Tracy O’Connell Novick
@tracynovick.bsky.social
Yes, that Tracy Novick
she/her/hers
Education policy and finance
I speak here only for me/ nullius in verba
from the Heart of the Commonwealth
Sometimes random photos of the cat
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she/her/hers
Education policy and finance
I speak here only for me/ nullius in verba
from the Heart of the Commonwealth
Sometimes random photos of the cat
linktr.ee/TracyNovick
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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The observations of the Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission chairperson are amazingly damning
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The observations of the Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission chairperson are amazingly damning
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As I reported at the time: bsky.app/profile/chri...
Contrary to what you might read on Axios, DOJ is not filing an Emergency Appeal on Jia Cobb's Guard deployment order BECAUSE of the shooting. They noticed their appeal on Tuesday.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
As I reported at the time: bsky.app/profile/chri...
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I'm reading this book right now and while I knew it would be good, I didn't know it would be THIS delightful. Dictionaries: they are WILD!
Good morning, kids and people, today in book, we have a cover:
(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)
(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I'm reading this book right now and while I knew it would be good, I didn't know it would be THIS delightful. Dictionaries: they are WILD!
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Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.
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National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
yes, it is me, the fun person who sends a school finance memo at 4 PM on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
HAPPY HOLIDAY!
HAPPY HOLIDAY!
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
yes, it is me, the fun person who sends a school finance memo at 4 PM on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
HAPPY HOLIDAY!
HAPPY HOLIDAY!
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TIP: Anyone who posts wild speculation as something that is “almost certainly” the case right now is ~almost certainly~ someone you should not rely on in moments where news is breaking and a story is rapidly developing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
TIP: Anyone who posts wild speculation as something that is “almost certainly” the case right now is ~almost certainly~ someone you should not rely on in moments where news is breaking and a story is rapidly developing.
This stinks. They never should have been required to be there.
Breaking news: Both National Guardsmen who were shot near the White House have died, officials confirm. They were from West Virginia.
D.C. police say they have the suspect in custody.
Follow live updates: https://wapo.st/48irgBT
D.C. police say they have the suspect in custody.
Follow live updates: https://wapo.st/48irgBT
Live updates: 2 National Guard members shot in D.C. near White House
Three gunshot victims were taken to the hospital after the shooting in downtown Washington.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This stinks. They never should have been required to be there.
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Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
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Easy to miss the day before Thanksgiving, but Treasury has issued a 21-page request for comment on regs for the new federal school voucher program. Due one month from today, so let's get on it, edu-friends! h/t @politico.com @mackwilkes.bsky.social!
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Treasury, IRS request comments on implementation of the new federal tax credit for individual contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill | Internal Revenue ...
IR-2025-115, Nov. 25, 2025 — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued Notice 2025-70, requesting comments on the implementation of a new tax credit for individuals ...
www.irs.gov
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Easy to miss the day before Thanksgiving, but Treasury has issued a 21-page request for comment on regs for the new federal school voucher program. Due one month from today, so let's get on it, edu-friends! h/t @politico.com @mackwilkes.bsky.social!
www.irs.gov/newsroom/tre...
www.irs.gov/newsroom/tre...
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Reminder to folks that you can get anything you want at The Map Center, even 8x10 glossy prints with a washable finish so you can draw circles and arrows on them, wipe them clean and reuse them. No need to send them to the landfill!
Also, we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
Also, we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reminder to folks that you can get anything you want at The Map Center, even 8x10 glossy prints with a washable finish so you can draw circles and arrows on them, wipe them clean and reuse them. No need to send them to the landfill!
Also, we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
Also, we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
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I see the most predictable thing ever has happened
Exclusive: President Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic.
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I see the most predictable thing ever has happened
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The BBC censoring a line from Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture saying that Trump is the most openly corrupt president in US history--a blatant and undeniable truth--is insane to me. Only complete and utter cowards would see this as controversial. www.linkedin.com/posts/rutger...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor the opening lecture of a series they invited me to deliver.
They removed the sentence in which I describe Donald Trump as “the… ...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor the opening lecture of a series they invited me to deliver.
They removed the sentence in which I describe Donald Trump as “the m...
www.linkedin.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The BBC censoring a line from Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture saying that Trump is the most openly corrupt president in US history--a blatant and undeniable truth--is insane to me. Only complete and utter cowards would see this as controversial. www.linkedin.com/posts/rutger...
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Please let's not do the "making fun of an ethnic name" thing
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Please let's not do the "making fun of an ethnic name" thing
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.
Mass. officials rebuke ‘dangerous’ vaccine misinformation added to CDC website
Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines may cause autism.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.
and a h/t to Somerville, Easthampton et al for updating their legal filing
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
and a h/t to Somerville, Easthampton et al for updating their legal filing
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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This is infuriating—RFK Jr and crew are trying to discourage pregnant women from getting Covid vax, claiming they are concerned about autism. RESEARCH shows getting Covid while pregnant increases frequency of autism (and more) for the kid and puts mom at risk for serious respiratory/clotting issues.
The CDC's guidance on COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women has been off and on and now off again. But a recent study highlights the risk of COVID-19 during pregnancy, by @deldeib.bsky.social
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is infuriating—RFK Jr and crew are trying to discourage pregnant women from getting Covid vax, claiming they are concerned about autism. RESEARCH shows getting Covid while pregnant increases frequency of autism (and more) for the kid and puts mom at risk for serious respiratory/clotting issues.
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"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
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I’m listening
Me about to piss off a bunch of capitalists: If Bezos doesn’t want to pay his fair share in corporate taxes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t nationalise Amazon and make it a subsidiary of the post office.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I’m listening
For a moment, I presumed this was a new “sub in for AI” bit
Every question headline should end like this
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
For a moment, I presumed this was a new “sub in for AI” bit
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Saving this post cos the dunks are great reading & will give me life when we have to endure yet another instance of AI boosterism/cheerleading at work
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Saving this post cos the dunks are great reading & will give me life when we have to endure yet another instance of AI boosterism/cheerleading at work