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Teacher | Abolitionist | Chicano | Organizer | State Rep. he/him/his 🌱🌹✊🏽

Denver, CO
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
29 days
I’m Tim Hernández. I risked my dream job as a public school teacher in the neighborhood I grew up in to stand up for my students. Now, I stand up for all of House District 4. Join our fight for education, housing, and economic justice. Donate today!🌱🌹✊🏽
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4 years
The Trump taxes thing upsets me because there are UNDOCUMENTED, IMMIGRANT workers who pay MORE in TAXES for services they CAN’T USE (healthcare, welfare, etc) than a xenophobic PRESIDENT who was elected by Americans who believe that immigrants are the ones who don’t pay taxes.
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I’d say if you were on the same side of history as Angela Davis, you’re on the right side of history. 🇵🇸
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Angela Davis dropped by to show her support for the students at Auraria Campus here in Denver.
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We know this feeling too well in Colorado. We felt it during Columbine. We felt it during the Aurora Mall. We felt it during the Thornton Walmart. We felt it during the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood. We feel it now today for Boulder. WE NEED GUN CONTROL NOW.
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3 years
We said “Enough is Enough” during Sandy Hook. We said “Enough is Enough” during the Aurora Theater. We said “Enough is Enough” during Parkland. We said “Enough is Enough” during Las Vegas. We said “Enough is Enough” during El Paso. When will it be ENOUGH to CHANGE LAWS?
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3 years
6 people died today in Boulder because we would rather have access to assault rifles than safe trips to the grocery store.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
4 years
Denver has OFFICIALLY voted to: - Abolish the Electoral College - Protect the Right to Safe Abortions - Reform parts of our state financing/ tax code - Offer Paid Family Leave - Protect the Potential of Undocumented Immigrant Voting LOVE MY CITY. #copolitics
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MLK did not passively die because he had a dream. He was violently murdered because he had a vision.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
People like @laurenboebert who normalize aggressive and confrontational gun ownership in Colorado are a part of the toxic, violent gun culture that showed up today in Boulder.
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1 year
BREAKING: A 14 year old Denver student who walked out for gun violence prevention in schools today was arrested and thrown to the ground by Capitol Police for yelling from the Gallery at the State Capitol just a few moments ago. CW: Police violence.
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8 months
New classroom, who dis?
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2 years
I live in Denver, and I’m a teacher in Aurora. We just got the highest raise in the Denver Metro. Last month, my net pay was $2,864. As a second year teacher, I work about 50 hours a week. That means last month I made $14.32 an hour. This is unlivable pay in Denver.
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Folks are out here calling me a “radical.” Why is it “radical” to demand: - fully funded public schools - housing as a human right - every worker deserves a union - rehabilitate, not incarcerate - universal healthcare - an end fossil fuels in the “greatest country on earth?”
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2 years
The average income to live comfortably in Denver as a single person is $100,000. Last year as a teacher in DPS, I made $41,000. But yes, please, tell me how much our school board members, state politicians, etc. “value” the work of teachers again! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
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It should be abundantly clear: students were arrested at Auraria yesterday for “violating the camping ban” policy of the Auraria Campus. They did not break a law— it’s not illegal to camp in Colorado. They broke a school policy— a policy that can be changed/suspended today.
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Denver mayor Mike Johnson issues an ultimatum: take down the encampment or get arrested.
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9 months
To the oppressed, never our oppressors. On we press. La lucha sigue. 🌱🌹✊🏽
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It’s official! I’m the first Gen-Z State Representative to be in the Colorado State House, and for the first time in Colorado history we passed our Assault Weapons Ban out of the CO House. We should have passed this a long time ago. My generation isn’t waiting anymore! 🌱🌹✊🏽
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@denverpost
The Denver Post
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Colorado House passes bill to ban sale, purchase of “assault weapons,” sending measure to Senate
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3 years
In a country so dedicated to “freedom” we can’t safely go to a grocery store, movie theatre, medical clinic, school, concert, etc. without worrying about dying in a mass shooting.
