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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith

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Repurposing my T****** bio and pfp so you know it’s really me Joe Lhota fan account. Repeal Hecht-Calandra. NYC DOE parent 2008–present. All content handcrafted _just_ for you and represents my personal opinions only


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Lol

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Losing the support of the handyman for Mrs. Garrett’s gift shop is definitely a signal

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Man the Times of New York __really__ wants Donald Trump to be president

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Yeah, no; McConnell wouldn’t have allowed a temporary replacement, because it was unprecedented. Butler was speedily appointed to Feinstein’s committees without objection

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Not really enjoying the latest daily New York Times game: “How many stories, analyses, columns, and editorials do you have to scroll through before hitting one that isn’t a variant on Hey Biden Aren’t You Listening We Told You To Resign”

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Maybe Biden didn’t call her on her birthday!

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This is utterly impossible to square, sorry!

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when most of his wealth is tied up in the box he lives in, and the value of that box is tied to who can and can’t access its geographically checkpointed public schools

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In completely unrelated news, NYCPS capped its HS admissions kick-off webinar tonight at 1,000 attendees because of belt-tightening. Social media suggests scores of families have been shut out of the event. Good times!

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Going way above and beyond the call with the alt text for this series, who says the humanities are dying

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The New York Times’s week from hell keeps getting worse

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France: Defeats fascists. NYT:

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What kind of electrolytes are they adding to the water cooler over at The N*w Y*rker

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This district has gone from ~90% to 58% white in a little more than a decade and has seen a lot of Momz 4 Liberty activity, seemingly pretty relevant context if 12–13 year-old children are launching coordinated racist and xenophobic attacks on teachers, but the NYT is NOT on it

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Any of the people who were on here scolding anyone who said CP might have prevented this want to recalibrate now that we know he wasn’t a wealthy NJ exurbanite, but a lower middle-class guy living in the Bronx committing registration fraud who had a toll-free route to the murder site?

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Is Jay Caspian Kang on this app, he has to be told about this development

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Thank heavens Kathy Hochul is looking out for the people who drive a 5,000-pound, 18 mpg pickup truck alone into Manhattan for their white-collar jobs and/or to celebrate the 4th of July

nypost.com/2024/07/05/u...

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NYC legacy media reporters who drive have a special license plate that reserves them free street parking in midtown and the financial district and also allows them to park like a cop anywhere else, including when they are on their own time, is how this happens

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They knew exactly what they were doing by printing this and the fact that he is actually a voter is just a lib-owning cherry on top

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They are going to get those Republicans who refer to it as “Pravda on the Hudson” or whatever to stop accusing them of being biased if it kills us, is what their problem is

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My guess is that the Times knew full well that the guy voted and also that it would be caught by the public editor, enraging libs is a fun little kinky byproduct of their game at this point

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it’s why you have people still blaming affirmative action for why their kids couldn’t get into harvard et al. it’s not legacies or the fact that these places are hyper-selective. it’s that there is *a* black person who took *your* spot.

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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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An occasional reminder that Eric Adams is thumbing his nose at the class-size reduction law, choosing instead to play a game of chicken with the legislature and a billion dollars of state funding. Sad! classsizematters.org/update-on-ed...

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We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

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🧵A brief history of education reform in the 21st century US: ◾ GW Bush dismantles the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, creating the Institute of Educational Sciences with the call to create a "science of education," with the "Gold Standard" of RCTs

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Hope you fuckos enjoyed typing all those "Actually John Roberts is the pivot of a moderate center of the court that cares about institutional integrity and legitimacy above all" takes

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But the capital budget isn’t really separate—it’s funded with long-term bonds, some of which need to be paid off every year, and that debt maintenance comes out of the current budget www.nycenet.edu/offices/fina...

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I wouldn’t watch the debate for a million dollars, and because the debate and its aftermath will be unavoidable on social media, catch you all in July!

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It’s good that the DOE is posting school-level finances, but…

Red: will kickstart a new era of whining from well-off schools about being underfunded

Green: needed to be shown much more prominently

Purple: these costs shouldn’t be left out of the topline number

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024...

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til I learned that Vertex Partnership Academies, a high school formed as an extension of Brilla and Public Prep K-8 charters to circumvent the NYC charter school cap, and that requires students to memorize four “cardinal virtues,” returned only 60 sophomores from a freshman class of 111 Seems bad?

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1. Learn you can sense boar taint 2. ? 3. Profit

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🤣🤣🤣

“The biggest change, according to the analysis, would come in the proportion of admitted students from Manhattan, which is projected to rise from 59% this year to 76% next year.”

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www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024...

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God damn it Greg Greene you beat me by 16 seconds

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UPDATE: with no public comment or impact analysis, beginning immediately, 75% of the seats at ElRo, Lab, Baruch, Museum School, Millennium, and Clinton will be reserved for Manhattan students (who fail the SHSAT). A chancellor laser-focused on what matters!

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“A rare example of progress on desegregation that has prompted less public conflict” (gift link)

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587 of Staten Island’s eighth graders are Black and 1,403 are Hispanic 1 Black eighth grader and 8 Hispanic eighth graders will be attending Staten Island Tech next fall Idk, I think I’d hold off on celebrating

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It’s offensive and embarrassing for the NYCPS to be crowing about these numbers, period, but especially so when you see how little the numbers changed at schools with higher score cut-offs

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024...

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This article earnestly and unironically cites a commercial air-conditioner manufacturer for the claim that 72 degrees is the ideal indoor summer temperature, and then goes on to recommend that your bedroom should be **60 to 67 degrees** at night ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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It might be worse than the Joe Kahn parlor floor pose (please don’t make me post it again) and that is __really__ saying something

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Even I have to admit that Maud is probably really good at neutralizing DEI initiatives

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Pardon my French, but this is some fucked-up sociopathic nonsense

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