Cancel those plans, order that delivery, chase people off with your builder’s cubit and tell a bride she’s ugly. Light your menorah in descending order to remember that everything dies…do what you need to cope

Yup. To the absolute frustration of people I fly with, I refuse to pay for this privilege. Sorry not sorry.

Update. I spoke with the student. "No, I didn't use AI. I mean, I didn't understand the article, so yeah, I did look it up. I just used Google. Well, I did use AI a little. It's just, I was confused..." (Yes, teachable moment, what should you do if you're confused, what tools are available...)

But how can we know it's AI?!?!? Sure. Sometimes you can't tell. But I've been reading middle school writing for nearly two decades. I just read 27 "4-5 sentence summaries" of an article. I absolutely can tell which one is AI.

if you'd asked me, "which of the three will oppose fascism in America, WaPo, the ADL, or the Catholic Church" I would not have gotten the answer right, but here we are.

Only in New York.

Throwback... Subbing a Social Studies class today and got to jam to this classic!

Is it snowing? (NYC)

One weekend that includes Halloween on Friday, World Series Game Seven on Saturday, and NYC Marathon on Sunday? It's just a lot.

Me, wearing a black top, a black and silver scarf, a black and gray skirt Student: Is today a special day where we have to wear all black? Is it a sad day? Me: No, I'm just a New Yorker and sometimes I wear a lot of black!

Better eating through food science.

What I Teach 3rd Graders Lisa Shulman

As a middle school teacher, I'm really excited to get further into my curriculum because already twice this year I've accidentally said, "Open your packets to pages six and seven and..." "Six Seven!!" 😮‍💨

No, for real, though, here’s my proposal: As soon as you crest into $1 billion, we throw you a party, congratulate you for winning the game, and then we build a bunch of affordable housing and you wake up tomorrow in an apartment with $1000 to your name. When you win the game, it resets.

I love NYC because when my building's washing machine is down I can go a block away and wash my laundry somewhere else, and then wait at the bar above it with a beer while my laundry dries. But also, why aren't there more laundromat bars?! Come on, NYC!

What I Teach 3rd Graders Lisa Shulman

Kosher restaurants are making some interesting food choices.

Great moment this morning. I went to shul this morning for Rosh Chodesh Elul. We're finally at the end (it's going so slow...) and I'm rushing to finish Barchi Nafshi when I'm suddenly interrupted. Shofar!! I'd thought it was after L'David. Honestly it was fantastic. Anyway, Chodesh Tov! 📯👑🌿

but i was told we weren't allowed to erase our history

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

I went to a different location today. And after donating platelets I asked for one of the dry pack things and I got one! They offered an umbrella, too, but I declined.

this is a horrifying story, and shows -- through the very last line -- how broken Florida is. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Rolled into the lunch room. OJ Simpson verdict.

Every time I see conservative fearmongering about how dangerous the NYC subway is, I feel the need to defend it. I grew up in Ohio. It’s cars that are dangerous. It’s car accidents that are terrifyingly common. I’m not being dramatic when I say the subway is one of the best parts of my life now.

Great geography trivia by @civixplorer: every year on July 8th at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world population gets sunlight.

To me this feels like a similar moment to Sandy Hook. If republicans aren’t willing to accept responsibility and change policy to protect young white christian girls in Texas, they won’t do it for anyone.

Incredible article about a bunch of children - now in their 50s and 60s - who were taught to read using a doomed alternate alphabet invented by a Tory MP www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will cease operations. Experts predict that this cessation could result in 14 million fatalities by 2030, including 4.5 million infants and children under the age of five.

Huge increases in ICE spending provides the fuel for Trump to fulfill his promise to go after cities run by Democrats, to do what he has done to LA, with less need to rely on the military. The new funding allows Trump to create a Department of Domestic Military Enforcement.

This is what Trump’s mass deportations look like. Iranian Christians seeking asylum being handcuffed by masked ICE agents in front of their pastor.

Yamah Freeman, 21 and son Gbessey Kiadu, age 1 Ibrahim Koroma, infant Gbossay Conteh, 39 James Kamara, 32 Mommy Kargbo, 27 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...

Donating platelets means I'm in this chair for about 90 minutes. It's only been 40 and already TWO blood donors have passed out in the juice and cookie area and needed to be wheelchaired back for ice packs and reclining. It's hot out, y'all. Stay hydrated!!

A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

Does anyone want a water bottle? (This is from 6 and half of 8th grade classrooms only!)😭

Say it, Bill.

I'm usually a stickler for on time homework. I always accept it late, for a reduced amount (1 point penalty per class) and also homework is a very small percentage of the grade. So I usually don't accept excuses. But this feels excuse worthy!

Never miss a chance to say that New York's subway transports more people per day than all of our nation's airports combined

Addiction, incarceration, the foster system, and then ICE. A beautiful, heartbreaking essay. www.businessinsider.com/took-my-daug...

At a hundred days into his presidency, Joe Biden had a 52% approval rating. As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating. Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:

TFW you send an email asking for feedback on April 2nd, with plenty of lead time. And then a follow up on April 4th. And then a reminder on April 8th. And now it's April 23rd, it needs to be finalized by 4PM, no one has responded by email, although verbally they've expressed that they have thoughts.

I wrote 3500 words about food tampering in Victorian England for my Extended Essay back in the day. Looks like that's about to come back in vogue! Whee!

Protip: Keep goats away from cats. Pro-protip: Keep cats away from dogs. Pro-pro-protip: Keep dogs away from sticks. Pro-pro-pro-protip: Keep sticks away from fire. Pro-pro-pro-pro-protip: Keep fire away from water. Pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-protip: Keep water away from oxen. Pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-proti

Unqualified success. The clearest, most inarguable public policy success in ages.

“The MTA as a whole is averaging 448K more public transit riders per day this year…The MTA ridership growth since congestion pricing went into effect is almost 50% larger than the total ridership of America’s next-largest subway system.” bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion...

Everything is terrible, but I love my bar.

An heir to a south african emerald mine calling an American war veteran, astronaut, and elected senator a "traitor" for supporting Ukraine