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8 months
I pledge allegiance to my community, not the power of the Capitol. To the people, not the strategy of a party. To the oppressed, never our oppressors. To US, no abbreviation.🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
It's for real, homies! 🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
13 days
READ: A Statement by Colorado State Representatives, State Senators, Denver City Councilmembers, and a CU-Regent. We call on the leaders of the Auraria Campus to respect the first amendment rights of all protesters and call off any and all police intervention.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
Hiking, camping, climbing, etc. are not “white people shit.” They are activities intentionally made inaccessible by white people through limiting access to land, hyper-inflating the cost of outdoor equipment, withholding outdoor literacy, etc., but THE OUTDOORS ARE NOT WHITE!
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
Today, I became the first member of Gen Z to serve in the Colorado House. I’m a teacher, a Chicano, and a Northsider from right here in Denver. And now, I'm running in 2024 to keep this seat in the hands of the people. Join the fight with us! 🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
It's for real, homies! 🌱🌹✊🏽
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When I was in high school we didn’t have a school library, so my English teacher used to go to Garage Sales to buy books for us to read. I knew I was going to be a teacher when I was 18, so I started collecting books for my kids, too. Today I finally put them in my classroom!
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
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Lots of community members and press outlets have asked me for a comment on this weekend’s events. Here is my Official Statement:
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
Hey Hannah, because of your writing here, myself, my students in my classroom, and my colleagues were put at risk, lost learning time, and had to speak with Aurora Police today because of violent threats to our school in response to your article. Shame on you & your work. Filth.
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Hannah Grossman
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Colorado teacher calls for 'FORCEFUL cultural revolution' targeted at 'whiteness': 'This is sacred' My latest ⁦ @FoxNews
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1 year
Lemme be crystal clear: I don’t give a fuck about “decorum.” These are children.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
I actually hate this. I went to college at UNC, and you know why Greeley “smells?” It isn’t cow shit. It’s the blood from the JBS beef plant where immigrant workers make the beef we eat. Many don’t live near the means of our food because of privilege/capitalism, but immigrants do
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This gameday sign is very funny, and not because it’s true whatsoever, but because only Coloradans will get the reference 😂
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
6 months
Standing in strong solidarity with Coloradans who bravely stood up and disrupted our job this morning calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza. Over a majority of Americans now support a Ceasefire. I urge my colleagues to listen. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🍉
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Elliott Wenzler
6 months
Major disruption in the Colorado House this morning as Pro Palestinian protestors chanting causes the House to halt its business. People shouting “blood on your hands” while lawmakers stare up at them. #copolitics
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
In 2021, I was hired as a Traditional Teacher. Last May, I took an Associate Position bc my school told me they didn’t have $$ to hire me in a Traditional position. It was a 1 year contract. I just applied for a Traditional position again this year. I was let go instead. Why?🧵
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2 years
Life is crazy.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
Colorado ranks 50th in teacher wage competitiveness and 47th in per-student funding in the country, but we have an extra $1,000,000 to spend on a fence around the Capitol?????
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I’m excited to announce I’m officially running to represent the Northside— the community I grew up in, taught in, & still live in— at the State Capitol. I’m running for the CO HD4 Vacancy. I’m a teacher, a Chicano, a Northsider, and I’m running to represent our community!🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
@hasanthehun 👀👀👀
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
Folks are out here calling me a “radical.” Why is it “radical” to demand: - fully funded public schools - housing as a human right - every worker deserves a union - rehabilitate, not incarcerate - universal healthcare - an end fossil fuels in the “greatest country on earth?”
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
4 years
This isn't getting any news coverage, and it's bullshit. #johnathanprice was at a gas station parking lot trying to help mediate others in a DV dispute, and when Police arrived on site, they shot and killed him. PLEASE stop sharing Trump health updates, and lift this instead.
