James Cleveland-Tran
@jclevelandtran.com
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Math Educator, Writer, Wonderer
#MTBoS
, he/him/his Into making math games and political change
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly
about 18 hours ago
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...
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Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON ā Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced plans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
https://robinkelly.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-kelly-announces-plans-impeach-secretary-kristi-noem
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Elle Ess
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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
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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.
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Oh geez, Iām Books Georg.
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Eric Bunson
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Don Moynihan
5 days ago
Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you #1: You're a dumbass
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Prisonculture
6 days ago
"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...
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Mayor Mamdani Establishes Office of Mass Engagement to Transform How New Yorkers Participate in City Government
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/mayor-mamdani-establishes-office-of-mass-engagement-to-transform
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Angus Johnston
7 days ago
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.
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John Golden
8 days ago
As pointed out by
@paulakrieg.bsky.social
and noted by
@mpershan.bsky.social
, longtime
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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!
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Moira Donegan
15 days ago
James Merrilās poem āChristmas Tree,ā written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
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āThe 8 Nights of Hanukkahā is the best parody of āThe 12 Days of Christmasā (if one must do them at all) because it is less than half the length.
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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....
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Choire
26 days ago
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Seeing Snakes on a Plane opening night in Union Square. It was riotous in that theater.
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Tim Ellis š
30 days ago
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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Assigned Media
about 1 month ago
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!
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Plutonaut
about 1 month ago
And you can take your playlists with you:
www.tunemymusic.com
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Transfer Playlists Between Music Services | Tune My Music
Transfer Playlists From Any Music Platform to Any Other Music Platform! Including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube, Google Play Music, TIDAL and more!
https://www.tunemymusic.com/
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@citizenmath.bsky.social
Does Citizen Math still have that lesson about the three-fifths compromise?
about 1 month ago
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Whoa, this Wikipedia page has a built in calculator table in it. I've never seen that before.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest...
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Highest averages method - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_averages_method
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Today feels like a good day to clean up the downloads folder on my computer.
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Did an auction activity in class and 15 minutes of doing my best auctioneer impression has me totally wiped out.
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Hyperallergic
about 2 months ago
A Brooklyn-based collective,Ā 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.
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How an Air Purifier Can Make Your Art Event Safer
The Brooklyn collective A.I.R. loans out the devices under the tenet that āillness need not be the price of living in community or participating in the arts.ā
https://hyperallergic.com/1057303/brooklyn-collective-air-nyc-is-helping-artists-breathe-easier/
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How I just found the eggs in the fridge. (
#howmany
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about 2 months ago
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Evan Urquhart
about 2 months ago
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.
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Every trash day I wonder as I look around how people make so much trash.
about 2 months ago
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Michael Pershan
about 2 months ago
I wrote about shallow, vague, fuzzy definitions of "conceptual understanding" and a better way to think about it.
pershmail.substack.com/p/understand...
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"Understanding" Shouldn't Be Vague or Mysterious
Let's do some pedagogy.
https://pershmail.substack.com/p/understanding-shouldnt-be-vague-or
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Garrett Petersen
about 2 months ago
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.
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Solomon
2 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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Virginia Teen Narrowly Defeats His Former Civics Teacher in County Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/surry-county-virginia-supervisor-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.2LZu.3EYmL9rRvm_n&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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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: Theyāre underpaid.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
2 months ago
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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The Downballot
2 months ago
We have our live tracker for tonight's MANY big races!
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The Downballot's live tracker of key races for election night 2025
Bookmark this post to stay on top of dozens of Tuesday's most important contests
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downballots-live-tracker-of-key
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Chris Sommerfeldt
2 months ago
Just in: Zohran Mamdani says he's voting yes on ballot questions 1-5 and no on 6.
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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!)
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One problem with teaching this democracy course is that Iām way more likely to get stuck in a Wikipedia rabbit hole about various topics that are interesting, because I donāt know everything as well as, say, geometry.
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Alison Stenning
2 months ago
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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Anthony Moser
4 months ago
i made a helpful reference
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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
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Discrete Math & Democracy, Weeks 5-6
This time I did purposefully combine two weeks ā we had 3 days of no class between them, with the PSAT, a PD day, and a holiday. We started week 5 with another quiz ā they asked for thiā¦
https://jclevelandtran.com/2025/10/24/discrete-math-democracy-weeks-5-6/
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Garrett Petersen
3 months ago
Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trumpās attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino canāt 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...
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jamelle
3 months ago
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
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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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eva (^_^)/
3 months ago
white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Behold, the quotient rule:
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I recently worked on a fun problem involved the PokƩmon TCG. Here's a post about the problem and my thought process/solution.
jclevelandtran.com/2025/10/15/s...
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I recently worked on a fun problem involved the PokƩmon TCG. Here's a post about the problem and my thought process/solution.
jclevelandtran.com/2025/10/15/s...
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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?
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
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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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD
3 months ago
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
UNTIL ITāS 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 Trumpās politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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