Brenda Ortega
@b-ortega.bsky.social
I follow education issues and politics in Michigan and the U.S. Talk with educators. Write. Walk my dog. Rinse and repeat. Managing editor at the Michigan Education Association, views and opinions expressed are my own 💙🌻✨
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This would be an excellent time for politicians to stop demonizing universities.
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This would be an excellent time for politicians to stop demonizing universities.
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Republicans would rather shut down the government than prevent health care premium increases for 20 million Americans.
America is teetering on the verge of a catastrophic health care crisis.
Democrats want to fix it.
Republicans don't.
America is teetering on the verge of a catastrophic health care crisis.
Democrats want to fix it.
Republicans don't.
September 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Republicans would rather shut down the government than prevent health care premium increases for 20 million Americans.
America is teetering on the verge of a catastrophic health care crisis.
Democrats want to fix it.
Republicans don't.
America is teetering on the verge of a catastrophic health care crisis.
Democrats want to fix it.
Republicans don't.
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Also shout out to @postguild.bsky.social for having my back ❤️💪🏾
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Also shout out to @postguild.bsky.social for having my back ❤️💪🏾
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See the plan? Crash the economy. Sky rocket unemployment. Offer people more money than they’ve ever made in the lives to carry out your dirty work. Oh…and it requires NO college degree.
August 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
See the plan? Crash the economy. Sky rocket unemployment. Offer people more money than they’ve ever made in the lives to carry out your dirty work. Oh…and it requires NO college degree.
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Thou shalt not pardon a convicted child molester. This one should be easy to follow.
July 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Thou shalt not pardon a convicted child molester. This one should be easy to follow.
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Unions are a big part of why Minnesota just ranked in the top 5 states for quality of life.
That's why I’ll always stand up for their collective bargaining rights, safe working conditions, apprenticeship programs, fair wages, and affordable health care.
That's why I’ll always stand up for their collective bargaining rights, safe working conditions, apprenticeship programs, fair wages, and affordable health care.
July 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Unions are a big part of why Minnesota just ranked in the top 5 states for quality of life.
That's why I’ll always stand up for their collective bargaining rights, safe working conditions, apprenticeship programs, fair wages, and affordable health care.
That's why I’ll always stand up for their collective bargaining rights, safe working conditions, apprenticeship programs, fair wages, and affordable health care.
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If you want elected Democrats to "fight" you best understand that it will be *Black* Democrats on those front lines. And so you best have their backs when they're unconstitutionally asked to suffer the consequences.
Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social
My latest in @thenation.com
Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social
My latest in @thenation.com
Progressives Need to Stand Up for LaMonica McIver
The charges against McIver are a form of political intimidation—one directed with particular force against Black politicians—but that intimidation will only work if the people don’t have McIver’s back...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you want elected Democrats to "fight" you best understand that it will be *Black* Democrats on those front lines. And so you best have their backs when they're unconstitutionally asked to suffer the consequences.
Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social
My latest in @thenation.com
Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social
My latest in @thenation.com
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Why are accepting this? Secret police?
Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.
May 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Why are accepting this? Secret police?
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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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ok I swear I wasn’t planning on posting but I just realized “woke marxist pope” scans perfectly to Pink Pony Club and now I CANNOT get it out of my head.
May 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
ok I swear I wasn’t planning on posting but I just realized “woke marxist pope” scans perfectly to Pink Pony Club and now I CANNOT get it out of my head.
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It will irritate me to my dying days when I think about how Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts delayed Trump’s immunity case for 9 months
When he’s now ordering parties to file briefs on Trump administration emergency applications within 10 days
When he’s now ordering parties to file briefs on Trump administration emergency applications within 10 days
May 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It will irritate me to my dying days when I think about how Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts delayed Trump’s immunity case for 9 months
When he’s now ordering parties to file briefs on Trump administration emergency applications within 10 days
When he’s now ordering parties to file briefs on Trump administration emergency applications within 10 days
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Son of immigrants, Marco Rubio, calls human beings "despicable" and wants to dump them in other countries like trash.
Since he loves authoritarian cruelty so much, he should deport himself to Cuba’s dictatorship and stop violating the rule of law.
If despicable has a face in this story—It’s him.
Since he loves authoritarian cruelty so much, he should deport himself to Cuba’s dictatorship and stop violating the rule of law.
If despicable has a face in this story—It’s him.
May 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Son of immigrants, Marco Rubio, calls human beings "despicable" and wants to dump them in other countries like trash.
Since he loves authoritarian cruelty so much, he should deport himself to Cuba’s dictatorship and stop violating the rule of law.
If despicable has a face in this story—It’s him.
