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Carla Okouchi (She/Her)

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Parent, Educator, Union Organizer, Education Policy. Blogs are my own and do not represent any organizations that I’m affiliated with.

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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Support and share NEA recommended candidates! Visit the link to select your state and office! Stand up for fair elections!
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Our Recommended Candidates - Education Votes
More Recommended Candidates See more NEA-endorsed candidates running for state and local office in your area.
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Due to the data center tax exemption, Virginia lost $1.94 BILLION in FY2025. The policy remains outdated. Schools remain underfunded. Virginia deserves better. #VEAVotes #KidsOverCorporations app.sosha.ai/s/l4rwz0DM
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Virginia banned public sector collective bargaining in 1946 to silence Black workers. This isn't just a labor issue. It's a racial justice issue. We're showing up on May 21st in all our power! #VEAStrong #UnionStrong #CollectiveBargaining #VEAVotes
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In 1946, Virginia banned public sector collective bargaining specifically to stop Black hospital workers at UVA from organizing. It was a Jim Crow-era law. This new bill destroys old frameworks + powers the collective. #VEAVotes #CollectiveBargaining app.sosha.ai/s/jCcCXIMA
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
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Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The Everglades Detention Camp is inhumane, and DeSantis must shut it down immediately. Add your name now. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop the Everglades Detention Camp!
The Everglades Detention Camp is inhumane, and DeSantis must shut it down immediately. Add your name now.
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
When the data disappears, so do our stories. Sign our letter urging your member of Congress to protect maternal health! #MaternalJustice #MaternalMentalHealth action.momsrising.org/petition/pro...
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When the data disappears, so do our stories
Sign our letter urging your member of Congress to protect maternal health!
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
When educators, families, and community members come together, there is nothing we cannot achieve. On May 1, we are reclaiming our power and demanding the future we deserve. Join us: nea.org/mayday
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May Day Participant Toolkit | NEA
On May 1, 2025, educators will join workers, parents, students, and community members to rise up for dignity, justice, and public investment in our lives, not in billionaires' profit margins. This too...
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
FEU (FEA & FCFT) Fairfax Education Unions message throughout the budget town hall process is clear #FundOurContracts #FundOurSchools
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I just signed up for Rally for FEDERAL WORKERS! Want to join me? redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/rally...
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Rally for FEDERAL WORKERS
Let's support our FEDERAL WORKERS We will be meeting on the green lawn in front on Rt. 7 at 21430 Cedar Dr. Sterling, VA 20164. (For those that have attended in the past during COMSTOCK reign its th...
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 07/03/2025
Removing TSA workers’ collective bargaining rights is union busting. Period. apnews.com/article/coll...
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Homeland Security ends TSA collective bargaining agreement, in effort to dismantle union protections
A union representing Transportation Security Administration workers calls the Department of Homeland Security's decision to end the collective bargaining agreement with them an “unprovoked attack.”
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We’ll fight every step of the way to ensure TSA officers continue to stand together in a union while providing the vital services Americans depend on. The @aflcio.org joins AFGE and all unions in strongly condemning this action.
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/th...
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The Senate Must Block Trump’s Loyalist Cabinet Nominees
Trump's Cabinet appointees have no real interest in serving the American people. Working Americans will pay the price for this dysfunctional leadership, through the repealing of the Affordable Care Ac...
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...
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Protect America's Federal Workers from Mass Firings
These mass layoffs hurt all of us. When essential American workers are fired, everybody suffers. From compromised food safety inspections to delayed veterans’ benefits to disrupted Social Security ser...
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National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🍎 Every student deserves access to nutritious meals—no exceptions. But too many kids are going hungry, and it’s time for Congress to step up. This #NationalNutritionMonth, join NEA in advocating for stronger child nutrition policies so every student has the fuel they need to learn. buff.ly/43hs3lP
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Child Nutrition | NEA
Students need healthy, nutritious school meals that are free to all and prepare them for learning.
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National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
At tonight's joint address to Congress, the president continued to spread fear and sow division—but no matter what extreme politicians will try to do to our schools and communities, we are united to protect them. Sign the pledge ➡️ buff.ly/tUxDjH9
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Pledge to Protect Students and Public Schools | NEA
We will be heard at every level of government—from the school board to the Senate—to reject any efforts to gut public schools, expand vouchers, or dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.
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Alpheus Williams @alphwilliams.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We need more Bernies. Bernie Sanders calls out pathologic liar, Donald Trump, after the State of the Union Address. www.youtube.com/live/QlrQKv1...
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Sen. Sanders Responds to Trump's Congressional Address
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Elissa Slotkin: “That scene in the Oval Office wasn’t just a bad episode of reality TV. It summed up Trump’s whole approach to the world. He believes in cozying up to dictators like a Vladimir Putin and kicking our friends, like the Canadians, in the teeth.” #StateoftheUnion
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Al Green after he was THROWN out of chambers: “I was making it clear to the President that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid” "It is the best way to get it across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility. " #SOTU
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Most dangerous person in Trump’s circle is not Musk…. It’s RFK Jr A measles crisis decades in the making: How RFK Jr. helped drive America to this moment—and now he’s chipping away at the institutions he’s been appointed to lead. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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A measles crisis decades in the making: How RFK Jr. helped drive America to this moment
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sits atop the very health system he spent years attacking, and he’s already chipping away at the institutions he’s been appointed to lead.
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Mary Brushe, PhD @marybrushe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
An excellent explainer for anyone wanting to understand #infectiousdisease models better 👇🏼 #episky “Modeling the Texas measles outbreak” from @epiellie.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼 open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
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Modeling the Texas measles outbreak
An explainer
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.
