Gavin Healy

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french laundry exterior

I just found a 2024 charge for $1,348.03 to French Laundry - the 3 Michelin star restaurant in California - in Arizona ESA reimbursements.

At least his acting was honest work.

On a related note everyone in NYS should be contacting Governor Hochul and insisting that she opt out of this backdoor voucher scheme that gives rich people a tax write-off at the same time Head Start, Title I, IDEA, school meals, and more are threatened. Hell no nypost.com/2026/02/16/u...

You can't buy a rotisserie chicken for humans with SNAP $, but you can buy rotisserie chicken-flavored cat and dog toothpaste (last line) with Arizona ESA $.

Fitting that the paragraph starts with “eugenics” and ends with a quote from the co-founder of PLACE NYC.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

If “the urgency of normal” is a child development principle, it should apply universally. I’d welcome links if I missed it, but I haven’t seen David Leonhardt, Lucy McBride, TracyBeth Hoeg, Vinay Prasad, David Zweig, or Emily Oster say anything abt kids being denied their right to a public education

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From: "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com> To: Lisa New < Subject: Re: Poetry Update and Thank You Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 15:31:35 +0000 I'm in Cambridge sat? On Wednesday, 2 December 2015, Lisa New 4 > wrote: Dear Jeffrey, May I drop by before the New Year (perhaps on the 9th, or on the 17th or 18th?) to get your advice about my renewal of the lempleton campaign, and also my needs in the coming year for Poetry in America? Below is the letter I'm sending out to my riends and supporters, and at the bottom a message just for you.... -Lisa

I am also so grateful for the help you gave me in defining my project for Templeton, and, what help you have offered to give in bringing them around. I have, since Templeton turned me down, gotten funding to produce video on two of the poems l'd proposed to Templeton and to create, and test, that video in schools as / proposed. One of my partners in that project is Success Academy, where I could also expand my work with Templeton. And there are still other poems that may satisfy their character criteria more fully, including the third of the poems I'd originally proposed and that Joe Biden had agreed to discuss with me (on parenthood and humility). At this point, I'm gaining the platform and the name recognition to be an effective spokesperson for the foundation on building literacy and character in the schools. It really means a lot to me, all financial help aside, Jeffrey, that you are rooting for me and thinking about me. You push back a lot (as Larry does), and it's always annoying but I always learn. With abundant gratitude, Lisa -- Elisa New Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Harvard University

Always a local education angle:

Epstein provided direct financial and networking support to Elisa New, Larry Summers’s wife, that allowed her nonprofit to partner with Success Academy to create classroom educational materials and videos

From: Jeffrey Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> To: Roger < Subject: Re: quick question Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:02:49 +0000 accrding to the day... i can arrange of course On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Roger < Annie is going to sante fe week of Jan 6 › wrote: She wants to ride horses when her glass art classes are out Is that insane in Jan? Sent from my iPad On Nov 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Jeffrey Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: no. should anyone care anymore.. theyve become only a social drain. It will take an entire generation for this to be modified On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:51 PM, roger schank < > wrote: I am at a mtg in NYC with KIPP schools; they help the shvatz get into college; turns out the kids dont last there long so they have asked me to build a summer course for them, which is fine but they then have to gout and raise money for it; costs 250K any ideas about folks here who care about the shvatz?

Always a local education angle:

A Stuyvesant-educated cognitive scientist and the former lead academic official at Trump University (lol) was asked by KIPP NYC to develop a summer course, and he propositioned Epstein for the funding for it in this ludicrously racist exchage

Tweet from Yiatin Chu ... @ycinnewyork Maybe people are tired of the language police. It was common to call close friends and family "retarded" in the 80s. I don't think it was ever used to hurt people with disabilities. Link to nytimes article: The 'R-Word' Returns, Dismayi...

Yiatin Chu - a prominent member of PLACE - posted this and affirmed when questioned that she didn’t see anything wrong it. This is what PLACE supports. Let’s get this awfulness out of our schools and city.

Told you

Watch for this “some families” bullshit! Is the NYT gonna mention that the _some families_ are members of PLACE, the extremist group that has zero Black parents on its board, but somehow has room for NYPD cops with a history of abuse complaints? The anti-trans zealot parents? *Those* families?

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.

What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:

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For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

Is there a link for this or was it in an email?

Thank you for all you’ve done for us! Looking forward to supporting you in whatever comes next.

CBS/Paramount brings you Bari Weiss/Erika Kirk “town hall” and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout. No news. All spectacle.

@cbsnews.com is advertising an Erika Kirk town hall moderated by Bari Weiss under the tagline: “Can she unite America?” I want us to think about all the whys here and their implications.

Correcting page proofs now. On shelves May/June 2026…

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

One hundred and fifty one children under the age of 18 have been arrested between January and October, with a steep increase beginning in May.

Eric Adams declares victory on class size reduction — by issuing 10,500 exemptions NYC officials quietly issued thousands of exemptions to class size law. Did your school get one?

New w/ @alexzimmerman.bsky.social: NYC declared victory on a major class size deadline: >60% of classes under the caps. What they didn’t mention: they only got there by quietly declaring 10,500 classes exempt. W/o those, DOE would’ve been at 59.5% compliance: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

A long list of accomplishments

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When someone with Andrew Cuomo’s platform uses their power to feed hate and spread suspicion instead of solidarity, it puts lives at risk. The strength of this city has always come from people standing together and refusing to let hate divide us – and we’re calling this what it is, Islamophobia.

Mamdani education plan would focus on helping NYC homeless students Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, said Wednesday he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools in a plan shared exclu…

In the country's richest city, more than 140,000 kids don't have stable or permanent housing.

"Every Child and Family Is Known" — a small pilot program that pairs school staff with students and families in shelters — has shown real promise. I will double its funding and scope.

Tweet by Maria Danzilo (@Maria4Dist6): "The word is @GaleBrewerNYC is under pressure to endorse Zohran for Mayor [for] NYC. We have a huge LGBTQ+ community in NYC and take protecting this community from harm and hate very seriously. Zohran has not denounced Uganda's harsh laws which until recently actually called for executing gays! Instead he dishes up word salads and excuses that make me want to choke, they are so dripping with hypocrisy. He also lies ( yes LIES) to the Muslim community Imams by hiding the fact he strongly supports using taxpayer money to provide medicine and surgery for people who want to change genders ( including..." Remaining text in the tweet/thread is cut off.

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So, some thrice failed wannabe local politician here in NYC is disingenuously weaponizing the LGBTQ+ community against the mayoral candidate with the best policy positions for our community. I want to take a moment to get some words out ahead of this in case anyone takes her seriously.

I just want to point out again that last night Cuomo effectively said that any NYC family that can do so should move to the suburbs for the schools like he did, I think that might be slightly more important and relevant than his neither innovative nor particularly comprehensive education platform