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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith

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One time Joe Lhota said he wanted to see some positive tweets about the subway, and I answered the call. Repeal Hecht-Calandra. NYCDOE/NYCPS parent emeritus. All content is handcrafted _just_ for you and represents my personal opinions only

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School segregation is a huge problem in NYS but this report was put together by an astroturfed Bloomberg/Walton/etc-funded group (50CAN) that mainly wants to portray traditional public schools in a negative light and push for more charters (which is the only reason the Post is covering it)

10.03.2026 03:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨new one just dropped

A different reporter on the byline but we’re back in “substantial inherited passive income from a manufacturing company; run a nonprofit for which I am the sole employee; rent locked in at 2010 levels; and aggressive accountancy” territory

10.03.2026 02:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Iran has Tomahawk missiles, a fact we disclosed only after a Tomahawk was caught on camera striking a school, in Iran, during a US bombardment consistently of hundreds of Tomahawk missiles”

-if your news org isn’t openly attacking this claim you may as well run Sandy Hook false flag theories too

10.03.2026 02:12 — 👍 706    🔁 100    💬 8    📌 2
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Kids grow fast, and so do we.

This fall, we're adding more than 1,000 seats for universal 3-K in 56 zip codes. Childcare will be more accessible and affordable across all five boroughs.

09.03.2026 23:06 — 👍 2506    🔁 345    💬 30    📌 23

I also bet a “stealing from Whole Foods is based” / “I should be allowed to summarily murder porch pirates” Venn diagram exists and is interesting

09.03.2026 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I steal from ALDI all the time. Or at least it feels like stealing, as a result of its incredible prices!

09.03.2026 20:07 — 👍 55    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Society really hasn’t been the same since a lot of people got upset that “Slack Motherfucker” wasn’t an ode to being a slack motherfucker but a righteous deeply felt complaint about a lazy coworker who had to be compensated for, there just wasn’t any coming back from that

09.03.2026 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s only a matter of time before Webster’s does that thing where they relent on this because so many people misspell it, isn’t it

PS people who engage in discretionary shoplifting suck

09.03.2026 20:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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@miamiherald.com

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Bench players flipping off the crowd, gtfoh

09.03.2026 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, I deleted a post from after the game that wasn’t especially diplomatic but this was a terrible look for Miami and I for one am rooting against them

09.03.2026 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The removed posts about the restaurant

The removed posts about the restaurant

I removed a couple of posts pending further developments and will reach out to reporters—I think New Yorkers deserve to know whether having a cooked pig directly outside a kosher restaurant is considered legitimate peaceful protest by the NYPD, or if a business owner facilitated this

09.03.2026 12:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

This is something worth confirming

It seems like setting up table immediately outside a business in this way wouldn’t be covered by 1A rights but maybe I’m wrong bsky.app/profile/east...

09.03.2026 12:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Apart from all of this what kind of inconsiderate jerk does this outside of a Kumon, think of the children ffs

09.03.2026 12:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You left out ballroom architecture smh

09.03.2026 11:46 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With oil at $110, I’d guess the equity markets give up another 3-5% over the next few days.

And then Trump TACOs.

The result? The war will have succeeded in clearing out the Iranian gerontocracy for a new generation of younger extremist Mullahs.

09.03.2026 03:35 — 👍 728    🔁 163    💬 47    📌 20
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U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

09.03.2026 02:40 — 👍 2546    🔁 1142    💬 169    📌 149
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🚨 Japan’s Nikkei stock index plunges more than 6%

09.03.2026 00:32 — 👍 1236    🔁 378    💬 85    📌 53

The initial Amy Siskind post that called attention to these remarks was needlessly untruthful but Leavitt doesn’t engage with the substance of the question or rule out a draft, so idk

09.03.2026 00:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Here's the Karoline Leavitt interview people are talking about.

Maria Bartiromo asks if Trump might send ground troops into Iran, because "mothers are worried" about a draft. Leavitt replies that ground troops aren't in the current plan, but Trump won't rule them out. No mention of the draft.

08.03.2026 23:09 — 👍 752    🔁 222    💬 23    📌 66
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Panhandler killed in Brooklyn hit-and-run was struck by two SUV drivers: NYPD

Panhandler killed in Brooklyn hit-and-run was struck by two SUV drivers: NYPD

08.03.2026 21:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
This year, when the financial picture darkened, Gelb laid off 22 administrative staff members and trimmed the salaries of 35 other non-union employees who make more than $150,000 a year. The pay cuts ranged between 4 percent and 15 percent.
Gelb, who last year made nearly $1.4 million, said the move cut his salary by $150,000.

This year, when the financial picture darkened, Gelb laid off 22 administrative staff members and trimmed the salaries of 35 other non-union employees who make more than $150,000 a year. The pay cuts ranged between 4 percent and 15 percent. Gelb, who last year made nearly $1.4 million, said the move cut his salary by $150,000.

Gelb, though, says he knows what he wants to find most under one of those rocks: an uberwealthy opera lover.
"What we really need," he said, "is one of these triple-digit billionaires to give us a billion dollars."

Gelb, though, says he knows what he wants to find most under one of those rocks: an uberwealthy opera lover. "What we really need," he said, "is one of these triple-digit billionaires to give us a billion dollars."

I’m guessing the sting was taken out of this cut by the $800,000 lump sum retirement payout Gelb took per their 2024 990

Also, I am happy to provide the Met with no worse than this level of business acumen for one half of what they are paying him, I am standing by for their call

08.03.2026 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do the people with children in the northern half of the country want them getting to school in pitch darkness between December and February to avoid one annoying Sunday?

08.03.2026 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

My annual reminder to the permanent DST industrial complex: permanent DST would mean that sunrise would be after 8:00 am in NYC from December 1 to February 6, including a 1-month stretch where it would be after 8:15

It’s not a serious proposal, quit trying to make it happen!

01.11.2024 11:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A typically amazing and insightful tweet from me that read: “I am tapping the sign early this year:

If we didn’t shift to standard, sunrise would be at 8:00+ am between Nov 30 and Feb 6, including a 34-day stretch where it would be after 8:15.

Stop blaming standard time for the fact there’s only 9:15 hrs of daylight during the winter!”

A typically amazing and insightful tweet from me that read: “I am tapping the sign early this year: If we didn’t shift to standard, sunrise would be at 8:00+ am between Nov 30 and Feb 6, including a 34-day stretch where it would be after 8:15. Stop blaming standard time for the fact there’s only 9:15 hrs of daylight during the winter!”

Repurposing some of my Twitter IP

We’re not gonna have northeastern children running around in pitch darkness for 20% of their yearly schoolday mornings, quit trying to make permanent DST happen

10.03.2024 14:52 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

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W T F

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😳 😳 😳

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Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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