Mastodon MigrationDid you know that ICE pepper sprayed a sitting US Senator yesterday?
Not if you get your news from the New York Times, you don't.
Oh, and did you hear Senate Minority Leader, and neighboring state senator, Chuck Schumer's, outraged response and rallying cry in support for his collegue? (/sarcasm)
No? Not yet?
What's up Chuck?
McWabbit 🇺🇦🍋🌻🍉@mastodonmigration Instead of Secret Hitler, Secret Republican?
Not there is any difference anymore nowadays.
ChloChloaca
KimIsn't Andy the same Senator that cleaned up all the insurrectionist's shit after J6?
Fucking fascists.
Swisstxlady@QueenOfTheCroneAge @mastodonmigration That’s right.
Toni Aittoniemi@mastodonmigration Makes it pretty clear ICE ain’t loyal to the US government, if a senator is just cannon fodder. Don’t you think?
uname -a 🇻🇦🍉
Hot Dog Water, roilingLookit that dirty lonely cross-armed Nazi pod on the side of his warm milk truck, posturing like he's any kind of man. Sees a camera and puffs up. What a chump, who went back to his solo Hilton hotel room after beating-up citizens for money, and painted the bedspread with his lonely tears and a lot of 'loneliness epidemic' issues.
Your mom hates you, 'roid baby. And no woman will ever touch you, without being a doctor while trying to save you bleeding-out on her table.
Emilion@mastodonmigration
"fascism
noun
A system of government marked by:
*centralization of authority under a dictator,
*a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls,
*violent suppression of the opposition,
*and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. "
"fascism
noun
A system of government marked by:
*centralization of authority under a dictator,
*a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls,
*violent suppression of the opposition,
*and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. "
Rdecartes@mastodonmigration Nihil novi hic est. Caligula nec ipse senatoribus pepercit
vivo
Jeri Dansky@mastodonmigration
USA Today had more coverage than the NYT (looking at the NYT article cited by @vivo):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/25/andy-kim-pepper-sprayed-after-visiting-new-jersey-ice-detention-center/90255993007/
USA Today had more coverage than the NYT (looking at the NYT article cited by @vivo):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/25/andy-kim-pepper-sprayed-after-visiting-new-jersey-ice-detention-center/90255993007/
@jeridansky
1. The OP claimed: “Not if you get your news from the New York Times, you don't.” So the link just showed that the claim is wrong.
2. At least looking at the word count the NYT piece is longer. Though it spends fewer words on senator Kim.
I am not a US citizen. I really do not get the hate the NYT regularly gets. I sometimes find articles stupid or even outright wrong, but in general it is the best window into American life and politics I have found.
@vivo The NYT piece had one sentence about Kim, who wasn't mentioned or referred to in the headline: "Senator Andy Kim, who was trying to de-escalate the situation, was among those affected."
The USA Today piece had nine paragraphs about Kim (if I counted correctly) who was referred to in the headline with the mention of a senator. If you want to know any detail about Kim's experience, including quotes from him, the USA Today piece has that info and the NYT does not.
I have zero wish to get into a discussion about the pros and cons of the NYT. I was just pointing out a single story where there's considerably more info elsewhere.
(And please take up any further grievances with the OP, not me.)
🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦> I really do not get the hate the NYT regularly gets.
The NYT is hated by the right for not kneeling to Trump to orally service him.
The NYT is hated by what passes for the left in the USA for kneeling to Trump to orally service him.
That perspective shift is interesting to me.
James Cridland@mastodonmigration I’m no apologist for the New York Times, but the narrative of “BUT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA” is tiring, and inaccurate. Support the media who report this stuff. Including - yes - the New York Times.
Nonsense. The complicity of the New York Times in this catastrophe is a major issue, and the fact that they buried what is a huge story in the middle of another story a day later does not win them any points. In fact, it is even worse, because they effectively normalize these actions by giving them such light treatment. If Lindsay Graham had been pepper sprayed during a Biden administration it would be front page news for a month.
@mastodonmigration You’re clearly reading a different “failing” New York Times to me.
I wasn’t there; but my reading of that matter is that a senator was directly inserting himself in the way between ICE and protestors; and I don’t see a suggestion that “he was sprayed”, rather that he was affected by the pepper spray being sprayed, which is a rather different thing. I don’t know. Nor do you.
Anyway - once more, journalists and media people who are reporting this, in any fashion, deserve your support. It’s lazy to claim they didn’t cover it when what you really mean is “they didn’t cover it in a way that I would have liked”.
Nope. We should demand better from the paper of record. Giving short shift to such atrocities is not enough and it is not OK.
Chubbypunk@mastodonmigration @james maybe, i wasn’t there.
but it‘s for shure not correct to say that nyt didn‘t wrote about. Btw: the date is one day before. And the center thing should be the circumstances in the can. That they pepper a guy (why are there no pictures, if it was filmed?) who‘s privileged to do something. It‘s a nice „look, ice goes against the own government“, but not more.
but it‘s for shure not correct to say that nyt didn‘t wrote about. Btw: the date is one day before. And the center thing should be the circumstances in the can. That they pepper a guy (why are there no pictures, if it was filmed?) who‘s privileged to do something. It‘s a nice „look, ice goes against the own government“, but not more.
purple: licenced to sticky plaster@james @mastodonmigration I will not support my own elimination.
Polly Marquette@mastodonmigration I do get some news from the New York Times, and I would draw your attention to the fourth paragraph of this story: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/nyregion/sherrill-ice-delaney-hunger-strike.html
Talk about burying the lede!
@mastodonmigration Did they, though? Isn't the bigger story the one in the headline and the subhead: the protest itself and the classic overreaction by authorities? He was in the crowd, evidently not singled out by the goons the way Alex "Jose" Padilla famously was.
@mastodonmigration Thank you for engaging. I value your content and perspective.
Sterling
Eric“There is NO hunger strike at Delaney Hall. There are no subprime conditions,” he added.
And there is NO war in Ba Sing Se!
Lats (314 ppm)@mastodonmigration Murdock press? It’s just not news worthy.