Varun Krishnan

Metal music, anime, PS5, football - need to get a bit of all of these everyday. Oh and of course food.

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[Varun Krishnan @Varun94RM]

@janufooty

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California.

The goal is to replace governments with for-profit companies.

We investigated how Thiel's scheme is already reshaping democracy across the world.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

Funny how some teams get asked about football… and others get asked to explain the world.

Shoutout to the Iran team for carrying that weight.

#WorldCup #Iran

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi @NYTimesPR, thanks for responding. Appreciate it. I'm a subscriber and I think some of your reporters do some great reporting.
Just to respond to your response to my post:
1) There were no facts "misstated" by me. You cited three examples in response. Only one of them was about specific *named* GOP House members (and it wasn't from "yesterday", it was from a year ago.) So I stand by my post.
2) As others have pointed out already, none of the 3 articles you cited have the names of any GOP individuals in the titles ("Right-Wing Republicans" "a Kansas Republican" "G.O.P. Fingerprints"), in comparison to your original "Who is Darializa" takedown piece. Where is your "Who is Brandon Gill" or "Who is Keith Self" or "Who Is Randy Fine" or "Who Is Mary Miller" critical profile pieces? How about "Who is Tom Emmer," given the GOP House Majority Whip just a few days ago spewed racist crap about Somalis? And where are the Peter Baker tweets summarizing *their* most controversial claims?
3) This isn't a new criticism. Many have made it against your paper for many years; that you go harder on the left than the right, that you even occasionally whitewash the far right. Remember when you had to do a public response in 2017 to a NYT profile that went super soft on a... Nazi? https://t.co/IF6DhTwcrp. Remember when you guys did a softball piece about a far-right, Islamophobic Trump aide's love for cooking? https://t.co/dp0Sf9PQg9.
Oh, and dare I ask: where are the fawning 'Trump voters' in diners' equivalent pieces for DSA members in NYC bodegas? Isn't it time?
4) Finally, that your response to my post was to proudly say you guys at the Times have "been documenting the increasingly extreme viewpoints on both sides of the political spectrum" kinda makes my point for me. One side's extreme wants universal healthcare and an end to genocide. The other side's extreme says Somalis are "garbage" and wants "remigration", mass deportations and white supremacy.
But, hey, "Both sides!"

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Let them" - @ZohranKMamdani

[𒋻 @AdiiiFCB]

Will they ask Christian Pulisic or Weston Mckennie what do they think about their country inflicting a genocide in Gaza and bombing Iranian kids? Why are these type of questions always asked to Asians and Africans?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“It’s not conservatives, guys. This is fascism. You can’t reason with these guys. You have to crush them.”

If a liberal or leftist said this about MAGA, they’d be accused by Watters and Fox of trying to incite violence against them. But they can say whatever they want.

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

Surprise, surprise. New reporting from @guardian confirms what fans have long suspected. Sky-high World Cup tickets were not inevitable. FIFA staff pushed for a more affordable ticketing strategy.

FIFA leadership instead made a deliberate business decision to maximize profits with dynamic pricing, even if it meant pricing diehard fans out of a once-in-a-generation experience.

The results have been what you might expect: the most expensive World Cup in history.
https://t.co/8xA2HZXwRY

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Premier Ford justifies spending millions of taxpayers dollars on ‘Protect Ontario’ ads: “if we don’t inform people, the only choice they have is to listen to the media.”

Watch the exchange here:

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Claire Valdez wins the Democratic NY-7 primary and will be the district's next congresswoman.

Claire worked in fast food and at Trader Joe's, and organized a union before seeking office.

She joins a wave of working people entering Congress to fight billionaire power.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

a cool moment -- Kaitlin Collins tells Brad Lander that he won his primary live on air during an interview with him. Lander responds by saying, "I'm thrilled. I did not expect to be on air when the race was called."

[Varun Krishnan @Varun94RM]

@janufooty @bhavseh Hater. That frontline would compete with the BBC.

[Varun Krishnan @Varun94RM]

@janufooty @bhavseh Viní, Mbappé and Félix front 3. Who says no?

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: I asked Premier Ford if he will correct or retract his “fake poll” claim after Angus Reid Institute sent him a legal letter demanding he “correct the public record.”

The survey ranked Ford as Canada’s least popular premier, with his approval at 21%.

[Mahdis Habibinia @mahdishabibinia]

NEW: Members of Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government have posted a photo of a Ford Fest crowd that appears to have been edited to make protesters look like supporters https://t.co/R1zqNXsmH9 via @TorontoStar

[Neil Mehta @neilmhta]

NEW investigation for @WSJ:

- Polymarket is paying scores of offshore clippers to quietly promote its international exchange in the U.S. (though it’s banned from letting Americans trade on the platform)
- Polymarket made dummy websites mirroring its real site, then paid creators to use the fake site and pretend to win thousands.
- Creators altered headlines and used outdated footage to imply they won bets—even when they often lost
- Polymarket paid Adin Ross multiple millions to promote the site

All that and more in my latest story with @ByKLong @ceostroff @brenna__smith

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Premier Doug Ford drowned out by OPSEU protesters blowing whistles and chanting “fair wages”

#onpoli