Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT)
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The PFT represents 14,000 educators working in the School District of Philadelphia. We're fighting for more public education funding & a better world for workers. Nothing about us, without us ✊🏽
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Solidarity is how we win! Gorgeous day to fight for our democracy, shoulder to shoulder with friends and allies. As our LeShawna Coleman told the crowd: Protest is powerful and fortifying. Now, go AND do! #NoKings
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Starbucks workers are truly making some of the best picket art in the game
December 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Starbucks workers are truly making some of the best picket art in the game
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WATCH: A CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Chris Hayes and Brandy Zadrozny react. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6REM...
CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot
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December 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
WATCH: A CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Chris Hayes and Brandy Zadrozny react. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6REM...
When being union proud is a family affair ❤️💪🏾
Happy Red Friday from PFT building rep Michelle Gibbs of Ellwood School and her little! #PFTstrong #PhlEd #RedFridays
Happy Red Friday from PFT building rep Michelle Gibbs of Ellwood School and her little! #PFTstrong #PhlEd #RedFridays
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When being union proud is a family affair ❤️💪🏾
Happy Red Friday from PFT building rep Michelle Gibbs of Ellwood School and her little! #PFTstrong #PhlEd #RedFridays
Happy Red Friday from PFT building rep Michelle Gibbs of Ellwood School and her little! #PFTstrong #PhlEd #RedFridays
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Another thing: An administration that so relishes in sickening, starving, and killing children cannot also be “a true champion” for their education, as Jeff Yass claims.
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Another thing: An administration that so relishes in sickening, starving, and killing children cannot also be “a true champion” for their education, as Jeff Yass claims.
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"A company controlled by Yass received $6.8 million in tax credits through this program from 2020 to 2024, state data shows..."
To be clear: private school tax credits ARE vouchers. Their cost to taxpayers rises every year to the benefit of millionaires and billionaires like Jeff Yass.
To be clear: private school tax credits ARE vouchers. Their cost to taxpayers rises every year to the benefit of millionaires and billionaires like Jeff Yass.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"A company controlled by Yass received $6.8 million in tax credits through this program from 2020 to 2024, state data shows..."
To be clear: private school tax credits ARE vouchers. Their cost to taxpayers rises every year to the benefit of millionaires and billionaires like Jeff Yass.
To be clear: private school tax credits ARE vouchers. Their cost to taxpayers rises every year to the benefit of millionaires and billionaires like Jeff Yass.
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"He also looks at education culture war fights and imagines them all going away. If a child is bullied because he is gay, he says, he can just choose an LGBTQ-friendly school instead."
OK Jeff.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
OK Jeff.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Meet the billionaire pushing taxpayer-funded school vouchers
How one of the richest people on the planet presses his pet issue: school choice
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"He also looks at education culture war fights and imagines them all going away. If a child is bullied because he is gay, he says, he can just choose an LGBTQ-friendly school instead."
OK Jeff.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
OK Jeff.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"In his home state of Pennsylvania, where Yass has flooded the political system with cash for years, a voucher plan reached the top of the legislative agenda but has not been passed into law....
"'It was a dramatic failure,' Yass said. 'We thought we had it.'"
"'It was a dramatic failure,' Yass said. 'We thought we had it.'"
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"In his home state of Pennsylvania, where Yass has flooded the political system with cash for years, a voucher plan reached the top of the legislative agenda but has not been passed into law....
"'It was a dramatic failure,' Yass said. 'We thought we had it.'"
"'It was a dramatic failure,' Yass said. 'We thought we had it.'"
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Charter schools and voucher schools do not do the same job as public district schools--much like Amazon and the USPS do not do the same job.
The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Charter schools and voucher schools do not do the same job as public district schools--much like Amazon and the USPS do not do the same job.
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The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
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"We've got little children going to school today and their president called them 'garbage.'"
Thank you, @governorwalz.mn.gov, for standing up against the vile racism being directed at vulnerable and precious kids.
Thank you, @governorwalz.mn.gov, for standing up against the vile racism being directed at vulnerable and precious kids.
