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I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Pulling Out the Pillar: Corporate Campaigns to Reject Trump’s Attack on the Elections” - sign up now to join www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Pulling Out the Pillar: Corporate Campaigns to Reject Trump’s Attack on the Elections · May Day Strong
Billionaires and corporations are one of the key pillars propping up this administration's attacks on our elections, and if we pull that pillar out, the rest starts to fall. Join us for a national cal...
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September 18, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Pulling Out the Pillar: Corporate Campaigns to Reject Trump’s Attack on the Elections” - sign up now to join www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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Better than a croissant! Is there another major candidate for president who understands testing and international comparisons as well as Mélenchon in France? Wow! melenchon.fr/2026/09/09/d...
Déluge d’hypocrisie à propos des résultats du classement Pisa
Communiqué de Jean-Luc Mélenchon
melenchon.fr
September 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Better than a croissant! Is there another major candidate for president who understands testing and international comparisons as well as Mélenchon in France? Wow! melenchon.fr/2026/09/09/d...
"Many parents would likely object if....Exxon Mobil wrote their children’s environmental science curriculum... Yet, over the last decade, schools have often embraced the technology industry in similar ways with few questions asked." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...
How Big Tech Captured American Schools
Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2026 at 7:16 PM
"Many parents would likely object if....Exxon Mobil wrote their children’s environmental science curriculum... Yet, over the last decade, schools have often embraced the technology industry in similar ways with few questions asked." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...
Join union nurses’ Palantir Out Day of Action in Chicago act.medicare4all.org/signup/Palan...
Join union nurses’ Palantir Out Day of Action in Chicago
Join us in Chicago on Thursday, August 27th at 12pm for our national Palantir Out Day of Action to protect patients and our communities.
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August 20, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Join union nurses’ Palantir Out Day of Action in Chicago act.medicare4all.org/signup/Palan...
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Palantir profits from ICE raids, genocide in Gaza, and surveilling our communities. Chicago nurses crashed the Cook County Pension board meeting to demand that they #PurgePalantir
August 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Palantir profits from ICE raids, genocide in Gaza, and surveilling our communities. Chicago nurses crashed the Cook County Pension board meeting to demand that they #PurgePalantir
"For the first time in its history, Chicago’s school board voted Thursday to put two questions on the November ballot gauging voter opinions on proposals to bring in more money for the deficit-plagued district."
www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026...
www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026...
Chicago school board votes to place new revenue referendums on the November ballot
The non-binding questions will ask voters if the city should fine vacant land owners and if the state should tax millionaires in order to generate revenue for public schools.
www.chalkbeat.org
August 13, 2026 at 8:28 PM
"For the first time in its history, Chicago’s school board voted Thursday to put two questions on the November ballot gauging voter opinions on proposals to bring in more money for the deficit-plagued district."
www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026...
www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026...
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Take Action this Labor Day!. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/take-...
Take Action this Labor Day!
Join us at 8pm ET August 13th to learn about how and why to take action this Labor Day. We'll talk about how you can host a training, and why we are focusing on training this Labor Day. We'll hear ...
actionnetwork.org
August 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Take Action this Labor Day!. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/take-...
VP of school board: CPS has options before it passes a budget that includes layoffs www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/29/o...
VP of school board: CPS has options before it passes a budget that includes layoffs
I agree that CPS should reduce its central office and find savings. What I cannot support are budget cuts that reach into classrooms.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 29, 2026 at 3:39 PM
VP of school board: CPS has options before it passes a budget that includes layoffs www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/29/o...
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Volunteer to support public education champions. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/volunt...
CTU Take Action - Chicago Teachers Union
Take action with the Chicago Teachers Union to support public education. Caring, united, democratic: CTU is nearly 30,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one. In every school and ...
actionnetwork.org
July 23, 2026 at 12:17 PM
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Volunteer to support public education champions. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/volunt...
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stand in Solidarity with Locked Out Union Workers at BP!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stand in Solidarity with Locked Out Union Workers at BP!
