AFT Washington
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We represent education employees in early learning, K-12, and community/technical colleges and universities.
Well, considering that the times we know it's been used by the employer it's been bad for employees and students both, I don't see why we'd all trust the plagiarism machine over the people skilled in doing their jobs. Just to make billionaires richer? One assumes?
Washington state lawmakers next year are set to again discuss whether public sector unions can bargain over their employers’ adoption of artificial intelligence technology.
WA Legislature to consider requiring union talks over government use of AI
Washington state lawmakers next year are set to again discuss whether public sector unions can bargain over their employers’ adoption of artificial intelligence technology.
www.kuow.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Well, considering that the times we know it's been used by the employer it's been bad for employees and students both, I don't see why we'd all trust the plagiarism machine over the people skilled in doing their jobs. Just to make billionaires richer? One assumes?
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We have the bill AND the bipartisan support to restore union rights for 1 million federal workers!
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We have the bill AND the bipartisan support to restore union rights for 1 million federal workers!
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
A lot of what Trump does is just a masterclass in How To Be Wrong About Every Word You Say.
Also, it SHOULD be a bad look to prop up Saudi Arabia's oil industry by undercutting America's solar and windpower firms. Should be.
Also, it SHOULD be a bad look to prop up Saudi Arabia's oil industry by undercutting America's solar and windpower firms. Should be.
Trump: "I don't think Saudi Arabia would like me too much if we decided to kill oil and natural gas. There's nothing like it. It works. Windmills don't work. Other things -- I don't want to get it into too much -- but they don't work. What does work is natural gas, oil, nuclear, and other things."
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A lot of what Trump does is just a masterclass in How To Be Wrong About Every Word You Say.
Also, it SHOULD be a bad look to prop up Saudi Arabia's oil industry by undercutting America's solar and windpower firms. Should be.
Also, it SHOULD be a bad look to prop up Saudi Arabia's oil industry by undercutting America's solar and windpower firms. Should be.
One of the many things to reckon with, as we strive to build a better future - which most working Americans want - is all the little time bombs that have been insidiously built into our national fabric to protect whiteness. Some of them are quite recent, as this article points out.
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the many things to reckon with, as we strive to build a better future - which most working Americans want - is all the little time bombs that have been insidiously built into our national fabric to protect whiteness. Some of them are quite recent, as this article points out.
Mandatory genital inspection of children is a weird, weird thing to want to do.
Brian Heywood's 2 new dangerous initiatives — IL26-001/IL26-638 — threaten the safety of ALL kids, especially trans & queer students, by forcing invasive genital exams on children who want to play sports.
Decline to sign these dangerous initiatives. Take the pledge here: bit.ly/WFFDecline
Decline to sign these dangerous initiatives. Take the pledge here: bit.ly/WFFDecline
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Mandatory genital inspection of children is a weird, weird thing to want to do.
It probably isn't possible to pinpoint when traditional journalism went off the rails (though I might look very closely at 2016) but this should be the kind of thing that galvanizes resistance from journalists, not something that passes with a shrug.
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It probably isn't possible to pinpoint when traditional journalism went off the rails (though I might look very closely at 2016) but this should be the kind of thing that galvanizes resistance from journalists, not something that passes with a shrug.
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Your regular reminder that eternal one-party domination by Republicans is not inevitable, Trump is not invincible, and when the far right receives even moderate pushback against their terrible ideas, they usually collapse.
multiple major setbacks for trump's effort to steal the midterm House election. CA passed their gerrymander; VA D win ensures they will pass theirs; IN refused to pass an R map, defying Trump; courts struck down TX map.
right now looks like outcome of all this could be to add *D* seats.
right now looks like outcome of all this could be to add *D* seats.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Your regular reminder that eternal one-party domination by Republicans is not inevitable, Trump is not invincible, and when the far right receives even moderate pushback against their terrible ideas, they usually collapse.
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This is AWESOME
Students at Olympic high school in charlotte, NC walkout to protest ICE defying the principal.
Young people are waking up to the injustices of this administration, they won’t tolerate being lied to for much longer. ICE isn’t here to protect. Young people need to realize how much power they hold!
