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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today ICE shot a man in the Bronx in front of his kid; yet DHS seems more concerned about peaceful, constitutionally protected advocacy to defend our communities than it does about masked government agents killing, assaulting, and cruelly detaining people—including American citizens.

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AFT @aft.org · 22/09/2026

We’ve joined 89 orgs to urge Congress to hold an emergency hearing on student loan chaos. Since the Big Ugly Bill took effect, wrong bills have caused confusion, false past-due notices have gone out and some borrowers have even lost PSLF credits. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

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Student-loan borrowers are facing 'drastic changes' to repayment that require lawmakers to step in, 89 organizations say

Nearly 100 organizations are calling on Congress to hold an "emergency hearing" in light of major student-loan repayment changes over the past months.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We @democracydefendersfund.org are proud to be among "Civil Rights Groups Suing to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites" We are representing labor unions @aft.org, UFCW & IUPAT together w/ many from our coalition that also stopped Trump's USPS cheating! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...

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Civil Rights Groups Sue to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites (Gift Article)

The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send agents to polling stations violate the Voting Rights Act.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

While Trump and Republicans in Congress move on, tens of millions of Americans are stuck with the bill — literally. A family of four with student debt now faces $4,000+ in added costs a year. My latest on @ms.now: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

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Opinion | America’s student loan system is a mess. Along comes Trump to make it worse.

Randi Weingarten and Mike Pierce: Ballooning student loan payments are Trump's latest contribution to the affordability crisis

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AFT @aft.org · 04/08/2026

“As with [Trump's] first compact, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their administrations and governing boards reject Compact 2.0. There is every reason to believe we can do so again." - @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org's @proftwolf.bsky.social

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AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Accelerated bachelor's degrees threaten academic integrity by prioritizing the speed of earning a degree over intellectual development. We should reduce the cost of earning a bachelor’s degree, not cut corners and devalue what a bachelor’s degree means. (1/2) www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

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Faculty Unions Slam 3-Year Degrees

The American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers came out against three-year degrees after Massachusetts announced plans to adopt them.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wall Street keeps breaking records while working families fall further behind. The top 20% of earners own 87% of stock market wealth. A bull market doesn't lower anyone's rent or grocery bill. The gains flow to people who already have plenty,not those struggling to get by www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/b...

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The stock market rally that’s making some people rich and everyone else miserable | CNN Business

The saving grace of this economy that everyone hates: Wealthy Americans are keeping it afloat by spending — throughout tariffs, inflation, war, you name it.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Forcing political allegiance that explicitly ignores scientific consensus creates a public research crisis. It will impact treatments for myriad of public health concerns & undermine scientific & technological research that drives regional & state economies. @AAUPNational www.aft.org/news/aft-aau...

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AFT, AAUP and Stand Up for Science host higher ed action hour to stop the White House from politicizing scientific research

In late May, the Office of Management and Budget proposed a new rule that would, if approved, appoint senior White House officials to review applications for federal research instead of independent sc...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is fantastic news for SUNY: @uupinfo.bsky.social reached a historic 5 year tentative agreement! This TA will strengthen the SUNY system for students & faculty for years to come and shows the power of collective action in securing a fair contract for a better life. uupinfo.org/communicatio...

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Education Minnesota @educationmn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Dozens of educators are testifying at the Capitol today about the impact of Minnesota's ICE surge on schools: "I wish I could tell you this is an exaggerated situation. Unfortunately, this is the reality we have been living in for months now. We need help. We need support now." #mnleg #iceoutschools

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juliemaries.bsky.social @juliemaries.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is a true American. 💯 etoile du nord!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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AFT @aft.org · 28/01/2026

Why are educators and healthcare workers showing up for No Kings on March 28? @rweingarten.bsky.social lays out what’s at stake, and why Americans across the country are refusing to be intimidated and standing up for their communities. Learn more: www.nokings.org/news/no-king...

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AFT @aft.org · 23/01/2026

Today is Minnesota’s statewide Day of Action—and educators and community members across the country are standing together for safe schools and neighborhoods. Wear blue and stand with @educationmn.bsky.social to show your solidarity using #IceOutSchools: educationminnesota.org/january-23-d...

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AFT Maryland @aftmaryland.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Our union took the fight to the federal government – and we won. The Trump administration withdrew their appeal in the lawsuit we filed against the Department of Education's "Dear Colleague Letter," which attempted to seize educators’ freedom of speech & rewrite what can be taught.

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We Fought for Students & Educators, and We Won!

