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Official Bluesky account of KY 120 United-AFT. We exist to protect public education & all public servants. Proud members of AFT & AFL-CIO. #120Strong #KY120AFT

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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
“A festive atmosphere -bubbles, drums, honking cars, flags and costumed marchers -pervaded Lexington’s No Kings demonstration Saturday, as thousands of people turned out downtown to protest the Trump administration and its policies. #NoKings #NoKingsLexington @aft.org
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Thousands march at No Kings rally in downtown Lexington: ‘We are anti-fascists’
Demonstrators protested Trump administration policies and exercised their right to free speech, which some said they fear is being eroded.
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Progress Kentucky @progressky.org · 08/10/2025
OCT. 18 - KYians Across Our Commonwealth Will Join Together to REJECT the Trump MAGA Regime's Authoritarian Power Grab! We have 23 Protests Across KY!!! Find and join your event here: bit.ly/NoKingsKY Lexington: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... Lexington sign-making: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Progress Kentucky @progressky.org · 08/10/2025
@50501ky.bsky.social @bgaalliance.bsky.social @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social @bgresistance.bsky.social Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOO LEXINGTON! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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NO KINGS Lexington, KY · Indivisible
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A day of solidarity with THE BEST pro-labor, pro-education Governor in the country and our union brothers and sisters. In the words of Representative McGarvey “When we fight, we win!” We show up. We care. We fight. We vote. #ItsBetterInAUnion
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Wow. Five descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBe5...
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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BGAA (A Kentucky Indivisible Chapter) @bgaalliance.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
@progressky.bsky.social @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social @50501ky.bsky.social
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
It’s all about community.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This bill will remove healthcare for 17M people, slash food assistance for 22M, shutter hundreds of hospitals, defund higher education, cut jobs, target immigrant communities and explode the national debt—all for tax breaks to the ultra-rich. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
AFT members have sounded the alarm for months: the Big Ugly Bill’s cuts will devastate our communities. As @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social’s Dennis Wheatley put it: “Cutting funding... doesn’t save money. It creates bigger problems.” aftvoices.org/schools-urge...
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Schools urgently need federal dollars
By Dennis Wheatley
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Our members are volunteering for @kftc-1981.bsky.social (Kentuckians For The Commonwealth) at Pride today. We are joining our allies and advocating for rights for all Kentuckians, sharing resources, having conversations, and registering voters. We care. We show up. We fight. We vote.
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings @aft.org
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Nema Brewer @thatnema.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Lexington, KY, y’all. #NoKings @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social @aft.org
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Well over 5,000 Kentuckians showed up in Lexington to stand for democracy and to remind our government that we don’t do kings! #NoKings @aft.org @bgaalliance.bsky.social @progressky.bsky.social
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BGAA (A Kentucky Indivisible Chapter) @bgaalliance.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Our fabulous coalition partners on BlueSky: @progressky.bsky.social @50501ky.bsky.social @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social ✊‬
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AFT @aft.org · 14/06/2025
We spy some AFT shirts in the front! Thank you @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social for showing out for #NoKings day.
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AFT @aft.org · 10/06/2025
🚨 TONIGHT @ 6:00 pm EDT 🚨 Join our town hall to prepare for the June 14 #NoKings day of peaceful action. RSVP now to learn how we build nonviolent power through civic action—fighting for strong public schools, vibrant communities, and a democracy that works for all of us.
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No Kings Day Town Hall June 10th 6pm ET/3pm PT · AFT
## Click [HERE](https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/4983649/BC47BBD41223FFDE1AE5983CCE86E7EB) to register! In America, we don’t do kings—and that was by design. From the beginning, this country rejected ha...
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AFT @aft.org · 10/06/2025
Get a Term Life Insurance Plan today to help safeguard your family’s financial well-being.  Learn how an AFT + Term Life Insurance plan may be more affordable than you think and apply today for your family’s tomorrow! #ad unionplus.co/ou4
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Join us this Saturday, June 14th from 12–3pm at the Robert F. Stephens Courthouse Plaza located at 120 N Limestone in Lexington! #nokings #aft #aaflcio
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 07/06/2025
The nearly 15 million working people of the AFL-CIO and our affiliated unions demand the immediate release of @californialabor.bsky.social Vice President and @seiuca.bsky.social and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta. aflcio.org/press/releas...
