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Let’s go DC! 🇺🇸 #NoKings

I’m in Chicago right now. There’s a lovely sunset on a crisp Fall day.

Millions of Americans will be hurt by huge cuts to Medicaid and rural hospitals and the expiration of Affordable Care Act tax credits—and that does nothing to help make America great or healthy.

This #LaborDay were fighting for what #WorkersDeserve!

Hugs and new books: Rebuilding after a fire After residual fire damage wiped out about half of Elk Valley Elementary School’s library collection, the AFT’s Reading Opens the World initiative, which has provided more than 2 million brand-new fre...

Every day, something extraordinary happens in our public schools. That’s why we’re relaunching #PublicSchoolProud—to lift up stories like Elk Valley Elementary, where a rebuilt library brought joy & hugs back to students. www.aft.org/news/hugs-an...

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.

Hey folks 👋 I’m a mid-Michigan dad and a union educator who’s been standing up to billionaires like Betsy DeVos.

Now I’m running for Congress to lower costs—and invest in families. Will you pitch in to help launch my grassroots campaign? 👇
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Trump's big, ugly betrayal hurts working families by taking food off the table, abandoning public education and eroding the social programs that support hardworking Americans. Our ad, supported by an incredible coalition representing millions of people, is in today's NYT. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Today we launched the National Academy for AI Instruction with UFT, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic to offer free, high-quality AI training to educators. Some of you have expressed legitimate reservations about AI and tech companies. I want to speak to you directly. 🧵

Slashing the services we need
+ giving billionaires massive tax cuts
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= Millions of people without the food or healthcare they need, and a growing national deficit.
Trump’s math just doesn’t add up.
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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.  
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Thank you Philadelphia. #NoKings

Incredible turnout so far in Philly for #NoKings Day! Find your nearest rally at NoKings.org

This #NoKings Day, our AFT members in Atlanta are joining with the Black Male Initiative for a day of community, joy, and empowerment. We brought the books to the party! #ReadingOpensTheWorld

Teachers are here, marching for their students. #NoKings

Teachers are here, marching for their students. #NoKings

Why are you marching today? #NoKings

From Connecticut to Philadelphia to Michigan to Houston and beyond, our members are joining their communities in non-violent protest to tell the world: #NoKings in the US.

AFT secretary-treasurer Fedrick Ingram fired up the #NoKings crowd in Houston and gave a special shoutout to all the educators, cafeteria workers, and school staff in the crowd!

This is what democracy looks like! #NoKings

PFT members are seen at the No Kings march and rally on the Parkway in Philadelphia

PFT members are seen at the No Kings march and rally on the Parkway in Philadelphia

PFT members are seen at the No Kings march and rally on the Parkway in Philadelphia

PFT member holds a sign with images of Donald Trump and Jeff Yass with the text NO VOUCHERS NO PRIVATEERS NO KINGS

On the move! #NoFascists #NoKings @aft.org @aftpa.bsky.social @indivisible.org @indivisiblephl.bsky.social @aclupa.org

🇺🇸 Happy Flag Day! AFT members will stand united at peaceful rallies across the country today.

The Trump bill treats public schools as a piggy bank that it can break to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and create chaos for schools across the country even as we watch how disastrously voucher programs have gone nationwide. #HandsOffPublicSchools

Billionaire-backed voucher schemes mean fewer teachers, crowded classrooms, and disappearing support services in our public schools.
They’re undermining our kids’ futures on purpose.
#HandsOffPublicSchools

Trump’s bill will divert billions from public schools to private vouchers—mostly for families who already send their kids to private schools. It’s not about helping students. It’s about gutting public education to hand tax breaks to the wealthy.
#HandsOffPublicSchools

Anti-union extremists are pushing a federal budget that would make devastating cuts to public services & vital programs like Medicaid—all to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
putfamilies1st.org

Trump's “big, beautiful bill” is more like a big, ugly betrayal. Here are the top 10 things you need to know.

This is how this bill will hurt our public schools.

This is where we’ve raised our kids, and this is why I’m going to keep fighting—one way or another.

Vouchers are directly responsible for some of the largest student achievement drops ever recorded and mostly go to parents with kids already in private school. www.aft.org/vouchers