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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 03/10/2026
⚠️ 🗳️ Prop 320 removes local control and pushes public school districts into a one-size-fits all formula. But, districts’ needs vary widely across AZ. Spread the word - Vote #NoProp320‼️
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Prop. 320 asks voters if the state should dictate how much public schools spend in the classroom
Prop. 320 asks voters to change state law to override local control and force public schools to spend a bigger percentage of their funding on “direct instruction.”
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 25/08/2026
🍎We are proud to endorse Josh Chilton & Jen Echols for the Mesa Public Schools Governing Board! Josh & Jen are #PublicSchoolProud candidates running to ensure that every Mesa student has access to an excellent public education. #Vote4PublicEd SOSAZ’s endorsed candidates ➡️ bit.ly/Vote4PublicEd26
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 02/10/2026
Join us for a very special event! Black Educators for Arizona, featuring three leaders and champions for public education: Senator Kiana Maria Sears, Rep. Quantá Crews & Dr. Racquel “Rockee” Armstrong. 📆 Tuesday, Oct. 6th 🕕 6:00pm 📍Register for Location: secure.actblue.com/donate/black...
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As high prices are hurting Americans Trump:
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wesoswald.bsky.social @wesoswald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
AZ, vote NO on Prop 320
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Dems getting better at this
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Pooky Amsterdam @pookymedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@joannamendoza.com @danisterbinsky.bsky.social @bernadetteaz08.bsky.social @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social @repyassansari.bsky.social @nurselee4az.bsky.social 3 Days left to make sure you can vote in this historically Important Election! Let's GO! 70% Turnout or better! Time to Vote & WIN!
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KellyK🌺 @azkellyk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey Arizona: Our state is decided by NARROW margins. Your ballot isn't a suggestion — it's the difference! It our voice and power. Make sure you are registered by MONDAY, OCT. 5. 🔥🗳️ #LetsGetVoteReady
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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wesoswald.bsky.social @wesoswald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🆘 AZ voting guide👇🏼
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 29/09/2026
🔥 EDUCATOR OPINION: “Many of the people and services students rely on every day are not traditionally counted as instructional spending. School counselors, psychologists, nurses, social works, speech therapists, and occupational therapists fall outside the instructional category."
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 29/09/2026
The AZ voter registrations deadline is ONE WEEK away! Have you checked your voter registration yet⁉️ ✅ First time voter? ✅ Moved recently? ✅ Changed your name? ✅ Changed your party preference? ✅ Forgot to vote in a while? 🗳️EVERYONE should check their voter registration before Oct. 5th: bit.ly/azvr
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wesoswald.bsky.social @wesoswald.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AZ, vote NO on Prop 320. It exerts far too much control on how public schools use their funding and applies harsh punishments on schools that don’t meet nearly impossible demands. It would result in essential cuts and school closures @sosarizona.org
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 25/09/2026
🚨DON’T BE FOOLED BY PROP 320: It claims to mandate 60% classroom spending, but the fine print tells a very different story. Prop 320 adds no new funding to our public schools. Instead, it threatens teacher pay cuts, fails to define critical terms, & forces districts to slash student support staff.
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 24/09/2026
🤩 WOW! #TeamSOSAZ volunteers are doing the work — calling voters across AZ! A huge THANK YOU to our dedicated Callstars for their hard work in supporting pro-public education candidates up and down the ballot! ✍️ Jump in! Join our virtual Phonebanks every Tue, Thu, & Sunday: bit.ly/SOSAZevents
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 19/09/2026
🗳️ In AZ and across the U.S., private school vouchers are key election issue 💪 Join our efforts to #FlipTheLeg and elect pro-public education candidates up and down the ballot! 🍿Don’t miss events! Learn more in our latest #WeeklyEdReport 👉 bit.ly/September21EdReport
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wesoswald.bsky.social @wesoswald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These public servants deserve your vote, AZ LD17. Former teachers and vets like these candidates understand leadership is about public service over politics, and they have secured @sosarizona.org’s venerable endorsement. Edgar Soto for State Senate BOTH Holly Lyon and Kevin Volk for State House
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate after not having a clue what he voted for or where he is.