Screenshot of a press release from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond: "The nearly 15 million working people of the AFL-CIO and our affiliated unions demand the immediate release of California Federation of Labor Unions Vice President and SEIU California and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta. As the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda has unnecessarily targeted our hard-working immigrant brothers and sisters, David was exercising his constitutional rights and conducting legal observation of ICE activity in his community. He was doing what he has always done, and what we do in unions: putting solidarity into practice and defending our fellow workers. In response, ICE agents violently arrested him, physically injuring David in the process, and are continuing to detain him—a violation of David’s civil liberties and the freedoms this country holds dear. The labor movement stands with David and we will continue to demand justice for our union brother until he is released."
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Nema Brewer @thatnema.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Floyd County KY 120 United AFT member Kyle O’Quinn utilized @aft resources to engage his students in their communities, identify problems, find solutions, and empower them to take action. www.facebook.com/share/v/1979...
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Save the date! More details to come! @50501ky.bsky.social @progressky.bsky.social @bgaalliance.bsky.social
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Brandy Leigh @headred5034.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Let’s talk about why collective bargaining agreements are good for schools and communities. @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social @thatnema.bsky.social
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
✊ #ProtectOurKids #MayDay2025
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AFT @aft.org · 02/05/2025
Not all heroes wear capes - some wear aprons! Today, we recognize and thank our school nutrition professionals for making sure every child has the healthy food they need to learn and grow. #SchoolLunchHeroDay #PSRPproud @psrp-aft.bsky.social
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AFT @aft.org · 02/05/2025
Our members were on the ground at more than 800 #MayDay2025 events nationwide! Here are some of our favorites! Add yours in the replies or tag us on your social posts. #MayDay2025 @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social @uftnyc.bsky.social @ctulocal1.bsky.social @atfteachersunion.bsky.social
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AFT @aft.org · 01/05/2025
Happy #MayDay and #LaborHistoryMonth from AFT! As we reflect on the struggles and triumphs of our movement's past, let's continue to stand together and work for a better future for all. ✊
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AFT @aft.org · 01/05/2025
We're marching with laborers, parents, community members, students, and everyday people who are coming together and raising their voices for better, safer, and stronger communities. MayDayStrong.org #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025
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National Day of Action
They want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. This May Day we are fighting back. Stand with us.
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AFT @aft.org · 01/05/2025
#100DaysofTrump
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AFT @aft.org · 30/04/2025
We must speak out to protect immigrant families, defend dignity, and fight for the future all our kids deserve. Join AFT and our partners in the fight - aft.org/ActNow
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Protect our children—all our children
As educators, we have a responsibility to the kids we teach. As healthcare professionals, we help and heal. As neighbors, friends and community members, we know that America stands for unity and oppor...
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AFT @aft.org · 01/05/2025
✊ #MayDayStrong @aflcio.org
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Nema Brewer @thatnema.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🔥 what side are you on? Collective bargaining could help students and teachers in Fayette County schools | Opinion www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-e... For more great content like this subscribe to the Lexington Herald Leader app here: www.kentucky.com/subscribe
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Collective bargaining could help students and teachers in Fayette County schools | Opinion
OpEd: When teachers are adequately supported and able to have a unified voice at the bargaining table to solve problems, students reap the benefits.
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
OpEd: “When teachers are adequately supported and able to have a unified voice at the bargaining table to solve problems, students reap the benefits.”
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Collective bargaining could help students and teachers in Fayette County schools | Opinion
OpEd: When teachers are adequately supported and able to have a unified voice at the bargaining table to solve problems, students reap the benefits.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Today’s executive orders make clear that despite their mantra of local control, the Trump Administration really does want to be in the business of education after all. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Trump issues array of executive orders for K-12 schools and colleges
Taken together, Trump’s suite of orders represent significant maneuvers to squeeze the finances of higher education institutions and expand his already sweeping federal intervention into the country’s...
