I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

One cool thing about teaching a course on democracy is how new some of the math is. One thing we'll talk about today was first introduced in 2016. Less than 10 years ago! Very different from the usual math courses were the material is 100s or 1000s of years old.

Oh geez, I’m Books Georg.

Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you #1: You're a dumbass

"The office will work within City Hall and across City agencies to strategize, coordinate, and execute on engagement that reaches the masses of everyday New Yorkers." www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

As pointed out by @paulakrieg.bsky.social and noted by @mpershan.bsky.social, longtime #mtbos partner and collaborator Malke Rosenfeld passed away last year. She investigated and taught the mind-body math connection, engaging hundreds of teachers and learners in #mathart - dance! RIP great friend!

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

“The 8 Nights of Hanukkah” is the best parody of “The 12 Days of Christmas” (if one must do them at all) because it is less than half the length.

Love when I sign in using 2-factor authentication by switching to another app on the same device. I guess two apps counts as two factors....

Seeing Snakes on a Plane opening night in Union Square. It was riotous in that theater.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you

In a month where everyone is asking for your money, Assigned is asking for your help in spreading the word about our journalism. Help us reach 60,000 Bluesky followers! Tell your friends and family about Assigned!

And you can take your playlists with you: www.tunemymusic.com

@citizenmath.bsky.social Does Citizen Math still have that lesson about the three-fifths compromise?

Whoa, this Wikipedia page has a built in calculator table in it. I've never seen that before. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest...

Today feels like a good day to clean up the downloads folder on my computer.

Did an auction activity in class and 15 minutes of doing my best auctioneer impression has me totally wiped out.

A Brooklyn-based collective, Artists in Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC, is not only committed to hosting COVID-safer art and music events from borough to borough, but also ensuring that anybody can do so for free.

How I just found the eggs in the fridge. (#howmany?)

It's kinda like if you were born intuitively feeling like the A button should be on the right, X should be up, B down, etc. but life hands you an Xbox controller and everyone gets super weird the moment you ask about button remapping.

Every trash day I wonder as I look around how people make so much trash.

I wrote about shallow, vague, fuzzy definitions of "conceptual understanding" and a better way to think about it. pershmail.substack.com/p/understand...

I'm always happy in the fall when the temperature drops, but I forget then that that means it's actually hotter inside most buildings then it would be if it were warmer outside. No winning.

All across America last week, Dems showed up and generally kicked the piss out of the Republicans who are hellbent on destroying our country and our freedoms. To have a bunch of squishy, out of touch Senators completely sell us out just as the Republicans were starting to crack sucks.

Lesson about averages T: So if I tell you that a company has a mean salary of $50k, what does that tell you about the employees of that company? S: They’re underpaid.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

We have our live tracker for tonight's MANY big races!

Just in: Zohran Mamdani says he's voting yes on ballot questions 1-5 and no on 6.

Today 3 of my coworkers in math department have their birthdays, which is a good extension, perhaps, of the Birthday Problem to 3 people - what are the odds of that? (Our department is 15 people, so quite lucky, I think!)

One problem with teaching this democracy course is that I’m way more likely to get stuck in a Wikipedia rabbit hole about various topics that are interesting, because I don’t know everything as well as, say, geometry.

It also points, therefore, to the level of potential causalities if children always had the freedom to walk their streets. A big part of the decline in child road deaths over the last century is the result of the removal of children from their streets, not any actual safety improvements.

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Eek, starting to fall behind, but here's Weeks 5-6 of Discrete Math & Democracy, including that tournament problem I previously posted: jclevelandtran.com/2025/10/24/d... #MTBoS #iTeachMath #iTeachCivics

Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trump’s attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino can’t even wake up to vote. I'm running for Congress because I know we can fight our way out of this. Be a day 1 donor: secure.actblue.com/donate/garre...

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

I just realized that, because I call my assessments "celebrations of knowledge," I can then call the work I give them to do when they finish "afterparty."

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Behold, the quotient rule:

I recently worked on a fun problem involved the Pokémon TCG. Here's a post about the problem and my thought process/solution. jclevelandtran.com/2025/10/15/s...

I recently worked on a fun problem involved the Pokémon TCG. Here's a post about the problem and my thought process/solution. jclevelandtran.com/2025/10/15/s...

We did a fun problem today. Suppose you have this Pairwise Matrix. (How to read: each cell shows how many points the row player gets against the column player. So in a match of A vs B, A gets 54 points and B gets 51, so A wins.) Can you seed an 8-player bracket such that A will win? What about C?

you have to tell people what you want them to do. stop whining that "no one cares" about x, y, z.

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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.