Shefali S. Kulkarni
- Editor of Digital Storytelling and Training at NYT
- Fluent in GIFs
- Passionate about making our newsrooms look more like the real world
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni"The Post is all of our “we”—the journalists fighting for it, the ones competing against it, those of us in the diaspora, and especially the community that counts on it and the nation that turns to it." Thank you @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- "The trauma has affected each child differently...One of her 4-year-old twins screamed at the sight of someone holding spray-on deodorant, mistaking it for pepper spray...The baby requires nasal drops to fight the effects of the chemicals that inflamed his sinuses." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
- Let's live like Walden. Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r... (by @doriechevlen.bsky.social)
- When he's not competing as a champion show dog, Nick, a Tibetan spaniel, is a therapy dog at a senior living center in Washington. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/s...
- Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care 19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-... (via @19thnews.org)
- Reposted by Shefali S. KulkarniNEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
- New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- This reads like an episode of Brooklyn 99: Mark Anderson, who had been working at a pizzeria, was charged with impersonating an F.B.I. agent. He was trying to free Luigi Mangione from jail and was found to be carrying a pizza cutter along with a barbecue fork. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/n...
- Follow live updates from Minnesota here: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... (Video: The Trump administration is planning to move Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official whose tactics in major American cities have drawn controversy, out of Minneapolis.) www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- Bland colors, AI summaries, and declining literacy rates have lots of us worried that we’re losing our intelligence to the modern world. Can we get it back? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... (Via @vox.com’s Today Explained podcast)
- When the Eaton Fire destroyed Pasadena Rosebud Academy, its executive director focused on keeping her students engaged and her community intact, even without a campus. A year later, enrollment actually increased. 19thnews.org/2026/01/eato... (via @19thnews.org by @nadrakn.bsky.social)
- The five-year-old, Liam Conejo Ramos, and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, were taken to Dilley, Texas, outside of San Antonio, where they are being held at an immigration detention center, according to Marc Prokosch, a lawyer working with the family. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
- The Met Opera announced on Tuesday that it would lay off workers, cut the salaries of its top-paid executives and postpone a new production from its coming season www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/a...
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- The rise of Rupert Murdoch and his media empire. (Via @vox.com’s Today Explained) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
- Claudette Colvin's refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, but her defiance was overshadowed later when Rosa Parks took a similar stand. Local civil rights leaders thought Colvin was too dark-skinned and too poor to win over Montgomery’s Black middle class. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the United States for more than a half-century, said that its board of directors voted to dissolve CPB because Congress cut off its federal money. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/b...
- My reaction to literally all of 2026 so far:
- Zohran Mamdani officially took office as mayor after the New Year’s Eve ball drop, in a private ceremony held at a shuttered relic of the city’s subway. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
- A NYTimes investigation has found that insurers are driving families into homes contaminated by smoke - like those that remained standing after the deadly Los Angeles wildfires. Lab results show how one family was exposed to neurotoxins and carcinogens. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- From @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Indian Americans may now be waking up from the "American Dream" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o... (By @polgreen.bsky.social)
- Over the course of a turbulent year, photographers captured events with intrepidness and determination — even as they so often put themselves at risk. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (via @nytimes.com's incredible photojournalists)
- America is becoming a second home for Hindi comedy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
- New Yorkers: Next month marks the anniversary of congestion pricing. The tolling program, the first of its kind in the U.S., charges most drivers up to $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th St. How has congestion pricing impacted your year? We want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
- Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
- In high-profile Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Los Angeles; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and across Massachusetts, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, compared with a third of immigrants arrested nationwide. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- A raccoon broke into a Virginia liquor store and drank his fill: rum, moonshine, even peanut butter whiskey. Then it passed out on the floor of the bathroom. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
- A 19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- To inform our upcoming guide on how the lives of Americans have changed during this first year of the Trump administration, we want to hear from you. We want to answer your questions about the real-world impact of the Trump policies enacted since Inauguration Day. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
- A powerful podcast episode from Code Switch about how immigrant families at risk of deportation are preparing with "emergency guardianship" to ensure their children are taken care of. www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...
- More people want dedicated space in their home for beverages. Some of these can be as simple as a counter corner with flavored seltzer, or coffee in a bedroom closet and a Diet Coke on tap in the kitchen. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/r... (by @tomatocakes.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- The New York Times is tracking the boat strikes as details become available. The strike locations and casualty figures are drawn from postings by Mr. Trump or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and have not been independently confirmed by The Times. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- I know I am late to this, but I want to share this excellent episode hosted by Wesley Morrris about the birth of American music. Part of the 1619 podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
- Most people who die in prison die alone. Programs like the one at California Medical Facility aim to prevent that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
- A great exploration of the great beautiful black history of Broadway www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- “The purpose of the show is first to show that Middle Eastern and North African people belong to the city” A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social & political artifacts on Middle Easterners & North Africans in the city. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/a...
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- The Trump administration ordered the cuts as the government shutdown leaves air traffic controllers working without pay. Disruptions at major airports appeared limited for now. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
- New programs cannot turn out the numbers needed to make up for the controller shortfall. But they hope to have a higher success rate than the Federal Aviation Agency’s official academy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
- Villagers in Hellesdon, England, are pushing to change the name of the street, but local bureaucracy makes it difficult. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
- “New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant.” Full transcript & video of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social victory speech (via @theguardian.com) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- New York City Mayoral Election Results www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- NYC polls will be open from 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Find your polling place: vote.nyc/page/find-yo... Check your voter registration status: amiregistered.vote.nyc **Remember that your ballot has two sides. Don’t forget to turn it over and vote for the proposals on the back. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
- Reposted by Shefali S. Kulkarni[Not loaded yet]
- “Those who go out of their way to mispronounce it — that’s not a mistake, that’s a message.” [[We know who "people" are. It rhymes with bassists.]] www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- ICE deported 17-year-old Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother. Devastation met them in Guatemala. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
- Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous #Diwali full of lots of light and love!
- The “New York Sari” exhibition at the New York Historical, which runs through April, shines a light on how the garment is more than just fashion. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/s... (by @alisha-hg.bsky.social)
- After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” D'Angelo's genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...
- Some phone numbers no longer worked. Others had escaped Gaza. Some, we learned, had been killed... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- @duolingoverde.bsky.social is going hard