@ITalksTooMuch
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The cop is Sean Lucas. He is a rookie. Tonight he shot & killed Johnathan Price, an unarmed black man in a Kwik Check parking lot in Wolfe City, Texas. #justiceforjohn #blm #BlackLivesMatter
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
11 months
The Aurora Police spent an entire week justifying to the press, the family, and the community that Jor’Dell Richardson was shot because he had a gun. But they knew the minute they registered that evidence they found a toy, not a weapon. And they lied anyway. Why?
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
UPDATE: We did win! I WILL represent the basement I grew up in at the State House. I got my swearing in details today. I’m so excited to get to work I’m not sure if I’ll be able to sleep that night. We came a long way from the basement. 🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
9 months
I slept on an air mattress throughout high school in the basement of my Aunt’s house. I lived in it again while in college to pay for school. I lived in it again when I started my first teaching job at North. In 5 days, I just might represent it in the State House, too.🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
Happy Monday, Denver. Look what came in the mail today! ☀️
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
6 months
I apologized for causing harm a few weeks ago; I mean it. Still, Palestinians are being massacred in Gaza while the world watches. I do not apologize for criticizing Israel or for supporting Palestinian people. We are witnessing a genocide. I, too, call for a Ceasefire in Gaza.
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7 months
I condemn Hamas, and I condemn-- in the strongest ways possible-- all violence against civilians. My heart is heavy for the innocent Israeli and Palestinian lives lost. And I am sorry for the harm I have caused to many in the Jewish community and the Israeli community this week.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
Last week, my students wrote letters to Leonard Peltier, America’s longest serving political prisoner. Students analyzed his poetry, shared their thoughts on his case, and sent him messages of strength. Today, we mailed them to him! ✉️ We believe Leonard Peltier should be free!
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
not DPS schools sending messages that say "all meetings with more than 10 [staff] attendees should take place virtually" and then sending me to teach my classes with 34 students in person lolololol
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
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We’re experiencing the largest anti-war student movement since the 1960s. Proud to stand alongside students peacefully protesting for Palestine yesterday at the Auraria Campus. Power to the Students. ✊🏽 End the Genocide in Gaza. ❌ Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
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Sara Martin
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@elisabethepps Clip: @_timhernandez begins his message to students who are supporting Palestine with a power to the people chant, telling students that they are not alone in their protests and they change they are pushing for. #Denver #DenverProtests
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
New classroom, who dis?
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
Power to the students! Power to the teachers! Power to the union!✊🏽
@paolozialcita
Paolo Zialcita
8 months
Faculty and staff at @CUBoulder are walking out over low wages today
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
Thanks for your time today, @KyleClark . I do feel misquoted in the way you phrase/clip this tweet tbh. I do not participate in violence, will not try to control the protest of others, and, as a legislator, will work to create systems where people don't ever resort to violence.
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Kyle Clark
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NEW: Colorado's newest state legislator, Democratic Socialist @_timhernandez , says he's not a Marxist as he's been described by conservative media, but he doesn't disavow using violence to achieve a "forceful cultural revolution" against white supremacy. #copolitics #coleg
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
24 days
Gen-Z is the generation of mass shootings, active shooter drills, and being afraid to die at school because adults wouldn’t be bold on guns. This week marks the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine. Many have let go of what happened that day— my generation never got to.
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On MLK Day, there will be many folks who choose to sanitize his legacy to avoid being called to implement his actual beliefs— one of which is to create economic power for ALL people. No more socialism for only the rich. We deserve healthcare, education, and housing, too!🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
Today, in a five minute meeting, I was told by the school I have been working at for over a year and a half they will not be hiring me next year despite having three available positions in my department and waiting over two and a half months for an interview. I’m devastated.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
Hi, my name is Tim and I don’t believe in failing high school students during a global pandemic.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
Happy Cinco De Mayo. Mexicano farmers defeating the French Army in Puebla in 1862 turns the tide in the Mexican-French War. Had they lost, the French would have supported the American Confederacy (thus supporting slavery). You can thank Mexican farmworkers for this “Union.”