Over 800 workers at British Petroleum’s Whiting Refinery—the largest in the Midwest—have been forced off the job after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract that would eliminate jobs and weaken safety p...
actionnetwork.org
July 20, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stand in Solidarity with Locked Out Union Workers at BP!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Becoming more like a Gestapo that operates with impunity every day. "Homeland Security Investigations does not have jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Becoming more like a Gestapo that operates with impunity every day. "Homeland Security Investigations does not have jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: School Board Candidates Listen In, Link Up. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/schoo...
CTU Take Action - Chicago Teachers Union
Take action with the Chicago Teachers Union to support public education. Caring, united, democratic: CTU is nearly 30,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one. In every school and ...
actionnetwork.org
June 26, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: School Board Candidates Listen In, Link Up. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/schoo...
I'm attending Unity Rally's event, “Unity Rally and Summer Organizing Kickoff” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/unity-rally/...
Unity Rally and Summer Organizing Kickoff · Unity Rally
Join us for a Unity Rally and Summer Organizing Kickoff as we get in formation for the upcoming electoral season.
We are fighting for an affordable Chicago that taxes the rich to fund: affordable acc...
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June 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I'm attending Unity Rally's event, “Unity Rally and Summer Organizing Kickoff” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/unity-rally/...
Elon's surging wealth is directly connected to our growing misery."the surge in energy prices had wiped out a year and a half of wage gains for the average American worker. On Friday, the public-markets debut of SpaceX made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...
June 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Elon's surging wealth is directly connected to our growing misery."the surge in energy prices had wiped out a year and a half of wage gains for the average American worker. On Friday, the public-markets debut of SpaceX made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Gov Pritzker & IL General Assembly: Stop CPS Cuts, Fully Fund Our Schools. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...
Gov Pritzker & IL General Assembly: Stop CPS Cuts, Fully Fund Our Schools
CPS started budget season with big slashes to schools–proposing cuts to at least 800 district-funded teacher positions. This is only the tip of the iceberg with likely more staff and program cuts to c...
actionnetwork.org
May 28, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Gov Pritzker & IL General Assembly: Stop CPS Cuts, Fully Fund Our Schools. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Gov Pritzker & IL General Assembly: Stop CPS Cuts, Fully Fund Our Schools. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...
Gov Pritzker & IL General Assembly: Stop CPS Cuts, Fully Fund Our Schools
CPS started budget season with big slashes to schools–proposing cuts to at least 800 district-funded teacher positions. This is only the tip of the iceberg with likely more staff and program cuts to c...
actionnetwork.org
May 26, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Gov Pritzker & IL General Assembly: Stop CPS Cuts, Fully Fund Our Schools. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...
Jackson Potter: Bears-related megaprojects bill is worse than Richard M. Daley’s parking meter deal www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/14/o...
Jackson Potter: Bears-related megaprojects bill is worse than Richard M. Daley’s parking meter deal
Imagine taking the rotten parking meter deal statewide.
www.chicagotribune.com
May 14, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Jackson Potter: Bears-related megaprojects bill is worse than Richard M. Daley’s parking meter deal www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/14/o...
John Miller: Megaprojects bill can’t be allowed to endanger schools, colleges and communities statewide pantagraph.com/opinion/colu...
John Miller: Megaprojects bill can’t be allowed to endanger schools, colleges and communities statewide
The proposed megaprojects bill represents a major transfer of public resources away from schools and into the hands of ultra-rich developers, writes John Miller, president of UPI Local 4100.
pantagraph.com
May 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
John Miller: Megaprojects bill can’t be allowed to endanger schools, colleges and communities statewide pantagraph.com/opinion/colu...
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Lawmakers: Stop the Giveaways to the Ultra-Wealthy! Fund What Illinois Really Needs. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Lawmakers: Stop the Giveaways to the Ultra-Wealthy! Fund What Illinois Really Needs
IFT members have been making it clear for months that Illinois must invest in our schools, public higher education, and state services. We’ve shown the need. And we’ve shown the solution: Tax the ultr...
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May 7, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Lawmakers: Stop the Giveaways to the Ultra-Wealthy! Fund What Illinois Really Needs. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
When you reject a millionaires tax and pass megaprojects bills that subsidize billionaires, this is what happens. "“All of us are bracing for cuts,” said another elementary school principal. “How could there not be? The money has to come from somewhere.” www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026...
