They want to break public schools so they can privatize them.

NERD OUT: Headed to HS of Art + Design’s annual FanFaireNYC comic con event. Student artists side by side with the pros, live drawing, vendors + more. Last one before congestion pricing!

Looks like professional CGI has come to the desktop. Seems like a valuable, marketable skill. But we can’t teach this in NYC middle schools because we don’t have electives, we have lots of math/ELA test prep. instagram.com/reel/C8oswaNN-…

SCANT COVERAGE: You’d think Trump’s proposed takeover of every US school would get wall-to-wall press, but US media DOESN’T cover education. Here is all USA TODAY mustered, omitting Trump’s plot to pay parents to abandon public schools: usatoday.com/story/news/pol… Amy Zimmer Chalkbeat

Carrie Melago I have one of these in my classroom with tons of old 45s/LPs. And I even allow scratching, imagine that.

If the Democratic Party is to become a democratic party, the first job of a new DNC Chair is to get super-PAC money out of Democratic primaries. AIPAC and other billionaire-funded super-PACS cannot be allowed to select Democratic candidates.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug

Important story from the NYT this morning: The President running a crypto operation with largely anonymous offshore investors at a time when he regulates the industry is a huge red flag that you can’t imagine being tolerated by Washington or the public in any other era.

CUOMO BAD FOR SCHOOLS: In 2019, I wrote about the absurdity of Cuomo’s education policy, promoted by billionaire astrourf and resulting in teacher exodus. Called APPR, it tied teacher evaluations to unscientific test scores: citylimits.org/cityviews-alba… WNYC 🎙 Amy Zimmer Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦📚🌈🗽🌹🇨🇱❤️

Rebecca Fishbein 🧵I was born/raised on UWS, priced out by adulthood thanks to 80s gentrification as new luxury condos brought an influx of affluent yuppies despite high crime + homelessness. Grocery stores went “gourmet”. White flight was the norm in 6-12 public schools which served NYCHA kids

Please fix this problem Gale A. Brewer New York City Congestion Department City of New York NYC DOT Projects @[email protected] Robert Jackson westsiderag Mark D. Levine

Hi ChatGPT how much energy would it save annually if your voice chat didn’t add the redundant, unnecessary and superfluous question “let me know if you have any additional questions” to users who already asked it not to waste the energy or time, as we are fully aware. Grok?

9pm tonite! Live Garage Punk in Nyack facebook.com/share/17KXtxX5…

Tomorrow! Live at Otto's Shrunken Head 8:30pm free show with Tober Lions and 60s supergroup The Psychedelicats

The joy of learning

The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens