I'm currently obsessed with this Klee.

NYSED Friday-afternoon news-dumped 2025–2026 non-public school enrollment, and according to the official records Alpha School does not exist 🤔

NEW: Together with students, parents, faith leaders, civil rights advocates and more, we rallied today to celebrate defeating 175-B - and to stand firm against any other dangerous iteration of this no-speech bill. Thank you to everyone who used their voice to stand against censorship.

I know I'm doing something right when links to cuny academic works pop up in my timeline

NO to going across the aisle for civility’s sake but YES to joining JFREJ JFREJ.org/join

ten years ago my then-four-year-old asked to go to sesame street. I was aghast that he didn't realize that we already live on sesame street. We went for a walk around the neighborhood and took pictures of 123 st, a fire escape, a stoop, and, yes, a metal trash can. (he totally climbed in!)

This could be you, marching through the streets of New York City with your neighbors, if you join JFREJ today! jfrej.org/join

Everyone who cares about making New York City a multiracial social democracy should read this wonderful essay RIGHT NOW.

A most joyous double חי birthday to @jfrejnyc.bsky.social, whose membership recruitment video I am extraordinarily proud to appear in (alongside @abbystein.bsky.social and others)! Watch the video below and click the link here to join: JFREJ.org/join

It's been a collective and community effort to press the Mayor to honor his campaign promise to public libraries. We're still not there yet. Please follow @nycplan.org if you live in NYC for next steps in the ongoing process to actually fully fund public libraries in our great city.

Today's delight: Last night, I really needed to calm my brain after a stressful few days. This was the perfect tonic. It's a concert that Toshi Reagon gifted us with which is available on Youtube only until Sunday. Get into it. You'll be uplifted. www.youtube.com/live/m-KWDTg...

Everything you ever wanted to know about who we are at Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ)! This is our 36th year organizing arm-in-arm with our neighbors for a more caring & just New York City. Join us today at jfrej.org/join

The Zotero 9.0 upgrade is sexy www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-9/

Swords, sorcery, and a spot of tea. Can't wait to share KILL ALL WIZARDS with you all, 6/16/26. torpublishinggroup.com/kill-all-wiz...

This is why we urge @mayor.nyc.gov & @council.nyc.gov to fully fund the NYC Against Hate Violence policy proposal, which maps out a plan to invest $26-30 million in evidence-based non-carceral hate violence prevention programs. Learn more: nycagainsthate.com

Thanks to @jfrejnyc.bsky.social for knocking doors in the East Village with me today. The mishpocha that canvasses together, wins together! Join us at the next one: mobilize.us/landerforcongress

Yesterday I went to a candidate forum for my state assembly race. We need people in state government who will use the power of the state to protect immigrants. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026...

Here's a little recap of the AD69 candidate forum in morningside gardens yesterday, sponsored by MRHS, the social service agency for retirees on my block and neighbors for a greener harlem, a coalition with tenants from our coop and grant houses across the street 1/10

Choosing to speak up about AI? Advocating for Palestinian rights or smaller class sizes? Raising concerns in your school community? The possibility of those moments shapes how people come to see their role in public life and building New York’s future. The buffer zone bills put all of that at risk.

📢 Calling all JFREJers planning to shut it down on May Day 📢 March with our contingent this Friday at 4:30pm. Meetup info below ⬇️

Contrary to conventional accounts of MMT, we insist that money is a public, contested, and inexhaustible institution that must be politicized and redesigned *across all levels of governance.*

A new level of depravity in HS admissions unlocked A PLACE NYC parent has filed a lawsuit seeking to effectively kill the Discovery Program pathway to the specialized high schools because her son missed the SHSAT cut-off for Stuyvesant and has to attend a different SHS I’m not making this up 1/?

In this speech about ledgers, I gave the example of a hypothetical "carol" wanting a piece of jewelry from a "linda." Then my friend carol told me she had admired a pin another friend was making on zoom. The friend sent it to her with a request that she make a donation to an org! Ledgers!

New Yorkers are asking @governor.ny.gov: who will you fight for? Our lives…or your donors TAX THE RICH! FUND HEALTHCARE!

