name.
Thank you HAL
“This blog is literally a MAGA echo chamber.”
Is it?
You’ve never seen some of us vehemently disagree about a Trump policy (e.g., tariffs)?
Apparently, you have problems with reading comprehension.
TL;DR: Mamdani, a Communist, lied.
Hardly surprising
Benjamin Ryan is yet another example of how the Left, just like atheists, are loyal to no one. Their post-modernist, moral relativist leanings are their only rubric in life, self-referential as it is. Like Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown, atheists arguments are untethered to scholarly arguments because they are “mind-numbingly technical quer(ies)”, as Justice Amy Comey Barrett wrote of Justice Jackson for ignoring the “Judiciary Act of 1789 and SCOTUS cases on equity.”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf
They cant be bothered with intellectual pursuits, scholasticism nor consensus building. Meet an atheist and you come across a person who is ungrounded, shoots from the hip, cherry picks science. They are faithful only to their fragile insecure egos
Benjamin Ryan is far different than his NYT peers. He is a well known journalist who has written about his HIV illness to educate readers on the intricacies of HIV drugs, HIV research and public policy. He is also a cancer survivor and has tirelessly exposed the Trans gender cultists as antithetical to women and gays, receiving death threats and a cancel culture. So it is not surprising that his NYT peers, also far left atheists, would skewer Ryan much like they did to Jewess lesbian Bari Weiss. Atheists lack love hence show none to others. Ryan however is used to it much like other well known gay writers like Andrew Sullivan, Bari Weiss, Dave Rubin and Glenn Greenwald. Atheists are infertile, they do not conceive, they do not procreate, because they reflect a culture of death; e.g. abortion, violence, Communism, euthanasia, et al
Ben Ryan is worth getting to know
http://www.benryan.net/bio.html
Estovir absurdly believes that “atheists” are some organized group of people with a belief system and philosophy that is aimed at subverting the natural order of the world.
Atheism is simply a word used by believers to describe those who do not believe in a god.
It is not a word used by non-believers to describe themselves.
Atheism is not a belief or a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to believe in something that is unprovable.
It is worth noting that no one ever needs to identify himself as a non-astrologer or a non-alchemist. Consequently, we do not have words for people who deny the validity of these pseudo-disciplines. Similarly, we do not have a word for a non-racist. The absence of racist views is not a belief system or a philosophy with an organized structure. It is a natural state of being for a normal rational person. There is no “non-racist alliance” anywhere for non-racists to join, in the manner that believers can join a church.
Likewise, “atheism” is a term that should not even exist. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
The atheist is merely a person who believes that the 260 million Americans (eighty-seven percent of the population) who claim to “never doubt the existence of God” should be obliged to present evidence for his existence—and, indeed, for his benevolence, given the relentless destruction of innocent human beings we witness in the world each day.
I do not identify myself as an atheist.The word atheist is a label that believers attach to non-believers because they are incapable of understanding that non-belief is a natural state of being for a normal rational person.
Believers attach this atheist label to create a straw man which they then proceed to attack.
Atheism is not a “thing” except in the eyes of believers.
Atheism is simply the absence of belief.
“Atheism is simply the absence of belief.”
As a non-believer and skeptic, you are dangerously incorrect. I am not an atheist, I just do not believe. I don’t care that others believe. Atheists actively reject belief. It’s a thought system that requires action. Non-believers don’t go to war against believers; atheists do, because they must attack believers in order to justify their own rejection of belief.
Let’s get one thing right: most civilized persons have nothing against atheists who have high moral standards. The question is whether most atheists can demonstrate those standards.
That’s questionable. The Moslem has high moral standards in Iran but not in the US. The moral practices break US laws.
Do you believe in moral relativism? You sound like you do. Are you aware that the moral code of Judaism forms the foundation of both Christianity and Islam? Yet in many cases, people who claim those religions don’t live by that moral code; they follow distortions or radical offshoots instead.
The question is whether most atheists can demonstrate those standards.