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"We've got little children going to school today and their president called them 'garbage.'"
Thank you, @governorwalz.mn.gov, for standing up against the vile racism being directed at vulnerable and precious kids.
Thank you, @governorwalz.mn.gov, for standing up against the vile racism being directed at vulnerable and precious kids.
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Big day to amplify @sbworkersunited.org and not buy Starbucks
BREAKING: 12 strikers were just arrested by the NYPD while peacefully protesting outside the Empire State Building.
Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
Today, baristas are bringing their ULP strike to Starbucks' NYC corporate office, housed inside the Empire State Building.
Workers and allies are demanding the company resolve 100s of unfair labor practices, end the union-busting, & finalize fair union contracts. Let's go! #NoContractNoCoffee
Workers and allies are demanding the company resolve 100s of unfair labor practices, end the union-busting, & finalize fair union contracts. Let's go! #NoContractNoCoffee
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Big day to amplify @sbworkersunited.org and not buy Starbucks
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U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
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When Bezos changed the Washington Post's editorial board standards to align with “personal liberties and free markets,” he meant his own liberty to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.
The Washington Post editorial board railed against a wealth tax without noting its owner, Jeff Bezos, stands to benefit more from its tax policy prescriptions than nearly anyone else on the planet.
Read the full article about how the Post serves Bezos's interests: zeteo.com/p/washington...
Read the full article about how the Post serves Bezos's interests: zeteo.com/p/washington...
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When Bezos changed the Washington Post's editorial board standards to align with “personal liberties and free markets,” he meant his own liberty to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.
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The affordability crisis is hitting Black women the hardest as their unemployment rates rise. Naomi Bethune charts the impact on maternal health, and the forced downgrade in lifestyle choices.
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To Be Black, Female, and Unemployed - The American Prospect
How unemployment in the Trump era shapes Black women’s lives when maternal care and food choices are in the mix
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December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The affordability crisis is hitting Black women the hardest as their unemployment rates rise. Naomi Bethune charts the impact on maternal health, and the forced downgrade in lifestyle choices.
prospect.org/2025/12/04/b...
prospect.org/2025/12/04/b...
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If AI eliminates millions of jobs, how will people survive?
Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy?
Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet?
We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.
Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy?
Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet?
We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.
AI poses unprecedented threats. Congress must act now | Bernie Sanders
Despite the speed at which it is progressing, AI is getting far too little discussion in Congress, the media and within the general population. That has got to change
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If AI eliminates millions of jobs, how will people survive?
Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy?
Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet?
We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.
Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy?
Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet?
We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.
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The threats from unchecked AI are real — worker displacement, corporate surveillance, invasion of privacy, environmental destruction, unmanned warfare.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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December 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The threats from unchecked AI are real — worker displacement, corporate surveillance, invasion of privacy, environmental destruction, unmanned warfare.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
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"In the Labor Movement, an injury to one is an injury to all. By vilifying our Somali American co-workers and neighbors and threatening military-style raids in Minnesota’s communities, President Trump is attacking our state’s entire Labor Movement." aflcio.mn/49VgXGv
We refuse to let Trump break our solidarity
Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham made the following statement in response to President Trump’s threats to Minnesota’s Somali American community:“In the Labor Movement, an injury to one is…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"In the Labor Movement, an injury to one is an injury to all. By vilifying our Somali American co-workers and neighbors and threatening military-style raids in Minnesota’s communities, President Trump is attacking our state’s entire Labor Movement." aflcio.mn/49VgXGv
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How much more do people need to see? #TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall
Grok was asked what would make the most sense if it had to choose: vaporizing Musk’s mind or killing the world’s 16 million Jews.