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2 years
Teaching about the history of redlining in Denver tomorrow. Here's my favorite gif to explain how redlining in Denver created racist/ classist education, housing, and environmental systems that are STILL around (for anybody who lives in the "inverted L," at least).
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
I wonder what the governor would say if Colorado high school students did not participate in state standardized testing this year unless he committed to signing all gun violence prevention bills introduced at the Capitol and fully funding all public schools in Colorado this year.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
I don't give a damn about what DPS/ Denver decides about lifting the mask mandate. In OUR classroom, we make decisions that WE decide are safe for us, so we will be taking class votes about whether students would like to continue wearing masks in class and following accordingly.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
28 days
It's OFFICIAL: our Assault Weapons Ban will be heard by the entire Colorado House TOMORROW beginning at 8:30am. It's the first time in Colorado history the entire House will debate banning weapons used in mass shootings. We're gonna make history tomorrow. Let's go win!🎉 @RepEpps
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
I am ALWAYS going to be “divisive” to those upholding, benefiting from, and defending systems of white supremacy.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
6 months
Just finished Day 2 of ✨Special✨ School. I’m here fighting for oppressed people in CO. Honored that I am a co-sponsor on 3 anti-poverty policies, including: - $30 million of Rental Assistance🏠 - Summer EBT for 300,000 CO students🍎 - Increased Earned Income Tax Credit (50%)💵
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I’m thankful to hear the staff members from East are recovering well tonight.❤️ I’m also heartbroken to hear about the death of the teenager involved today. He was a 17 year old DPS student— a kid. He is still worthy. We failed him. May his soul find rest.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
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It’s official! We’re #1 on the ballot! 🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
I’m tired of being a damn good teacher, coordinating programs, classes, field trips, etc. for students, actively pouring into my colleagues to make us all better for kids, and being completely villainized throughout the profession I love because powerful white men didn’t like me.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
11 months
I’m very sad to share that a week after school let out for us, a 14 year old student at my school was murdered by Aurora Police. Jordell was a child— his murder is unjustifiable. Jordell and his family deserve justice. Please give to his family here:
@BONH_Coalition
Bring Our Neighbors Home ⚖
11 months
"His family remains upset about how his death was reported to them by [Aurora] police. “One of the police officers told me that he wanted me to know that my son didn’t suffer.” - Jordell's mom “You put suffer in suffering!” - Jordell's dad
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
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BREAKING: @ColoradoEA (CO’s largest union of over 39,000 education workers) just ratified a resolution (by @Bryan4Aurora ) against capitalism as an economic system at our 2023 Delegate Assembly. CEA may now publicly advocate & lobby for anti-capitalist policies at the CO Capitol.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
Building a new Broncos stadium means actively committing to destabilizing the communities of Jefferson Park and Sun Valley—communities VERY impacted by Denvers housing crisis already— for the “economic gain” of people that DO NOT live there now/ever. It’s a bad choice.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
Today, a student asked me why we don’t have an American flag in our classroom. My response? “America is an empire, and we don’t wave the flags of empires in a place where we talk about Freedom.” My student’s response? “We’re gonna learn a lot in here, huh?”
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
Pay transparency is fucking important. Pay teachers more. Do not give more funding to the education department/school districts so they can spend the money contracting with nonprofits to “solve” the outcomes of an intentionally underfunded school system in Colorado. Pay TEACHERS!
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
It’s been a wild few months. Lots of people asking me for ✨personal✨ updates: - I’m no longer on administrative leave from DPS as of 6/10 (spent it knocking for @elisabethepps 🎉) - There is no/ was never any investigation into me walking out. - Got a teaching job next year!
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
It’s not lost on me that I teach students whose parents believe my family shouldn’t be here; who have BLM flags in their yards but are afraid of Black Power; who think last week was not an Anti-Asian hate crime. But in my classroom, we’re ending that. Your kids will be better.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
You lost in Pueblo...
@laurenboebert
Lauren Boebert
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I work for the people of Pueblo, not the people of Paris.