School budget cuts might be inevitable for Chicago Public Schools
The district is getting ready to release its campus budgets as early as next week.
www.chalkbeat.org
May 6, 2026 at 5:51 PM
When you reject a millionaires tax and pass megaprojects bills that subsidize billionaires, this is what happens. "“All of us are bracing for cuts,” said another elementary school principal. “How could there not be? The money has to come from somewhere.” www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026...
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“PEOPLE ARE DYING.”
Nonprofit worker at NYC May Day rally says donations are drying up as people struggle to survive—cutting off critical services for the poorest.
We are LIVE ⬇️
Nonprofit worker at NYC May Day rally says donations are drying up as people struggle to survive—cutting off critical services for the poorest.
We are LIVE ⬇️
May 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
“PEOPLE ARE DYING.”
Nonprofit worker at NYC May Day rally says donations are drying up as people struggle to survive—cutting off critical services for the poorest.
We are LIVE ⬇️
Nonprofit worker at NYC May Day rally says donations are drying up as people struggle to survive—cutting off critical services for the poorest.
We are LIVE ⬇️
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🚨 CHAOS at the New York Stock Exchange—protesters jumping fences and chaining themselves to entrances as police try to block them.
“Workers over billionaires” signs everywhere for today's NYC May Day protest.
WATCH LIVE ⬇️
“Workers over billionaires” signs everywhere for today's NYC May Day protest.
WATCH LIVE ⬇️
May 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
🚨 CHAOS at the New York Stock Exchange—protesters jumping fences and chaining themselves to entrances as police try to block them.
“Workers over billionaires” signs everywhere for today's NYC May Day protest.
WATCH LIVE ⬇️
“Workers over billionaires” signs everywhere for today's NYC May Day protest.
WATCH LIVE ⬇️
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Trump just left D.C. in disgrace.
He held a bizarre press conference swatting at bees while protests erupted outside the White House.
Then he left on the taxpayer dime to go golf in Florida… again.
Protesters gave him the middle finger as he boarded Marine One.
He held a bizarre press conference swatting at bees while protests erupted outside the White House.
Then he left on the taxpayer dime to go golf in Florida… again.
Protesters gave him the middle finger as he boarded Marine One.
May 1, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Trump just left D.C. in disgrace.
He held a bizarre press conference swatting at bees while protests erupted outside the White House.
Then he left on the taxpayer dime to go golf in Florida… again.
Protesters gave him the middle finger as he boarded Marine One.
He held a bizarre press conference swatting at bees while protests erupted outside the White House.
Then he left on the taxpayer dime to go golf in Florida… again.
Protesters gave him the middle finger as he boarded Marine One.
Bravo @hamiltonnolan for this love letter to labor on May Day. "Here we are! All of us! Different people coming together. Not on some cartoon, .... anyone whose business thrives on division would not want the labor movement to exist." open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Vibe to Heal America
Go to May Day and see what we can be together.
open.substack.com
May 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Bravo @hamiltonnolan for this love letter to labor on May Day. "Here we are! All of us! Different people coming together. Not on some cartoon, .... anyone whose business thrives on division would not want the labor movement to exist." open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
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"...the more important answer is what comes after. May Day is not the destination; it is a test of the infrastructure we are building."
— @jacksonpctu.bsky.social, VP of @ctulocal1.bsky.social
— @jacksonpctu.bsky.social, VP of @ctulocal1.bsky.social
This May Day, Chicago Teachers and many others are planning May Day Strong. Their three demands are; tax the rich, no ICE and no war, and expand democracy. Many are going to march, and in multiple cities, refuse business as usual entirely, no work, no school, no shopping.
Chicago Teachers Are Organizing to Fight Beyond a Day of Action on May Day
Jackson Potter, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, wants people to build “organized power at every level.”…
buff.ly
April 30, 2026 at 12:07 AM
"...the more important answer is what comes after. May Day is not the destination; it is a test of the infrastructure we are building."
— @jacksonpctu.bsky.social, VP of @ctulocal1.bsky.social
— @jacksonpctu.bsky.social, VP of @ctulocal1.bsky.social