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 21/04/2025
This is retaliation against the unions and members (many of whom are veterans themselves) who are leading the fight against the administration’s illegal actions in court. We will not be silenced. We’ll be even louder. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
VA is selectively enforcing Trump’s order stripping workers of union rights. VA Secretary Doug Collins this week issued a notice allowing employees at the department whose unions have not been involved with lawsuits against the Trump administration to retain their collective bargaining rights.
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
AFT member Hope Brown speaks to 3,000+ people in Lexington about DEI and collective bargaining. #ProtectOurKids #NoKings We care. We show up. We fight. We vote.
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BGAA (A Kentucky Indivisible Chapter) @bgaalliance.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Y'all. The energy in Lexington was through the roof today and we are getting national notice. The organizers counted 3,000 people. Multiply that by 4 and we'll be at the magic 3.5% Help us get there? Next Lex march: May 1. Late afternoon. Stay tuned... #MayDayStrong #UnionStrong #BGAA #indivisible
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Lexington, KY, Protests Trump Administration on 250th Anniversary of Start of Revolutionary War
Lexington, KY – The American Revolutionary War began 250 years ago today, with “The Shot Heard Round The World” fired on April 19th, 1775, at Lexington, Mass. On this anniversary, as part of a nationw...
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Huge crowd in Lexington, Kentucky today to declare "No Kings!" #50501 #NoKings #NoKing #HandsOff #protest #Kentucky #Lexington #indivisble
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
No Kings Then! No Kings Now! We care. We show up. We fight. We vote! This is what community looks like! #NoKings #ProtectOurKids
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50501 KY @50501ky.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
50 years ago, the fight for OUR democracy began. On April 19th, we continue that fight. Join us in Lexington for a peaceful protest: 🕑 2PM – Speeches, March, Testimonials 📍 Courthouse Plaza No Kings Then! No Kings Now! Organized by KY grassroots coalitions. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Today—and every day—this president is focused on himself. Meanwhile, unions are consistently showing up to fight for economic opportunity for all families to have a better life. #HandsOff our Social Security, our public education, our healthcare, and our democracy. 🇺🇸
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fightmasterbayerle.bsky.social @fightmasterbayerle.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with my union brothers and sisters and other local activists to speak out against this administration. Our children deserve better. Our educators deserve better. Our communities deserve better. @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social #handsoffpubliceducation
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They want us to be silent. But we won’t be. Because we know there’s no cavalry coming. We are the cavalry. And we’ll fight in the courts, in the streets and in our communities—because our kids, our jobs and our futures are worth fighting for. #HandsOff
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Tell me what democracy looks like- THIS is what democracy looks like. Hands Off, Lexington Rally. We care. We show up. We act. We vote. We promise to continue to stand with our community. #ProtectOurKids #HandsOffOurDemocracy #HandsOff @aftunion.bsky.social
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 05/04/2025
🚨 Hands off Unions! 🚨 This Saturday, we’re defending our right to unionize and fight for fair wages, benefits, and job security. Unions make us stronger! Join us: seiu.co/42c1Lzi #HANDSOFF
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Kentucky friends, it’s time to take to the streets! HANDS OFF our public schools. #ProtectOurKids
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“And that’s what the AFT’s 1.8 million members will continue to do: fight in the streets, in the courts and in Congress, to uphold both the law and the right of all workers to advocate for their collective interests and America’s future.”
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thank you @aftunion.bsky.social for fighting for us! ✊ www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
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Department Of Education Says It Will Reopen Student Loan Payment Plans After Group Takes Legal Action
The Trump administration indicated that it would take steps to reopen applications for key student loan plans this week after a legal challenge. But there's a catch.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Weingarten: We didn't vote for Elon Musk to call Social Security a Ponzi scheme. We didn’t vote for Howard Lutnick to say, oh don't worry, no elderly people, including my mother, would care if they don’t get their checks from Social Security.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
What is the value of special education? @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social member & paraeducator Dan Isenstein answers that perfectly: "At its most basic, special education creates opportunities for all." Read more from Dan here. #ProtectOurKids aftvoices.org/why-fund-the...
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Why fund the Department of Education? A special education perspective
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KY 120 United AFT @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Kentucky 120 United-AFT statement on attempts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Together, we must organize to #ProtectOurKids
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