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UFT ESL Teacher for 38 years, now Vice-Chair UFT Retired Teacher Chapter. Friend of newcomers and class size reform. Dog lover. Read me at https://arthurgoldstein.substack.com/

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School Supplies Question their purpose at your peril.

DOE wants to fire a UFT chapter leader for asking what admin was going to do about a students caught with firearms.

10.03.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her President Trump has fired his homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and said Markwayne Mullin, a senator from Oklahoma, would replace her.

Canines rejoice!

05.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Just Why the NY Post Blows The right's race to the bottom

Some people think teachers should be gig workers with hourly wages and no benefits. Screw them.

04.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unity's Got Us Where They Want Us It's therefore imperative we remove them.

We know more about the Epstein files than we do about the city health plan.

01.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Blow to the Phone-Free Classroom

Whatever you think about cell phones, you have to respect the ingenuity of our kids. No paywall for you today.

25.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mike Mulgrew, Role Model Another union boss follows in his footsteps, utterly ignoring membership.

Michael Mulgrew and Unity told the OT/PT chapter they could go to hell when they rejected a contract that did not meet their demands. It appears other union leaders are following suit, and that's beyond unfortunate.

14.02.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe reason Trump didn’t apologize for the Obama post is because he is a small, petty, fragile man who cannot take responsibility for his own actions. And the second reason, frankly, is because he is a racist.”

07.02.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 4802 πŸ” 1206 πŸ’¬ 232 πŸ“Œ 60
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TV, It’s Not Just for Humans Anymore

Is your pet hogging all the screen time? (No paywall for you.)

12.02.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is good. Very much need this kind of talk.

12.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 1721 πŸ” 266 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 2
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UFT Delegate Assembly--We Endorse Tom Brown Protecting Medicare and Social Security not that vital to UFT bosses after all.

If you missed last night's UFT Delegate Assembly, when Mulgrew told us how wonderful he and his patronage cult are, I have copious notes and a brief analysis at this link.

12.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Are We Union? I hear both sides.

Marianne says UFT retirees aren't union. A Unity hack claims we are. I'm somewhere in between, and if you read this, I'll tell you exactly why.

09.02.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unity Says, "No 1096 for You!" We say otherwise, by a huge margin.

We overwhelmingly approve support for 1096, whatever it may be renamed. A Unity big shot, rather than address the issue, spends considerable time berating our friend Marianne for no good reason.

06.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes

There is no bottom. Today, there's no paywall either.

06.02.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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exactly. this is not difficult.

as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

03.02.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 20368 πŸ” 5292 πŸ’¬ 238 πŸ“Œ 216
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Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to β€˜Nationalize’ Elections

No more of that democracy stuff for Trump. No paywall for you today.

03.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, you clearly failed.

Thank you for your time, but we're now interviewing other candidates for the job.

26.01.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 753 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 2
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The Snow Covers Everything... ....except the perfidy of our union bosses.

A few good points about Prime Therapeutics...and a few bad ones about UFT Unity.

25.01.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dallas County Exonerates Black Man Who Was Executed in 1956

Here's the Golden Age Trump wants to bring back. No paywall today.

23.01.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE says its officers can forcibly enter homes during immigration operations without judicial warrants: 2025 memo An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement document in May shows that ICE told officers and agents they can forcibly enter homes of people subject to deportation without warrants signed by judges

So much for constitutional rights.

23.01.2026 11:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ABC Bites Back We categorically reject Unity's bullying.

UFT Unity, once again, has lawyers tell us to sit down and shut up. We decline, again, with our own lawyer this time.

22.01.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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America speaks.

18.01.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When Jackasses Rule the Roost ...consequences are ignored (by said jackasses)

UFT leadership behaves like middle school children, getting hostile over nonsense and practicing overt ageism. That's not solely because they make retirees pay for health coverage in-service members receive at no charge.

18.01.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Dear America, We’d Like to Speak to the Manager

Check out an enlightened view on Trump and Greenland. Worth your time, and no paywall for you today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...

17.01.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UFT Delegate Assembly Unity opposes ICE--just not enough to want to demonstrate against it.

Unity stumbles all over itself at last night's UFT Delegate Assembly.

15.01.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Phone Bans, School iPads, and Other Stuff The good, the bad, and the questionable

How's the cell phone ban coming along? Here's my take.

09.01.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We Demand Premium-Free Health Insurance If DC37 can offer it, so can UFT.

Why are UFT retirees paying pharmacy premiums while DC37, FDNY and NYPD are not?

03.01.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mamdani Reverses Call to End Mayoral Control of Public Schools

Sorely disappointing. No paywall for you today.

31.12.2025 23:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lander Confirms Unity and MLC Frittered Away Stabilization Fund Now as then, they demand we TRUST them

Unity will sell out anyone and everyone for the crappiest deals imaginable. Buying into the preposterous notion that we needed to fund our own raises has had disastrous consequences. One way or another, they're coming around to us.

31.12.2025 18:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Remakes America as Leader of the Brand

On the hollowness of Trump stamping his name on everything. No paywall for you today.

27.12.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Samantha Fulnecky, the functionally-illiterate college junior who wrote a gross tirade against her teacher instead of doing her homework, would have been expelled if OU were still a real college.

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