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kmbailey59.bsky.social @kmbailey59.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

2026 Q1 viewership for Jimmy Kimmel Live! was 2.53 million. The Talarico interview currently has 2.9 million views. Good job stopping people from seeing it, FCC.

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes - again a little class time given to this story will reap huge benefits. #iTeachMath. #MathsToday

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I mean, decagons are interesting, but you don't really see them in real life. ;) #MTBOS, #MathsToday #iTeachMath

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

IIWST*: I would take time out of my math class today to share this article and explore the math and non-math concepts and ideas it would spawn. Math in the news is always worth the time. #MathsToday #iTeachMath #MTBOS www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

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calliesue.bsky.social @calliesue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

S. Knutson - I always liked Geography so I was curious to see the names given to the Great Lakes by the First Peoples. Even then, 'Ontario' was part of the name. It was the Laurentide Ice Sheet which was part of the Wisconsin Glaciation that created those lakes.

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've taught MVC for 15 years, regularly using math history, art connections, etc.. I talk about Galileo finding the area under a cycloid by weighing, Christopher Wren's proof, tachisochrone and brachisochrone properties, Huygen's clock, etc. 1/2

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 12/08/2026

Latest crazy story from the frontiers of math and AI -- a neurosurgery resident, with no training in advanced math, uses ChatGPT 5.6 to solve a major open problem in numerical linear algebra. alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMN...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

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For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release.

Now that rule has been dropped.

Jon Collins
@jcollins.bsky.social
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The change comes as ICE has faced pressure after the death of 18 detainees so far this year.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

ICE to stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees, internal memo says
The agency is facing pressure to improve medical care in its facilities after reporting the deaths of 18 detainees in the first five months of this year.
www.washingtonpost.com
5:40 PM · Jun 4, 2026

Everybody can reply

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026

Rep. Himes: "The president was setting the basis for him to turn around on election night and say, 'I warned you that the Chinese were doing x, y, and z. It happened tonight. I'm deploying federal officers from DHS to 7 states. They will be seizing ballot boxes.'"

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...

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Comments are Half A Plan To Stop the Takeover of Science...

...here's the second half.

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

How I imagine the phone call went: "So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need Balogun. Fellas, I need Balogun. Give me a break."

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/06/2026

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, the clock is ticking. There are only 15 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Visit the link in our bio to take action!

Countdown graphic from Stand Up for Science showing “15 Days Left” and urging viewers to “Help us stop Vought from destroying American science.” The image features Russell Vought in front of the U.S. Capitol and directs viewers to submit a comment on the OMB proposal through the link in bio.

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Justin Lanier @jlanier.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What do mathematicians do? How do they make new mathematical discoveries? Why does that matter for K-12 math education? If you are a math teacher and you are curious about these questions, join in on "21st century mathematics" in July! Free, online, and flexible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIx...

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"21st century mathematics" returns in July 2026!

YouTube video by Justin Lanier

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This is a great program! Definitely worth considering! #iTeachMath

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Earlier this year, Martin Peterson made national news when Texas A&M warned him not to teach Plato's teachings on gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

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Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So apparently KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. www.ft.com/content/b382...

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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Taxpayers bleed between $132,000 and $197,000 every single day to fund the private cages at Delaney Hall. When public funds turn a profit for private prison corporations, human suffering becomes a highly lucrative business model. We break down the math behind this wealth-extraction machine. (1/10)

Graphic slide with a stark cream background and clean dark typography. The headline reads "The Million-Dollar Cage". The body text reads: "It costs taxpayers between $132,000 and $197,000 every single day to run Delaney Hall, New Jersey’s massive private immigration detention center. Right now, between 807 and 905 human beings are locked inside. When public funds turn a profit for a private prison corporation, human suffering becomes a highly lucrative business model."

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0

Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.

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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 15/05/2026

BREAKING: The DOJ is now 146 days overdue in releasing the Epstein files.

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A new Golden Age....for frausters!

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/05/2026

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Great story of an 18th century farm kid's math notes www.tumblr.com/mathhombre/8...

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I decided to build a pickleball court in my backyard. I told my wife (many times!) that neighbors would pick up the tab and it wouldn't cost us a dime. It turns out that we will have to pay for it by taking out a second mortgage or giving up our health insurance. I'm sure she'll be ok with it.

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Post #2 on teaching polar coordinates. #iTeachMath #mtbos #MathsToday timcorica.substack.com/p/the-straig...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/04/2026

"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

New post: Taming the "Polar" Bear #iTeachMath #mtbos #MathsToday open.substack.com/pub/timcoric...

Title: Taming the "Polar" Bear, with ann image of a coffee cup with a cardioid curve created by light.