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I’ll be teaching an after school concurrent enrollment course this semester called Pathways2Teaching, which is a program to encourage BIPOC students to become teachers. Every student of the class (we got 60!) also gets an iPad and/or MacBook, and LOOK!! They came in today!😭✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
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Honored to stand today with Kaiser healthcare workers in Colorado fighting for livable wages and safer work conditions. Our “essential” workers that carried our society throughout 2020’s health crisis deserve dignity and fair pay in their workplaces in 2023. Power to the workers!
@SEIU105
SEIU Local 105
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🩺 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers continued to show out in FORCE ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 today for STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTES!! 🗳️ We're fighting for livable wages, safer staffing, and the ability to provide the best possible care to our patients!
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First day of ✨special✨ school! Excited to get to work— we even got a front row seat! #coleg #copolitics
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
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This is my bill! Migrants coming to our community in Colorado deserve basic access to take their kids to school, drive to work, sign a lease, etc. 🚘 We will be removing the two year minimum residency requirement so anybody can get a Colorado driver’s license on day one! 🪪✊🏽
@denverpost
The Denver Post
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Lawmakers seek to make it easier for migrants to get driver’s licenses
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
11 months
Went to the Aurora Mall today to pass out fliers for Friday’s memorial. Apparently, that isn’t allowed and @AuroraPD even sent an officer to ensure that we were not distributing information about their killing of a 14 year old child two weeks ago. We got kicked out. On we press.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
We have nothing to lose but our chains, but god damn winning feels good, too! WE elected a Black, Queer, Abolitionist Woman to the mf State House in CO! Cannot wait to bring my students to visit you under the dome and talk about freedom, hermana @elisabethepps . Pa’lante! 🥹✊🏽💗💜
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
I have to do a lockdown drill in my hybrid classroom tomorrow where in-person students must remain socially distanced while we pretend there is an active shooter in our school. How the hell is the American education system not broken when I have to say sentences like that?
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
Every time students share with me what other teachers have to say about me or what I put online, I’m reminded: I teach in the neighborhood I grew up in. I look and talk like our students. So, if they can speak about ME this way, how are they talking about the STUDENTS we serve?
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
Woke up this morning in my apartment that costs 50% of my income to rent as a teacher in Denver. Also woke up to a killed Rent Control bill. I would like to thank @Dylan_RobertsCO for the continued threat of displacement from the neighborhood I grew up in. BLuE nO MatTEr wHo!
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
We do not have a teacher shortage in Denver. We have a shortage of people with mandatory higher education, inevitable student loans, etc. willing to work (planning, teaching, grading, meetings, family support) for below minimum wage in one of the most expensive cities in the US.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
Hearing white reporters mispronounce the names of passed Latinx children in #Uvalde is painful. Latinx names are sacred names because beyond our mortal death they become living cultural memory (QUE VIVA). These are the names/memories of children. Give them to Latinx reporters.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
I’ve been waking up to news about mass shootings my entire life living in Colorado. Today’s news is a violent, targeted attack on LGBTQIA+ people. Again. Idk about y’all, but idc about the economy or our sports teams. Colorado will be a great state when we prevent gun violence.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
23 days
Honored that our Assault Weapons Ban is "the most anti-gun bill ever passed by the Colorado House,” per Travis Couture-Lovelady, the NRA Colorado State Director. Dems running for office often say they'll "stand up to the NRA." I actually do. Donate here:
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NRA
24 days
Yesterday, the Colorado House of Representatives advanced a bill that would ban a wide range of commonly owned firearms - the most anti-gun bill ever passed by this chamber. The NRA and its members in Colorado will continue to fight against this egregious legislation.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
I hope every single @dcsdk12 teacher and student walks out tomorrow. I wish the most power to the thousands of people in the schools, not 4 on the school board.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
I need y’all to know this. On Friday, 5/13 DPS placed me on Admin Leave for walking out with my students. That Monday, I saw @elisabethepps at an event and she offered me a job. Legislators aren’t just policy nerds. They’re community members. Getchu a legislator that can do both!
