In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, a few cable news hits, and then down to the recently destroyed office towers to be lifted and carried by burly firemen. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.

May I offer some free, unsolicited advice to colleges launching these laudable and necessary initiatives during these troubling times when colleges are under direct attack, and when intentional obtuseness around affordability is a chief vector?

Wellesley College@wellesley.edu · 12h ago

In the fall of 2027, we are launching The Wellesley Tuition Promise: a guaranteed, tuition-free education for students whose families have a total annual income of $200,000 or less and typical assets. Visit this link to learn more: bit.ly/3TiWbuw

Hey friends: I made a @changeorge.bsky.social petition, so we can actually indicate that it’s wrong for a criminal bigot to be at a ceremony meant to honor those who were lost. I’d appreciate if you took a moment to sign. (Anyone can sign, not just New Yorkers.) c.org/dTXC4f9w4C

This campaign needs you now

Ban Rudy Giuliani from 9/11 observances

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Anil Dash@anildash.com · 15h ago

Rudy Giuliani should absolutely be banned from the 9/11 observances. He supported an insurrection, just as he supported police attempting to invade City Hall, and is just as intent on destroying America as Bin Laden. New Yorkers don’t want him at the event. @nytimes.com why aren’t you covering this?

I don't think a reenactment is really a good idea

A regularly scheduled major sporting match shouldn’t begin any later than 8:00 pm local time

School starts tomorrow. I haven’t seen a single story about either this or the US DOJ’s threat to the Discovery Program (first reported by Bloomberg) Forget our many education reporters—how is “Stanford PhD sues city to get her child into Stuyvesant” not a _New York_ cover story?

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · last wk.

School in New York City starts in 9 days (which, lol, but…) The lawsuit brought by an activist arch-conservative nonprofit seeking to place one student at Stuyvesant and partially undo the Discovery Program is headed to the 2d. Cir. The lack of reporting on this is utterly inexplicable

The University of California is in the midst of what looks to be a year-long debate about the use of SAT scores in undergraduate admissions. I wrote a FAQ that attempts to collect the facts that are relevant to this debate, and to dispel some common misconceptions: escholarship.org/uc/item/6kx2...

garyrubinstein.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/s...

Success Academy Sues NYSED For Inadvertently Exposing That They Have Been Gaming The US News & World Report Rankings For Years

No matter where you go in New York City, you are forced to ponder the Success Academy charter network. On bus stops, in your mailbox, even as a commercial during a YouTube video, the school seems t…

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thoughts and prayers to the email inboxes of any area media professionals Also, you might want to look into that grad rate one of these years idk

This “clean up on Aisle 10” is a blatant lie and worse if they had just pretended he hadn’t said it There’s nothing “disputed” about it, it is an off-his-rocker fabrication

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."

Uh, quick, give me 12 reporters for a rush re-look at the Biden visitors’ logs

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

The Toledo Blade, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, will publish its final edition on Dec. 31. if it can’t find a buyer “Founded in 1835, the newspaper is Toledo’s oldest continually operating business”

Possible final edition of Blade announced; company explores sale

Block Communications has announced its intention to explore a sale of The Blade’s assets, which, if unsuccessful, will result in the final edition of the ...

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We really don’t need to have (more) Democrats join the Republican project of destroying and delegitimizing higher ed because people are upset that their kid had to go to CMU instead of Columbia

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2d ago

If I was advising some centrist Dem presidential hopeful I think a good triangulatory issue for them is some huge higher ed reform like overhauling the college admission system. Propose banning all non-merit-based admission requirements and replacing with new standards-based exam to replace SAT/ACT

In addition to the preposterous framing this pretty lengthy piece contains no mention of the fact that the attacker is the brother of a Republican operative and large donor to Ramaswamy whom Acton had recently criticized

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2d ago

This irresponsible WaPo headline implies that both sides are responsible for a Republican lunatic attacking the Democratic candidate. The “toxicity” is also mostly a Republican phenomenon.

Happy Speeding Parents Driving Their Kids Back to School Day to all those observing in Massachusetts today

Again, this is qualitatively different from staging, or using a photographer to get the lighting right. (I do think that using AI to slap California golden hour lighting on Midwest listings gets close.) These listings mislead and/or outright lie to buyers about the product.

There’s an SHSAT thread going in which the “siphon” theory is being invoked, the one that says qualified Black and Hispanic students are eagerly scooped up by elite private schools so of course there wouldn’t be many at the SHS Which…..yikes! But what do the numbers say?

This is somehow still going, and it’s not just a few random families now; it’s also a former mayor of NYC and governor of New York. There is, again, no way to reason to argue Mamdani shouldn’t attend this commemoration that isn’t fundamentally bigoted

Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism

Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims.

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Now we’re freaking talking, a celebrity! We should pay our legislators well so we’re represented by at least a few people who aren’t wealthy

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · last wk.

Inherit a four-bedroom house large enough to hold 5 adults and 3 children that costs $2,000/month to cover the refinanced mortgage, insurance, and property taxes and you too can afford New York

A traitor to our country experiences a bad case of Islamophobic verbal diarrhea, and the New York Times is ON IT

Democratic leadership really has its finger on the pulse, folks.

Ladies and gentlemen, that was just the greatest punt in the history of football.

It will be very interesting to compare and contrast the coverage of and inferences made from the attack on Amy Acton vs the one on Lee Zeldin

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · 2y ago

Good thing I saved the 538 2022 NY governor’s polling aggregate from the day EPA secretary Zeldin was “attacked”!

Very involuntarily witnessed a not-young couple extreme dry-humping (at least I hope that was the extent of it) on a bench on a not particularly secluded trail at Wave Hill and I am basically on Team Sid Rosenberg - Sean Hannity - Maria Bartiromo - Bruce Blakeman now you guys, I’m very sorry

I found the world's saddest vending machine

Just saw a 2025 Crosstrek with a large “Drill, Baby, Drill” sticker on the rear hatch

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · last yr.

My first real job was in advertising research and I would be super-interested to be a fly on the wall with whoever does that work for Subaru because its whole vibe is changing as we speak

and if there were any question, NBC's video is directly synced to the daktronics. this is a genuinely undebatable issue that the game was over.

The owners of NYC’s brand-new casino are doing everything they can to persuade Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration to lower their tax bill by hundreds of millions of dollars. But Hochul appears unmoved — raising the odds the dispute will end up in court.

NYC’s New Casino Is Upping the Ante to Lower Its Taxes

Queens lawmakers are joining Resorts World’s push, saying the casino expansion could otherwise collapse. Governor Hochul isn’t budging.

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While making left turns in crowded business districts; while merging onto the highway; while dropping kids off at school; while leaving the church parking lot There is a reason why people applauded the NJ police department that did the hidden-tree sting, phone use is out of control

Ed@notdred.bsky.social · 5d ago

I don’t think the giant infotainment screens in new cars are *good* but to be honest I think the actual problem is drivers just straight up looking at their phones while driving

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s chief counsel says he took “immediate corrective action” after learning that a City Hall communications staffer set some chats on an encrypted app to “auto delete” official messages.

Mamdani Team Deletes Auto-Delete in Influencer Chats

Mayor’s counsel says he took “immediate corrective action” after learning an aide broke records retention rules on the Signal encrypted communications app.

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I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.