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Working on a piece about polar coordinates, and reminded of the "rolling quarters" cycloid by @tenorfrank.bsky.social, I built this little @desmos.com animation. #iTeachMath www.desmos.com/calculator/d...

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Rolling Quarter

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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.”

On January 3, 2026, petitioner was on his way to work when he noticed an SUV
with blacked-out windows, driving erratically and following him, leading Garcia Lanza
to suspect that he had been targeted for a robbery. DE 12-1 2. In fact, Garcia Lanza
had been targeted. According to Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer Jason Langlois, "ICE along with Special Agents from Homeland Security Investigations arrested petitioner while conducting a targeted operation on a third party." DE 11-1,
95. In other words, Garcia Lanza was not the individual the officers were looking to arrest.
Nevertheless, he was soon surrounded by four vehicles and swarmed by a group
of immigration agents. Why? According to the Government, "Officers visually observed petitioner and believed him to match the description of the third party." DE
11-1 15. Asked if he had a "green card," Garcia Lanza provided his U.S. Work
Authorization card, which an agent seized from him. DE 12-1 112-3. That card, valid
until November 3, 2026, states that he "is authorized to work in the U.S. for the validity

of this card." DE 1-1 at 7. It also demonstrated to the agents that they had seized the
wrong person.
The officers surrounding Garcia Lanza took his picture, examined his USCIS
Work Authorization Card, and then, according to petitioner, "seemed unsure what to
do with me." DE 12-1 14. He heard one officer ask "What do we do?" to which the officer holding his identification responded "We're going to take him with us anyway." Id. He was handcuffed by the officers, patted down, surrendered his property and
placed in a vehicle with another arrestee. Id. 15. Garcia Lanza reports that he was
arrested in an area in which the residents are principally Latino and Black and that the
officers initially tried to communicate with him in Spanish. Id.
He was taken to the Hempstead Armory, where he and another detainee were
shackled. Id. At this point, he observed one of the officers complete an administrative
warrant of arrest for his apprehension, which the officer showed to his stepfather who
arrived at the scene. Id. 6-7. His stepfather snapped a picture of the administrative
warrant, signed by an immigration officer, which states that "the subject either lacks
immigration status or...is removable under U.S. immigration law." DE 1-1 at 2. While the timeline differs slightly, a supervisory ICE officer admits unabashedly that officers
apprehended petitioner without an administrative warrant, executing it only after his
apprehension. DE 11-1 15.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 24/02/2026

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.”

cnn thumbnail of a smug man and a journalist. caption, “Newsom's message to the Democratic Party: Be more
'culturally normal'”

California Governor Gavin Newsom sits down with CNN's Dana Bash to talk about the future of the Democratic Party. He says the party should be "less prone to spending disproportionate amount of time on pronouns, identity politics. More focused on tabletop issues, things that really matter - the stacking of stress in terms of the electricity bills and childcare costs and health care and obviously housing costs."
5:57 • Source: CNN

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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...

Graph showing people's estimates of probability for various phrases.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/02/2026

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.

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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash

Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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...

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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...

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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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/

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

At the very end of our session last night you asked why the absolute value pops up in the antiderivative of 1 over x. The answer I gave was that it made sense given that f(x) = 1 over x falls in the first and third quadrants, and the area from a to b, by symmetry, must be the same as the area from −a to −b. This is illustrated by graphs of 1 over x and of ln(abs(x)).

If a function is odd, its integral should be as even.

On the right above (in green) is the plot of ln |x| which shows this.

This is only a justification, but not a proof, as I mentioned last night!

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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.’”

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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.

To whom it may concern.

Please accept my formal resignation from Uline.

As America descends rapidly into fascism. I can no longer work to grow the personal fortunes of people who helped to make it so.

I truly believe that the Uihlein3 and others like them are the biggest threat to global peace, equity, and quality of life. With their money and influence, they could sway politicians against the horrors unfolding in their own backyard, but instead, they funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to the people and organizations committing the horrors.

The only quality of life billionaires care about is their own, and they will always vote for their own interests regardless of the consequences to the public. Why end the genocide in Palestine, or any conflict, when it means more money for weapons manufacturers, which means they have more to spend with their suppliers? This is a hypothetical example.

Liz has made her fondness for Ronald Reagan known, and this should tell us everything we need to know about her family's values and principles. He illustrated perfectly how much violence and evil can hide behind policy and bureaucracy.

What is happening now in America and across the territories they invade, is either by the design or the indifference of people like the Uihleins. The system will never change if we continue to work under them and allow their kind to succeed. However small or passive a role we might play, Uline employees are all parts in the American imperialist war machine.

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Tim Corica @tcorica.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Will this be our Four Dead in Ohio?

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