Rosie O'Brien Vojtek

A former Assistant Executive Director, Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS), principal in Bristol CT, and editor of Virtual Education Journal (VEJ). Retired

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

It will take ALL of us, so GET ON BOARD the train! THANK YOU BOSS for standing up and LEADING THE CALL!!! Bruce Springsteen - Land of Hope and Dreams (Manchester May 14, 2025 [Of... https://t.co/wjfyJxDRMa via @YouTube

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Sure, Donald.

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

@DavidJHuber Hey! How are you? Thought of you as Bob and I are in Myrtle Beach and had fried pickles yesterday - and then saw your X post this morning. Hope all is well!!!

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

@CrecArtsMiddle1 Congratulations Bo!!! Keep up the GREAT work!!!

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

WHY?

[ABC News @ABC]

Satellite images show President Trump's project to build a grand ballroom has appeared to take down at least six trees on the White House grounds — including two historic magnolia trees commemorating Presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt. https://t.co/E9Epovw4wI

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

Wake up, America! Let’s not let history repeat itself!

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: After the release of an ad that caused Trump's tantrum ending trade talks with Canada, the original video of Ronald Reagan slamming tariffs has resurfaced. He called the new ad "fake."

The original destroys Trump on tariffs.
Share this widely.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Goldman Sachs kicks Donald Trump hard in the teeth with a new report that exposes his huge lie that foreign countries are paying his tariffs — when reality it's American consumers.

Show this to every MAGA dead-ender you know...

According to the bombshell analysis, U.S. consumers are already paying 55% of the tariff costs just six months into their implementation. Trump and his minions have repeatedly claimed, despite pushback from economic experts, that other countries would simply "eat" the tariffs. We now see beyond a shadow of a doubt that that is not the case.

Since April when Trump first announced his harebrained tariffs, consumer prices have steadily increased every month, eating into the wages and savings of American workers via inflation. As if that weren't bad enough, some companies may have been using pre-tariff inventories to keep prices artificially low. As those stockpiles run out, they'll be forced to raise prices to offset the tariffs.

Goldman Sachs also predicted that costs will likely rise even higher now that Trump is considering another wave of disastrous tariffs. True to ignorant form, he refuses to look at the effects of his policies or to reconsider his prior economic assumptions. There is no scenario in which this man admits that he was wrong.

The analysis estimates that the Trump tariffs have added a whopping 0.44% to the Fed's preferred inflation measure, a staggering increase when considered in the total scope of the U.S. economy. Hard working Americans are getting hammered. If Trump follows through on threats to tariff furniture and kitchen products, that number could rise to 0.6%. If that happens, consumers will bear 70% of the tariffs' cost.

Meanwhile, Trump's family is raking in massive amounts of money from corrupt business deals while the president himself accepts outright bribes, most blatantly in the form of a $400 million jet from Qatar. Americans are getting poorer while Trump reaches obscene new heights of wealth.

Please retweet and ❤️ to demand an immediate end to the tariffs!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Pope Leo calls out the Trump Administration and reaffirms his support for immigrants: “The Church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you.”

RETWEET if you stand with Pope Leo against Trump!

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Funny but true.

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA world by releasing his first major document urging every Catholic in the world to help migrants who all have "Christ himself" inside them — a powerful rebuke of Donald Trump's hateful policies.

This just went off like a bombshell for 1.4 billion Catholics...

The historic document entitled “I Have Loved You” states that caring for the poor also means "fighting against the structural causes of poverty," an unthinkable idea to American Evangelicals who fetishize wealth and billionaire tax cuts.

"No Christian can regard the poor simply as a societal problem," wrote Leo, adding that they are “part of our ‘family’" and they are "one of us." At a time when conservatives are gutting social programs and slashing Medicaid funding, this message is particularly potent.

But it's the section on migrants that has Republicans really up in arms...

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community," Leo wrote.

Recently, the pope urged U.S. Bishops to speak out "strongly" to support migrants against Trump's escalating immigration crackdowns.

In the new document, he writes that the "experience of migration" is woven into the history of the Church, pointing to Abraham setting out "without knowing where he is going," Moses leading his people out of slavery into the desert, and Mary and Joseph fleeing with an infant Jesus into Egypt.

Quoting his predecessor Pope Francis, Leo wrote that Christians must use four verbs for migrants: "welcome, protect, promote and integrate." Francis began the 104-page document but died before it was finished so Leo took up the task of finishing it, explaining: "I am happy to make this document my own — adding some reflections.”

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those  who are walking," wrote Leo. "Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds  bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into  gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself  who knocks at the door of the community."