Most do not. it is the rare few that can. There is a reason why America’s moral standards no longer exist. No religion, no morals. People of faith have at least some inclination of adhering to a morl imperative. Atheists mostly live for themselves which is to say destroy themselves and society at large. The notion of freedom lived to the fullest means succumbing to passions, gluttony, acedia, etc.
America has fallen because of atheism. St. Augustine of Hippo argued as such about the fall of the Roman Empire in his classic City of God: the Romans abandoned their intellectual roots, their moral codes, their religion of polytheism, borrowed mostly from the Greeks.
Roman religion was practical and contractual, based on the principle of do ut des, “I give that you might give”. Religion depended on knowledge and the correct practice of prayer, rite, and sacrifice, not on faith or dogma, although Latin literature preserves learned speculation on the nature of the divine and its relation to human affairs. Even the most skeptical among Rome’s intellectual elite such as Cicero, who was an augur, saw religion as a source of social order. As the Roman Empire expanded, migrants to the capital brought their local cults, many of which became popular among Romans. Christianity was eventually the most successful of these beliefs, and in 380 became the official state religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome
That I hit a nerve with the atheists on here is a very very good thing. Glad I could help
Estovir, every scientist practices atheism when seeking natural causes for phenomena. “And then Godidit!” is not an acceptable answer.
David, you do not understand the basics of the Torah.
The first story of creation in Genesis, the Elohim account, states that first God separated the light from the darkness. Well, the cosmologists give a scientific account of this separation, some hundreds of thousands of years after the assumed Big Bang.
The second account of the creation, the Yahweh account, is even less coherent.
I sotpped reading at that point.
You stopped reading because you failed to understand. The Torah is not merely a religious text. It laid the moral groundwork from which much of Western law and ethical thought was drawn.
S. Meyer — I was taught rather that it developed from the classical Greek philosophers. Later, for example, Alexandria had 4 quarters; the palace quarter, the Egyptian quarter, the Jewish quarter and the Greek quarter. The government of Alexandria and indeed even Egypt was thoroughly Grecian.
The oldest surviving copy of the Torah and the rest of the Bible is in classical Greek and found in the library at Alexandira.
David, you are insufficiently educated. The Western tradition of law, ethics, morality, and even art derives primarily from two sources: the Jews and the Greeks. What you’re likely referring to is the Septuagint, the earliest complete Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Estovir
Actually, the real question is whether the Catholic church has ever demonstrated any moral standards.
From the Inquisition, to the Crusades, to the abuse of unmarried mothers and death of their babies in Ireland, the catholic church has been perhaps the greatest cause of human misery, suffering and death in all of history.
The Catholic church is the most evil organization ever to have existed in all of humanity.
Perhaps the most evil of all is Mother Theresa.
This woman claimed to be a “friend of the poor”.
Actually, she was a “friend of poverty”
She was single handedly responsible for more misery and poverty in India than can possibly be imagined. She used to point to the orphanages she ran, and claim that this is how she fought against contraception and abortion. If she really wanted to relieve suffering in India she would have been PROVIDING contraception.
It has been shown repeatedly around the world in poor countries that the single greatest method of relieving poverty and suffering is to empower women by allowing them to control their own child bearing.
She pointed to the primitive medical clinics that she ran, which were really just hospices, and said that suffering is a gift from god.
However, when she herself needed medical care, she flew on a private jet to expensive private clinics in California, all paid for by the likes of Charles Keating, architect of the Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud.
She was close friends with the infamous Haitian dictator Duvalier, who gave her millions of dollars that he had stolen from his impoverished nation.
Estovir’s pedantic recitation of the ancient history of the Roman Empire and the writings of ancient philosophers is beyond absurd. If you think that your high minded recitation of these absurdities bears any relevance to modern life, then you are completely out of your mind.
Nope, no cigar. Atheism is belief in the negative of the positive God creation or gods.
Integers once again. It’s the reason for 1A. The negative interp or hostile to religion directly or indirectly protection of atheist laws just isn’t there. If they are then it’s overreach. Gay marriage is hostile to religious people meaning its an overreach and unions of 2 producing people of offspring is census only having nothing to do with religion. A marriage license intends offspring of 2. Why do old non producers marry? Unknown to me as they will not produce. Draw up a contract with powers of attorney and mixed property, atheist. No problem partner.
