OH MY GOD JUST ORDER, THERE ARE LIKE FIVE THINGS ON THE MENU. JUST PICK ONE.

This has been a scene from my new play “Breakfast in the West Village.”

Worth noting that not only does Florida have a homicide rate that’s much higher than New York, the statewide murder rate in FL is slightly higher than the murder rate just in New York City — DeSantis should be taking advice from New York leaders on public safety.

Same TBQH

So suppose you were at Babbo and you pay the bill and subsequently realize that they didn’t charge you for the bottle of wine. Do you say something?

FWIW, as a former Republican who has some sense of what Democratic attacks work near the end of election campaigns:

Every Democratic candidate should watch this clip—and the speech of which it was a part—and make that message his or her own.

h/t Acyn

Re-upping

Alrighty, we are five days past NAEP, can we all agree to move on to some new topic? My birthday’s coming up - let’s discuss that.

Autumn in New York.

Fascinating read. propublica.org/article/senate…

The attempted assassination of the Speaker of the House seems like a bigger deal to me than the coverage.

What’s fringe about his conspiracy theories?

While you're digging into these new data, don't miss the companion paper by Tom Kane and colleagues at Harvard CEPR on the long-term consequences for students of lower NAEP scores. cepr.harvard.edu/files/cepr/fil…

I'm *begging* the media to stop writing pieces trying to come up with ex-post explanations for the relative success of individual districts or states on NAEP.

I’m case you’re in need of a timeline cleanse, here’s Ann Margret and Cecil B the corgis.

Taking a college admissions exam at the end of a SNAP cycle rather than the beginning reduces scores and the probability of four-year college attendance: aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/d…

Republican rhetoric could actually have resulted in the Speaker of the House being murdered.