The idea that the Leviathan is a whale, as opposed to a dragon, is much more Calvinist than Jewish.

Brattleboro hospital and its nurses reach tentative agreement to avert strike - VTDigger Brattleboro Memorial Hospital still faces threats of a walkout by support staffers as it tries to balance a $14.5 million budget deficit.

AFT nurses in Brattleboro, VT just won a tentative contract protecting safe staffing & patient care standards the community has counted on for decades. Meanwhile,Trump’s $1T in Medicaid cuts threaten to destroy small-town hospitals across America. #HealthCareNotTrumpsWar vtdigger.org/2026/04/06/b...

Hungary’s Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat

Hallelujah!
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Trump's war with Iran is a war of choice, not necessity. What is of necessity is addressing the economic stress already reverberating across America. I write about the relief working Americans need now in my new column.
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Major Victory for Public Education as Trump Administration Abandons Appeal on “Dear Colleague Letter” BALTIMORE – Today marks a final defeat in the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to require school districts throughout the nation to censor lessons, abandon student support programs, and certify th...

Just fyi- Trump claims he ended DEI...but literally last month we won our lawsuit, preventing him from cutting civil rights laws including the commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in schools. www.aft.org/press-releas... . www.aft.org/press-releas...

Together, we are America Americans want us to treat each other with dignity, not inhumanity.

Americans want us to treat each other with dignity, not inhumanity. It may feel like dystopian scenes are inescapable these days, but what I see—from kids buzzing about books to a Super Bowl performance celebrating love and diversity—gives me hope. Read my newest column ⤵️
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Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call · AFT We will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers — starting on our campuses. ICE isn’t invincible. Donald Trump’s deportation machine doesn’t run on willpower—it runs on contracts. ICE depends on private cor...

I'm attending Sunrise Movement's event, “Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...

Bad Bunny Delivers a Love Letter to Puerto Rico at Super Bowl Halftime

It was beautiful… Bad Bunny Delivers a Love Letter to Puerto Rico at Super Bowl Halftime www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/a...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Tell Congress: Keep ICE Out of Schools This week, we witnessed unconscionable acts of violence by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota—including the murder of Renee Nicole Good, the handcuffing of school staff, th...

Keep ICE out of our hospitals
Keep ICE out of places of worship.
Keep ICE out of our schools and campuses.
Our communities rely on safe spaces. Americans should not be scared of America. That’s what ICE is doing.
Take action at go.aft.org/keepiceout
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On Sinatra's personal involvement in anti-racist response to riot between Black and Italian students outside NYC school. More details in book Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School
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Huge news… Discharge petition for extension of ACA tax credits for 3 years now has 218 votes.

Speaker Johnson-bring this to the floor as soon as possible

Economy & Education: U.S. trade rep. Greer and teacher's union head Weingarten | The Conversation

Democrats are comfortable fighting Trump, but to change the country we need to do more than critique; Americans want solutions & there’s lots of room to work on economic pathways to success and creating opportunity for all. Thanks @DashaBurns for the conversation. www.politico.com/video/2025/1...

Keep the RESPECT check bill on track! Our paraprofessional legislation has overwhelming support in the New York City Council, but we need it brought to committee and then put forward for a vote. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has the...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING (NOT): This holiday season, @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social wants you to know that she's NOT thinking about Paraprofessionals. In fact, she's spending her last few weeks in office actively working AGAINST Paras by single-handedly blocking legislation that would raise Para salaries.

Today-Trump and Musk endorsed Cuomo-Cuomo is the candidate of the billionaires. Mamdani is fighting for affordability for all of us-particularly working families. I disagree with ZM on Israel but I want a Mayor who fights for the strugglers & strivers- not for those who are taking away our freedoms

It’s very simple. Republicans in congress created this crisis—and workers are paying the price. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing while families struggle to keep coverage. Instead of working to fix it, they chose to shut down the government. #TrumpHealthcareShutdown

Shutdown Tracker: Trump Calls Democrats ‘Crazy’—Says He Won’t Compromise Trump has repeatedly targeted Democrats over gender-reassignment surgeries—without explaining what he means—in blaming them for a possible government shutdown.

Trump, despite having a Republican trifecta in DC, is refusing to meet with Democrats. It shows his reckless disregard for the pain a shutdown will cause to American families. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

With Medicaid under attack & millions of hardworking Americans losing the health care services they depend on, @rweingarten.bsky.social, @aft.org & @uftnyc.bsky.social are standing up & speaking out on the National Mall tonight, part of a 60 hour vigil to save Medicaid, organized by Families First.

Luddites always looking to smash the looms. It was a dead end in the early 19th century, and it is a dead end in the early 21st century.

More Provisions Violate Byrd Rule in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

Good! Senate Republicans can’t use the Big Ugly Bill to end run the legislative process to slash Medicaid or create a national school voucher program. But they are still trying to find a way to do it so keep telling Congress how harmful these policies would be! www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions in Birthright Citizenship Case

SCOTUS knee capped lower courts today while kicking the question of birthright citizenship down the road. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson are right to call out problems and dangers of this decision.  
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GOP senator's Minnesota assassination comments spark backlash "This is what happens...When Marxists don't get their way," Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, said on X.

Political violence isn’t a punchline. It isn’t an opportunity to mock a grieving community. Families’ lives have been shattered. Sen. Lee’s comments are disgusting. www.newsweek.com/mike-lee-ass...

Keep digging, the hole just gets deeper and deeper.

This is nothing short of pathological. Two prominent union leaders – a Jewish lesbian and a Black man – resign in a vote of no confidence of a white man who has completely mucked up the job in ways that we cannot afford, and draws this sort of mindless attack that does not even pass logical muster.

Andry José Hernández Romero

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 78 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo (& today a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” includes a tax loophole for billionaires—practically paying them to “donate” to private school tuition for families earning up to $500,000 a year. It increases the deficit & weakens public schools.

Tell your lawmakers: Say NO to school vouchers.
aft.org/NoToVouchers

“A Big, Ugly, Betrayal”—AFT’s Weingarten on House Reconciliation Bill WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s ruinous reconciliation bill.“A better name for this bill is the big, u...

Education funding should not be used as a piggy bank to defund our already underfunded public schools. The bill includes $20 billion for vouchers in the guise of a tax shelter for the well-off. Vouchers syphon crucial funds away from public schools into private hands.
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“A Big, Ugly, Betrayal”—AFT’s Weingarten on House Reconciliation Bill WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s ruinous reconciliation bill.“A better name for this bill is the big, u...

Rather than protect Medicare and Medicaid, this bill cuts them, denying healthcare to 14 million people. Rather than strengthen public education, it weakens it. Rather than feeding poor families, it rips food out of their mouths.
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Opinion | Not All Students Go to College. We Need to Make That OK.

Not all students go to College - we need to make that ok. It’s time to scale up successful programs that create multiple pathways for students so high school is a gateway to both college and career.
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