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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 40m

We can all do something to stop the deliberate pattern of censoring and silencing people with diverse points of view. Thank you to everyone involved with #BannedBooksWeek
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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 22h

It's #LetFreedomReadDay! Take at least ONE action today to defend the freedom to read. When we all #UniteAgainstBookBans, we can make a difference. All you need is 5 minutes to make an impact! #BannedBooksWeek

🧵 Check out the thread below or UniteAgainstBookBans.org/LFRD/ for some ideas 👇

The freedom to read is under attack. Let's do something about it. Let Freedom Read Day. Banned Books Week. UniteAgainstBookBans.org/LFRD/ Unite Against Book Bans.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 41m

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow—take pride in who you are. All of God's children deserve love and respect. 🌈
#NationalComingOutDay

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 42m

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow—take pride in who you are. All of God's children deserve love and respect. 🌈
#NationalComingOutDay

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 42m

We can all do something to stop the deliberate pattern of censoring and silencing people with diverse points of view. Thank you to everyone involved with #BannedBooksWeek
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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 22h

It's #LetFreedomReadDay! Take at least ONE action today to defend the freedom to read. When we all #UniteAgainstBookBans, we can make a difference. All you need is 5 minutes to make an impact! #BannedBooksWeek

🧵 Check out the thread below or UniteAgainstBookBans.org/LFRD/ for some ideas 👇

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 45m

Good point.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 45m

Kaiser still has time to put patients first.
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Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (AFT 5017) @ofnhp.bsky.social · 19h

We are the nurses, lab professionals & healthcare workers who make Kaiser work.

Kaiser was built on partnership—but it’s lost its way. We’re fighting to restore that mission & ensure patients get the care they deserve.

#OneVoiceOneFightOneFuture #UnionStrong #KaiserStrike

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 46m

New Lexington didn’t retreat from challenges. Everyone rolled up their sleeves to identify solutions and partnerships to reimagine public school as a way to transform the community. www.foxnews.com/opinion/wein...

WEINGARTEN, COFFEY: In Appalachia, one school district is proving public education still works

New Lexington public schools in rural Ohio achieve 99% graduation rate through career and technical education programs that transform students and community.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 46m

Please use and share the AFT’s immigration resources 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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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

This Fed’l govt is intentionally create fear—they don’t care that children are being traumatized, but our members and communities are meeting the moment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/n...

These Students Are Scared. Friends and Teachers Are Their Protectors.

www.nytimes.com

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

The chaos is intentional. The disdain for America's public employees is shameful.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

Millions of people will be out in communities across the country to peacefully, powerfully celebrate and protect our rights.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19h

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

Fascists fear teachers and unions for many of the same reasons. They see opportunity for all—not some—as a threat to their power. Thanks to @reutherlibrary.bsky.social & AFT Michigan for hosting me in a venue that means so much to the labor movement.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

And we talked about Why Fascists Fear Teachers—the love, support, and critical thinking skills educators share with public school students are the antidote to fear & division. Our members will leave with skills to effectively, peacefully organize for No Kings on 10/18 and beyond.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

I joined two of my personal heroes—Barbara Arnwine of the Transformative Justice Coalition and @bulldogshadow.bsky.social of Race Forward—to assess the authoritarian threats to voting rights, economic opportunity, workers’ rights, civil liberties, and economic opportunity for all.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

We paid tribute to Kent Wong, a vice president of the California Federation of Teachers, founder of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, and former director of labor and community partnerships at the UCLA Labor Center whose courage & conviction defined his remarkable life.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

The theme of our Civil, Human, and Women’s Rights Conference is “We are the Line.” In Detroit—a city with a rich history & culture of defending and celebrating people’s freedoms—our members are learning, strategizing, and building connections to fight for a better life for all.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12h

Completely agree.. and I taught TKAM

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 14h

I enjoy this interpretation and I also think it's probably true that TKAM isn't the kind of book that Moms 4 Liberty target, making this an easy book for them to defend. It's part of the problem of highlighting the books of banned book fame, instead of the books that most are attacked NOW.

Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 15h

Mom's 4 Liberty finally realizes they are on the losing end of a 75-25 issue seeing @rweingarten.bsky.social celebrating banned books and just decide to go with, no, no, the liberals are the book banners.

moms 4 liberty tweet attacking "the left" for being the real book banners because Randi Weingarten is celebrating banned book week.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12h

Glad to speak to @neunion.bsky.social today. Public schools & educators in both countries are facing similar challenges. We talked about efforts to replace teachers, rising attacks from the far right & how to focus on what students need. I'm always happy to support our sisters & brothers in the UK

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12h

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

1) WHY isn't this a bigger story? High food prices were cited time and again as a major 2024 campaign issue?

2) Democrats said said over and over again this was going to happen.

3) Why didn't the MSM take it more seriously, when trump LIED over and over again about bringing food prices down???

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18h

The Texas Guard should be in Texas

And we stand ready to help our Texas brothers and sisters. Helping people not hurting them is the American value I strive for

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

This!!! This is who teachers are … and this is what they do to protect ( and teach) our young people!! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/n...

These Students Are Scared. Friends and Teachers Are Their Protectors.

www.nytimes.com

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