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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An important lesson. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let’s say plainly what this is: The President is taking away bipartisan funding from programs that help migrant children. He is hurting our most vulnerable to advance his hateful agenda. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump rescinds nearly $1B in federal funding, bypassing congressional approval
President Trump cancelled almost $1 billion in federal funding Friday using the controversial “pocket rescission” process, which allows him to sidestep congressional approval. Most of the can…
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joining us at @nysut.bsky.social #unplugged conference today is a maverick who has held tech companies accountable for addictive algorithms and misuse of AI is our wonderful @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Letitia James.
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A few gems from Jared Cooney Horvath- “Life literacy becomes digital literacy”. “There’s a difference between use and literacy”. “Tech is not an equity tool”. Our kids are struggling more even with more one to one!! @nysut.bsky.social #unplugged
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our opening keynote speaker at #UNPLUGGED is Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath who is making us aware that increasing technology has not had the impact on our students we wanted. @nysut.bsky.social
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now. Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now
Contact Congress today!
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So proud of @nysut.bsky.social for convening this important #UNPLUGGED Conference to ask questions like ‘what do our students truly need from us?’
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No matter your politics, American citizens need to be able to exercise their basic democratic right to vote without intimidation. That's why we joined a coalition to file a federal lawsuit challenging the administration's attempts to put armed agents at polling places. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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Civil rights coalition files federal lawsuit challenging threatened use of ICE and federal law enforcement at polling locations
WASHINGTON— Nine organizations representing immigrants, communities of color, and workers — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Mi Familia en Accion,
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We applaud the wins when they do the right thing!! #votingrights
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AFT @aft.org · 14/09/2026
Medical debt is one of the most common and least understood forms of debt facing Americans. @rweingarten.bsky.social: More than 8 in 10 AFT members said healthcare costs are a major driver of financial distress for their families.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mr President You are dead wrong on this.. Safety is not an afterthought , it is the path forward to AI not overtaking the wirkd. It’s not about China, it’s about all of us!! www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump tries to kill regulations on ‘HOAX’ AI dangers
The president is trying to shut down a growing push for AI regulation, amid calls from leaders to slow the production of artificial intelligence.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today's SCOTUS decision on mail ballots is strictly procedural. Nothing substantively has changed. When SCOTUS ultimately rules on the merits it must follow the Constitution, like it did in June. States — not Trump or the US Postal Service — run elections www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Court Allows Trump to Pursue Mail Voting Limits, for Now
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Educators want guidance on navigating AI & screens, and #SXSWEDU is the perfect place to have a discussion about strategies like the AFT's Devices Down, Eyes-Up, Hands-On plan. Today is the final day to vote. Vote for our panel Create an account or log in. Click ❤️ to vote. bit.ly/4wnnNMr
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Join the fight for public schools. publicschoolsuniteus.org/our-initiati...
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Take Action | PublicSchoolsUniteUs.org
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ktajeff.bsky.social @ktajeff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“The world does not revolve around you, but it would be incomplete without you!” Maryland Governor Wes Moore. Thats what he wants every student to know. We need more leaders like him. #AFT26 #AFTPC26
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Politico @politico.com · 19/07/2026
Nigerian children pay the price for the Iran war as malnutrition and poverty surge
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Nigerian children pay the price for the Iran war as malnutrition and poverty surge
“Children are paying the price for the escalating conflict in the Middle East, including children far beyond the region,” UNICEF's Catherine Russell said.
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ktajeff.bsky.social @ktajeff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Congratulations to our Progressive Caucus Slate on their Election as the officers of the AFT! Let’s keep the Union moving forward! #AFT26 #AFTPC26
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AFT Progressive Caucus @aftprog.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Get in the AFT Progressive Caucus I Spy social media game and tag your convention posts #AFTPC26 and #AFT26 today!
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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“I don't get political” translates to “This isn't hurting me yet and I don't care that it's hurting you.”
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What an important conversation that needs to be had in more spaces. Differences do not have to mean hate!! #AFT26
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
At a time when our democracy is being tested, these conversations and our collective action matter more than ever. Read more about my conversation with @chenoweth.bsky.social, Danielle Allen, @ericholder.bsky.social & @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social at the @aft.org Convention: www.aft.org/news/meeting...
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Meeting the moment in unprecedented times
Working people today are facing unprecedented challenges, including rising inequality, democratic backsliding and attacks on our fundamental rights.