“Estovir absurdly believes that “atheists” . . .”
That’s one of his favorite ad hominem attacks: smear by random association. That and his childish, hostile speculations about a person’s psychology.
Both are confessions of intellectual impotence.
Estovir, your brand of moral relativism is not a part of the political system except no one can interfere with your dream of theocracy which is the exact reason for 1A. 1A protects democracy. Please feel free to live your dream while understanding it can’t come true. Move to Iran? OH, they’re brand of theocracy isn’t your brand relatively speaking.
Now let’s look at criminal and civil law.
“Like Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown, atheists arguments . . .”
Uh, she’s a Christian.
The rest of your smear-filled comment is equally accurate.
“The problem is that once readers become accustomed to an echo chamber, exposure to opposing facts triggers rage.”
Don’t look for these traditionally leftist news outlets to suddenly become objective or neutral….We are dealing with a Confederacy, complete with Politburo [the ONE honest thing the Biden-Admin proudly called themselves], Brown Shirts (rioters), and Marxists.
When a Cult-Confederacy is subsuming and perverting legitimate routes of information, via propaganda, there will be hazing and/or punishments. And especially, there will be lies.
Mamdani’s first, biggest, and worst LIE?—He’s a “democrat.”
Whatever Mamdani says, no matter how true it may sound, he represents a religion in which lying is encouraged and expected of those who are commanded to “mount the West.” Democrats, wake up!
Mr Turley, Please concentrate on this some Sir.
Operation Sentinel Shield
https://rumble.com/v6vktzx-americ… (https://rumble.com/v6vktzx-america-on-high-alert-sitrep-07.01.25.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a)
MonkeyWerxUS has been telling us for weeks, “ISR” flights in the Western side of America. 1+1 is always 2
***WHAT’S HAPPENING***
PQTUS+++ needs to move on the cartels being used by glo-BAAL-ists to attack America. 3 standing armies {chinese, muslham, hispanic} imported by Clintons, Bush’s, Biden have been activated. This has been planned for decades. For blackhats to succeed America can’t be America…..
What you didn’t hear happened, California & Texas, in broad daylight.
FEDERAL VEHICLES DESTROYED — GLOBALISTS UNLEASH PHASE ONE OF BORDER COLLAPSE TO TRAP TRUMP INTO FOREIGN INTERVENTION
In Texas….
Kinetic Weather Modification used to murder Children in Texas, NO OTHER Explanation needed. IF further explanation is needed, YOU are the problem.
Meanwhile in California….
What happened today in California wasn’t protest. It was a synchronized strike on U.S. sovereignty. Two federal SUVs ripped apart in broad daylight—one on Atlantic Boulevard, another on Slauson Avenue—by masked mobs moving with military precision, radios in hand, knives drawn, livestreaming every step to encrypted agitator channels. The message wasn’t subtle: the war against Trump’s border forces has gone kinetic.
At 11:36 a.m., a Border Patrol transport was ambushed by a ramming vehicle. The agent inside barely had time to react before tires were slashed and cameras rolled. Thirteen minutes later, a second strike—T-bone hit, flash-mob swarm, vehicle dropped to its rims. Within minutes, Special Ops arrived, crowd neutralized, one key agitator arrested—carrying prepaid phones, a bundle of $100 bills, and foreign cash markers. His silence speaks volumes.
This wasn’t random. It was planned. LAPD aerials caught V-formations, strategic retreats, regroup signals, and city council members arriving just in time for “witness statements.” Cudahy’s mayor claims she was nearly hit. But who told her when to show up?
The real answer lies beneath the streets—stash houses and safe hubs controlled by “Nueva Sangre,” a Sinaloa breakaway cartel faction using fentanyl cash to fund domestic chaos. Their staging areas masquerade as community centers. Out front: water bottles and volunteer check-ins. Out back: crowbars, spike strips, and pallets of bricks. DHS flagged these weeks ago, but warrants were stalled—conveniently—by city bureaucrats aligned with “equity” nonprofits.