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 17/09/2026
🍎🗳️ Join our #Vote4PublicEd Weekend of Action to knock doors and talk with neighbors about supporting #PublicSchoolProud candidates up and down the ballot. ✍️ Sign up to knock doors or make calls to help #FlipTheLeg: bit.ly/flip-doors
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wesoswald.bsky.social @wesoswald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey, public education supporters! I’m raising funds for @sosarizona.org so we can educate voters and elect a state legislative majority that supports, values, and funds public schools. Any amount you can donate is much appreciated. Thank you! Please donate here👇🏼 secure.qgiv.com/event/2026tr...
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 15/09/2026
School vouchers have become a major issue in elections across several battleground states, & AZ continues to be ground zero in the national debate. AZ's $1 billion ESA voucher program is a central issue in this year’s election for offices up and down the ballot from school board to the Governor.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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wesoswald.bsky.social @wesoswald.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today’s headlines in a country run by Republicans led by Trump: -Pollute the air so corporations make more 💰 -Abuse human rights so corporations make more 💰 Let AI grow dangerously fast so corporations make more 💰 -Putin’s friend funds Don Jr’s wedding so a corrupt, rich family makes more 💰
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Job posting - tenure-track assistant professor position The Dept of the History of Art & Architecture at Brown Univ seeks applicants whose scholarship focuses on histories of early modern (ca. 1400s-1700s) European art & architecture in the world. More info: apply.interfolio.com/191701
A detail of the still life flower painting by Ambrosius Bosschaert (the elder), Still-Life of Flowers, 1614; J. Paul Getty Museum. The job title for which applicants are sought is in yellow text at the top.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 09/09/2026
🎉🗳️ Get ballot-ready while having fun and supporting public education! Join SOSAZ Network on Tuesday, Sept. 15th from 6:30–8:00 PM for our 4th Annual Virtual Trivia Night. Win gift cards to favorites like Changing Hands, Penzey’s Spices, and MORE! 🎁 ✍️ Register to play or donate: bit.ly/2026Trivia
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 08/09/2026
🗳️The countdown is on: AZ ballots will be mailed ONE MONTH from today! You don’t want to look back after the election and think “I could have done more.” Every conversation, door knocked, & call made between now and Election Day will make a difference! Find a way to plug in: bit.ly/flip-doors
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 09/09/2026
🔥“Prop. 320 focuses on one number: 60%. But the other 40% pays for transportation, counselors, campus safety, technology & other services that help schools function… AZ should demand efficient schools, transparent spending & better outcomes. But a spending percentage is not a student outcome.”
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 07/09/2026
💪🗳️We had an incredible #WeekendOfAction to help #FlipTheLeg! Thank you to all of the incredible volunteers who joined us to knock doors in AZ’s most competitive districts. This is how we will change the balance of power for the good of our state. ✍️Sign up to join us next weekend! bit.ly/flip-doors
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 03/09/2026
😮 As the largest private school recipient of ESA vouchers, Gilbert Christian Schools charges families thousands in out-of-pocket tuition above an ESA voucher, pricing out low-income families opting out of providing disability accommodations like IEPs or 504 plans. www.12news.com/article/news...
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 03/09/2026
🚨NEW: A 12News analysis revealed that at least $719M in taxpayer-funded ESA vouchers flowed directly to just 190 private & religious schools across AZ. hundreds of millions of our taxpayer $ are flowing into private institutions while AZ continues to rank 49th in the US for public school funding.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
There is something so pathetically fitting about Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat becoming an empty vessel held by someone who just does whatever Trump tells them to
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 27/08/2026
SOSAZ firmly opposes Trump's massive federal private school voucher scam and supports Gov. Hobbs' vetoes of the MAGA-led legislature's attempts to force AZ into the program. In AZ, we know what happens when voucher programs siphon billions of taxpayer dollars into private schools with no guardrails.
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Arizona public school advocates are split over Trump's $1,700 'Big, Beautiful' school voucher
The Trump administration’s top education official visited Arizona to tout a new federal voucher program that will let Americans redirect their tax dollars to pay for school expenses – a program Arizon...
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 26/08/2026
🗳️ Election Day 2026 is 10 weeks away! 📆 Mark these important AZ voting dates on your calendar and be sure to share with friends and family. Then, check your voter registration TODAY to ensure your vote will be counted and your voice will be heard ▶️ bit.ly/azvr
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
♥️
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💙 LoriB 💙 @laamidon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In a world with so many greedy billionaires, be a Dolly Parton!!!
