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AFT President. Teacher. Unionist. Fighting for a better life for children, families & communities through educ & eco opportunity, fairness & freedom & democracy Wife of Sharon Kleinbaum.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 2d

Working Americans are losing confidence in our economy because, despite his promises, Trump has failed to make things like groceries and the cost of living more affordable. More from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Most Americans continue to rate the U.S. economy negatively as partisan gap widens

Nearly three-in-four U.S. adults (74%) say economic conditions are only fair or poor, up slightly from 72% in January 2024.

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

A growing number of Israelis want to see an end to this war. Enough of the bloodshed. It’s time for the war to end, for hostages to return home, and for Palestinians & Israelis to find peace. www.timesofisrael.com/most-israeli...

Most Israelis think time right to end war, 45% want PM to quit immediately — poll

Top reason for both Jewish and Arab Israelis wanting to end the war is the risk to hostages; 56% of those who don't want war to end say continued assault needed to remove Hamas

www.timesofisrael.com

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

Are you an educator? Dr. Angela Duckworth (author of Grit) wants to hear your perspective on school cell phone policies. www.phonesinfocus.org.

Qualtrics Survey

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

NEW: In a survey of 20,000 educators, researchers found that schools with bell-to-bell cell phone bans have more focused students and happier educators. Read more about the preliminary findings here: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Over 20,000 Educators Share Insights on School Cell Phone Policies as Part of Landmark Research Initiative

/PRNewswire/ -- Preliminary findings from a new national survey of more than 20,000 public school educators suggest that stricter, school-wide cell phone...

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

Greedy hospital systems are using Trump’s Medicaid cuts as an excuse to cut staff. Hear from @ofnhp.bsky.social, @oregonnursesassoc.bsky.social and @wsna.bsky.social leaders about how patients and workers are paying the price in the new #AFTHealthCare www.aft.org/hc/fall2025/...

“We All Feel Less Safe”

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

Families in GA paying $699 for a healthcare plan from Kaiser could pay as much as $2763 a month if Trump & Republicans let the Affordable Care Act tax credits expire. If Trump truly wants to lower prices as promised, he has to extend those tax credits. democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

LEADER JEFFRIES: "HEALTHCARE PREMIUMS, CO-PAYS AND DEDUCTIBLES ARE ABOUT TO SKYROCKET"

Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press conference where he emphasized that Democrats are ready to negotiate an end to the government shutdown that lowers healthcare costs at any time, but Republicans are nowhere to be found.

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

Trump made deep cuts to Medicaid & healthcare, to give the wealthy bigger tax cuts. These cuts forced the closure of 500 hospitals, nursing homes, & clinics - depriving thousands of working families easy access to the care they need in their communities. www.protectourcare.org/hospital-cri...

Hospital Crisis Watch: Senator Murphy and Protect Our Care Mark Grim Milestone of 500 Providers at Risk of Closing or Closed Due to GOP Health Care Crisis — Protect Our Care

Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch Map Now Shows 500 Health Care Providers at Risk of Closing Due to the GOP Health Care Crisis Washington, D.C. — Protect Our Care’s...

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

Giving Musk this compensation package means that shareholders will have their holdings diluted, so that the wealthiest man in the world can own more Tesla shares. That's not right. (2/2)

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

Tesla's proposed compensation package for Elon Musk - already one of the richest men in the world - is another example of the company putting Musk before the interests of Tesla shareholders. (1/2) www.livemint.com/companies/ne...

Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay plan sparks investor backlash — 3 reasons why | Company Business News

Tesla shareholders are urged to oppose a $1 trillion pay proposal for CEO Elon Musk, citing concerns over board impartiality and Musk's divided attention due to his multiple roles. Here are the key fa...

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

This is sure to be an important and informative discussion. Please register to join us! bsky.app/profile/shar...

Share My Lesson @sharemylesson.bsky.social · 2d

Teachers & public employees—know your rights online.
🗣️💻 Join @aft.org’s @rweingarten.bsky.social + experts from @penamerica.bsky.social & @ncacensorship.bsky.social for a webinar on free speech, digital safety & protecting yourself online.
REGISTER here 👉 sharemylesson.com/webinars/fre...

