Abortion rights are very popular, raising healthcare premiums is very unpopular. Seems like an easy decision to me, since republicans will take the blame if this doesn’t pass.

The best way to show that MAGA is not part of some dark authoritarian movement is to remove professors who suggest that it is

Let's say you take out a $400,000 mortgage loan at 6.25% - and choose a 50-year mortgage instead of 30 years. In return for saving $283 monthly, you will pay an extra $421,302 in interest over the life of the loan. Or if you sell at 15 years, will have paid down just $29,000 in equity. Not good.

people appear to care a lot more than I do about this one way or the other, but my main question here is why is James Bond falling asleep in the shower

"In the meantime, Democrats can be grateful that Chuck Schumer was here to absorb the rage — somebody had to do it." // Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Oh that sounds fun. I’m always looking for *more opportunities to talk to insurance providers.

Now let us never speak of Kim 'Thrice-Divorced' Davis again

I am trying to look forward to December. Either the Dems don't get the vote on ACA subsidies they were "promised," or they get a vote and it doesn't pass. Both scenarios are pretty bad for the GOP, right?

Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

(The report card thing reminds me - as things often do - that California officially labels teachers - and a school's faculty - as "ineffective" based on the details of their teaching certifications. Sometimes even if they hold a teaching credential[!].) www.cde.ca.gov/ci/pl/teache...

I was saying to Joel last night that I think this whole thing sets Democrats up very well--cues up the affordability issue (which @mattyglesias.bsky.social wrote about today)--and it's totally unwinnable in the long term for the GOP. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...

THIS: "But don’t tell me nothing has changed or that this is some cataclysmic disaster. ... It demonstrated that Democrats can go to the mat when the public is behind them and not pay a political price. It dramatically damaged Donald Trump. It cued up the central arguments of the 2026 campaign."

I would be very annoyed that my hotel alarm clock went off unexpectedly at 5:55 am if I hadn't been awake since 3:30 🙃

brb stockpiling De Cecco

This, from the rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, was very helpful to me to understand the existential concerns of some of my Jewish friends about the mayor-elect (concerns I don’t particularly share (for now), but now grasp better) m.youtube.com/watch?si=9zi...

It’s not good.

And the dire health insurance situation plays directly into democrats’ “affordability” narrative. Bad for Americans, good for the 2026 wave.

Listen there’s only one party absolutely desperate to raise health insurance premiums and that’s republicans. 🤷‍♂️

Sports gambling is a cancer.

Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline? Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit. This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame. Here’s why: 3 reasons.

Do I know anyone who could help me out with formatting a short article in LaTeX for a math journal? Happy to pay for effort.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

This is nightmare fuel for those struggling with their mental health, especially children. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Pritzker/Sandwich Guy 2028

“It’s kind of a shocking number." The median age of first-time home buyers in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40 in 2025, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. nyti.ms/4hKc58V

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

Entered that circle of homeowner hell where everything the repair guy touches finds two new things to repair. 🤑

State finds Oakland Unified created ‘discriminatory environment’ for Jewish students edsource.org?page_id=744507

So if we know we can throw sandwiches, can we also through tacos? hot dogs?

The success of the Lawrence school district improvement efforts in MA were sustained and replicated in some contexts but not others. Why? journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

"We found large differences by family income, even conditional on previous test scores, that raise equity implications." // Introducing a High School Exit Exam in Science: Consequences in Massachusetts journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

This is a hell of a chart.

Wait a minute, I was told that colleges of education were churning out battalions of Che Guevaras by the semester

It is positively insane to primary challenge Golden from his left! www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/05/o...

Interesting new data on the disproportionate struggles of female college students post-COVID www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Note the cursive

New research from my team // AI Is Moving Fast—But School Responses and Parent Opinions Are Not crpe.org/ai-is-moving...

What do people like Greenblat think a Mamdani administration is going to actually do to Jews?

It’s nice to feel a skosh of hope, y’know?

Absolutely the funniest thread you will read all day.

My post about visiting the Stahl House got deleted and I’m reposting because it’s so beautiful but also because this picture Joel took of me is proving very popular.

🙃

“He has PTSD and hasn’t been able to eat a Chicago dog in months 😭😭😭”

I'm getting some pretty solid comments from people in finance (including someone who works at RBC!), which I always like. www.tiktok.com/@schooldaves...

In my entire life how many good NYC mayors have there been? One? Mayyyyybe two?

Neighborhood catchment zones are bad (I would say more so because of their current segregative effects than their terrible origins, but YMMV) www.laschoolreport.com/how-lausd-sc...

I really need to be paying my therapist royalties, because he's now 2/2 in getting me to talk myself into writing books. Look for #2, out early 2027 from Oxford--tentative title: "Miseducated: How We Can Fight Bad Ideas and Improve Schools Through Better Education Policy"

It's nice that People magazine has finally acknowledged that a gay man can be sexy!