Alex Freidus
@alexfreidus.bsky.social
schools, race, & inequality | author of "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" | momming & cooking & running & reading romance & mystery | she/her | personal account www.alexandrafreidus.com
401! Y'all are the best. Only four more to 405. 😉
Anna Meier@annameier.bsky.social · 3d agoWe only need five more signatures to get to 400 on our solidarity petition. If you're an academic, Boston-area resident, or anyone who supports international workers facing exploitation and retaliation from their bosses, you can sign. Thank you!
Win for the evening: the 10 y.o. can now accurately and appropriately use the phrase "late stage capitalism."
Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.
Me, tearing up a dollar bill in front of my class the first week of the semester: "Why do you care? Money is a social construct! Doesn't that mean it isn't real?"
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d agothere are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: (which is actually not hard for me): no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Cher's Disappointed Reaction
ALT: Cher's Disappointed Reaction
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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
I mean, I *guess* Pride and Prejudice might be considered a slow burn, but more in the way cartoon characters catch fire and don’t notice it until just as they’re about to become a mound of soot with eyeballs.
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“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” There are legions of guys on message boards and in people’s replies who need to have this hot-iron branded onto their asses.
Now and forever, Coates lives rent-free in my head: "Was silence not an option?" (www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...)
Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4w agoHey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.
One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity.
My teenager just came home from his FREE summer camp organized by NYC Public Schools at a glass studio where he is making a neon sign and proudly announced: "I learned to use a new kind of blow torch and I have my first battle wound." Sometimes I love raising kids in New York.
I really hesitate to ask this in public, but I'm looking for a well-written history that can help me think about Ireland specifically as a colony.
I really hesitate to ask this in public, but I'm looking for a well-written history that can help me think about Ireland specifically as a colony.
so no, it isn’t hard to imagine that someone who believes so strongly in their right to do whatever the fuck they want no matter who it harms would later be revealed to show that exact trait again in a different way, and this will certainly not be where it ends. the tattoo told us everything already
Y'all, when I tell you we just submitted an 11 page response letter with a journal article revision.
So do we think the white hoods are an accidental choice or...?
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo."Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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I shudder to think what's coming next.
laura olin@lauraolin.bsky.social · last mo.*slaps roof of new york* this baby’s got everything
OK that's it, we're watching Inside Man with the 14 y.o. this weekend.
Alex Freidus@alexfreidus.bsky.social · last mo.This morning I was on a walk in Fort Greene and I passed Spike Lee chilling on a bench drinking coffee. I try to be a cool NYer but double-checke in case I was srong and he nodded and smiled and said, "Knicks in five!" instead of good morning.
I'm sorry but is there literally nothing in the world that Matt Yglesias does not feel entitled to opine about? I thought my ed news headlines were safe...
The 74@the74.bsky.social · last mo.Yglesias: We should care more about actual efficacy in teaching bit.ly/4apEzme
This morning I was on a walk in Fort Greene and I passed Spike Lee chilling on a bench drinking coffee. I try to be a cool NYer but double-checke in case I was srong and he nodded and smiled and said, "Knicks in five!" instead of good morning.
"It’s just a little essay. It’ll be okay. Consider: Did the Weather Underground have a point? Then? Now? Were they a cautionary tale? If so, what is that tale about? Whither the caution? What, precisely, is the lesson here? Was it worth it?"
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.My dear lord. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
Every so often I total up all the time I've spent making sure my kid gets the prescriptions, services, and educational accommodations he needs and... I wish I hadn't.
It's easier for media to portray the election as an attack on American Jews than to delve into what NY-10 really was: The second most Jewish Congressional district in the US having a referendum between two Jewish candidates on what it means to do Jewish politics in the age of Trump and Netanyahu.
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last mo.A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms:
Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”
Grateful to NYC based writers, authors and scholars who have signed on to An Open Letter to @mayor.nyc.gov urging him to adequately fund our public libraries. I see some @bsky.app mutuals on here as well as some fave writers. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
NYC Public Library Action Network — open letter to Mayor Mamdani
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Children with disabilities in schools are students who deserve education, not patients in need of treatment.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoBreaking News: The Trump administration took its most aggressive steps to dismantle the Education Department by breaking away key programs for disabled students and the enforcement of civil rights laws in schools.
Children with disabilities in schools are students who deserve education, not patients in need of treatment.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoBreaking News: The Trump administration took its most aggressive steps to dismantle the Education Department by breaking away key programs for disabled students and the enforcement of civil rights laws in schools.