Young people are waking up to the injustices of this administration, they won’t tolerate being lied to for much longer. ICE isn’t here to protect. Young people need to realize how much power they hold!
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This is AWESOME
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The President’s plan to dismantle the Dept of Ed is neither streamlining nor reform, it’s an abdication & abandonment of America’s future. Rather than show leadership in helping all students seize their potential, it walks away from that responsibility. www.aft.org/press-releas...
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The President’s plan to dismantle the Dept of Ed is neither streamlining nor reform, it’s an abdication & abandonment of America’s future. Rather than show leadership in helping all students seize their potential, it walks away from that responsibility. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This is hugely important! The new CEO of Starbucks is intentionally missing the point about workers' rights and worker dignity, and it's up to all of us to help workers make the point for him.
LET'S GET LOUD! 🗣️
On Starbucks's busiest sales day of the year, workers are holding rallies in 16 cities. And we need YOU there!
When customers and community members speak out, the company listens. Let's stand together against corporate greed and union-busting!
RSVP: bit.ly/redcuprallies
On Starbucks's busiest sales day of the year, workers are holding rallies in 16 cities. And we need YOU there!
When customers and community members speak out, the company listens. Let's stand together against corporate greed and union-busting!
RSVP: bit.ly/redcuprallies
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is hugely important! The new CEO of Starbucks is intentionally missing the point about workers' rights and worker dignity, and it's up to all of us to help workers make the point for him.
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
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👏👏👏 "In a country and state with so many resources, we should not let our neighbors go hungry, live outside, or suffer without health care. To make sure everyone in our community has what they need, legislators need to look at additional sources of revenue, like raising taxes on the wealthy." #WaLeg
"How do you make a meal out of that?"
Reverend Jan Bolerjack of Tukwila is seeing the effects of the government shutdown firsthand.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/04/washingtons-food-banks-are-stretched-thin/
Reverend Jan Bolerjack of Tukwila is seeing the effects of the government shutdown firsthand.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/04/washingtons-food-banks-are-stretched-thin/
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
👏👏👏 "In a country and state with so many resources, we should not let our neighbors go hungry, live outside, or suffer without health care. To make sure everyone in our community has what they need, legislators need to look at additional sources of revenue, like raising taxes on the wealthy." #WaLeg
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Happy Election Day! If you haven't voted yet, drop off your ballot in a drop box by 8pm today.
Our Progressive Voters Guide can help with last-minute voting decisions: progressivevotersguide.com/washington
Our Progressive Voters Guide can help with last-minute voting decisions: progressivevotersguide.com/washington
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Happy Election Day! If you haven't voted yet, drop off your ballot in a drop box by 8pm today.
Our Progressive Voters Guide can help with last-minute voting decisions: progressivevotersguide.com/washington
Our Progressive Voters Guide can help with last-minute voting decisions: progressivevotersguide.com/washington
Anyone with eyes and half an ounce of common sense knew this was coming, and that it is entirely the point.
It's still disgusting.
It's still disgusting.
Pell Grant Cuts Linked To Drop In Black Student Enrollment Rates
seattlemedium.com/black-studen...
seattlemedium.com/black-studen...
Pell Grant Cuts Linked To Drop In Black Student Enrollment Rates
Inconsistent Pell Grant funding and state budget cuts contribute to a nearly half-million decline in Black student enrollment at U.S. colleges over the past decade.
seattlemedium.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Anyone with eyes and half an ounce of common sense knew this was coming, and that it is entirely the point.
It's still disgusting.
It's still disgusting.
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As always, when Republicans know they can't win they don't moderate their positions, they cheat.
Tell your friends in Pierce County, don't trust shady mailers from Jesse Young's friends, instead use trusted sources like the Progressive Voters Guide: progressivevotersguide.com/washington/c...
Tell your friends in Pierce County, don't trust shady mailers from Jesse Young's friends, instead use trusted sources like the Progressive Voters Guide: progressivevotersguide.com/washington/c...
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As always, when Republicans know they can't win they don't moderate their positions, they cheat.
Tell your friends in Pierce County, don't trust shady mailers from Jesse Young's friends, instead use trusted sources like the Progressive Voters Guide: progressivevotersguide.com/washington/c...
