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Tony @tonychiado.com · 20h

I'm trying to understand what he's suggesting here. Hasn't Malaria spread to new areas as the climate has warmed? Every .1 degree increase represents a worsening of drought, famine, disease, etc. He should know that.

Tony @tonychiado.com · 1d

They know we’re not having a real election in the midterms.

Tony @tonychiado.com · 2d

This is the answer.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 3d

We have a tendency to portray the Trump Regime as a black swan. But the Trump Regime is part of a long conservative project committed to re-entrenching inequality wherever possible. The fortification of a rigid multi-dimensional caste system is centuries in the making on this continent.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 3d

It was, and is, an inherently fascist project. The transitioning economy provided a horrifying opportunity for ownership to stomp out labor’s power. And 40+ years later, here we are.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 3d

The conservative project to de-syndicate the working class during deindustrialization is one of the most significant societal developments in U.S. History.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 4d

That’s such a cool house!

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 4d

I'll probably continue to post this anytime someone calls for a general strike. The only way it happens is if the largest union in the country sticks its neck out first and shows others the way. That opportunity won't be around forever.

Tony @tonychiado.com · 4d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been calling for a general strike in protest. It won't get off the ground. Labor is too weak, fractured, atrophied.

Teachers' unions have a unique opportunity to make impact with unified struggle. Maybe it will inspire, or force, others into the streets, too.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 4d

I really think NEA and AFT should consider striking in protest of the federal government. There is overwhelming cause for such action. The power of teachers' unions is use it or lose it. Act now or there will be no public teachers' union in 5 years when the fascist state outlaws them.

It’s Time for the Teacher’s Union to Throw its Weight Around

I’m going to be a bit bold here. I think the National Education Association, America’s largest union of ~3 million members, should be kicking the tires on a national teacher strike. A m…

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 5d

At least they used misters?

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 5d

It might be bad that the American conceptualization of Freedom is the right to load up a shopping cart of rejected junk at Home Goods to charge to a credit card you're constantly trying to get paid off.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 5d

Good band name

Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

3 Seattle Companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and T-Mobile) donating to the physical projects of the fascist state.

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 6d

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

In his native tongue:

“Odio gli indifferenti. Credo che vivere voglia dire essere partigiani. Chi vive veramente non può non essere cittadino e partigiano. L’indifferenza è abulia, è parassitismo, è vigliaccheria, non è vita. Perciò odio gli indifferenti."

Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

“I hate the indifferent. I believe that life means taking sides. One who is really alive, can be nothing if not citizen and partisan. Indifference is lethargy; it is parasitism; it is cowardice; it is not life. Therefore, I hate the indifferent." - Antonio Gramsci

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

I've experienced it! Just didn't need it for state credentials.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

True on clock hours, but I haven't worked in a district yet that hasn't provided enough professional learning in-house on scheduled work days to meet those requirements.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

Correct. But the base pay isn't all that a Step 1 teacher would get paid. Per their contract, they get the contractual days, tech days, and responsibility pay as part of their salary. So even though base pay says $61k, actual pay is $75k because every teacher is fulfilling those contractual duties.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

Step 1 is generally your first year (0 years experience). For the majority of salary schedules I have seen, each step is a year of teaching experience. So a teacher with a doctoral degree in their 10th year of teaching is getting rookie cop pay.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

And, of course, public schools depend on significant amounts of un(der)paid overtime from teachers. Meanwhile, cops are some of the highest paid city employees because of their overtime opportunities.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

Also, to clarify, the total number in blue is what you want to look at for annual salary - not base pay. The contractual days, tech days, and responsibility pay are all part of the regular roles and pay of teachers in the district.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

www.seattleschools.org/wp-content/u... This is the current salary schedule FWIW. $75k salary for 1st year teachers.

www.seattleschools.org

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 6d

SPS Teachers need 10 years of experience and a doctorate to make a rookie cop's salary. It's laughable to call this is a progressive city.

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Tony @tonychiado.com · 7d

Beacon Hill Station goes hard

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