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elisabeth epps
2 years
There’s a lot of folks that I owe a lot of thanks for getting (often: dragging) me thru the last 7 months. These are 2 of the humans who made me laugh hardest and press on, when I needed it most. Abolition is indeed creative. Thank you, thank you. @_timhernandez @javier_mabrey
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
I’m here outside the Emily Griffith Campus (DPS Headquarters). I am a taxpayer and teacher in this district. I am currently not being allowed inside the building to speak during PUBLIC Comment during a PUBLIC School Board Meeting. This is a violation of my First Amendment Right.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
4 years
In Colorado, we spend $39,303 a year per incarcerated person in a cage. We spend $9,574 a year per student in a classroom. If we can defund our classrooms, we can defund Police and prisons. If we don’t defund Police, we intentionally invest in the school-to-prison pipeline.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
The @AuroraPD officer who shot and killed Jor’Dell Richardson, a 14 year old student at my school last year, will not face any charges. I’m sick to my stomach. Jor’Dell had just completed his 8th grade continuation. He was a child. His family deserves justice.
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Steve Staeger
8 months
NEW: The 18th Judicial District Attorney will not file charges against the @AuroraPD officer who shot and killed Jor'Dell Richardson, a source informed of the decision tells me.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
Accountability does not mean Justice.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
Every sitting Republican member of the Colorado House just walked out on the last day of the 2023 session in a temper tantrum because they didn’t like one of the last bills being read and voted on. Cowards run from democracy. Cowards run from a vote. Colorado deserves better.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
Wanna know what’s even worse about today? @SenSchumer has a gun control bill sitting ON HIS DESK, but can’t do anything about it because of the Senate FILIBUSTER.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
Another update: this student being “ejected” from the Colorado House gallery by State Patrol was not even the student to yell out in the gallery and violate “decorum.” They were simply sitting next to their friend. The student who did yell out was not removed.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
1 year
Somebody please explain to me how putting more Police officers in Denver high schools would have directly prevented the death of a 17 year old East High School student who died by suicide yesterday.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
4 years
Imagine a world where a dispute outside of a gas station means the cashier calls a hotline where they are routed to a social worker trained in de-escalation. The police do not arrive overarmed and underprepared. #JonathanPrice walks away with his life. #AbolishThePolice
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
If y’all thought this teaching in-person with COVID shit is bad just wait until you hear how everybody who works in DPS Central Office has an AVERAGE salary of $136k working from home while teachers make $42k working from COVID-infested in-person classrooms.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
3 years
Your progressive values do not distance you from your privilege
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
8 months
Last week I defended forceful change necessary to a multiracial democracy; my ideas were later described as “violent.” An anti-LGBT right winger in CO describes fantasies of an armed force “under the authority of the Constitution” with expanded “freedoms.” Not a word on violence
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Kyle Clark
8 months
Able Shepherd CEO Jimmy Graham recently told the Douglas County Sheriff he will "want" and "need" Graham's tactically trained citizens "if it gets real bad," which Graham says he anticipates. I asked him if they are, as a supportive county commissioner said, a militia.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
I’ve gotten a lot of messages in the last 24 hours. Here are two perspectives that are sticking with me today: The first is another teacher at my school. The second is a STUDENT at my school.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 months
WE WON! Today, a majority of Democrats in my district chose that I was the top candidate in the race— we will officially be first on the ballot! Thank you to all of our supporters, organizers, and community members. Organized People Beat Organized Money AGAIN! 🌱🌹✊🏽
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
7 months
This morning, while I served breakfast at Urban Peak (where I teach), students rushed to collect their things because of a sweep that took place. I don’t know what to say about watching a young person undergo that crisis/stress. I do know: sweeps are inhumane. End them all.
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TIM HERNÁNDEZ
2 years
I made my students say this poem every day in my classes— Latinx Literature and Latinx Leadership— that I designed all original curriculum for. My students yelled it last week in protest of my being let go. It is now “school culture.” They want our labor, but not our experience.
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