The bit about walls is a clear reference to Trump's infamous border wall and a clear rejection of the animating xenophobia at the rotten core of the MAGA movement. Real Christians should welcome and care for migrants. MAGA Christians want them pepper-sprayed, zip-tied, and terrorized by ICE agents.

The document also tackles the growing corrosive power of billionaires like Elon Must who are using their money to place themselves above the law. It criticizes an economic system in which "earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few."

"A new tyranny is being born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules," wrote Leo.

"There is no shortage of theories attempting to justify the present state of affairs or to explain that economic thinking requires us to wait for invisible market forces to resolve everything," the pope wrote.

"The poor are promised only a few 'drops' that trickle down, until the next global crisis brings things back to where they were," he added.

"Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity or we fall into a cesspool," the pope wrote in one particularly striking passage.

This document is a battle cry for Christian love and perfectly articulates the true message of Jesus Christ. The fact that Republicans are already raging against it exposes the truth behind their Christian facade. They want the self-righteousness granted to them by their religion without embracing the sacrifice and compassion that it truly demands.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Pope Leo for taking such a moral stance!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA world by releasing his first major document urging every Catholic in the world to help migrants who all have "Christ himself" inside them — a powerful rebuke of Donald Trump's hateful policies.

This just went off like a bombshell for 1.4 billion Catholics...

The historic document entitled “I Have Loved You” states that caring for the poor also means "fighting against the structural causes of poverty," an unthinkable idea to American Evangelicals who fetishize wealth and billionaire tax cuts.

"No Christian can regard the poor simply as a societal problem," wrote Leo, adding that they are “part of our ‘family’" and they are "one of us." At a time when conservatives are gutting social programs and slashing Medicaid funding, this message is particularly potent.

But it's the section on migrants that has Republicans really up in arms...

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community," Leo wrote.

Recently, the pope urged U.S. Bishops to speak out "strongly" to support migrants against Trump's escalating immigration crackdowns.

In the new document, he writes that the "experience of migration" is woven into the history of the Church, pointing to Abraham setting out "without knowing where he is going," Moses leading his people out of slavery into the desert, and Mary and Joseph fleeing with an infant Jesus into Egypt.

Quoting his predecessor Pope Francis, Leo wrote that Christians must use four verbs for migrants: "welcome, protect, promote and integrate." Francis began the 104-page document but died before it was finished so Leo took up the task of finishing it, explaining: "I am happy to make this document my own — adding some reflections.”

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those  who are walking," wrote Leo. "Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds  bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into  gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself  who knocks at the door of the community."

The bit about walls is a clear reference to Trump's infamous border wall and a clear rejection of the animating xenophobia at the rotten core of the MAGA movement. Real Christians should welcome and care for migrants. MAGA Christians want them pepper-sprayed, zip-tied, and terrorized by ICE agents.

The document also tackles the growing corrosive power of billionaires like Elon Must who are using their money to place themselves above the law. It criticizes an economic system in which "earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few."

"A new tyranny is being born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules," wrote Leo.

"There is no shortage of theories attempting to justify the present state of affairs or to explain that economic thinking requires us to wait for invisible market forces to resolve everything," the pope wrote.

"The poor are promised only a few 'drops' that trickle down, until the next global crisis brings things back to where they were," he added.

"Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity or we fall into a cesspool," the pope wrote in one particularly striking passage.

This document is a battle cry for Christian love and perfectly articulates the true message of Jesus Christ. The fact that Republicans are already raging against it exposes the truth behind their Christian facade. They want the self-righteousness granted to them by their religion without embracing the sacrifice and compassion that it truly demands.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Pope Leo for taking such a moral stance!

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

Hip, Hip Hooray - It’s Game Day!!!! GO DUCKS!!!! Game On!!!! 😎😊😎🏈😎

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@PrincipalProj @DavidJHuber @drvsmith As the Johnson Brothers (Cooperative Learning) always said, “Start Small, Think Big!” You got this!!!

[Principal Project @PrincipalProj]

Ever tried crowd-sourcing positive reinforcement?

Check out this staff shoutout wall, via AP @mrsmartinyall:

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

YES!!!

[Help A Teacher @HelpATeacher]

So true.

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[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The police fired rubber bullets at Australian reporter Lauren Tomasi while she was reporting live from Los Angeles today.

Appalling and unjustified.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump’s border czar is threatening to arrest me for speaking out.

Come and get me, tough guy.

I don't give a damn.

It won’t stop me from standing up for California.

[Rosie O'Brien Vojtek @rvojtek]

It Takes One To Know One!!!

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Every accusation is a confession.

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United We Stand! Thank You, Governor!

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

🚨BREAKING: Every Democratic Governor just signed on to a statement SLAMMING Trump for abusing his power and sending the National Guard in to LA. This is what unity looks like. Share this statement everywhere!