Bessonitsa Homer

Quaker mom, reader; Brooklyn 🏳️‍⚧️

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@AliceFromQueens I find it had to see how anyone sees “woke” as a uniform or delimited thing. People feel pressure to respond to historic discrimination, they do it to greater and lesser degrees, there are uncertainty and second thoughts and confusion. It’s not a single ideology or contingent.

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@ettingermentum I find it had to see how anyone sees “woke” as a uniform or delimited thing. People feel pressure to respond to historic discrimination, they do it to greater and lesser degrees, there are uncertainty and second thoughts and confusion. It’s not a single ideology or contingent.

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@katrosenfield @literaryeric I find it had to see how anyone sees “woke” as a uniform or delimited thing. People feel pressure to respond to historic discrimination, they do it to greater and lesser degrees, there are uncertainty and second thoughts and confusion. It’s not a single ideology or contingent.

[leonie haimson @leoniehaimson]

Choice of i-Ready as math program at many elementary & middle schools despite fierce backlash against its screeners & privacy lawsuit indicates DOE educrats not paying attention. Plus where’s any independent research backing any of these curriculums? https://t.co/zQhvsK10XS

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@matthewstoller @AlecMacGillis It’s interesting. People like to win, but ultimately are destabilized by an environment in which it’s too easy for them to win

[leonie haimson @leoniehaimson]

If he is cutting $500M in spending on class size for FY27, what is left? Prelim budget had $543M; does that mean @nycmayor is only planning to spend $43M on more staffing &/or space next year? What is the new timeline, and where is the plan?

[leonie haimson @leoniehaimson]

"According Hochul’s office, the governor has agreed to grant the mayor flexibility in meeting the class size law, allowing NYC to cut $500M in spending." This deal if it happened would have been with @LiuNewYork & other legislators - not simply w/Gov. https://t.co/SCiemHwNDD

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@BradWilcoxIFS @AlecMacGillis What does that have to do with how much housework men do?

[Katie Chiou @katiewav]

i built a site that explores which books are most popular across the brooklyn public library system!

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[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@JosieStratman https://t.co/dq5UgNkldz

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@gabrielwinant Just had a new author think a legit commissioning letter was an AI scam. Scroll down here for the book club heist https://t.co/uFnWUQh7ro

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@jackmjenkins @NYCQuakers

[leonie haimson @leoniehaimson]

NYers: Please join us tomorrow at 4 PM at City Hall Park in front of the fountain, where our coalition will deliver our petition w/more than 2000 signers & a national letter calling for an AI moratorium to the Mayor's office. More info & RSVP here: https://t.co/I9AQIleZFn

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@maxdubler The developer actually tore down those houses, which had been multifamily dwellings.

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@maxdubler The developer actually tore down those houses, which had been multifamily dwellings.

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@RossBarkan Is it usual for the Speaker to be so personally identified with the Council budget? Seems like she’s very deliberately setting up a head-to-head for her own “branding” and the Council is going along with it

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@SallyGold @JulieMenin @NYCMayor Is the Council budget usually so strongly identified with the Speaker?

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@DKThomp @AlecMacGillis Or continental European countries have a higher level of resistance in traditional cultures (poss: English as a late imperial language more porous, cultures more diverse)

[Emma Ashford @EmmaMAshford]

I’ve been pretty critical of Democrats’ response on Iran, but credit where it’s due: both Joaquin Castro and Chris Murphy have been outspoken and engaged.

[Bessonitsa Homer @Bessonitsa_]

@JoyceCarolOates @RossBarkan Bloom did like to sound off