Huge win!!! The courts are protecting our constitutional rights from the power grab of the authoritarian President. Our universities should always be a safe space for all students, for freedom of speech, for discourse and the building of ideas that should not be controlled by any government.

While I am disappointed we will continue to keep fighting for affordable health care and for a better life for working folks. The Rs should never have pit hunger and health care. Here's my full statement www.aft.org/press-releas...

Essentially it is this, yes.

Q: "Trump authorized military strikes...in the Caribbean. 20 people have been killed in six different strikes. Do you believe these strikes are legal?" Sen. Rand Paul:" "No...These people have been blown up without us knowing their name or any evidence of a crime."

Thank you Senator Murray!

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

No shit…

Trump is cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid and the ACA, kicking 13 million people off health insurance—and that’s just the beginning. “To move elected leaders, we have to show up and stand up” says @rweingarten.bsky.social. Read more in the new #AFTHealthCare

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.

The tariff thing is so stupid. It’s so depressing watching Trump drive the country into a ditch …. Again and again and again

Can we put politics aside and hear the harm and anguish of survivors? The Giuffre family is speaking for the victims of Epstein and Maxwell and demanding answers. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

When families are pessimistic about the direction of the country they want to feel economic progress and know elected leaders are fighting for them, not the billionaires. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Procter and Gamble says Trump’s economic chaos will cost the company $1 billion more next year—and consumers will pay more as a result. How does that make America great? How does that help working families? www.cincinnati.com/story/money/...

Whether you agree with them or not, tariffs are taxes. They will raise prices. Targeted tariffs can make sense as part of an industrial policy to protect American industry but Trump tariffs simply raise prices on all Americans… and on products we will never make in America again.

Incredible day on Capitol Hill so far! Thank you to our members for standing up for what kids need - and thank you @smith.senate.gov, @heinrich.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com and @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social for meeting with our members. #TEACH25

That asshole ordered that a MILLION POUNDS of food be destroyed, rather than disturbed to people in need. A MILLION POUNDS! Do not EVER let his minions claim they are Christians.

One million pounds of food 👿

The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence. ​

This bill will remove healthcare for 17M people, slash food assistance for 22M, shutter hundreds of hospitals, defund higher education, cut jobs, target immigrant communities and explode the national debt—all for tax breaks to the ultra-rich. www.aft.org/press-releas...

The bill will fund massive tax breaks for the wealthiest people and corporations by stripping 17 MILLION Americans of their health care.

64 percent.

Jeffries: “I never thought that I'd be on the House floor saying that this is a crime scene."

Nurses, doctors & other health professionals converged for this year’s Nurses and Health Professionals Professional Issues Conference to discuss defending patients, protecting communities, and beating back the authoritarian tide washing over American democracy. Read all about it!

Is your health insurance going to get defunded by the Big Beautiful Bill….?

Budgets are about choices. The Republican legislators and Gov chose to give tax breaks to the wealthy and money for a stadium while underfunding public schools and libraries. Shame on them! They should never win another election.

17 million isn't just a number— it's parents, children, veterans, people with disabilities, and seniors. It's also more than everyone in New England combined Republicans are ripping healthcare away from them. Real lives. Real families.

The US lost 33,000 jobs in June, after expecting to gain 100,000. Trump's brought America nothing but job insecurity, unpredictable tariffs, unstable markets and plummeting consumer confidence.

Are we great yet?

“These are congressionally approved programs for this year, and the Trump administration is trying to defund education unilaterally through government overreach. The administration does not have the right to starve children because of its ideology.” - @rweingarten.bsky.social

✊Write to your lawmakers ✊Share on social media ✊Meet with elected officials ✊Peacefully protest ✊Make time for activism ✊Get involved locally ✊Connect with student organizations ✊Teach others ✊Educate yourself aftvoices.org/nine-things-...

McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."

This is the biggest redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich in decades—far worse, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, than the version passed by the House. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy are beyond despicable. They will be responsible for thousands of deaths.

Senate Republicans just voted to kick 20 million Americans off their health care. JD Vance thinks that is "minutiae." Ernst doesn't care because "we're all gonna die." McConnell says people will "get over it." Don't EVER let Republicans live this down.

@aft.org @mtnurses.bsky.social @mtdems.bsky.social @aflcio.org

Montana’s millionaire senators aren’t losing sleep over their vote for Medicaid cuts-because they and their families will never feel the consequences. But for thousands of Montanans, Medicaid is the difference to get by. We deserve leaders who care for us not their portfolios.

Well, this we can agree on, even Senator Thom Tillis is calling out his own colleagues: “Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who don’t really give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail,” the North Carolina Republican wrote.

$3.3 trillion – with a T – in the debt so that they can cut taxes for billionaires. You can never believe the people who vote for this bill when they tell you that they care about the debt or deficit reduction. I’m glad Sen. Schumer and Senate Dems are fighting this.

70 million Americans and 1/3 of children in the US depend on Medicaid. We can't let Congress cut it. Visit go.aft.org/BigUglyBill now to stop the cuts.

RFK continues to lie, is not remotely qualified, is practicing medicine without a license, and is compromising our communities lives. Impeach or resign is the only way public health survives.

Wow!! These headlines say it all. 5 million people proved what we know: we can accomplish things together that would be impossible on our own. #NoKings bsky.app/profile/aft....

It was not about Left or Right, it was “this is what’s right." — @rweingarten.bsky.social #NoKings

"A tyrant is unfit to be a ruler of the free people" - The Declaration of Independence

Our founders said no to kings 250 years ago, because they believe in the consent of the governed.