Time for Higher Ed workers to stand together and fight back!

Join me in demanding that our elected officials protect science and protect students! actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...

The ruling, @rweingarten.bsky.social says, rebukes the government’s attempt to “chill teachers’ duty to create safe and welcoming classrooms where critical thinking is valued and history is presented in an open and honest way.”

"Let's be real about what this directive means. This is not about ensuring fairness but about taking away opportunity for all by going backward to make higher education a special entitlement for some." - @rweingarten.bsky.social Read more 👇

Workers built this country, and workers deserve an economy, a government and a country for the people, not the billionaires. In the streets & on the shop floor, in union halls and the halls of Congress, this Labor Day we’re going to show the billionaires who we are and how we fight. #WorkersDeserve

I'm attending PPT & T4APA!'s event, “Rally in Philly: Finish the Budget + Stop SEPTA Cuts” - sign up now to join me! #BusLinesAreLifelines www.mobilize.us/ppt/event/81...

Keep calling your Republican members in the House of Representatives. And call your Republican governors, too. Let them know how much these cuts will hurt kids and community members. Call your rep. 231-400-0602 Call your governor. www.usa.gov/state-governor

If you think this isn't happening in your town, you're absolutely wrong. www.tapinto.net/towns/flemin...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Lyons, NJ” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/79...

Our country was founded on the idea of democracy, not autocracy; the president’s rule is not absolute. This June 14, we’re joining with activists across the country to send a clear message: No thrones. No crowns. No kings. Just us—the people. Spread the word and find a “No Kings” event near you.

On June 14, we’re coming together to send a clear message: No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. Join us—find a #NoKings event near you: go.aft.org/nokings

Nearly 2 million student loan borrowers are still waiting for the Trump administration to process their income-driven repayment applications. Many are being denied credit toward debt cancellation through Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

🚨 Tonight at 8 p.m. EDT 🚨 Join @rweingarten.bsky.social, @chenoweth.bsky.social, Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould & Ivan Marovic for a powerful conversation on fighting back through organizing, education & collective action. 🔗 sharemylesson.com/webinars/how...

SAVE THE DATE! Saturday, June 14: "No Kings" Flag Day national mobilization. Join millions around the country as we provide the people's answer to Trump’s self-indulgent military parade! Stay tuned for details on events in #NJ07! More info here: www.nokings.org

City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Again — theonion.com/city-planner...

"Siri, what does an American secret police look like?"

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at an ICE Detention Center where he was protesting its opening.

Breaking: Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) has just been arrested by the Trump administration after he was protesting outside of an ICE facility.

Just read @deborahnarcher.bsky.social great new book "Dividing Lines", an important accounting of planning's failures and continuing challenges to address the inequities in our transportation infrastructure and land use. This needs to be centered in our planning curricula for the next generation.

I took action with Fulop for Governor. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/fulopforgove...

BREAKING: A federal judge blocks Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union rights. The White House tried to end collective bargaining for workers at numerous agencies by invoking national security. A U.S. District Judge just shot them down.

It's time for EVERYONE to call their PA legislators and DEMAND that we fully fund SEPTA! @septaphilly.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/transportati...

We won!! A nationwide preliminary injunction against McMahon's February Dear Colleague letter which tried to stop public schools & higher Ed from teaching honest history or enforcing student civil rights. It’s a win for students, families & educators. democracyforward.org/updates/harm...

Let me add that I love my job, I love my students, I love my colleagues....and I don't know how much more of this any of us can take.

Take a moment to read this outstanding piece by my colleague Dr. Matt.

I'll be at 20th & Market in Philly today, standing with all of my colleagues. Hope to see you there!

The Trump administration is coming for anyone who believes in a country where people should be able to retire with dignity, where public services work & where democracy means more than billionaires pulling the strings. This Saturday, join us at a #HandsOff Day of Action event: mobilize.us/handsoff

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

We found out earlier this week that this happened to a Temple University student, who decided to "self deport". The only way we're going to survive is for good people who know how these systems work, to resist however they can.

SO MUCH WINNING

Saturday. 12 Noon. Philadelphia City Hall. (or find something closer to you: handsoff2025.com )

@booker.senate.gov Senator Booker is fillabustering right now to protest and block Republican nominees backed by the Trump administration. He says he will stay on the Senate floor for as long as he can, potentially into the morning and afternoon tomorrow

🧵 Statement from UAW President Shawn Fain on Attacks on Federal Workers: Yesterday, President Trump signed an order that tramples on the union rights of more than a million federal workers, stripping them of their ability to negotiate over their working conditions.

APWU President Mark Dimondstein provides a statement on the new Executive Order Attacking Workers' Rights: Read the full statement at apwu.org/news/workers...

Last night, Trump stripped union rights from every federal worker. This move is straight out of his Project 2025 playbook to gut the American labor movement, take control of the government, and cut public services — and Democrats will fight back with every tool.

Stripping collective bargaining and union rights from workers across the federal government is the very definition of union busting — and a blatant attempt to silence us. We will fight this outrageous attack on our members with every fiber of our collective being.

At a rally in New York yesterday, AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social made it clear: “We fight discrimination, and we fight for research. But it shouldn’t be an administration that tries to leverage one for the other. That’s McCarthyism, that’s not patriotism.”

More details coming soon. NO STRIKE

The admins at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social wouldn't stand up to the fascists, so @aftunion.bsky.social and @aaup.bsky.social did. www.aft.org/press-releas...

“If we do decide to go on strike, we will go on strike until a court says that we can’t. And then we will take it from there,” Johnson-Valenzuela said. PHILLY IS A UNION TOWN! @fsfccp.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @aftpa.bsky.social @phillyaflcio.bsky.social

You're saying they had what?

Judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive information at US agencies. This is the suit that @aftunion.bsky.social filed!

Today! Join @CCPedu faculty, staff, and students! Join community supporters and elected officials. As we march together and show CCP’s management and board of trustees we are serious about our proposals. We will gather at the Bonnell building of CCP’s main campus.

This is absolutely insane. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I'll add that it is going to take this kind of coalition work to stand up and fight back against this insanity. All of us working in public education have to be united in this!

This keeps getting worse.

Community College of Phila management aren't just dodging workers - they won't meet with state & local electeds who are their main funders!! 🤯 Admin can't hide forever. CCP has the 💰, @fsfccp.bsky.social's demands are reasonable & just. If workers need to shut it down, we'll be at their side✊🏽

In yet another example of them not actually knowing how to do anything.