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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.
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Judge bars Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California
White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allowed antisemitism on campus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/15/university-of-california-trump-administration
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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
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AFT’s Weingarten Responds to Key Vote to End Shutdown
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement responding to the Senate’s key vote on reopening the federal government:
https://www.aft.org/press-release/afts-weingarten-responds-key-vote-end-shutdown
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George Takei
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Essentially it is this, yes.
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The Bulwark
about 2 months ago
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."
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Thank you Senator Murray!
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2 months ago
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.
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Jess Piper
2 months ago
No shit…
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AFT
2 months ago
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
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Where We Stand: Defending Health, Science, and Our Democracy
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Shutdown to have 'devastating consequences,' Montana nurses say • Daily Montanan
The Montana Nurses Association said shutdown will have "devastating consequences" on rural clinics and hospitals.
https://dailymontanan.com/2025/10/01/shutdown-to-have-devastating-consequences-montana-nurses-say/
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Jess Piper
4 months ago
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
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Molly Jong-Fast
5 months ago
The tariff thing is so stupid. It’s so depressing watching Trump drive the country into a ditch …. Again and again and again
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
5 months ago
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...
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Epstein accuser's family wants answers from Trump after recent comments
The family issued a lengthy statement after Trump said Jeffrey Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa, causing a rift.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/31/ghislaine-maxwell-victim-family-questions-epstein-trump/85462661007/
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
5 months ago
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...
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Donald Trump's approval rating falls to new low with white voters
White voters have long been a crucial pillar of Donald Trump's political base, consistently providing him with strong support .
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls-white-voters-2106407
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
5 months ago
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/...
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Procter & Gamble to raise prices, estimates tariff cost at $1B
As expected, Procter & Gamble on Tuesday, July 29, reported its poorest sales increase since 2018, with organic sales growth up just 2%.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2025/07/29/pg-earnings-slow-growing-fiscal-year-2025-company-plans-cuts/84527689007/
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
5 months ago
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.
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AFT
5 months ago
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
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@heinrich.senate.gov
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@amyklobuchar.com
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Pam Keith
5 months ago
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.
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One million pounds of food 👿
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Bill Gates
5 months ago
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. ​
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
5 months ago
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.
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Protect Our Care
5 months ago
The bill will fund massive tax breaks for the wealthiest people and corporations by stripping 17 MILLION Americans of their health care.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
5 months ago
64 percent.
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The Bulwark
5 months ago
Jeffries: “I never thought that I'd be on the House floor saying that this is a crime scene."
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AFT
5 months ago
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!
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Health professionals chart a course for care—and democracy
Nurses, doctors and other health professionals converged for this year’s AFT Nurses and Health Professionals Professional Issues Conference in Chicago from June 11-13, determined to set a course for t...
https://www.aft.org/news/health-professionals-chart-course-care-and-democracy
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PoliticsGirl
5 months ago
Is your health insurance going to get defunded by the Big Beautiful Bill….?
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Melissa Cropper
6 months ago
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.
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Rosa DeLauro
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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.
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5 months ago
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.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
5 months ago
Are we great yet?
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AFT
6 months ago
“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.” -
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Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
6 months ago
✊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-...
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Nine things you can do to protect education and help save democracy
Overwhelming. It’s a word that comes up a lot these days, as we face blow after blow to the infrastructure we thought we could count on…
https://aftvoices.org/nine-things-you-can-do-to-protect-education-and-help-save-democracy-36dee80c3f9b
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Aaron Rupar
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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."
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
6 months ago
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...
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AFT’s Weingarten on Senate’s Big, Ugly Betrayal of America’s Working Families
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Senate passed President Trump’s billionaire tax scam:“This is a big, ugly, obscene betrayal of American working famil...
https://www.aft.org/press-release/afts-weingarten-senates-big-ugly-betrayal-americas-working-families
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Jon Cooper
6 months ago
Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy are beyond despicable. They will be responsible for thousands of deaths.
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Tammy Duckworth
6 months ago
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.
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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.
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Alt National Park Service
6 months ago
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.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
6 months ago
$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.
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AFT
6 months ago
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.
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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.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
6 months ago
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
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It was not about Left or Right, it was “this is what’s right." —
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
6 months ago
"A tyrant is unfit to be a ruler of the free people" - The Declaration of Independence
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
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Our founders said no to kings 250 years ago, because they believe in the consent of the governed.
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