Federal records show a 500% spike in attacks on ICE in the last year. Not coincidence—coordination. Soros-backed NGOs like Sunrise Initiative LLC fund the chaos, routing millions through Luxembourg shells to pay for signage, legal teams, encrypted group chats, and real-time police movement maps leaked by compromised insiders. The agitators knew exactly where to hit. And when.
Their goal is simple: break the federal defense grid, provoke Trump into deploying military force, spin it as authoritarianism, then demand UN intervention. The globalists aren’t hiding it anymore. At Davos, they called for “border transformation” by 2026. That means biometric tracking, CBDC wallets, and global ID systems disguised as humanitarian reform. But they need one thing first—total collapse of U.S. border enforcement.
Trump saw it coming. That’s why he signed Emergency Order 27-A last week, authorizing full military-federal jurisdiction override. CBP Special Ops now coordinate directly with National Guard, bypassing sanctuary city sabotage. Secretary Noem made the rules crystal clear: assault a federal agent, and face maximum prosecution. No plea deals. No political favors. No sanctuary loopholes.
Meanwhile, Trump’s team is finalizing Operation Sentinel Shield: real-time tracking of agitator convoys using Space Force LEO satellites and AI-tagged aerial surveillance. Airships above border cities. Joint raids on “community centers” posing as charity fronts. And when indictments drop, they won’t just hit the streets—they’ll hit the funders. Rothschild-linked NGOs. Silicon Valley barons. WEF alumni laundering chaos through activist trusts.
This is no longer about immigration. It’s battlefield prep for digital enslavement. Break borders now, and they’ll lock the globe tomorrow—with retina scans, state-backed tokens, and foreign troops standing on American soil.
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The news business is just that and a failing one.
Opinion is now news for too many.
The nyt has long existed on a fake reputation.
It’s always been one sided propaganda
‘Many of us still hope that the Times and papers like the Washington Post will still reject advocacy journalism and move back toward objective journalism.’
Not going to happen, that ship has sailed. The destruction wrought by those the torch was passed to is likely irreversible, and that is fine with them such is their insularity; many are privileged enough the money is of no great concern, either. Pravda dies with regimes, Pravda is what they are now, and it’s too late to backtrack, no sane person will ever trust them again. Best to let it go and create for the future.
The modern left en masse don’t think so, but they aren’t a particularly wise or insightful bunch; they are the dinosaurs clutching to pearls of a status quo, and nothing is more chilling to them than real equality and the metric of their privilege becoming irrelevant, no different than the robber barons, slave owners, segregationists, and despots that preceded them.
What we are seeing is their panic-fueled desperation, not realizing their immolation has been self-induced, but they aren’t great at personal responsibility, either. We are only at the beginning, but I think their age of false- supremacy and entitlement is definitely ebbing.
James,
I believe you are right, that ship has sailed. The only way I see any real change is they lose so much readership, they go bankrupt, get sold, fire all the current so-called journalists and emerge as a new outlet with real journalists. Just like MSNBC and CNN have been spun off from their parent company, their relevance is growing less and less.
Not so sure about that “age of false- supremacy and entitlement is definitely ebbing.” I would only point to Mamdani winning the primary as an example. The actual election could prove me wrong.
@Upstate
I say that because collectively, in 2025, NYC is densely populated by people just like him – it’s very insular, to the point people there no longer realize they live in a stagnant bubble (the Professor alludes to this in other contexts). They will fail and wonder what happened while the a great many of us spent our time shifting, steeling ourselves, and moving forward.
And personally I think their brands are too toxic in and of themselves now for any reorganization to matter. I agree they have ridden on coattails of reputation, think themselves an institution, but will discover at the end of the day they are just businesses, and businesses (in a free market, without government assistance) can fail at any time.
Just my opinion. And I agree – this is just the start, so time will tell.
They need to reform or simply shut down the journalism schools as well. Stop the pipeline.
Neither the NYT nor the WaPo can revert to actual journalism now. Their more conservative readership left eons ago for other news sources and their lefty readership will abandon them if they start reporting real news. Look what happened to the WaPo when it didn’t endorse Kamala Harris: 200,000 subscriptions were cancelled.
