Wise words, as usual, from B.West. On a related note, there's something I used to avoid saying in org spaces but now say all the time: May we wean our orgs from trying to get people "excited" to put in work for campaigns; instead, let us build a sustainable culture of everyday, ordinary dedication.

Very happy to find The Naming Song among the finalists for the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, alongside works by @nghivo.bsky.social and @guygavrielkay.bsky.social.

“Instead of donating money to centrist democrats to defeat MAGA, we could invest our money in arts programs, libraries,& parks…expanding blue cities so that people can live in them free from cars & guns, &…take back their state legislatures.” @aminsky256.bsky.social CC @jessiesinger.bsky.social #DPF

This past Saturday I was invited to give a sermon at my synagogue. It was on a day where we do a singalong with the kids in the sanctuary so I only had 10 minutes, and the assignment was to talk about possibly one of the most boring parts of the Torah, but I love constraints! 🧵

"Fifteen years. Thirteen million students. Not a single high-quality, independent study showing i-Ready improves learning."

Our Education Collaborative panel, including @thenyic.bsky.social, masany.org, internationalsnetwork.org, testified for family & student needs. We spoke more than 9 hours into last week's @council.nyc.gov preliminary budget hearing… Timestamp 09:19:00 onwards— councilnyc.viebit.com/embed/vod?v=...

✨ New Essay! ✨ @aminsky256.bsky.social shares "A Dvar Torah on the Subject of Democratic Public Finance." The speech will be delivered at a progressive New York City synagogue this Saturday, coincident with No Kings Day & the imminent NY State budget deadline. Please read & share. 👩‍💻 🙌

Tremendous thanks to @aminsky256.bsky.social for permitting MotL to publish her forthcoming Dvar Torah & for helping us think through the wide-ranging implications of Democratic Public Finance.

New Yorkers gathered on the steps of city hall today to say NO to buffer zones, NO to censorship, NO to empowering the cops to violently policing protest they disagree with. @nyclu.org @aqeny.bsky.social @nycforabortion.bsky.social @legalaidnyc.bsky.social @palestinelegal.bsky.social

Please amplify: today @cuny.edu faculty, students, staff and the @psc-cuny.org delivered 5000 letters to @cunychancellor.bsky.social condemning political blacklisting at CUNY and calling for the rehiring of the Fired Fourth.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Since these came to my station there has been incessant loud beeping, lines to get through the turnstiles, and two of the new gates lately say "no entry."

The class size law could easily be met through redistricting, rezoning, and enrollment capping NYCPS and the press may treat this as the solution that must not be named, but I don’t have to

HAPPENING NOW: We have taken State Street outside the Capitol to demand Governor Hochul pass New York For All and end our state’s collaboration with Trump’s deportation machine!

Brand new mosaic work at the Church Ave. B/Q station elevator entrance are, imo, pretty magnificent

i love this book so much “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that be who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.” - Zora Neale Hurston (Dust Tracks On a Road)

Petition against the AI school and to instead expand the existing middle school there has over a thousand signatures. www.change.org/p/expand-lmc

The key to understanding Albany: all the important policy bills get crammed into the budget, and the governor has outsized control over the budget process... ...until the Left wins enough seats in each leg chamber to hold the line against the governor. Right now, the Assembly is the worse chamber.

Hi! A summer Arabic program I wanted to take may be canceled because of low enrollment: the Summer Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh sli.pitt.edu

"In 1976, photojournalism student Kay Zakariasen visited many of [NYC's Greek diners] to interview + photograph the 🇬🇷immigrants who worked there. In 2022, Zakariasen donated the photos + interview transcripts to the Library..." www.nypl.org/blog/2026/03...

I think about this a lot! www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/o...

2026 INs: Hate Violence Prevention rooted in evidence-based, community-driven relationship-building strategies. OUTS: Reactive policing and punishment. Learn more at nycagainsthate.org

There are already too many limits on peaceful protest under this regime. We don’t need NYC Council to add more! To take action as language is finalized this week, see this helpful resource from @jfrejnyc.bsky.social: www.jfrej.org/news/2026/03...

