Meenakshi Sharma

Editorial Director #Design #content #knowledge expert. Support @LASDk8 + public ed. Like birds & beer. #BlackLivesMatter #WarrenDemocrat

[Meenakshi Sharma @MintzSharma]

Amazing, inspiring #NationalWalkoutDay https://t.co/IIFs2jztq2

[Lois Beckett @loisbeckett]

It is freezing cold and these 60+ elementary school protesters are lying completely still, and no one is making a sound, just the posters flapping a little over their bodies. Alexandria, Virginia.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Vaccine Scientist Warns Antiscience Conspiracies Have Become a Deadly, Organized Movement | Scientific American ⁦@sciam⁩ ⁦@tanyalewis314⁩ https://t.co/3vp6KlT6Iz

[Team Katie @TeamKatiePorter]

You’ve heard of girl math, but what about Republican math?

This week, Republicans tried to blame older Americans for our growing national debt—but in 2017, they passed tax cuts for the wealthy that added $1.8 TRILLION to the debt.

Republican math doesn't add up.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

We did it! @WCKitchen did it! With Team
Leader Max Baldetti We repaired the bridge at Coyuca, Las Lajas, where community of 50 people had to cross the river getting wet and with some danger as their only way! #ChefsForMexico 👍🏻🇲🇽

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Today was a great day! @WCKitchen Feeding everyday more than 25k meals only in the Coyuca de Benitez area, more than 62 towns outside Acapulco! And this was us crossing the river to feed this community called La Laja! We promised them to repair the bridge in the next few days!! #ChefsForMexico

[Benjamin Perry @FaithfullyBP]

Our "democracy" in an image:
66% of Americans (of all parties) want a ceasefire.
2% of House reps are fighting for one.

[TMF @TMFtx]

We defeated Abbott’s voucher scam — again.

I’m proud of the bipartisan, pro-public school majority that stood up to Abbott and his billionaire mega-donors.

This is a victory for our kids. #Txlege

[Education Minnesota @EducationMN]

STATEMENT: Minnesota voters overwhelmingly support students’ freedom to learn in school board races https://t.co/oGqDHHMuQG #edmnvotes #freedomtolearn

[Erin Zwiener @ErinForYall]

A bipartisan majority in the Texas House has successfully defeated Greg Abbott’s voucher scam.

But Abbott and his billionaire mega-donors are about to call lawmakers back to the Capitol to try again.

We will always stand for Texas public schools.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Some locations in Navajo country are so remote, that voters must travel 200 miles round trip just to vote. It’s time to bring polling sites to the reservation. Agree?

[Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids]

The reality of vouchers is that they don’t work.

A photo is worth a thousand words.

Great session at @NPEaction

#txed #txlege

[Meenakshi Sharma @MintzSharma]

Tell Your State Assemblymember: YES on SB 244 https://t.co/RfJqpK8DEk

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

WOW!!! 5 years ago. Every fear I had about Kavanaugh and the direction of this Supreme Court has come true. Kavanaugh turning his back on me when he heard my daughter was murdered in Parkland, & then lying about it, should have told us everything we needed to know about him.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1989: 61-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 399-to-1

CEOs keep pretending they can't afford to pay workers fairly while they rake in millions off of workers' labor. Don't fall for this illusion of scarcity.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This is simply an extraordinary study. Researchers gave $7,500 (CAD) to homeless people in Vancouver. The result? The program *saved* money. It helped many of them to move into housing faster, which saved the shelter system $8,277 per person. 🧵👇

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

A truly powerful moment in my journey was getting to meet Ms. Viola Fletcher, radiant at 109, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. As we held each other's books, I felt the power and gravity of the moment: They want to hide a history that we are still living.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

A voucher by any other name is still a voucher. Vouchers take money away from our #txed public school students that need it most. No vouchers – no gimmicks. #txlege

[Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids]

Gov @GregAbbott_TX’s voucher push is purely political.

His base doesn’t believe in public education and wants to destroy it .

All you have to do is look at our feed to see this. They want the public to pay for their Christian schools.

This is wrong! Stop them! #txed #txlege

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Florida. Alabama. Georgia.

More attempts by the @GOP to rewrite the rules and redraw the maps to diminish minority representation.

Wish I could say it was shocking — but it’s sickeningly predictable. https://t.co/yeminyhgZR

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

I'm not seeing enough people talking about this horrific move by Republican officials in Alabama to restrict women's freedom of movement. You've got to be kidding me.

https://t.co/suYauIYw1m

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Don't normalize the GOP and what they're doing.
We don't have to live like this.
We can reject them if we speak, work, and vote in a way that consolidates our shared power.

#VoteBlue not just for Democrats but because the Republican Party is an existential threat to all of us.