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

Thank you to Penguin Random House for fighting censorship and book bans. As you say, books make us better and that students should be able to access a wide range of perspectives. I totally agree. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/banned-books/ #BannedBooksWeek

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

At a Seattle community college, students are researching ways to counter impacts of misinformation. But now the Trump administration has cut their grant funding, saying it's not "in alignment with current NSF priorities."
aft.org/ae/fall2025/dichter_ellenwood_fader_lazzaro_martinez_porter_rose_webb

Building Trust to Counter Misinformation

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

@AFLCIO.org President Liz Shuler is right. The Trump administration shouldn't be using our jobs and healthcare as bargaining chips. They should be focused on avoiding price hikes, protecting peoples' care and jobs, and funding the government. aflcio.org/press/releas...

AFL-CIO Demands Trump End the Shutdown, Fix the Health Care Crisis, Put Working People First | AFL-CIO

The nation’s largest labor federation reminds the president “[o]ur livelihoods should not be used as pawns or bargaining chips.”

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 2h

Save the date! On 10/9 @ 5 PM EDT, I’m joining Lee Rowland (@ncacensorship.bsky.social) Victorya Vilk (@penamerica.bsky.social) & @sharemylesson.bsky.social for a webinar on educators’ & public employees' free speech rights & online safety. Register here : sharemylesson.com/webinars/fre...

Speaking Out, Staying Safe: Free Speech and Online Safety for Public Employees and Educators

In today’s digital age, the line between personal expression and professional consequences can feel increasingly blurred, especially for educators and public employees. With disciplinary actions and h...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 2h

#BannedBooksWeek is a time for all of us to stand up for the freedom to read. I'm proud of @aft.org's work to give away books in communities across the country even while others continue to try and censor books and silence voices.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 2h

Millions of Americans will lose their health insurance coverage. Everyone else will pay more. #TrumpShutUSDown to protect his billionaire tax giveaway - not the American people. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Dueling Bills to End Shutdown Fail in the Senate, Again

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Yvette Kay @digitalscorpio.bsky.social · 3h

Rep-elect Grijalva won her election TWO weeks ago, yet Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in.

Why? Because she would be the last signature needed on the Epstein vote.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 2h

When even MTG understands what’s at stake because #TrumpShutUSDown - End the shutdown and stop the premium hike spiking. thehill.com/opinion/lind...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 4h

Pritzker is fighting the abuse of Presidential Power.Today the president called for the elected governor of Illinois and the mayor of the third largest city in America to be jailed. This is textbook authoritarianism.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18h

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22h

Trump and Republicans' failure to fix the healthcare crisis hits Americans in red states hardest, per new @kff.org report.
🔴 More than 3 in 4 people with ACA healthcare plans live in states Trump won
🔴 80% of premium tax credits went to people in Trump-won states

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22h

Most Israelis think time right to end war, 45% want PM to quit immediately — poll

Top reason for both Jewish and Arab Israelis wanting to end the war is the risk to hostages; 56% of those who don't want war to end say continued assault needed to remove Hamas

www.timesofisrael.com

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you @TimothySnyder.bsky.social for joining @AFT.org & @AAUP.org in calling on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to reject Trump's proposed compact and to defend the principle that no president has the right to buy obedience or sell off freedom. snyder.substack.com/p/save-ameri...

Save American Higher Education (video)

A petition that you can sign, which I read aloud

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Texas AFT @texasaft.org · 23h

So grateful to have this important discussion with President @rweingarten.bsky.social this weekend. Right here, deep in the heart of Texas 👏👏👏👏

AFT @aft.org · 3d

Howdy from Austin, TX! 🤠

AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social is joining Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa to talk about Randi’s book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” and to hold a Q&A with educators and readers in Austin.

Follow along in the thread below.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

500 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are at risk of closing because of the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill. Many are in rural areas.

Meanwhile, Republican-held US House districts and states Trump won in 2024 rely more on ACA coverage.

They're selling out their own voters.

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