See our grades & analysis of 75 + front pages for #NoKings 3.0 coverage. The influential @nytimes.com @wsj.com continue trivialize the pro-democracy movement & #NoKings mass demonstrations. Good news: editors of local outlets continue to shine. 🧵 w/many front pages and link to blog post 1/n

This is great! Note: At least for me, it loaded slowly and I almost gave up on the first screen. Patience will be rewarded! #iTeachMath #mtbos

TIL: A German colloquialism for "quadratic formula" is Mitternachtsformel which translates, literally, to "middle-of-the-night-formula". That is, a formula which is so deeply memorized that if awakened in the middle of the night, the student could recite it. #iteachMath #MathsToday

I have stolen 12T of KitKats that were in transit and which you were probably hoping to buy in Poland forgive me the world is stressful and I needed a break

I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me that while the Capitol police have some immunity in doing their job, Sheehy does not and should be arrested and sued into oblivion.

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else: “What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

401,000 people moving state to state in fear of having legal documents invalidated (KS), jail time for using restrooms (FL, UT), loss of access to adult care (dozens) or youth care (dozens even in D-led states), & the message from “opposition” is still largely “you’re making too big a deal of this.”

What does "likely" mean, in terms of probability? This article looks at the question - I think it would make a great class exercise, where students give their own answers, and then read the article. #iTeachMath #MTBOS www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

At minute 57 of a 60 min Zoom session, a tutee asked "Why does the anti-derivative of 1/x contain absolute value bars?" Here, in four parts, is the answer I gave, followed by the answer I provided in writing the next day. #iTeachMath 1/4

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

An important choice by @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social .social , one of the leading math communicators of our time. #iTeachMath

Just had a chance to look this over - a very nice graph activity from @fractalkitty.com ! #iteachmath

Full letter from Laura Wittmann, the Uline employee who resigned rather than be complicit with the Trump regime by working for the Uihleins. Alt-text is below; typos are mind. Document taken from Reddit.

Will this be our Four Dead in Ohio?

How it started How it's going

Done! Women's Foundation Rapid Response fund.

Here is how to help: www.standwithminnesota.com

An investigation by that noted lefty rag the Wall Street Journal has found that using vehicles to box people in and then shooting them when they try to leave is a deliberate, repeat tactic by ICE. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

A Murder in Minneapolis open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

“carrying out strikes “ = destroying property and murdering people

20 minutes to watch this would be well-spent in an upper-level HS math class. Note the prevalence of women mathematicians in this cutting-edge work! #iTeachMath #mtbos

TIL: A parabola can be constructed based solely on the intersections of lines - no arcs or measurement needed. Easier to show than to tell: www.desmos.com/calculator/g... Some probs for Ss to come when time permits. h/t again to The Genius of Gaudi, Alsina and Nelson, p24. #iteachmath #mathtoday

TIL: The area of the parabolic segment between x=A and x=A+B depends *only* upon the value of B. This applies to any quadratic. h/t The Genius of Gaudi, Alsina and Nelson, MAA Press, p25. #iteachmath #mathtoday A Desmos illustration: www.desmos.com/calculator/o...

#mtbos #iteachmath Geez, I use examples like this in my A2 classes!

Reaching the Masses: Six Authors on Public Outreach [about Mathematics] A Zoom conversation with: Keith Devlin Marcus du Sautoy Jordan Ellenberg Sarah Hart John Allen Paulos Steven Strogatz ams.org/journals/not... PDF: ams.org/journals/not...

Trump reveals his health care policy: "You can give up certain products. You could give up medicine. Under the China policy, every child can get many medications. They only need aspirin or cough syrup. They don’t need that many. You don’t need lots of checkups for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice."

I missed this, having been overwhelmed by the blackheartedness and narcissim of Trump's post. But @sethabramson.bsky.social makes an important point here.

The far-right has spent the past several years accusing the left of teaching conspiracies and propaganda and indoctrinating children into extreme ideologies. Now, as you may have guessed, they're doing what they accused the left of doing, but it's probably worse than you think. My latest.

Looks clear!

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

My students liked these arithmetic sequence number puzzles when we were trying to learn something similar. mathequalslove.net/step-puzzles/

"When the members of Congress in their video urge what seems to be the entire military not to follow illegal orders, they may unintentionally blur the very lines that keep the system functioning." www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...

Three variations on a nice Calculus problem I came across yesterday. #iTeachMath #MTBOS

States rights?

We were there - estimates at least 1500, maybe quite a bit more. Here's my poster:

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

DJT: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." If he did: Hegseth would say the victim was a narcotrafficker and would praise Trump for his “lethality”. AND...

Cell phones are essentially useless when they are not plugged in.

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Gift link to an excellent column by @willbunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/329Lm0 “If Trump’s “Department of War” is serious about staging its first battle on the shores of Lake Michigan, it picked the wrong fight.” #WinninUgly

'Every person who pumped his fist at Trump’s news conference should pause and think very hard about letting him, or any president, expand the definition of war until due process dies.' - @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Seven countries currently get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy. Norway and Costa Rica are at 98 percent

This freakin’ story, man…. How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

As a parent of two kids in NJ public schools, this ROCKS.