Wendy Greenfield
@unioncrone.bsky.social
Teacher. Union member. Wife. Mom. She/Her
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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The solution to the educator shortage isn’t complicated: raise pay, respect the work, and make sure every teacher can afford to stay in the classroom. When educators are supported, students thrive.
Salary Increases Help Teachers Stay in the Profession | NEA
Hard-fought gains in pay are making a difference. “I finally have my head above water. But we need to do better.”
www.nea.org
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The solution to the educator shortage isn’t complicated: raise pay, respect the work, and make sure every teacher can afford to stay in the classroom. When educators are supported, students thrive.
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The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.
Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?
Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?
September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.
Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?
Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?
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"A republic, if you can keep it"
-- Benjamin Franklin
-- Benjamin Franklin
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"A republic, if you can keep it"
-- Benjamin Franklin
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Imagine telling George Washington this is where things would end up
June 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Imagine telling George Washington this is where things would end up
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Reading alone won't save democracy but you can't have a democracy if people don't read
June 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reading alone won't save democracy but you can't have a democracy if people don't read
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"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love
"The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
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giving my dog a presidential talk so he will drop the sock in his mouth:
IF YOU SWALLOW THAT SOCK IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. DO A FRIENDLY WAVE AT THE SOCK AND TURN AROUND
IF YOU SWALLOW THAT SOCK IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. DO A FRIENDLY WAVE AT THE SOCK AND TURN AROUND
June 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
giving my dog a presidential talk so he will drop the sock in his mouth:
IF YOU SWALLOW THAT SOCK IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. DO A FRIENDLY WAVE AT THE SOCK AND TURN AROUND
IF YOU SWALLOW THAT SOCK IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. DO A FRIENDLY WAVE AT THE SOCK AND TURN AROUND
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It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."
June 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."
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Really this is the Army's parade of course, and they seem to be doing a thing where they're dressed in uniforms of yore
Pleased to report they have chosen to wear the union blue and eschewed the rebel grey
Pleased to report they have chosen to wear the union blue and eschewed the rebel grey
June 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Really this is the Army's parade of course, and they seem to be doing a thing where they're dressed in uniforms of yore
Pleased to report they have chosen to wear the union blue and eschewed the rebel grey
Pleased to report they have chosen to wear the union blue and eschewed the rebel grey
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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
May 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
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These tariffs are the kind of whip-smart tough-guy financial genius moves that only a man who's gone bankrupt 11 times despite never paying a bill in his life can conceive.
April 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
These tariffs are the kind of whip-smart tough-guy financial genius moves that only a man who's gone bankrupt 11 times despite never paying a bill in his life can conceive.
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The richest man in the world gave a 22 year old without a security clearance everyone in America’s social security and tax information and Senate Democrats did absolutely fuck all in response. Incredible work everyone.
March 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The richest man in the world gave a 22 year old without a security clearance everyone in America’s social security and tax information and Senate Democrats did absolutely fuck all in response. Incredible work everyone.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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At no point in the history of humanity have the wealthy and powerful concerned themselves with the welfare of the teeming masses. But that's never stopped those masses from fastening their tongues firmly to the wealthy and powerful's boots.
March 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
At no point in the history of humanity have the wealthy and powerful concerned themselves with the welfare of the teeming masses. But that's never stopped those masses from fastening their tongues firmly to the wealthy and powerful's boots.
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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941
February 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941
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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judicia[l] in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self–appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." (James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788)
February 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judicia[l] in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self–appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." (James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788)
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We have a republic, if we can keep it. ~Benjamin Franklin
February 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We have a republic, if we can keep it. ~Benjamin Franklin
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The constitutional crisis is here, and it's Elon Musk, an unelected mega-billionaire benefactor of the president, being granted almost total authority over the operation of the federal government with zero oversight.
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The constitutional crisis is here, and it's Elon Musk, an unelected mega-billionaire benefactor of the president, being granted almost total authority over the operation of the federal government with zero oversight.
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Unanimous consent objections, quorum calls, forcing cloture, and talking filibusters. Ask yourself “what would Mitch McConnell do?”
Press conferences and poster boards aren’t going to cut it
Press conferences and poster boards aren’t going to cut it
January 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Unanimous consent objections, quorum calls, forcing cloture, and talking filibusters. Ask yourself “what would Mitch McConnell do?”
Press conferences and poster boards aren’t going to cut it
Press conferences and poster boards aren’t going to cut it