While I agree with Professor Turley’s pointing out the irrational reactions of NY Times’ staff and readers, I do not agree with the premise that there is evidence that Mamdami lied about anything. Though, for many reasons, he would be a horrible person to manage NYC, with plans and ideas even worse than de Blasio, what did he lie about?
I rarely even attempt to fill out those stupid forms, as they typically confuse race with ethnicity, ethnicity with citizenship or nationality, and religion with philosophical beliefs. If you look up racial classifications, you won’t even find ‘White’ as an option. For example, I believe that my racial classification is the Armenid subspecies of the Caucasoid or Europid race.
What boxes should Mamdami have checked? According to the US Census Bureau, if your parents are born in India your race would likely be classified as Asian, specifically South Asian or Asian Indian. So, that was checked correctly. For ‘other information’, he allegedly checked “Black or African American”. Putting these 2 choices together as one alternative makes it even more confusing. If they just wanted to know your race, they would have only provided “Black’ as an option. But, by including ‘African American’ , the implication is they are no longer centered only on race, but also national origins, separate from race.
This whole story is indicative of the problems with identity and identity politics. Let’s stick with Martin Luther King’s, content of character.
This is silly. “Black or African-American” is expressing the same racial category in different terms, probably for fear of offending some political sensibilities by using only one of the terms. It would be absurd for a white South African immigrant to check that box.
Mamdani lied, most likely to get an advantage in the admissions process. It’s not that complicated.
And the NYT went with the story because Momdani is a big problem for Democrats. Their opposition to him is in service of wider Democratic aims, which could be thwarted if the party becomes even more identified with the anti-Israel woke left.
I used to be a consistent reader of the NYT. I dumped it as their Russiagate and general Trump coverage became unhinged, and their coverage of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings spiralled out of control. And what I later saw of their coverage of Covid and the George Floyd riots further demonstrated their unwillingness to maintain traditional journalistic standards.
I too gave up on the NYT years ago. But Black and African American are definitely not the same category. There are many students, at Universities who might identify as Black from places like Nigeria or Barbados, for example, who definitely are not African American uf they are not U.S. citizens.
It’s a racial category. Anyone who is Black counts, no matter where they are from. Some Blacks are also African American. But in no way would a white citizen of South African origin count — it is not a geographical category. And Mamdani, who is not Black, did not count, even though he spent his early years in Africa. He lied, most likely to get an advantage in the admissions process.
What does one call an Israeli citizen who is black and earns American citizenship?
Right. Can you imagine the NYT’s consternation if Mamdami had checked the ‘white’ box!
I always check the Most American box just to be sure .. . can’t be too careful these days.
If things take a turn for the worse @ NYT for Mamdami, Sec. Noam can now deport him to the Sudan. Just to be sure.
While I’m unclear about the content of Mamdami’s character, I’m confident his ‘Marxist’ tendencies (h/t Turley) to control the ‘means of production’ will not succeed in the long run. .. for the most part, China already owns the means of production.
*we still control prostitution, loan sharking and weapons of war (maybe!).. . but that can’t last forever.
Simple
“What boxes should Mamdami have checked?” – OTHER or just have left the Question Blank ______.
Sorry, but Reese has nothing to do with where you were born. Since his parents were Asian, he should have checked Asian
Black is a race and African-American is a silly critically correct term that applies to blacks in America who traces their roots to the slave trade. Therefore anybody who is black, but becomes an American citizen doesn’t become an African-American
A black person born in Asia, who becomes an American citizen under your theory, would be Asian American. That makes no sense
The NYTs actually printed facts?? Facts that were not a sop to the prog/left. This is apostasy at its worst!!!! Those involved must face the trial by fire, or at least by water; and if they survive they must wear a big scarlet T for truth on their jackets so people will know what they did.
Stupid comment. Quit trying so hard to be smart. You are not. Never will.
Try saying that while looking into a mirror next time, freak.