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 24/08/2026
Nearly 500,000 Arizonans have lost access to food stamps, and that could also threaten a federal provision that allows some schools to provide free lunch to all students. 🎧 www.kjzz.org/the-show/202... 📷 Getty Images
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Deranged and heartless
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Carlye Hooten @chooten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
These people are Nazi fucks. They'll go down in history the same way.
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Arizona Luminaria @azluminaria.org · 25/08/2026
Last spring, the district said it would name schools up for closure or consolidation by August
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Which schools could TUSD close? Board will discuss plan Tuesday - AZ Luminaria
The Tucson Unified School District will discuss its plan for closing and consolidating schools amid declining enrollment at its Aug. 25 Governing Board meeting. Clarifying details should come in the board meeting presentation called “Reimagining Our Schools Together — A Community Engagement Plan for Elements of the Enrollment Stabilization Program,” according to TUSD’s agenda. The […]
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Caris Adel @carisadel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is such a horrific vision of what education is 😭
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026
Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“And please, when I fail, will you tell me? You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if need be, when I deserve it, because no one knows or cares about me more.” … “With all my heart, Natalie”
Dear Mr. President,
I'm sorry. I thought I was the only one left behind last night, and had no idea Margo's car was also pulled over, and sent back to the Airport. Since I was alone in the van outside Customs without my passport, I panicked, and should have just called Secret Service instead of you. I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland. The first day I was told there were no carts, and people walked, which is why I walked. The second day, 1 was specifically asked by, I forget who his name was, but one of the main people who worked there, if I could continue walking, and tell any other girls who would head out there to do the same to spare the Course any more Carts. If there is anything else I have done to cause you trouble, please forgive me. I know that some people have said I haven't been texting them back, and there have been some International cell issues (John was having technical issues on the Plane too, so asked me to help him out).
I want things to always be right between us. I also know I've been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time). I haven't been myself, dwelling on the Past, and the pain of losing my Dad, and I started letting the remarks of people who haven't bothered me before, get to me-not because I care what others think, but because I see myself being lowered in your eyes and good opinion. That is the fear you see, because 1 never want to bring you anything but joy. I'm sorry I lost my focus. You are all that matters to me. I don't want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life-That's what I wanted to use this card for, when you saw me at the Cash Register, and once again did what you didn't have to do, and gifted me with Mementos of this Trip of a Lifetime, a Coming of Age. I will return a better person. I have to sign off now, as the cars are leaving.
See you soon.
With all my …Dear Mr. President,
Now this is the Note I wanted to write (But the apology needed to come first.)
I have learned so much about myself on this Trip-I always knew coming home to my roots would be enlightening, but I had no idea how much. For the first time, in I don't know how long, you forced me to "unplug." We could be out on the Course, with no machines, and even forget what time it was! I didn't have to be "Human Printer." I could take time to enjoy good conversation, and still get all my work done at the end of the day. In fact, I even had time to take long morning and evening walks to enjoy each Sunrise and Sunset (though I did forget to eat and sleep!). With so much thinking time, I confess it did have a slightly negative effect at times, that I know you picked up on, but the end result, I believe, will be worth it. I had no idea how rapidly I was approaching burnout, and starting to envy those whose only "job" seems to be to talk with you, and look pretty. I want that job!! So many times, I'm just trying to stay afloat with all that's coming in for you, I look like a hunchback who didn't have time to freshen up (at least you know what I should look like)! Plus, I miss the days when you used to call, during my Talkshow days, and we'd talk about everything and nothing. I want to get back to that synergy. We shouldn't have to talk about work all the time!! I've always felt like an in-betweener, somewhere between Staff and those you enjoy talking to on the Plane or at Dinner, because that's who I used to be to you when I was a "Talkshow Host" (as much as I hated that actual job!). I wish I could hear every conversation, because that's when you're having a good time, getting away from it all, at least for a few moments.
But after going through all this self-analysis, my conclusion? I need to reunite my past self with my current into a better version who will make you proud. And please, when I fail, will you tell me? You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if n…
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wesoswald.bsky.social @wesoswald.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
See ya in LD17
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
REPUBLICANS: "For our next trick, we're going to drive up the national debt past $40 trillion—without providing you with *any* bullet trains, universal healthcare, or bringing down the prices of ANYTHING. You're welcome!"
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