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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 5h

The fraternity sexual assault at Cornell was so severe and shocking it may put the institution into a tailspin from which it can’t recover Here’s why making sure those crimes are appropriately prosecuted is bad news for Kathy Hochul

Headlines from the “New York” digital front page of the New York Times:

Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times
A Campus Reckoning: 'Cornell Is Now Known for This'
Accusations of sexual assault at a fraternity party have tarnished the self-image of a fiercely proud Ivy League institution. Can the university ever be the same?
6h ago
Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Cornell Case Carries Far-Reaching Implications for Hochul and James
The decision to intercede by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, has raised questions of impartiality as both face re-election.
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 5h

Delighting the members of my household by blurting out “Schtrowwsz” in an exaggerated German accent at random unexpected moments

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 17h

Do the Democrats have a plan in place to address the Arkansas restaurant that asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her security detail to observe a posted 90-minute table seating limit

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 19h

Tarik Skubal reminding everyone to stay hydrated and wear sunscreen 🥹

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 22h

I remind everyone, again, that they tried year-round daylight saving time and stopped it because it got bunch of kids got killed in just a few weeks

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Killing a couple hundred additional K-5 students every year as they travel to school every morning in pitch darkness between December and March so back-nine coverage of the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches can kick off at 3:00 pm instead of 2:00

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sorry, followers, for a month or so (hopefully) I might post about the Dodgers on occasion If it makes you feel better thanks to the Yankees this was my baseline level of moroseness for a lot of my formative years

Me wearing a Dodgers hat at a July 4 parade c. 1979–1980

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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can feel the Catholicism unlapsing in real time

A screen shot of a tweet from pop Leo XIV and a reply from “Spectro”

The popes tweet says: “in this era of artificial intelligence, it’s important to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one , between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculations based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack” (rest of tweet cut off).

The reply says: “Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You’re not an AI influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you’re being used to sway public opinion. How many local models do you run?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history

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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?

Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ready for a piping hot wokescold take from someone who is admittedly quite meh on the mayor at the moment? Mamdani is getting played by Sliwa. There’s a much better case to be made that City Hall should consider him persona non grata than there is for cutting PSAs with him

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My BEARD (Botched Executions Above Replacement Device) model ranks lethal injection slightly below the electric chair. And I tell you the best place in Bonne Terre to get a chicken-fried steak. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think there needs to be that much Kirk Herbstreit on television

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s almost as if there should be more restrictions placed on operating vehicles especially poorly suited for safe operation around pedestrians and bicyclists in dense neighborhood centers, just spitballing here

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new climate normal in New York City—air conditioning is necessary through the end of October, maybe November 15 if you are playing it safe. Then count on needing it again at some point in March.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chronicle leapfrogging Inside Higher Ed to take the lead in the race to see who can please the right more by demonstrating a consistent and absolute hatred of “college”

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pal sent me the video, so....

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a little unsettling how quickly and completely Amazon phased out its marked delivery vehicles (usually electric, lots of safety tech) in my neighborhood for a janky collection of unmarked ever-idling gas/diesel vans Enjoy the “free” deliveries everyone

A typical “undercover” Amazon delivery van being operated by a contract worker

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It takes years of training to perfect this manoeuvre. #WorldBollardAssociation

An NYPD police car balances its rear wheel in a black bollard leaving the car stranded in the air.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump has trashed the economy, destroyed America’s international standing, and suffered a humiliation at the hands of Iran. But a woman I’ve never heard of before sent her kid to the wrong school in a city I don’t live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank goodness, it had been a few days since David Banks had thrown a wet blanket on integration by saying we should teach kids to read, an extremely fresh and relevant contribution to the discourse

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

• it runs counter to the coordinated Republican plan to destabilize and diminish higher education • a disproportionate number of people who both report and consume news attended and want their kids to attend the small number of colleges that do not offer merit discounts or do so minimally

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shoot this into my veins.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What's more! Kahlenberg is actively replicating the biases the report he linked to is trying to challenge. #PairedTexts 1. Look what he wrote. 2. Look what the report says.

Nine in 10 Democrats want kids to see the Declaration of Independence and Constitution in a positive light, and eight in 10 Republicans want students to learn about slavery and segregation.

Republicans Underestimate Democrats’ Commitment to Celebrating American Achievements and Overall Story of Progress

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the country’s foremost peddlers of “it’s class not race” bullshit whose decades of assurances that the right would support socioeconomic set-asides were predictably proven embarrassingly, egregiously incorrect wants to blame his failures on Woke, and the Atlantic is ON IT

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New York City’s subway is a broken safety valve for an entire region’s housing and healthcare crises.

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Lindsay Crosby, big baseball guy @crosbybaseball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BRYCE HARPER DIDN'T PLAY THIS FLY BALL, IT PLAYED HIM! BRAVES LEAD!!!!!

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man I am shocked that JCK would bring right-wing talking points and obfuscation to his analysis of the NHJ piece, I wonder what kind of environment he spends most of his time in

wealthier neighborhoods. P.S. 307, for example, spends an average of $52,349 per student and has a student-to-teacher ratio of nine to one, while P.S. 321, which serves the children of lawyers and autofiction novelists with wealthy parents, spends $26,129 per student. A variety of factors may contribute to that gap, including the relative number of students with disabilities, but it's not necessarily the case that Najya was receiving less funding than a rich white student in Park Slope.

are actually teaching their students. The widespread dismissal of standardized testing is one of the silliest and most harmful developments in the past twenty-five years of education discourse. We need

new essay. Make schools big, make them regimented, and make them impervious to the whims of graduate schools of education. Make sure that struggling

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, yeah, sorry to politicize this man’s death but I don’t want to ever hear again that one-person operation is some clear and present danger to public safety Updated gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/29/m...

