Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚

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[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

It's time to let X/Twitter go. This platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate, disinformation & manipulation has been painful to experience. Find me & the AFT on Bluesky, Substack, Threads, Instagram, or Facebook. https://t.co/LqUoV7ssKB

[Alexander Russo @alexanderrusso]

Schools are "awash" in YouTube, says WSJ reporter Shalini Ramachandran. Maybe it's time to de-install YouTube and put the Chromebooks back in the cart?

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[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

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[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

It's time to let X/Twitter go. This platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate, disinformation & manipulation has been painful to experience. Find me & the AFT on Bluesky, Substack, Threads, Instagram, or Facebook. https://t.co/LqUoV7ssKB

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

Expanding access & investing in universal pre-K is a huge step forward in making NY more affordable. This means:
✏️Well-funded programs embedded in public schools
✏️Trained & certified educators
✏️More students entering kindergarten ready to learn
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[NYSNA @nynurses]

Our strike begins today! Show your support for nurses fighting for safe staffing, healthcare benefits and a fair contract!

#NYCNurseStrike #SafeStaffingSavesLives #PatientsOverProfits

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

@AFTunion stands with @nynurses

[NYSNA @nynurses]

Our strike begins today! Show your support for nurses fighting for safe staffing, healthcare benefits and a fair contract!

#NYCNurseStrike #SafeStaffingSavesLives #PatientsOverProfits

[UFT @UFT]

United Federation of Nurses/UFT stands with NYSNA on demanding #safestaffing and fair compensation. #NYCNursesStrike

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

This lawsuit pushes back against efforts to muzzle constitutionally protected speech. Educators shouldn’t be targeted for what they say on their own time. Proud to stand with @texasaft.org in defending our members’ rights.https://t.co/0eZid3SG2E

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

We are all Beth Israel today…bombed by the KKK in 1967 and targeted this weekend again.
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[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

I love seeing profiles of the great work being on in Mississippi. Literacy and reading have been a focus of our work nationally for years.
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[Damon Silvers @DamonSilvers]

An extraordinary but necessary statement from @federalreserve chair Jay Powell. I’ve often disagreed with him about interest rate and regulatory policy, but I’ve always admired the way he conducts himself personally as Fed chair. Never more than now. @AFLCIO @AFTunion

[Marc Short @marctshort]

Job Growth Before and After Liberation Day

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city, obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

Josh Shapiro is absolutely right!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pennsylvania's beloved Governor Josh Shapiro incinerates "weak human being" J.D. Vance for his disgusting attacks on ICE shooting victim Renée Good.

Vance just set his own presidential dreams on fire...

"He began rhetorically by saying, 'What's going on here?' I'll tell you what's going on here. It is yet another example of how J.D. Vance has absolutely no core," Shapiro told MeidasTouch. "That guy is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do, whatever he thinks will curry him favor that day with Donald Trump."

Vance has horrified Americans over the past few days by rushing to defend the bloodthirsty ICE officer who gunned down an innocent mother in Minneapolis. Vance blamed her for her own death and whined that the media is being unfair to the masked, heavily armed predators prowling our streets.

"And he's also just absolutely wrong on how he's approaching the situation of keeping people safe in Minnesota," continued Shapiro. "I know you didn't ask about it, but I hope you don't mind me just taking a minute on this, because we saw a tragic end of life in Minnesota where children were left without a mom, where a spouse was left without her partner. And what we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting vice president of the United States, but we need a real thorough investigation as to what occurred."

"You know, because you've interviewed me, I used to be the attorney general of this commonwealth, the chief law enforcement officer," Shapiro continued. "And we dealt with these tragic situations where there was a law enforcement involved shooting and the most important thing you can do is calm tensions in the community, conduct a thorough and complete investigation."

"And J.D. Vance also said later in that briefing that they were not going to participate in that. Kristi Noem said that too, by the way, another wholly unqualified person in a really important role," he added.

To Shapiro's point, Vance has shown the opposite of leadership during this explosive national moment. Rather than trying to calm tensions and understand why this tragedy happened, he's pouring gasoline on the partisan divide and exploiting this killing to excite the MAGA base.

"What we need right now is to end the gaslighting, end the lunacy of J.D. Vance's ridiculous statements, and instead have an investigation where you are able to get all of the evidence put forth, which is going to require the federal government to be participants in that process, and then bring about the truth to the community," Shapiro went on.

"The only way that you're going to restore faith and trust in the community is by making sure the community has the truth of what really occurred," he said. "And J.D. Vance did his job on behalf of Donald Trump yesterday, which was to block the truth from coming out, to make a community less safe instead of trying to create more safety and security in that area."

"J.D. Vance knows better, man. He should be ashamed of himself. And he's not and I think that that speaks to the weakness of his character," the governor added.

In addition to being incredibly craven, evil, and opportunistic, Vance's reaction to Good's murder is politically unwise. The fascists online may be praising him for his hateful rhetoric, but the American people are going to be deeply alienated by it. When he tries to run for president, these shameful remarks will come back to haunt him.

Please ❤️ and share if you would NEVER vote for J.D. Vance.

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

@OccupyDemocrats Absolutely right

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

I'm back with a video update, reflecting on a turbulent start to the year, including the violence in MN. AFT hit the ground running—fighting funding cuts to community schools, supporting affordable healthcare & defending educators' free speech. Watch ⤵️
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[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

The Washington National Opera will stop performing at the venue formerly known as John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the first time since 1971. https://t.co/MOJcEYQRK3

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Minnesota resident: My dad fought in World War II. He'd be rolling in his grave to see what's happening to America now. America needs to hold up a mirror to see what we become. This is just so un-American to see Americans assaulting Americans like this.

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

So glad to be in Portland today for another AFT leader meeting. And I was glad to meet with James Jessie, COO of Travel Portland. We can't wait to be back for the AFT convention in 2028!

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

Thank you @ZohranKMamdani . It’s really important to take a stand here

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

As I said earlier today, chants in support of a terrorist organization have no place in our city. We will continue to ensure New Yorkers’ safety entering and exiting houses of worship as well as the constitutional right to protest.