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I Spy some great times and people in DC at the @aft.org 2026 convention #AFT26 #AFTPC26
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AFT Progressive Caucus @aftprog.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Tag your social media posts with #AFTPC, #AFT26 and get in the I Spy game!
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AFT @aft.org · 18/07/2026
✅ RESOLUTION PASSED: Fight for Affordability and Improved Quality of Life "The AFT will use every tool at our disposal to ensure AFT members can build financial security and share fully in the prosperity of the nation they serve." www.aft.org/resolution/f...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026
Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In her award acceptance speech @stacydavisgates.bsky.social at the @aft.org Black Caucus Scholarship Luncheon says we have to care about our collective solidarity and Liberation. We have an obligation to this union to not let this work for by the wayside!!!!!
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In his award acceptance speech at the Black Caucus Luncheon, Bro. Leroy Barr stresses “If you’re not going to get in the fight, GET OUT OF THE WAY!!” @aftprog.bsky.social @aft.org
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congratulations to Lee Saunders on receiving the @aft.org 2026 Bayard Rustin award.
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Darla Schultz-Bubar @darla21.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When you make organizing a priority - growth follows! #AFT26 #AFTPC26
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AFT @aft.org · 17/07/2026
AFT EVP @evelyndejesus.bsky.social is getting the AFT Human Rights Luncheon started. At a pivotal moment for our nation, we're highlighting the critical role that our members play in advancing civil rights, educational opportunity, economic justice, worker rights & democratic participation.
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AFT @aft.org · 17/07/2026
Our public employee members—representing job titles ranging from lifeguards to emergency room nurses—gathered at convention to discuss common issues like disappearing public funding and understaffing, while sharing how being a part of a union supports their essential work.
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At AFT convention, public employees sound alarm on midterms, SNAP cuts
At the AFT Public Employees divisional meeting, members agreed on two things: the issues affecting all of them, from understaffing to underfunding, and the urgency of getting out—and protecting—the vo...
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ktajeff.bsky.social @ktajeff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“NYSUT is all in, every AFT delegate in the room can count on NYSUT - A Union of Professionals to invest our time and energy to help!” Melinda Person NYSUT President. #AFT26 #AFTPC26
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Proud of @nysut.bsky.social President Melinda and the other Democrat Defenders for being leaders in @aft.org Count Me In Campaign. We all know how to be activists and fight for our power.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tonight's speech (or whatever you call that disaster) shows that Trump is desperate & afraid. American voters will hold the president & his allies accountable for putting billionaires over working families. Americans elected him to lead, not peddle election conspiracies. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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AFT’s Weingarten Responds to Desperate Trump Election Lies
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after President Donald Trump delivered a farcical prime-time address to the nation: “Donald Trump is desperate and afraid. Inst...
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What a brilliant panel to discuss fighting for a better life for all! @aft.org
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AFT @aft.org · 16/07/2026
“Mr. President, you don’t own July Fourth, you own Jan. 6." — @rweingarten.bsky.social
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What a win!!!!! Go @aft.org We are getting s*!t done!!!!!!
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AFT @aft.org · 16/07/2026
"Yes, the other side has enormous power. But this is what they don’t have: the power of the people." — @rweingarten.bsky.social in her keynote at the AFT's 89th Convention
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“Life is better in a union” says our @aft.org President @rweingarten.bsky.social We have to keep up the fight!!! #aft26
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our @aft.org 2026 Convention welcomes Rep. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social #AFT26
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A reminder for Todd Blanche and any U.S. Senator who thinks he’s fit to serve as Attorney General.
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CNN @cnn.com · 16/07/2026
The investigation into a US strike that hit a school in Iran has sat for months with a military command while leaders have held off on ordering a critical, standard intelligence review to help determine what happened, according to three sources familiar with the matter. cnn.it/4br0auM
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Mannn ….
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Trump and Republicans know that their agenda is unpopular, whether it's foreign policy, tariffs, or their failure to address the affordability crisis. So now they're resorting to the oldest of rightwing tropes — accusing a rising generation of new, people-powered Democrats of being communists.
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Johnson Says Pentagon Needs More Money for ‘Fighting Communism on Our Own Shores’ | Common Dreams
​Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the "enemy within" and has recently promoted the idea that "democra
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/07/2026
New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers.
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New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers
The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g...
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Cordie @cordie92.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Are you @aft.org convention ready? I AM!! Also remember to join @aftprog.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Meryl Streep chimes in 💯💯🎯
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