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Man exiting Brooklyn subway train dragged to death, witnesses say his bag got caught in door

Yaw Adu Boahene, 66, walking unsteadily with a cane, was getting off an A train at the Utica Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant when killed.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bell Curves is exploring the #SHSAT: 3rd version in 3 yrs. All this flux just gives those who can prep a greater advantage Read about the practice tests that aren't like the actual test: www.linkedin.com/pulse/shsat-... & the interface: www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-sh... @errollouis.bsky.social

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess I’ll keep screaming it into the void: AP participation and pass rates for the 2023–2024 school year for every HS in NYS are publicly available USNWR didn’t want to pay someone to collect the data, that’s all this is about! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...

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U.S. News Shuffled Its N.Y. High School Rankings. An Uproar Ensued. (Gift Article)

After the New York State Education Department denied a request from U.S. News for A.P. scores, perennially top-ranked schools plummeted.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I admire the hell out of this couple telling the SNAD police that the 1600 SF, 2 BD, 4B addition they are putting on their already giant house is for the wife’s 90-year-old mom

• Modest development in keeping with character of neighborhood. Adding extension for Tina's
90-year-old mother.

• Emphasis on tree preservation and capture of stormwater runoff. Not cutting any trees

• 1 story extension at corner of property to 1 story ranch house with low elevation, flat roof.
Building height below 25.

• 1,600 sq foot addition, less than permitted

• Swimming pool put in two years ago

, tax lot 585 and 600 which is now combined into one lot

• No independent kitchen

• 2 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms

• Built on lowest point of site. No changes to grade or topography.

• Already built retaining wall as foundation for proposed addition being built over this wall to prevent any overflow to neighbor. Will place 57 water retention tanks for collection.

• One sewer line for whole property - Riverdale Sanitation Corp.

• Using existing driveway for construction vehicles and trucks

A Google Street View image of a handsome, well built, sprawling ranch style house on a big wooded lot in the far NW Bronx

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New York Daily News @nydailynews.com · 30/09/2026

A 75-year-old man was fighting for his life Tuesday after an SUV driver slammed into him in the crosswalk on a Bronx street near Yankee Stadium, police said.

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75-year-old man critically injured in crash near Yankee Stadium, driver arrested

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ferociously defend an intentionally exclusionary and segregative school system, but make it leftishly

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FIFTH REPORT: CHILDREN HARMED AT ALPHA SCHOOL'S BOOT CAMP Just over a week ago, 73 Alpha School high school students were left almost entirely unsupervised for three days in the Texas wilderness. It was a Fyre Festival-like disaster. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/fifth-repo...

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FIFTH REPORT: CHILDREN HARMED AT ALPHA SCHOOL’S BOOT CAMP

Student hospitalized during Survival Challenge on wilderness ranch; police investigation is ongoing; other concerning incidents re student safety and privacy; one guide fired; also Little B. Diddies

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nick Sirianni you are fucking cooked amigo

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope the Baileys don’t have any relatives in Nebraska

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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A great conversation with New York Times Magazine correspondent Nikole Hannah-Jones about her family's decisions regarding her daughter's education wnyc.org/browse/shows...

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Nikole Hannah Jones on Hard School Choices | WNYC

Nikole Hannah Jones, domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, co-founder of the Ida B.

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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It really is insane how many parking lots NYCHA has IMMEDIATELY adjacent to subway station entrances.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have many legit criticisms of my assemblyman, but for many years now he has been leading the charge to eliminate the Voluntary Intoxication Exclusion language from NY’s sexual assault laws, which is likely what led the DA to not bring charges in the Cornell case www.norwoodnews.org/dinowitz-bil...

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Dinowitz Bill Aiming to Close Voluntary Intoxication Loophole in Sexual Assault Cases Reaches 77 Co-Sponsors - Norwood News

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (A.D. 81) announced April 30 that his draft bill (A.101) which, if it becomes law, would protect voluntarily intoxicated people from being targeted for sexual assault, has...

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had a feverish dream that the president of the 92nd Street Y, whose father was holistically admitted to Bronx Science and who has kids approaching HS age, wrote an opinion piece saying that the Mamdani coalition can and must be fractured by something something SHSAT…man, I am really sick, lol

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This tastefully named charter school music teacher is happily living his best life—after all these years, deep Bay Ridge and Astoria still have some somewhat reasonably priced starter apartments if you have the time to search and a little bit of luck.

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How a Brooklyn Fashionista
Lives on $67,000 a Year in Bay Ridge
By Winnie Hu Photographs by Roshni Khatri Sept. 24, 2026
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How can people possibly afford to live in one of the most expensive cities on the planet? It's a question New Yorkers hear a lot, often delivered with a mix of awe, pity and confusion.

Since then, Mr. Victor has made a home for himself in Brooklyn. He
pays $1,450 a month to rent a studio apartment in Bay Ridge

with plenty of closet space and a balcony that looks out to the

Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. "I have a lot of clothes," he said.

"Those are my babies, they can't just be on the floor, they've got to

live somewhere."

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sociologists study evidence abt causes & consequences of inequality & are supposed to emerge with the opinions of someone who spent 30 years studying drywall people who study evidence have thoughts about what the evidence shows. that does not mean they stop being capable of producing evidence.

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