Since deed-theft is in the news: now is a good time to tell your NYS senator to co-sponsor @jabaribrisport.bsky.social's S7721. This bill would make victims whole and deter future theft by making both the deed-thief and the bank involved liable for treble damages. www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...

You can learn more about the NYC Against Hate Violence policy proposal, to which the new Chief of Staff to the Deputy Mayor for Community Safety contributed ☺️, at nycagainsthate.org

Minerva presente! Honored to have gotten to work with this dynamo several times over the years. May her memory be a bomba y plena💜

I absolutely love this! Throw in approval by a simple majority of all taxpayers through a convenient and mandatory voting process, and you’ve built direct democracy on the bones of capitalism. Everyone would have equal influence on our tax dollars.

Just saw this concert and it lived up to my high expectations. So much range and beauty. I will never tire of pipas, banduras, or cross-cultural collaborations. They featured a bandura that was made in Shanghai in the 1930s or 40s!!! www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco...

The petition is still live, by the way. If you’re an NYC person who’d like to see a two-year moratorium on student-facing AI in schools, sign! actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

I’ve been intentionally going out of my way to find new and different eastern redbuds and spotted this absolute just before a :squints at card: punishing April thunderstorm (?) started brewing

3D map of the Chongqing Metro that shows the elevation and decline of each line, with some essentially looking like roller coasters (Chongqing is the Chinese city that went viral for showing how you could be on the ground floor but then walk a bit and be on the 22nd floor, due to the hilly terrain)

Under this agreement, police would still be allowed to coordinate with ICE. That is unacceptable.

“What do we owe to haShem and what do we owe to each other?”

Updated location for the Rally to Protect Free Speech & Safety City Hall *park* This Thursday April 16 Noon

Yes: #TaxTheRich is on the ballot. Great message because it's short, timely, and true. Though we likely won't win TTR this year, we can win it next year by changing the Albany's composition this year, especially in the Assembly. For a list of Assembly primary campaigns to plug into, see next post👇

@positivesubway.bsky.social do you have any updates on eastern redbuds?

Middle school offers are coming on Weds in NYC. I am confident that my child will be ok no matter where they go to middle school. But I am not confident that NYC will be ok or be able to resist fascism if we continue to operate like this is some kind of lottery with winners and losers.

New York City has some grand parades, but the Inwood Little League season kick-off is going past my window now, and they’re delightful. Excited kids, proud families, and a spirited high school drum corps. Sometimes the big city feels like a small town.

Still time to sign up for the 2026 iteration of The History of Black Librarianship course: go.discover.sc.edu/register/?id... AND Get the shirt 😀 www.bonfire.com/history-of-b...

NYC does not need to ban protests (almost) everywhere in the city! Tell all of your friends, neighbors, council-members, and mayors!

How to reshape Congress + US politics without a constitutional amendment: 1️⃣ Pass ranked-choice voting in most states. 2️⃣ Re-legalize fusion voting in most states. 3️⃣ Pass proportional representation in most states. Once most states have done 1-3, reconstructing Congress will move from dream to plan.

Speaking as a teacher, it's hard not to feel trapped. We want to do right by our students, yet we are expected to produce results with programs that function as obstacles rather than aids.

Meanwhile, as the planet cooks, NY Governor Hochul is trying to gut the state’s climate law. If she succeeds, energy costs will rise even more and pollution will grow. (She’s also stepping on the Dem Party’s electoral message by doing Trump’s bidding) NYers: call your reps! Demand they stop her!

Just called my congressperson and mentioned HR 2411, food relief for Palestine; HR 3565, block the bombs; and, you know, impeachment

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

Lotta people using “scaffolding” as a metaphor when they mean “armature.” Scaffolding is an exterior structure that allows construction to occur within it, armature is an interior framework around which something is built.

Arrests of Jews taking over Palantir offices continue with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social joining outside to support against ICE collaboration

We started passover with a 5-person seder and chametz on the seder plate for LGBTQ rights; the 2nd night we had 21 people and a poem about the nakba; this weekend was our big family seder with 70 people talking about fascism. our 4th and final seder had 100s of people ready to shut palantir down.