#Grok said that it would kill all the Jews in a tweet that has since been deleted:
MechaHItler returns
By @paleofuture.bsky.social
#TeslaTakedown
#ElonQ
$TSLAQ
#Grok said that it would kill all the Jews in a tweet that has since been deleted:
MechaHItler returns
By @paleofuture.bsky.social
#TeslaTakedown
#ElonQ
$TSLAQ
December 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
How much more do people need to see? #TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall
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no story about elon musk or his companies is complete without reference to both his overt white nationalist agitation, or his willingness to put that rhetoric into action by gleefully consigning countless thousands of people of color to death while running DOGE
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
no story about elon musk or his companies is complete without reference to both his overt white nationalist agitation, or his willingness to put that rhetoric into action by gleefully consigning countless thousands of people of color to death while running DOGE
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AFT has resources for immigrant communities in the face of federal crackdowns, including the Checklist for a Family Immigration Emergency Plan, now available in:
▶️ English
▶️ Spanish
▶️ Korean
▶️ Traditional Chinese
▶️ Armenian
▶️ Tagalog
▶️ Haitian Creole
Find it here ⬇️
www.aft.org/our-communit...
▶️ English
▶️ Spanish
▶️ Korean
▶️ Traditional Chinese
▶️ Armenian
▶️ Tagalog
▶️ Haitian Creole
Find it here ⬇️
www.aft.org/our-communit...
Immigration
Americans know that our strength has always been built on the simple notion that America is a place where many become one. The AFT, as the representative of those who teach and care for our next gener...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
AFT has resources for immigrant communities in the face of federal crackdowns, including the Checklist for a Family Immigration Emergency Plan, now available in:
▶️ English
▶️ Spanish
▶️ Korean
▶️ Traditional Chinese
▶️ Armenian
▶️ Tagalog
▶️ Haitian Creole
Find it here ⬇️
www.aft.org/our-communit...
▶️ English
▶️ Spanish
▶️ Korean
▶️ Traditional Chinese
▶️ Armenian
▶️ Tagalog
▶️ Haitian Creole
Find it here ⬇️
www.aft.org/our-communit...
Most of our members are teachers who were ready to walk off the job if support staff did not get the respect they deserve. That's solidarity at work ❤️💪🏾
The PFT is incredibly proud to have negotiated a collective bargaining agreement that provides significant raises to school secretaries.
The PFT is incredibly proud to have negotiated a collective bargaining agreement that provides significant raises to school secretaries.
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Most of our members are teachers who were ready to walk off the job if support staff did not get the respect they deserve. That's solidarity at work ❤️💪🏾
The PFT is incredibly proud to have negotiated a collective bargaining agreement that provides significant raises to school secretaries.
The PFT is incredibly proud to have negotiated a collective bargaining agreement that provides significant raises to school secretaries.
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We’re 👏 Not 👏 Going 👏 Anywhere 👏
Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear and consistent on what we need to succeed: more take-home pay, better hours, resolving legal issues. Until then, you’ll see us and our allies on the picket line.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear and consistent on what we need to succeed: more take-home pay, better hours, resolving legal issues. Until then, you’ll see us and our allies on the picket line.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike
Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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👀 "The lawsuit is applying the Commonwealth Court’s 2023 decision that students have a constitutional right to an adequate education.... If successful, some of the arguments in this new lawsuit could be used against other cyber charter schools in the future." www.pennlive.com/education/20...
Pittsburgh Public Schools and Pa.’s largest cyber charter school clash over lawsuit
The lawsuit argues the district shouldn’t have to fund a cyber school that is performing poorly, while Commonwealth Charter Academy says Pittsburgh is failing its own students.
www.pennlive.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
👀 "The lawsuit is applying the Commonwealth Court’s 2023 decision that students have a constitutional right to an adequate education.... If successful, some of the arguments in this new lawsuit could be used against other cyber charter schools in the future." www.pennlive.com/education/20...
@artsteinberg-pft.bsky.social: “School districts across the Commonwealth that have been begging for cyber charter payment reform were heard in this budget. Every dollar appropriated for public education should be received by public schools and put to work for public school students, period.”
December 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
@artsteinberg-pft.bsky.social: “School districts across the Commonwealth that have been begging for cyber charter payment reform were heard in this budget. Every dollar appropriated for public education should be received by public schools and put to work for public school students, period.”
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