A tempest in a teacup to divet attention from The Donald’s assumption of dictatorial powers.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…………….wait, you’re serious?? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
And that is why you fail and continue to fail. You dismiss the clearly obvious issues plaguing leftists and the far left Democrats, such as the lack of objectivity in MSM. That is why trust in MSM is so low as American’s switch them off, cancel subscriptions and opt for Independent media like The Free Press. I am a paying subscriber.
You would have said the same thing about Abraham Lincoln (DICTATOR!) in getting the CONFEDERATES (destroying the Union) under control—desperate times call for serious and unusual measures—but, after some tough-hearted and difficult measures, everything got back to normal…. The same thing is happening today: the demented, extreme-left has created the same dire circumstances (a confederacy, destroying the Union). The “difficult” and unsavory must be done now.
OK david. Now can you prove it?
As one example, USAID.
Another is deployment of California National Guard.
So the president slashing wasteful spending is tyranny?
Please find the budget line for trans operas in Columbia ?
So sending the NG in to put down a riot is tyranny?
The use of soldiers to put down riots starts with our first president
Was Washington a tyrant ?
Tyrany is not anything you do not like
It is government that infringes on individual liberty
As does that of the left
dhili: USAID was established and funded by Congress. The President is to faithfully execute the laws, not subvert those.
The Natiional Guard is only to be deployed with the concurrence of the governor. That what the law states. Once again King Donald ignored it.
Dustoff, I provided examples but my comment was suppressed.
He says this on a public forum. Presumably using his real name. Guess this is the last time we hear from old David. Enjoy working in The Donald’s gold mines!
Really it just shows how unserious these kooks are. Real resistance members risk death. You just risk a (deserved) humiliation.
What powers is trump asserting that are not lawful
That other presidents have not done
A dictator is not defined as someone who that’s your tyrany
It is a treat watching the Left destroy itself. Leftists can’t help it, that’s the funny part. They do the same self-defeating stuff over and over, and not just in the US but in Europe as well. As the Fugs song goes, “Roll on, roll on, River of Shit.” Of course the Fugs were reporting on the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, which was so polluted it caught on fire, but the anaology holds. Same old shit! Make some popcorn and enjoy the show.
Imagine thinking, “Hey, this Madmani guy has got it right.” lololol. How “educated” need you be to come to that conclusion?
Look, there is a growing number of people that hate winning and what winning looks like (normal white people). Despite thousands of years of history, these racists who hate white people are easily manipulated to believe that their green pastures (er, pockets to be lined (pastures require planning and effort)) are simply a charlatan away. How can they be so sad after 8 years of obamma? lolol, suckers.
Look, there is no diversity benefit, wake TF up.
*. “There is no diversity benefit” , anon says.
A takeaway to think about. Noted.
“Your absolute abrogation of the NYT standards . . .”
So to report a fact violates the paper’s standards.
What, then, are those “standards?”
Sam,
They wont tell you or they cannot tell. And even if they did, it would be something about advocacy, systemic racism, DEI, or some other word salad nonsense.
*. The curators at the Smithsonian know the standards.
The old Gray Lady died decades ago and was never replaced. The NY Times today is a “concierge” newspaper, kept alive by a diminishing readership of kindred spirits about to do themselves in. The rest of the country and the Conservatives among us are rooting for Mamdani to finally put a bow on New York City’s funeral wreath. To live in NYC one must be uber-poor or uber-rich, with the latter able to move out quicker than their poorer cousins trapped by location. As the wealthy leave, they will take their wealth with them and the city will lose its tax base. Look for Wall Street and the big brokerage houses to relocate, too. COVID taught America and the world that location is meaningless in an age when I can run my Fortune 500 company from my laptop atop Mt. Chamonix, if I wish to. Once NYC hits bottom (and there’s not far to go), things may improve if enough sensible people are left or are willing to return. Until then, it’s all yours, Mamdani. Since everything in the city is run so well and so efficiently, I can’t wait to shop at those city-owned grocery stores. I hope you allow them to sell Ice. 🙂
JJC,
Well said. The smart ones are the ones getting out of the city NOW! Both businesses and people. The writing is on the wall.
