An uber-wealthy “anti-capitalist” leftist loon who works for the Pravda press admitted this week to proudly stealing from grocery stores.
Jia Tolentino, a 37-year-old writer for The New Yorker, made the admission during a New York Times-hosted discussion featuring her, Times opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman, and left-wing extremist and Mao-loving cultural Marxist Hasan Piker.
The topic was microlooting, which refers to stealing supposedly “small” items from large corporations like, say, Whole Foods.
The New York Times tacitly endorses crime as a form of protest pic.twitter.com/ZYdJ485o9g
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) April 22, 2026
When Spiegelman mentioned the idea of stealing specifically from supermarkets, Tolentino revealed that she’d already started doing so while buying groceries for one of her Brooklyn neighbors, “Miss Nancy.”
“I’d be getting Miss Nancy all of her groceries, and then I would finish, and I’d be like, oh my God, I forgot four lemons,” she said. “And on several occasions I was like, I’m just going to go back in, grab those four lemons and get the hell out.”
“At the time, I was like, I had not been to Whole Foods. I had a bit more consumer discipline about where I was spending my money then, and I already felt like I was in the hole, even by shopping there. And it certainly felt, in a utilitarian sense, I was like, this is not a big deal,” she added.
Piker, who openly promotes the murder of CEOs, responded by saying how he is “pro stealing from big corporations” on the completely fake, made-up grounds that “they steal quite a bit more from their workers.”
He also alleged that stolen items are just magically “factored in.”
“The lemons that you stole are factored into the bottom line of these mega-corporations regardless,” he said. “And they still end up having increased profit margins, because they no longer have to pay the cashiers that they used to hire, as opposed to this automated system.”
He meant the self-checkout kiosks, some of them AI-powered, that have become increasingly popular in grocery stores:
Pretty soon it’ll be impossible to fool a self checkout machine.
Big groceries around the U.S. are testing AI powered self checkouts that use computer vision to detect any suspicious activity.
Trained off massive amounts of video data and running on an edge server, the neural… pic.twitter.com/zt2S4ZvtU4
— tech.explain (@techexplain1) April 22, 2026
During the discussion, Piker gave a shout-out to so-called “cool crimes.”
“We’ve got to get back to cool crimes like that: bank robberies, stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature,” he said. “I feel like that’s way cooler than the 7,000th new cryptocurrency scheme that people are engaging in.”
The discussion was so radical that even some fellow Democrats cried foul, with one, Jeremiah Johnson, wondering if the Times would be equally OK with people stealing from them by bypassing their annoying paywall.
Johnson also commented on social media about how “damaging” it is for the media to prop up left-wingers like the three stooges who were featured in the Times discussion.
Look:
I assume the NYTimes also thinks bypassing their paywall is just ‘micro-looting’, a brave anti-capitalist act of resistance, since they are a corporation that made hundreds of millions in profit last year https://t.co/Yc5fyq6N4a
— Jeremiah Johnson
(@JeremiahDJohns) April 22, 2026
It is genuinely so damaging to Democratic politics to have idiot shitheads like this putting out “ackshually stealing is good and what we on the left stand for” messaging in the New York Fucking Times. You can pooh-pooh any individual instance, but this sort of thing adds up.
— Jeremiah Johnson
The people involved in this conversation, btw, are millionaires who shoplift purely because they’re emotional children.
I’m a Democrat and I think stealing is a crime, and should remain a crime, and we should punish the people who do it. What a concept.
— Jeremiah Johnson
This isn’t the first time the Pravda press has openly endorsed and promoted illicit behavior.
In 2020, during the deadly Black Lives Matter riots, NPR published a report “in defense of looting.”
From @NPR ‘One Author’s Argument ‘In Defense Of Looting.” https://t.co/48KoMATSkM pic.twitter.com/USGBeDeVBI
— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 29, 2020