Since he loves authoritarian cruelty so much, he should deport himself to Cuba’s dictatorship and stop violating the rule of law.
If despicable has a face in this story—It’s him.
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"We can't ever let this happen again." I mean that with every fiber of my being. Democracy is not self-sustaining. It needs defenders. It needs truth-tellers. It needs people who will stand up — and stay standing — even when it’s hard, even when it's dangerous."
open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
We Will Not Stand Down
This week, I stood on stage at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, looking out at a room full of people who believe in this country as deeply as I do.
open.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"We can't ever let this happen again." I mean that with every fiber of my being. Democracy is not self-sustaining. It needs defenders. It needs truth-tellers. It needs people who will stand up — and stay standing — even when it’s hard, even when it's dangerous."
open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
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The Trump regime is targeting America’s Black history — dismissing it as government waste. Aiming to quickly dispose of the monuments and facts of our past.
DOGE-driven cuts led the General Services Administration — the agency that manages federal property — to put the historic Montgomery,…
DOGE-driven cuts led the General Services Administration — the agency that manages federal property — to put the historic Montgomery,…
April 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Trump regime is targeting America’s Black history — dismissing it as government waste. Aiming to quickly dispose of the monuments and facts of our past.
DOGE-driven cuts led the General Services Administration — the agency that manages federal property — to put the historic Montgomery,…
DOGE-driven cuts led the General Services Administration — the agency that manages federal property — to put the historic Montgomery,…
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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Morning Joe bent the knee to Trump fascism & Joy Reid demanded justice against Trump fascism.
Morning Joe whitewashed Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians & Joy Reid called out Netanyahu’s genocide.
MSNBC protected Morning Joe & fired Joy Reid.
I’m just not qwhite sure why.🤔
Morning Joe whitewashed Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians & Joy Reid called out Netanyahu’s genocide.
MSNBC protected Morning Joe & fired Joy Reid.
I’m just not qwhite sure why.🤔
February 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Morning Joe bent the knee to Trump fascism & Joy Reid demanded justice against Trump fascism.
Morning Joe whitewashed Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians & Joy Reid called out Netanyahu’s genocide.
MSNBC protected Morning Joe & fired Joy Reid.
I’m just not qwhite sure why.🤔
Morning Joe whitewashed Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians & Joy Reid called out Netanyahu’s genocide.
MSNBC protected Morning Joe & fired Joy Reid.
I’m just not qwhite sure why.🤔
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This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid’s Show in Major Shake-Up (Gift Article)
Ms. Reid’s 7 p.m. program will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
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If a data breach this massive happened elsewhere it would be a national scandal. How is it ok 4 an unelected billionaire (who won’t make his own financials public) to vacuum up our Social Security & other financials, addresses, etc. That's why we're taking Musk to court. www.aft.org/press-releas...
February 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
If a data breach this massive happened elsewhere it would be a national scandal. How is it ok 4 an unelected billionaire (who won’t make his own financials public) to vacuum up our Social Security & other financials, addresses, etc. That's why we're taking Musk to court. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.”
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.”
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
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We are indeed standing strong against Trump’s malicious lies. We are the guardrails.
The traumas we have suffered due to Trump will not diminish or halt our opposition to all the GOP’s anti-American schemes and actions.
The traumas we have suffered due to Trump will not diminish or halt our opposition to all the GOP’s anti-American schemes and actions.
January 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We are indeed standing strong against Trump’s malicious lies. We are the guardrails.
The traumas we have suffered due to Trump will not diminish or halt our opposition to all the GOP’s anti-American schemes and actions.
The traumas we have suffered due to Trump will not diminish or halt our opposition to all the GOP’s anti-American schemes and actions.
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I spent the day with economists, policy makers, advocates & friends working to make the economy work for our families and frankly, our national security. Here's what I learned. (1/) #CareCantWait
January 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I spent the day with economists, policy makers, advocates & friends working to make the economy work for our families and frankly, our national security. Here's what I learned. (1/) #CareCantWait
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“The U.S. has a uniquely robust civil society. It includes advocacy institutions and unions; newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media; universities and colleges; and religious communities.” That array of civic organizations is a potent check in itself, if we use it.
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
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What Could Stop Him? | David Cole
Almost like the cycles of grief, Donald Trump’s reelection has provoked shock, outrage, despondency, exhaustion, and despair. And for good reason. Trump’s
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November 21, 2024 at 4:53 PM
“The U.S. has a uniquely robust civil society. It includes advocacy institutions and unions; newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media; universities and colleges; and religious communities.” That array of civic organizations is a potent check in itself, if we use it.
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...