What a great time to create a robust system of public banks across states & municipalities that can replace the current speculative financial system.

Prospect Park Lake during my run on Sunday vs. during my run today

THANKS, I HATE IT. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP84va9qE/

New/Update for 2026 www.schoolfinancedata.org/the-adequacy...

On Thursday Last night I joined @errollouis.bsky.social on Inside City Hall (@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social) to talk about the alarming decision by several hospitals (starting with NYU Langone) to stop providing gender-affirming care in NYC, against city and state law. 1/6 youtu.be/Yg3ODFhhJTk?...

TOMORROW Sunday March 8 join us and my @socialists.nyc slate mate @conradforharlem.bsky.social to spread the word: we must tax the rich on the state AND national level. We’re meeting in Harlem at 1pm. Sign up at tinyurl.com/darializaTTR

'Ella Baker, the great socialist and civil rights organizer, was born this day in 1903. Here's her classic 1935 article on economic exploitation and black domestic workers in Great Depression–era New York.' The Bronx Slave Market | Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke jacobin.com/2018/12/ella...

Just a reminder that over 70% of Democrats in New York State support making the wealthiest few pay their fair share. #TaxTheRich hellgatenyc.com/tax-the-rich...

talk to strangers!

CDPAP is the part of medicaid that let's family members get paid when they take care of one another. Before 2024 there were a lot of fiscal intermediaries. The deal referenced here turned the whole thing into a $1B contract for one company: PPL.

Super excited to be this year's Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt Lecturer! www.carnegielibrary.org/hewitt-lectu...

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✅ Oppose #TaxTheRich ✅ Roll back climate law ✅ Let local govs collude with ICE This is Governor Hochul—and thus the state of NYS politics—when she faces no primary challenge from the Left and when a majority of Assembly Dems are neoliberals. Friends, we *must* win our Assembly primaries this year.

"La Loteria Niuyorkina is a pedagogical game/toolkit focused on the varieties of Spanish spoken across the landscape of NYC. The project engaged students from Lehman College and Queens College [+] explored common Spanglish words + expressions that shape their identity." loteria.commons.gc.cuny.edu

THOUSANDS of New Yorkers have come to Albany to tell our legislators we need them to #TaxTheRich for universal childcare and fair wages for care workers. @caringmrising.bsky.social @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social

More of this, please “In Support of the Mandating End to Lawless Tactics (MELT) Act, the New York For All Act, the Dignity Not Detention Act, and the Access to Representation Act” Thank you, New Paltz! ✨ oracle.newpaltz.edu/joint-melt-r...

Join us at 5:30pm ET for a discussion of Organize Your Library! Building the Collective Power of Library Workers ! This event is part of the @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social School of Information Studies Research in Praxis discussion series. Register and hop in the zoom! bit.ly/ripdssp26

Hey hey, ho ho: Russel Vought has got to go! ✊

v early in Mamdani’s term in office but hard to escape conclusion that he’s causing a lot of snowfall

New Essay! ✍️ ✨ Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks ✨ Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌

New Yorkers are taking over Albany on Wednesday to demand our lawmakers🚨💸 TAX THE RICH 🚨💸 for a caring New York we can afford and pass the NEW YORK FOR ALL act to keep our neighbors safe from ICE! Join us on the JFREJ bus to Albany this Wednesday February 25th: jfrej.org/albany

In MATERIAL TERMS, libraries are costs to who exactly?

Okay, one more for now: I’ve written before about runaway attrition at Vertex, a high school operated by the AEI’s/Thomas Fordham’s Ian Rowe. It’s inaugural class of seniors is down to just 41 kids from 111 in 9th. The juniors are down to 69 after beginning with 138😳 bsky.app/profile/posi...

🎯🎯🎯 "The court held that charter schools are different from public schools despite “their ‘many similarities’...” One way is that charter schools could buy buildings with tax dollars, but the building would not be an asset of a public school district or the Kentucky Department of Education."

What is the next step? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

Public libraries are actually existing examples of the world we want. We should not have to fight for them under a democratic socialist mayor. @nycplan.org is organizing a response. Tell Mamdani to make good on his commitment to baseline funding for libraries! nycplan.org