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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📢 TODAY in DC! Federal workers & allies are standing up to defend the public services we all rely on—Social Security, Medicare, veterans’ care & more. We won’t let them be gutted. We’re going again at 5:30. Join the fight: go.savepublicservices.com #SaveOurServices
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Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about...the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy." - @aoc.bsky.social with @fedworkersunited.bsky.social today #SaveOurServices
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Sign up here to join the fight Bit.ly/saveourservices
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Federal Services Are Under Attack: Fight Back!
Federal workers keep America running—now we need your support. We make sure Social Security checks arrive, veterans get care, and disaster victims get help. But Musk wants to fire the people keeping y...
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I keep saying it: scientists know exactly what #BirdFlu can do in the brain, and it is not good. SARS-CoV-2 was a new virus we had to learn about. #H5N1 is not.
Manuscript from 2009: Highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus can enter the central nervous system and induce neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
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UAW @uaw.org · 16/02/2025
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” --The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. #BlackHistoryMonth
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
If you’re not subscribed to @drruth.bsky.social’s newsletter, you’re missing out on CRITICAL info: 📈Flu is extremely HIGH 🦠1 in 67 ppl have C0VID 🔴Measles outbreak spreading in Texas 🐔H5N1 in humans 🏛️This wk's US Gov’t updates buff.ly/3QilCHD #medsky #IDsky ✅ drruth.substack.com/p/covid-and-...
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COVID & Health News 2/15/25
Please see my separate post from today for this week’s government updates at https://drruth.substack.com/p/special-issue-government-updates-096.
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How will you advocate for adequate working conditions, pay, and benefits for ALL educators? #QuestionsForLinda
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
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Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education
Public education in this country is under attack. And Trump has already made clear his intentions to undermine public education even further at every turn—including the extreme proposal to completely ...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 01/02/2025
When millions of struggling workers want to join unions, Trump's decision to neuter the NLRB is blatantly illegal. It is also a huge gift to Musk, Bezos & other billionaires who want to abolish the only federal agency that can stop their union busting. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Trump firings at labor board threaten union win at Whole Foods – and beyond
Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia voted to unionize early this week but may be stuck in limbo due to President Donald Trump firing leaders at a federal labor regulator.
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National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
These executive orders are reckless and illegal. They hurt real students, real educators, and real communities. That’s why educator voices are so critical in this moment. Share your story at nea.org/share
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James Fallows @handle.invalid · 30/01/2025
Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Lunar New Year! We welcome in the wood snake bringing optimism and hope for the future.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/01/2025
Despite the Trump administration telling federal health agencies to stop issuing all reports and communications, the CDC is continuing to update its COVID-19 wastewater data.
CDC chart showing national and regional trends of wastewater viral activity levels of SARS-COV-2
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
On 1/9/25 our school board unanimously voted to ratify contracts for FEU instructional & operational units. Stronger Together FEA & FCFT! Photo credit: Jack Delaney
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Feliz Las Posadas. Happy Kwanzaa! May peace, joy, and love fill your home this holiday season.
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
✊🏿Standing in solidarity with the baristas here in Virginia. ✊🏾
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Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
💯Clean air delivery rate (CADR) is more important than HEPA rating! I have been buying portable air cleaners for the lab and home that are not HEPA-level but offer a high CADR per dollar spent and low noise. Marwa Zaatari's comparison chart from 2021 is a good way to think about this.
CADR vs. first-year cost of different air cleaners, colored by noise
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Love this space and strongly believe #bsky priority should be to add group chats! Please and THANK YOU. @pfrazee.com
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
National Education Support Professionals Day! Thank you to our heroes who making sure students arrive safely, have clean learning environments, nutritious meals, resources, and keep our schools running! #rESPect
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thank you to our custodians, bus drivers, office staff, administrators, instructional assistants, nurses and teachers for all the work you do for our public schools! #publicschools #joinaunion #nea #rESPect
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Still no cure or treatment for #covid is airborne. Beyond time to address #safeindoorair quality for all workplaces.
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ready for the next pandemic slowly unfolding across the globe?! #MaskUp
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
There’s a lot of great Covid related starter packs out there - but here’s one more! We’re seeing unprecedented growth here at the friendly skies - and I want to help connect as many people as possible. Looking for clean air, covid cautious mask advocates to join the pack! go.bsky.app/ALai9U
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LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko has introduced a bill in Congress giving @EPA the authority and resources to regularly study indoor air quality in schools and child care facilities. The bill also supports technical assistance, guidance and best practices. www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...
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Prof Cath Noakes @cathnoakes.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Now the weather is turning colder a good time to remind that air cleaners can be a low energy approach to maintaining good indoor air when windows are less frequently opened. We looked at this recently for classrooms led by @henryburridge.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Coupled indoor air quality and dynamic thermal modelling to assess the potential impacts of standalone HEPA filter units in classrooms
The quality of the classroom environment, including ventilation, air quality and thermal conditions, has an important impact on children’s health and …
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
🦴Brittle bones, lower bone density—➡️ more bone fractures 🩻. All compliments of COVID infection. The more we learn, the more stupid and nonsensical that “COVID is mild” sounds. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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SARS-CoV-2 and its Multifaceted Impact on Bone Health: Mechanisms and Clinical Evidence - Current Osteoporosis Reports
Purpose of Review SARS-CoV-2 infection, the culprit of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been associated with significant long-term effects on various organ systems, including bone health. This review explor...
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Flood social media with positivity! Simple acts of kindness go a long way. Make a food/clothing donation, pay it forward, pick up litter, or leave a small encouraging note for someone!
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