Tell your friends in Pierce County, don't trust shady mailers from Jesse Young's friends, instead use trusted sources like the Progressive Voters Guide: progressivevotersguide.com/washington/c...
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Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.
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Jeffries: "Understand, until Donald Trump tells them what to do, Republicans in the House and Senate are going to be unwilling to find a bipartisan path forward because this version of the Republican Party, they don't work for the American people. They work for Donald Trump."
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Jeffries: "Understand, until Donald Trump tells them what to do, Republicans in the House and Senate are going to be unwilling to find a bipartisan path forward because this version of the Republican Party, they don't work for the American people. They work for Donald Trump."
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The Trump regime is an utter failure so it’s working on its backup plan: pull us into a completely unnecessary war with Venezuela in order to distract from their domestic destruction, feed their anti-immigrant propaganda, and enact emergency powers to hold onto power forever.
Authoritarianism 101.
Authoritarianism 101.
U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Trump regime is an utter failure so it’s working on its backup plan: pull us into a completely unnecessary war with Venezuela in order to distract from their domestic destruction, feed their anti-immigrant propaganda, and enact emergency powers to hold onto power forever.
Authoritarianism 101.
Authoritarianism 101.
They don't HAVE to do any of this. They want to. Probably more than they want to give tax cuts to billionaires, honestly. Because they're better than working people and they want us to know that. The best case endgame for these people is feudalism where most of us are serfs.
Mike Johnson salivating at 41 million people going hungry. He has worked towards ending SNAP and the Affordable Care Act his entire career. Poor working people going hungry is exactly what Johnson wants. The more pain he inflicts on people the better. He is truly a monster in human form. #ProudBlue
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
They don't HAVE to do any of this. They want to. Probably more than they want to give tax cuts to billionaires, honestly. Because they're better than working people and they want us to know that. The best case endgame for these people is feudalism where most of us are serfs.
Well, she's lying. Dumb, obvious lies and really bad taste are the signature abilities of the members of this administration.
Kristi Noem claims that ICE has not detained or arrested any US citizens. We're calling BS.
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
www.motherjones.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Well, she's lying. Dumb, obvious lies and really bad taste are the signature abilities of the members of this administration.
Absolutely read this thread. Derek is both marvelous on menswear (I have followed him since the Twitter days) and weaves (har) it into unionism and a rebuttal of the administration's bigoted crap that diversity is bad.
Spoiler alert: our members are not harmed by non-white people having good jobs.
Spoiler alert: our members are not harmed by non-white people having good jobs.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Absolutely read this thread. Derek is both marvelous on menswear (I have followed him since the Twitter days) and weaves (har) it into unionism and a rebuttal of the administration's bigoted crap that diversity is bad.
Spoiler alert: our members are not harmed by non-white people having good jobs.
Spoiler alert: our members are not harmed by non-white people having good jobs.
It is extremely important to remember that the Trump administration is wildly unpopular on all of its signature issues, which makes it fundamentally weak and means that we can, in fact, defeat this fascist agenda. Not that anyone thought institutionalized evil was a position of strength, but still.
Donald Trump’s signature issue is collapsing under its own cruelty. 📉
New from @tusk81.bsky.social: "Beyond growing dissatisfied with Trump’s mass deportation agenda, Americans also want humane solutions for long-settled immigrants who call this country home"
New from @tusk81.bsky.social: "Beyond growing dissatisfied with Trump’s mass deportation agenda, Americans also want humane solutions for long-settled immigrants who call this country home"
Trump Is Flailing On His Signature Issue
Continued polling reveals that Americans are only getting more horrified at mass deportation and want humane solutions for long-settled immigrant contributors.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It is extremely important to remember that the Trump administration is wildly unpopular on all of its signature issues, which makes it fundamentally weak and means that we can, in fact, defeat this fascist agenda. Not that anyone thought institutionalized evil was a position of strength, but still.
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Rep. Scott is right:
900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency.
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900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Rep. Scott is right:
900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency.
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900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency.
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This looks like a concentration camp.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This looks like a concentration camp.