“Our members will forgive us if we fight and lose but they will never forgive us if we fail to fight.” @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org

Listening to @rweingarten.bsky.social keynote speech at the @aft.org national convention. “The authoritarians and the billionaires have enormous power-but this is what they don’t have—the power of the people!” Here in the faces of the 3,000 delegates—you can see why #fascistsfearteachers.

AFT@aft.org · 3w ago

AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social is addressing the delegates of the AFT's 89th Convention. Watch live: youtube.com/live/NQgjjGy...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

The Democratic Party can become the party of labor again. Together, with my union brothers and sisters at the @maineaflcio.bsky.social by my side, we will make it happen. Solidarity forever.

Democrats could learn from Andy Burnham. He governed like Mamdani in Manchester & he campaigned on ending neoliberalism. He was neck & neck with the far right in polls. On Election Day—3000 Labour volunteers. Altogether the right wing parties got 19k votes. Andy got 25k. youtu.be/x43kXRjfuEA

Andy Burnham Makerfield campaign ad

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USA: MAP: Unions Win “ICE Out” Provisions in Contracts paydayreport.com/map-unions-w...

MAP: Unions Win “ICE Out” Provisions in Contracts

Unions are increasingly using their power to fight back against ICE

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Barney Frank was a great American. I had the honor of knowing him & working with him on the legislation that bears his name, the Dodd-Frank Act. Nothing made me prep like having a meeting with #BarneyFrank. He despised flattery & respected people who stood up to him on substance.

Barney Frank was a committed public servant. Coming out in the 1980's took courage and he helped set America on a better path for LGTBQ people. May his memory be a blessing. www.cnn.com/2026/05/20/p...

Barney Frank, liberal icon who regulated a ‘too big’ financial industry, dies at 86 | CNN Politics

Barney Frank, the barrier-breaking former Congressman who helped draft reforms that sought to rein in an unruly financial industry in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, has died. He wa...

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Our new polling shows that more than 90% of workers favor protections from AI for their jobs and privacy and trust unions to deliver over either political party. Workers are united and ready to fight for an AI future that works for them, not just big tech. https://bit.ly/4dkXvTA

“Anyone who cares about a fair economy should demand that their elected leaders have a clear, specific plan for court reform. No policymaker can credibly promise working-class Americans economic relief without a plan to prevent courts from blocking its delivery." newrepublic.com/article/2100...

Less Noted, Just as Radical: The High Court’s Rightward Economic Shift

The Supreme Court and other federal courts have moved dramatically to the right on economic policy as well as social and democracy policy. It’s time to take on that fight too.

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Disinformation has disastrous consequences. Justice Alito’s reliance on faulty data led Callais ruling, dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and making it harder for millions of Americans - particularly Black Americans - to make their voices count. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

SCOTUS used faulty racial voter turnout data to shred Voting Rights Act in recent ruling

The ruling that upended the Voting Rights Act was based in part on a false data analysis about Black and white voter turnout.

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To face global challenges—from climate to health to inequality—we need a new economic theory of the common good. Not just what outcomes we pursue, but how we pursue them: through purpose and directionality, co-creation and participation, collective learning, reward-sharing, and accountability.

“Moving 4.5 million people off of SNAP” is an incredibly misleading way of saying the Trump administration kicked millions of working families off food assistance. Kids across the country are going hungry — all to give billionaires and giant corporations more tax breaks.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Ag Secretary Rollins: "The good news -- in just one year alone, we've already moved 4.5 million people off of SNAP. So this idea that once a government program is in place you can never roll it back, President Trump has proven that to be wrong. So we're going to be pulling more and more people off."

"The people of this country should be allowed to decide who represents them, not a mid-decade gerrymander started by a president afraid that his policies are so unpopular he would lose a congressional majority." - @rweingarten.bsky.social on the VA Supreme Court redistricting decision #VApol

AFT’s Weingarten on the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision overturning redistricting referendum results

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Commonwealth’s April 21 special election on redistricting.

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This piece is about Robert Reich’s real childhood friend Mickey Schwerner. And how he and so many others gave their lives in the South for their fellow Americans’ right to vote. If you don’t know this story you must read this piece. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Sam Alito and My Friend Mickey

The Supreme Court's shameful decision last Wednesday released a flood of memories — and worse.