If you are older like me, you can easily conjure up videos of Russians waiting in horrendous lines for a kilo of sugar at the USSR grocery store. Just wait until this clown Mamdani gives New Yorkers the DMV treatment to buy their Zig Zag papers at the hot, new, local city-run Seven-Eleven.
*. A gem in the middle of your comment, jjc–> those with money have greater mobility. Yes, and can mean the difference between life and death.
Everyone in the nation will soon be supporting the failed NYC. As a compare and contrast take a virtual tour of Japan’s train system. NYC may as well be Bangladesh.
This story reminds me of the propaganda spewed by any tyrannical regime. North Koreans did not know men landed on the moon! Liberal readers are not suppose to know facts, just propaganda in support of their preferred mindset.
This is just more of the cultural Marxism takeover of the mainstream media, where objective facts take a back seat (way, waay back) to subjective ‘what feels good,man’ (aka your chosen narrative).
So let’s see. He sought to explain his “complex” family history which is not complex at all and is really somewhat pedestrian. Parents are both Indian and he was born in Uganda and lived there 5 years then moved to South Africa for 2 years then moved to the New York area and his entire education after age 7 was upper northeast and he has lived in NY ever since. OK.
My Family was of Scottish, Irish, English, French ancestry and they all hated each other and were constantly at war with each other. My mother-in-law spoke only German till 12 and one great grandmother spoke only French and her son (my grandad) was bilingual. Later we added Taiwan and Portugal to the fold.
By the age of 8, I had made 2 transits of the Pacific Ocean, and 1 of the Atlantic Ocean in US Army Transports, lived on 3 continents of Asia,N. America, and Europe. Flew over the Atlantic from Frankfort, Germany to Washington D.C. in a C54 4 engined prop medical flight in 1956. I Lived in Yokohama Japan, San Luis Obispo, Ca., Mainz, Kaiserslautern and Mannheim, Germany, Atlanta and Augusta, Ga., Houston and Dallas Tex, Cities in Illinois and Indiana. Education was Atlanta & Augusta, Ga and then Houston Tex. My family were not privileged by any stretch of the imagination and many were outright poor. One uncle went to college and no one else prior to my generation. Spare me this somewhat pedestrian life of this mayoral candidate and somewhat narrow outlook. I am not impressed.
I am sure there are readers of this column who have done more and lived more places than this candidate.
I have had patients, friends, colleagues who have been even further afield and done far more in more places elsewhere than me and are of all sorts of ethnicities and races spanning 5 continents including staffing hospitals in Kenya and medical outreach in Haiti and other places in the Caribbean and South America.
New York is not the center of the world or even of the US and it grows less important day by day.
Is the New York Times even relevant any more with a view that seems to only encompass the 5 Boroughs.
You left out how his ancestors came to Uganda as tools of colonial oppressors. Mamdani’s ancestors no doubt inflicted great harm on the poor Ugandans.
By today’s “standards”, he is “diverse” and “historic” while you are just a redneck white colonizer from flyover country.
True
But the question is whether he is a liar
*. My goodness GEB, good that you’re here! In your late 80s? 90? A pleasure to meet you.
🤔
Anonymous 10:45 AM – Your math skills are deficient
4 boroughs. Staten Island hasn’t lost its marbles
@GEB
‘I am sure there are readers of this column who have done more and lived more places than this candidate.’
Oh, I feel perfectly confident that is true for literally all of us. This kid is a low IQ Tutankhamun crossed with Che Guevara. He was groomed and placed. If NYC has truly repopulated with the level of stupid required to elect such a candidate, at some point you have to just step away and let them fail.
All I can say is: thank goodness for states’ rights and separation of powers. And hold the line in other states if you become deluged by the fallout.
Years ago the Times and most of its audience chose to live by lies rather than the truth. Now, a tiny and almost insignificant bit of truth comes out of the Times, and the audience feels betrayed.
Surely this is not a surprise at the Times.
Then there’s Fox.
Fox has been more critical of Trump in one month than the mainstream was during the entire Biden coma.
Nothing like the NY slime.