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If there were a Public Editor, she/he would dig into this story— and see who is telling the truth.

Lacking a Public Editor, NYT really needs its leaders, many of whom are former student journalists, to say more about provenance of this very damaging "Harvard bending the knee" report.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Yup bsky.app/profile/elkm...

The weasely way the headline is phrased - "is said to be" - is eyebrow raising now that we have the backstory about where this sourcing came from bsky.app/profile/jfal...

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

RIGHT?!??? get some damn political instincts and stop trying to appeal to "better nature" with "pay your fair share" shit. Humans have no better nature. It's FUCK THESE WASTRELS that suck the life out of you! Pretty basic stuff! (And now we're back to how our party won't listen because "uncouth")

I was so pissed off when Biden kept the vast bulk of that shit after spending all trump 1 bitching about how fucking stupid you had to be to do them in the first place. I looked like a fucking idiot bc "Dems would never leave that stupid shit in place."

lol, lmao even

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

I mean, Conor SEN thinks nobody reads books in the future so

the human brain is absolutely incredible at adapting

it deals with the abnormal by rapidly making it normal

no matter how much you tell yourself the Nazi soup isn’t changing you, your brain is churning away in the background normalizing it until it doesn’t bother you as much as it should

Hard same

I walked away from over 100k followers and you can do it too, I promise

Genuinely do not understand why people spend literally any amount of time on X these days

You are not immune to propaganda and it’s not even *good* propaganda. You’re just cooking your brain in Nazi slop

But Micah, there a SUPPLY PROBLEM.

Clearly somebody with no kids. My three devour every single YA they can get their hands on and it's still only a drop in the YA bucket

LMAO that ANYONE ever took this stupid piece of shit seriously

This follow-up is even better

Good lord, please touch grass and don't spend your whole day cooking your brain on Twitter.

Who knew that the one Dem politician that had so m enough ambition to correctly read the political moment would be... Hochul.

kathy hochul correctly reading the political moment and going hard on Fuck Republicans was not on my political bingo card but I'm not mad about it

Same in Minnesota - the constant threat to leave for... South Dakota. LMAO have fun with that, don't let the door hit you on the way out

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

Liz Warren to her absolute credit shows up on CNBC and is willing to call everyone a stupid piece of shit in a way that even Bernie would refrain from

This reminds me that during the 20 primary a good friend of mine was like BIDEN ALL THE WAY and when I said he's old as shit he was like whatever it's fine and then a year ago he was like BRO DID YOU KNOW HE'S OLD AND SHOULD RESIGN?!!?

Genuinely kept waiting for Biden to go full blitz about all the shit he did and the fucker just... Didn't. Depressing and bleak as shit to watch in real time, even worse malpractice in retrospect.

I know a guy who was on the call when somebody asked about putting gas turbines at the old Indian point nuclear site and there was genuine laughter on the line

Yeah, as somebody also in the industry, the politicians are like “we’re gonna Frack our way to cheap gas powered energy for AI” and the actual fracking, pipeline, utility, etc. guys in the room are like “lol. Lmao, even.”

It's easy as shit to do vs literally anything else!

it's very funny that the Trump admin wants to go all in on AI buildout and energy dominance but also double down on CO2 conventional energy when it takes longer and costs more than renewables at this point