Attack what binds us together, and you'll find out why it holds.Our union took the fight to the federal government – and we won. On Wednesday, the Trump administration withdrew their appeal in the law...

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Black history is being erased, antisemitism is embedded in groyper movement, the fed’l govt is deploying armed agents in cities. Yet a US senator pressured a university to censor a professor who raised white supremacy? Campus academic freedom must be honored www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

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Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This order is a major win for students & academic freedom. The Trump–Vance admin tried to strong-arm the UC system and its faculty and staff into giving up their free speech rights — and they were stopped. Proud that AFT was part of the coalition that stood up democracyforward.org/updates/cour...

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Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Gain Leverage and Political Control Over University of California System - Democracy Forward

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AFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Reminder that college students are *adults* who can handle complex information! "The Texas A&M Board of Regents is caving to political pressure in this crucial moment and damning our future in the process." -Zeph Capo @texasaft.org Read more: www.texasaft.org/membership/h...

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Texas AAUP-AFT Calls on the Texas A&M University System Not to Muzzle Faculty, Students in the Classroom

A Union of Professionals

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Good morning NYC! Are you ready?

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Faculty and Staff Federation of CCP @fsfccp.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Philly! On Friday, Nov. 7th at 12pm Noon, join higher ed workers and students at 20th and Market to protest Senator McCormick’s co-signing of billionaire attacks on Higher Education in Pennsylvania. Despite writing a book about leadership, is nothing but a fool follower of bad actors.

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AFT @aft.org · 07/11/2025

Higher ed workers are struggling with rising prices & economic security. The shutdown's making it worse. This is why we fight for good-paying jobs with real security of employment for all academic workers! #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org

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Higher Ed Feels “Cumulative Exhaustion” of Longest Shutdown

Worries about access to health care, food, research funding and tuition assistance are mounting on college campuses as the record-breaking government shutdown persists.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

“If conservatives..wanted to fight (antisemitism)they would turn first to their own camp..Data shows the radical right committed the majority of extremist-related murders in the last decade,while”the epicenter of antisemitic attitudes is young adults on the far right” thehill.com/opinion/whit...

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Debby33 ❌ 👑 @debby33.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Please give whatever you can to your local food bank right now. I guarantee they need it. 🥪

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thank you @TimothySnyder.bsky.social for joining @AFT.org & @AAUP.org in calling on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to reject Trump's proposed compact and to defend the principle that no president has the right to buy obedience or sell off freedom. snyder.substack.com/p/save-ameri...

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Save American Higher Education (video)

A petition that you can sign, which I read aloud

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org! We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫 job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

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Higher Education Reporter, National

New York City, United States

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AFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Read the full statement here: www.aft.org/press-releas...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 01/10/2025

I've been saying this for two weeks! AOC: Trump is weaker than he looks. They double down in public to overcompensate for it. They rely on the 'perception' of strength. They rely on the 'perception' of inevitability. They want you to give up! We can't give up. We have to be their consequence."

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AFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Important op-ed on how federal chaos has local impact. Connecticut will suffer from the attacks on science and free speech. Read it in full: ctmirror.org/2025/09/19/d...

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Lawmakers must defend academic freedom, healthcare access, and research in CT

Recent White House executive orders and federal legislation threaten academic freedom, higher education, healthcare, and Connecticut’s economy.

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AFT @aft.org · 19/09/2025

ICYMI: Yesterday, @afthighered.bsky.social and @aaup.org launched our "Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy" campaign to strengthen higher education in the US. Learn more about the campaign here: aft.org/HigherEdBenefitsEveryone #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone

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Higher Education: Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy

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AFT @aft.org · 18/09/2025

WATCH & SHARE: College & university faculty teach classes that transform students’ lives and run labs that result in lifesaving medical research. They create opportunity and strengthen communities. We must defend higher education, not defund it. Learn more: aft.org/higeredbenefitseveryone

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Attacks on Higher Ed are Attacks on ALL of Us.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

💯💯💯

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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/09/2025

We Out Here! AAUP & @aft.org members from coast to coast are out in the streets this #LaborDay standing on business & raising the voices of higher ed workers as we continue to resist an unprecedented wave of attacks. Join Us! #DefendHigherEd ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊🏽

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

So telling that Trump is willing to turn over big parts of Ukraine, but not even little bits of the Epstein files.

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juliemaries.bsky.social @juliemaries.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Huge win for our colleges & universities, our students, and our communities. Our diversity is what makes our system of higher ed—and this nation—great.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/07/2025

AAUP @afthighered.bsky.social Summer Institute at Morehouse College begins today! 🔥 #OrganizeFightWin

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