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🆕 A Global Council for a Common Good Economy IIPP Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Spanish Minister @carloscuerpo.bsky.social launched the new Global Council for a Common Good Economy in Barcelona during the Global Progressive Mobilisation. ✍️ Learn more in our news story: buff.ly/bWhtMAm

Jeffries says everything is on the table legislatively to deal with the Supreme Court: In the new Congress, we’re going to have to do something about this Supreme Court, and let me be very clear: everything is on the table.

Americans want and deserve meaningful representation and voting rights, but this decision leaves too many Americans without protection or recourse from racial discrimination in redistricting. We'll continue to fight for the fair system of representation. www.aft.org/press-releas...

AFT’s Weingarten on the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, gutting the Voting Rights Act:

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🤝 Laying the foundations for fair multilateral collaboration. IIPP Professor @damonsilvers.bsky.social contributed to an article in @lemonde.fr on how to create a framework capable of generating shared prosperity and nurturing stable democracies. ✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/Cx5ivxt

The Washington Post says Roundup labeling should be left to EPA "scientists," ignoring the fact that most have been fired, the Scientific Advisory Board has been dismantled and the agency has been taken over by former chemical industry executives. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

For too long, economic policy has rested on assumptions treated as facts: that markets self-correct, that governments should stand back, that growth will trickle down. Today in Barcelona w/ Dep PM Carlos Cuerpo and the Gov of Spain we are launching the Global Council for a Common Good Economy.

The Council for a Common Good Economy is an international council of leading economists to challenge these assumptions and set out the economic thinking that progressive governments need. More here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...

Prof. Mariana Mazzucato and Minister Carlos Cuerpo launch Global Council for a Common Good Economy

New council challenges economic orthodoxies that failed to deliver opportunity, security and dignity for most — and sets out an alternative grounded in justice, equality, sustainability and solidarity

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“Ain’t no stopping us now!” US Renewable Power Generation Beats Natural Gas for the First Time, Defying Trump - Gizmodo. Past time to finish the job of building out renewable power generation with union labor. @aflcio.org

A Hungarian friend of mine sent me this. If you’re feeling discouraged, it’s a good thing to watch. And it’s a reminder of what Woody Guthrie said. “All you fascists bound to lose.”https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXDrzFgCOsW/?igsh=MWR6eWpxeGNwazhyZg==

Whether or not Trump’s threat against Iran that "a whole civilization will die tonight” proves to be one more empty bluff, the very fact that a President of the United States could speak such words is sickening.

The post below is by one of America’s premier legal scholars. All I can add is this 1) the threat of genocide, which is explicit in the post, is itself a war crime. 2) I would not expect the so-called opinion in Trump v USA to protect him in any court that might hear the case, including a US one.

Jed H. Shugerman@jedshug.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is terrorism. And an explicit threat of genocide. Crimes against humanity. No matter what immunity the Supreme Court has invented, there are higher courts of justice. And even higher courts of eternal judgment.

Good morning #Baltimore! #nokings @aflcio.org @aft.org

AFT showing up everywhere today As are millions There are more No Kings Events than counties in America #WeSayNoKings #NoKings

Aaron Black@aaronblack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Kings rule by fear. They make people afraid to speak up. Trump wants us scared and quiet. We will not be. If you are looking for real time updates and voices of the resistance at #NoKings events around the country today this is a good place to start. Please share and follow. ❤️ go.bsky.app/K6JGV3h

@flyingwithsara.bsky.social joined ABC News earlier today to make it lear Flight Attendants will not work in a system that is unsafe. Pay TSA now! abcnews.com/video/131445...

Video 'We are definitely less safe right now': Flight attendants union president

"There is going to come a point in time where the system will break entirely, and it will not support a safe environment," said Sara Nelson, the president of The Association of Flight Attendants.

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So great to be here at the @aflcio.org AI Summit with President @lizshuler.bsky.social The question here over and over again is—if #AI is going to drive productivity, why aren’t wages going up? Why isnt life becoming more affordable, rather than less affordable? Why does this feel like #NAFTA?

AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 4mo ago

The labor movement is not anti-tech. We’re anti-greed. We’re against tech being used against us, without our input or consent. The decisions we make on A.I. now will impact us 50 years down the road. That’s why we’re fighting for guardrails—to protect our jobs and our freedoms.