In 2022, the NYT and Pres. Obama released a 10 year retrospective on the Trayvon Martin case. Astoundingly, they used deceptively edited audio of Zimmerman's 911 call to imply he deemed Trayvon to be suspicious *because* he was black. Listen side by side for the difference. 🧵
What makes this so incredible is that NBC landed in hot water for broadcasting the exact same edit at the time, in 2012. Here's an except from reporting then, describing why the edit was deceptive.

It's not being appreciated just how radical Zohran's expressed views were just a short time ago, and how little he's addressed them. He had a full-on commitment to ending capitalism, defunding police, ending exam schools, "decarceration," and embracing racial conflict. 🧵 This is a thread mostly of tweets, mostly a few years old. Zohran surely has changed in some ways with the political moment.

But I want you to think about the kind of person who says these things. Are they contemplative? Are they collaborative? Are they prone to conflict?

It boggles the mind that in the current epistemic environment the Times would choose to spend down credibility like this.


When the President and his movement lie constantly, it is important to present an alternative source of truth that is reliable, accessible and fair. Whenever the Times publishes a piece that misleads its readers or buries relevant info, they erode trust in that alternative.

Robert Francis Prevost, now Leo XIV, seems to be descended from late 19th century immigrants from Italy and France on his father's side, and from Franco-Spanish Louisianan minor slaveholders on his mother's side. His grandfather is listed as mulatto, black, and white on censuses. His grandfather seems to have been born in the American district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on a trip his parents took from New Orleans. He was recorded as mulatto and then black in postwar Louisianan censuses, but then white after moving to Chicago. Fascinating American story.