The Times saw the mayor's people handing out bribes in public last month and refused to write about it till after somebody else broke a related story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
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they must have gotten the big bag with the dollar sign on it
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Reprehensible.
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tells you everything you need to know
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Typical of @nytimes.com editors.
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How many red envelopes did the NYT reporters get?
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What only Elon can bribe voters 🙄
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I wonder if any of the Times people received an envelope?
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That picture of the guy with the money and the envelopes! Two-three days to nail that shit down, tops.
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Legacy media does not give credit to independent media for breaking news first. Their thinking is; it’s only credible news if we write about it.
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Campaign spokesman Shapiro: we absolutely don't do this, anyone who says we do is a dirty liar
Everybody else in the story: oh yeah we do this alright, actually we think it's fine
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They do everything that they can to frame the story around foreign influence to excuse Eric Adams' corruption. It's not
nefarious Chinese involvementwhen Adams is willing to exchange bribes with literally anyone. -
And this crap is why I haven’t so much as looked at a recipe on its website for two years now. @nytimes.com
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Wasnt it a bag of potato chips
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I'm so sick of all the bullshit, and @nytimes.com is just one big example. It pisses me off that they have been so lauded as the #1 Very Serious News Source since before I was born, while being so completely full of shit. Always pro-establishment and pro-war. They normalized Hitler and now Trump.
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I had heard of the red envelope thing, but only in connection with Chinese New Year. Is it really something that happens at other times (including campaign rallies, apparently)?
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Probably so obvious Adams can't win that they're like 'it is whatever'. even though it sure seems to be a crime by a sitting elected official.
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Here’s an explanation from someone who worked on the story:
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Who was that one NYT reporter trying to shame us for not championing the paper? I guess he's probably quit Bluesky by now...
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I'm sure they can tell you why it actually is in accord with the very highest principles of journalism to not print the news.
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John Paxson and Vinny Del Negro involvement confirmed
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Makes me wonder what the Adams administration was possibly giving the Times that made them not report it.
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Journalist: Hey this lady just tried to bribe me openly NYT employees with bulging pockets: Oh... OH yes, bribes, terrible, shocking, you know what I think I saw them handing similar envelopes to OTHER people a while ago
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It had to be. I asked the question yesterday, but it’s telling the Times is now SHOCKED, shocked there are bribes changing hands.
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What?
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Kind of makes me wonder if anyone at the Times was also getting well-stuffed bags of chips, TBH
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I’m sensing a pattern
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Meanwhile if a vendor gave Zohran a free hot dog the NYT headline would be “Mamdani Under Fire For Accepting Tainted Meat Gift From Potential Hamas Agent”
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Its so trashy.
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NYT;DR
New York Times, Didn’t Read
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I didn't know red envelopes even had hands, to say nothing of the ability to change them.
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I see that this hit the cop passive tense - sometimes money just changes hands
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They were lightning-fast to write about Mamdani’s college application, though… from a source who turned out to be a fascist.
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“I’m a little short on cash this week. Can I pay you after the Adams rally?”
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Why no mention of the Chinese woman spy that was ousted from his administration earlier?
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Well, to be fair, they were busy talking to a nazi about getting hacked transcripts from Columbia.
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Adams campaign is every bit of confusing and wild as that one in NC for governor with Republican Mark Robinson.
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Go, take the money and donate it to the Mamdani campaign.
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The bribe masked as a cultural custom “stood out as a bold departure from political norms.” Huh?
